JEAKINS Collection
Details
Type of record: Archive
Title: JEAKINS Collection
Classmark: LRA/MS 1168
Date(s): 1875-1876, [1900s], 1928, 1971
Language: Russian; English; German; Georgian
Size and medium: 82 ff, 2 vols, 2 CDs; MS; printed; slides; CDs
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/20232
Collection group(s): Leeds Russian Archive
Description
Slides of picture postcards of Moscow /1-3/. Photocopies of 4 types of blank Russian letter-cards /4/.
Margot Lawrence "Shadow of Swords; A Biography of Elsie Inglis" (London, 1971) /5/.
Digital images of 45 postcards of: First World War charitable activities, Moscow; Archangel & "Tipy Severa"; Moscow, St Petersburg, Vil'no (Wilno); reproductions of paintings by S K Batovskii, E M Bem, V I Iakobi, V E Kallistov, I S Kulikov, K E Makovskii, N V Orlov, V G Perov, V A Plotnikov, V V Pukirev, G Schlicht (Shlikht), V I Surikov, V V Vereshchagin (some sent by members of the Whitehead family) /6/. Colour photocopies of postcards: Moscow (St Andrew's Church), Caucasus, Sevastopol' (Sebastopol), Egypt; First World War scenes by S A Korsakov; reproductions of paintings by I S Izhakevich, F V Sychkov, V M Vasnetsov; etc (some sent by Nina Smith) /7/. Colour photocopies of: envelope sent to George Whitehead, Malakhovka to Manchester, 1922 (with sheet of 25 1000 rouble stamps on reverse) /8/; postcard with Alfred Whitehead portrait, Moscow, 1902 /9/; invitation to Whitehead anniversary party, Moscow, 1901 /10/.
Photocopies of Whitehead and Smith Foreign Office etc Russian claims documents, 1918-1923, 1932, 1935, 1978 /11-28/.
Letters from Barings Bank, London to Catharinenhof Cotton Spinnery (c/o L Knoop), St Petersburg (2, 1875-1876) /29-30/.
J F Fowler "A Recent Visit to Russia" (Paris, 1928) /31/.
Provenance
Jeakins, Alec (August 1991, June 1992, February 2012, February 2013, April 2018)
Access and usage
Access
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