Photodocumentary collection from fond No. 381 “Ukrainian Free University in Munich” in Institute of Manuscript of V.I. Vernadskyi National Library of Ukraine: provenance and consist

Abstract

The goal of the research was to give the quantitative and qualitative descriptions of the collection of photodocuments from the fond No. 381 in the Institute of Manuscript of the V.I. Vernadskyi National Library of Ukraine, to research its structure and provenance. Methodology. The methods of the scientific and critical analyse - historical and systematic, comparative and the extrapolation method, were applied. Scientific novelty. For the first time, there are highlighted the named collection and many new photodocuments are introduced into the scientific circulation. The collection, which name is “The records of Petro Kurinnyi”, has 1298 items (negatives on glass, film and 3 metal clichés) of the 1900s-1940s. Since 2006,41 negatives on glass and one photo more are in the Central State Audiovisual and Electronic Archives of Ukraine. The photodocumentary collection from the fond No. 381 is a mix of negatives both on glass and on film of various subjects. There is a lot of portraits and production photos of different groups of people (boy and girl friends, families, newlyweds, children, school classes), taken after the World War II at different times of the year; photos of family events - weddings, exequies, or Easter or Christmas celebrations, taken also at postwar time; rephotographed old photos of some persons; photonegatives from private archives of the 1910s-1930s - groups of people on a walk, in the home interior, in the yard near the house, etc.; museum exhibits and pre-war museum expositions; photos of residential architecture of Kyiv; group photos from archaeological excavations; photos of artists during work and rest; photographed paintings, engravings, drawings or rephotographed illustrations from books, etc. Conclusions. The collection consists of 3 parts - private fonds (90), in particular of the painter, art critic Damian Horniatkevych (70); from the Ukrainian displaced persons camps “Somme Kaserne” in Augsburg and “Oselia Ganghofer” (Ganghofersiedlung) in Regensburg in Bayern (996); the negatives from pre-war collections of the Ukrainian cultural and scientific institutions (212).

Keywords

• negatives, augsburg, regensburg, ganghofersiedlung, somme kaserne, damian horniatkevych, petro kurinnyi, national museum of history of ukraine, national art museum of ukraine, st. sophia of kyiv, institute of archaeology.