George Walter Papers, 1820s-1970s

George Walter Papers, 1820s-1970s

Summary Information

Abstract

The papers are composed of the correspondence, diaries, newspapers, books and documents of the Russian-American émigré George Walter. The correspondence is primarily from the period 1919-33, and consists of letters sent to Walter by family and friends in various European locations, primarily Walter's hometown of Mykolaiv, Russian Empire (now Ukraine).

At a Glance

Call No.:
BA#0557
Bib ID:
12892648 View CLIO record
Creator(s):
Walter, George, 1899-1983
Repository:
Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Physical Description:
2.94 linear feet (7 document boxes)
Language(s):
English , Russian .
Access:
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Description

Summary

The bulk of the collection consists of correspondence addressed to George Walter in Kansas from friends and family in Europe from the late 1920s and early 1930s. A large part of the collection consists of newspapers and books collected by Walter in the early 1920s. There are also a number of documents relating to his immigration to the United States in the 1920s.

For preservation purposes, particularly fragile items have been stored in plastic. Color photocopies of the materials from this collection are held in boxes 6 and 7. Digitized versions of the materials from this collection are also available; please contact the curator for details.

Arrangement

This collection is arranged in eight series.

Using the Collection

Restrictions on Access

You will need to make an appointment in advance to use this collection material in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library reading room. You can schedule an appointment once you've submitted your request through your Special Collections Research Account.

This collection is located off-site. You will need to request this material at least three business days in advance to use the collection in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library reading room.

This collection has no restrictions.

Terms Governing Use and Reproduction

Single photocopies may be made for research purposes. Permission to publish material from the collection must be requested from the Chair of the Bakhmeteff Committee. The RBML approves permission to publish that which it physically owns; the responsibility to secure copyright permission rests with the patron.

Preferred Citation

Identification of specific item; Date (if known); George Walter Papers; Box and Folder; Bakhmeteff Archive, Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Library.

Accrual

No additions are expected

Materials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. Contact rbml@columbia.edu for more information.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

2016.2017.M108: Source of acquisition--Roberta Wirth. Method of acquisition--Gift; Date of acquisition--1/17/2017.

About the Finding Aid / Processing Information

Columbia University Libraries, Rare Book and Manuscript Library

Processing Information

Papers processed by Marlow Davis (GSAS) 2017.

Finding aid written by Marlow Davis (GSAS) 2017.

Revision Description

2017-10-13 File created.

2019-05-20 EAD was imported spring 2019 as part of the ArchivesSpace Phase II migration.

Biographical / Historical

George Walter was born in a German-speaking Lutheran family in Mykolaiv, Russian Empire (now Ukraine). He learned French and Russian there prior to the Russian Revolution, which took place when he was 18 years old. Walter later acquired Arabic and English after leaving Russia for Tunisia and then the United States.

During World War I, Walter fought as part of the Russian Imperial Cavalry. He joined at age 15 but soon was injured by shrapnel in the chin. Walter's parents were middle-class supporters of the Russian monarchy and both died shortly after the October Revolution. At that time, Walter went into hiding until he reached Tunisia, a French protectorate where elements of the White Russian Navy had fled. Walter moved to the United States in 1923 (pictured around this time) and settled in Hoisington, Kansas.

Walter received United States citizenship in 1929. He died in 1983.

Subject Headings

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Genre/Form
Correspondence
Manuscripts (documents)
Maps (documents)
Newspapers
Realia
Name
Walter, George, 1899-1983
Place
Russia -- Emigration and immigration -- 20th century
Tunisia -- History -- 20th century
Subject
German-American Mennonites -- 20th century
Russian Americans -- 20th century
Russian Emigres -- Tunisia -- 20th century

