O fotografie-tablou a personalului administrativ județean și comunal din județul Chișinău (1923)
A photo-painting of the members of the county and communal administration from the Chișinău county (1923)

Summary/Abstract: The author of the article analyzes a photo-painting from 1923, preserved in the patrimony of the National Museum of Ethnography and Natural History. In the photo we find the vignette portraits of the members of the county, district, volosts and communes administration from the Chișinău county, shortly before the abolition of the volosts, as administrative-territorial units. Based on the information from the photo, but also on some archival documents, the author partially reconstructs the names of the officials represented in this photographic painting, as well as some processes that preceded and accompanied the realization of this piece, unique in fact. The photography of the officials from the Chișinău county was made at the initiative of Vasile Țanțu, the prefect of the Chișinău county, one of the exponents of the national renaissance movement of the Bessarabian Romanians and supporter of the union with the Motherland. The realization of this initiative went to the photographer Aron Baril from Făclia Society from Chișinău. The targeted photo is a unique document for studying the local history from the former Chișinău county, of the administration, as well as the activity of photographers in Chișinău, during the interwar period, which preserves for posterity the image of officials from this county.

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