Prints and Photographs Division

Resources (53)

• Carpenter Collection (Russia)

  Photographs, 1931, 2 ft. Russian emigres and people and places in the Soviet Union.

• Deck 1 (Chadbourne Collection)

  Includes original 19th c. Japanese woodcuts, printed in colors, on the visit of a Russian naval squadron in Nagasaki in 1804–1805.

• Geographic File (Russia)

  Photographs, 2 ft. Buildings in Russia. Not cataloged.

• Lost Tales: Stories for the Tsar's Children [graphic]. (1917).

  1 item. Author: Gleb Botkin. Written and illustrated by the son of the Tsar's physician for the children of the Russian Imperial family, these stories feature the adventures of a bear trying to fend off a revolutionary band of monkeys and restore an imprisoned monarch to his throne. Includes photographs and historical information.Served by appointment (Unprocessed), To make a request, see "Access to Unprocessed Materials," http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/info/022_unpr.html

• Lot 10499

  Ca. 10 photographs, 1961. President John F. Kennedy's meeting with Nikita Khrushchev in Vienna.

• Lot 11116

  Includes ca. 20 photographs, 1914–16, of Russian troops in France.

• Lot 11119

  7 photographs. The Romanov family at Tsarskoe Selo during their internment in 1917.

• Lot 11148

  550 photographs, 1904–25. Includes news photographs of members of the Russian Imperial family.

• Lot 11170

  65 newsphotoprints, 1914–17. Includes items on the Russian army on the eastern front.

• Lot 11457

  30 glass plate copy negatives, 1918–19. Allied military activities in Russia.

• Lot 159, on microfilm

  Photos of Russian war anniversary, Washington, D.C, June 1942. Chorus and Paul Robeson on stage and backstage with autograph hunters; Mme Litvinoff, wife of Russian ambassador; Melvyn Douglas, conductor and soloist of Balalaika orchestra.

• Lot 2444

  72 photographs, ca. 1918. Scenes of Vladivostok, Manchuria, and Siberian localities; military personnel, groups; Red Cross at work; headquarters building; officers of various nationalities; various official activities; close-up portraits of Russians and Americans; refugees. Photographs received through the Siberian commission of the American Red Cross.

• Lot 2691

  Ca. 20 chromo-lithographic postcards, 1899. Scenes of Siberia: lakes, forests, snow; transportation by ox-cart, sled, and horse; pagodaed homes.

• Lot 2692 (Tass Poster Collection)

  Ca. 115 colored posters, 1940–44 (?). The posters, issued by Tass during World War II, satirize the German war effort and call upon the Russian people to repel the invasion.

• Lot 2746

  13 chromo-lithographs. Scenes from the history of Nizni-Novgorod from 1171to 1612: election of princes; invasion by Tartar tribes; annexation in 1517 by the Russians; army saving Moscow from the Poles in 1612. Confiscated in Germany by U.S. military intelligence authorities.

• Lot 3098 (Pauley Mission Collection)

  1 album of photographs from a Chinese source, showing Soviet troops moving equipment; a few photographs of Pauley during his mission to Manchuria, 1946.

• Lot 3327 (Fugiwara Collection)

  12 captioned photographs, 1897. Scenes of Eskimo life in Alaska and Siberia.

• Lot 3372

  80 stereoscopic photographs, 1905. Scenes of the Russo-Japanese War: Russian soldiers in trenches, camps, barricades; guns and equipment; Russian priest praying over the dead; Red Cross activities; towns, destroyed buildings; waterfront, burning and sinking ships.

• Lot 3635 (German Prisoner of War Camp Collection)

  45 photographs, 1914–18. Photographs of Russian prisoners of war at German prison camps at Wunsdorf, near Berlin.

• Lot 4027 (Spas-Nereditsy Collection)

  164 mounted photoprints of the Byzantine 12th c. fresco paintings on the walls of the Church of the Savior at Nereditsa, made in 1903 by the Imperial Archeological Commission. From the library of the Russian Imperial family.

• Lot 4487 (Taylor Collection)

  75 photocopies of sketches by Bayard Taylor, American author, diplomat, and traveller, pertaining to salt mines and prisoners being sent to Siberia, ca 1860.

• Lot 4708

  Photocopies of original contemporary historical prints and reproductions of the Crimean War, 1853–56.

• Lot 5090 (Yudin Collection of Siberian and Mongolian Sketches)

  Album of 333 original pencil and wash drawings, 1860–1910, of persons, landscapes, and buildings, probably made in Siberia and Mongolia.

• Lot 5178 (Persian Gulf Command Collection)

  14 photograph albums, 4,500 photographs. Official photographs of operations during World War II in Iran, concerning particularly the supply line for the shipment of war materiel to Russia.

• Lot 5712 (Van Norman Collection)

  75 captioned photographs, 1918–21. Included are pictures of Bolshevik prisoners in Poland.

• Lot 6999 (Russian Gold Mining Collection)

  9 photographs, ca. 1890, of Ariz, a village in South Central Asia, and of gold mining apparently in the vicinity.

• Lot 7017 (Russian Toy Exhibit Collection)

  12 photoprints, ca. 1900. Exhibits cases and general displays of toys and educational devices at an unidentified museum or exposition. Purchased as part of the library of G. V. Yudin in 1907.

• Lot 7042 (Evreinova Collection)

  15 photoprints, 1892. Russian churches and monasteries at Uglich. The portfolio containing the photoprints has the cover: Uglich i ego Dostoprimechatel'nosti. Fotograficheskii al'bom. Uglich, Izdanie K. Evreinova, 1892. Purchased as part of the library of G. V. Yudin in 1907.

