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Photographs of various people and on various topics. There are a number of major groups: late 19th century Russian revolutionaries; the wreck of Alexander III's train in 1888; Russian families in the early 20th century; nurses in Petrograd in World War I (Kononova); Aleksandr Kerenskiĭ at the front, 1917; St. Tikhon's Monastery in Pennsylvania; and American cultural and political figures in the USSR in the 1950's (such as Van Cliburn, W.A. Harriman, Richard Nixon, Carl Sandburg, and Isaac Stern).

The collection comprises Globachev's correspondence, K. I. Globachev's and S. N. Globacheva's typescript memoirs, personal documents, copies of photographs and biographical materials. Globachev's memoirs give a detailed account of events in Petrograd in the period 1914-1920, and memoirs of Sofiia Nikolaevna Globacheva focused on her personal experience as wife of a goverment official. There is also V. Marinich's correspondence including with A. F. Kerenskii and A. A. von Lampe.