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Rare Book & Manuscript Library

Rare Book & Manuscript Library

6th Floor East Butler Library
535 West 114th Street
New York, NY 10027, USA
rbml@library.columbia.edu
The Rare Book & Manuscript Library is Columbia University’s principal repository for special collections. We collect, preserve, describe, promote, and provide access to the material evidence of diverse individuals and activities in alignment with the University’s research and teaching mission. We build and steward deep collections in select subject areas and connect them to a global audience through reference, teaching, exhibitions, publications, and public programs.
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Imre Forbath diaries, 1900-1943

2 linear feet
This collection comprises twenty one journals of Imre Forbath (ака Emerich Forbath), one of the greatest engineers in Europe. These diaries span the period from 1900 to 1943.
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Oleksandr Filaretovich Skoropys-Ioltukhovs'kyi Papers, 1917-1943

1 linear feet

Manuscripts, photographs, printed materials, and subject file of Ukrainian nationalist activist Oleksandr F. Skoropys-Ioltukhovs'kyi. There is a manuscript by Skoropys-Ioltukhovs'kyi"Meine Fahrt in die Karpaten-Ukraine." Four albums of photographs appear to concern chiefly the Vetsliar (sic!) Austro-Hungarian prisoner of war camp in 1917-18; Skoropys-Ioltukhovs'kyi carried on Ukrainian nationalist efforts there. Other photographs are of unidentified theatrical productions. Printed materials include offprints and books, and the subject file is on the death of Skoropys-Ioltukhovs'kyi's son, Vasyl, while in the German army in 1941.

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Volodymyr Levyt︠s︡ʹkyĭ papers, 1880s-1980

14 linear feet
The papers comprise correspondence, personal documents, organizational records and documents, financial statements and receipts, manuscripts, research notes, photographs, sheet music, Ukrainian song lyrics, printed materials, periodicals relating to the life and professional activities of Volodymyr Levyts'kyi, an editor, prominent political and social activist, and leader of the Ukrainian émigré community.
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