• Lot 7043 (Kuznetsov Collection)

  43 photoprints, ca. 1885. Views in and near Nerchinsk in southeast Siberia, near the Mongolian-Manchurian border, showing gold mining buildings and operation. The materials relating to natives concerns mainly the Buryat tribes near Lake Baikal. The portfolio containing the photoprints has a title page: Al'bom 'vidov' Nerchinska Priislov i zavodov. Purchased as part of the library of G. V. Yudin, 1907.

• Lot 7044 (Russian Southwest Railway Collection)

  30 photoprints, 1890–94. Views of construction, stations, tunnels, locomotives, and groups of personnel along the line of the southwest railway along the Dniester River and in the Ukraine, 1890–94. The album containing the photoprints has a cover title: Obshchestvo Iugo-Zapadnye Zheleznye Dorogi, Postroika Nosvoselitskikh Vetvei. 1890–1894. Al'bom fotograficheskikh vidov.

• Lot 7047 (Babine Collection)

  Ca. 150 items, 1883–1916. Includes postcards pertaining to the Russian revolution of 1905 and to the production of war materiel (116).

• Lot 7048 (Russian Historical Portrait Collection)

  1 album. Mostly clippings from published sources of Russian scientists, artists, and intellectuals, and of events connected with the revolutionary movement in Russia.

• Lot 7198

  8 plates (14 reproductions of photographs), 1955. Scenes of collective farming in Siberia.

• Lot 7213

  29 photographs, ca. 1917. U.S. troops in Khabarovsk and Valdivostok; views of Archangel; celebration of the Russian Revolution; a convict colony; the Peking-Paris auto race.

• Lot 7354

  66 photographs and a pamphlet, 6 pp., 1954, pertaining to the celebration in the USSR of the tercentenary of the unification of the Ukraine and Russia.

• Lot 7576 (Harbord Collection)

  741 photoprints (in 10 portfolios), 1888–1900. Scenes of Georgia and other parts of Transcaucasia in the late 19th c. and perhaps early 20th c., from a Russian commercial house, assembled and presented by General James G. Harbord in 1923.

• Lot 7702

  24 photographs, 1904–1905 [?]. Unidentified military personnel, mainly highranking officers, probably non-belligerent observers in the Russo-Japanese War.

• Lot 7729 (Pershing Collection)

  14 vols., 1902–21. Includes captioned photographs of the equipment and operations of the Japanese army at the time of the Russo-Japanese War.

• Lot 7776

  Photographs of the Peace Conference at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, after the Russo-Japanese War.

• Lot 8240

  57 wood engravings, 1879. Railroadbuilding and related activities in Rumania and Bulgaria during the Russo-Turkish War of 1877.

• Lot 8488

  17 lithographs, 1878–79. Scenes of Bulgaria during the Russo-Turkish War, 1878–79.

• Lot 8631

  27 photographs, 1904. Scenes of Jinsen, Korea, during the Russo-Japanese War.

• Lot 8823

  12 lithographs, ca. 1906. Scenes of the Russo-Japanese War: the landing of the Japanese army at Vladivostok, the battle of Ussuri, cavalry taking Khabarovsk.

• Lot 9760 (Jackson Collection)

  40 photographs, 1895. Scenes of Siberia and its people, including Vladivostok from the sea, churches and other buildings in Irkutsk, and Goldi tribesmen.

• Lots 10332-10343 (S. M. Prokudin-Gorskii Collection)

  Ca. 2,700 photographs, 1909–12. The Marinska, a canal systerm joining the Neva to the headwaters of the Volga; Tolstoi [Tolstoy] in his study at Yasnaya Polyana; the area served by the rail line between the towns of Lodeinoye Pole and Kerm; the Ural industrial area; the Caucasus; Russian areas involved in the Napoleonic campaign; Bukhara, Samarkand, and the Golodnaia steppe; the Volga River in various sections of Russia; engineering on the Oka.

• Lots 2559, 2624 (Noble Collection)

  29 postcard views of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, during the peace negotiations for the Russo-Japanese War, 1908, and 30 portraits and informal group photographs of Russian and Japanese peace envoys.

• Lots 2916-2919, 3027, 3029-30, 3052-53, 3147 (American National Red Cross Collection)

  Ca. 570 photographs, 1919–21. Life, war, and conflict in Siberia: U.S. troops and officials; Czechoslovak troops fighting Bolshevik forces; Cossack troops; General A. I. Denikin, General Skouro, P. N. Wrangel, Sultan Philimonoff, Countess Tolstoi [Tolstoy], Mme Breshkovsky.

• Lots 5258-5270 (National Council of American-Soviet Friendship Collection)

  404 photoprints concerning Russia in the late 1940s. Work and cultural activities; factories and schools; agriculture; Timiryazev Agricultural Academy activities; collection farms; life in the Buryat-Mongolian Autonomous Republic; elections; shrines associated with Pushkin; a congress of Soviet composers; other subjects.

• Lots 5827-5839, 5842, 5849 (Diafoto Collection)

  Transparencies on the creation and development of the Bolshevik party in Russia; Novgorod; the works of I. V. Michurin and T. S. Lysenko; and the tundra zone.

• Lots 8700-1, 8715

  Ca. 65 photographs, 1959. Scenes of Siberia, Lake Baikal, Irkutsk, Ulan Ude.

• Office of War Information Collection (Russia)

  Photographs, ca. 1941–45, 4 ft. Conditions in the Soviet Union; Nazi atrocities in Russia. Not fully cataloged.

• Red Cross Collection (Russia)

  Photographs, 1910s, 4 ft., pertaining to conditions in Russia. Not cataloged.

• Stereographic Collection (Russia)

  Ca. 650 stereographs pertaining to Russia. Included are scenes of the Russo-Japanese War, Kiev, Moscow, St. Petersburg, Cossacks, and of the tsar and royalty.