Autobiographical material, 1928-1958

Business cards, n.d.

Certificates, diplomas, and transcripts, 1910-1975

Correspondence (family)

Shapiro, Fanny Grigorievna (mother), 1945-1956

Shapiro, H. (cousin), 1938

Shapiro, Lazar Solomonovich (father), 1924-1933.

Shapiro, Mary (sister), 1924-1971.

Curricula vitae, 1932-1952

Employment records, 1942-1973

Evaluations and acknowledgements, 1944-1953

Invitations, n.d.

Letters of recommendation, 1922-1946

Records of United States government service

United States. Central Intelligence Agency, 1946-1953

United States. Civil Service Commission, 1942-1943

United States. Foreign Broadcast Information Service, 1943-1948

United States. Office of Censorship, 1942-1945

United States. Office of War Information, 1945

United States. State Department

General. Request for application form in order to recover money on old Russian government loans, savings account books and paper money bills in case of settlement with Soviet government, 1934

Bureau of International Information and Cultural Affairs, 1944-1946

United States. War Department. Civilian Personnel Division, 1941-1946

Statement of assets and will, 1974, 1981

Telegram regarding interview for the position as United Nations representative, 1946

Miscellany

Unidentified, 1914-1975

Alameda Free Library, Alameda, California.

Alsimoto, S., 1921

Anderson, Grace K., 1969

Andrews, Clarence L., 1936-1940.

Balakshin, Peter, 1953, 1967

Bank of Manchuria, Harbin, 1922

Blagoveshchenskoe utro, 1915

Borzov, N., 1941

Burkhardt, Charlotte, 1955

California Historical Society, San Francisco, California, 1971.

Chamberlin, Sonya and William Henry, 1934-1945

Christian Science Monitor (Pacific News Bureau), 1933

Clarke, Edward ( San Francisco Examiner), 1926

Delaplane, Stanton, 1958

Detective Tales (Edwin Baird), 1923

Dixon, Constance, 1931-1933.

Dolgopolov, Alexander, 1972-1974.

Driser, Mrs., n.d.

Fujihisa(?), G., 1920

Gaimusho, Tokyo, 1921

Golitzen, L., Princess, 1925

Gordenker, Olga Vladimirovna, 1929-1932

Gris, Henry, n.d.

Gusev-Orenburgskii, S. I., 1950

Haley, George, 1927

Helm, Jean, 1923-1957.

Herhmeister(?), H., 1921

Houghton Mifflin Company, 1928

Hubbart, Bernard R., n.d.

John Howell ߝ Books, 1971.

Johnson, Mary Dibrell, 1970-1971

Jury, John Clare, 1973

Kamakura, Machi, 1920

Kashevarof, A. P., 1936.

Kavanshin, K., 1921

Kawanishi, K., 1921

Kawasaki, Torao, 1925, 1927

Keilien, Julia, 1920

Kourennoff, Pavel Matveevich, 1944.

Kraatz, Charles A., 1957

Lawrence, Millicent, 1954

LeBaron, Gaye, 1968

Lingel, Robert, 1938.

London, Charmian, 1932

Lopatin, Ivan, 1933

Mack, W. H., 1935-1936

Martin, Lawrence, 1939.

Matsubara, D., 1920-1921

Mattson, A., 1924

Medy, N. P., 1946

Miller, Edward M., 1934.

Milo, Basil, 1929

Nabokoff, Ekaterina S., 1960

Nazarek, Kitt, 1974

Nelson, Eric, 1946-1967

New York Public Library, Acquisition Division, 1938.

Newbern, L. R., 1933

Novinka, Wholesalers and retailers of Russian books, Russian art, etc., 1934.

Oldenbarnevelet, Zhanna, n.d.

Oshima, T., 1921

Popular Fiction Publishing Company, 1924-1926

Pushkarev, S., 1958

Putnam, George Palmer, 1940-1941

Reeve, Lloyd Eric, 1959

Riemer, H. G., 1924

Rokkaku, K., 1922

Ross, Florence, 1962

San Francisco Committee for Service to Emigrés, 1947

Saxton, E. F., 1941

Scott, Leona O., 1921

Shulkevich, B. A., 1961

Sinitsina, Gutya, n.d.

