"The Ming Tombs," Records of the Past, Vol. I, Part IV, 1902 April

One typed essay on music in Minusinsk, Russia accompanied the photographs. It was not signed but the name “Miss Helen Wright” (Frederick Bennett Wright’s sister) appears in pencil on the back. This comprises the only manuscript material in the collection. It may have been authored by George Frederick Wright for his book Asiatic Russia, in which Minusinsk is discussed in several different chapters.

Three articles by Frederick Bennett Wright published in the journal Records of the Past in 1902 and 1904 were printed from a library collection online. These articles relate to or have illustrations from the photographs in the collection. An original offprint of his article “The Mastodon and Mammoth Contemporary with Man,” with an attached business card from Wright as Assistant Editor of Records of the Past was transferred from the Oberlin College Library Special Collections Department. Also from Special Collections are two additional printed items, one being an offprint of an article by Frederick Bennett Wright entitled “The Origin of the Wind Gap,” this time from the American Geologist, 1896, the year before his graduation from Oberlin. The other item is a statement for the Supreme Court dated 18 January 1905 that refutes statements made in a circular by the former editor of Records of the Past, Rev. Henry Mason Baum.