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WATSON Collection

1849-1953, [1980s]

Photocopies of: baptism and marriage certificates and passport of William Frank Watson (1849-), 1849-1894 /1-3/; official documents of Vsevolod and Margaret Watson, 1920-1941 /4-8/; Watson family tree...

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LOCKWOOD Collection

1876-1907

Photocopies of letters: J B Hodgson to William Bingley (1, 1876) /1/; Richard Druce to Sarah Bingley (née Bradley) (7 fragments, 1896-1907) /2-8/; Nikolai (?) to Miss Bradley (1, 1900) /9/; Kate (?) ...

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TURNER Family

1890s-1920s, 1940,1991

Photographs of members of Turner and Denisov families, St Petersburg and Norway, [1910s] /1-6/. Photocopy of photograph of British-Russia Club annual dinner, London, [1924] /7/. English translation of...

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BOWDEN Family

1910s, 1980s-1990s

Russian WWI newspaper caricatures /1-4/. Envelope and photocopied postcard sent to W Edward Bowden from Shlissel'burg (1917) /5-6/. Photocopied photographs of: Bowden family, 1912 /7/; Shlissel'burg /...

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LAING Collection

1858, [1900s], 1910

Modern transcript of letter from Mark Firth (1819-1880), St Petersburg, to Sarah Firth (1843-1927) (1858) /1/. Photocopies of British passport issued to Stanley van Buren Laing (1884-1962), Tientsin, ...

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HARRIS Family

1883, 1901, 1907-1918, 1991, 1995

Photocopies of: James Harris's savings books, Krenholm Mill, 1907-1918 /1-2/; James B Harris "The Harris Family: Some Historical Notes and Recollections", "The Kirkham Family", "Mrs Annie Harris" (199...

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CARR, Edward Lambton (1903-2001)

1918-1919, 1992-1996

Photocopy of Edward Carr's interpreter's pass, 53rd Stationary Hospital, Archangel, 1918 /1/. Photographs of medical officers (FitzWilliams, Littlejohn, Ormerod, Vilgrain), 53rd Stationary Hospital, ...

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SMITH, Henry (Harry) (1892-1981)

1970s-1980s

Harry Smith "The Smiths of Moscow" (included Nina Smith "Good-bye Moscow") /1/, "Moscow of the Smiths" /2/, "My Memories of Moscow and Murmansk" /3/, "Miscellaneous `Odds & Ends'" /4/. Contents list o...

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ADDISON (nee Hill), Lucy (1861-1946)

1890s, 1939-1946, 1971-1985

Photocopies of transcribed letters from Lucy Addison to Rhona Chave (1939-1946) (see 9) /1/. Copy letters from Harvey Pitcher to: Toby Roxburgh (1984) /2/, Rhona Chave (1985) /3/. Notes by Harvey Pitc...

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CARR, Félice (1893-1989)

1808-1990

Photocopies of: Carr family tree /1/; copy of letter from George Carr to George and William Carr (1808) /2/; copy of prayer by George Carr, 1836 /3/; Carr household accounts book, 1908-1909 /4/; Féli...

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GIBSON Collection

[1860s]-1917, nd

Modern prints of photographs of: MacCallum family members and Shlissel'burg Calico Printing Mill, 1890s-1900s /1-5/; Edward Gibson, staff of and visitors to Shlissel'burg Calico Printing Mill, [1914?]...

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