Vladimirov (Ivan Alekseevich) Paintings: Mainly watercolor paintings that depict scenes of daily life during the Russian Revolution. The paintings show the Revolution's unheroic side: the brutality and vulgarity of the winners, the poverty and humiliation of the losers. Vladimirov is credited with having painted some of the earliest works inspired by the October Revolution.
Featured Above:
1. A former general reading among ruins, created June 1922
2. The military helping themselves in a market place, created December 1922
3. Workmen in Petrograd robbing a military lorry of bread, created 1920
Jones (Jefferson) collection, 1914-1915: Photographs, drawings, printed matter, and miscellanea, relating to activities of the Japanese Army in China during World War I, especially to the siege of Tsingtao, 1914; to the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-1905; and to the palace of Kaiser Wilhelm II on the island of Corfu.
Featured Above:
1. Untitled battle scene, Russo-Japanese War, circa 1905
Raemaekers (Louis) papers and artwork: Contains correspondence, writings, newspaper issues, clippings, photographs, and over 1,000 original drawings. Raemakers was a Dutch artist who joined the Amsterdam Telegraaf as a political cartoonist and caricaturist in 1907, but with the outbreak of World War I ceased all other professional activity to dedicate himself to an anti-German campaign through his cartoons. During the war he made frequent visits to the French front, charcoal in hand. Featured above is a selection of his drawings from that time.
Pike (M. J. W.) memoirs: Sketches of Suvla, Mitelene, Mudros and Salonika in 1915 by Lt-Col M. J. W. Pike, Comdg 5th S/B Royal Irish Fusrs: This typescript memoir of the Gallipoli campaign of 1915 in World War I is illustrated with approximately 40 hand-drawn maps and drawings, many in color. Pike was Lieutenant colonel, British army; commanding officer, 5th Service Battalion, Royal Irish Fusiliers. Three pages are featured above.
More Archival Collections:
Beer (F. F.) collection: Sketchbook of drawings of inmates and scenes at the Ruhleben prison camp, Germany, which housed British civilians interned in Germany during World War I. Drawn by various prisoners of the camp.
Jalowiecki (Mieczyslaw) memoirs and drawings: Includes watercolor drawings and sketches of scenes and manor houses in Lithuania and Poland, as well as parts of Belarus, Ukraine, Latvia, and Estonia.
Poltiniak (Kurt) drawings, undated: Anti-fascist, anti-American, and pro-communist drawings, commenting on twentieth-century German and world events.
Whitlock (Brand) papers: Writings, diaries, scrapbooks, drawings, printed matter, and photographs relating to Belgian-American relations during World War I, the work of the Commission for Relief in Belgium, and the writings of Brand Whitlock.
More Library Materials:
Kriegsbilderbogen deutscher Künstler: Mappe: 12 color plate illustrations by different artists featuring scenes from World War I. Published 1915.
[Lubochnyi͡a narodnyi͡a kartinki] (1848-1860): Bound collection of lithographs, mostly on metal plates, in the lubok style of engravings. Part of the Russian Art Collection.
Japanese Woodblock Print Collection: Japanese woodblock prints (nishiki-e) depicting battle and political scenes, primarily from the late 19th century.
Featured Above:
1. "第一軍奉天進撃ノ図 Dai ichigun Hōten-fu shingeki no zu" (The First Army advancing on Mukden), 1894
Wales (Nym) papers: Sketches of the Long March: Wales was an American journalist and writer; member, Board of Directors, American Committee in Aid of Chinese Industrial Cooperatives, 1941-1951.
Featured Above:
1. Sketch of the Long March: Shieh Shan, by Zhen Huang, circa 1934-1935
2. Sketch of the Long March: Night in Ancient Woods, by Zhen Huang, circa 1934-1935
3. Woodcut print of man and buffalo straining to pull a load, creator unknown, circa 1930-1949
More Archival Collections:
Chen (Jack 陳依範) papers, bulk 1927-1980: contain drawings, cartoons, writings, correspondence, and clippings, relating to political conditions in China, foreign relations of China, and world politics. Includes political cartoons by Jack Chen published in the international communist press.
Kamishibai Collection: Japanese illustrated paper play sheets, intended primarily for children and women at the homefront and dealing with World War II propaganda themes.
Mamoru (Shigemitsu) sketch books: Depicts scenes at the proceedings of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East.
More Library Materials:
Masuo Kitaji annotated and illustrated Bibles: English-language printed Bibles annotated by Kitaji with Japanese translations and other commentary. Additional information available at Stanford Searchworks.
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