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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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Stephen Anestis Hermides papers, 1964-1981

1 box
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Correspondence, documents, and printed materials dealing with Hermides' political and social activities and his interest in student affairs. Correspondents include Ralph J. Bunche, Frank Hogan, Robert F. Kennedy, and John Lindsay.

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Alice Montgomery Lawrence papers, 1874-1935

6.5 linear feet
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Correspondence, programs, clippings, and other theatrical memorabilia relating the the careers of Alice and Rita Lawrence.

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Bohemian Club records, 1903-1931

0.5 Linear Feet
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Invitations and photographs relating to dinners given by the Bohemian Club to honor artists such as Mischa Elman, Engelbert Humperdinck, Serge Koussevitzsky, Ignace Paderewski, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Richard Strauss, and Eugene Ysaye.

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Herbert Parsons papers, 1898-1925

40 boxes
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Correspondence to Parsons from numerous well-known contempories relating chiefly to political and social matters. Also, miscellaneous reports and printed materials.

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Julian C. Levi papers, 1862-1971

21 boxes
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Levi's correspondence with his wife, Alice Fries Levi, letters of other family members, his diaries, his school and college notebooks and papers, awards and medals, and personal photographs. The earliest item in the collection is a scrapbook kept by his father, Albert A. Levi, in San Francisco, 1862.

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Woman's Press Club of New York City records, 1889-1980

22 boxes
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Minutes, reports, press books, scrapbooks, correspondence, lists, financial records, and printed materials of the Woman's Press Club of New York City.

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Charles Fenno Hoffman letters, 1824-1843

1 box
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Letters of Hoffman to his family. There are seventeen letters to his niece, Matilda Nicholas Whitman, and one letter to his half-sister, Ann Hoffman Nicholas. The correspondence deals with the literary and social life in New York and with the Hoffman family. Two of the letters have notes added by his father, Josiah Ogden Hoffman. Also, an engraved portrait of Charles Fenno Hoffman.

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Charles Watts letters, 1810-1851

1 box
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Letters written by and relating to Watts and members of his family. There are 45 letters written by Charles Wats, dated principally from Biloxi, Miss., to members of his family in New York, and 21 letters from, to, and relating to his sister, Helen Watts, and her husband, H. Floyd Jones, and his family. Also, a few letters from Charles Watts, Sr., to his son, Judge Charles Watts. The letters are personal in nature, dealing with family affairs, daily life, and friends.

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LeRoy Bowman papers, 1905-1971

38.5 linear feet
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Correspondence, subject and organization files, speeches, and notes.

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Louis Alexander Freedman papers, 1930-1956

9 boxes
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This collection contains correspondence and literary manuscripts of Louis Alexander Freedman (1873-1957).
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