TY  - GEN
AU  - Pray,Eleanor Lord
TI  - Eleanor Lord Pray papers,
KW  - Pray, Dorothy,
KW  - Greener, Richard Theodore,
KW  - Pray, Frederick S.,
KW  - Silver, Patricia D.
KW  - Smith, Charles,
KW  - Smith, Sarah E.
KW  - Pray family.
KW  - Pray family
KW  - American Red Cross
KW  - Vladivostok Chapter
KW  - Legie česká
KW  - Shanghai American School
KW  - Aliens
KW  - Russia
KW  - Vladivostok
KW  - Americans
KW  - China
KW  - Shanghai
KW  - Boarding schools
KW  - Censorship
KW  - Soviet Union
KW  - Commercial agents
KW  - General stores
KW  - Germans
KW  - Japanese
KW  - Russo-Japanese War, 1904-1905
KW  - World War, 1914-1918
KW  - Czechoslovakia
KW  - Armed Forces
KW  - Dalʹnevostochnai͡a Respublika
KW  - History
KW  - Harbin (China)
KW  - Description and travel
KW  - Japan
KW  - Revolution, 1905-1907
KW  - Shanghai (China)
KW  - Social life and customs
KW  - Siberia (Russia)
KW  - Revolution, 1917-1921
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - Allied intervention, 1918-1920
KW  - Vladivostok (Russia)
KW  - Commerce
N1  - Open to research
N2  - Chiefly correspondence of Pray with family members relating to her daily life in Vladivostok, Russia; family affairs; social life of the expatriate community; her surroundings in and around Vladivostok; and historic events.  Also includes transcripts of a portion of Pray's correspondence prepared by her granddaughter, Patricia D. Silver; correspondence of Eleanor's husband, Frederick S. Pray; photographs; and miscellanous material.  Subjects include the "American Store," a general store owned by her sister-in-law, Sarah E. Smith, and Sarah's husband, Charles Smith; Pray's work for the Vladivostok Chapter of the American Red Cross, 1919-1924; and her travels to Japan and to Harbin and Shanghai, China.  Other subjects include the Russo-Japanese War, 1904-1905, and the Japanese attack on Vladivostok in 1905; first Russian Revolution, 1905-1907; World War I; forced removal of German citizens from Vladivostok during the war; second Russian Revolution, 1917-1921; taking of Vladivostok by the Legie česká (Czechoslovak Legion), June-July 1918; Allied intervention in Siberia, 1918-1920; occupation of Vladivostok by the Japanese military, 1918-1922; the Dalʹnevostochnai͡a Respublika (Far Eastern Republic) and Provisional Priamur governments of Siberia, 1921-1922; return of the Bolsheviks in 1922; and life under Soviet rule during the 1920s.  Topics also include Soviet censorship of the mail and the arrival in Vladivostok of the official U.S. commercial agent, Richard Theodore Greener, in 1898.  Correspondence with Pray's daughter, Dorothy Pray, and her sister-in-law, Sarah E. Smith, pertains to their life in Shanghai, China, and to Dorothy's school years at the Shanghai American School
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