Fascinating Photos of the Soviet Union Taken by American Professor Thomas T. Hammond, 1950s–1970s 10 ▲ Rare Historical Photos 55 days ago · History · hide · 1 comments Decades before smartphones turned every traveler into a documentarian, a single American academic carried his camera through some of the most closed cities on earth, quietly building one of the most revealing visual records of Soviet life to ever reach Western audiences. Thomas T. Hammond was a professor at the University of Virginia, where he […] Log in to reply on the Fediverse. Comments will appear here. wordsmith‽ ⁂ @wordsmith@writing.exchange 55 days ago [-] Marvellous. Of course the more authentic snapshots of life are those that make me realise how we're so very similar, despite distance in space and in culture.