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Volga Germans

Media Collection: Volga Germans

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Volga German family in the Albina district, Portland

(Courtesy of Stacy Hahn)

Lumber yard workers at an Albina lumber mill, c.1880

(Courtesy Oregon Hist. Soc. Research Lib., 51838, photofile 1691)

Portland, Albina District, 1909

Portland, Albina District, 1909 (Courtesy Oreg. Hist. Soc. Research Lib., OrHi45268)

Vancouver and Russell streets in the Albina neighborhood, Portland, c.1909

(Courtesy Oregon Hist. Soc. Research Lib., 54268, photo file 1691)

National Convention of the American Volga Relief Society, NE Fremont (now Irving Park), 1924

Zion German Congregational Church on NE 9th and Fremont (background), built by Volga Germans in 1913. The VRS collected funds and clothing to aid family and friends who were suffering from a severe famine in the lower Volga region. (Courtesy of Marie Trupp Krieger)