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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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W.W. Norton & Company records, 1923-1967

209.5 linear feet (457 boxes)
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Records of publisher W.W. Norton & Co, as well as the records of Boni and Liveright, Inc. and Horace Liveright, Inc.

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W.R. Grace & Co. records, 1828-1986, bulk 1861-1960

90 linear feet (167 boxes)
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The records of W.R. Grace & Co. cover the rise of the Grace shipping business from 1864 until World War II. The early correspondence concerns all aspects of the shipping business in New York and South America, mining interests in Peru and Chile, the railroad in Costa Rica, the inter-ocean canal planned for Nicaragua, and political interests throughout Central and South America. There are letter books, correspondence, and scrapbooks of clippings for all aspects of W.R. Grace's career. There are minute books and other documents for more than 50 subsidiary companies owned by W.R. Grace & Co. or by family members. The papers of Joseph Peter Grace (1872-1950) continue the business, family, and philanthropic activities until 1942. There are also 20 reels of motion picture film about the Grace Co. South American interests in the 1950s.

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World War I records : Ephemera, 1914-1918

0.5 linear feet (1 flat box)
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A collection of selected German, Dutch and English periodicals, newspapers and pamphlets published during and relating to World War I. Also included are approximately 150 picture postcards depicting the life of German soldiers during the War and the life of prisoners of war captured by the Germans. The majority of these cards were issued by the International Red Cross. Handwritten captions for the postcards and for other materials were written by Jeannette Unger, the donor. Also includes a selection of American, Canadian and English popular songs of the period with war or patriotic themes

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World War I records : Ephemera, 1914-1918 0.5 linear feet (1 flat box)

World War I posters, 1914-1918

10 oversize folders (10 oversize folders 30 rolls)
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A collection consisting primarily of World War I posters issued in the United States and Russia.

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World War I posters, 1914-1918 10 oversize folders (10 oversize folders 30 rolls)

World War II underground publications, 1939-1945

1 linear feet (3 boxes)
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A collection of underground publications, in many cases illegal, representative of presses operating in German-occupied Europe during World War II. Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Italian, French, and Portugese items are included. There are 8 pieces of sheet music, publications of the United States based organization, France Forever, and an unusual German-English dictionary, without a title-page, that was printed by a German POW

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World War II underground publications, 1939-1945 1 linear feet (3 boxes)

World War II Russian posters, 1939-1945

6 portfolios (6 portfolios 2 trunks)
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A series of numbered Russian war posters issued by the Soviet news service, TASS. An English translation of the poster's titles, texts, authors, and artists are listed by the Tass number in a separate loose leaf binder

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World War II Russian posters, 1939-1945 6 portfolios (6 portfolios 2 trunks)

World War II posters, 1939-1949

42 rolls (42 rolls (Approximately 700 items))
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A collection consisting primarily of World War II posters issued in the United States, Great Britain, Russia and in Germany during the Allied occupation. In addition, there are United Nations posters and a few issued in Canada, France, Holland and Poland

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World War II posters, 1939-1949 42 rolls (42 rolls (Approximately 700 items))

World War II periodicals, 1939-1946

3 linear feet (8 boxes)
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Primarily a collection of overseas editions (small formats, light-weight paper, no advertisements) of popular magazines for the Armed Forces distrubuted by the Special Services Division, U.S. Army, and by the Bureau of Navy personnel. Among the titles represented are: Esquire; New Yorker; Newsweek; Time; Pic; Readers Digest; Down Beat; and an array of comic books. In addition, there are guides to foreign countries, War Department education manuals in the G. I. Roundtable Series, books on the organization and administration of an army library, training manuals for army hospital librarians, and a copy of the R.B. [Reference and Recreational Book] LIBRARY CATALOG: AN INDEX TO THE BOOKS INCLUDED IN THE 1945 RECREATIONAL LIBRARIES FOR AMERICAN SOLDIERS OVERSEAS (New York: H. W. Wilson, 1944). Also included are two small containers of U.S. Office of Price Administration ration tokens, one red the other blue

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World War II periodicals, 1939-1946 3 linear feet (8 boxes)

World War II magazine covers: American Flag, 1942 & 1944

0.5 linear feet (1 box (113 items))
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A collection of magazine covers displaying the American Flag and often the motto "United We Stand.". Most of the covers are dated 1942; some are undated, and at least one is dated 1944. Included in the collection are two items from the Victory Display Committee for June, 1942.

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World War II magazine covers: American Flag, 1942 & 1944 0.5 linear feet (1 box (113 items))

World War II Magazine Covers, 1942-1944

0.5 linear feet (1 box (185 items))
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A collection of magazine covers from World War Two, relating primarily to women (series I) and the American Flag (series II).

