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Chester Ittner Bliss Letters, 1935-1937
21 itemsPhotocopies of Chester I. Bliss' letters from the USSR to his family during the years 1935-1937. These letters tell story of his problem obtaining a position and visa and his work at the Institute of Plant Protection in Leningrad.
Lodygin Family Papers, 1792-1950
1150 itemsThe collection consists of correspondence, subject files, blueprints, drawings, stamps, documents, photographs and printed materials. Manuscripts are mostly by Lodygin's wife Alma, and include "The Story of a Brilliant Russian" (100 p.) about her husband. There is also a manuscript (52 p.) by Professor Albert Parry entitled "Legendary Lodygin," which appeared in the emigre newspaper "Novoe Russkoe Slovo." A handwritten manuscript (23 p.) by Lodygin is included under the title "Treatise on Arc Lamps and Incandescent Lamps."
George Vernadsky Papers, circa 1500-1973, bulk circa 1918-1973
100 linear feetLeonid Leonidovich Andrenko Papers on K. E. Tsiolkovskii, 1908-1956
0.25 Linear FeetCorrespondence, documents, photographs, and printed materials of astronomer Leonid Leonidovich Andrenko, chiefly concerning Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovskii, Russian pioneer in the fields of rocketry and aerodynamics.