The collection includes notes, postcards, travel journals, photographs, and motion
pictures of Field's journeys throughout the Soviet Union, especially Georgia and its
upper Svanetia regions, from 1928 until the 1970s. Field's partially indexed
photographs and films contain images of Moscow and the Caucasus, mostly from 1929 to
1934, documenting local architecture, geography, and people. The collection also
includes a series of 1931 letters from Upton Sinclair and others requesting
financial assistance for Sergei Eisenstein's uncompleted film about Mexico, Que Viva Mexico.
