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Typescript by Alfred M. Bingham entitled "Soviet Experiments in Democracy: Report of a trip to the USSR in 1962." It concerns interviews he and his wife had with Soviet legal and educational personnel. In the report written following Bihgam's trip to the Soviet Union, he "attempted to evaluate those parts of the new Communist Party program which deal with democracy, in the light of conversations his wife and himself had with a number of Soviet citizens of professional standing in the fields of law, local government and education."

Includes professional papers, photographs, slides, art, and architectural drawings.

A collection of ephemera relating to Dr. Phillips' school years at the College of Physicians and Surgeons. Included are commencement invitations, class schedules, examinations, receipts, his inaugural thesis (1882), and four items of correspondence.

Notes and notebooks from lectures given by Martin Heidegger (1889-1976), at Marburg, Germany (1926-1927). The notes are attributed to Alfred Seidemann (1895-1976) (University of Freiburg, PhD (1935)), who studied under Heidegger. The four subject groupings of materials are "Geschichte der Philosophie von Thomas von Aquino bis Kant" ["History of Philosophy from Thomas Aquinas to Kant"], "Grundbegriffe der antiken Philosophie" ["Basic Concepts of Ancient Philosophy"], "Die Philosophie des Aristoteles" ["The Philosophy of Aristotle "], and "Die Sprache" ["The Language"]. An addition to the collection consists of several mimeograph copies of Heidegger's "Bauen, Wohnen, Denken" ["Building, Dwelling, Thinking"] in English, "Descartes", 1926-1927; t.ms.; "Vom Ursprung des Kunstwerks" ["From the origin of the work of art"], 1935, t.ms.; "Vom Wesen der Wahrheit" ["On the essence of truth"], 1943, t.ms.

Printed material and some correspondence related to low rental housing and tenements in New York City. Included are business records concerning the rental and maintenance of tenements.

Correspondence, speeches, memoranda, minutes, and publications, including radio talks and platform addresses given at the Society, the papers of several housing committees on which Black served, and autobiographical subject files compiled by Black and documenting his participation in many organizations and social causes.

This collection documents the work of Alice Dahle, an AI-USA volunteer who was a founding advocate for and member of the organization's women's rights programs. Dahle began working with AI-USA in 1982. By the early 1990s, Dahle was promoting a greater role for women's rights in AI-USA's agenda. In the 1990s, she served as the Midwest representative to the first AI-USA Committee on Women's Human Rights, and attended the Fourth World Conference on Women in 1995 in Beijing, China as part of Amnesty International's delegation. Dahle's papers document campaigns such as Chains of Hope, Urgent Action appeals for women, Maternal Health is a Human Right, Maze of Injustice, which focused Native American women's rights, and the Stop Violence Against Women (SVAW) program, which ran from 2004 to 2010 and was one of AIUSA's major women's rights initiatives. In 2010 Dahle began co-chairing the Women's Human Rights Coordination Group, along with Tara Demant; Dahle currently serves as Chair. The collection is especially strong in visual materials (brochures, flyers), newsletters, and reports produced by AI-USA in their women's rights campaigns and includes handbooks and manuals for the practice of advocacy.