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[Telegraph operator in Irkutsk, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front]
Summary
Written on verso: Telegraph operator in Irkutsk who spoke the language of Shakespeare's time.
Photo by Aug. Hoffman, Irkutsk.
Transfer; Manuscript Division (George Kennan Papers); 1973; (DLC/PP-1973:080).
Forms part of: George Kennan Papers.
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Date
01/01/1880
Source
Library of Congress
Copyright info
Public Domain
