Old-Style Lock Gates on the Belozersk Canal

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

Old-Style Lock Gates on the Belozersk Canal, Volga, Baltic Waterway, Volga-Baltic Waterway, 1909

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Old-Style Lock Gates on the Belozersk Canal — an early colour photograph by Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky, taken in 1909 (Volga, Baltic Waterway, Volga-Baltic Waterway).

Subjects: canals, sluices, volga-baltic waterway, bielozerskīĭ kanal.

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

Original Russian caption: Tip starykh shliuzovykh vorot. Bielozerskīĭ kanal. [Rossiĭskaia imperiia].