Small group of people gathered around a child lying dead near the edge of a sidewalk in Kharkiv
Description
- Creator
- Williams, Whiting, 1878-1975, Photographer
- Media Type
- Image
- Text
- Item Types
- Photographs
- Newspaper illustrations
- Description
- Several women, men and a child look with concern at the body of a very young girl lying with her bare feet over the curb. Williams states that the child is dead. The setting is a city bridge with a busy sidewalk alongside the road. One of the women looking at the child holds a teakettle in her hand, while another appears to be looking quizzically at the photographer. Barely visible in the background are a couple of men in some kind of uniform.
In the version that appears in Answers, the setting is cropped out, and considerable liberty was taken by the photo editor in enhancing the outlines of the subjects, as well as creating a bare right foot for the woman in the foreground - whereas the original shows both feet in shoes.
For further information on: Homeless children and children as victims, see "Context Note" under Related Features at right. - Notes
- This photo, taken August, 1933, was used to illustrate “My Journey Through Famine-Stricken Russia,” February 24, 1934, p.16, the first of two articles by Whiting Williams that ran in a London weekly titled Answers.
The original photograph and the published version are both shown here.
See Related Features menu to link to the article.
- Inscriptions
- Williams' caption on the back of the photograph: “A little victim of Russian hunger.”
Caption under the photo in Answers: "“Factory women passing a tiny victim of famine: a dead child lying on a pavement in Kharkov.” - Date of Original
- August 1933
- Subject(s)
- Local identifier
- PD201
- Collection
- Whiting Williams Collection
- Language of Item
- English
- Geographic Coverage
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Kharkiv, Ukraine
Latitude: 49.98081 Longitude: 36.25272
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- Copyright Statement
- Copyright status unknown. Responsibility for determining the copyright status and any use rests exclusively with the user.
- Recommended Citation
- For original photograph: Williams, Whiting. “A little victim of Russian hunger”; [Container 1, Folder 9 ] PG 89 Whiting Williams Photographs, Western Reserve Historical Society, Cleveland, OH. Retrieved from: http://vitacollections.ca/HREC-holodomorphotodirectory/3634044/data
For published version: Williams, Whiting.“Factory women passing a tiny victim of famine: a dead child lying on a pavement in Kharkov,” in: “My Journey Through Famine-Stricken Russia,” Answers (weekly). London, February 24, 1934, p.16. Retrieved from: http://vitacollections.ca/HREC-holodomorphotodirectory/3634044/data - Location of Original
- [Container 1, Folder 9 ] PG 89 Whiting Williams Photographs, Western Reserve Historical Society, Cleveland, OH.
- Terms of Use
- Reproduction of images is restricted to fair use for personal study or research. Any other use requires a contractual agreement with the Western Reserve Historical Society, Cleveland, OH. Contact the Society directly at:
https://www.wrhs.org/research/library/services/ - Reproduction Notes
- Reproduced by contractual agreement with the Western Reserve Historical Society, Cleveland, OH.
