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MS Russ 13.11
Trotsky papers cataloging records,
ca. 1957-1958.
2 boxes (2 linear ft.)
Collection materials are in English.
Records relating to
the cataloging of the Leon Trotsky papers.
Processed by: Bonnie B. Salt
Part of the MS Storage project, 2008-2009.
No accession number. Gift of Jean Van Heijenoort,
no date.
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Preferred Citation for Publication:
Trotsky Papers Cataloging
Records (MS Russ 13.11). Houghton Library, Harvard University.
Leon Trotsky was a Russian revolutionary and Soviet leader.
Organized into the following series:
- I. File folders
- II. Card files
Index cards and file folders of materials used to assist in the cataloging of the
Trotsky papers at the Houghton Library. Papers were accumulated by Jan
Van Heijenoort,
George Fischer,
Barbara
Zemboch, and others as the archives of Leon Trotsky were processed.
For additional cataloging records see:
- MS Russ 13.5: The Trotsky papers. Concordance of numbers between the first
guide (1957) and the second guide (1959)
- MS Russ 13.6: Trotsky Archive cataloging worksheets
I. File folders
(1)
General information.
1 folder.
Includes memorandums concerning the Trotsky papers. Memos written by
members of the cataloging team.
(2)
List of books containing information of possible interest.
1 folder.
(3)
Miscellaneous records used for organizing papers.
4
folders.
(4)
Old worksheets. Corrections made from Guide notes, 1957-1958.
3 folders.
II. Card files
(5)
Chronological index, 1917-1927 and months only : card files.
2 packets.
(6)
Heading index, A-Z : card files.
1
packet.
(7)
Miscellaneous : card files.
1
packet.
(8)
Name index 1, A-Z : card files.
3
packets.
An A-Z name index; each card includes
numbers referring to the papers.
Labeled on box "cards taken in error by R.H.
Orth"; probably Ralph H. Orth, editor of the Ralph Waldo Emerson
notebooks.
(9)
Name index 2, A-Z : card files.
1
packet.
(10)
Name index 3, A-Z : card files.
3
packets.
(11)
Name index 4, Dewey Commission, A-Z: card files.
2 packets.
(12)
Name index 5, Works, A-Z : card files.
2 packets.
(13)
Name index 6 : card files.
1 packet.