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A. James McAdams Collection of East European Dissident Materials
Collection
Identifier: MSE/REE 0050
Scope and Contents
A. James McAdams Collection of Eastern European Dissident Materials comprises 16 folders of materials relating to dissident groups and subject files on notable historians. Materials cover topics from East Germany pre-unification, the German Democratic Republic (GDR/DDR), Hungarian anti-communist groups, Polish solidarity, and subject files on historians whose work relates to dissident groups. Formats include books, medals, serials, emblems, CDs, and subject files.
Dates:
1973-2015
Collection of Early Soviet Candy Wrappers
Collection
Identifier: MSE/REE 0051
Scope and Contents
Collection of 117 candy wrappers from different Soviet republics, dating to the NEP (New Economic Policy) period in the 1920s and early 1930s and produced by then-nationalized confectionery factories in Moscow (Russia), Leningrad (Russia), Staryi Oskol (Russia), Voronezh (Russia), Kiev (Ukraine) , Kharkiv (Ukraine), Kherson (Ukraine), Odesa (Ukraine), Baku (Azerbaijan), Tbilisi (Georgia) and other cities. The collection features a wide range of subjects. Some wrappers feature Soviet...
Dates:
1920s-1930s
Collection of Early Soviet Commemorative Stamps and Ephemera
Collection
Identifier: MSE/REE 0053
Content Description
Collection contains early Soviet postal stamps and cinderella stamps (non-postal stamps) printed on various colored paper and ephemera materials.
Dates:
1916-1930s
Gomberg-Verzhbinskaia and Rabinowich Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSE/REE 0013
Abstract
Eleonora Petrovna Gomberg-Verzhbinskaia was a well known art critic and historian of art, and the collection consists of documents, diaries, correspondence, written drafts, photographs, books, and slides. Gomberg's daughter, Nina Rabinowich, is a practicing artist, and her husband, Boris Rabinowich, was an important non-conformist artist. The family emigrated to Vienna, Austria, in 1977, and the collection includes catalogs, brochures, and posters for art exhibits of both Boris and Nina as...
Dates:
1900-2014; (bulk 1930s-1990s)