Photographers based in Moscow and St. Petersburg created series of visit cards showing Russian ‘types’. These remarkable portraits include a fascinating record of townspeople, artisans, street vendors and peasants. Some staged an activity, and some photographed their occupation performance.
#1 Fancy-basket seller.
#2 Seller of clothes baskets.
#3 Sailor selling cloth slippers.
#4 Boy selling wheelbarrows.
#5 Glazier.
#6 Plasterer.
#7 Fruit-seller.
#8 Flower-seller.
#9 Lamp-lighter.
#10 Butcher.
#11 Bricklayer.
#12 Floor-cleaner.
#13 Chimney-sweeper.
#14 Chimney-sweeper.
#15 Scavenger.
#16 Game-dealer.
#17 Knife-grinder.
#18 Washerwoman.
#19 Tartar dressing-gown seller.
#20 Seller of “cringles” i.e. ring-shaped cakes.
#21 House-porter carrying water.
#22 Water-carrier.
#23 Milk-woman.
#24 Woodsman.
#25 Apple-seller.
#26 Seller of Moscow bread.
#27 Police-man.
#28 Seller of Dutch herrings.
#29 Gipsy tinman.
#30 Bread and cake seller.
#31 Sieve-dealer.
#32 Knife-grinder.
#33 Cossack.
#34 Peep-show.
#35 Peasant.
#36 Wood-carrier.
#37 Peasant.
#38 Coachman.
#39 Coachman.
#40 Nun.
#41 Monk.
#42 Nun.
#43 Match-seller.
#44 Fireman.
#45 Vagabond.
#46 Newspaper-seller.
#47 Lamp-lighter.
#48 Wetnurse and infant.
#49 Milkmaid.
#50 House-servant.
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