On the Saimaa Canal, Finland: Lock

Sergey Prokudin-gorsky • 1905 • Saimaa Canal, Finland

On the Saimaa Canal, Finland: Lock, 1905

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On the Saimaa Canal, Finland: Lock — an early colour photograph by Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky, taken between 1905 and 1915.

Subjects: locks (hydraulic engineering), canals, saimaa canal, finland.

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

Original Russian caption: Na Saĭmenskom kanalie. Finliandīia.