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C.V. Starr East Asian Library

Center for US-China Arts Exchange records, 1956-2019, bulk 1977-2003

102 Linear Feet
This collection of records document the institutional history of the Center for US-China Arts Exchange, established in 1978. Under the directorship of professor and renowned composer Chou Wen-chung, the Center is a not-for-profit organization that connected arts professionals from the US and China through a spectrum of curated programs, conferences, and research trips. Bulk dated between 1977 and 2003, materials in this collection consist of correspondence, reports, photographs, printed materials, as well as audiovisual items. The collection serves as important material evidence that help to tell the recent history of cultural communications among individuals and organizations across the Pacific.
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C.V. Starr East Asian Library

Theodore Richards Conant Collection, 1949-2010, bulk 1953-2000

76 Linear Feet
The Theodore Richards Conant Collection documents the life and film making career of Theodore Richards Conant, dating from 1949 to 2010, with the bulk of the materials dating from 1953 to 2000. The focus of the materials is on the Korean War, Korean culture and society. Materials in the collection consist of his personal papers and a substantial amount of audiovisual materials related to the documentary films created and/or collected by him during his career. The personal papers consist of clippings, ephemera, correspondence, scenarios, notes, catalogs, journals and other unique items. The photographs in the collection document Korea's political and cultural aspect, as well as Conant's work in Korea as a film producer while working in the UN Korean Reconstruction Agency (UNKRA). The audiovisual materials are the documentaries directed and filmed by Conant, related to the Korean War, Korean society and culture.
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Rare Book & Manuscript Library

Frederic Dannay papers, 1920-1982

85 linear feet

Correspondence, outlines and drafts, manuscripts, letters of agreement, contracts, photographs, artwork, and memorabilia. The collection is divided into two parts: the Frederic Dannay papers and the files of ELLERY QUEEN'S MYSTERY MAGAZINE (EQMM). The Dannay papers consist of extensive correspondence with most of the notable mystery writers of this century, as well as well-known authors who sometimes wrote in that genre: Isaac Asimov; Lawrence Block; Ray Bradbury; Pearl S Buck; Edgar Rice Burroughs; James M. Cain; Raymond Chandler; Agatha Christie, etc. Most of the novels and short stories written by Dannay and Lee are represented in manuscript form: "The Roman Hat Mystery;" "Ten Day's Wonder;" "Cat of Many Tails;" "The Scarlet Letters;" "The Glass Village;" "The Player on the Other Side;" "And on the Eighth Day" etc. In addition, there are the manuscripts of books edited by Ellery Queen; manuscripts by Ellery Queen Jr.; scripts by Ellery Queen; poetry by Dannay; contracts between Dannay and Lee, as well as between them both as Ellery Queen and numerous parties. There are also manuscripts by such notables as Jorge Luis Borges; Erskine Caldwell; Raymond Chandler; Agatha Christie; Stanley Ellin; William Faulkner; Dashiell Hammett; O Henry; Nigel Morland; Georges Simenon; Muriel Spark; Julian Symons; Roy Vickers; and Cornell Woolrich.

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Barnard Archives & Special Collections

Karen Durbin Papers, 1929-2016, bulk 1970-2000

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Karen Durbin is a journalist and film critic based in New York. Durbin is best known for her work with the Village Voice, where she has served as staff writer, senior editor, arts editor, and editor-in-chief. Her writing spans decades and reflects her position as a radical feminist in the second and third waves of the movement. This collection documents Durbin's professional and personal life through correspondence, journals and calendars, photographs, writing, and administrative work materials representing the years 1929 to 2016.
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The Editors - The Culture Wars , parts 1 & 2, Undated Box 46, Vhs sc24_videotape_002

The Editors - The Culture Wars , parts 1 & 2, Undated

Featuring: Karen Durbin, Hal Foster, Hilton Kramer, Rex Murphy and Mordecai Richler / Moderated by: David Johnston / A World Affairs Television Production

  1. Audiovisual and born digital material, 1989-2014
  2. VHS
Rare Book & Manuscript Library

Sylvia Ardyn Boone Papers, 1925-2011, bulk 1961-1993

40 linear feet
This collection contains the personal and professional papers of Sylvia Ardyn Boone, a scholar of Art History with a focus on African art, and the first African-American woman to receive tenure at Yale University. The collection includes manuscripts, correspondence, course materials and syllabi, research notes, printed materials, photographs, video and sound recordings, and other papers relating to professional projects. Also included are dissertation manuscripts for recipients of the Sylvia Ardyn Boone Memorial Prize at Yale.
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Bob Fass Recordings and Papers, 1935-2011, bulk 1963-1991

200 linear feet

The Bob Fass Recordings and Papers contains materials created by Bob Fass, host of the late-night program Radio Unnameable on New York City's WBAI radio station. The collection primarily consists of audio recordings of Radio Unnameable and other radio programs hosted by Bob Fass between 1963 and 2011. A small number of video recordings, photographs, correspondence, printed ephemera, and motion picture films are also included in the collection.

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Jacques Barzun papers, 1900-1999

225 linear feet
The correspondence, research, and teaching files of French-American cultural historian and Columbia University professor emeritus Jacques Barzun (1907-2012).
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C.V. Starr East Asian Library

Patricia Koo Tsien and Kia Chi Tsien papers, 1910s-2018, bulk 1932-1999

16.5 Linear Feet
The Patricia Koo Tsien and Kia Chi Tsien papers document the decades of internationally rooted lives of the Tsien couple, as well as family history materials on the Koo and Tsien families. The bulk of the papers consist of files associated with the professional and personal trajectories of Patricia Koo Tsien and Kia Chi Tsien, arranged in respective series. Also included are materials pertaining to the research of Koo and Tsien's family histories, in particular manuscripts, transcripts, and annotated copies of the Wellington Koo Memoir, and materials on Oei Huilan, Madame Wellington Koo.
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Ulysses Kay papers, 1894-2017, bulk 1938-1995

55.25 linear feet
Ulysses Kay (1917-1995) was a noted twentieth-century American composer. The collection includes audio reels, biographical materials, correspondence, diaries, phonograph records, photographs, programs, and scores.
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Rare Book & Manuscript Library

Association of American University Presses records, 1927-1975, 2013-2018

5.5 linear feet

Included are correspondence, minutes of Board of Directors and committees, proceedings of annual business meetings, surveys, statistical reports, financial records, photographs, and printed materials. The correspondence files dating from 1927, contain letters from university press directors regarding meetings arrangements, cooperative programs, and other matters of mutual concern. There are no correspondence files for the years 1936 to 1943.

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