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Barnard Archives & Special Collections

Moving Image collection, 1925-2011

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This collection consists of film and video recordings related to Barnard College, including events and performances, clips of television shows featuring Barnard or people affiliated with Barnard, documentaries related to Barnard, and course-related recordings.
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112-V: Athena Through the Ages: 2004 Reunion, 6/4/2004, 2004

112-V: Athena Through the Ages: 2004 Reunion, 6/4/2004, 2004
Athena Through the Ages: 2004 Reunion, 6/4/2004, Date: 2004, Duration: 1:10:54

Athena Through the Ages: 2004 Reunion, 6/4/2004, Date: 2004, Duration: 1:10:54

  1. Video recordings, 1975-2011
  2. Tapes 110-127

6: Barnard athletics, ca. 1935-1953, 1935-1953 Carton 2

); Duration -- 2:46; Date: ca. 1935; Film 7: edited documentary (no titles) of boys and middle-aged woman

Film numbers: 22, 2, 3, 6, 7; Film 22: edited documentary (no titles): tennis class; Barnard campus; tenpins on the roof of Barnard Hall; other games; view from roof of campus, showing flagstaff; archery in the Jungle; tennis tournament; women playing six passes(?) in front of Barnard Hall; archery on South Lawn; student athletes running out of Barnard Hall, south entrance, waving to camera; archery demonstration on South Lawn; view of Broadway from window of Barnard Hall; class in the Jungle, near sundial; woman with racket running towards Milbank Hall; Duration -- 5:02; Date: ca. 1932; Film 2: female diver, indoor pool; Duration -- 0:57; Date: ca. 1940; Film 3: edited instructional film, with intertitles; Duration -- 12:02; Date: ca. 1940; Film 6: edited documentary (no titles): students playing tennis on Barnard tennis courts; Brielle, New Jersey waterfront (including whale carcass hanging near dock office); Duration -- 2:46; Date: ca. 1935; Film 7: edited documentary (no titles) of boys and middle-aged woman playing golf at Pinehurst, North Carolina; Duration -- 2:43; Date: December 1953

  1. Film, 1925-1988, bulk 1925-1964
C.V. Starr East Asian Library

Tsuyee Pei papers, 1929-1951, bulk 1943-1948

12.1 linear feet
The Tsuyee Pei papers document Pei's professional and personal life and provide a glimpse of his career in East Asia and North America during the last years of WWII and the years immediately following. The bulk of the papers consists of correspondences, memoranda, cables and telegrams, and other career files from between 1943 and 1949. These materials highlight Pei's role as first, the general manager of the Bank of China, then, the governor of the Central Bank of China, and offers great details on the development of the banking system in China, wartime aid and relief, foreign exchange market, and international business and economic cooperation. Other materials include newspaper clippings, greeting cards, and printed matter.
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Avery Drawings & Archives

Abbott Merkt and Company records, 1906-1994

89 linear feet of papers

This collection primarily contains architectural drawings, photographs, business records and reference materials related to the projects and designs of architectural and engineering firm Abbott, Merkt and Company. A subsidiary portion of the collection includes drawings, photographs and papers related to the life and career of Richard H. Tatlow, III, president of Abbott Merkt, as well as the firms and agencies for which he also worked.

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Rare Book & Manuscript Library

Smith-Plimpton East Asian Collection, circa 700-1937

556 items
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Burke Library at Union Theological Seminary

James Emman Kwegyir Aggrey papers, 1920 -- 1927

0.25 linear feet
James Emman Kwegyir Aggrey, 1875-1927, was a distinguished scholar and educator from the Gold Coast, West Africa. The collection contains materials gathered by the Missionary Research Library documenting the life and work of Dr. Aggrey, including letters, newspaper clippings, a biographical sketch, and a bibliography.
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Rare Book & Manuscript Library

