Register of the George M. Vesselago papers

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Title: George M. Vesselago papers

Date (inclusive): 1904-1970

Collection Number: 75062

Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives

Language of Material: Russian

Physical Description: 8 manuscript boxes, 1 envelope (3.4 Linear Feet)

Abstract: Correspondence, writings, printed matter, clippings, and photographs, relating to Russian naval operations during World War I and the Russian Revolution and Civil War

Creator: Vesselago, George M., 1892-

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Acquisition Information

Acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 1975.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], George M. Vesselago Papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

Biographical Note

George M. Vesselago, 1892 -

1892, September 29	Born, Kronstadt, Russia
1905-1918	Served in the Imperial Russian Navy with the last rank being Lieutenant-Commander
1919-1920	Served with White Russian forces in Civil War
1920	Quartermaster, U.S.S. Santa Clara, from India to New York
1920-1921	Inspector of ammunition at Eddystone Plant of Baldwin Locomotive Works (Pennsylvania)
1921-1925	Employed by Cortez Oil Corporation
1926-1954	Staff Engineer with Day and Zimmerman, Inc.
1954-1964	Associated with Edward N. Hay and Associates, Inc.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Soviet Union -- History -- Allied intervention, 1918-1920

World War, 1914-1918 -- Naval operations

Soviet Union -- History -- Revolution, 1917-1921 -- Naval operations

Petroleum -- Soviet Union

Russia. Voennyĭ flot

Correspondence 1919-1970

Scope and Contents

Correspondence, arranged alphabetically by name of correspondent.

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Alexandroff, K. 1922

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Andrei, (Last name unknown) 1922 1923 1931

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Arushievaskaia, Z. 1922

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Baruch, Bernard M. 1933

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Bensel, Otto 1927

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Betcher, George 1927

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Biddle, Francis 1942

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Bill 1935

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Boris, (Last name unknown) 1922-1923

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Bossé, Anna 1933

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Brown Brothers Harriman and Company 1923

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Bukowski, Peter I. undated

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Chaiko, M. 1921-1922

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Chelouchin, Stefan 1924

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Chernov, Aleksei M. 1921

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Cook, Clara 1925

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Corfino, George P. 1922

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Crolius, Fred J. 1925

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Dembrovskii, M. 1922

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Demidoff, Pavel 1922

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Dillon, V. I. 1922

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Elledge, G.E. 1922

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Fedorov, K. V. 1921

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Gard, Alexis K. 1944

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Garin, A. 1927

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Golitsyn, Nikolai undated

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Golovchenko, A.P. 1923

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Grandmother 1934

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Howe, Helen undated

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Iakovlev, Ermogen and Feofilakii 1921

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Iakovleva, Lidiia 1922

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Ivanov, V. 1921

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Izidin, B. 1921-1922

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Johnson, D.W. 1921

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Karpenko, Boris 1921

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Kititzyn, M.A. 1921-1923 1927

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Kliagin, N. 1922

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Konstantin Vasil'evich 1921

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Kozlova, E. 1925

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Kuraev, (first name unknown) 1921

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La Roches, Nikolai S. 1933

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Lewis, Adler, and Laws (Attorneys) 1927

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Loukine, Aleksandr 1933

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Lysoeff, K. undated

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McCully, (first name unknown) 1921

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McDonald, Nina M. 1970

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Machold, William F. 1968

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Makaroff, Wadim 1922

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Mania, (last name unknown) 1921-1922 1925

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Martin, Hugh S. 1924

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Maslovsky, E. 1932

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Matskevich, G. 1921-1922

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Meidelkeva, Sofia 1922 1925

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Meirer, George A. 1921-1922

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Miller, Dr. T. Grier 1927 1933

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Mishtovt, Illarion V. 1922

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Mother 1921-1943

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Nedbal', Nikolai A. 1922

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Nemova, M. 1922

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Nikolski, A. 1922

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Nishchenkov, A. 1923

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Parkes, (first name unknown) 1921

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Pavlov, A. undated

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Perfilieff, Captain V. 1921

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Pini, Vladimir 1933

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Polivanov, M. 1922

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Poltavskii, B. 1921-1922

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Proskuriakov, A. 1922 1924

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Pushkarev, Kirill N 1922

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Reed, (first name unknown) 1933

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Rohtast, Peter 1925

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Romanov, Vasili 1968

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Russian Historical Archive and Repository (Stanford) 1968

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Russian Students' Christian Association in the U.S.A. 1922

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Safonoff, Sergei 1923

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Selesneff, D. 1922-1923

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Sergei Vladimirovich, (last name unknown) 1921

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Shcherbachev, Oleg A. 1921

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Shelley, John 1921 1923

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Shelukin, Stefan 1925

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Shestov, A. & L. 1927

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Shichiko, P. 1921

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Smirnov, Mikhail I. 1922

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South American Gulf Oil Company 1925

