Print No. 161704, March 14, 1919 (The transportation of people across the Dwina River from Archangel to Archangel Prestin where the Vologda Railway ends, a distance of slightly more than a mile, is accomplished in various ways, but chiefly by reindeer teams, consisting of from two to five animals each. A dark skinned Laplander is the driver and the passengers ride on a light wooden sled over which a deer skin is thrown, here one of these is crossing the river. 339th Inf. 85th Div. Archangel, Russia.) from the United States Army Signal Corps photograph collection, 1918-1919 [Folder 10, Item 3]
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- Print No. 161704, March 14, 1919 (The transportation of people across the Dwina River from Archangel to Archangel Prestin where the Vologda Railway ends, a distance of slightly more than a mile, is accomplished in various ways, but chiefly by reindeer teams, consisting of from two to five animals each. A dark skinned Laplander is the driver and the passengers ride on a light wooden sled over which a deer skin is thrown, here one of these is crossing the river. 339th Inf. 85th Div. Archangel, Russia.) from the United States Army Signal Corps photograph collection, 1918-1919 [Folder 10, Item 3]
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- Airplanes.
- Death.
- Funeral rites and ceremonies.
- Military facilities.
- Military life.
- Packtrains.
- Railroads -- Soviet Union.
- Reindeer.
- Ships.
- War casualties.
- World War, 1914-1918.
- Soviet Union.
- Soviet Union -- History
- Polar Bear Expedition.
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"Print No. 161704, March 14, 1919 (The transportation of people across the Dwina River from Archangel to Archangel Prestin where the Vologda Railway ends, a distance of slightly more than a mile, is accomplished in various ways, but chiefly by reindeer teams, consisting of from two to five animals each. A dark skinned Laplander is the driver and the passengers ride on a light wooden sled over which a deer skin is thrown, here one of these is crossing the river. 339th Inf. 85th Div. Archangel, Russia.) from the United States Army Signal Corps photograph collection, 1918-1919 [Folder 10, Item 3]." In the digital collection Polar Bear Expedition Digital Materials. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/921010.0010.003. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 9, 2024.