Entries Tagged as 'unique collections'

Monday, January 13th, 2020

Sovinformburo Photograph Collection digitized

[Soviet Information Bureau photograph collection] HOLLIS # 990088625770203941 The Davis Center Collection at Fung Library has digitized its Soviet Information Bureau Photograph Collection. Commissioned by the propaganda arm of the Soviet state to document the country’s reconstruction following World War II, these nearly 5,800 black-and-white photographs provide an extensive visual record of daily life, culture, […]

Tuesday, June 4th, 2019

Collection spotlight: unusual formats

In addition to tried-and-true traditional formats (both physical and digital), Slavic collection at Harvard owns items that are unusual, one-of-a-kind or simply rare. Please take a look at some of our most unusual recent new additions. Nashi v Solsberi : nastolʹnai︠a︡ igra Moskva : Tipografii︠a︡ Prima / (Igrolend. Nastolʹnye igry), 2018 Nashi v Solsberi (Our people […]

Friday, September 1st, 2017

Russian Old Believer books online

  [Kanonnik”]. [Russia : publisher not identified], 7159 [i.e. 1651]. HOLLIS # 13359988 Skazanīe o volʹnom stradanīi gospoda nashego Iisusa Khrista. [place of publication not identified : publisher not identified, between 1800 and 1899] HOLLIS # 13359989 Miesiats mart, imia angela. [Russia : publisher not identified, between 1800 and 1899?] 464 pages ; 37 cm […]