Series I: Correspondence


Box 1 Folder 1

Barouline, George, to George Walter, 1920-25


Box 1 Folder 2

Brack, Irma, to George Walter, 1923


Box 1 Folder 2

Brack, Peter, to George Walter, 1922-31


Box 1 Folder 3

Chechlinsky, Tadeusz, to George Walter, 1923-29


Box 1 Folder 3

Chechlinsky, Tadeusz, to Roland Kufield, 12, July 1927


Box 1 Folder 4

Cima, Paulina, to George Walter, 1923-26


Box 1 Folder 5

Del-Maré, F.M., to George Walter, 1929


Box 1 Folder 6

Fay, Lilly, to George Walter, 1926-28


Box 1 Folder 7

Gaidaenko, Vladimir and Vera, to George Walter, 1923-25, 1932-33


Box 1 Folder 8

Kast, R., to George Walter, 19, April 1925


Box 1 Folder 8

Klasink, Ludmilla, to George Walter, 17, September 1948


Box 1 Folder 8

Klundt, Reverend John to George Walter, 1930-32


Box 1 Folder 9

Kufield, Roland, to George Walter, 1923-30


Box 1 Folder 10

Maichel, Paul, to George Walter, 1926-33


Box 1 Folder 10

Mikhalovsky, Liubov, to George Walter, 1923-25, 1932


Box 1 Folder 11

Pavloff, P., to George Walter, 1921 1924, 1921, 1924


Box 1 Folder 12

Ripnevskaia, F., to George Walter, undated


Box 1 Folder 12

Ripnevskii, Mikhail, to George Walter, 1923-30


Box 2 Folder 1

Rohr-Dathaler, Heinrich, to George Walter, 22, June 1928


Box 2 Folder 2

Rozmaritsa, Yevgeniia, to George Walter, 1919-22


Box 2 Folder 3

Rozmaritsa, Yevgeniia, to George Walter, 1922-26


Box 2 Folder 3

Stankewicz, Alexander Antonovich, to George Walter, 1923-25


Box 2 Folder 4

Walter, George, to Tadeusz Chechlinsky, undated


Box 2 Folder 4

Walter, George, to Paulina Cima, 19, June 1923


Box 2 Folder 4

Walter, George, to Roland Kufield, undated


Box 2 Folder 4

Walter, George, to Mikhail Ripnevskii, undated


Box 2 Folder 4

Walter, George, to Yevgeniia Rozmaritsa, 2, April 1932


Box 2 Folder 4

Walter, George, to Unidentified, undated


Box 2 Folder 5

Walter, Leopold, to George Walter, 1923-30


Box 2 Folder 6

Walter, Leopold, to George Walter, 1948 1968-71, 1948


Box 2 Folder 7

Walter, Marie, to George Walter, 1926-32, 1936 1953 1971, 1936, 1953, 1971


Box 2 Folder 8

Walter, Vera, to George Walter, 1923-32


Box 2 Folder 9

Walter, Ernst, to George Walter, 1924-25


Box 2 Folder 9

Unidentified, to Mrs. P. Popoff, 30 November n.y.


Box 2 Folder 9

Unidentified, to George Walter, 10, June 1928

Series II: Manuscripts


Box 3 Folder 1

Loose MS pages, 2 poems


Box 3 Folder 2

Diaries, 1920-33 [14 diaries]

Series III: Documents


Box 3 Folder 3

Baptism certificate of George Walter, 12, April 1905


Box 3 Folder 3

Doctor's letter on George Walter, Mykolaiv, 27, June 1917


Box 3 Folder 3

Lutheran confirmation certificate of George Walter, 19, May 1918


Box 3 Folder 3

Certificate confirming George Walter as Scout Master, Boy Scouts of Mykolaiv, 24, June 1918


Box 3 Folder 3

Certificate confirming George Walter as 8th grade student, Mykolaiv 3rd Male Gymnasium, 18, September 1919


Box 3 Folder 3

Certificate confirming George Walter as 7th grade student, Mykolaiv 3rd Male Gymnasium, 11, October 1919


Box 3 Folder 3

Demobilization certificate of George Walter, 5, November 1919


Box 3 Folder 3

Certificate of seaman George Walter on minelayer Tserigo, Mykolaiv, 22, December 1919


Box 3 Folder 3

Transfer certificate of seaman George Walter to the minelayer Bespokoinyi, Sevastopol, 5, February1920


Box 3 Folder 3

Cholera vaccination certificate of George Walter, 4, July 1920


Box 3 Folder 3

Certificate of George Walter from Russian Squadron Commander, 2, February1921


Box 3 Folder 3

Acceptance letter to George Walter from Russian Middle School in Paris, 29, August 1921


Box 3 Folder 3

Postal receipts from Tunis, 1922-23


Box 3 Folder 3

French police document of George Walter, undated


Box 3 Folder 3

Affidavit of support for George Walter signed by Irma Brack, 14, June 1923


Box 3 Folder 3

Declaration of Alien about to Depart for the United States, George Walter, American Consulate, Tunis, 16, June 1923


