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Guastavino Fireproof Construction Company architectural records, 1866-1985, bulk 1890-1942

40.1 linear feet
This collection is made up of architectural drawings, correspondence, specifications, contracts, invoices, minutes, financial statements, patents, advertisements, photographs, photograph album, test results and reports, memoranda, tile samples, factory order cards, and other materials pertaining to The Guastavino Fireproof Construction Company's projects. The dates of the materials span 1866-1985, with bulk dates 1890-1942. The architectural records include structural, decorative, and acoustical sample products and fragments. Also included are materials added to the files by George Collins (1917-1993), Professor of Art History at Columbia University. Prof. Collins secured the donation of this archive in 1963, and remained its custodian until it was transferred to the Drawings and Archives Collection at the Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library in 1988. The records document Prof. Collins' research efforts, as well as the Company's projects in forty states (including District of Columbia), four Canadian provinces, and eleven other foreign countries.
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Lawrence K. Grossman papers, 1931-2018

60 Linear Feet

Contain first drafts of his writings, correspondence related to his personal and professional life (including exchanges with Tom Wolfe and Edward R. Murrow, among others), as well as posters, original arwork, multiple binders of CBS advertisements, and other visually interesting documentation of his career.

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School-age and Midwood high school Box 1

School-age and Midwood high school

Box contains school records, report cards, awards certificates, medals Midwood 1948 yearbook, selected school work, including freedom of the press paper research paper and a letter to LKG on the subject from George Marion (part of LKG's research for the paper); Free Speech in Eighteenth Century America & folder including all prep material for LKG college applications, with notes for essay, letters of recommendations by former NY Board of Ed President and family friend James Marshal, esq. and others, acceptances, etc. Marshall was also the featured speaker for the Midwood High School graduation, introduced by LKG. Annotated graduation programs and school publications also included.

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Avery Drawings & Archives

Percival Goodman architectural records and papers, 1929-1989

46 document boxes
Percival Goodman (1904-1989) was an American architect, teacher, urban planner, artist and writer. In a career that spanned more than sixty years, Goodman achieved renown as one of the most prolific synagogue architects in the United States and was instrumental in the development of a critical discourse around the building of modern religious architecture. The collection consists of project records, drawings, models, photographs, slides, professional correspondence and contracts, articles and unpublished manuscripts, teaching and lecture notes and personal and professional memorabilia, such as architectural licenses and certificates, as well as articles and clippings about his work.
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Columbia University Archives

Howard Stoner Course Materials Collection, 1994-2017

1.96 linear feet
The Howard Stoner Course Materials collection contains syllabi, hand-outs, and other teaching materials collected by Howard Stoner, a New York City-based advertising executive who audited over 70 courses at Columbia and Barnard between 1994 and 2017.
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Arthur and Rhoda Symons Correspondence and Manuscripts, 1884-1973

11 linear feet
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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Ernest M. Fisher papers for the Institute for Urban Land Use and Housing Studies, 1923-1953, bulk 1923-1953

6 document boxes
This collection includes data sheets, computer processed data printouts, hand processed data, draft chapters, self-reported data, and administrative documents related to the research and publication of Experience in Urban Real Estate Investment; An Interim Report Based on New York City Properties by Leo Grebler in 1955. The publication came out of the research conducted by the Institute for Urban Land Use and Housing Studies at Columbia University, which was led at the time by Professor Ernest M. Fischer. This collection is composed primarily of data processing files and publishing documents pertaining to the study of New York City real estate value and maintenance during the first half of the twentieth century. The collection includes data sheets ranging from maintenance cost of individual properties, broken down by year, to generalized indexes spanning half a century of information.
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Murray Kempton papers, 1940-1997, bulk 1954-1997

12 linear feet
Murray Kempton was a renowned American journalist. He was born in Baltimore, Maryland in 1917 and died at the age of 79 in 1997. Kempton worked in the field for over 45 years for a variety of publications including: the New York Post, the New York Review of Books, the World Telegram and World Sun, and finally with Newsday. He was awarded numerous prizes including the Pulitzer. The collection consists largely of Kempton's columns clipped from newspapers and magazines. There is a selection of correspondence from the mid to late 1950s. Finally, there is a small amount of general files, which includes numerous drafts, notes and notebooks, and reviews of his books.
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Frederick P. Keppel papers, 1880-1943

71 boxes

Correspondence, memoranda, and legal and financial documents of Keppel. The files deal largely with Keppel's personal and professional life during his tenure as President of the Carnegie Corporation, and also include some files from his years as Newton D. Baker's Third Assistant Secretary of War, and as Dean of Columbia College. There are extensive files of correspondence from and to Keppel's parents and children, as well as files concerning his activities in organizations such as the Century and Columbia University Clubs. The letters from friends and business associates concern American education, politics, business, and cultural life, particularly in the New York metropolitan area, from 1900 to 1943.

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Avery Drawings & Archives

Avery Library Vertical File, 1910s-1970s

16 linear feet

The materials that comprise the Vertical File have been collected and added to from a variety of sources by former Avery Librarians. The vertical file contains clippings, pamphlets, reprints, and other miscellaneous materials relating to persons, places, organizations, and topical subjects relating to architecture, housing, and city planning. The purpose of the vertical file was to arrange and store small items, memorabilia, and ephemeral material on a variety of topics to facilitate access by researchers. For the most part, the vertical file contains printed items only. Manuscript material and other unique items were, generally, not placed in the vertical file. In some cases, manuscript material has been removed from the Vertical File and placed in its corresponding collection.

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Barnard Archives & Special Collections

Dianne Smith Papers, 1928-2021, bulk 1979-2020

4.5 Linear Feet
Dianne Smith (born 1965) is a contemporary artist working from Harlem, New York. The contents of the Dianne Smith Papers include her art making and art practice materials, her teaching materials, personal and family documents, and photographs.
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