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ALCO Historic Photos
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Photos of 12 locomotives built by the American Locomotive Company (Alco) and subsidiaries for Russia, mostly during World War I. A list of the locomotives is available (50c postpaid). Inspection of the collection is by appointment.
Abraham Lincoln Library & Museum
6965 Cumberland Gap Parkway
Harrogate TN 37752
423-869-6235
https://www.lmunet.edu/academics/abraham-lincoln-library-and-museum-1
Cassius Marcellus Clay (1810-1903)
Papers, 1840–98, 650 items. Emancipator and U.S. minister plenipotentiary to Russia under Lincoln, Johnson, and Grant. Primarily diplomatic, political, and personal correspondence, much of it concerning Russian-American relations. Correspondents include William Seward, Abraham Lincoln, Henry Clay, and Count L. Tolstoi. Published list of correspondents (NUCMC 64–1383).
Ackman & Ziff Family Genealogy Institute
The Ackman & Ziff Family Genealogy Institute at the Center for Jewish History was established in 2007 to tap into the vast archival records of the Center for Jewish History’s five historic and cultural partners, in order to assist novice, academic, and professional researchers in reconnecting with ancestors and living relatives. The Institute provides access to a wealth of genealogical resources through the Center for Jewish History’s partner collections and the Institute’s extensive reference collection, online databases, and a variety of research guides for the beginner and the seasoned researcher.
Alabama Department of Archives and History
Arthur Pendleton Bagby (1794–1858)
Papers, 1848–49, 7 items. U.S. minister to Russia. Letters to his wife in the United States, 17 June 1848–14 May 1849. Beginning with his stopover in London on the way to Russia, the letters concern his diplomatic mission and various aspects of Russian life, including accommodations, the nobility and peasants, weather and snow removal, Count K. R. Nesselrode, architecture, Russian political and military aspirations, moral depravity and crime, religion, Moscow, and the underground telegraph "by which the Emperor communicates with his ministers."
Alaska Native Language Center
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The Center's holdings include nearly everything the Russian Church or Russian scholars ever published in or on Alaskan Native languages plus a very small amount of unpublished material on the same subject. Also, all Soviet Eskimo language publications, ca. 75 titles since 1932, a very rare collection. The comprehensiveness and rarity of these holdings qualifies them as archival in nature.
Alaska and Polar Regions Collections & Archives
Elmer E. Rasmuson Library
1732 Tanana Loop
Fairbanks AK 99775
907-474-7481
UAF-APR-reference-Service@alaska.edu
http://library.uaf.edu/apr
"Guide to Manuscript Holdings—Work File with M/F" (30 June 1978), a computer print-out used for the preceding descriptions. There are also unpublished finding aids for each of the collections cited.
Alaska Commercial Company (San Francisco)
Records, 1868–1922, ca. 70 ft. Ledgers, log books, correspondence, copy books, loose papers, etc., ca. 95% handwritten; in English and Russian. Successor trading company to the Russian-American Company and Hutchinson, Kohl & Co.; succeeded in turn by the Northern Commercial Company. The company operated trading stations in 4 administrative districts: Kodiak, Unalaska, St. Michael, and the Pribilof Islands. This collection concerns chiefly the Kodiak District. The Company had no direct links to Russia after the U.S. purchase of Alaska in 1867 but there were contacts with Russians and their descendants in Alaska. Unpublished guide (NUCMC 73–1). Digitized by Alaska's Digital Archives: http://vilda.alaska.edu/cdm/search/searchterm/Alaska%20Commercial%20Company%20Records/mode/exact
Alaska History Documents
Records, 18th–20th c., 15 bound vols, and 4 boxes. Includes abstracts of records in the Alaska Church Collection at the Library of Congress, the Yudin Collection, documents relating to the Bering Sea controversy, excerpts from the Russian Orthodox American Messenger, excerpts from Dr. V. V. Gsovski's "Memorandum on the Legal Status of Alaska Natives under the Russian Government," reports from the governors of the Russian American Company, confession of Ivan Petrov, the Brainerd Collection, Richard Olney Collection, material concerning the reorganization of the government of Alaska, reports of the Alaska Engineering Commission and the Alaska Railway Division of the Interior Department, and material pertaining to the reindeer industry in Alaska. (Vol. 13 of these documents has been microfilmed: M/F 30.) Also, 4 boxes of research notes relating to the Alaska History Documents Project, which produced the preceding 15 vols. of materials. Unpublished index.
Robert Campbell (1808-1851)
Hudson's Bay Company clerk. Journal, 1 box, with references to Chief Shakes of Wrangell, who traded Russian goods in the interior of Alaska.
Richard Henry Geoghegan (d. 1944)
Correspondence, 1938–44, 1,500–2,000 pp. Scholar and Sinologist. Letters to Jay Ellis Ransom pertain in part to Russian, Siberian, Aleutian, and Asiatic linguistics, and to Geoghegan's translations from Bishop Ivan Veniaminoff's Aleutian writings.
Historical Photographs Collection
Ca. 120 photos of Russian Orthodox churches, governmental buildings, Siberian Eskimos in Alaska, Siberia, and Kamchatka ca. 1897, etc. Index.
Russian American Company
Records, 1802–67, on microfilm. Correspondence of the company's governors general in Alaska with the board of directors in Russia, 1802–66; copies of similar communications, 1818–67; ships' logs, 1851–67; and journals of exploring expeditions, 1842–64. All in Russian; some copies. Originals in the National Archives. (M/F 7)
Russian Orthodox Church
Records, 1825–1966, 11 reels of microfilm. Documents recovered from the basements and belfries of parish churches in Alaska. Consists of priests' journals, worship service journals, church registers, school journals, metrical records, confessional lists, marriage inquests, and financial accounts. Originals at St. Herman Pastoral School, Kodiak, Alaska. (M/F 59)
Siberian Military Documents
Collection, ca. 1744–85, ca. 100 items. Routine orders, reports, petitions, etc. of the Yakutsk Infantry Regiment. Primarily from 1744–49, during the reign of Elizabeth; one document from the reign of Peter III, and several from that of Catherine II. Also, 2 photos of the documents. Materials were found in a church loft at Kenai, Alaska. They are too fragile for handling.
Petr Aleksandrovich Tikhmenev (1725-1863)
Historical review of the formation of the Russian-American Company and its activity. With translations by Dmitrii (Dimitri) Krenov. 1 microfilm reel. (M/F 11)
Ivan Veniaminov
Russian cleric in Alaska. Diary, 1821–37, 1 microfilm reel. (M/F 46)