Soviet Union. Narodnyi komissariat po inostrannym delam (People's Commissariat for Foreign Affairs), 1928

Sprindler family, 1933

Stockley, Grey, n.d.

Taylor, H. H., 1928

Tolentino, Gaudencio, 1923, 1926

United States. Central Intelligence Agency, 1948

United States. Library of Congress, 1930.

United States. Library of Congress, Division of Maps, 1939.

United States. State Department, OIC, International Broadcasting Division, 1946

University of California Chronicle, University of California, Berkeley, 1929-1931.

Velikoselsky, Vladimir, 1974.

Vinokuroff, Michael Z., 1929, 1934.

Vol'naia Sibir', Prague, 1929

Willoughby, Barrett, 1927-1959.

Writer's Digest (Ada Masini), 1935-1936

Young Women's Christian Association of China, National Committee, 1921

Zaria, Harbin, 1922

General

Untitled, undated

Notebooks of famous sayings, notes, short stories, verses, n.d.

Notes, 1920-1971.

Poetry, translated from Russian, n.d.

Scrapbook of articles published in newspapers Blagoveschenskoe utro, Amurskoe ekho, Novosti zhizni, Delo Rossii, Zaria, Russkii golos, 1915-1924

Suggestions for revised short stories, n.d.

Agapius Honcharenko," n.d.

"Alekseevskii, Aleksandr Nikolaevich," n.d.

"The Americans...," n.d.

"The Course of Revolutionary Events at Blagoveschensk" [in 1918], Siberia, n.d.

Essay submitted to the Home Forum, n.d.

"Die Gattin eines russische [ sic] Obersten sucht Garten...," n.d.

Direct mail advertisement for G. L. Najarian oriental rug gallery, n.d.

"Freeman," play, n.d.

"Get That Picture," n.d.

"He Who Rules Last," play, n.d.

"How I Came to Write in English," n.d.

"Ideas for Possible Use in Fiction," n.d.

"Khronika sobytii v gorode Blagoveschenske-na-Amure," n.d.

"Lover, Don't Come Back," n.d.

"Make up at Midnight," n.d.

Memorandum on the five pictures of Japanese documents, n.d.

"Nepravednyi sud," n.d.

"The Net of Heaven," n.d.

"On 100% Americans," n.d.

"Pervoe razocharovanie," Blagoveschenskoe utro, n.d.

"Russian Refugees," n.d.

"Sea Cliff House," n.d.

"Short Biography of Joseph Sigall," n.d.

"Soldiers of Fortune," n.d.

"Taxi Home," n.d.

"Third Emigration," n.d.

"Wey," n.d.

"Where Are You Now?" n.d.

"Ideinaia sviaz' mezhdu liricheskimi i eticheskimi proizvedeniami Lermontova," school essay, 1913.

"Voiny v iubke," Blagoveschenskoe utro, 1915.

Article written for the Tokyo daily newspaper Hochi Shinbun, 1920.

"Peasant and Bolshevik in Soviet Russia," 1920.

"Sud'ba russkikh zhenshchin," 1921.

"Iaponskiia poemy," Russkii golos, Harbin, 1921 April 20

"Mezhdunarodnyi s'iezd advokatov v Pekine," Russkii golos, Harbin, 1921 October 28.

Article about Aleksandr Nikolaevich Alekseevskii, 1922.

"Theater Usherette Tells of Work: Women Most Finicky Patrons," San Francisco Examiner, 1923 March 25.

"'God's Own Country' Pleases Nadia; But Let Her Tell It," San Francisco Examiner, 1923 April 1.

"Mystery Is Better Than Peroxide When You're Looking for a Job," San Francisco Examiner, 1923 April 22.

"Hungry for Knowledge, Young Russians Come Here to Study," San Francisco Examiner, 1923 May 6.

"Is She Blonde, Brunette, Married or Coquette? Perfume Depends on It," San Francisco Examiner, 1923 May 20.

"200,000 Russians in Harbin Face Helplessness Under Chinese Rule," San Francisco Examiner , 1923 June 3.

"Park Tea Garden Awakens Memory of Holy Dance of Japanese Fishermen," San Francisco Examiner, 1923 June 24.

