Irkutsk Photo Album

Some historic pictures from the 1904 travelogue "The Real Siberia" by John Foster Fraser, a britishman who traveled across Siberia in 1901 (photos by the author):

• The English-built ice-breaker "Baikal" on lake Baikal (1901)
• Running a train on board the "Baikal"
• Lake Baikal in summer 1901
• Panorama of Irkutsk (1901)
• Afternoon scene in Irkutsk (1901)
• The Hotel "Dekko" in Irkutsk (1901)
• Chiefs of Irkutsk prison (1901)
• On the road to the monastery of Saint Innokente (1901)
• The monastery of Saint Innokente (1901)

The painting from the 1889 travelogue "Russian Pictures" by Thomas Michell, a britishman who traveled across the Russian Empire in 1886 (pen and pencil drawing by the author):

This images were got from:
Rita Bogna
Adelaide, South Australia
e-mail: rabogna@dove.net.au

The photos from the
Library of Congress of USA
http://www.loc.gov

• Church and the Bazanoff orphan asylum
• Boy on small sledge pulled by 3 bear cubs
• Man standing; large building in background
• Church
• Church
• The official residence of the governor-general ( "White House".) Now the library of Irkutsk State University
• City hospital
• The Museum of Regional History (modern image)
• The Hotel Siberia
• Irkutsk - distant view
• Irkutsk - distant view with horse-drawn sledge in foreground
• Vosnesenskaya church
• Vosnesenskii monastyr

Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1942, photographer.
CREATED/PUBLISHED 1896 Jan.

• Small private pharma shop (1915)
• Two men on the bench near the house (very nice fragment) (1915)

This images were got from:
Alice Chandler, Ph. D.
Chandler@aol.com

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