Guardhouse on the Onega Canal

Sergey Prokudin-gorsky • 1909 • Onezhskii Canal, Volga, Baltic Waterway

Guardhouse on the Onega Canal, Onezhskii Canal, Volga, Baltic Waterway, 1909

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Guardhouse on the Onega Canal — an early colour photograph by Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky, taken in 1909 (Onezhskii Canal, Volga, Baltic Waterway).

Subjects: onezhskii canal, canals, waterways, volga-baltic waterway, guardhouses.

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

Original Russian caption: Karaulʹnyĭ dom. [Rossiĭskaia imperiia].