Engineer Morgunenkov’s water-raising machine on the Emperor Nicholas I Canal near the government house. Golodnaya Steppe, Uzbekistan, 1905-15. Photo by Sergei Prokudin-Gorsky.

Engineer Morgunenkov’s water-raising machine on the Emperor Nicholas I Canal near the government house. Golodnaya Steppe, Uzbekistan, 1905-15. Photo by Sergei Prokudin-Gorsky.