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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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David A. Paterson papers, 2005-2011

38.75 linear feet (31 record cartons and 1 flat box and digital files)
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The papers consist primarily of records created or maintained during David A. Paterson's tenure as Lieutenant Governor and Governor of New York. The papers include approval and veto messages, budget materials, certificates, correspondence, litigation records, messages of necessity, photographs, press releases, proclamations, program bills, resolutions, schedules, speeches, video recordings, and visitors' logs.
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Herbert Wechsler Papers, 1919-2000, bulk 1932-1995

300 linear feet (119 boxes (117 ms. boxes, 2 flat boxes) processed; 223 Record Cartons unprocessed)
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This collection contains the papers of lawyer and legal scholar Herbert Wechsler. The various documentation includes Wechsler's work with the United States Department of Justice (including documents from the Nuremberg and International Military Tribunals), The American Law Institute (including the work of the Model Penal Code), Columbia University, and several other organizations to which Wechsler contributed or with which he was affiliated. The collection also contains papers related to Wechsler's legal work, including documents pertaining to his work on New York Times Co. v. Sullivan. Wechsler's scholarly work is also collected here including drafts of articles, books, speeches, and special lectures such as his Oliver Wendell Holmes Lecture, "Toward Neutral Principles of Constitutional Law". The Herbert Wechsler papers also cover various points of interaction Wechsler had with other figures in his field including Francis Biddle, Telford Taylor, and Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter. The genre of documentation is primarily correspondence, reports, and writings with annotations. The collection also contains some ephemera and photographic materials and one audiocassette.
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Press kits collection, 1988-2002

5 linear feet (4 record cartons)
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Information in press kits includes press releases, credit and cast lists, production information, cast biographies, plot summaries, position papers, photographs, both of the film and of behind-the-scenes, Cds, slides.

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Serge A. Zenkovsky papers, 1967-1989

6 linear feet (12 document boxes)
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The Sergei A. Zenkovskii Papers reflect professional activities of a prominent Russian scholar in exile. They consist of correspondence, writings, personal documents, bibliographic cards, and other research material related to the scholarship on Russia in the United States.

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Joe Shuster papers, 1965-1979

.25 linear feet (1 half-size document box)
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Contains correspondence with Theodore Nathan, as well as some artwork, greeting cards, and a legal agreement.

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Granary Books records, 1985-2016

142.50 linear feet (106 boxes and 7 scroll boxes) 1 Terabytes (1 tb digital)
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Business and editorial records of Granary Books. The collection includes the production files for these limited edition and trade titles, as well as Steve Clay's extensive correspondence with writers and printers, and other artist book press proprietors. Electronic records include almost two decades of email, editorial and production files, and the "Archaic Smile Lecture Series".

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Amnesty International of the USA Inc. Terry McCaffrey Papers, 1970-2007, bulk 1993-2007

12.75 linear feet (11 record cartons, 3 manuscript boxes, and 1 half-manuscript box)
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This collection documents the work of AIUSA human rights activist Terry McCaffrey, especially efforts to abolish the death penalty in the United States and in other countries. It also includes information on torture, prisoners of conscience, AIUSA Faith in Action events, regional and national conferences, and many other subjects.
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Amnesty International of the USA Inc. Judy Patterson Papers, 1977-1997, bulk 1989-1994

7 linear feet (7 record cartons)
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This collection documents the work of AIUSA human rights activist Judy Patterson and includes information on the AIUSA Board of Directors, budget, administration, and many other topics.
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Amnesty International of the USA Inc. Rena Margulis Papers, 1973-2000, bulk 1987-2000

7 linear feet (7 record cartons)
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This collection documents AIUSA human rights activist Rena Margulis's work on the creation of the AIUSA Casework Manual and on many other issues.
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Amnesty International of the USA Inc. Stephen King Papers, 1979-1995, bulk 1984-1992

4 linear feet (4 record cartons)
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This collection documents the work of AIUSA human rights activist Stephen King, especially on his involvement with LGBTQ rights and the rights of individuals with HIV/AIDS. It also concerns internal decision making and planning at AIUSA.
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Amnesty International of the USA Inc. Ginetta Sagan Papers, 1944-2001, bulk 1989-1994

3.5 linear feet (3 record cartons, 1 manuscript box)
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The papers include correspondence, articles, reports, meeting minutes, urgent action appeals, and publications.

