Consists of 64 photographs of Russian theater figures, many of them with signed autograph inscriptions, including Konstantin Stanislavsky, 1922-1923; cabinet photographs and cartes-de-visite, mostly of European actors, circa 1890; research material on the Moscow Art Theater, 1923-1973, including programs, clippings, a 1968 audiotape of a lecture by Samoiloff, and lecture notes from 1971-1973; and glass slides relating to Russian theater and the Federal Art Project.

Contains daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, glass plate negatives, and miniatures of members of the Emerson family.

Negatives probably taken by a French tourist documenting street life in Russia and the Caucasus in the late 19th century.

Papers, photographs, and ephemera documenting Robert Marshall, an American performer known as Marshall the Mystic.