Amiri Baraka papers, 1945-2015, bulk 1970s-2000s

219.5 linear feet
The Amiri Baraka Papers contains correspondence, writings, and the personal, political activism and teaching materials related to Amiri Baraka's career as a poet, writer, editor, activist, and teacher in the New York City Beat, Downtown, and Black Arts literary scenes from the 1960s through the 2000s. Included are manuscripts from Baraka's numerous books of poetry, non-fiction, fiction, plays, editorial work, and screenplays. The collection also features organizational and documentary materials relating to Baraka's university teaching and Newark, NJ-based Black radical activism, as well as audio/visual material, photographs, and printed material collected and created by Baraka.
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Burke Library at Union Theological Seminary

Letha Dawson Scanzoni papers, 1963 -- 2019

7.25 linear feet
Letha Dawson Scanzoni is an evangelical feminist activist and writer specializing in topics of gender, marriage, sex education, theology, women's subordination, and lesbian and gay rights. She was a founding member of the Evangelical and Ecumenical Women's Caucus (EWC/EEWC) and editor of EEWC Update and the EEWC-CFT website from their inception to her retirement in 2013. The collection contains her research materials, publications, correspondence, and EWC/EEWC administrative and conference materials.
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72-27 Blog, 2008 -- 2011

72-27 was a blog Letha Dawson Scanzoni wrote at age 72 with Kimberly B. George aged 27. It features

72-27 was a blog Letha Dawson Scanzoni wrote at age 72 with Kimberly B. George aged 27. It features cross-generational dialogue on topics in Christian feminism. The blog was active between 2008 and 2011 on www.eewc.com. Please see: https://wayback.archive-it.org/19393/20230621021820/https://eewc.com/72-27-index-posts/

  1. Series 3: EEWC Update and Website Administration, 1984 -- 2019
Rare Book & Manuscript Library

Peter G. Davis Papers, 1912-2021, bulk 1948-2021

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This collection contains the papers of Peter G. Davis (1936-2021), who worked as a classical music critic at various national and specialist publications from 1962-2018. It includes the vast majority of Davis's writings on music (published or draft), along with print material relating to these writings, Davis's compositions (1957-1964), material relating to Davis's early education (1948-1959), and correspondence and interviews with a number of major classical musicians.
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The cabaret Miss Informed , text by Margot Dennes and Al Jacobs, produced by Rockwell Films Inc, Cambridge MA, 1957 Box 20, Item 195

(Overture, "Teen-age Square Dance," "Study-Time Madrigal," "Intellectual Song," "Dear John," "Miss Informed

Two sides. The recording series title is given as "Drumbeats and Songs 1957." Side 1: 8 bands (Overture, "Teen-age Square Dance," "Study-Time Madrigal," "Intellectual Song," "Dear John," "Miss Informed," "Society Song," "You're in Love." Side 2, 7 bands: "Professorial Polka," "Section Man's Lament," "Priscilla-Fred Duet," "Flat on a Brattle Street," "I've Got A Lot to Learn," "Why Do You Keep Us On a String?," "Women Were Made for Men," "How Do You Do?," "Finale."

  1. Series V: Compositions, circa 1950s-1964, bulk 1959-1962
Rare Book & Manuscript Library

Peter Gilsey Collection of Theatrical Admission Tokens & Medalets, 1671-1888

1 linear feet
A collection of theatrical admission tokens and medalets for London theaters, 1671-1888, plus one from Ireland and one from the United States.
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Joseph Sheppard Munden commemorative medal, 1799 Box 1, Item 91

Dispellor of Spleen, Aged 40, 1799." Marginal inscription, "All that philosophy can teach the mind, to Steer

Face with bust profile in relief, inscribed, "Joseph Sheppard Munden" and signed by "G. Hancock, Sculp." Verso, in a wreath with histrionic emblems, inscribed "English Comedian Exposer of Folly and Dispellor of Spleen, Aged 40, 1799." Marginal inscription, "All that philosophy can teach the mind, to Steer the sinking heart and create a moral life." Bronze. 2 inches.

  1. Peter Gilsey Collection of Theatrical Admission Tokens & Medalets, 1671-1888