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Amnesty International of the USA Inc. Francita Schermann Papers, 1984-2006, bulk 1991-2000

3.75 linear feet (3 record cartons and 1 small box)
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This collection documents Francita Shermann's work with AIUSA, primarily on issues relating to the death penalty and police brutality in the United States and South America.
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Amnesty International of the USA Inc. Charlotte Goldberg Papers, 1972-1978

.21 linear feet (1 half-size document box)
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This collection documents the work of AIUSA human rights activist Charlotte Goldberg and concerns human rights violations and prisoners of conscience in Chile, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, and Vietnam.
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Amnesty International of the USA Inc. Janet Schmidt Papers, 1984-2001

1 linear feet (1 record carton)
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This collection documents Janet Schmidt's work with AIUSA on human rights education, Rights of the Child Day, the Visions for Growth 10-Year Plan for AIUSA, and other subjects.
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Amnesty International of the USA Inc. Arthur M. Michaelson Papers, 1978-1979

.42 linear feet (1 document box)
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This collection contains a small amount of minutes and correspondence from AIUSA Board of Directors Meetings and Executive Committee Meetings kept by Arthur M. Michaelson from 1978-1979.
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Series I: Board of Directors and Executive Meetings, 1978-1979

Amnesty International of the USA Inc. Arthur M. Michaelson Papers, 1978-1979 .42 linear feet (1 document box)

Amnesty International of the USA Inc. Boria Sax Papers, 1977-1991, bulk 1981-1989

1.42 linear feet (1 record carton, 1 document box)
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This collection documents Boria Sax's work with AIUSA, primarily relating to prisoners of conscience in East Germany (GDR) and Eastern European countries.
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Mario Lombardo Scores, 1972-2008

2.5 linear feet (3 document boxes)
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A collection of seventy nine scores.

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Amnesty International of the USA Inc. Annual General Meeting (AGM) Records, 1997-2013

3 linear feet (2 record cartons, 1 document box, 1 flat box)
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This collection contains materials from and about the AIUSA Annual General Meeting, the annual national conference of AIUSA.
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Sarah Addington papers, 1921-1939

1 linear feet (1 tall record carton)
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Correspondence, manuscripts and printed stories by Addington.

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Theatre World, Dance World, and Cinema World Annuals Collection, 1945-2014

267 linear feet (216 boxes)
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Contains programs, playbills, correspondence, reviews, head shots, copies of the publications, and applications filled out by want-to-be actors who then were listed in the Annual volumes.

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Susan Orlean Papers, 1930s-2015, 2019

30.75 linear feet (21 record cartons, 10.5 document boxes, 3 card files, 2 cassette boxes, and 3 flat boxes)
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This collection documents Orlean's career as a writer and a journalist, and also includes some personal materials and school papers. The collection includes address books, appointment books, audio recordings, clippings, computer files, contracts, correspondence, drafts, interviews, notes, notebooks, photographs, proofs, publications, research materials, school records, and video recordings.
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John Leonard papers, 1939-2015, bulk 1950s-2008

26.5 linear feet (21 record cartons, 2 document boxes, 3 flat boxes)
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John Leonard (1939 -2008) was an American literary and cultural critic best known for his extensive writing on literature, television, media, politics and American culture and his work as head editor of The New York Times Book Review in the 1970s. The John Leonard papers include drafts of Leonard's reviews, essays, essay collections, and works of fiction and nonfiction. The collection also includes his correspondence with prominent literary and cultural figures, his research and business files, personal memorabilia, photographs, signed artwork, printed matter, posthumous tributes to Leonard, and audio-visual material.
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Eric R. Kandel papers, 1940s-2015

