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Samizdat manuscript
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MS-0694
Abstract
This collection includes one volume of Veche, a samizdat manuscript of underground Russian literature, published in 1972 by Vladimir Osipov. Samizdat means "self-published" in Russian.
Dates:
1972
Found in:
Special Collections
"The Flying Brigade" manuscript
Collection — Container: 1
Identifier: MS-0606
Scope and Contents
A 61 page manuscript item related to black Americana being a typed story written by a woman named Janet Hay Houston. She was a missionary and one of nine children born from Margaret Parks Paxton and noted minister, Samuel Rutherford Houston. "The Flying Brigades" is essentially a story of a missionary who gathers a group of other women to provide Christian outreach to the lumber camps of West Virginia. In lumber camps, the workers referred to itinerant ministers who conducted...
Dates:
1922
Found in:
Special Collections