Mast with Signs Showing Channel Depth near the Lock on the…

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

Mast with Signs Showing Channel Depth near the Lock on the Slavyanka…, Volga, Slavianka River, Baltic Waterway, 1909

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Mast with Signs Showing Channel Depth near the Lock on the Slavyanka River — an early colour photograph by Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky, taken in 1909 (Volga, Slavianka River, Baltic Waterway).

Subjects: slavianka river, sluices, volga-baltic waterway, signals.

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

Original Russian caption: Okolo shliuza machta so znakami, ukazyvaiushchimi glubinu farvatera v r. Slaviankie. [Rossiĭskaia imperiia].