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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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Robert A. Hill papers, 1933-2001

6 linear feet (15 manuscript boxes)
Abstract Or Scope
The reasearch files of Professor Robert A. Hill relating to C.L.R. James. Professor Hill is the Literary Executor of C.L.R. James.
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Eddie Locke Photographs of Jazz Musicians, 1954-1974

1 linear foot (2 document boxes)
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Photographs (315) taken by Eddia Locke of jazz musicians and performances between the 1950s and 1970s. Group One comprises photographs 1-55; Group Two, photographs 56-109; Group Three, photographs 110-169; Group Four, photographs 170-223; Group Five, photograph 224-277; Group 6, photographs 278-315 There is a cd with 315 tiff images, as well as six print outs of the images. In Box 2 there are two folders and 3 photograph albums containing the original photographs, as well as a few photographs which are not included in the cd or in the print-outs.

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League of Nations records, High Commission for Refugees (Jewish and Other) Coming from Germany, 1921-1941

.5 linear feet (1 manuscript box)
Abstract Or Scope

Files relating to the League of Nations.

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Mary Frances Dunham papers, 1964-2002

11.5 linear feet (16 document boxes; 7 cassette boxes; 1 oversize folder in mapcase)
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The research files of Mary Frances Dunham relating to her study and recording of Bangladeshi and Bengali folk songs.
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Gertrude Lawrence Papers, 1925-1986, bulk 1925-1952

1.68 linear feet (4 document boxes and 5 oversized folders)
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This collection contains documents relating to Broadway actress Gertrude Lawrence (1898-1952), a British-born international star of musical theatre and film. The collection primarily consists of correspondences, and also includes manuscripts, photographs, diaries, and a notebook from her position teaching an acting course at Columbia University.
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Mark Estren Papers, 1970-1993

2.5 linear feet (2 record cartons)
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Collection contains research material, notes, and drafts of Estren's book A History of Underground Comics. The research material includes a number of comic books, both underground and mainstream.

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Donald Wesely Papers, 1952-2010

10.84 linear feet (5 record cartons 2 flat boxes)
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Collection contains Wesely's artistic and literary output, as well as a comprehensive set of diaries dating from the 1950s.

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Nancy Wechsler Papers, 1935-2007

3 linear feet (4 document boxes and 1 flat box)
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The Nancy Wechsler Papers collects a portion of the work and interests of lawyer Nancy Wechsler. The collection holds her writings, work with professional organizations, correspondence, and work with several government organizations including accusations pertaining to her loyalty while doing this work. Of particular note are the oral histories Wechsler gave and the memoir she wrote detailing her family's history, Communist experience, legal work, and public affairs. The oral histories and memoir also cover her civil rights work and work as a copyright and intellectual property lawyer. The collection also contains Wechsler's FOIA file.
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Amnesty International of the USA Inc. Rick Halperin Papers, 1987-1999, bulk 1989-1995

14.15 linear feet (13 record cartons, 2 document boxes, 1 half-sized document box)
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The collection documents the work of Rick Halperin during his time serving on the Amnesty International of the USA Board of Directors.
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Henry Schneider papers, 1945-1946

.42 linear feet (1 document box)
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The Schneider collection holds the work of Henry Schneider (1910-1998) who served as a Deputy Chief under Colonel Bernard Bernstein, Director, Finance Division, Individuals' External Assets Branch, Division of Investigation of Cartels and External Assets (DICEA). As a deputy chief, Schneider was primarily engaged in identifying the economic assets of, accumulating evidence about and conducting interrogations against Nazi organizations and war criminals. The one box collection (0.5 linear feet) holds interrogation transcripts of Nazi officers (including Hermann Goering and Joachim von Ribbentrop), the testimony of Orvis A. Schmidt, Director of Foreign Funds Control, U.S. Treasury Department, before Senator Harley M. Kilgore's Subcommittee on German Espionage of the Senate Military Affairs Committee, and many of the reports produced by DICEA for the Military Tribunals in Nuremberg.
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