Abstract

This collection includes materials gathered during two trips to Russia in 1977 and 1989. The posters, most pins, a 45 rpm record, and maps are from a March 1977 trip to Moscow and Leningrad with a Lehigh University Alumni Association tour. The prints, photographs, and t-shirts are from the donor's attendance at the 1989 International Conference on Environment & Society in Moscow as a representative of the League of Women Voters.

Abstract Vera Beaudin Saeedpour started the Kurdish Heritage Foundation, Kurdish Library and Kurdish Museum all out of her home in Brooklyn, NY in the early 1980s. The Vera Beaudin Saeedpour Kurdish Library and Museum Collection was donated to Binghamton University Libraries in February 2011. The evolution of the library/museum is evident through her correspondences with politicians, universities, Kurdish friends, writers, and people of all different backgrounds. The collection contains more than...