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Rare Book & Manuscript Library

Rare Book & Manuscript Library

6th Floor East Butler Library
535 West 114th Street
New York, NY 10027, USA
rbml@library.columbia.edu
The Rare Book & Manuscript Library is Columbia University’s principal repository for special collections. We collect, preserve, describe, promote, and provide access to the material evidence of diverse individuals and activities in alignment with the University’s research and teaching mission. We build and steward deep collections in select subject areas and connect them to a global audience through reference, teaching, exhibitions, publications, and public programs.

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Amos Vogel papers, 1896-2001, bulk 1960-1990

68 linear feet
Abstract Or Scope
This collection documents the professional work of film critic, professor, and author, Amos Vogel. The bulk of the records are concerned with numerous films that Vogel has screened for Cinema 16, the independent film society that he founded and directed for sixteen years, as well as administrative records, correspondence, photographs, and printed material.
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Subseries II.2: Director Files, 1930-1985

Series IV: Photographs, 1920-1999

Subseries IV.2: Film Stills, 1920-1994

Lillie Ronvo Collection of Dance and Music Materials, 1915-2002, bulk 1952-1991

3.94 linear feet
Abstract Or Scope
Lillie Rovno was deployed by the United States military in Germany, Japan, Alaska, and Hawaii, and continued to travel the world in later years. A scholar of Russian culture interested in performance arts, Rovno collected materials on a broad array of art forms: Kabuki and Japanese visual arts, ballet, Jewish music, and Italian music. The collection includes numerous photos, some autographed, of prominent ballet performers from the former Soviet Union, Cuba, and the U.S., with many of the photos documenting visits of Soviet ballet companies to the U.S. in the 1980s and early 1990s. The collection also contains musical scores from Italy, the U.S., and Israel, including Israeli songbooks from the early 1950s.
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Subseries III.1: Ballet Piano Arrangements, circa 1949-2000

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace New York and Washington Offices records, 1910-1954

335 linear feet
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Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, established by Andrew Carnegie in 1910, is a private, nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing cooperation between nations and promoting active international engagement by the United States. The files document the activities of the New York and Washington Offices of Carnegie Endowment for International Peace from 1910 until 1954, as well as the founding, administration, and activity of the Centre Europeen (CEIP Paris Office) and the work of the Carnegie Endowment in Europe in 1911-1940
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Subseries VII.W: International Relations Centers, 1925-1948

Bureau of Applied Social Research records, 1938-1977

168 Linear Feet
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Project materials, including reports, monographs, books, articles, Masters essays, Doctoral dissertations, foreign publications, administrative records, correspondence, minutes and audio-visual materials.

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Attitudes of New Car Buyers to Chrysler Styling- Some Hazards of Innovation in a Recession. Barbara Silverblatt, 1958 Box 125, Folder b-0555-11

Lazarsfeld, Levenson, et al. Edsel Study-Social Influences in Automobile Buying, 1956-1958 Box 50 & 51, Folder b-0555

Vera Connolly papers, 1907-1960, bulk 1916-1956

12 linear feet
Abstract Or Scope
This collection documents the career of Vera Connolly, journalist, editor, and fiction author, through her drafts, notes, and correspondence. Connolly's articles, published in popular magazines such as Good Housekeeping,Colliers, and Woman's Day, ranged in topic from financial advice for married women to juvenile delinquency, prison reform, sweatshops, and poor living conditions on Indian reservations.
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Series III: Fiction, 1907-1952

C. J.Bulliet papers, 1899-1952

10 linear feet
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These papers contain the correspondence, photographs, press releases, programs and manuscripts of Clarence Joseph Bulliet (1883-1952) who was a prominent art and dramatic critic for the Indianapolis Star,Louisville Herald and Chicago Evening Press. The bulk of this collection is comprised of materials from the 1910s and early 1920s, when Bulliet was business manager for the touring company of Shakespearean actor Robert Bruce Mantell. Production photographs, press releases, production diaries and notes and drafts for Robert Mantell's Romance, the biography of Mantell written by Bulliet, are included in this collection. This collection also contains photographs and souvenir programs from other productions; drafts of Bulliet's literary works; printed materials and correspondence with Edward Albee, Julian Eltinge, Genevieve Hamper, Robert B. Mantell and Vera Zorina.
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Series V: Visual Materials, 1884-1946

Series I: Correspondence, 1909-1951, undated

Diana Trilling papers, 1921-1996

29.75 linear feet
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The Diana Trilling Papers document the life of literary and cultural critic, Diana Trilling. This collection contains her writings, extensive correspondence with other New York intellectuals, and subject files for her research as well as for the Lionel Trilling Estate.
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Series I: Personal Documents, 1921-1970

Series III: Writings, 1929-1996

Subseries IV.2: Lionel Trilling, 1960-1996

David Abrahamsen papers, 1906-1990

1.26 linear feet
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The David Abrahamsen Research Files consist primarily of drafts and notes for Abrahamsen's studies on Jack the Ripper and Richard Nixon. Correspondence with David Berkowitz, the Son of Sam serial killer, is also held in the collection.
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Subseries III.3: Nixon vs. Nixon, 1960-1977 Box 2

Meyer Schapiro papers, 1919-2006

400 linear feet
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This collection encompasses the professional, personal, and artistic life of art historian Meyer Schapiro.
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"Vico on the visual arts"

"Wolvinius Magister Phaber: the crowning of an artist in the early Middle Ages"

Sub-Subseries: I.5.2: Travel photographs, 1927-1957

Herman Wouk papers, 1915-2003, bulk 1940-1960

23.26 linear feet
Abstract Or Scope
This collection documents the professional work of Pulitzer Prize winning author, Herman Wouk. The bulk of the papers are drafts of manuscripts and plays, including The Caine Mutiny, with many annotations and notes by the author. There is also correspondence between Wouk and his colleagues, in particular his brother, the noted scientist, Victor Wouk.
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Series V: Audio Visual Material, 1951-1980

Subseries II.2: Plays, 1940-1957