Box 3 Folder 3

Declaration of no valid passport, George Walter, 16, June 1923


Box 3 Folder 3

Receipt, American Consular Service, Tunis, 16, June 1923


Box 3 Folder 3

Certificate of George Walter from Russian Squadron in Biserte, presented at American Consulate, Tunis, 16, June 1923


Box 3 Folder 3

Letter of Employment, Domaine D'Utique, 28, June 1923


Box 3 Folder 3

List of names and addresses, undated


Box 3 Folder 3

Application of Yevgeniia Rozmaritsa for travel to Canada, undated [in Russian],, undated


Box 3 Folder 3

French Passport of George Walter, 21, July 1923


Box 3 Folder 3

Letter to George Walter from Domaine D'Utique, 10, October 1923


Box 3 Folder 3

Receipts for funds transfers from George Walter to Ernest Yakowlewitz Walter, 1923-25 [15 receipts, totaling $100]


Box 3 Folder 3

Receipts for funds transfers from George Walter to Yevgeniia Alexandrovna Rozmaritsa, 1926-28 [6 recepts, totaling $362]


Box 3 Folder 3

Lutheran Immigration Board of Canada to George Walter, 29, October 1927


Box 3 Folder 3

State Bank of New York to George Walter, 7, January 1928


Box 3 Folder 3

Certificate of Naturalization of George Walter, 29, June 1929

Series IV: Books


Box 3 Folder 4

Lourie, A. Vocabolario Italiano-Russo, Paris: Garnier Fr è res [1920s]


Box 3 Folder 4

Tkacheff, M. Vocabulaire Français-Russe et Russe-Français, Paris: Garnier Fr è res [1920s]


Box 3 Folder 4

Wassilieff, A. English-Russian Vocabulary, Paris: Garnier Fr è res, 1921


Box 4 Folder 1

Ash, Shalom Meri, Berlin: Ladyschnikow [1920s]


Box 4 Folder 1

Jordan, Friedrich Dorfgeschichten, Erlebtes und Erschautes aus den Colonien an der Wolga, [1900s]


Box 4 Folder 1

Forel', Avgust Polovoi vopros, St, Petersburg: Osvobozhdenie [1920s]


Box 4 Folder 1

Kuprin, Aleksandr Na Perelome i drugie sochineniia, Tom 5, Berlin: G, Blumenberg [1921]


Box 4 Folder 1

Kuprin, Aleksandr Iama, Tom 12, Berlin: G, Blumenberg [1921]


Box 4 Folder 1

Grebenshchikov, Georgii Churaevy, Paris: Russkaia Pechat', 1922


Box 4 Folder 1

Thomson, John, red Samouchitel' angliiskogo iazyka, Berlin, Glücksmann, 1922


Box 4 Folder 1

Vetlugin, A Zapiski Merzavtsa, Berlin: Russkoe tvorchestvo, 1922


Box 4 Folder 1

New Testament [in Japanese]

Series V: Newspapers


Box 5 Folder 1

Niva, 17, November 1907


Box 5 Folder 1

Vokrug Sveta, Moscow, 12, 19 January and 9, 16 March1914 [4 copies], March1914


Box 5 Folder 2

Clippings from Novoe Russkoe Slovo, New York, 1926-27


Box 5 Folder 2

Vechernee slovo, Sevastopol, 7 and 10, February1920


Box 5 Folder 2

Iug, Sevastopol, 7, March1920


Box 5 Folder 2

"Pamiati Aleksandra Bloka"Obshchee delo, Paris, 16, August 1921


Box 5 Folder 2

Obshchee delo, Paris, 9, December 1921


Box 5 Folder 2

Cleveland Plain Dealer Magazine Section, 6, December 1931

Series VI: Maps


Box 5 Folder 3

Map of Southern Russia [1910s]

Series VII: Realia


Box 5 Folder 4

Wolf-shaped pendant on yellow ribbon


Box 5 Folder 4

Cloth hat with U,K, coat of arms buttons


Box 5 Folder 4

Russian Navy hat with inscription "Artillery School"

Series VIII: Photocopies


Box 6 Folder 1

Photocopied correspondence A-S


Box 7 Folder 1

Photocopied correspondence T-Z


Box 7 Folder 1

Photocopied documents