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Letters, diaries, albums, photographs, and printed material.

"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".

This collection consists of journalist William G. Lambert's (1920-1998) collected investigative materials such as correspondence, news clippings, notes, notebooks, photographs and transcripts related to his award winning reporting for The Oregonian, Portland, and for Life magazine. In 1957, Lambert and his college Wallace Turner received the Pulitzer Prize for their reporting, which uncovered widespread vice and corruption within the municipal Portland city government that involved labor union officials of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Warehousemen and Helpers of America, Western Conference. In 1970, Lambert accepted the George Polk Award for his Life magazine reporting, which revealed that Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas accepted and later returned a suspect $20,000 fee, spurring Fortas' resignation.

Correspondence, notes, drafts, research files, printed material, etc.

Papers and 50 boxes of paperback books.

1882 April 19 typed notes for Columbia Alumni Event in Washington, DC; Surrogates Court New York County documents; U.S. Circuit Court Journal, 1881; Account Books; National Bar Association (1891) invitation; Blatchford family photographs (various sizes).

Correspondence, manuscripts, reports, drafts, memoranda, printed items, etc.

Research materials, including notes, audio tapes, and original items, related to his multiple projects on Columbia and Barnard history.