3-005-616 - Heritage Art/Heritage Images

Yakut woman in festive attire, 1890. The album "Views of the Yakutsk Region" contains 151 photographs. Subjects include the Lena River shore; various forms of river transport--including boats, rafts, trade barges, and steamships; post offices along the Lena highway, and transport by horse and reindeer. Several of the photographs are signed with the initials "I. P." Irkutsk State University