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Subseries 7.14. The Fairgrounds Shopping Center, Ithaca, New York, 1964-1979, undated

, Inc., building loan agreement, bargain and sale deed, insurance policies, a highway study, sale

Comprised of corporate records, correspondence, legal documents, financial records, and other papers related to the shopping center project. The corporate records include partnership certificates, stock, and other papers concerning the three businesses involved in the center: the Fairground Company, Shannon Park Corporation, and Ufair Realty Corporation. The correspondence describes the status of the development, proposals for how to make the property profitable, future of the project, tenancy status, taxes and other operating costs, meetings to discuss the center with interested parties, possible sale of property, sales negotiations, loan and mortgage repayments, and administrative matters for all three corporate entities. Within the correspondence there are zoning regulations, plans for the shopping center, title to land, closing statement on real estate purchase, mortgage note, lease with J. C. Penney Company, Inc., building loan agreement, bargain and sale deed, insurance policies, a highway study, sale agreements, and progress reports as well as maps and an aerial photograph of the property. The legal documents contain deeds, titles, leases, terminated contract of sale with M. A. Kravitz Company, Inc., and a petition against Ufair Realty Corporation regarding the environmental effects of the project. In the financial records, there are mortgages, loan agreements, assignments, balance sheets, checkbook stubs, completed securities transactions, and paid invoices for operating expenses. Also includes a shopping center analysis completed in November 1967 and documents about the gift of land to Cornell University from November 1974.

  1. Avery Drawings & Archives
  2. Percy and Harold D. Uris papers, 1901-2003
  3. Series 7. Other Uris Properties, 1927-1996, undated

Subseries IV.A. Carnegie Commission on Preventing Deadly Conflict (CCPDC), 1995-1999 26 boxes

Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars builds on the work of the Commission. Goals of the

Carnegie Corporation of New York established the Carnegie Commission on Preventing Deadly Conflict in May 1994 to address the looming threat to world peace of intergroup violence and to advance new ideas for the prevention and resolution of deadly conflict. An operating program of the Corporation, the Commission is cochaired by Corporation president emeritus David A. Hamburg and Cyrus R. Vance, former U.S. secretary of state. It has a membership of sixteen eminent international leaders and scholars with long experience in conflict prevention and resolution. An Advisory Council, expert consultants, and experienced practitioners have assisted the Commission in its work.

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  2. Carnegie Corporation of New York records, circa 1872-2015
  3. Series IV: Special Initiatives, bulk 1986-1999

William Harris correspondence, 1817-1828 .42 linear feet

in the original building to take care of the growing institution.
Harris, William, 1765-1829

Letters concerning academic matters and student discipline at Columbia College. Most of the letters are addressed to the Rev. Dr. William Harris.

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Center for the Study of Human Rights Records, 1981-2004, bulk 1987-2001 11.5 linear feet

building to human rights leaders, organizations, and universities around the world.".
The Center's capacity building programs are intended to provide training and skills to human rights
relates to its training and capacity building programs. The Human Rights Advocacy Program (HRAP) and the
Columbia University. Center for the Study of Human Rights
This collection contains materials generated and collected by the Center for the Study of Human Rights, a research and training center at Columbia University.
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College of Pharmaceutical Sciences records, 1892-1976, bulk 1950-1976 1.63 linear feet

facilities until 1894, when it opened a building at West 68th Street, where it remained until it closed in
Questionnaires") In 1962 and 1963, it began a campaign to build a new facility at 122nd Street. However, due to
protests by tenants in the area, the building was never realized. As a result of increasing debt and lack
Columbia University. College of Pharmacy
The collection contains correspondence, ephemera, and meeting minutes. The collection is not a comprehensive record of the College of Pharmaceutical Sciences.
  1. Columbia University Archives

Journal 5:, July 26, 1911 - July 20, 1914 Box 1

Train Stations), Budapesti Hirlap A Soroksari Dunaag kikötőve valo kiepiteserol (On the Building of the
tetelerol (On the Building of the Port of Soroksár on the Danube) A városepites kozegeszsegugyi vonatkozasai
(Relationship of Common Health to City Building), Kozegeszsegugyi Szaktanacs Antwerpen (On Antwerp

Imre Forbáth is a professor at the Technical University. He works with four other engineers: Nagy, Pikler, Indy, and Wagner. The last two are still students. Technical innovations such as new pumping methods and Puech-Chaval filters are introduced. Forbáth travels to Switzerland, Italy, and Dusseldorf, Germany. He visits the Hygienic Exhibition in Dresden. While there, he attends a performance of Isadora Duncan's dancers. He buys a Mednyansky painting. Forbáth takes out a 50,000-korona life insurance policy with the First Insurance Company. In 1912, his first book, titledStädtebauliche Studien,is published in Leipzig. At this time, he lives a very active social life. He is a member of the political circle of Lipotvaros and a delegate of the Independent Democratic Party. He is also in the leadership of the municipal Board of Works and is elected to the city council. After István Barczy, he is the biggest vote getter in this municipal election. He criticizes the Minister of Commerce for failing to submit the applications of Hungarian engineers to the Bosnian railroad on the grounds that there was a shortage of engineers in Hungary. He moves to a new house in Budapest, 46 Nador Street. He is financially successful. Imre Forbáth ends the year with a capital of 70,000 korona. He meets Olga Popper, whom he marries on February 1, 1913. On February 2, Rabbi Samuel Kohn performs the religious ceremony. On November 21, 1913, their first daughter, Eva, is born. Olga Popper's family owns the Latzka and Popper Company. Forbáth and his family move to a new house, 3 Becsey Street. He visits the Picasso exhibition in Munich and an architectural exhibition in Leipzig in 1913. He studies low-income housing in Paris, Stuttgart, Vienna and London. He is invited to San Francisco for an Engineers' Congress, but will be unable to go because of the outbreak of the First World War.Lloyd'seditor-in-chief forbids him to write for theJournal.Mor Revay asks him to write for the new Revai Lexicon. He wins first place for plan of Brasso.

