Register of the Winifred V. Ramplee-Smith Collection

Prepared by Olga Verhovskoy Dunlop

Hoover Institution Archives

Stanford University

Stanford, California 94305-6010

Phone: (650) 723-3563

Fax: (650) 725-3445

Email: archives@hoover.stanford.edu

Register of the Winifred V. Ramplee-Smith Collection

Hoover Institution Archives

Stanford University

Stanford, California

Contact Information

Hoover Institution Archives
Stanford University
Stanford, California 94305-6010
Phone: (650) 723-3563
Fax: (650) 725-3445
Email: archives@hoover.stanford.edu

Prepared by:: Olga Verhovskoy Dunlop
Date Completed:: 2000
Encoded by:: ByteManagers using OAC finding aid conversion service specifications

Descriptive Summary

Title: Winifred V. Ramplee-Smith collection,

Date (inclusive): 1915-1917

Collection number: 63011

Collector: Ramplee-Smith, Winifred V., collector

Collection Size: 1 manuscript box, 1 oversize box ((1.3 linear feet)

Repository: Hoover Institution Archives

Stanford, California 94305-6010

Abstract: Pamphlets, leaflets, clippings, and postcards, relating to the February 1917 Revolution in Russia. Includes fragments of burned records of the tsarist secret police (Okhrana).

Languages: Russian, and English.

Administrative Information

Access

Collection is open for research.

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Publication Rights

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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Winifred V. Ramplee-Smith collection, [Box no.], Hoover Institution Archives.

Acquisition Information

Acquired by the Hoover Institution Archives in 1963.

Accruals

Increments may have been received since this finding aid was prepared. Please check Stanford University's online catalog Socrates at http://library.stanford.edu/webcat to find the full extent of the collection.

Scope and Content Note

The Winifred V. Ramplee-Smith collection consists mainly of printed matter relating to the outbreak of the February Revolution in Petrograd and Moscow. It includes anti-monarchist propaganda booklets, revolutionary leaflets and wall-posters. Of special interest are rare copies of contemporary newspapers, including, Izvestiia, Novoe Vremia, and Vestnik Vremennago Pravitel'stva. Also of interest are photographs depicting leaders of the Provisional Government and scenes of the revolution.

Winifred V. Ramplee-Smith was secretary to Lord Templewood and subsequently to Sir Samuel Hoare in Petrograd from 1916-1917. She was in Moscow when the revolution broke out and began collecting printed matter related to the events she witnessed.

Indexing Terms

The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the repository's online public access catalog.

Subjects

Russia. Okhrannye otdeleniia.

Secret service--Russia.

Russia.

Russia--History--February Revolution, 1917.

Series Description

box 1

Biographical File, n.d.

Scope and Content Note

Visiting card

box 1

Subject File, 1917.

Scope and Content Note

Fragment of burnt Okhrana record and essay re Russian political parties by Sir Samuel Hoare(?)

box 1

Printed Matter, 1917.

Scope and Content Note

Revolutionary booklets of popular propaganda; clippings from British newspapers; issue of The New Europe; political leaflets, and military orders. Arranged by physical form and therein chronologically

box 2

Photographs, 1917.

Scope and Content Note

23 prints depicting members of the Provisional Government and individuals related to the events of 1917, and revolutionary street scenes. Also includes 15 postcards on revolutionary themes

box 3

Oversize File, 1916-1917.

Scope and Content Note

Newspaper issues published under the Provisional Government and revolutionary wall posters

Container List

Box/Folder 1 : 1

BIOGRAPHICAL FILE, n.d.

Scope and Content Note

Visiting card, Winifred V. Ramplee-Smith, n.d.

SUBJECT FILE, 1917

Box/Folder 1 : 2

Russia. Okhrannyia otdeleniia.

Scope and Content Note

Fragment of burnt Okhrana record from a bonfire in Petrograd, 1917 March

Box/Folder 1 : 3

Political Parties - Russia.

Scope and Content Note

Essay by Sir Samuel Hoare (?), entitled "Russian Parties," n.d. Typescript

PRINTED MATTER, 1917

Booklets

Box/Folder 1 : 4

Author unknown, Politicheskiia pesni svobody, Petrograd, 1917

Box/Folder 1 : 5

Kobyl'-Bobyl', I., Tsaritsa i Rasputin, Petrograd, n.d.

Box/Folder 1 : 6

Zhdanov, Lev, Sud nad Nikolaem II, Petrograd, n.d.

Clippings of British newspapers.

Note