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Photographs of Columbia University campus, students, and events taken by Columbian photographer Frank Pokorny. Photographs, mostly taken for the Columbia College yearbook, document student life at the university in the mid- 1960s.

A small collection of printed material relating to radical education and political economy, dating from the 1960s-1980s. Includes pamphlets from the Radical Education Project; United Front Press; New England Free Press; MDS/SDS; Southern Student Organizing Committee. Clippings from mainstream newspapers (New York Times, The Guardian) and academic journals; syllabi, notes, and course outlines for economics and political science courses.

This collection comprises 85 VHS tapes of the lectures of Brian Greene, Fall 1997-Spring 2002.

Letterbooks of Kelley for the years 1953-1963.

An unpublished series of letters recording a visit to the United States and Canada in 1841-1842. Following in the footsteps of Harriet Martineau (Society in America, 1837) and coinciding with Charles Dickens's visit to the United States and the subsequent publication of American Notes (1842), these letters provide an invaluable account of life in Antebellum America.

This group of thirteen letters, one document, one signed card, fourteen portraits, and one portrait medal relates to six distinguished Italian patriots who were prominent in the unification of Italy in the 19th century. The collection includes one letter and one portrait of Count Camillo Benso Cavour (1810-1861); three letters and three portraits of Domenico Cirillo (1739-1799); two letters and two portraits of Giuseppe Garibaldi (1807-1882); one letter and one portrait of Giuseppe Guisti (1809-1850); six letters, one signed card, and six portraits of Giuseppe Mazzini (1805-1872); and one document, one portrait, and one portrait medal of Victor Emmanuel II of Italy (1820-1878). The letters are in many cases accompanied by transcriptions and translations as they are chiefly in Italian. The portraits are engravings and photographs.

The papers consist of an autobiography and photocopies of letters, in two loose-leaf binders. The letters, which are often very detailed, concern his visits to the Soviet Union in 1930 and 1932.

Letters from John Ruskin to his friend and publisher, George Allen. A note in front of volume I states that "Ruskin wrote in all over 1,300 letters to George Allen" of which these are a part. The men were close friends and the correspondence contains both personal matter and that relating to artistic and business matters.