Three Russian boys and Myself in front of a Russian house under wood.

Three Russian boys and Myself in front of a Russian house under wood.

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John Wells Rahill in Russia. The lecture care for this slide reads: “Three Russian boys and Myself in front of a Russian house under wood.”
Rev. John Wells Rahill was a protestant minister in Weld County, Colorado and in Russia, during WW1, but was ordered out of the country by the German government, now involved in the Great War in Europe.

Color lanterns slides made by Rev. John Wells Rahill when traveling Trans-Siberian Railway during the end of the First World War.

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1914 - 1918
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Anton Orlov
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May be under copyright. Less than a period of 120 years from the year of its creation, 1918. Less than 70 years before author death (1966).

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