THE BERRY MEADOW ARCHIVE - Mountain Light School

The black and white photographs used here are from the many picture albums Evelyn Reich
assembled over the years. We are thankful that many of them are identified and dated in Evelyn‟s careful
handwriting. She realized the significance of such images and evidence indicates that many came into her
possession after older family members had passed away. For this reason some of the photographs appear
to have originally belonged to her father, Karl Scheuerman, Sr., father-in-law Alec Reich, and uncle, Yost
Scheuerman. Some of the most interesting are also the largest—19 th century brown-tone images from
Russia, pictures of relatives living around the country, and photos by R. R. Hutchison and others mounted
on hardboard depicting Northwest pioneer life.
The exquisite antique blackline engravings from Germany, Russia, and the United States used for
illustrations here are from the “Pictures Drawn with Pen and Pencil” foreign country series published in
the late 1800s by the Religious Tract Society of London (William Clowes and Sons). Many of the scenes
bear the signature of English artist and world traveler Edward Whymper (1840-1911) and I have selected
some related to the areas in Germany, Russia, and the United States where our ancestors lived or traveled.
Russian Troika
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