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Adam Gurowski papers, 1743-1898
4,000 items. 4 containers. 1.4 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Polish scholar and author and advocate of Panslavism. Correspondence, notes and writings, printed matter, photographs and other papers relating mainly to de Gurowski’s scholarship. Includes biography of Gurowski by Julius Bing and a draft of Bing’s autobiography.
Boris Brasol papers, 1919-1954
22,000 items. 64 containers. 25.6 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Russian author and critic, criminologist, and lawyer. Correspondence, speeches, drafts and typescripts, notes, memoranda, and other material relating to Russia and the Soviet Union and to Brasol's writings and work as a criminologist.
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Carl W. Ackerman papers, 1833-1970
60,000 items. 227 containers plus 1 oversize. 86 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Journalist, educator, and public relations consultant. Correspondence, diaries, speeches and writings, family papers, scrapbooks, clippings, and other papers relating chiefly to Ackerman's career as a journalist and dean of Columbia University School of Journalism.
Zbigniew Brzezinski papers, 1798-2017
163,200 items. 470 containers plus 7 classified and 6 oversize. 189 linear feet. 4,440 files (83.96 GB). -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Foreign policy advisor, political scientist, educator, and author. Correspondence, memoranda, minutes, reports, notes, journal extracts, writings, speeches, lectures, testimony, travel files, interview transcripts, press clippings, photographs, family papers, printed matter, and other material relating primarily to Brzezinski's professional life including his tenure as President Jimmy Carter's national security advisor.
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Oscar S. Straus papers, 1856-1955
37,000 items. 50 containers plus 1 oversize. 21 linear feet. 1 microfilm reel. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Attorney, businessman, public official, diplomat, United States secretary of commerce and labor, and author. Correspondence, diaries, speeches, writings, legal records, pamphlets, clippings, scrapbooks, photographs, memorabilia, and other papers relating chiefly to Straus's service as minister and later ambassador to the Ottoman Empire (Turkey), United States secretary of commerce and labor, and member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration, Hague, Netherlands.
Peter A. Demens papers, 1880-2000
45 items. 5 containers plus 1 oversize. 3.0 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Author, businessman, railroad promoter, and entrepreneur. Notebooks, scrapbooks, correspondence, and articles mostly relating to Demens's authorship of articles for the Russian journal Viestnik Evropy and Russian and American newspapers on events in America and his life.
Nicholas King family papers, 1792-1987
30 items. 1 container plus 1 oversize. .4 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Family of Nicholas King, English-born engineer and surveyor of the city of Washington, D.C. Journals, correspondence, notes, genealogies, visas, photographs, and drawings concerning King and members of his family.
Thomas Capek collection of materials relating to Czechoslovakia and Czech Americans, 1619-1953
6,000 items. 14 containers plus 4 oversize. 6.8 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Correspondence, memoranda, journals, writings, printed matter, maps, photographs, and other papers assembled during Capek's research on the immigration, organizations, institutions, and activities of Czech Americans. Also includes material concerning Czechoslovakia, Czechs in Great Britain, Slavic Americans, and Slovak Americans.
Israel Perlstein collection relating to Imperial Russia, 1613-1914
75 items. 6 containers. 4 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Rare book dealer. Russian land grant charters; Russian and Swedish imperial patents of nobility; Pal'menbach family papers; invitations, menus, programs, press passes, and other memorabilia of journalist Mikhail Andreevich Zaguliaev from the 1896 coronation of Emperor Nicholas II; and other certificates, documents, and printed material.
Alexis Vasilevich Babine papers, 1895-1953
250 items. 5 containers plus 1 oversize. 2 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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Librarian, teacher, and author. Correspondence, lectures, articles, journals, other writings, and miscellaneous material relating chiefly to Babine's experiences during the Russian Revolution, his work in creative writing, and a history in Russian of the United States.