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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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Wolfgang Friedmann papers, 1950s-1980

1.5 Linear Feet (1 ms box, 1 record carton)
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The Wolfgang Friedmann papers include correspondence, articles, reports, books and manuscripts, teaching materials, photographs, and clippings.

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Wolfgang Friedmann papers, 1950s-1980 1.5 Linear Feet (1 ms box, 1 record carton)

Wolf Franck collection, 1816-1971

.5 linear feet (1 half sized document box)
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The collection includes both Wolf Franck's autograph collection, as well as some correspondence between Franck and his wife and notable figures.

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Wolf Franck collection, 1816-1971 .5 linear feet (1 half sized document box)

W. L. Hildburgh papers, 1892-1900

3 boxes (3 boxes)
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This collection, representing Hildburgh's student days at Columbia University, contains student records, class memorabilia, notebooks of electrical engineering experiments, projects, and research for his bachelor's and master's theses.

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W. L. Hildburgh papers, 1892-1900 3 boxes (3 boxes)

Wladimir S. Woytinsky manuscripts, 1906-1907

1 box (1 box 11 records storage cartons of books)
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Typescripts in Russian and English of PETERBURGESKII SOVET BEZRABOTNYKH, 1906-1907 (THE SOVIET OF THE UNEMPLOYED IN PETERSBURG..). Both copies have handwritten corrections, probably in the hand of Woytinsky's wife, Emma S. Woytinsky. In addition there is one folder of photocopies of miscellaneous printed materials, mostly in Russian.

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Wladimir S. Woytinsky manuscripts, 1906-1907 1 box (1 box 11 records storage cartons of books)

W. J. Strachan letters, 1954-1992

0.5 linear feet (1 box)
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Strachan's correspondence with his primary publisher, Peter Owen of London relates chiefly to the nuts and bolts of translation and publication. The translations that are the subject matter of the letters are of Hermann Hesse, Caesar Pavese, Marc Chagall, Jean Cocteau, and Julien Gracq. The majority of the letters are accompanied by retained copies of the replies of Peter Owen. Included is Owen's correspondence with the American publisher George Wittenborn.

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W. J. Strachan letters, 1954-1992 0.5 linear feet (1 box)

Witmark Collection of Autographed Books and Musical Scores, 1872-1942

416 Volumes (290 bib records in Voyager)
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In 1941, Isidore Witmark, noted musical publisher, bequeathed to the Libraries his collection of about 400 books and musical scores, each autographed by the author, a musical artist or a friend, who presented the item to Mr. Witmark. They are classified in a special call number scheme with WITMARK prefix.

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Witmark Collection of Autographed Books and Musical Scores, 1872-1942 416 Volumes (290 bib records in Voyager)

Winifred B. Linderman papers, 1949-1966

0.42 linear feet (1 document box)
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This small collection of correspondence, manuscripts, and printed materials is a part of her professional papers and includes draft chapters and notes for her doctoral thesis (History of the Columbia University Library, 1876-1926. New York, c1959) as well as a few items about teaching.

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Winifred Armstrong collection of National Committee on Immigration and Citizenship records, 1950-1956, 1959

0.25 linear feet (1 half-manuscript box)
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Correspondence, minutes, notes, memos, and pamphlets documenting the National Committee on Immigration and Citizenship's pro-immigration efforts in the early 1950s.

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Wiltwyck School for Boys records, 1942-1981, bulk 1964-1982

20.58 linear feet (49 document boxes 1 oversize archival box)
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This collection contains the administrative records of the Wiltwyck School for Boys, a residential treatment center for troubled boys and adolescents from the New York City area.
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Wilma Solomon papers, 9999

8 linear feet (7 record storage cartons and 1 flat box)
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"Work - Personal": Books, files "Work and Printed Work": books, magazines, reviews, files "Wilma's Desk #1": files "Work": files "Wilma's Desk #2": files "Work and Printed Work": files "Wilma's Desk #3": files "Scrapbooks and Published".

