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Columbia University Archives

Columbia University Archives

6th Floor East Butler Library
535 West 114th Street
New York, NY 10027, USA
uarchives@columbia.edu
The University Archives, a unit within the Rare Book & Manuscript Library, preserves the institutional memory of Columbia University through the acquisition of official University records and related historical collections and materials from its founding in 1754 to the present day.

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Bruce C. Heezen papers, 1963-1977

1 linear feet
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This collection consists of the faculty papers of geology professor Bruce C. Heezen.

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Department of Philosophy records, 1925-1934

0.21 linear feet
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This collection contains one binder with the Department of Philosophy's budget proposals and requests from 1925 to 1934.

Columbia Clefhangers records, 1991-2013

0.42 linear feet
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The collection consists of musical arrangements, correspondence, flyers, schedules, membership lists, budget information, newsletters as well as two CDs of recorded music.

Chandler Chemical Museum Records, 1934-1980

1.25 linear feet
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This collection consists of copies of the card catalogue and two inventories of the holdings of the Chandler Chemical Museum. One inventory is a handwritten list, by case and by shelf, created by curator Samuel A. Tucker in the 1930s. The other inventory, from 1980, consists of color photographs from each numbered shelf with a list identifying the items.

Center for Digital Research and Scholarship (CDRS) Video Collection, 2001-2011

7.5 Linear Feet
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Mini dv and dvdcam of lecture series, interviews, conference presentations, and events across campus. Important Columbia faculty and guest speakers were recorded. In some cases, this taped content may be the only representation we have for certain people, events and departmental activities from the early 2000s. The Center for Digital Research and Scholarship (CDRS). Office disbanded in 2017.

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Center for the Study of Global Habitability records, 1983-1990

6 linear feet
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This collection consists of the Center for the Study of Global Habitability cooperative agreement and administrative files. It also contains records of the related University Seminar.

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Lester M. Chace papers, 1931-2007

1 linear feet
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This collection consists of photographs, articles, reviews, and correspondence related to portrait artist Lester Merton Chace, Jr. CC 1950. The materials were collected and organized by Anne Battley Phipps, BC 1948 and it includes some reminiscences recorded by Anne Phipps.

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Nathaniel Fish Moore photographs, circa 1855

0.42 linear feet
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The bulk consists of salt prints and albumen prints taken by Nathaniel Fish Moore. Copy prints, correspondence, and other material that document the photography of N.F. Moore are included. This collection contains an early photograph of Columbia College at Forty Park Place, New York City, and portraits of Pierre Toussaint and Clement Clarke Moore, the latter credited for the poem "A Visit from St. Nicholas" more commonly known as "The Night Before Christmas."

Charity Clarke Moore and Clement Clarke Moore papers, 1767-1863

1 box
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Letters written by Charity Clarke Moore and one letter and a diary written by her son Clement Clarke Moore. Charity Moore's letters range in date from 1767 to 1834 and were written to her sister, Lady Mary Clarke Vassal Affleck and other members of her family and friends. They are personal in nature dealing with family affairs and day to day events. Of the same character is Clement Moore's letter which was written to his cousin, Lady Mary Elizabeth Fox Powys Lilford in November 1840. The diary contains brief entries from 20 November 1856 to 8 July 1863, two days before his death. It is mainly a record of the weather, the temperature, and his benefactions. The letters are all mounted on the blank leaves of one volume and the diary occupies a second volume. Also included are nine volumes from the library of Benjamin Moore.

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Charter preservation treatment photographs, negatives and slides, 2003

0.21 linear feet
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This collection consists of 14 images in color and in black and white of three charter documents of King's College, now known as Columbia University in the City of New York. It includes the October 31, 1754 charter for King's College; the May 13, 1755 conveyance of land; and the March 14, 1770 confirmation of the grant of land. The parchment documents were photographed by Dwight Primiano in September 2003. The collection includes negatives, prints, slides and color transparencies.

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Charter preservation treatment photographs, negatives and slides, 2003 Box 1