Comprises: (1) Copy prints of photographs taken in 1914-1919 by John Wilford Wardell (1889-1968) at and around the Spasskii Copper Mine company's sites in Akmolinsk and Semipalatinsk Provinces and en route for Britain, showing his wife, Lily (ne Nicholson; 1889-1941), and son, Richard Neville Wardell (1915-1961), members of the local kazak population, mining operations etc; (2) Photographs of Lily Wardell's passport and travel permit; (3) Negatives of the foregoing; (4) John Wilford Wardell, In the Kirghiz Steppes, London, 1961
John Wardell papers
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- ReferenceGB 206 MS 809
- Dates of Creation1914-1961
- Name of Creator
- Language of MaterialEnglish Russian
- Physical Description130 ff., photographs, negatives, and printed
Scope and Content
Administrative / Biographical History
John Wilford Wardell (1889-1968) was a British mining engineer and a member of the British community in pre-revolutionary Russia, resident in Akmolinsk and Semipalatinsk Provinces
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Acquisition Information
The gift of Phoebe Murray, December 1986, March 1988; Hugh Aplin, October 1987
Note
In English, Russian
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