Aladdin Stereographs: Japan and Russia (1901-1905)
4 linear feet (1 document box). The collection contains a boxed set of 42 Aladdin stereographs of Japan (including Japanese in Manchuria) and Russia, with printed captions in English and distributed by Doubleday Page & Co. (New York), 1901-1905. Included are images of Japanese military officers and troops, Hiroshima hospital, Russian prisoners of war in Japan, Mt. Fuji, Yokohama, Odawara, Nikko, Kyoto, Japanese villages, cemetery, rural and street scenes, and gardens; Japanese forces in Manchuria, scenes of Mukden and Dainy; Moscow, Kremlin and street scenes, Great Imperial Palace, Nikolskaja Gate, bell market at Nijni-Novgorod, and milkmaids of Kiev. Finding aid available: https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt9t1nc9wd/
Russia [Kemlya] Photograph Album (1867-1871)
.2 linear ft. Album contains 38 prints with brief captions in French. Photos are mainly of street views and buildings around Kemlya and a few from Obrochnoye - church, houses, kitchen & "icebox" buildings, pharmacy, photography laboratory, horse-drawn carriages - and portraits of individuals and families, several in uniform or traditional clothing. Includes two loose photos: one group photo of six men, presumably doctors, posing with medical tools and bones; and two men fencing with others in background. Finding aid available: http://www.oac.cdlib.org/search?style=oac4;titlesAZ=r;idT=990038911320203776
0.5 linear feet (1 oversize folder). Six black/white matted photographs, ca. 1900, including scenes of Cossacks, castle/fortress in the Caucasus, views of Kazbeck and Tiflis, young Russian girl with tea cart, and a monument "1000 Years of Russia." At least two of the photos were taken by Henry Winans Hiller (1838-1926), a pioneer in the Russian-American trade and U.S. consul during the Lincoln administration. Finding aid available: http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt2q2nc4vn/
Russian Soldier's Photograph Album
0.4 linear feet (1 document box). Album of a member of the "Chemical (warfare) Force in North-Caucasian military district." Album contains photographs of soldiers engaged in daily activities, group portraits and original artwork portraying scenes of military life in the barracks. Finding aid available: http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt0f59r8fx/