"Enoshima, Golden-Gray of Legend and Rare Romance, Swallowed by the Sea," San Francisco Examiner, 1923 September 8.

"Paris Creates, America Adapts Styles, But Yankee Inspiration Comes First," San Francisco Examiner, 1923 September 30.

"Rasputin's Pyre is Russia's Revenge: Man Who Dominated Empress Incinerated," San Francisco Examiner, 1923 October 7.

"Russia Puts Export Tax on Art Coming to America: Thousand Pictures Accompanied by Famous Artists to Be Exhibited and Sold in U.S. While Soviet Will Garner Share in Receipts," San Francisco Examiner, 1924 February 10.

"300,000 White Russians Under Yellow Rule in Harbin: With Threatened Seizure of Chinese Railroad by Soviets, Plight of Expatriate Is Complicated; Now Amenable to Laws They Cannot Read, Without a Country," San Francisco Examiner, 1924 April 6.

"Refugee Russian Writers Find Fame in Paris: Poet Here Tells Great Success of Authors in French Capital, Where 400,000 of Their Countrymen Live; Books are Being Translated Into French," San Francisco Examiner, 1924 November 9.

"Russkie genii ikonopisi," Den' russkoi kul'tury, San Francisco, 1926.

"Famed Exiles from Russia Toil for Food," San Francisco Examiner, 1928 March 30.

"An Ice Age May Blanket World Again and Astronomers Will Forecast It: Old Puzzle of Glaciers Solved" (Alaska's proof of an inter-glacial forest period), San Francisco Examiner, 1928 April 8.

"Leo Tolstoy's Birth Feted," San Francisco Examiner, 1928 May 4.

Russian refugee stories, 1929 March.

Notes regarding a reference book listing Russian writers, publications and libraries in the New World, 1929 April.

"Spusk russkago flaga na Aliaske," Novaia zaria, San Francisco, 1929 May 4.

Review of Barrett Willoughby's novel The Trail Eater, San Francisco Examiner, 1929 June.

Story of the former admiral of the imperial Russian navy Eugene Klupfell, 1929 November.

"Ser'gi mistera Chena," Novaia zaria, San Francisco, 1930 January 1.

"Old Sitka's Saved," San Francisco Examiner, 1930 March 30.

"V staroi Sitkhe," Novaia zaria, San Francisco, 1930 April 20.

"How Russians Colonized Wrangel Island After Driving American Fur Hunters Off: Story Told for First Time by Captain of Soviet Ship" (Civilization's outpost claimed by Russia), San Francisco Examiner, 1930 May 4.

Story of visit with Charmian London, 1930 October.

"Russian Refugees," 1931-1941.

"V lunnoi doline," Rubezh, Harbin, Manchuria, China, 1931 March.

"Out of the Past," San Francisco Examiner, 1931 October 24.

Story about flood in Harbin, 1932 September 10.

"Russian Revolution ߝ Accounts of Eyewitnesses," 1932 November 3.

"Dr. Sadikoff-Goldman," 1933.

"Halt"

First version, n.d.

Second version, 1929.

Third version, 1933.

"Trideviatoe tsarstvo," Novaia zaria, 1933 April 15.

"Naturalization," 1933 August 25.

"My Old Town Was Blagoveschensk," Los Angeles Times Sunday Magazine, 1933 September 24.

"Roman velikogo kniazia," Novaia zaria, 1933 December 23-27.

"Father Andrew Kashevaroff on Flying Visit Here, Tells of Struggle to Save His Churches from Seizure by Moscow Government," 1934 (?).

"Professors," 1934 (?).

"Rezanov's Library," preliminary notes, 1934.

"Short History of the Rezanov Library," 1934.

"Russia," 1934 February 5.

"Voskresenie Germanii," translated from German, 1934 March 20.

"The Melting Pot Boils," The Christian Science Monitor, 1934 May 28.

"Emigrés," 1934 June.

"Rare Rezanov Russian Books Found in San Francisco," San Francisco Chronicle, 1934 June 10.

"Torao Gives All for Job in Manchukuo," San Francisco Chronicle, 1934 June 10.

"Russian Exiles Organize into Many Factions," San Francisco Chronicle, 1934 June 24.

"Russian Ex-Officers Enemies Now in Chaco," San Francisco Chronicle, 1934 August 18.

