This is a photo of four pupils, two girls and two boys, and their teacher Abram Wiebe in a classroom. Deaf and dumb pupils are taught to form sounds. Abram Wiebe is resting his fingers on the pupil's larynx and chin and often guides the tongue. It usually took several months of instruction to teach these children the ABC in the proper tonal pitch because they could not hear what they were saying.
This is a photo of pupils in the playground at the Marien Deaf and Dumb School. Two boys are pulling a wagon and some of the children are on a see-saw. Some are just standing about. If weather permitted the children would go on extended walks under proper supervision.
This is a photo of the "Armenschule", as seen from the yard, in Berosowka, Ufa, Dawlekanovo. The building in the background consists of the school, residence and barn. In the foreground are three pieces of farm machinery.
This is a photo of a flooded backyard in New York, a Mennonite village in southern Russia. On the left is a fence, in the centre two wagons loaded with hay, on the right a building and in the background is higher ground.
