Collection of Leon Trotsky photographs and materials.

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Visual material
Language
No linguistic content
Published/​Created
1940.
Description
1 item ; sheet 29.5 x 24 cm [each album].

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Special Collections - Graphic Arts Collection GA 2013.00909 D East 59/GC131/Box 68/Small/Albums/Trotsky, Leon Browse related items Reading Room Request

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    • Unidentified Artist [photographer]
    • Medium: Gelatin silver prints
    • Item description: Two albums of unpublished police photographs and negatives regarding Trotsky's assassination, autopsy, and burial, along with Mercader's capture.
    • Item description: Accompanied by enlarged photocopies of the photographs; a typed synopsis of the Trotsky assassination; and "A Photographic Story Board of the Real Life Players . . . For the Film . . . . "Sylvia", by RonSher Productions.
    • Provenance: Natalie Trotsky shared these records and photographs with motion picture director, George Sherman. Sherman took the materials back to Hollywood, wrote a treatment for a full-length film and began raising money. Although the film was never mad.
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