Workshop for extracting cotton oil, Murgab Estate,…

Sergey Prokudin-gorsky • 1905 • Turkmenistan

Workshop for extracting cotton oil, Murgab Estate, Bairam-Ali, Turkmenistan, 1905

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Workshop for extracting cotton oil, Murgab Estate, Bairam-Ali — an early colour photograph by Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky, taken between 1905 and 1915 (Turkmenistan).

Subjects: tile floors, interiors, turkmenistan, cotton industry, machinery.

Made with his three-exposure colour-separation method on a single glass plate; Prokudin-Gorskii Collection, Library of Congress.