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Title: Russian bicycle troops
Creator: Unknown
Contributor: Ariana Brinckerhoff
Date Created and/or Issued: circa 1917
2017-11-10
Publication Information: Los Angles : Occidental College Library, 2017
Contributing Institution: Occidental College Library
Collection: Occidental College Bessie Beatty Collection
Rights Information: Please contact the contributing institution for more information regarding the copyright status of this object.
Description: A group of Russian soldiers posed outdoors. One soldier has a bicycle. Other soldiers are crowded on a platform in the background. Back contains writing. "Bicycle troops com[ing] to the defense of [Kerensky]" Some writing is unintelligible.
"Chap. 6" is written at the bottom on the back, indicating that Bessie Beatty probably intended to use this image in her book, The Red Heart of Russia. || Title derived from captions in Red Heart of Russia by Bessie Beatty [entered by Ian Lehine, 2017/11/08]
Type: image
Format: black-and-white prints (photographs)
image/jpeg
Identifier: http://callimachus.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16061coll38/id/14
Language: Russian
English
Subject: Russia--History--Revolution, 1917
War Photography
Women Journalists--United States
Russia, solders, bicycle, photography
Place: Russia]
Source: Occidental College Library
Relation: Special Collections. Papers of Bessie Beatty (scbb)
Provenance: X005, folder 3(4)

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