The State Silk Museum's collection of the printed individual photographs and photo albums from 19th-20th centuries. The photos depict process of silk production, ethnography, portraits, natural environment, architecture etc.
The project digitised the following series.
• EAP1306/1/1 Mulberry cultivation.
• EAP1306/1/2 Silkworm feeding.
• EAP1306/1/3 Silk Cocoons.
• EAP1306/1/4 Silkworm Eggs.
• EAP1306/1/5 Silk Thread Production and Silk Weaving.
• EAP1306/1/6 Portraits and People.
• EAP1306/1/7 Sericulture Stations.
• EAP1306/1/8 Sericulture in Japan.
• EAP1306/1/9 Miscellaneous.
Extent: 279 individual photos, 14 mounts with several photos (40 photos in total) and 4 albums with 215 photos.
Condition of original material: The photos and mounts are mostly deformed and stained, sometimes torn.
Custodial history: The material was created by the employees of the museum or donated by different people.
Arrangement: Photographs of 1889-1910 is part of the State Silk Museum's photo/video collection. Each individual printed photos and albums have separate accession numbers. Salome Phachuashvili, the collection curator was responsible for the arrangement.
Author(s)/Creator(s): Konstantin Zanis, Nikolay Shavrov, Vladimer Ivanov, Grigori Sundukiants, V. Zeydlits.
Related places: Russian Empire, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Ottoman Empire, Turkestan, U.S.S.R., The French Third Republic, Empire of Japan,Georgia, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Britain, Turkey, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Russia, France, Japan,Abkhazia, Sukhumi, Tbilisi, Lagodekhi, Kakheti, Ozurgeti, Imereti, Batumi, Guria, Kutaisi, Samtredia, Western Georgia, Mugan, Zagatala, Oğuz (formerly Vartashen), Agdash, Balakan, Shamakhi, Shaki (formerly Nukha), Ganja (formerly Elisabethpol), Kurdamir, Lankaran, Baku, Astara, Nagorno-Karabakh, Shusha, Kent, Istanbul, Bursa, Aydin, Samarkand, Fergana, Kaka, Ashgabat, Novorossiysk, Karachay-Cherkess Republic, Occitania, Paris,Sukhumi, Gagra, Tbilisi, Didi Jikhaishi, Lagodekhi, Napareuli, Chiauri, Kutaisi, Ozurgeti, Khoni, Bakhvi, Batumi, Makhinjauri, Lanchkhuti, Oğuz (formerly Vartashen), Balakan, Zagatala, Agdash, Kurdamir, Shamakhi, Ganja (formerly Elisabethpol), Shaki (formerly Nukha), Lankaran, Ləki, Mashtaga, Shakhagach, Mashtaga, Padar, Pensər (formerly known as Butasar), Shusha, Agdam, Seidlu, Eynsford, Bursa, Geraklitsa, Gemlik, Aydin, Dermedesh, Halkali, Kokand, Samarkand, Kaka, Ashgabat, Saint Petersburg, Nizhny Novgorod, Cherkessk, Montpellier, Paris.
