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This is a photo of a large group of mostly women and children seated on the yard in front of a house. It is identified as the kitchen on the way to Einlage - possibly Wosnessensk.

This is a photo of a group of people, mostly men, standing along side the railway track in Chortitza, Russia. It is the first group of immigrants to leave Russia in 1923.

This is a photo of a group of men, women and children posed in front of a freight train ready for boarding. There are steps by the opening for easier boarding. Third person from left is Heinrich Sawatzky. The 11th person standing in front of the train is Heinrich Peter Harder. This is part of the Schoennwieser Group that left Russia for Canada in 1923.

This is a photo of an immigrant family sitting in the interior of a train car. The shelving has been installed by the immigrants.Lower beds with space below for baggage. Small shelf in rear for parcels. There are four small openings in the cars and two big iron doors. 25-28 persons traveled in these cars. The family is that of Jakob Jakob Schellenberg, former teacher in Schoenwiese, Russia, but others are also on the photo. The woman on the left is Mrs. Justina Dyck (see 665:113). The boy next to Jakob Schellenberg, is Jakob Jr. (or Jack as he was later called). The woman on the right presumably is Justina Schellenberg, the wife of Jakob and mother of Jack. The little girl is possibly Justina Dyck's daughter. These immigrants were part of the 2nd train, the Schoenwieser Group.
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This is a photo of three men posing on the end of a carload of long poles - "precious telegraph poles"? They are on the way to Nikopol, Russia. The men are identified as Mr. Krehbill and Gerhard Peters.

This is a photo of a loading dock by the Dnieper River in Nikopol. There are horses, workers and onlookers standing alongside the sheds and fences.

This is a photo of the exterior of an older type Mennonite home in Russia showing the fence and part of the treed yard.

This is a photo of a loaded, Russian ladder-wagon standing alongside a road. Two men and a young boy are standing in front of the two oxen that are pulling the wagon. There is a car parked behind the wagon.

This is a photo of a Russian woman standing in front of a team of oxen pulling a wagon on a city street in Russia. A female is seated on the wagon.

This is a photo of a large group, mostly older children, posed at the doorway of the American Mennonite Relief kitchen in a Russian village - Orechowka, Shavkai Volost. There are two copies of this photograph. The 2nd photo is described as Molokaner village - Molotschna. Most of the people are carrying a small pail for their food.

This is a photo of a harvest scene in Russia. Besides the farm implements, there is a car in the background on the field. The lady in the forefront wearing a white top and a hat is probably David Hofer's wife, with her husband and an AMR worker. There is also a smaller copy 8.5 x 5.5 cm.

This is a photo of two men in winter garb posed in front of roofless buildings in a deserted field. Slagel described it as "a Wirtschaft ruined by the Machnows". This photograph also appears in D.M. Hofer's book, Die Hungersnot in Russland, p. 57 and is described as the ruins of Jak. Mendel's house in Dobrischin.

This is a photo of a beggar in ragged clothes, standing at an open gateway. There is snow on the ground. There is a shed and larger building in the back.

This is a photo of a child in ragged clothing holding a bowl and a small cloth sack in its hands and a large pail on its arm. The picture is taken in Halbstadt, Molotschna, Russia.

This is a photo of a woman standing by a sod house (semlin), which was a building dug into the ground. It had a low construction with a straw roof, makeshift entrance and interesting chimney. Slagel describes it as "The hut of a Russian squatter in Halbstadt Volost. These people are crowding in between the Mennonite villages by the hundreds."