"Zhena komendanta forta Ross," Dolg chesti, 1934 October.

"Coincidence," 1935.

"The Emerald," 1935 July 27.

"Russkii Kolumb," 1935 December 6.

"Russian Writers in California," 1935 December 8.

"Box Car to Siberia," 1936 January 31.

"Soldiers of Fortune," 1936 May 1.

Alaska writings, 1937-1944.

"How Much Is a Rouble Worth?" 1937 April 26.

"O chem govoriat," Russkie novosti San Frantsisco, 1937 May - September.

"Comrades Together," 1938.

"Journey Through Time" (A loose sort of autobiography), 1940.

"V starinu zhivali dedy," Russkie novosti, 1941 April 18.

"Black Out the Moon," 1941 September 9.

"Dostan'te interv'iu," Russkaia zhizn', 1941 December 24.

"Political Refugees and Their Rehabilitation," 1944 April 17. Paper submitted as a final test for an UNRRA course offered by the University of California extension division.

"Publications Found in the Russian Transit Mail Destined for Various Latin-American Countries," 1944 July 24.

Analysis of the Soviet Broadcasts, 1945-1947.

"Out of this World," 1946 April.

"Preliminary Glossary of Soviet Terminology: Russian - English," 1947-1950.

"Russian-English Glossary of Motor-Transport and Related Terms," U.S. Department of Commerce, Office of Technical Services, Joint Publications Research Service, 1963 June.

Description of the ship model representing a 14th century Genoese galley, 1969 February 2.

"Memo on My Connection with the Rezanov Book and on My Ownership of Two of the Volumes," 1971.

"Dopolnitel'nye svedenia o sud'be nekotorykh iz knig, privezennykh Nikolaem Petrovichem Rezanovym na Aliasku," 1973.

Alaska ߝ History, 1927-1946.

Autographs of well-known people, n.d.

Clarke, Edward W., 1923(?)

Honcharenko, Agapius, 1868-1939.

Japan

General, 1929.

Secret service, 1935-1943.

Kourennoff, Pavel Matveevich, 1944-1945

Mikhailov, Captain, n.d.

Mongolia, n.d.

Nitman family, 1928-1937

"Pacific Story," Unidentified writing, n.d.

Refugees ߝ Russian, 1924-1941

Rezanov, Nikolai Petrovich, 1934-1973.

Russia ߝ Revolution (1917-1921)

General, 1924-1951

Alekseevskii, Aleksandr Nikolaevich, n.d.

White Army officers and soldiers in foreign armies, 1934

Russian bell - Russian Cathedral - San Francisco, 1923.

Russian Orthodox Church, 1924-1935

Russian poetry, n.d.

Russians in foreign countries

China, 1924-1944

Great Britain, 1929

Paraguay, 1934

United States, 1924

Tolstoy, Leo (reminiscences), 1924

World War (1914-1918) ߝ Russia, 1925-1929.

Clippings, 1922-1963

Leaflets, n.d., 1937

Magazines, 1913-1935

Newspapers, 1920-1954

Newspapers, 1920-1954

Pamphlets

Untitled, n.d.

Andrews, Lilian, Youth of the Happy Land, New York, n.d.

Great Photographs of World War II: Selected by the Editors of the Reader's Digest, New York, n.d.

Kratkii russko-iaponskii slovar, Osaka (Japan), n.d.

Mintslov, S. R., Sinodik bibliotek, arkhiov i kollektsii, pogibshikh vo vremia Velikoi voiny i revoliutsii, Berlin, n.d.

Maslov, Georgii, Untitled poetry, 1919(?).

Notice, Fondation Egyptologique Reine Elisabeth, Brussels, 1923

Le lotus bleu (Fondé par H. P. Blavatsky), Revue Théosophique, Paris, 1924

Shumakov, B. A., Limannoe oroshenie, Moscow, 1925

The Interpreter, New York, 1925

Dynnik, Tatiana, Krepostnye aktery, Moscow, 1927

Gorchakov, M., Duke, Itogi politiki mitropolitov Sergiia i Evlogiia, Paris, 1929

De Leon, Daniel, Russia in Revolution, New York, 1930

The Report of the Harbin Relief Committee of Russian Emigrants in North Manchuria (China), Harbin, 1930

Vitsilli, P., Kratkaia istoriia russkoi literatury ot Pushkina do nashego vremeni (Chast' vtoraia), Sofia, 1934

Robson, R. W., Communism: An Outline for Everyone, Sydney, 1943(?)