18.2 linear feet (12 record cartons, 7 document boxes, 1 half-document box, and 1 flat box, 1 medal box)
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Eric R. Kandel is a neuroscientist and the recipient of the 2000 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for "discoveries concerning signal transduction in the nervous system." The papers include awards files, clippings, correspondence, grant files, lectures, photographs, publications, reprints, syllabi, videotapes, and dissertations written by Kandel's students.
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Peter Schickele Papers, 1874-2013, bulk 1955-2013

56.5 linear feet (16 document boxes; 30 record cartons; 15 flat boxes; 12 tube boxes)
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Peter Schickele (1935-2024) was an American composer, music educator, and satirist. He was best known for his comedy pieces composed by the fictional character P.D.Q. Bach. The collection contains manuscript and engraved scores and parts, sketches, revised and annotated copies of Schickele's work. In addition, the collection contains scripts of dramatic pieces or spoken introductions, correspondence, and memorabilia.
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Arthur Mitchell Collection, 1800s-2021, bulk 1934-2019

107 linear feet (148 boxes (58 record cartons, 68 document boxes, 9 flat boxes, 3 audio boxes, 5 card files, 2 Tube Boxes) and 8 oversized items in drawers)
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Arthur Mitchell (1934-2018) was an American ballet dancer, choreographer, and founder and director of the Dance Theatre of Harlem. This collection contains materials related to his career as a dancer with the New York City Ballet, and his later professional work with the Dance Theatre of Harlem and others. The collection includes administrative records, appointment books, correspondence, invitations, notes, notebooks, photographs, posters, programs, and audio and video recordings.
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Alice M. Ditson Fund Records, 1940-2009

42.2 linear feet (35 document boxes and 22 record cartons)
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The Alice M. Ditson Fund was established at Columbia University in 1940 and is still active in its primary function of providing financial support to composers, performances, and recordings of contemporary American music. The fund also gives out the annual Ditson Conductor's Award, established in 1945, which honors conductors who have a distinguished record of championing American music. The collection includes files regarding the selection of this prize across several decades, as well as financial records, meeting minutes, applicant files, and subject files for the general Fund since its creation.

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Leo H. Downes Papers, 1789-2014, bulk 1950s-2014

20 linear feet (34 cassette boxes; 13 document boxes)
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The collection comprises 753 cassette tapes; 2 videotapes, and 13 boxes of papers.

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Soviet Independent Press Collection, 1988-1992

63 linear feet (147 boxes)
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More than 2000 titles of periodicals and newspapers (many of them complete runs), as well as thousands of leaflets, broadsides and posters. Titles includes: Antisovetskaia Pravda, Armianskii Vestnik, Atmoda, Azadlyg, Baltiiskoe Vremia, Belarusskaia Tribuna, Chernoe Znamia, Demokraticheskaia Gazeta, Demokraticheskaia Rossiia, Edalet, Ekspress-khronika, Evrei i Perestroika, Evreiskaia Gazeta, Golos Kurda, Romania Libera, Carpatische Rundschau, to name just a few.

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Frederick Lerner collection of Science Fiction Magazines, 1947-2008

12 linear feet (10 boxes)
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A collection of science fiction publications: Locus; Fantasy Book; Weird Tales; Science Fiction Chronicle; Realms of Fantasy; Science Fiction Age; Stardate; Starlog; Twilight Zone Magazine, etc.

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Amnesty International of the USA Inc. Stacy Kardasis Papers, 1985-1992

1.25 linear feet (1 record cartons)
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This collection documents Stacy Kardasis's work with AIUSA's Middle East and North Africa Co-Group on human rights issues in the Middle East, especially Lebanon. It also contains Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 1986-1987.
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Series I: General, 1985-1992

Robert Grenier papers, 2003-2004

.5 linear feet (1 document box)
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Collection contains ten notebooks of color drawing poems dating from late 2003 and early 2004.

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Juan J. Linz papers, 1936-2010, bulk 1950-1989

12 linear feet (11 boxes)
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The Juan J. Linz papers contain correspondence, personal documents, awards, photographs, notes, writings, speeches, lectures and courses notes, research files, press coverage and interviews, and printed material, dating from 1920s to 2010. The materials also include one box of materials on Columbia Student Unrest in 1968. The collection provide an insight on Juan J. Linz's family and childhood as well as his education and his work as a political scientist and a professor.

