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Laplanders with their Reindeer Sled Teams
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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 onion domes. In the background on the right men work near stacks of logs.
1918
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Laplanders with their Reindeer Sled Teams
1918
A family of Laplanders with their reindeer sled teams. In the background are a house with its outhouses, and a group of people to the left of center, as well as two men sawing a piece of timber.
Railroad on the Ice to Archangel; Reindeer Sled Team
1918
View across snow of a man driving a sled with a team of reindeer. There are railroad tracks on the right that run towards a town in the distance. A number of people are traveling on the ice near th...
Wood Sawyers
1918
Wood sawyers gathering wood and hauling it on a sled pulled by horse near Archangel [Arkhangelsk], Russia. There is a large stack of lumber as well as a pile of split firewood behind the group.
Reindeer Team
1918
Group portrait of a reindeer team and sled that was kept by Company M of the 339th United States Infantry Regiment. Two soldiers and a horse pose with the young boys in the snow. The group is posin...
Russian Barn
1918
A Russian man is standing with his horse in front of a large barn. The barn has an arched balcony above the double doors. Around the barn half-buried in the snow are horse-drawn carts, sleds, and l...
Travelling "de luxe" in Russia, by Horse-Drawn Sled
1918
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 to pull the sled. Cut and stripped timbers...
