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Donald C. Brace Papers, 1839-1991, bulk 1901-1955

3 linear feet
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This collection contains the papers of Donald C. Brace, one of the founders of the New York publishing house Harcourt, Brace & Company. Materials include correspondence, business records, and proofs of the U.S. editions of Virginia Woolf's works Orlando, The Waves, and The Second Common Reader; the latter two proofs include the author's corrections.
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Don Congdon records, 1973-2018

59 linear feet
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Correspondence, manuscripts, memoranda, contracts, and miscellaneous material from the files of Don Congdon Associates, Inc., literary agency, dealing with the editing and publishing of American and English books, serial rights, reprints, dramatic rights, translations, foreign rights, promotion, and copyright restrictions. Select files pre-date the firm's establishment because some clients of Harold Matson Company, Inc. became clients of Don Congdon Associates, Inc. The cataloged correspondence include: Ray Bradbury, Lillian Hellman, William Manchester, William Shirer, William Styron, and Francois Truffaut.

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Double Discovery Center records, 1965-2005, bulk 1985-1995

61.5 linear feet
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Established in 1965 by Columbia University, the Double Discovery Center (DDC) provides educational programs and services to low income and first generation college-bound junior high and high school students in New York City. The DDC is one of the oldest Upward Bound programs in the United States. The collection contains the records of the DDC from 1965 to 2005, including student files and materials documenting the DDC's primary programs, Upward Bound and Talent Search.
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Dwight D. Eisenhower: Letters to the President, 1949-1952

2 linear feet
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This collection is comprised of letters sent to Eisenhower during his presidency at Columbia University.
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Earl I. Sponable papers, 1928-1968

125 boxes
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Earl I. Sponable was a chemist, Chief Engineer and Director of Research for Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation and its subsidiaries, 1926-1962. He was active in many aspects of research and development in broadcast and movie media, particularly in early sound film.
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Edmund Stevens papers, 1939-1992

16 linear feet
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Edmund Stevens (1910-1992) was an American journalist who worked as a foreign correspondent in the Soviet Union from the 1930s until the early 1990s. He won the Pulitzer Prize for international reporting in 1950. The papers include articles, book materials, correspondence, travel notes, reporter notebooks, and photographs.
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Edwin W. Patterson papers, 1935-1939

3.5 linear feet
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The Edwin W. Patterson Papers collects the papers of Patterson related specifically to the revision of the New York Insurance Law 1939 while he worked as Deputy Superintendent of the Insurance Department of New York State. Patterson was an expert in insurance law and authored both "The Insurance Commissioner in the United States" 1927) and "Essentials of Insurance Law" (1935). The collection contains the work of the New York Insurance Department, in particular the Committee of Insurance Law Reform. The documents are in the form of minutes, correspondence, memoranda, and drafts of bills proposals with annotations and marginalia. The collection also holds the transcript of hearings held by the New York State Legislature on Insurance reform in the 1930s.

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Egbert Harold van Delden letters on the Marconi memorial medal, 1938-1939

1 box
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Letters to van Delden about the formation of the Committee on Award of the Marconi Memorial Medal. The medal was to have been awarded annually for contributions to radio, and David Sarnoff had been chosen as the first recipient.

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E. James Lieberman papers, 1949-1996

3 linear feet
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Correspondence, manuscripts, seminar papers, tape cassettes, and printed materials. The collection includes the first and final drafts of Lieberman's Acts of Will; The Life and Work of Otto Rank (New York: The Free Press, 1985), as well as his research files for the book. There is also a heavily annotated ms. translation by J. J. Taft of Rank's Daybooks (Diaries). Other correspondence, conference papers, lecture notes, and inscribed books have been added.

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Elizabeth Blake Papers, 1940-2010, bulk 1940-1976

1.50 linear feet
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A collection of personal papers of Elizabeth (Betty) Blake, who was very active in both the Columbia and broader Manhattan communities, consisting primarily of correspondence, meeting agendas, minutes, and Columbia University memorabilia.
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