Access Restrictions
Publication Rights
Preferred Citation
Acquisition Information
Scope and Content of Collection
Title: Kars Photograph Album
Date (inclusive): ca. 1878-1921
Collection number: Bernath Mss 53
Extent: .2 linear feet (1 half-size box)
Repository: University of California, Santa Barbara. Library. Department of Special Collections
Santa Barbara, California 93106-9010
Physical location: Del Sur
Language of Material: Collection materials in English
Access Restrictions
None.
Publication Rights
Copyright has not been assigned to the Department of Special Collections, UCSB. All requests for permission to publish or
quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Collections. Permission for publication is given
on behalf of the Department of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply
permission of the copyright holder, which also must be obtained.
Preferred Citation
Kars Photograph Album. Bernath Mss 53. Department of Special Collections, Davidson Library, University of California, Santa
Barbara.
Acquisition Information
Purchase, 2003.
Scope and Content of Collection
Photograph album, ca. 1878-1921, containing 24 black/white images, with captions in Russian. Kars, now part of Turkey, was
part of the Russian Empire at the time. Most of the photos are landscapes from the Agri Dagi mountains south of Kars or the
routes north of Kars to Oltu, Artvin, Ardahan, and Batum. Several show small mounted parties of Russian officers and Cossacks,
as well as close-ups of Kurdish groups, a salt mine, the ruined fortress at Oltu, waterfalls, local inhabitants drawing water
at a spring, and stone bridges. This album appears to have belonged to a Russian Tsarist officer who served in the area.