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Center for Economic and Social Rights Records, 1989-2003, bulk 1991-2003

8.25 linear feet (8 record cartons)
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The Center for Economic and Social Rights was established in 1993 by Roger Normand, Sarah Zaidi, and Chris Jochnick. In 1991, Normand, Zaidi and Jochnick were members of a Harvard interdisciplinary research team that traveled to Iraq to document and respond to the country's humanitarian crisis caused by the Gulf War and sanctions placed upon the country. The team focused on issues related to malnutrition, sanitation, childhood mortality and morbidity, and health. Since its 1993 founding, CESR has continued to focus on economic and social human rights violations, representing a shift in the way human rights work is conceived as a field. The records of CESR reflect an important evolution in the human rights movement; a shift in focus that began to recognize economic, social and health rights in addition to the political and civil rights that were championed by earlier human rights organizations. Throughout the 1990s and early 2000s CESR continued to work in Iraq, actively dissenting to the 2003 American invasion and occupation. During this time they also began work in Ecuador, Palestine, Haiti, Afghanistan, and along the Texas-Mexico border. In 2004 the original founders stepped down, and the organization's headquarters were moved to Spain. They have since returned to New York. This collection focuses on early material from CESR's thirty year history. Notably, this collection features much of the Harvard Research Team and CESR's original survey material on childhood health and nutrition in Iraq. The files include blank and completed surveys, CESR and affiliate reports, external analysis on human rights and information about countries of interest. Most of these surveys are paper, but there is one floppy disk located in subseries II.4 in the folder "CESR Mission Proposal Afghanistan."
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Italian Jewish Community Regulations collection, 1628(?)-1822

3 linear feet (Two manuscript boxes and two flat boxes)
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This collection contains about seventy broadsides regarding communal and governmental regulations imposed in various Jewish communities throughout Italy from the 17th through the 19th centuries. Cities mentioned include Florence, Venice, Ferrara, Padua, Ancona, and others. Topics addressed are synagogue behavior, market regulations, municipal workers such as firefighters, and more. Among the publishers are the Stamperia camerale, Ferrara; Francesco Suzzi, Ferrara; Lodovico, and Frencesco Nobili, Ferrara; Sebastiano Nistri, Pisa and Typis Mainardi, Ancona.

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Bob Fass Recordings and Papers, 1935-2011, bulk 1963-1991

200 linear feet (150 record cartons, 45 document boxes, 1 half-document box, 82 audiocassette boxes, and 17 flat boxes)
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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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Malcolm X Project Records, 1960-2008, bulk 2001-2008

68 linear feet (52 record storage cartons 5 document boxes 4 half document boxes)
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The Malcolm X Project (MXP) records represent nearly 25 years of research, constituting the most in-depth scholarly examination of the life and legacy of Malcolm X to date. The collection consists of the research that Dr. Manning Marable used to write his Pulitzer-Prize winning biography, Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention.

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Amnesty International of the USA Inc. Rose Styron Papers, 1958-2006, bulk 1981-1993

31 linear feet (31 record cartons)
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This collection documents the work of human rights activist Rose Styron, who served on the AIUSA Board Directors from 1973 to 1983 and as chair of the National Advisory Council from 1984 to 1994. The collection covers a large number of topics, including the death penalty, children's rights, women's rights, and many AIUSA events and actions.
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William T. R. and Annette Fox papers, 1932-2008

33.75 linear feet (27 record cartons)
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The collection documents the teaching, research, and writing of the international relations scholars William T. R. and Annette Fox. It contains research notes, manuscripts, correspondence, course syllabi and lecture notes, and published works by the Foxes and others scholars whose work informed their own.

