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This collection contains typescript notes, handwritten notes, newspaper and periodical clippings, published stock images, postcards, lithograph maps, and ink on linen drawings and sketches relating to the art, architecture, and urban planning of Rome, Italy.

Correspondence, manuscripts, subject files, and printed materials. Cataloged correspondents in the collection include Georgii Adamovich, Mstislav Dobuzhinskii, and Sergei Lifar'. Manuscripts consist of typed copies of Pierre Kovalevskii's extensive diaries, which begin in Petrograd in 1918 and continue to 1973; the only missing years are 1961-1969. Subject files chiefly concern emigre organizations with which Evgraf was involved, especially the Russian Academic Group (Russkaia Akademicheskaia Gruppa) and the Russian Committee of United Organizations (Russkii Komitet Obʺedinennykh Organizatsii). Post-World War II organizational files of Petr Kovalevskii are on the Society for the Preservation of Russian Cultural Valuables (Obschestvo Okhraneniia Russkikh Kul'turnykh TSennostei), and the Committee to Commemorate the 250th Anniversary of St. Petersburg (IUbileinyi Komitet Oznamenovaniia 250-ti letiia St. Peterburga).

This collection contains original and reprographic design drawings, photographic prints and various types of business records documenting the work of Rambusch Company across the United States. Over many decades, Rambusch has collaborated on projects with numerous noted architectural firms, including Bertram Goodhue, R. Guastavino & Co.

The novelist, editor, and educator Robert DeMaria grew up during the Depression in Harlem, NewYork. He attended James Monroe High School in the Bronx and Columbia University, where he received his BA, MA, and Ph.D. in English literature. He taught at the University of Oregon, Hofstra College (now Hofstra University), and Dowling College (now defunct). He also worked as an editor for Macmillan and served for two years as Dean of Faculty at the New School for Social Research. His first novel, the semi-autobiographical A Carnival of Angels (1961), is set in Morningside Heights. Clodia, a work of historical fiction, followed in 1965; Don Juan in Lourds was published in 1966, and many others followed, including, notably, The Satyr in 1972 and The Decline and Fall of America in 1973.

The collection consists of 4 film reels, which have been digitized and are available online to Columbia affilates (and available to our public in our reading room).

Arranged alphabetically by Theatre name, the collection is made up of over 700 theatre programs and Playbills; included are some of the most prominent productions in the New York area during the 20th century. Often included in the programs are seating charts for specific theatres.