Photographer Anton Orlov recently
discovered over 600 color images from World War I on "Magic Lantern" slides in a house in Northern California. The images depict snow-covered villages, train tracks, bullet-riddled buildings, and soldiers in trenches, by houses and on trains. The slides were hand-colored and are still in good condition.
Orlov learned that the photographer was John Wells Rahill, a pastor who graduated from Yale University in 1906. Rahill used a Kodak Jr. #1 roll film camera to capture the images. When he returned from his trip through Europe, China and Japan, he had his best images converted into "Magic Lantern" slides, a type of image that is hand painted and can be projected.
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A train is seen sometime in either late 1917 or early 1918 in Russia. |
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A Russian machine gunner poses alongside another soldier while holding his weapon before a snow-covered bunker. |
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A group of Cossack soldiers pose for Mr Rahill's Kodak camera's lens. |
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The Pskov Kremlin is seen photographed, while its colour later hand painted like the rest of the hundreds of glass Magic Lantern slides. |
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A group of Russian soldiers are seen shooting at what is only described with the photograph's notes as a suspicious house. |
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Men are seen warmly dressed outside a train station, a few perhaps curiously watching the camera. |
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Soldiers on the front lines are seen in a bunker while wearing gas masks over their face. |
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Russian women are photographed posing with strings of onions. |
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One of the so-called Soldiers House Mr Rahill helped create in Valk is pictured with all of its men standing proudly outside. |
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Mr Rahill is seen here in this photo taken in Russia where he stands among three village children. |
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These are just some of the YMCA members who joined Mr Rahill's efforts in Russia during the revolution. |
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Photographed in Russia is the inside of one of the YMCA Soldiers Club interiors by Mr Rahill. |
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A badly damaged building in Russia is seen on a street corner where people are captured otherwise going about their daily lives. |
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An Asian man is photographed carrying two water barrels on street. |
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Four YMCA members stand before the mighty Great Wall of China. |
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Two boys are photographed partially hiding inside a large urn. |
(Photos Anton Orlov, via
Daily Mail Online)
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