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Wilma Solomon papers, 9999 8 linear feet (7 record storage cartons and 1 flat box)

William Yukon Chang papers, 1920-2010

46 Linear Feet (27 record cartons, 5 flat boxes, and 2 small gray boxes)
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William Yukon Chang was the founder and editor of "Chinese-American Times", a Chinese American paper that published completely in English from 1955 to 1972. While running the newspaper, Chang also served in local social and civic groups to address issues facing the New York Chinatown community, including poverty, juvenile delinquency, mental illness and lack of access to adult language programs. The William Yukon Chang papers document Chang's life and career, Chinese American life, and social service and activism scene in the Lower East Side from the 1950s to the 1970s.
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William York Tindall papers, 1927-1970

8.5 linear feet (17 boxes (Box 1a cataloged correspondence, boxes 1-16))
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The collection is centered around the writings of Tindall, including notes, correspondence, manuscripts, and typescripts of his studies of Samuel Beckett, Wallace Stevens, Dylan Thomas, James Joyce, and D.H. Lawrence.

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William York Tindall papers, 1927-1970 8.5 linear feet (17 boxes (Box 1a cataloged correspondence, boxes 1-16))

William Wymark Jacobs letters, 1900-1943

1 box (1 box)
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Letters from Jacobs to Cyril Clemens. The letters contain comments on the Mark Twain Society, his work and writings, and other writers, notably A.E. Housman, G.K. Chesterton, Clarence Day, and George Ade. Also, a holograph manuscript of Jacobs"The Castaway;" and three letters from Jacobs to Clarence Winchester, 1929-1933, and two manuscripts.

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William Wymark Jacobs letters, 1900-1943 1 box (1 box)

William Worthen Appleton papers, 1773-1853

0.5 linear feet (1 box (44 letters))
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The 44 letters related to British theater in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, dating from 1773 to 1853. The collection is divided into five series: I. Letters to William Kenneth (8); II. Letters to or about Richard Brinsley Sheridan (3); III. Letters to James Winston (5); IV. Theatrical letters arranged alphabetically by sender (26); and V. Non-theatrica l letters (2). The two letters in the 5th series are a letter from a solicitor to Lady Emma Hamilton dated 1806 and a letter from Irish poet Thomas Moore dated 1832. Most of the theatrical letters deal with the engagement of players and theater personnel.

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William Worthen Appleton papers, 1773-1853 0.5 linear feet (1 box (44 letters))

William Wilberforce Lord papers, 1844-1899

1 box (1 box (60 items))
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Letters and manuscripts including correspondence with Mrs. Elizabeth Stedman Kinney, Edmund Clarence Stedman, Arthur Stedman, and William B. Kinney. Also, some manuscript poems of Lord, a number of which are unpublished.

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William Wilberforce Lord papers, 1844-1899 1 box (1 box (60 items))

William Wetmore Story letters, 1848-1858

1 Volumes (1 volumes)
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Four letters to Story from Leigh Hunt, and one from Ralph Waldo Emerson; and one letter to Emelyn Story from Margaret Fuller. The Hunt letters are friendly notes touching on a variety of subjects including his health and Mrs. Hunt's, publication of selections of his work, etc. The Emmerson letter, 1851, is in connection with Browning's reminiscences of Margaret Fuller which had been sent to Story. He speaks also of Carlyle and Tennyson. Margaret Fuller's letter to Mrs. Story is a friendly one in which she writes chiefly of her love for Rome and her life there.

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William Wetmore Story letters, 1848-1858 1 Volumes (1 volumes)

William Underhill Moore papers, 1908-1920

14 boxes (14 boxes)
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Personal and professional correspondence of Moore. Cataloged Correspondence (1 Box). Uncataloged correspondence, 1908-1920, alphabetically arranged (8 boxes). "Receipts" 1908-1920, chronologically arranged (5 boxes).

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William Underhill Moore papers, 1908-1920 14 boxes (14 boxes)

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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William T. Golden papers, 1946-2008

33 linear feet (30 record cartons; 6 document boxes; 2 cassette boxes; 1 folder in a mapcase 15-H-11)
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Correspondence, articles, clippings, reports and memos related to William T. Golden's professional career.
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William S. Vickrey papers, 1939-1996

23.5 linear feet (47 boxes)
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The collection is comprised of correspondence, manuscripts, teaching materials, conference materials, subject files, and printed items from William S. Vickrey's career as an economist. It contains published and unpublished papers illustrating his thoughts on various aspects of economic theory and their practical application. Topics discussed in these manuscripts involve macroeconomics, marginal cost pricing, microeconomics, political economy and welfare, public finance, social choice, taxation, transportation, urban economics, and related matters. The collection also has records from his tenure at Columbia University, including correspondence with his academic colleagues and participation in professional activities.

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