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Andrew W. Cordier papers, 1918-1975
160 linear feetCharles F. Chandler papers, 1847-1937, bulk 1864-1925
135.25 linear feetColumbia University Library Office files, 1890-1998
48.37 linear feetDixie Trainer papers, 1964-1997
0.1 linear feetThe collection contains blueprints and photographs of the Whitney Museum of American Art used by Dixie Trainer to make a replica of the building for a fund-raising gala for the museum.
Earl I. Sponable papers, 1928-1968
125 boxesEdgar J. Kaufmann papers on Fallingwater, 1909-1976, bulk 1932-1955
5 manuscript boxesThe collection consists primarily of correspondence, photographs, project records, architectural drawings, legal documents, periodicals, news clippings and exhibition materials. The material held in this collection relates to architectural projects for Edgar J. Kaufmann by Frank Lloyd Wright, and the bulk of the material relates to Kaufmann's home, Fallingwater, at Bear Run, Pennsylvania. The collection documents the professional and personal relationship between the Kaufmann family and Wright, from the 1930s until the years preceding Wright's death in 1959.
Edith Elmer Wood papers, 1900-1943
72 manuscript boxesEdwin H. Armstrong papers, 1886-1982, bulk 1912-1954
295.7 linear feetProfessional and personal files including Armstrong's correspondence with professional associations, other engineers, and friends, his research notes, circuit diagrams, lectures, articles, legal papers, and other related materials. Of his many inventions and developments, the most important are: 1) the regenerative or feedback circuit, 1912, the first amplified radio reception, 2) the superheterodyne circuit, 1918, the basis of modern radio and radar, 3) superregeneration, 1922, a very simple, high-power receiver now used in emergency mobile service, and 4) frequency modulation - FM, 1933, static-free radio reception of high fidelity. More than half the files concern his many lawsuits, primarily with Radio Corporation of America, over infringement of the Armstrong patents. Litigation continued until 1967. Other files deal with his work in the Marcellus Hartley Research Laboratory at Columbia University, 1913-1935, and with the American Expeditionary Forces in France during World War I, his Air Force contracts for communications development, Army research during World War II, the Radio Club of America, the Institute of Radio Engineers, FM development at his radio station at Alpine, N.J., the use of FM in television, his involvement in Federal Communications Commission hearings and legislation, and his work with the Zenith Radio Corporation. Also, letters to H.J. Round
Frederick Fried Coney Island collection, 1847-2001
32.62 linear feetHotel for D.O. Mills at West 39th Street and Seventh Avenue N.Y.C. / Copeland & Dole, 1905-1906
12 drawingsDrawings show plans, elevations, and sections, and structural framing plan.
International Institute of Rural Reconstruction records, 1914-2018
163 linear feetCorrespondence, manuscripts, lectures, notes, diaries, notebooks, reports, financial records, blueprints, photographs, and printed materials of Y.C. James Yen and the IIRR concerned with the development, sharing, and financing innovative methods of teaching, improving agriculture, health and family planning, and education in impoverished villages. Among the cataloged correspondents are: Pearl Buck, William O. Douglas, Nelson Rockefeller, and DeWitt Clinton.
James Graham Phelps Stokes papers, 1779-1960, bulk 1884-1960
38 linear feetCorrespondence, manuscripts, documents, financial records, memorabilia, and printed materials. The papers relate to numerous organizations--social, political, civic, and philanthropic--with which he was associated. Among these organizations are Legal Aid Society; Prison Association of New York; Outdoor Recreation League; Socialist Democratic League and National Party; American Alliance for Labor and Democracy; Constitutional Democracy Association; National Security League; YMCA, etc. Included among the papers are his journals and diaries, 1884-1950. An incomplete set of his letterbooks 1905-1960 and some family papers relating to real estate and financial matters
John L. Gerig papers, 1905-1988
3 linear feetCorrespondence, research notes, articles, clippings, photostats, and photographs. These files concern his interest in Pierre Bayle, Antoine Arlier, and the Renaissance in Provence, as well as the Romanic Review, philology, French, Spanish, and celtic studies. Among the correspondents are: Philippe Berthelot, Nicholas Murray Butler, F.R. Coudert, John H. Finley, the Prince de Ligne, Curtis Hidden Page, William B. Parsons, and Aime ́Puech.
