Collections : [Rare Book & Manuscript Library]

School of Professional Studies/Continuing Education academic affairs records. Includes syllabi, correspondence, program proposals, reports, meeting minutes and school history documents. Materials dates from the 1970s to 2010s.

Minutes, memoranda, bulletins and printed materials of the Uchreditel'noe sobranie (Russian Constituent Assembly) in Paris in 1921. There are minutes of the Judicial Commission of the Assembly; resolutions of the Executive Committee of the Assembly; a report of the Executive Committee's activities during 1921; numerous memoranda prepared by the Assembly mainly concerning Soviet Russia's relations with Western European and Far Eastern countries and treaties affecting Soviet Russia after WWI; and 11 typed information bulletins about the famine in Russia, Russian refugees and prisoners-of-war, and the financial situation of Soviet Russia in 1921. The printed materials include information bulletins, appeals to aid those suffering from the famine in Russia, and several pamphlets on Soviet prisons, the Treaty of Riga (1921), and the commercial pact between England and Soviet Russia(1921). There is also a folder with miscellaneous materials.

I. Collectible coins issued by the National bank of Ukraine in 2022: 1. Silver commemorative coin "Oh, the Red Guelder-Rose in the Meadow" from "My Immortal Ukraine" series; with certificate. 2. Silver commemorative coin "In Unity Strength" from "My Immortal Ukraine" series; with certificate. 3. Nickel coin "Oh, the Red Guelder-Rose in the Meadow." 4. Nickel coin "In Unity Strength." II. Collectible war stamps sets, issued by Ukrposhta in 2022: 1. "Good evening, we are from Ukraine!" – 6 stamps, 1 postcard, 1 envelope, 1 magnet. 2. "Russian warship, go…!" – 6 stamps, 1 postcard, 1 magnet. 3. "Dog Patron" – 8 stamps, 1 postcard. 4. "Ukrainian Dream" – 1 envelope, 1 magnet. 5. "Free, Unbreakable, Invincible" – 1 envelope.

Correspondence, manuscripts, and related materials of the "Ulbandus Review." The materials in the first three boxes concern the journal's founding and its first two issues. Those materials in boxes four and five deal with the journal's third issue, which was the first part of a memorial Festschrift dedicated to Rufus Mathewson. Materials given in 1982 include miscellaneous editorial materials and correspondence from 1977-1981, and manuscripts published in the fourth issue (the second part of the Mathewson Festschrift, printed materials, and miscellaneous manuscripts, including some that were apparently rejected).

The collection consists of 71 patent sheets representing patents obtained for stone lithographic designs for cigar box labels. Each patent is accompanied by a specimen printing of the label concerned.

This collection consists of 37 letters written in reply to a questionnaire sent out by the Philadelphia attorneys, Campbell, Reall, Foster, Bright, and Dallas, in regard to the case of SHARPLESS ET AL. VS. THE MAYOR, ALDERMEN, AND CITIZENS OF PHILADELPHIA IN 1853. These letters of reply contain information for 17 states, New Hampshire, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Iowa, Arkansas, Virginia, Kentucky, North Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama, Maine, and Louisiana. The letters give brief but full accounts of the history, legislation, and policy of aid to railroads by local governments in these states up to 1853, the year in which all of the letters are dated. The letters were written by state officials and functionaries and are all in script of the clarity of mid-19th century legal hands. Also, articles of incorporation for the West Virginia railroads Clarksburg, Weston and Glenville Railroad and Transportation Company, Weston and Buckhannon Railroad Company, Weston and Elk River Railroad Company, Weston and West Fork Railroad Company, and Buckhannon River Railroad Company; railroad stock certificates; and scrapbooks containing news clippings relating to the Great Erie Railway War, 1868, and sample railroad tickets for the New York Central Railroad.

Clippings gathered into scrapbooks, chiefly from American newspapers, on various subjects relating to the Soviet Union and communism.

Mimeographed typescripts, entitled "Istorii︠a︡ Markovskoĭ Artilleriĭskoĭ Brigady." They were prepared and published by the Historical Commission of the veterans' organization of the Markov Artillery Division, which was a White Army unit in the Civil War. The editors were Vadim Shchavinskiĭ, Colonel Zholondkovskiĭ, and Captain Vinogradov. The two-volume history, with three later additions, discusses the history of the unit.

Typescript memoirs of Totomi︠a︡nt︠s︡. The longest piece "Iz moikh vospominaniĭ" (156 p.), is a copy of Totomi︠a︡nt︠s︡'s memoirs under the same title (Sofia, Bulgaria, 1943). It discusses his studies in Western Europe; his years as a journalist in Russia around the turn of the century; his work with the cooperative movement in Russia and Europe; and his years in emigration after the 1917 revolution. Also included is a short essay entitled "Kooperativnaia poezdka v Rumynii︠u︡" and four other brief pieces on major economists and scholars whom he knew: Werner Sombart, Luigi Luzzatt, Charles Gide, and Aleksandr A. Chuprov. There is a clipping of an article from a French periodical about Totomi︠a︡nt︠s︡.