Images

This section includes a few of the major digital image collections available at Harvard featuring Georgia. Please search HOLLIS Images to access additional digitized visual holdings from Harvard’s collections. To search for Georgia-related images on HOLLIS images, you can use such keywords as tbilisi, caucas*, or “soviet georgia*”.

For visual materials that have not been digitized, search HOLLIS.

Members of the Kazbegi family in Palm Beach, Florida, 1956.
Davis Center Collection, Fung Library

Georgia in Soviet Information Bureau Photograph Collection. These 5,780 digitized black and white photos were intended to document the reconstruction of the Soviet Union following World War II. The collection contains a number of photographs of Tbilisi and other parts of Georgia and events in Georgia. These can be found by browsing the online finding aid for such folders as “Soviet Georgia celebrates,” “Tbilisi, capital of Soviet Georgia,” and “Youth Pioneer meet in Tbilisi.” All Georgia-related images from the collection can be found by searching HOLLIS Images for the keyword combination “Soviet information bureau” and one of the relevant keywords.

Judaica Division, Widener Library Collections The Judaica Division’s collections document the life and culture of the Jewish people throughout history — in all places, all languages, and all formats. Among its holdings are over 1700 digitized images pertaining to the history of Georgian Jewry both in Georgia and in Israel. (Search HOLLIS Images for the keywords “Judaica georgia*”.)

Kaukasien Dammann, C., 1819-1874, German [photographer] Buchner, Max, 1846-1921, German [photographer] between 1870 and 1876. 18 ethnographic photographs, numbered 367-384. Portraits by German ethnographer Max Buchner from the South Caucasus, chiefly Tbilisi in Georgia. Images include musicians, vendors, laborers, a courier, water carrier, and the son of Imam Shamil.