Russia Imperial. A Studio Portrait Photograph of a Military Band c.1905
        Russia (Imperial); Black and white, matte finish, on an off-white pressed paper stock, the obverse illustrating a military band consisting of forty members, organized in four rows, the front row seated on the carpeted floor, the second row on a bench, while the back two rows are standing, most of the members holding tubas, many wearing their medals, four young members at the front with various woodwind instruments, along with a dog in the centre foreground, a standard attached to two trumpets, one on either end of the front row, a Romanesque studio backdrop, a faded inscription at the lower right, reverse with gray paper residue from previous board mounting, 147 mm x 238 mm, near extremely fine.

