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Peasant Plowing with Horse

Date: 1918
Description: A peasant farmer plowing a field with the plow harnessed to a horse. The farmer's daughter is wearing a light-colored patterned dress and stands on the lef...
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Trench beside Log Cabin

Date: 1918
Description: Two soldiers outside of a trench that is next to a log cabin which is reinforced with sandbags. One of the soldiers appears to be preparing a meal in an ou...
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Group of Men

Date: 1918
Description: Group portrait of men dressed in civilian clothes, one of which is wearing a University of Michigan hooded sweatshirt. Some of the men have catcher's mitts...
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American Soldier Posing

Date: 1918
Description: Full-length outdoor portrait of an unidentified uniformed first lieutenant in the United States Medical Corps attached to the 339th Infantry Regiment. He i...
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Damaged Log Blockhouse

Date: 1918
Description: A damaged blockhouse constructed with logs. In the distance are more buildings. It appears the roof of the fortification has sustained some damage and logs...
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Observation Tower

Date: 1918
Description: Four men stand outdoors near a log building at the base of a large ladder leading up to an observation tower. The ladder is constructed between the trunks ...
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Erecting a New Wireless Radio Pole

Date: 1918
Description: Russians erecting new wireless radio poles near a town. In the background are a number of large buildings behind a wooden fence. On the ground are barrels ...
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Lorry Portable Radio Shed

Date: 1918
Description: View from snowy road of a wooden fence with barbed wire attached to it. Behind it is a building being used as a shed to store lorry (truck) portable radios...
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Toboggan Slide

Date: 1918
Description: View down snowy road towards a crowd of people gathered at the base of a toboggan slide. A group at the top is preparing to go down the slide. The adjacent...
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Pinega Settlement

Date: 1918
Description: View over frozen expanse, probably the Pinega River, of the Pinega settlement in northern Russia. There are many wooden structures and dwellings along a lo...
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U.S. Army Engineer Corps Topographer

Date: 1918
Description: Outdoor view of a U.S. Army Engineer topographer wearing skis while in the process of surveying land. The engineer is standing next to a barbed wire obstac...
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View of the City of Archangel

Date: 1918
Description: Elevated view of Archangel [Archangelsk], Russia. There are pedestrians on the snowy street below. Buildings and dwellings line the streets. In the backgro...
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U.S. Army Engineer Corps Mapping Section

Date: 1918
Description: View across snow towards a group of soldiers from the mapping section of the 310th United States Engineer Corps posing with horses and sleighs. In the back...
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U.S. Army Headquarters

Date: 1918
Description: Exterior view across snow of the headquarters building of the United States Army during the Allied Intervention in Northern Russia. An American flag is fly...
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View of the City of Archangel

Date: 1918
Description: Elevated view of Troitsky prospect in Archangel [Archangelsk], Russia, looking south, showing homes, churches, state buildings, and a statue of Peter the G...
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Laplanders with their Reindeer Sled Teams

Date: 1918
Description: Two men and a young boy pose on sleds near their teams of reindeer in front of a house and its outbuildings. In the background is a large building with oni...
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U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Billets

Date: 1918
Description: View across snow-covered logs of billets of the 310th U.S. Army Corps of Engineers near Arkhangelsk, Russia surrounded by pine trees. There are pine boughs...
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Group Posed by Blockhouse

Date: 1918
Description: A group of possibly both American and British soldiers standing just outside a blockhouse fortification. There are piles of logs and an axe on the ground i...
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Travelling "de luxe" in Russia, by Horse-Drawn Sled

Date: 1918
Description: Lieutenant Colonel P.S. Morris, Commanding Officer, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, in heavy fur clothing, laying in a sled with a horse harnessed and ready ...
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Officers Quarters, Interior

Date: 1918
Description: Interior view of the officers quarters of the 310th United States Engineers. In the back of the room is a stone fireplace with a portrait of President Wood...

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