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| Description | Correspondence between Ethel Froud (NUWT) and the Embassy of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics regarding:
Request from Ethel Froud for information on education in the USSR for a lecture she is giving on her 1926 visit to Russia
Reports of a conference of Educational Workers in the USSR, 1927
Statistics on living and working conditions in the USSR
Confirmation of the attendance of Ethel Froud and Miss M. Conway as NUWT representatives on the educational visit to Russia organised by the Teacher's Labour League (Miss Conway was unable to join the delegate party owing to an accident, and was replaced with Miss Hunt).
Details of the costs and schedule for the visit to the Soviet Union
Russian newspaper from 1926, two Russian magazines, and a colour drawing from a Russian newspaper sent to Ethel Froud with a note on the back stating that it is Leningrad in 1926
Carbon copies of reports sent to Ethel Froud on education and the USSR. Report titles include:
''Teacher training in the RSFSR'
'The Higher schools in the RSFSR'
'The Labour progresses in the Soviet Labour School of the first grade'
'A Word on Class Education'
'Juvenile Vagrancy - Waifs and Orphans in the RSFSR'
'The Results of Last Year's Work in Public Education of the RSFSR'
'Preparation of Active Workers in the Country'
Eighteen b/w photographs:
'Catherine Guerre le 31 Juillet 1926, Leningrad' - large group of young schoolchildren and teachers 25.5 x 19.5 mounted
Group of people, including Ethel Froud, in evening clothes in a sitting room, Leningrad, 1926, 25.5 x 19.5 mounted
The next sixteen photographs are 1 6cm x 11.5cm, unmounted
'At Central Club, Rest Houses of Leningrad. TU's Rock Island, Dr. Rappelport', features Ethel Froud.
'At dinner, Leningrad Agricultural School (Practical)' - detailed list of people in the photo which includes Ethel Froud
'Office, Leningrad Square' - photograph of men, women and children, including Ethel Froud, standing outside an office building
Photograph of people watching a meeting (2 copies) - these are at the same location as later photos, Sestroretsk
'Creche Factory' - photo of factory workers with their children in the workplace, includes notes on the back which may refer to someone Ethel Froud spoke to, of whom she says 'textile worker wanted to blow up Court, Winter Palace'
'School of Red Dawn, agricultural bias, near Peterhof' - large group photo of children and teachers outside a building
'3rd Children's Summer Home, Sestroretsk' - group photo of children of various ages and teachers standing outside a wood building surrounded by trees
'Children's Home, Sestroretsk' - group photo of children and adults, most of whom are saluting the camera
'Sestroretsk Children's Homes (chiefly orphans)' - photo of a crowd watching a man in a suit speak outside a building
'Rest Home of Educational Worker's Union (Semi-sanatorium) Old Peterhof' - group of men, women and nurses in uniform standing outside a building
'Central Educational Workers Union, Palace of Labour, Consultation with Comrade Matushkin, President of Leningrad Education Workers Union' - group of men and women sitting round a table, includes Ethel Froud, there is a bust of Lenin in the background
'Vigalok, members of All Russia T.U., Moscow' - group of men and women, including Ethel Froud, standing in a doorway
'Creche Kalturin Factory' - group of men, women and children standing outside a doorway
'Palace of Peter the Great, Peterhof' - group photograph taken on the steps leading up to the palace, includes Ethel Froud
'No. 193 Children's Home, in New Peterhof (Palace of Grand Duke Nicholas, Uncle of Czar)' - group photograph with children in the foreground outside the entrance to the palace
Group photograph outside a palace, includes Ethel Froud
Postcards - these have pencil notes on the back detailing the buildings featuring on the postcards. One shows the School for Noble Young Ladies, the Communist Headquarters and the Lenin Rooms and the other shows the Palace of Labour
Publications from 1925 and 1926 including:
'La Situation Materielle et Morale de L'instituteur dans le Monde'
'Le Syndicalism Universitaire en Russie'
'Les Instituteurs et la Jeunesse Communiste'
'L'instruction Publique et Les Traveailleurs de l'enseignement en oucraine'
'Le Corps Enseignant et la Dictature du Proletariat'
'The Communist International', No22
'The Russian Soviet Constitution', published by the People's Russian Information Bureau
'Tory Lies about Russia'
'Soviet Russia - an investigation by British Women Trade Unionists - April to July 1925'
Annual Reports of the SCR, 1924 - 1925 and 1925 - 1926
a). Postcard: Leningrad. Pencil inscription of back "Palace of Labour (Winter Palace)"
b). Postcard: Petrograd (Leningrad). Cloitre de Smolny. Pencil inscription on back "School for Noble Young Ladies, Communist Headquarters, Lenin's Rooms".
c). Photograph (Mounted): Catherine Guerre le 31 Juillet 1926, Leningrad' - large group of young schoolchildren and teachers 25.5 x 19.5.
d). Photograph (Mounted): Group of people, including Ethel Froud, in evening clothes in a sitting room, Leningrad, 1926, 25.5 x 19.5.
e). Photograph: 'At Central Club, Rest Houses of Leningrad. TU's Rock Island, Dr. Rappelport', features Ethel Froud.
f). Photograph: 'At dinner, Leningrad Agricultural School (Practical)' - detailed list of people in the photo which includes Ethel Froud.
g). Photograph: 'Office, Leningrad Square' - photograph of men, women and children, including Ethel Froud, standing outside an office building.
h). Photograph: Crowd watching a meeting - these are at the same location as later photos, Sestroretsk.
i). Photograph: 'Creche Factory' - photo of factory workers with their children in the workplace, includes notes on the back which may refer to someone Ethel Froud spoke to, of whom she says 'textile worker wanted to blow up Court, Winter Palace'.
j). Photograph: 'School of Red Dawn, agricultural bias, near Peterhof' - large group photo of children and teachers outside a building.
k). Photograph: '3rd Children's Summer Home, Sestroretsk' - group photo of children of various ages and teachers standing outside a wood building surrounded by trees.
l). Photograph: 'Children's Home, Sestroretsk' - group photo of children and adults, most of whom are saluting the camera. Banner in German reads: "Auf zur einheit der gewerkschaften aller lander" (On to the unity of the union of all countries). Russian text on Shop building reads: "Greens, Meat, Game".
m). Photograph: 'Sestroretsk Children's Homes (chiefly orphans)' - photo of a crowd watching a man in a suit speak outside a building.
n). Photograph: 'Rest Home of Educational Worker's Union (Semi-sanatorium) Old Peterhof' - group of men, women and nurses in uniform standing outside a building.
o). Photograph: 'Central Educational Workers Union, Palace of Labour, Consultation with Comrade Matushkin, President of Leningrad Education Workers Union' - group of men and women sitting round a table, includes Ethel Froud, there is a bust of Lenin in the background.
p). Photograph: Vigalok, members of All Russia T.U., Moscow' - group of men and women, including Ethel Froud, standing in a doorway.
q). Photograph: 'Creche Kalturin Factory' - group of men, women and children standing outside a doorway. Russian text of door behind group reads: "Janitor".
r). Photograph: 'Palace of Peter the Great, Peterhof' - group photograph taken on the steps leading up to the palace, includes Ethel Froud.
s). Photograph: 'No. 193 Children's Home, in New Peterhof (Palace of Grand Duke Nicholas, Uncle of Czar)' - group photograph with children in the foreground outside the entrance to the palace. Russian text on sign above door reads: "193 Children's Home".
t). Photograph: Group photograph outside a palace, includes Ethel Froud. |