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Rare Book & Manuscript Library

Rare Book & Manuscript Library

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New York, NY 10027, USA
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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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Brander Matthews Dramatic Museum Ephemera, 1750-1970 7 units (7 series)

Brander Matthews Dramatic Museum

A collection of prints, photographs, pamphlets, clippings, playbills, and programs dealing with the theater, chiefly American and English, in all its aspects including drama, opera, dance, movies, puppets, and spectacles. The majority of the material documents the 19th century.

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Josefina Báez papers, 1970s-2020 17 Linear Feet (17 boxes. Boxes 1-9 are record storage cartons. Boxes 10 and 11 are small AV boxes. Boxes 12-15 are oversize boxes. Box 16 is a tube box. Box 17 is a manuscript box.)

Báez, Josefina

The papers document the audio and video productions of performance theatre pieces, and other ephemera of performances and readings, photographs (contact sheets and negatives), publicity images; portraits; personal snapshots taken on tour, with members of Latinarte/Ay Ombe and other musicians; artwork, and teachings. In addition, the archive contains journals, business records, draft manuscripts and typescripts of her poetry, novels, and important newspaper clippings reviewing her work.

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Leonide Massine Papers, 1914-1963 0.5 linear feet (1 manuscript box)

Massine, Leonide, 1896-1979
The bulk of collection consists mostly of letters to a well known Russian ballet dancer and choreographer Leonide Massine (Leonid Fedorovich Miasin) from prominent Russian émigré dancers, composers, writers and artists, such as Alexandre Benois, Naum Gabo, Vernon Duke, Wassily Kandinsky, Serge Lifar, Nikolai Minskii, Evgenii Zamiatin and others. Also includes Massine's lecture, notes for various ballet productions, documents and financial matters. Related to several BAR collections: Dobuzhinsky Papers, Zamiatin Papers, and Shervashidze Papers.
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Louis Johnson papers, 1930-2020, bulk 1950-2020 29 Linear Feet (47 boxes (26 document boxes (Boxes 1-17, 20, 22-24, 28-32), 14 record boxes (Boxes 25-27, 35-45), 5 flat boxes (Boxes 18-19, 21, 33-34), 2 poster tubes (Boxes 46-47), and 3 items in mapcase)

Johnson, Louis, 1930-2020
Louis Johnson (1930 - 2020) was an African American dancer, choreographer, director, and teacher. This collection includes address books, administrative records, autobiographical writing, correspondence, costume designs, notes, notebooks, photographs, posters, programs, publicity, and audio and visual recordings.
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Nancy Schaffenburg papers, 1987-1990 0.21 Linear Feet (Document box (half size))

Schaffenberg, Nancy

The letters and other documentary material in this collection were assembled by her son Carlos (Karl) Schaffenburg and focus on her tenure as Director of the Dance Theatre of Harlem School from 1987 to 1990

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