Exploratory Adit with Rich Brown Iron Ore Piled in Front

Sergey Prokudin-gorsky • 1910 • Ural Mountains Region

Exploratory Adit with Rich Brown Iron Ore Piled in Front, Ural Mountains Region, 1910

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Exploratory Adit with Rich Brown Iron Ore Piled in Front — an early colour photograph by Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky, taken in 1910 (Ural Mountains Region).

Subjects: ural mountains region, iron mining, adits.

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

Original Russian caption: Probnaia shtolʹnia. Pered neĭ slozhen bogatyĭ buryĭ zheliezniak.