Title

On the handcar outside Petrozavodsk on the Murmansk railway, 1915. Creator: Sergey Mikhaylovich Prokudin-Gorsky.

Caption

On the handcar outside Petrozavodsk on the Murmansk railway, 1915. Prokudin-Gorskii and others ride the Murmansk Railroad in a handcar along the shores of Lake Onega near Petrozavodsk. From the beginning of Russian railroad construction in the 1850s, rails were laid using a wider gauge (5 feet 3.5 inches) than the standard European one.

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Reference

HRM24A11_353

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NA

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NA

License type

Rights managed

Available size

62,1Mb (2,7Mb) / 16,5in x 14,6in / 4960 x 4374 (300dpi)

Keywords

travel transport transportation exterior outdoors people male library group man men historical railways country guy railway railroad color photography passengers passenger travelling railway line location century railway tracks Russia Russian train track railway track photograph concept negative photo Library of Congress Colour 1910s 20th century history historic Rossiya TGN outside photograph portrait Sergey Mikhaylovich Prokudin-Gorsky Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorsky Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky Sergei Prokudin-Gorsky Murmansk Prokudin-Gorsky Sergey Mikhaylovich Russian Empire Congressional Library Heritage Art glass negative glass negative handcar pump car pump trolley still image Group portraits Meeting of Frontiers Prokudin-Gorsky Sergei Prokudin-Gorsky Sergey Petrozavodsk colour separation negative Self-portraits Kareliya Republic