A wide street in some city in Russia is being swept by a Russian woman. Taken by Peter Dyck on his trip to Russia in 1968? See ref. to women sweeping the streets in art. in CM Feb. 7, 1967, p.7.
This series contains the photograph collection of the Regiers. Photographs of family and friends taken in Russia are included. Scope and content notes for individual photographs is supplied from information on the photographs themselves, and Henry Regier.
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.
Black and white. Trio of boys are standing outside facing camera. All are wearing dark coats closed to neck. Boy on left has right hand in pocket. Other boys have hands by sides. Abram Guenther, Cornelius Lehn, Gerhard Kroeger as students. Abram Regier drove to school with them. Taken with Abraham Regier's camera.
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.
Black and white. Both are seated in fake car. Boy is at steering wheel pretending to drive. He is wearing dark jacket and dark hat. Man is in back wearing light coloured suit with light coloured shirt and dark tie. He is wearing straw hat. Abram Martens and younger brother.
Black and white. Head and shoulder shot. Clean shaven. Wearing dark uniform jacket with large metal, buttons fastened to neck. Abram Penner, from Molotschna. A. P. Regier shared a room with him, also with Martin Dyck.
Black and white photo of young man, head and shoulders only. Wearing three-piece suit, with dark coloured tie and light coloured shirt. Martens, brother of Anna (Martens) Kroeger, Erich's relative.
Postcard of a gate at the border of the Soviet Union, probably at Latvia. The view is looking towards the Soviet Union. Neufeld relatives of the Penner family crossed through this gate in 1924. Description accompanying photograph reads: "Gate exiting Russia that Oma and Opa Neufeld's train passed through, 1924." "Oma and Opa Neufeld" are Peter Neufeld and Gertrude (Fast) Neufeld. The writing on the arch (in Russian) translates, in part: "SSSR: Greetings to the workers of the West." On the columns supporting the arch, the left one translates "Long live the commune." The right one translates "Death to capitalism." The writing on the bottom, likely in Latvian, possibly refers to the Latvian town of Zilupe on the Russian border.
Black and white. Group of 7 men, 6 are holding various musical instruments. All are wearing dark clothing and hats with visors. Man at far left is wearing light coloured jacket. 6 men are standing, with 1 man sitting in front on left side. Setting appears to be outside. Abram Kroeger in forestry (Ernie Kroeger's father). On far right.
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.
Formal portrait of (left to right): [?] Andres (died of typhus in Russia; his wife was Katharina Schroeder), [?] Froese, Hans Dyck (later a farmer in Hague, Saskatchewan), Gerhard Klassen.
