Register of the Edward H. Egbert papers
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Title: Edward H. Egbert papers
Date (inclusive): 1914-1921
Collection Number: 60007
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
1 manuscript box
(0.4 Linear Feet)
Abstract: Correspondence, notes, clippings, printed matter, and photographs, relating to the Russian Revolution, relief work in Russia,
and Ekaterina Breshko-Breshkovskaia. Includes correspondence with E. Breshko-Breshkovskaia and Herbert Hoover.
Creator:
Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964
Creator:
Egbert, Edward H.
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives
Access
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Use
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Acquisition Information
Acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 1960.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Edward H. Egbert Papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
Biographical Note
Dr. Egbert was chief surgeon of the American Red Cross detachment to Russia and was Executive Secretary of the Catherine Breshkovsky
Russian Relief Fund in New York.
Scope and Contents
This collection contains correspondence, notes, clippings, printed matter, and photographs, relating to the Russian Revolution,
relief work in Russia, and Ekaterina Breshko-Breshkovskaia. Includes correspondence with E. Breshko-Breshkovskaia and Herbert
Hoover. Includes photographs of a Kiev hospital.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
World War, 1914-1918 -- Civilian relief
Soviet Union -- History -- Revolution, 1917-1921
World War, 1914-1918 -- Russia
International relief
Breshko-Breshkovskai͡a, Ekaterina Konstantinovna, 1844-1934
American National Red Cross
Letters of Dr. Edward H. Egbert from Catherine Breshkovsky
box 1, folder 1
1. Majestic Hotel, N.Y. (1 leaf)
1919 February 6
box 1, folder 1
2. Aboard S.S. Rochambeau in route to France, (1 leaf)
1919 July 7 and July 17
box 1, folder 1
3. Prague - Bohemia to Mr. Abott (1 leaf)
1919 September 14
box 1, folder 1
4. Munkaceva - Karpatorussia, Czechoslovakia
1920 September 1
box 1, folder 1
5. Scilak Hotel (1 leaf)
1920 October 4 and October 22
box 1, folder 1
6. Mukatchevo, Czechoslovakia (1 leaf)
1920 October 10
box 1, folder 1
7. Mukatchevo, Czechoslovakia
1920 November 17-18
box 1, folder 1
8. Uzhorod (4 lv.)
1920 December 22
box 1, folder 1
9. Paris - Sanitarium (2 lv.)
1920 February 12
box 1, folder 1
10. Uzhorod, Czechoslovakia (2 lv.)
1920 February 27
box 1, folder 1
11. Uzhorod, Czechoslovakia (2 lv.)
1920 March 18
box 1, folder 1
12. Uzhorod, Czechoslovakia (2 lv.)
1920 Mary 4
box 1, folder 1
13. Mukachevo (3 lv.)
1920 June 25
box 1, folder 1
14. Paris, Sanatarium of Dr. Plechanoff (1 lv.)
1921 February 2
box 1, folder 1
15. Belki, Czechoslovakia (2 lv.)
1920 July 25 and July 28
box 1, folder 1
16. Paris, Sanitarium (1 leaf)
1920 February 9
box 1, folder 1
17. Paris, Sanitarium (1 leaf)
1921 April 2
box 1, folder 1
18. Paris, Sanitarium (1 leaf)
1921 May 12
box 1, folder 2
Copies of letters from and to Mr. and Mrs. Hoover; one letter to Walter L. Brown
box 1, folder 3
Letter by Egbert (?) to Hiram Johnson, carbon copy (5 lv.)
1919 January 2
box 1, folder 4-5
Newspaper clippings on Bolshevik activities in Russia, etc.
circa 1918-1919
box 1, folder 6
Breshkovsky, Catherine, "A message to the American people" with an introduction by George Kennan (20 pp.) put out by the Russian
Information Bureau in the U.S.
1919
box 1, folder 7
Miscellaneous lecture material, notes, maps, excerpts, etc.
box 1, folder 8
Correspondence regarding applications for Red Cross work in Russia; correspondence with Committee on Public Information (George
Creel) regarding establishment of relief organization to Russia; letters from American Russian Chamber of Commerce, etc.
circa 1915-1921
box 1, folder 9
Material of the American Russian League
1918-1919
box 1, folder 10
Outgoing correspondence of Egbert regarding Bolshevism in Russia, Red Cross work in Russia, etc.
circa 1917-1921
box 1, folder 11
Department of State press releases regarding revolutionary propaganda aimed at U.S. (including statement by G. Zinoviev) (6
lv. and 4 lv.) Also, one copy
1920 March 29 and April 1
box 1, folder 12
"Catherine Breshkovsky Russian Relief Fund" pamphlet (8 pp.) thermofax (2 copies)
box 1, folder 13
"Russia and the War" by Thomas D. Thacher (14 pp.) thermofax (2 copies)
box 1, folder 14
Thermofax copies of letters possibly from Dr. Egbert from Moscow (6 lv.)
1914 October 14 and 1916 September 5
box 1, folder 15
Photographs of a Kiev hospital
1914-