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  2. Imre Forbath diaries, 1900-1943
  3. Imre Forbáth Diaries, 1900-1943

Morningside Area Alliance records, 1947-1992 149 linear feet

organizational efforts to rid the neighborhood of single room occupancy buildings, including the Bryn Mawr which
institutional use. During its existence Remedco acted on a number of buildings in this manner.
redevelopment of the neighborhood. The Morningside Housing Corporation--the company created to build the
Morningside Heights, Inc.
The Morningside Area Alliance is an organization working for community improvement on behalf of its member institutions in the Morningside Heights neighborhood in New York City. The organization was founded as Morningside Heights Inc. in 1947 through joint action of fourteen Morningside Institutions--Columbia University, St. Luke's Hospital, Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine, Teacher's College, Barnard College, Corpus Christi Church, Home for Old Men and Aged Couples, International House, Jewish Theological Seminary, Juilliard School of Music, St. Hilda's and St. Hugh's School, The Riverside Church, Union Theological Seminary, and the Women's Hospital of St. Luke's Center--with the expressed purpose of "[promoting] the improvement of Morningside Heights as an attractive, residential, educational, and cultural area." The collection includes much, if not all, of the material that was created by the organization as part of its daily business from 1947 to 1992, when the materials were accessioned into University Archives at Columbia University. This includes records of the Board of Directors and the various Committees within the Alliance; assorted publications, reports, pamphlets, and theses both acquired and created by the organization; files of the different offices within the organization; maps, plans, and photographs used and created by the Alliance for its work; and the collected materials and files created for the organization's projects in different subject areas--specifically buildings, community services and programs, public safety, schools, and the Morningside General Neighborhood Renewal Plan. The collection also includes a large quantity of material rearranged into subject files on different areas of concern within the organization.
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Goddard-Riverside Community Center records, 1854-1994 51 linear feet

apartment buildings subsidies for the rehabilitation of others the construction of public housing projects
sponsorship and management of renovated buildings. GRCC was a pioneer in social services for the homeless
instruction through the Wilson Mission. In 1908 the Wilson School moved to a new building on West 69th Street
Goddard-Riverside Community Center

The records include annual reports, board minutes, budgets, by-laws, correspondence, memos, publications, reports, scrapbooks, photographs and printed material. They document the settlement and its antecedent institutions from 1854 to 1994, offering a unique view of the first wave of the settlement house movement in America, as well as related philanthropy and social welfare activities in New York City over a 140 year period. The origins of Goddard-Riverside Community Center are documented in Series I, which includes eight institutional subseries. These records provide a wealth of information on philanthropic, social welfare and settlement work from the mid-19th century through the 1950s. Series II - IV document the activities of the settlement from 1959 to the 1990s, with a particular emphasis on the urban renewal period of the 1960s. Items in Series VII include photographs of staff, activities, facilities of Goddard-Riverside Community Center, as well as several of its predecessor institutions.

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AIA Chapter and National (2 folders) Box 25, Folder 4 to 5

EXTENSION OF THE UNITED STATES CAPITOL BUILDING: HEARING BEFORE A SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEE ON
. Jan. 1969; Report. [10 pp.] Re designing a new national Headquarters Building.

Meier, Richard to Douglas Haskell, Chairman, Special Meetings Committee, Ada Louise Huxtable, Susanne Stephens, Anna Halpin, George Lewis, Herbert Oppenheimer, James I Freed, Chairman, Committee on Design, A.I.A.; Memo. 2 pp. Re Bicentennial Papers Committee of NYC/AIA: Ideas in American Architecture.

  1. Avery Drawings & Archives
  2. Douglas Putnam Haskell papers, 1866-1979-(bulk 1949-1964).
  3. Series II: Personal Correspondence

Columbia University Deutsches Haus records, 1911-1975 0.83 Linear Feet

the reopening of the Haus in 1967 and photographs of one of its buildings on West 117th Street. There
Columbia University. Deutsches Haus

Correspondence, documents, portraits and photographs of the Deutsches Haus. The correspondence files consist of General Correspondence for the letters K-M, 1929-1943 and a special group which relate to the founding of the Haus in 1929. There are letters and tributes from many well known people on the occasion of the opening of the Haus. There are also correspondence documenting its function as an information center for German Studies. Among the correspondence are: Max Brod, George Eastman, Kuno Francke, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Thomas Mann, Edwin Markham, Andrew Mellon, Max Planck, Arthur Schnitzler, Jakob Wasserman, Arnold Zweig, and Stephan Zweig

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