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Columbia University Library Office files, 1890-1998 48.37 linear feet (Series I: 116 document boxes) 181.4 linear feet (Series II: 435 document boxes) 30.27 linear feet (Unprocessed: 63 document boxes, 4 record cards, 1 volume, and 1 oversize folder)

Columbia University. Libraries
The office files of the University Librarian's Office of Columbia University Libraries, 1889-1948, are composed is composed chiefly of correspondence sent and received between Columbia University Librarians, library staff, Columbia University administrators, and outside individuals and organizations, as well as related reports, budgets, as well as related reports, budgets, and administrative material concerning the history of the library.
  1. Columbia University Archives

Henry Beetle Hough papers, 1841-1994 24 linear feet (52 boxes 2 oversize folders)

Hough, Henry Beetle, 1896-1985

Correspondence, manuscripts, typescripts, research files, documents, printed materials, photographs, and memorabilia of Mr and Mrs Hough. Correspondence includes both personal and business letters, dealing with wildlife conservation, civic interests, and birding. There is some correspondence of George A. Hough, Sr., father of H.B. Hough, who was editor of the New Bedford MA Standard. Most of the correspondence is arranged alphabetically, by personal name or subject, out-going and in-coming filed together. Henry and Elizabeth Hough's correspondence, for which there are no in-coming or related letters, are filed chronologically. Cataloged correspondents include Calvin Coolidge, Max Eastman, Helen Keller, John F. Kennedy, Emily Post, and James Reston.

  1. Rare Book & Manuscript Library

Jacques Barzun papers, 1900-1999 225 linear feet (533 boxes; 1 drawer of oversized material)

Barzun, Jacques, 1907-2012
The correspondence, research, and teaching files of French-American cultural historian and Columbia University professor emeritus Jacques Barzun (1907-2012).
  1. Rare Book & Manuscript Library

Joseph M. Price papers, 1909-1943 2.5 linear feet (5 boxes)

Price, Joseph M., 1870-1949

Correspondence of Price with contemporary political figures including Theodore Roosevelt, Henry L. Stimson, Benjamin Cardozo, Martin Saxe, and John Purroy Mitchel; records of the Fusion Committee of 1909; and scrapbooks of clippings relating to New York City fusion movements, 1909-1933.

  1. Rare Book & Manuscript Library