Vintage photos of Moscow early XX century. Murray Howe

Here is what the great-grandson in his annotations to the series: "In 1909, my great-grandfather was accompanied by a group of American champions trotter runs at expo tour of Europe and Russia. He was in repotrerom "Harness Racing Hall of Fame". His book "Stable Talk" and "The Trottin Hoss Excuse Book" were extremely popular as a satire on the run.
During the trip, he made more than 300 photos on the camera Graflex, wrote an article for "Horse Review", and was arrested several times in Russia and Germany for unauthorized photographing. This group of photos taken from the originals, the museum became vystavkaoy entitled "The Empire and empathy - vintage photos of Russia".
I inherited the original photos in the album leather binding under the name "" Snap Shots Along the Invasion Route by an American Queen and Her Court ».
These photographs - is a treasure trove of species Moscow in 1909 in very good quality.

























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