Please join the Harriman Institute for an opening reception featuring our latest exhibit, Lens on a Century: Documentary Photographic Albums From the Slavic, East European and Eurasian Collections of The Hoover Institution Library & Archives, Stanford University. Curated by Edward Kasinec, Hoover Institute, Stanford University/Harriman Institute, with Design by Remy Chwae.

The Slavic, East European and Eurasian archival collections of the Hoover Institution Library & Archives have long been regarded as one of the premier resources of their kind outside the homelands. Perhaps less well appreciated are Hoover’s extraordinary holdings of tens of thousands of photographs, both “loose” prints and in hundreds of collector-assembled albums found in collections relating to the vast expanse of the Caucasus, the Balkans, Eastern and Central Europe, the Baltics, and of course, Russia and the former Soviet Union. This exhibit in twenty-five panels seeks to provide a “lens” on a period from circa 1899 to the post- World War II era as prismed through a necessarily very small selection of documentary photographic albums chosen from the hundreds found within the Hoover’s archival collections.