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World War II Magazine Covers, 1942-1944 0.5 linear feet (1 box (185 items))

Series I: Women, 1943 72 items

Series II: American Flags, 1942-1944 113 items

World War II literature and music records, 1935-1947

2 linear feet (5 boxes)
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A collection of literature and music produced for the use of U.S. Armed Forces during World War II. Included are paperbound reprints of popular fiction, popular classics, poetry, and other books of general interest, specially manufactured for distribution to American soldiers and sailors overseas and to soldiers in the army hospitals in the United States. The music includes song books, army field manuals for bands, camp show books and a set of ARMY HIT KIT OF POPULAR SONGS, June 1943-April 1944. Also includes a selection of sheet music of popular songs with a war or patriotic theme. 1985 addition: a few samples of war poetry, humor, battle accounts and memorabilia

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World War II literature and music records, 1935-1947 2 linear feet (5 boxes)

World Trade Center collection, 9999

32 linear feet (34 record storage cartons)
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Papers from individual students, staff, or faculty members are welcome. Secondly, the Libraries will also accept collections of materials in any language or format from any part of the world that document the crisis and the continuing its continuing effects. Photographs, e-mails, letters, pamphlets, flyers, audio-tapes and other items are all welcome. These will eventually form a World Trade Center Archive, available for research or study.

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World Trade Center collection, 9999 32 linear feet (34 record storage cartons)

World Telegram and Sun Essay Contest papers, 1965

2.5 Linear Feet (6 boxes)
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A collection of 1,200 essays on "New York's Future as I View It" written by high school students from the New York metropolitan area.

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World Telegram and Sun Essay Contest papers, 1965 2.5 Linear Feet (6 boxes)

World Community of Social Workers records, 9999

1.25 linear feet (1 record carton)
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Correspondence, reports, memoranda, photographs and printed material.

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World Community of Social Workers records, 9999 1.25 linear feet (1 record carton)

Woodrow Wilson papers, 1908-1936

2 boxes (2 manuscript boxes, 4 volumes, 2 oversized folders)
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A collection of about 250 uncatalogued items consisting of correspondence with various Governors of the State of New Jersey, 1908-1936. Governors represented in the collection are Woodrow Wilson, John Franklin Fort, and Morgan F. Larson. The subject of the correspondence is extremely varied and is typical of the material crossing the desk of the average governor. Typical items are a letter from a local Woman's Christian Temperance Union chapter complaining about conditions at a local militia camp; a diplomat outraged at the treatment afforded a countryman at a local amusement park; a memorial erected to a Mexican aviator killed in the state; official transmittal of the Supreme Court decision in the Delaware River Basin Case involving New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania; campaign contributions; and intra-party correspondence during the Wilson Gubernatorial administration. There is also a collection of three scrapbooks consisting of correspondence from contributors to the Wilson campaign chest, arranged by state and town of the correspondent. The collection offers insight into the grass roots appeal that Woodrow Wilson had for the poor and lower middle class American of the early 20th century. Also, a binder of newspaper clippings concerning Woodrow Wilson and his career, 1910-1912, that was compiled and presented to Wilson by Joseph Hayter of New Brunswick, N.J. on June 3, 1912.

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Woodrow Wilson papers, 1908-1936 2 boxes (2 manuscript boxes, 4 volumes, 2 oversized folders)

Women's National Book Association records, 1917-2020

72 linear feet (150 boxes)
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The Women's National Book Association Papers document the history and work of the Women's National Book Association from their founding in 1917 until today. The organization is active in promoting women in the book industry through awards and programs to increase women's participation in the profession and the role of women in publishing and other book-related fields.
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Women's Environment and Development Organization records, 1980-2006, bulk 1994-1998

17.75 linear feet (39 document boxes; 1 record carton; 1 oversized folder)
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The records of the Women's Environment and Development Organization (WEDO) document its political advocacy for women's equality in formulating global policy, and highlights founders New York State Representative, Bella Abzug (1920-1988) and feminist activist, Miriam "Mim" Kelber (1922-2004).
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Women in Scholarly Publishing records, 1979-1997

5 linear feet (10 boxes)
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Correspondence, minutes, reports, documents, financial records, surveys, publicity files, and printed materials. The correspondence consists of general files, information, and correspondence about surveys on career patterns of women in publishing. The documents include incorporation papers and related information, membership lists, data on local chapters, reports of the board, minutes of annual meetings, and the elections of officers. The printed materials are chiefly issues of the NEWSLETTER

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Woman Suffrage Association of New York State and Woman Suffrage Party of New York City records, 1869-1919

3 linear feet (5 boxes, 14 volumes in 6 boxes)
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The records comprise the archives of the Woman Suffrage Association of New York State, 1869-1917, and the Woman Suffrage Party of New york City, 1910-1919. Included are minute volumes of the two organizations as well as other related materials such as constitutions, membership lists, pamphlets, clippings, photographs and other printed materials. There are a few letters, but the collection is chiefly documents of the organizations.

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Woman Suffrage Association of New York State and Woman Suffrage Party of New York City records, 1869-1919 3 linear feet (5 boxes, 14 volumes in 6 boxes)

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

22 boxes (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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Woman's Press Club of New York City records, 1889-1980 22 boxes (22 boxes)