Aerial Cable Railway from the Tyazhely Mine

Sergey Prokudin-gorsky • 1910 • Ural Mountains Region

Aerial Cable Railway from the Tyazhely Mine, Ural Mountains Region, 1910

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Aerial Cable Railway from the Tyazhely Mine — an early colour photograph by Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky, taken in 1910 (Ural Mountains Region).

Subjects: ural mountains region, pulleys, wooden buildings, cable railroads.

Made with his three-exposure colour-separation method on a single glass plate; Prokudin-Gorskii Collection, Library of Congress.

Original Russian caption: Podviesnaia zhel. dor. s Tiazhelago rudnika.