La parole indépendante: Recueil politique, social, littéraire, Sous la rédaction de S. P. Melgounoff, Paris, 1945

Miscellany

2 drawings by Alexander Shwartz, n.d.

1 portrait of Nadia Shapiro(?) by Max Vollmberg, 1926

27 postcards depicting famous Russian paintings, n.d.

2 postcards depicting Nedashkovskii paintings, n.d.

4 postcards depicting the Siberian city Irkutsk, n.d.

1 postcard depicting the Baikal region (East Siberia) - Unlicensed gold miners washing gold in secret, n.d.

8 postcards depicting Japan, n.d.

Prints

General

Unidentified

1 print depicting Ivan Frisen, n.d.

1 print depicting Ivan Frisen and family, n.d.

8 prints depicting Barrett Willoughby, n.d.

1 print depicting Barrett Willoughby and Bob, n.d.

3 prints depicting Jacob Febesoff and family, n.d.

1 print depicting Vinokuroff, Michael Z.

5 prints depicting Captain Kristian Klengenberg and his family, n.d

1 print depicting Siberian burials near Kiarhta, n.d.

1 print depicting Anadyr, n.d.

1 print depicting interior of a Japanese house, n.d.

1 print depicting seven-floor building in Marunouchi, Tokyo, n.d.

1 print depicting two Geisha girls at a Botan show, by Eishi, Japan, n.d.

1 print of sculpture miniatures depicting scenes of Japanese everyday life, n.d.

1 print depicting Naoe Fenshimi, Japan, n.d.

1 print depicting Takako Irie, Japan, n.d.

2 prints depicting Goro Kawabe, Japan, n.d.

1 Print depicting Hajime Masuda, Japan, n.d.

1 print depicting Shizue Natoukawa, Japan, n.d.

1 print depicting Denjiro Ohkorhi, Japan, n.d.

1 print depicting Tokihiko Okada, Japan, n.d.

1 print depicting Tokihiko Okada and Takako Irie, taken from a scene in the "Raid," Japan, n.d.

1 print depicting Ranko Sawa, Japan, n.d.

1 print depicting Kohji Shima, Japan, n.d.

1 print depicting Hisako Takihana, Japan, n.d.

1 print depicting Yoshoko Tokugawa, Japan, n.d.

1 print depicting Yohko Umemura, Japan, n.d.

9 prints depicting various events in the Russian Imperial Army, 1916 (?)

3 prints depicting Jean Paine (Spray) Helm, 1920s

1 print of abbot of Buddhist temple in Washington. "The Reverend G. Mapo of Yamamoto, Japan, Abbott of Ryutakiy Buddhist temple, photographed with Ambassador Haniharria of Japan as they called at the White House to visit President Harding," International Newsreel Photo, 1923 May 4

1 print of scene "amidst the ruins of Yokohama, where natives are trying to restore some semblance of home. The picture shows the baby-san getting it's [ sic] bath," International Newsreel Photo, 1923 November 11

1 print of bear taken on ice floor in Arctic Ocean, 1925(?)

3 prints depicting "dogs and dog teams running on frozen ocean on the strait between Herschel Island and mainland," 1925(?)

5 prints depicting "Prince Albert Sound. Pair of blond Eskimos in their dance clothes," 1925

4 prints depicting natives from Victoria Island, 1925

5 prints depicting inhabitants and scenes from Herschel Island, 1925

5 prints depicting Barrett Willoughby, 1928

3 prints depicting Barrett Willoughby, 1929

1 print depicting Boris Volkov, 1928

2 prints depicting Lawrence Spray (Jean (Spray) Helm's son), 1930-1931

1 print depicting Constance Dixon, 1933

1 print depicting Jean Paine (Spray) Helm, 1934.

Biographical file

8 prints depicting Nadia Shapiro, n.d.

1 print depicting Nadia Shapiro and Barrett Willoughby, n.d.

1 print of Robert Prosser, Nadia Shapiro, and Eric Nelson, n.d.

