Gift; William P. Meeker; 1971. Forms part of: Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1942. World's Transportation Commission photograph collection (Library of Congress).
Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "All the large cities of Russia are on the rivers or on the coast. Leningrad is built largely on piles in a swampy region at the mouth of the Neva River. It is a More
Russian Soldiers, WWI front lines, marching. Public domain reproduction of colorized lantern slide, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Russian soldiers and officers. WWI. Public domain reproduction of colorized lantern slide, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Funeral Procession in Peking, China. Public domain photograph of procession, parade in Russia, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Lantern slide by John Wells Rahill of a Russian town and Orthodox church. Winter of 1917-1918.
Railway engine, Japanese narrow gauge railroads, engines, and cars made in England.
A young Cossack and his older comrades. Cossacks found themselves fighting on opposite sides of the conflict during the Russian revolution.
An apartment building in Moscow ruined during the 1917 Bolshevik revolution. Mr. Rahill captured the destruction of many Moscow buildings including the famous Metropol Hotel.
German and Russian soldiers on Trans-Siberian railroad. Some of the YMCA secretaries were assigned to oversee the return of the German prisoners of war back to Europe from Siberia and the demobilization of Russ More
Buying and selling boots. Market place Samara. A pair of boots would exchange for a whole beef when I was in Russia.
Russian soldiers at a large bunker playing guitar. Northwestern front. Public domain reproduction of colorized lantern slide, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
John Wells Rahill in Russia. The lecture care for this slide reads: “Three Russian boys and Myself in front of a Russian house under wood.” Rev. John Wells Rahill was a protestant minister in Weld County, Colo More
Soldier’s Club with a banner in Russian reads: “At this school, a soldier’s club has been organized by the American branch of YMCA.
John Wells Rahill (right). The original lecture card reads: "We Three: Brown, Rahill, and the doctor’s Son crossing the river above Pskov." The leather case from the Eastman Kodak camera, which Mr. Rahill use More
Public domain photograph of church building, Christianity, religious architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Japanese fishing village and inhabitants. Public domain reproduction of colorized lantern slide, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
YMCA members entertaining train station crowd. Public domain reproduction of colorized lantern slide, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Russian soldiers wearing gas masks in trenches next to a dugout.
Soldiers on a train station platform. Omsk, Russia. Public domain photograph of train station platform, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Soldier’s Club organized by the American branch of YMCA. Public domain reproduction of colorized lantern slide, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
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