Marvin Falk talks about the Shur Collection, closing a number of gaps of information, Leonid Shur working as a specialist on Alaska and Russian-Latin American relations In the Soviet Union for a number of years, the uniqueness of the material including material dealing with the ethnology of Alaska, the administration of the Russian-American Company, and observations of early explorations to Alaska, much of the material from original expeditions of explorations into Alaskan regions, reproductions of paintings done by traveling artists with Russian expeditions, manuscript notes taken on expeditions within Alaska, some things written by Khlebnikov, preliminary cataloging of the material, the original microfilm, and duplication.
