Search Results
Boris Nikandrovich Beliaev Memoirs, 1915-1955
2 itemsTypescript memoirs (118 p.) concerning Beliaev's work with the Empress Aleksandra during World War I in the Vserossiiskoe obshchestvo zdravnits v pamiat' voiny 1914-1915 godov, of which she was the president and he the secretary. This organization worked to help war victims and their families. Also included is a pamphlet by Beliaev "Po voprosu ob organizatsii pomoshchi postradavshim na voine i ikh semiam" (Petrograd, 1915).
Boris Nikolaevich Ermolov Collection, 1916-1923
125 itemsCorrespondence, manuscripts, photographs, a subject file, and printed materials collected by Ermolov. The collection almost exclusively concerns the 1917 Revolution and the Civil War. Correspondence includes items by Isabel Hapgood and Konstantin Nabokov. The manuscripts include English-language translations of Russian materials from the period. There are 2 photographs: 1 of Grigoriĭ Rasputin at a tea party in 1916, and the other of the State Duma in 1917. The subject file concerns the Orthodox Patriarch Tikhon in 1917-19. Printed materials include Russian, English, and American clippings, pamphlets, journals, posters, and fliers.
Center for US-China Arts Exchange records, 1956-2019, bulk 1977-2003
102 Linear FeetChina Institute in America records, 1926-1976, bulk 1931-1959
65 linear feetDmitrii Fedorovich Diadiun Papers, 1968-1973
4 itemsTwo notebooks with Di︠a︡di︠u︡n's handwritten memoirs; one notebook of Soviet jokes; and a pamphlet by V. N. Jernakov, Nikolaĭ Apollonovich Baĭkov (Melbourne, 1968).
Dmitrii Nikolaevich Fedotoff-White Papers, 1920-1955
35000 itemsCorrespondence, manuscripts, photographs, subject files and printed materials. The correspondence includes letters from Michael Florinsky, Mikhail Karpovich, Bernard Pares, Geroid Robinson and George Vernadsky as well as one each from Lidii︠a︡ Lopukhova, Lewis Mumford and George Orwell. There is abundant correspondence relating to the Cunard Whitestar Line, notably from Anthony Cunard. The manuscripts include drafts of several of Fedotoff-White's books as well as copious notes and book reviews. There are subject files relating to his curriculum vitae, financial affairs, and his university studies. Among the printed materials are books (including several of his own), clippings, pamphlets, and brochures.
Douglas Putnam Haskell papers, 1866-1979-(bulk 1949-1964).
56 Linear FeetEdgar J. Kaufmann papers on Fallingwater, 1909-1976, bulk 1932-1955
5 manuscript boxesThe collection consists primarily of correspondence, photographs, project records, architectural drawings, legal documents, periodicals, news clippings and exhibition materials. The material held in this collection relates to architectural projects for Edgar J. Kaufmann by Frank Lloyd Wright, and the bulk of the material relates to Kaufmann's home, Fallingwater, at Bear Run, Pennsylvania. The collection documents the professional and personal relationship between the Kaufmann family and Wright, from the 1930s until the years preceding Wright's death in 1959.
Eleanor M. Tilton papers, 1770-1991
68 linear feetThis collection includes nine letters of Ralph Waldo Emerson as well as letters of Louis Agassiz, Amos Bronson Alcott, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, James Russell Lowell, John Lothrop Motley, Charles Sumner, and John Greenleaf Whittier. In addition, there are two incomplete manuscripts by Emerson and one document from the Liverpool Custom-house signed by Nathaniel Hawthorne as Consul for the United States. The collection also includes the corrected typescript, index, and page and galley proofs for Thomas Franklin Currier, A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES (New York, 1953) which was edited by Professor Tilton. Also, some early correspondence and photographs of the Tilton family and friends. There are letters from the actors Annie Louise Ames, Richard J. Dillon, and Hans L. Meery to Tilton's grandfather, Bernard Paul Verne, as well as photographs, tintypes, and daguerreotypes of the Verne family and friends.
Elena Aleksandrovna Miller Papers, 1917-1957
150 itemsThe collection consists of correspondence, manuscripts, a document, and printed materials. Cataloged materials include two poems by Igorʹ Severi︠a︡nin, Elena Miller, and letters from Nikolaĭ K. Roerich to Father Georgiĭ Spasskiĭ. Correspondence contains mostly letters to Elena Miller, and also includes letters to Archimandrite Afanasiĭ and others. There is also a letter dated 1919 from abbot (igumen) Serafim of the Belogorskiĭ monastery to Grand Prince Nikolaĭ Nikolaevich, describing the conditions and mood of the peasants in the Perm ́area. Manuscripts are by various persons on religious and political topics. Printed materials consist primarily of monarchist and religious mimeographed materials, fliers and pamphlets.