Collections : [Rare Book & Manuscript Library]

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.

Search Constraints

Start Over You searched for: Repository Rare Book & Manuscript Library Remove constraint Repository: Rare Book & Manuscript Library

Search Results

Albert Field Collection of Playing Cards, 16th - 20th centuries

6300 items (6300 individual decks of playing cards, plus extensive ephemera and a library of reference books)
Abstract Or Scope

The Albert Field Collection of Playing Cards contains more than 6300 individual decks of playing cards as well as extensive ephemera and a library of reference books. The decks, ranging from the 16th through the 20th centuries, and across the world, are a rich vein of primary source material in popular imagery, costume, advertising, propaganda, as well as elite culture. Holdings are especially strong from early modern England, revolutionary France, the early American Republic, across a broad range of nineteenth-century national styles, and especially in transformation cards.

1 result in this collection

Albert Field Collection of Playing Cards, 16th - 20th centuries 6300 items (6300 individual decks of playing cards, plus extensive ephemera and a library of reference books)

Albert Ellis papers, 1920-2007, bulk 1965-1997

218 linear feet (215 record cartons 1 document box 6 oversize document boxes)
Abstract Or Scope
This collection encompasses the professional and personal life of psychologist and pioneer of Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy Albert Ellis.
3715 results in this collection view all

Albert and David Maysles papers, 1948-2018

185 linear feet (148 Boxes)
Abstract Or Scope

Correspondence, memoranada, agreements, notes, contracts, posters, clippings, financial files covering the entire career of the Maysles brothers.

2803 results in this collection view all

Alan Sillitoe letters, 1959-1974

0.5 linear feet (1 box)
Abstract Or Scope

The collection consists of 32 letters from Alan Sillitoe to his friends, the noted calligrapher John Charles Tarr and his wife, Dorothy, which concern Sillitoe's life, work, and interests during his most creative years.

6 results in this collection view all

Alan Levy Papers, 1950-2007

26 linear feet (33 manuscript boxes)
Abstract Or Scope

Correspondence, writings, photographs, posters of Alan Levy, founder of the Prague Post newspaper.

1 result in this collection

Alan Levy Papers, 1950-2007 26 linear feet (33 manuscript boxes)

Alan K. Young: My Brief Mystery-Writing Career, 1967-1980

1.25 Linear Feet (3 three-ring binders in one record carton)
Abstract Or Scope

Alan K. Young created these three 3-ring binders and entitled them "My Brief Mystery-Writing Career as recorded in documents collected, conserved, compiled, collated, captioned and clarified by Alan K. Young." In the spring of 1968, Mr. Young's first short story entitled "Letter from Mindoro" was published in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine's series of "First Stories," being stories by authors who had never before had a short story published. As always, the story was prefaced by editor Frederic Dannay's introduction: "The author, Alan K. Young, is a former junior-college English instructor, with a B. A. in English from Harvard and an M. A. in the same subject from the University of California (impressive credentials, indeed). At the time Mr. Young wrote "Letter from Mindoro," he was 39, single, and living in California (though a native of Pennsylvania, born and raised in a suburb of Pittsburgh). He has tried his hand "at a goodly cross-section of those jobs in which English majors who don't write The Great American Novel so often wind up" ... How can this man miss if he but persist?" Thus began Mr. Young's 13-year mystery-writing career. In these three volumes, Alan Young has mounted the originals of his correspondence with Fred Dannay and others, tear sheets from EQMM, photographs, and all with a running commentary on the experience of being an Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine author.

5 results in this collection view all

Alan H. Kempner papers, 1809-1981

0.5 linear feet (1 box)
Abstract Or Scope

A collection of letters and manuscripts of English and American authors, including one item from each of the following: Pearl S. Buck, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Thomas De Quincey, Thomas Frognall Dibden, Charles Dickens, William Ewart Gladstone, Edmund Gosse, Hester Thackeray Ritchie Fuller, Rockwell Kent, Charles Kingsley, Edward George Bulwer Lytton, John Masefield, Clinton Scollard, William Wordsworth and Walt Whitman. In addition, there are 8 letters from Samuel Rogers (1763-1855) to Mr. and Mrs. Horace Twiss (Annie Sterky Greenwood Twiss), photographs of Alan and Margaret Kempner and miscellaneous Kempner items.

32 results in this collection view all

Alan Cameron papers, 1959-2020

6 Linear Feet (14 document boxes)
Abstract Or Scope

Papers of Classics professor, Alan Cameron who taught at Columbia University between 1977 and his retirement in 2008. At the time of his death (July 31, 2017) he was the Charles Anthon Professor Emeritus of Latin and Literature at Columbia University. Materials in this collection include extensive correspondence files (including many with distinguished classicists), scholarly lectures, lectures given on cruise ships, course lectures, research files, unfinished and unpublished work, manuscripts for a book about Constantinople, CVs, memoirs and memorial materials.

637 results in this collection view all

Alan Brinkley papers on Henry R. Luce, 1910-2009, bulk 1922-1965

13.34 Linear Feet (12 boxes (10 record storage cartons and 2 document boxes))
Abstract Or Scope

Alan Brinkley (1949-2019) was the Allan Nevins Professor of History at Columbia University. He specialized in the political history of the twentieth-century United States.

428 results in this collection view all

Alan Alexander Milne letters, 1918-1919

1 box (1 box)
Abstract Or Scope

Letters of Milne to his agent Curtis Brown, relating largely to Milne's plays, particularly MR. PIM PASSES BY and BROXOPP.

3 results in this collection

Milne, Alan Alexander To Curtis Brown, 1918-1919

Alan Alexander Milne letters, 1918-1919 1 box (1 box)