Community and political activists
- Fedor Issakovich Batkin (1892-1923) was a social revolutionary, and gifted orator who participated in many government and social revolutionary meetings in Petrograd and Moscow. During the Civil War, he took an active role in South Russia with the White Army against the Bolsheviks. The collection consists of Russian-language materials including posters, newspapers, periodicals, pamphlets, books, archival materials, photographs, and various types of clippings dealing with Fedor Isaakovich Batkin and his times. [See, Kasinec, Edward, and G.V. Mikheeva. “Kollektsiia F. Batkina v Slavianskom i Baltiiskom otdele N’iu-Iorskoi publichnoi biblioteki.” In lstoriia bibliotek, issledovaniia, materialy, dokumenly. Vyp. 4, 220-223. St.Petersburg: Rossiiskaia Natsional’ naia biblioteka, 2002; Kasinec, Edward, and Benjamin E. Goldsmith. "The Pantuhoff and Batkin Collections: Recent Gifts to the Slavic and Baltic Division Document Both the Old Regime and the Revolution." Public Service News 2, no. 4 (Fall 1990): 15-17.]
- Ekaterina Breshko-Breshkovskaia's collection reflects her post-1917 activities in Prague where she was active in efforts to aid the Russian refugee community. [See; Edward Kasinec and Lyubov Ginzburg. “American Humanitarian Aid and Interwar Subcarpathian Rus’: The Letters from Ekaterina (“Babushka”) Breshko-Breshkovskaia to Irene Dietrich at the New York Public Library,” A Jubilee Collection: Essays in Honor of Professor Paul Robert Magocsi on his 70th Birthday (Uzhhorod – Prešov – New York: Valerii Padiak Publishers, 2015), 317–28]
- Geza Garrison Gaspar (1887- ) was a Hungarian journalist who emigrated to the U.S. in 1920 and worked as a writer and editor. From 1927 to 1956 he was science editor for a Hungarian-American newspaper.
- Jacques Kayaloff Papers 1829-1989 include original documents, copies, and print materials relating to the Armenian Etat Major of the 1920s and Armenian culture in general.
- More than a hundred of Otto and Vlasta Kraus scrapbooks, 1946-1999 consist of clippings and photographs about Czech émigré people and their culture in former Czechoslovakia and abroad as well as American political and cultural life in 1948-1975 years.
- The Jan Papánek collection reflects the activities of a prominent member of the democratic postwar Government of Czechoslovakia who later devoted his efforts to the refugees from the Stalinist regime.
- Rosika Schwimmer (1877-1948) was a Hungarian-born writer and political activist who spent her life working for the causes of feminism, pacifism, and world government. See also Schwimmer-Lloyd collection 1852-1980, 1912-1983 [bulk 1890-1960] which consists chiefly of correspondence and papers of Rosika Schwimmer, Lola Maverick Lloyd (1875-1944), and their associates. Many photographs from the latter collection have been digitized.