1 print of Nadia Shapiro and unidentified person, n.d.

5 prints depicting Nadia Shapiro in Japan, 1920

2 prints depicting Nadia Shapiro (passport pictures), 1965

1 print depicting Lazar Shapiro(?), n.d.

1 print depicting Mary Shapiro, n.d.

3 prints depicting Mary Shapiro, 1925-1934

1 print depicting Mary Shapiro, 1961.

Subject file.

Alaska

2 prints depicting watchtower on Island of Rocking Moon, Kodiak, n.d.

1 print depicting Island of Rocking Moon, n.d.

1 print depicting convict wall at Kodiak, n.d.

1 print of "old millstone of the Russians and little muzzle loading cannon brought to Kodiak by Grigorii Shelekhov in 1794," n.d.

1 print of "Russian Staff House at Kodiak, boarded over now. On top of this Russians of Alexander I use [ sic] to be....," n.d.

1 print of Russian Church in Kodiak. "Church of Resurrection first built in 1795. Present edifice 1894," n.d.

1 print of a "bell from a Russian Church at Atka Island ߝ farthest west church in the world," n.d.

1 print of Peter the Great. "This was cut from its frame in the old castle of Sitka of the time of the transferee, and lasted until 1918, when the man who took it brought it out, sold it to the Governor of Alaska," n.d.

1 print of "interior of the Russian Church at Kodiak ߝ first Russian Church built in Alaska (1794)," n.d.

1 print of "Devil's Prongs of Kodiak named by Russians, but now called by missionaries 'Three Sisters,'" n.d.

1 print of "interior of the Colonial Administrator (1790-1818) Aleksandr Baranov's house (see icons)," n.d.

1 print of Community Grindstone, used by the Russian colony in 1830, the Photo Shop Studio, Sitka, Alaska, n.d.

1 print of Russian Church at Wizinki, Alaska, n.d.

1 print of "Kodiak millstone and muzzleloader both brought to America from Russia by Aleksandr Baranov, Kodiak founded 1791 by Baranov," n.d.

1 print depicting "place where Bering crew landed on Kayak Island to take water," n.d.

1 print depicting view from the "bell tower of the old Russian Church at Kodiak," n.d.

1 print depicting Creole grave, Afognac Island. "Inside box is a rush light, which is replenished as often as affection dictates. Cross at the top of grave so resurrected one may see it at once on sitting up," n.d.

2 prints depicting Kodiak old graveyard, n.d.

1 prints depicting a view overlooking the "Harbor of St. Peter and Paul at Kodiak, taken from in front of old Russian Staff House," n.d.

2 prints of "Maksim Pachin, son of a Russian Naval Doctor, Kodiak," n.d.

1 print depicting "Aleuts putting up wild hay, Kodiak," n.d.

1 print depicting "Hotel in Kodiak ߝ log house built by Russians and boarded over," n.d.

1 print depicting "a bell, cast on the gale-swept, winter shore of the North Pacific by Greek Catholic Russian missionaries, was found in an ever summery California. Its inscription is: This bell was cast on the island of Kodiak on the month of January 1796 under the direction of Arch-Mandrite Joseph and in the presence of Director Aleksander Baranov," Photo Shop Allie Harriman, n.d.

1 print depicting portraits of East Russian Governor Prince Dimitri Maksourov, Princess Maksourova, Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna Ioann Veniaminov Innocent, Captain F. V. Koskul, Captain John F. Emmons, and U.S. Commissioner General Rousseau, n.d.

Honcharenko, Agapius

2 prints depicting Agapius Honcharenko.

Japan - Secret Service

7 prints of photographs of agreement and excerpt from the promissory note of His Imperial Majesty Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolaevich to General Dmitrii Khorvat regarding state funds that were in possession of General Kolchak during the Russian Civil War, n.d.

Rezanov, Nikolai Petrovich

1 print depicting a wild ocean, n.d.

Russian Orthodox Church

1 print depicting a Russian Church in San Francisco, n.d.

1 print depicting an Orthodox-Catholic Church, n.d.

Writings

"Comrades Together."

Negatives, 1923.

Nadia Shapiro sound recording in Russian 1946 July 6 - August 26

Nadia Shapiro sound recording in Russian 1946 August 8