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Ref NoDM2123/1/Archive Boxes 1-16/Box 5
Alt Ref NoDM2123/1/Archive Boxes 5
TitleDora Russell Caravan of Peace: Photo albums 41-58
Description41. Blue folder (with dirt), with dove entitled ‘Celemu Svetu Mir', 'Zeny Okresu Roundnice' N.L ("Peace to all the world", "Women of Roudnice district") ., 24cm x 32cm.Contains illustrations as well as handwritten and typescript addresses with signatures for petitions to the World Peace Council in Stockholm. Czech language text, n.d.

42. Green visitor’s book, 29cm x 22cm. Possibly taken on the Peace Caravan as includes signatures and addresses from Edinburgh, France (Boulogne sur Mer, Lille), Brussels, Paris, Germany, Basel, Italy (Bologna, Verona), Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Poland, and British women at the end, 1958-1959.

43. Grey album titled ‘Z nasi prace pro verejnost’ ("from our work for the public") with photographs of women. Photos take in the town of Nivnice,.Czech language text.30cm x 22cm, n.d.

44. Buff folder containing typescript and handwritten addresses with signatures in Albanian,. All documents are acompanied by a French translation .n.d.

45. Orange folder containing typescript and handwritten addresses with signatures in Czech , August 1958

46. Black folder with metal rings, mainly blank, with one sketch of a building, and a pressed fern, n.d.

47. Red folder with ‘Zavody vitezneho unora Hradec Kralove’ on front and picture of a factory with red star, and symbol ZVU, (sticky on back), 21.5cm x31cm. Contains illustrations and address in English: ‘The working women of the Zavody Vitezneho Unora greet the peace caravan of British Women. We assure our British friends that we are their true companions-in-arms for the cause of peace all over the world’. Signed the working women of the Zavody Viterneho unora Hradec Kralove., 4 August 1958.

48. Red folder with castle on front (sticky on back), contains typescript address dated Bratislava,. Language a mixture of Czech and Slovak, 30 July 1958, 23cm x 32cm

49. Brown album with photograph and cork on front, 33.5cm x 25cm. Contains photographs, illustrations and addresses from the women of Jicin District, Czechoslovakia. Has an address in English at the front. 1958

50. Green plastic folder entitled ‘Karavana Miru, Zeny Z Otrokovic’ 23cm x 32cm. Contains addresses and signatures.

51. Green folder with red, white and blue ribbon, 23cm x 31.5cm. Contains engraving of a building and address from the town of Sobotka,. Czech language text. 4/8/1958.

52. Oatmeal fabric folder with red star, wheel, and corn device on front, 22c, x 30cm. Contains addresses and signatures in Czech language to World Peace Council , Stockholm, n.d.

53. Red folder entitled ‘Mirove Poselstvi Zen Okresu Kromeriz’, 22cm x 31cm. Contains illuminated address in Czech, 1958

54. Orange folder with photograph of a town and vineyards entitled ‘Okres Melnik, dse 4 VIII 1958’. Contains typescript address and signatures. Includes address in English. From the Women’s Committee of Libechov and the women of Melnik District. Appeals for work with the Soviet Union, the end of nuclear arms, decries British and American actions against Lebanon and Jordania., 4 August 1958.

55. Printed book ‘A Menzel 1815-1905 zehn farbige gemaldewiedergaben’, produced in Leipzig. Contains reproductions of paintings by Menzel. Signed from a group of German Women in Dresden, 18 August 1958.

56. Buff folder with ‘Jednota’ and device on front. Contains typed address dated Litomerice 1958, with engraving of city architecture, in Czech language.

57. Red folder containing illustrated address and typescript address in Slovak, 1958

58. Green folder (dirty), with drawing of town and entitled ‘Vybory Zen Hranickeho Okresu’("Women's committees of Hranický okres"). Contains artwork, typed and handwritten addresses in Czech language. 1958
Date1958
FormatPhotograph
Manuscript volume
Extent1 box
Access ConditionsThese materials are held in Store and advanced notice is needed to access them
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