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Creator: Grosvenor Neighborhood House
Abstract Or Scope: The Grosvenor Neighborhood House Records document the settlement from its incorporation in 1916 when it sponsored day care and hot lunch programs for East Side children, to its activities over seventy-five years later when it provided social services to youth and families on the Upper West Side.

Creator: Kung, H. H. (Hsiang-hsi), 1880-1967
Abstract Or Scope: The H. H. Kung papers document Dr. Kung's political career from 1936 to 1944. The bulk of the papers consist of correspondence and political documents during the time when he was serving as the Minister of Finance, the Governor of the Central Bank of China, and the Vice Premier of the Executive Yuan. Materials in the collection include correspondence, writings, speeches, documents, reports, and telegrams relating to the Xi'an Incident, Sino-Japanese War, financial situation in China during the war year, his involvement in foreign diplomacy, Executive Yuan, the KMT Central committee, etc.

Creator: Hudson Guild (New York, N.Y.)
Abstract Or Scope: The Hudson Guild Records document the institution from its origins in the 1890s, when it organized clubs for Chelsea boys, to its work a century later, when it provided a wide range of social services to West Side residents.

Creator: International Institute of Rural Reconstruction
Abstract Or Scope: Correspondence, manuscripts, lectures, notes, diaries, notebooks, reports, financial records, blueprints, photographs, and printed materials of Y.C. James Yen and the IIRR concerned with the development, sharing, and financing innovative methods of teaching, improving agriculture, health and family planning, and education in impoverished villages. Among the cataloged correspondents are: Pearl Buck, William O. Douglas, Nelson Rockefeller, and DeWitt Clinton.

Creator: Lee, Ivy L. (Ivy Ledbetter), 1877-1934
Abstract Or Scope: Correspondence between Ivy L. Lee and his wife Cornelia Bartlett Bigelow Lee before their marriage, 1900-1901. There are 45 letters from Ivy Lee and 27 from Mrs Lee. There is also some correspondence of the Miller family of Fort Plains NY whose connection to Ivy L. Lee is not known

Creator: Barzun, Jacques, 1907-2012
Abstract Or Scope: The correspondence, research, and teaching files of French-American cultural historian and Columbia University professor emeritus Jacques Barzun (1907-2012).

Creator: Moross, Jerome, 1913-1983
Abstract Or Scope: Correspondence, manuscript music scores, copies of scores, playscripts, scenarios, watercolor drawings and other stage designs, contracts, legal papers, programs, clippings and other printed materials, microfilms, records, tape recordings, and photographs. Among Moross's work are the musical play, "The Golden Apple"(1954), dance music for "Ballet Ballads"(1945) and for "Frankie and Johnny"(1938), the film score for "The Big Country"(1958) and for "The Cardinal"(1963), and his Symphony No. 1 (1943). There are some financial papers and production records for the staging of his works. Among the cataloged correspondents are Aaron Copland, Agnes George De Mille, Ned Rorem, Virgil Thomson, and Thornton Wilder.

Creator: Gerig, John L. (John Lawrence), 1878-1957
Abstract Or Scope: Correspondence, research notes, articles, clippings, photostats, and photographs. These files concern his interest in Pierre Bayle, Antoine Arlier, and the Renaissance in Provence, as well as the Romanic Review, philology, French, Spanish, and celtic studies. Among the correspondents are: Philippe Berthelot, Nicholas Murray Butler, F.R. Coudert, John H. Finley, the Prince de Ligne, Curtis Hidden Page, William B. Parsons, and Aime ́Puech.

Creator: Blau, Joseph L. (Joseph Leon), 1909-1986
Abstract Or Scope: Columbia, A.B., 1931; M.A., 1933; Ph.D., 1944. Professor of religion and philosophy at Columbia University. Member of Fraternity of Leaders of the American Ethical Union; author and scholar in field of American philosophical and religious thought. The collection includes correspondence, manuscripts, course materials, research notes, minutes, clippings, reprints of articles, as well as 25 inscribed or annotated books.

Creator: Price, Joseph M., 1870-1949
Abstract Or Scope: Correspondence of Price with contemporary political figures including Theodore Roosevelt, Henry L. Stimson, Benjamin Cardozo, Martin Saxe, and John Purroy Mitchel; records of the Fusion Committee of 1909; and scrapbooks of clippings relating to New York City fusion movements, 1909-1933.

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