WAUTransSiberianPH2025_002.xml Guide to the Trans-Siberian Railway Photograph Album Trans-Siberian Railway Photograph Album Special Collections, University of Washington Libraries 2025

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This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2025-01-13. Description is written in: English, Latin script. Finding aid based on DACS (Describing Archives: A Content Standard), 2nd Edition. Special Collections, University of Washington Libraries Trans-Siberian Railway Photograph Album PH2025-002 0.11 cubic feet 1 box: 77 photographs approximately 1912-1915 English .

Built between 1907-1916, the Amur Railway is the last section of the Trans-Siberian Railway in Russia. Over 1,314 miles in length, the construction of this railway, completed in October, 1916, favored the development of the gold mining industry, logging, fisheries and the fur trade in Siberia and Russian Far East. Obluchye is a town and administrative center of the Obluchensky District in the Jewish Autonomous Oblast, Russia, located on the Amur River.

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Photographs of Obluchye Station and Village on the Amur Railway taken by a local doctor shortly after the founding of the village and in the last years of the railway construction. Includes views of the village hospital and streets, with general views of the railway under construction.

Transportation Railroads Photographs Album approximately 1912-1915 PH2025-002 Box 1