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Views along the Murmansk railway,Russian Empire

Views along the Murmansk railway, Russian Empire
Title: Views along the Murmansk railway, Russian Empire
Creator(s): Prokudin-Gorskii, Sergei Mikhailovich, 1863-1944, photographer
Date Created/Published: 1915.
Summary: Photographic survey of the construction of the Murmansk railway, including views of the railroad, excavation and construction, depots and stations, railroad bridges, workers, and officials. Also includes views of cities, towns, and villages. Images document religious facilities (monasteries, cathedrals, churches, and chapels), waterways (canals, lakes, rivers, rapids, waterfalls, inlets, and islands), as well as agricultural and fishing activities. Includes some images of schools, factories, and quarries. Group portraits show local inhabitants including 'Karelian types,' Austrian prisoners of war at a military barracks, Prokudin-Gorskii with two Murmans, and Prokudin-Gorskii with five others--on a railroad handcar. Also includes images of items and locations associated with Peter the Great.
Notes:
Title devised by Library staff.
Hand-written Russian captions accompany most prints.
Digitized images of items and album pages display with their associated catalog records in the Prints & Photographs Online Catalog.
Forms part of: Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii collection.
Subjects:
Russia (Federation)--Karelia--1910-1920.
Architecture--Russia (Federation)--Karelia--1910-1920.
Historic sites--Russia (Federation)--Karelia--1910-1920.
Railroad construction & maintenance--Russia (Federation)--Karelia--1910-1920.
Railroads--Russia (Federation)--Karelia--1910-1920.
Religious facilities--Russia (Federation)--Karelia--1910-1920.
Waterways--Russia (Federation)--Karelia--1910-1920.
Cityscape photographs--1910-1920.
Group portraits--1910-1920.
Landscape photographs--1910-1920.
Photograph albums--1910-1920.
Photographic prints--1910-1920.
Portrait photographs--1910-1920.
Bookmark /2001696383/
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