Item 4: Cloth Market in the Great Fair of Nijni-Novgorod, Russia.

Black and white image shows a large crowd of people at an outdoor cloth market. The "fair," which contains a variety of goods and hosts "hundreds of thousands of visitors and traders" from all over Russia, is actually a market-place that has operated during the summer "[f]or at least six centuries." The building in the background may be a permanent structure that only sees use during the market season; the location is practically deserted outside of the summer. Events such as World War I and the Russian Revolution caused a dwindling in the market's significance. Meadville, Pa.: Keystone View Company, ca. 1920. 17.75 x 9 cm.

Format: Stereoptic print.