Comprises documents, sermons, lectures, photographs, and personal memoirs of Reverend J. Clare's life in Russia during the First World War and Revolution; also, memoirs of Merry Clare Yoakum, his daughter, and photographs of her exhibition "Russian childhood memories" in the USA in 1998
Joseph Clare papers
This material is held atUniversity of Leeds Special Collections
- Reference
- GB 206 MS 1094
- Dates of Creation
- 1910-1998
- Name of Creator
- Language of Material
- English Russian
- Physical Description
- 101 ff., audio-cassette, video-cassette, manuscript, typescript, printed, and photographs Includes a tablecloth
Scope and Content
Administrative / Biographical History
Reverend Joseph Clare was minister of the British-American Congregational Church in pre-revolutionary St. Petersburg/Petrograd
Access Information
Access is unrestricted
Acquisition Information
The gift of Merry Yoakum, April and June 1989, September 1990, June 1991, April 1998
Note
In English, Russian
Other Finding Aids
A more detailed listing of the contents is available in the Leeds Russian Archive online catalogue http://www.leeds.ac.uk/library/spcoll/lra/index.htm