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Black and white photograph of hospital patients in the sun parlor at the Central Hospital of the White Sea Canal forced labor project in 1932. They are receiving fresh-air therapy and surrounded by hospital staff.

Black and white group photograph of hospital patients convalescing outdoors at the White Sea Canal camp. They lay in wooden cots and are surrounded by hospital staff. Crutches are visible in the foreground, and one patient's leg is padded with evergreen boughs.

In the color sketch from her self-illustrated memoirs, Evfrosiniia Kersnovskaia is examined by Doctor Mardna, while Nurse Margarita stands at the end of the bed. In the accompanying text, Kersnovskaia describes how well they took care of her, and how she trusted them completely.

Prisoners either in camp hospital lie in their cots at the Vorkuta camp.