Sujet

Gold washing machine on Askold Island, 1865-1871. Creator: VV Lanin.

Légende

Gold washing machine on Askold Island, 1865-1871. This album contains 154 photographs taken in the second half of the 1860s and 1870s by a local photographer from the Far East, V. V. Lanin. The merchant V. P. Myl'nikov presented it as a gift to the Imperial Public Library of St. Petersburg upon his return from the Amur region. The photographs represent a variety of subjects, including municipal scenes of Blagoveshchensk, Nikolaevsk-na-Amure, and Vladivostok; images of native life and culture, views of nature, and commerce along the Amur, Ussuri, and Suifun Rivers.

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Notre référence

HRM24A02_419

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

53,6Mo (2,5Mo) / 42,0cm x 32,0cm / 4960 x 3776 (300dpi)

Mots clés

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