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The collection is composed almost exclusively of manuscripts submitted to Gering for publication in "Voennai︠a︡ Byl"́. These are mostly short memoirs of battles and campaigns, of life in military school, or of peacetime garrison life, by former tsarist officers. These naturally relate chiefly to the last few decades of the tsarist regime, and to the period of the Revolution and Civil War. Some contributions are more scholarly in tone; these include articles on the earlier history of the Russian army and of individual regiments, etc. Few of the manuscripts are more than 40 pages long; most are 1-20 pages. Not all of these manuscripts were published in "Voennai︠a︡ Byl"́; those that were not formed part of Gering's "archive" and have been arranged separately.

The collection is composed of notes on classical authors made by Professor Anthon. There are three bound volumes: 1) notes on Latin authors, ca. 250 leaves; 2) commentary on seven plays by Euripides, ca. 260 leaves; and 3) lecture notes, ca. 140 leaves. Each leaf is closely written in a minute but clear 19th century hand. In addition there are several short manuscripts and one letter to Joseph Green Cogswell. Also included are some printed books written by Anthon and various classical editions with his commentaries.

This group of approximately 1,000 letters from the papers of Hamilton Fish, Sr. relates to the business, functioning, and activities of Columbia College in the 19th century. The letters include those addressed to Fish and those written by him. The earliest material bears on Fish's activities and interests at about the time he graduated from Columbia, but the majority of the letters fall into the latter part of his life, many being written by and to Fish as Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Columbia College. The collection includes correspondence with presidents Charles King, F.A.P. Barnard, and Seth Low of Columbia College, also with Edmund Bailey, Charles Davies, Charles W. Harper, William M. Sloan, William C. Schermerhorn, and others. The majority of the letters are original manuscripts and typescripts, but many of the letters from Fish are photostatic and typed copies. Most of the letters are tipped onto manila sheets. Included are two diaries of Mr. Fish's European travels, 1856-1857. There is also a box of printed materials relating primarily to the settlement of the Alabama Claims.

Notes from and relating to Mistral which he sent to Edmond Lefevre to aid him in his bibliographic work on Mistral and the language and literature of Provence. A descriptive notation at the beginning of the volume reads "524 fiches (environ 4,500 indications) autographes de Frédéric Mistral dont plusieurs continent de mombreus indications. Notes écrites de la maine même de Frédéric Mistral pour signaler à E. Lefever les documents composant la BIBLIOGRAPHIE MISTRALIENNE et ses autres publications bibliographiques. - Livres, brochures, articles de journaux, revues, etc. Français et étrangers." The notes are written on full sheets, half sheets, and scraps of paper. Also, some memorabilia relating to ceremonies honoring Mistral, particularly the Nobel Prize Ceremonies in 1904. The material is all mounted on the blank leaves of one volume.

The Marc and Evelyne Bernheim Photography Collection of black and white photographic prints, contact sheets, color slides, negatives, correspondence, notes, and excerpts of "pix stories" documents the 1960s experience of peoples primarily on the continent of Africa. The collection also includes photos of people and places in parts of Latin America, India, Southeast Asia, and parts of the United States, especially New York City. The bulk of this image archive highlights the challenges of modern development in African societies and on traditional and modern African artistic and cultural expression in Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad, Cote d'Ivoire, Egypt, Ethiopia, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Morocco, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Tunisia, Uganda, and Zambia. There are also files on tourism and wildlife management in Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda. The collection is organized by country, region, and photographic assignments carried out during the period 1961-1969 on the following main themes: the new educated African elite—both men and women---a few presidents and other famous politicians, development workers, "youth leaders", business people, doctors, midwives, artists, dancers, musicians, writers, university professors, radio announcers, school children, etc. in West, East, and Southern Africa; the new urban architecture and housing developments in parts of West, East, and Southern Africa; public health projects in urban and rural areas of West, East, and Southern Africa; traditional and modern developments in education in various parts of West, East, and Southern Africa; livelihoods in farming and pastoral areas of West Africa; the daily lives of non-elites, especially children and their families facing the challenges of development in parts of West, East, Southern and North Africa; life and landscapes under apartheid in South Africa—Cape Town and the wine country and Johannesburg—segregated "Europeans Only" places, the Black townships, and the nearby mines; the intersection of African traditional forms of healing and "modern medicine"; other aspects of religion in Africa (traditional African, Christian, and Islamic)—especially in West Africa and Ethiopia; and, the arts in Africa---traditional and modern architecture, sculpture and painting, including images of important landmark historical sculptures and buildings, as well as portraits of modern artists and crafts people in West, East, and northeast Africa. The collection also contains images from trips taken to document people, places, and the challenges of development in Mexico, Puerto Rico, Guatemala, India, Thailand, and Indonesia, as well as images from a private collection of African sculpture in the USA, scenes from Sturbridge Village in Massachusetts, an animal research center in Texas, interiors and people at the United Nations headquarters in New York, composers and musicians at work inside the newly constructed Lincoln Center—especially the Julliard School, and other people and places in the New York City area.