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André Schiffrin papers, 1944-2014

10.5 linear feet (19 document boxes and 2 flat boxes)
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The collection consists of a wide range of material from early Pantheon papers (1944-1963) pertaining to the presence of Jacques Schiffrin and Helen and Kurt Wolff, including correspondence, business files, manuscripts and proofs, book covers, and media clippings. Later papers include correspondence and business files from Andre Schiffrin's time at Pantheon, followed by press clippings and correspondence regarding his forced removal, his launch of New Press, books he published, and finally personal papers that include notebooks, travel diaries and journals, along with his articles in various publications and miscellaneous press that he'd collected for personal interest.

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Roger Taft Comics Collection, 1946-2007

1 linear foot (2 boxes)
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A collection of a veriety of comics, including Mad Magazine and Zap, as well as individual artists, including R. Crumb, Gilbert Shelton, and S. Clay Wilson.

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

40 linear feet (34 record cartons, 5 oversized flat boxes (box 60-64), 4 manuscript boxes, 1 tall manuscript box (box 37))
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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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Todd Gitlin papers, 1960-2020, bulk 1980-2005

22.68 linear feet (54 document boxes)
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Todd Gitlin (1943-2022) was an activist, author, poet, and scholar of mass media at Columbia University. A leader of the anti-war group Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) in the 1960s and a self-identified progressive for his whole life, he became a noted critic of the American left from the 1990s on for a perceived overemphasis on identity and cultural issues.

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Amnesty International of the USA Inc. William Friedlander Papers, 1976-1994, bulk 1983-1993

1 linear foot (1 record carton)
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The collection documents the work of AIUSA activist William Friedlander on human rights violations in Chad, Liberia, and Uruguay.
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Amnesty International of the USA Inc. Africa Advocacy Program Records, 1998-2006, bulk 1998-2004

9 linear feet (9 record storage cartons)
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This collection documents the AIUSA Africa Advocacy Program's work to study and address human rights violations in Africa.
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Lawrence E. Walsh Papers, 1919-2008

125 linear feet (114 boxes)
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An extensive collection of correspondence, reports, briefs, speeches, drafts, photographs, audio and visual tapes, and printed matter.

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Lawrence A. Cremin Papers, 1932-2007, bulk 1939-1990

53 linear feet (39 record cartons, 4 document boxes, 2 flat boxes)
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The Lawrence A. Cremin Papers document the career and personal life of Lawrence Arthur Cremin, educational historian and seventh president of Teachers College, Columbia University (1974-1984). Cremin was an acclaimed historian of American education whose work framed the formal school as one of many institutions responsible for educating children. The collection includes records of his teaching and administrative work at Teachers College, manuscripts and published works by Cremin, and personal and professional correspondence.
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Marshall Berman papers, 1940-2013

47.5 linear feet (38 boxes)
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The collection includes drafts of his work, professional and personal correspondence, emails (both digital and in hard copy), notebooks, dream journals, heavily annotated books, lecture notes, teaching materials, photographs and ephemera. Several RBML collections already contain correspondence with Berman. For scholars, this collection will provide important new insights into the thought and work of a leading late-20th-century New York City intellectual. An important segment of the Marshall Berman papers consists of digital materials connected with his more recent work as a writer, scholar, and teacher. The files are currently stored on his home computer.

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Reviews by and of Berman, 1974-2010

Edith Schloss Burckhardt Papers, 1962-2011

35 linear feet (26 record cartons, 1 document box; 1 flat box)
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The Edith Schloss Burckhardt Papers offer an extraordinary opportunity for research into multiple areas of scholarship, especially unique insight into the lives and experiences of women in the art world, an American artist's expat life in Rome from the 1960s-2010s, the New York School of painters and poets, and a particularly rich and far-reaching, vein of the avant-garde and experimental music world, to name a few.

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Landon School of Illustration and Cartooning, 1932-1933

1.5 linear feet (1 document box & 1 flat box)
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Included here are the Landon lesson plans, along with Endy's submissions with comments and corrections.

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Captain Marvel Fan Club literature, 1943

0.1 linear feet (1 folder)
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A small collection of advertisements, order forms, and promotional newsletters (2) from the Captain Marvel Fan Club.

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