A police cart drives through the streets of Kharkiv collecting homeless children
Description
- Creator
- Williams, Whiting, 1878-1975, Photographer
- Media Type
- Image
- Text
- Item Types
- Photographs
- Newspaper illustrations
- Description
- Williams captures a scene in downtown Kharkiv of a police cart carrying a number of mostly young boys who were picked up off the streets. A man pulling a large handcart is passing the police cart.
In the original photo, judging from where some of the boys and some of the people on the street are directing their attention, it appears that the police cart may have stopped to pick up more children.
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.17), 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.
See Related Features menu to link to the article. - Inscriptions
- Williams' caption on back of photograph: “The wagon of the boy-catcher – gathering up some of the 18,000 boys reported left last winter in Kharkov by their parents.”
Caption under photo in Answers: “Police carts gathering up abandoned and starving children at Kharkov.”
- Date of Original
- August 1933
- Subject(s)
- Local identifier
- PD203
- 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: Williams, Whiting. 1933. “The wagon of the boy-catcher – gathering up some of the 18,000 boys reported left last winter in Kharkov by their parents.” [Container 1, Folder 9 ] PG 89 Whiting Williams Photographs, Western Reserve Historical Society, Cleveland, OH.
Retrieved from: http://vitacollections.ca/HREC-holodomorphotodirectory/3634046/data
for published version: Williams, Whiting. 1933. “My Journey Through Famine-Stricken Russia,” Answers (weekly). London, February 24, 1934, p.17.
Retrieved from: http://vitacollections.ca/HREC-holodomorphotodirectory/3634046/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.
