This collection contains Russian postcards and prints, primarily lubki, collected by Johns Hopkins University history professor, Jeffrey Brooks. The materials date from the 1870s to 1989.

Boxes 1 and 2 contain 341 Russian postcards dating from approximately 1905 to 1989, as well as a cabinet card from 1882, were produced by a variety of publishers, likely primarily for sale at Russian museums. The cards have been arranged into two archival binders which roughly correspond to theme and content. Box 1 contains black-and-white postcards that are mostly reproductions of artwork, as well as notable Soviet leaders. Major themes depicted in Box 1 include war, labor, poverty, death, life in Russia, and landscapes. Box 2 contains mostly color postcards containing depictions of fairy tales, folklore, and other similar works of fiction, as well as reproductions of art, real photo depictions of entertainers and other people, a cabinet card of a costumed performer from the Imperial Moscow University, and other miscellaneous images. A folder containing the box for a series of 16 postcards of Andrei Platonov's Volshebnoe kol'tso (The Magic Ring) is included in Box 2; this series of postcards appears first in the Box 2 binder.

Box 3 contains two folders of prints. Folder 1 contains 10 lubki prints: “General Lt. Ivan Nikitich Skobelev, Turkish War of 1877-78 (Moscow: Sytin, 1889)”; “General A. N.N. Murav’ev (Moscow: Sytin, 1889)”; “V Sele Malom Van'ka zhil (Van'ka livered in small village) circa 1870s-1880s”; “Grazhdane nizhegorodtskiia presiaaiut vernosti Rossi circa 1870s-1880s”; “Ego lmperatorskoe velichestvo gosudar lmperator Aeksandr IIi (Emperor Alex II) (Moscow: Sytin, 1889)”; “O Kho Kho!! (Oh Ho Ho) (Moscow: Sytin, 1889)”; “Ego lmperatorskoe vysochestvo velikii kniaz Konstantin Nikolaevich and others enter Jerusalem and visit the holy places {Moscow: Sytin, 1889)”; “Okupshchik I sapozhnik (buyer and bootmaker)”; “Skazka how a rich old man .. (Moscow: Sytin, 1889)”; and “General of the artillery Aleksei Petrov Ermolov (Caucasus 1824) (Moscow: Vasil'ev, 1887)”. Folder 2 contains a single-sheet calendar (59 x 38 cm) for the year 1992, published in Russia following the fall of the Soviet Union. The calendar features a black and white photograph of a man impersonating Vladimir Lenin posing in a market beside a set of small busts of Lenin set on a balance scale. The photograph was taken by Alexander Efremov as part of his series titled "I saw Lenin," created in late 1990-early 1991. The image is captioned in Russian: "Happy New Year Happy Market." A. Gudkov is listed as the artist of the calendar.

Box 4 contains a portfolio with 8 lubki prints, a print captioned "Before Execution - Innocent Convicted," and a galley proof copy of Silly Little Mouse and Other Poems by Samuil Marshak.