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Sovinsky, V.N. 1930

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Stebline-Kamensky, J. 1922-23 1931

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Strakhovsky, Leonid 1922-23 1930-33

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Strekalovskii, (first name unknown) 1921

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Tatishchev, Alexis 1931

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Taylor, W.P. 1921-1924

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Taylor, Mrs. W.P. 1921-1925

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Taube, George N. 1952

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Thayer, Elizabeth H. undated

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Timofeev, N. 1922

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Trofimoff, Vladimir I. 1921

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Trotter, Elizabeth F. 1925 1927

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Tuchkov, A. 1921

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Tuttle, (first name unknown) 1925

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Vasiliev, Sergei 1921

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Vedeniapinskii, V. 1922

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Vesselago, Mikhail 1921-23 1925

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Vesselago, Sofia 1921-1935

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Vesselago, Sofia 1928-1935

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Von Mohrenschildt, Dimitri S. 1922

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Voronin, (first name unknown) 1921

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Watson, P.B. 1925

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Witherey, W.L. 1922

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Wiren, Alexis 1922

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Yanenko, M. 1924

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Zakharchenko, K. 1921-1923

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Zweguintzoff, N. 1921-1922

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Zweguintzoff, Sofia 1921-1928

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Zweguintzoff, Sofia 1923-1925, 1927-1928

Miscellaneous

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1919-1920

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1920-1921

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1921-1932

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undated

Subject File 1904-1970

Scope and Contents

Correspondence, memoranda, reports, minutes of meetings, lists, charts, notes, printed matter, clippings, etc., arranged alphabetically by subject.

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Address book

Aguada, Mexico

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Commissioner meetings April 11, 1922

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Report No. 55, Sucesiones February 13, 1922

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Work report No. 87 June 9, 1923

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Association of Former Russian Naval Officers in America

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Biographical data

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Birth of daughter, Sofia 1933

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Business matters

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Certificates, letters of introduction, etc.

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Cleland, Robert G., Background of the Latest Mexican Revolution undated

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East, E.M., Oversea Politics and the Food Supply undated

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Fedotoff-White, D., excerpts from Survival 1951

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Financial matters

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Goonin, Sergei T., America and Russia, reprint from University of Pennsylvania Red and Blue, March 1922

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Immigration to the U.S. 1927

Kennan, George

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Complications in Murmansk undated

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The Worth in April and May undated

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Military Correspondence file 1918-1919

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Naval Officers Group in Harbin, China 1925

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Pavlov, A.N., Our Class (in Russian), Morskiia Zapiski ( The Naval Record) [New York], Vol. IX December 1951

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Precision Topics (Falls River, Massachussets) 1942-1943

Russia

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Petroleum 1904-1923

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Revolution and Civil War

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Russian Red Cross

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Russian Sholar, edited by the Russian Students Christian Association in the U.S.A. Nov 2, 1922

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Russian Student Conference at Silver Bay, New York 1922

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Selesneff, D.D., In the Bosphorus (in French), La Revue Maritime, No. 239 January 1967

Stebline-Kamensky, I.

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Break-Through in the Bosphorus on Patrol Boat No. 324 (in Russian), Chasovoi (Asnieres, France), No. 64 September 1931

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Mining Warfare, abstracts from an article in La Renaissance, (copy in Russian) August 12, 1929

Strakhovsky, Leonid I.

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Diplomatic Aspects of American Intervention in Siberia, 1918-1920 undated

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The Russian Origins of the American Intervention in North Russia in 1918-1919 undated

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Title Situation in the Aguada, report No. 54 February 7, 1922

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Ukhta Petroleum 1918

United Gas Company

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Brochure

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Cost Control for Electric and Gas Utilities February 26, 1932

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Varnek, P.A., The Russian North During World War I (in Russian), Morskiia Zapiski ( The Naval Record) [New York], Volume VIII, Nos. 3/4 December 1950

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Voevodsky, Jack

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Volnaia Kuban (Free Kuban), No. 26 May 1, 1925

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Will February 1964

Speeches and Writings 1924-1968

Scope and Contents

Speeches and writings by G.M. Vesselago, arranged alphabetically by title.

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Assemblies undated

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Awakening in Khronstadt undated

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The Davis-Davis Episode undated

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Drillings in the Aguada January 7, 1924

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Episodes Recalled (My Recollections) July 1968

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A Few Episodes from My Service in the `Chernomorskii Flot,' 1915-1917 (in Russian), Morskiia Zapiski ( The Naval Record) [New York], Vol. X, Nos. 1-3 June/September 1952

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Womens Club, Mexico, paper read at 1924

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Miscellaneous drafts and notes

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Miscellany

Scope and Contents

Miscellaneous notes, printed matter, etc.

envelope A

50 prints collected by G.M. Vesselago, Imperial Russian Naval officer, depicting scenes in Siberia, Mexico, and the U.S. undated

box FH16

Material not yet described

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