James Palmer

Historian James Palmer relates the story of megalomaniac Baron Freiherr Roman Nikolai Maximilian von Ungern-Sternberg, an anti-Bolshevik German Russian reactionary who in 1920 led a lethally effective rabble of cavalrymen in a grand but short lived campaign to unify the Mongol people while at the same time frightening the Russians and slaughtering everyone he suspected of irreligion or of being a Jew.

This photographs group contains images compiled for the Arlington Historical Society to fill gaps in the Society's collection, including areas and structures affected or likely to be eliminated by redevelopment. The group currently contains 247 images taken in a general survey of Arlington County schools, churches, firehouses, cemeteries, parks, shopping centers and businesses. The collection consists of ten contact sheets made from the AHS negatives...