Accession Inventory of the Douglas Smith miscellaneous papers

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Title: Douglas Smith miscellaneous papers
Date (inclusive): 1894-2022
Collection Number: 2010C49
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material: In English and Russian
Physical Description: 3 manuscript boxes, 1 oversize box, 1 oversize folder, digital media (1.4 Linear Feet)
Physical Description: 49 digital files (0.9 GB) (0.9 Gigabytes)
Abstract: Memoir, leaflets, printed matter, photographs, posters, and research materials related to Smith's research on Rasputin, the attempted coup in the Soviet Union in 1991, and the American Relief Administration.
Creator: Smith, Douglas, 1962-
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives

Access

The collection is open for research; materials must be requested in advance via our reservation system. If there are audiovisual or digital media material in the collection, they must be reformatted before providing access.

Use

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Acquisition Information

Acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 2010.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Douglas Smith miscellaneous papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

Alternate Forms Available

Digital copies of select records also available at https://digitalcollections.hoover.org. 

Scope and Content of Collection

Memoir, leaflets, printed matter, photographs, posters, and research materials related to Smith's research on Rasputin, the attempted coup in the Soviet Union in 1991, and the American Relief Administration. Digital copies of select records also available at https://digitalcollections.hoover.org. .

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Soviet Union -- History -- Attempted coup, 1991
Russia -- History -- Nicholas II, 1894-1917
Rasputin, Grigoriĭ Efimovich, 1869-1916
American Relief Administration

box 1, online digital

Photographs 1991 August

Physical Description: 49.0 digital_files

Scope and Contents note

Color photographs taken by Smith in Moscow during August 1991 coup. No captions or descriptions are available, though the memoir in the collection may provide some context and description of the photos. The images are 400 ppi, 24-bit RGB JPG files.
 

Digital material

Scope and Contents

Original disk of photographs from Box 1.

Access

Digital materials are not available until processed. If interested in accessing these materials, please contact us for more information.
 

Incremental materials

Processing Information

These incremental materials were processed to a baseline standard that employs an accession inventory for description. An accession inventory is a basic description of an archival collection with no attempt at intellectual arrangement. The depth of description varies depending on the format of the materials and the amount of pre-existing description received when the materials were acquired.
 

Paper material

box 2

1915-1982

Scope and Contents

This box includes the following printed material: "Бюллетени Литературы и жизни" (1923), "The Literary Digest" (1916), "Журналъ журналов" (1915), and photographs depicting Serge Trufanoff and Maria Rasputina. There were no titled enclosures in this box.
box 4, folder 1

1922-2022

Scope and Contents

Includes research materials relating to Smith's book on the ARA; photocopies of memoirs/diaries of an ARA member from a descendant.
 

Oversize material

box 3

1894-1962

Scope and Contents

This box includes the following printed material: "Траурный маршъ по случаю кончины въ бозiъ почившаго Императора АЛЕКСАНДРА III" (1984), "Искры" (1913), "Новый Сатирикон "(1917). There were no titled enclosures in this box.
os_folder 1

1894-1962

Scope and Contents

Poster with caricature of Rasputin