Louis Johnson collection

This material is held atUniversity of Leeds Special Collections

  • Reference
    • GB 206 MS 1071
  • Dates of Creation
    • 1954-1959
  • Name of Creator
  • Language of Material
    • Russian Azeri English Georgian
  • Physical Description
    • 161 ff., 8 vols, 55 brochures, manuscript, typescript, printed, photographs,and postcards

Scope and Content

Comprises tourist brochures, agricultural booklets, theatre and ballet programmes, brochures on Soviet cars, Soviet educational material, and Louis Johnson's report and diary on Soviet education in Baku and Tblisi, 1958, together with related invitations, photographs, and postcards

Administrative / Biographical History

Louis Johnson (1920-1996) visited the Soviet Union as a tourist several times in the 1950s

Access Information

Access is unrestricted

Acquisition Information

The gift of Louis Johnson, July and September 1988, August 1991, October 1993; Colin Johnson, April 1998

Note

In Russian, Azeri, English, Georgian

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