Joseph Marks papers about Anne Frank, 1950-1999
1.5 linear feetThese files concern the publication of Anne Frank: the Diary of a Young Girl in 1952, the dramatization of this diary and the subsequent legal disputes with Meyer Levin over the play, and the motion picture made from the play. They also deal with the activities of the Anne Frank Foundation, primarily support for the renovation of the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam and the programs of the International Anne Frank Youth Center. These files include 145 letters from her father, Otto Frank, and letters from Alfred Kazin, Max Lerner, Meyer Levin, and Eleanor Roosevelt. There are also seven letters from Adela Rogers St. Johns and related materials about her own books and the 1963 volume of minutes of the Doubleday & Co. Publishing Committee.
Lodygin Family Papers, 1792-1950
1150 itemsThe collection consists of correspondence, subject files, blueprints, drawings, stamps, documents, photographs and printed materials. Manuscripts are mostly by Lodygin's wife Alma, and include "The Story of a Brilliant Russian" (100 p.) about her husband. There is also a manuscript (52 p.) by Professor Albert Parry entitled "Legendary Lodygin," which appeared in the emigre newspaper "Novoe Russkoe Slovo." A handwritten manuscript (23 p.) by Lodygin is included under the title "Treatise on Arc Lamps and Incandescent Lamps."
Michael Idvorsky Pupin papers, 1800-1995
5 linear feetPersonal and professional correspondence, including 25 long letters from Professor Henry F. Herbig; manuscripts (mainly speeches); specifications for patents in electrical fields; technical and personal photographs; and memorabilia. Included is a copy of the famous "shot in hand" x-ray photograph, ca. 1896, one of the first ever to be taken. This collection also contains the correspondence, manuscripts, documents, and memorabilia of Professor Pupin's daughter, Varvara Smith, and his son-in-law, Louis Graham Smith. His daughter's letters and documents deal with her financial difficulties, her administration of Pupin's estate and her claims against Columbia University. Louis G. Smith's letters deal with his anti-Communist sentiments and his manuscripts are mainly ideas for popular songs and plays. There are three letters (photostatic copies) to Smith from Dwight D. Eisenhower.
Telechronometer Company of Rochester New York records, 1909-1913
0.5 linear feetA small collection of archival material comprising correspondence, blueprints, documents, printed paper, ephemera.
The Eldorado Apartments, 300 Central Park West (New York, N.Y.), 1929-1985
76 SheetsArchitectural, electrical, mechanical, plumbing, structural, and elevator drawings for the Eldorado Apartment Building at 300 Central Park West in New York City.
Thomas Egleston papers, 1857-1901
4.5 linear feetProfessional correspondence of Egleston, consisting of incoming letters and technical reports relating to mining engineering and metallurgy; and carbon copies of correspondence between Egleston and Seth Low for the years 1890 to 1900.
Union Settlement Association records, 1896-1995
31 linear feetThe Union Settlement Association Records document a century of the settlement's activities, and provide a unique view of the first wave of the settlement movement in America. They document social conditions, demographic change, political activity, philanthropy and social work in East Harlem with a strong emphasis on the urban renewal period of the 1950s and '60s. The records include: annual reports, board minutes and committee files, headworker and executive director files, program reports, community organization files, and visual materials such as photographs, maps and architectural drawings.
Walter Rautenstrauch papers, undated
18 linear feetScientific, professional, and academic papers of Rautenstrauch, consisting chiefly of notes, outlines, charts, and memoranda assembled by him for his courses at Columbia, his lectures, articles, and professional consultations. There is also a group of blueprints, plans, charts, and graphs related to various American industries and a large group of miscellaneous unbound periodicals, pamphlets, reports, and other printed material.
William A. Boring architectural drawings and papers, 1859-1937
1 print boxAlso, typescripts of lectures delivered by Boring in architecture courses at Columbia, 1932-1933, miscellaneous typescripts of articles and printed materials, 1930-1933, and a typescript of Boring's autobiography, MEMORIES OF THE LIFE AND WORK OF WILLIAM A. BORING, circa 1937. Also included are four sketches by Henri Gauthier, Edward Tilton, Maurice Sashin, and Joseph Laudin.
William McMurtrie Speer papers, 1880-1936
17 linear feetCorrespondence, manuscripts, typescripts, contracts, legal briefs, patents, and other documents, music scores, cartoons, technical drawings, account books, blueprints, photographs, clippings, printed legal briefs & transcripts, proofs, scrapbooks, and other printed materials of William M. Speer.