Records, 1941–61, 50 ft. Materials on the Carpatho-Russian church in the U.S., the United Russia Orthodox Brotherhood of America, 1952–53, the Russian Orthodox Women's Mutual Aid Society, 1952–53, the Lithuanian Alliance of America, the Sons of Lithuania, 1952–53, the Lithuanian Society of Western Pennsylvania, 1952–53, the Lithuanian Citizens Association, 1952–53, and the United Lithuanian Relief Funds of America. There are also documents on customs and festivals of Lithuanians, Estonians, and Latvians in the U.S. Unpublished inventory.
Billy Adams (b. 1860)
Papers, 1911–42, 1 ft. Socialist Party leader. Materials pertaining to the Socialist Party of Allegheny County, including a "Russian song"; pamphlets on Bolshevism and labor law in Russia, 1920s. Unpublished inventory.
Ethnic Fraternal Organizations Oral History Project (1975-77)
Tape recorded interviews conducted by the University of Pittsburgh's Department of History which explore the roles and influences of these organizations and ethnic communities in the Pittsburgh area. Some respondents are of Russian-Jewish and Polish background. Partly transcribed. Partial index.
Michael Cherniavsky (1922-1973)
Papers, 1954–73, 6 ft. Professor of Russian history. Correspondence with Robert F. Byrnes, Leopold H. Haimson, Sidney Monas, Marc Raeff, Donald W. Treadgold, and other historians in the Russian field; unpublished writings; research materials; photographs. Restricted: Series VII of the Cherniavsky papers is closed to most researchers. Unpublished inventory. (NUCMC 77–2037)
National Council of Jewish Women
Pittsburgh Section. Oral History Project. 11 ft., 1893–1964. Materials by Jewish immigrants, many of them Russian-born, who settled in Pittsburgh between 1890 and 1920. The material was published in By Myself I'm a Book (1972). Restricted. Unpublished inventory.
Nechama Pearl Rothbart
"Reminiscences of my childhood (at the beginning of the century)..." Pittsburgh, 1971, 32 11. Photocopy of typescript. Describes the life of old Jews in the Vilna [Vilnius, Vilno] district of Lithuania.
Slavonic Congregational Church of Pittsburgh
Records, 1901–70, partial microfilm reel. Includes legal papers, church registers, family members lists, correspondence, church committee minutes. Unpublished inventory.
Slavonic Immigration to Western Pennsylvania Research Project
.5 ft., 1953–54. Includes correspondence, reports of interviews, reports and extracts of books, card file of ethnic institutions, societies, and organizations in western Pennsylvania. Unpublished inventory.
Weaver Social History Collection
11 ft., 1913–51. Includes minutes, March-June 1936, of the Campaign Committee to send a Mr. Hill as an observer to the Soviet Union, as well as miscellaneous materials on the National Council of American-Soviet Friendship. Unpublished inventory.
