Alsa Chester Howard Postcard Collection : Postcards collected around the world from Howard's extensive travels.
Title:
Summer palaces of the Tsars.
Object ID:
2008.2.79
Object Name:
Postcard
Collection:
Alsa Chester Howard Postcard Collection
Date:
08/21/1935
Creator:
Alsa Chester Howard (correspondent)
VE Exhibit Label 1:
Front: Black and white photo of a palace room in Leningrad, U.S.S.R.

Back of card:
(No postmark)

Transcription:
"Leningrad, U.S.S.R. August 21, 1935. Arrived yesterday and spent a busy day. First, out to Ostsky sel? the summer palaces of the Tsars. This shows the room where the last Tsar spent his last night before going to Siberia, Oct. 21, 1917. A really remarkable place is this palace. There in the P.M. a good long trip in a big Lincoln car all around town. Today we look at the Hermitage, a fine museum of pictures. Then back to..."
(continued on card #2 (Object ID 2008.2.80).)
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