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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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Arthur B. Krim papers, 1922-1995, bulk 1965-1992

66.76 Linear Feet
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Arthur B. Krim (1910–1994) was an entertainment lawyer and the former chairman of Orion Pictures and the United Artists Corporation. The correspondence, papers, photographs, and A/V content document the professional and personal life of Arthur Krim and his involvement with Columbia University and the Democratic National Committee, especially his relationship with President Lyndon B. Johnson (1908-1973) and First Lady Claudia Alta "Lady Bird" Johnson (1912-2007).

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Subseries IV.3: United Artists Corporation (UA), 1951-1994

Randolph Silliman Bourne Papers, 1910-1966

8.5 linear feet
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Correspondence and manuscripts of the radical essayist Randolph Bourne (1886-1918).
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Benjamin Sonnenberg papers, 1956-2010

9 linear feet
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Ben Sonnenberg, Jr., is a writer and editor best known for founding Grand Street, a New York literary quarterly, which he edited from 1981 until his retirement in 1989; the magazine continued for another fifteen years before it finally ceased publication in the fall of 2004. The bulk of the collection comprises correspondence between Ben Sonnenberg, Jr. and literary contributors associated with Grand Street. Some Grand Street administrative files and a small amount of personal material, including family letters and writings, are also included.
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Jean Nathan Collection on Dare Wright, 1927-2005, bulk circa 2000-2002

13.5 Linear Feet
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Research files on the children's book author Dare Wright (1914-2001) and her family, compiled by journalist Jean Nathan. Nathan's biography of Wright, The Secret Life of the Lonely Doll, was published by Henry Holt and Company in 2004.
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Moses Moskowitz papers, 1923-1990, bulk 1942-1982

15.26 linear feet
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Moses Moskowitz served as the secretary general of the Consultative Council of Jewish Organizations (CCJO), an NGO composed of The American Jewish Committee, USA; Alliance Israelite Universelle, Paris; and the Anglo-Jewish Association, Great Britain. Accredited to the United Nations (UN), the CCJO was organized for the specific purpose of consultation with the UN Economic and Social Council in order to encourage the recognition of human rights for all people and to ensure the imput of the Jewish ethical tradition in the development of international human rights law.
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Arthur and Rhoda Symons Correspondence and Manuscripts, 1884-1973

11 linear feet
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Primarily consists of correspondence between the English author and literary critic Arthur Symons (1865-1945) and his wife, Rhoda Bowser Symons (1874?-1936). A small amount of the Symons' correspondence with others, Arthur Symons' manuscripts, and correspondence about the collection is also included.
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Committee of Concerned Scientists records, 1970-2006, bulk 1974-2005

45.36 linear feet
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This collection documents the efforts of the Committee of Concerned Scientists in promoting academic and personal freedom for scientists, scholars, engineers, and students.
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Marjory Belisch Hall papers, 1920s-2021, bulk 1920s-1965

2.5 Linear Feet
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The Marjory Belisch Hall papers are a small collection of material documenting the life and career of journalist, homesteader, and clinical psychologist Marjory Belisch Hall (1905-1967), who studied gender roles in children during the early 1960s. The bulk of the collection is composed of clippings of newspaper articles written by Hall between 1928 and 1931.
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Serge Hollerbach Papers, 1914-2019

8 linear feet
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The Serge Hollerbach Papers consist of correspondence, photographs, sketchbooks and artworks, writings, notebooks, biographical materials, documents related to the life and career of Serge Hollerbach, Russian émigré artist, critic and author. The collection documents Hollerbach's art and written legacy (published and unpublished) in academic, literary, and journalistic formats.
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Frederick A.P. Barnard Papers, 1830-1944, bulk circa 1855-1889

7 linear feet
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Correspondence, manuscripts, and printed material by and about Frederick Augustus Porter Barnard (1809-1889), spanning his adult life from 1831 to 1889. The majority of the correspondence covers his positions as President of the University of Mississippi, 1856-1861, and President of Columbia College, 1864-1889.

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