Photo. Portrait of a man (a petty bourgeois), 1915.
Black and white, bust photo depicts a young bareheaded man with well trimmed moustaches dressed in a dark coat, white shirt and a tie with a large knot. Beneath the picture there is a piece of paper glued over the cardboard with the inscription in Russian written by hand in black fading ink: “ …kartochke est’ Kishinevsky meshchanin Shamshon Ovsheev” (on the picture there is Shamshon Ovsheev, a petty bourgeois from Chisinau). On the reverse side there is another piece of glued paper with the text in Russian practically unreadable because of faded ink: “… vo vtoruiu Kishinevskuiu myzhskuiu gimnaziuiu Marta 18-go 1915…” the inscription is stamped and signed unreadably.
Chisinau, Jewish library