Black and white photograph of Matvei Berman, the Head of the construction of Belomorkanal (seated in the center) during his inspection trip to the canal, July 1932.

Black and white photograph of a group of the leading and technical officers at 2nd Boeuchastka of Belomorkanal Camp 1932.

Black and white photograph of a large group of uniformed individuals standing in front of buildings at a celebration of the 15th anniversary of the October Revolution. Militarized Guard, Belomorkanal Camp

Black and white photograph of a group of chief officials visiting the village of Povenets in the Summer of 1932.

Black and white photograph of group physical training with male and female guards standing in line watching a fellow guard walking on a balance beam.

Prisoner Andrei Vingorsky's painting of a Smolensk female guard in uniform holding a gun across her lap with a view of a city behind her. Prisoner artists often painted camp employees in exchange for extra food rations, better jobs, or other commodities in the Gulag camp "economy."

Line drawing of exterior of camp enclosure with watchtowers at corners.

Black and white photograph of prisoners boarding ship from one Gulag construction site, the Belomorkanal, to another, the Moscow-Volga canal.

Color sketch from Evfrosiniia Kersnovskaia's self-illustrated memoirs of the interior of a prisoner railcar. The image shows passengers on a crowded transport train dealing with normal bodily functions while trying to maintain some sense of the privacy of regular life by holding up a blanket. Kersnovskaia writes in the accompanying text that for people from Bessarabia it was a real torture to deal with these "necessities" in a railcar, because they were brought up to believe that all nakedness was shameful.

Black and white photograph of train standing at station, attended by two station masters, labeled as Solovki Railway passenger coaches.