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In the 1920s and 1930s, the People’s Commissariat of Posts and Telegraphs of the USSR (NKPT) produced vast quantities of propaganda postcards, printing two million copies of this one alone. The postcard’s anti-lynching caption and illustration…

William Henry Vander Smissen was Professor of German (1866-1913) and University Librarian (1873-1891).

Yi reports that the Soviet Union gave voting rights to both women and men and that even the hotel maids could be voted in as Soviet deputies.

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This is a photograph of the Treaty of Paris, 1763. Through the signatures of England, France and Spain, the French rule of the Québec colony was transferred to the British. Section 4 of the Treaty gives the French in Quebec the right to practice…

Meeting between Governor Ronald Reagan of California and Robert Adams, Canadian Consul General in San Francisco

Ms. leaves from Psalter with text from Psalms 77-83; 88; 90-91; 118; 131-133.

Ms. leaf from Paris Bible with text from Jeremiah 10:24 - Jeremiah 13: 13

Ms. leaf from Arabic Qu'ran with interlinear Persian translation with text from Surah Ali 'Imran.

Ms. leaf from Book of Hours containing the Office of the Dead, Matins, first lesson

Ms. leaf from Book of Hours with text from Psalms 62:4 to 62:12.