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The reports and correspondence relating to UNRRA were arranged according to the nine administrative divisions of that organization that generated the documents: Bureau of Administration (26 reels); Office of the Diplomatic Adviser (4 reels); Office of the Director General (20 reels); Office of the Economic Adviser (4 reels); Office of Far Eastern Affairs (9 reels); Office of the General Counsel (19 reels); Office of the Historian (16 reels); Office of Public Information (1 reel); and Secretariat Executive Office (3 reels). Within each division, subsidiary bodies are typically separated into subject and country files.

An extensive collection of research files.

Photographs of 20 Soviet musicians, writers, scholars, and others by Volkova. Included are Aram Khachaturian, Bella Akhmadulina, Evgeniĭ Evtushenko, and Viktor Shklovskiĭ. The photographs were shown at Volkova's "Faces" exhibition at Columbia University in April-May, 1978. Also included are two copies of the exhibition's program.

Collections contains programs and other promotional material related to comics conventions, primarily in the United States. The San Diego Comic-Con is particularly well represented.

Contains programs, playbills, correspondence, reviews, head shots, copies of the publications, and applications filled out by want-to-be actors who then were listed in the Annual volumes.

Invitations and photographs relating to dinners given by the Bohemian Club to honor artists such as Mischa Elman, Engelbert Humperdinck, Serge Koussevitzsky, Ignace Paderewski, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Richard Strauss, and Eugene Ysaye.

The papers include correspondence, manuscripts, documents, printed materials and photographs -- most of which principally concern Fedor Shali︠a︡pin. There are twelve letters and postcards from Shali︠a︡pin, and one or two items each from Aleksandr Grechaninov, Olǵa Knipper-Chekhova, and Sergeĭ Rakhmaninov. There are manuscripts by Strakhova-Ermans, entitled "Vospominanii︠a︡ starogo professora penii︠a︡" and "Penie: Ego tekhnika i iskusstvo." There are photographs of Shali︠a︡pin in his operatic roles and with his family; and photographs of Olǵa Knipper-Chekhova, Aleksandr Glazunov, and of Sergeĭ Rakhmaninov and Aleksandr Grechaninov (with the faculty of the Russian Conservatory in Paris). Printed materials include programs of concerts by Shali︠a︡pin and others, and a copy of Strakhova-Ermans' book, "Le chant"(1946).