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Black and white. Three men. Two on left are holding Russian guitars and the man on the right is holding violin. Abram Kroeger (Margarethe Regier's brother) is on the right,. He was a specialist in factory in the northern Russian forest during the First World War. In the middle is his brother-in-law (Regehr), possibly married to a Schroeder woman.

Peter Kroeger (brother of Magaretha (Kroeger) Regier. Assigned to the Red Cross to serve alternative service as a conscientious objector, Kroeger served as a non-combatant in the paymaster's office of the 8th Imperial Tsarist Army. He is wearing what appears to be a Red Cross armband.

Black and white. Man is wearing knee high boots, with dark coloured pants and leather coat. Red Cross armband over left coat sleeve with left hand propped up on hip. Right elbow is resting on top of pillar and right hand is holding front of coat. Two-pointed, dark coloured, fur hat. Gerhard Dyck.

Black and white. Head and shoulder shot. Young man with mustache and very short hair. Wearing jacket buttoned up to neck. Abraham P. Regier (1916) in Red Cross before they learned he had business training.

Margaretha (Kroeger) Regier is standing, facing the right edge with her head turned to the viewer. She is resting her right hand on the back of a chair. Supplies were hard to get so the photographer put the film in kerosene and used it as a negative.

Nikolai Harder, a classmate of Abraham P. Regier. His father was a teacher.

Black and white. Anna Elias Toews in a formal portrait.

Black and white. Two young men wearing dark clothing, both have hands folded in front of them. Man on left is looking up at ceiling. Man on right is looking off camera to left. Framed pictures are on wall behind them. Abraham P. Regier and Nikolai Epp (from Kuban) - later lived in New York U.S.A. He and his brother were very musical. Abraham Regier visited him in New York. As students they rented 3 rooms in a widow's house. Epp brothers in one room, Abraham Regier and 2 Thiessens (from Kherson?) in second room, and a Swiss student in third room.

Portrait of Abram Redekop, a distant relative of Abraham P. Regier. He was the only son of a family with many sisters. He married a German woman from the Caucasus, and had a large orchard.

Black and white. Man is standing with right hand resting on back of chair, left hand by side. Wearing knee high boots and dark uniform. Hat with visor; on visor is oval, light coloured badge with cross on it. Dietrich Regier (1914-15) Abraham P. Regier's brother as Red Cross Sanitater [orderly] in Moscow.

Black and white photograph. Six women in a group in front of photographer's studio backdrop. Note on back identifies them L to R as: Tina Schroder, Margareta Kroger, Anna Dyck, Sara Andres, (first name missing) Elias, Maria Schroder. Regier notes: Schroder girls are aunts to novelist Sandra Birdsell.

Man is wearing dark-coloured suit and resting his right hand on the woman's right hip. Her head is tilted back towards him and she is wearing light-coloured dress. In the background to the right is a Christmas tree with lit candles. At the base of the tree is a bouquet of flowers. Post card possibly sent to Gerhard Martens.

Black and white. Man is standing, facing camera. Both hands are behind his back. Wearing three-piece, dark coloured suit, with light coloured shirt. Peter D. Kroeger (1910)

Black and white. 3/4 length shot. Hair is pulled back, wearing dark dress with light coloured lace collar. Margaretha (Kroeger) Regier's friend, Martens, from Crimea.

Head and shoulders only. Light coloured hair pulled back, wearing earrings and necklace. Frau Schiller or Schilling, a widow, Abraham P. Regier's landlady.