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Verigin Doukhobor brick factory - community enterprise in Veregin, Sask. About 1907.
R-B2143: Conveyor belt and drying racks, kiln in background.
R-B2144: Conveyor belt and drying racks, Russian-born visitor, A. Karenin and family.

Doukhobor women cleaning grain by means of a wooden sieve suspended from triangle of sticks.

Doukhobor woodworking shop, probably in Verigin - men with apprentice boy making spinning-wheel & wooden barrels. Early 1900's.

Bootery - men with boy apprentices at work. Early 1900's.

Tailor shop, probably in Verigin district - man pressing, women using sewing machines, boys seated on table stitching by hand. About 1908. Noted on back: "The first sewing machines were introduced among the community Doukhobors in Saskatchewan, by their leader, P.N. Virigin. Probably in Verigin district."

Clothing shop showing women and girls spinning thread from flax on spinning-wheels, carding wool, and knitting socks. Early 1900's.

Woman working on loom with girl knitting alongside. About 1905.

Mary M. Perehudoff using spinning wheel on verandah of Verigin House.

Doukhobor woman baking bread in large indoor oven. About 1899. Located noted as Verigin region (on back).

Vosnisennie - temporary log huts with sod roofs, used in early years; women making buns(?) at table beside hut. Early 1900's? Note on back: "Temporary wooden huts used by Doukhobors during settlement on the Canadian Prairies - 1899. Housed 50-100 people in each, during first Winter".