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Edwina Dumm (1893-1990) was one of the earliest syndicated women cartoonists, known for her dog and animal centric strips and her delicate line. She was the author of Cap Stubbs and Tippie (1918-1966), Alec the Great (1931-1969), and the illustrator of numerous books about dogs.

Professional and personal papers of Fly, a comic artist, textile artist, "crust punk," musician, feminist, squatter, illustrator, muralist, chronicler, teacher, and community activist. The papers include comics, zines, illustrations, original art, journals, sketchbooks, ephemera, production materials, printed materials, photographs, and audio and video recordings which documented Fly's personal life and artistic career highlighting the history of New York City's Lower East Side neighborhood and the counterculture scenes from the 1990s and beyond.

Paul Tillich (1886-1956) was a prominent theologian and professor at UTS from 1933-1955. The collection includes speeches, sermons, and other materials; a 1953 stenographic transcription in 4 copies of Tillich's lecture notes for his Spring 1953 course, Church History Systematic Theology 108-Introduction to the History of Christianity; a photocopy and a bound copy of Tillich's Systematic Theology [Vol.1], the preliminary draft meant for his students' private use, in five parts; as well as a separately sourced preliminary draft of Tillich's Systematic Theology [Vol.1] annotated by Eric Gault Finley.

Henry Preserved Smith (1847-1927) was a Presbyterian minister in Ohio and New York and a scholar with specializations in Hebrew and Cognate Languages, historical and critical interpretations of the Bible who was tried for heresy by the Presbyterian Church, 1892-1894, and was subsequently Professor of Church history and Davenport Professor of Hebrew and Cognate Languages at Union Theological Seminary, 1917-1925. The collection contains scrapbooks as they were assembled by Smith to document his heresy trial, as well as the contemporaneous trial of Charles Augustus Briggs, and three scrapbooks on Hebrew literature, as well as other writings and notes including nine of Smith's notebooks, correspondence, speeches, trial materials, lecture notes, and other materials maintained by Smith during his work as a professor and librarian.

The Hettie Jones Papers contains correspondence, writings, and teaching materials related to Hettie Jones' career as a writer, editor, and teacher in the New York City Beat and Downtown literary scene, from the 1960s through the 2000s. Included are manuscripts from Jones' numerous books of poetry and children's and young adult novels, as well as her 1990 autobiography, How I Became Hettie Jones. The collection also features materials from her time as co-editor of Totem Press and Yugen literary journal. A small amount of material pertaining to Jones' former husband, the poet LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka, including unpublished early manuscripts and photographs is also here.

This collection contains English translations of two letters written by Badiullah and Muhammed Ali to the newly-established House of Justice in the United States, as well as correspondence from 1944 between Ruth White, Grace Provost Bestedo, and Union Theological Seminary regarding controversies about the Mrs. Lewis Stuyvesant Chanler branch of Bahai.

The Shih-hui Hsiung (Shihui Xiong) papers consist of materials documenting Hsiung's life and political career from 1907 to 1974. The highlights of the papers are the manuscripts, which include six volumes of Hsiung's memoir, seven volumes of diaries over 43 years, and approximately 440 original handwritten speech scripts. The photographs and political and military affairs related documents focus on Hsiung's active involvement in the northeast region and abroad from 1930 to 1948. The papers overall consist of correspondence, calligraphy scrolls, diaries, a diploma, documents, letter books, manuscripts of published and unpublished works, maps, newspaper clippings, notes, oversize military notices, poems, photographs, photograph albums, reports, and other materials.

This collection contains 25 interviews on videotape of feminists and artists who had a significant relationship to Valerie Solanas's shooting of Andy Warhol. The interviews were conducted by Erin Cramer and filmed by Mary Patierno. The interviewees include Ti-Grace Atkinson, Florynce "Flo" Kennedy, Ros Baxandall, Dana Densmore, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, Vivian Gornick, Jill Johnston, Jeremiah Newton, and Ultra Violet.

This collection contains records related to the American Committee for Armenian and Syrian Relief, established in 1915 to respond to the Armenian Genocide, and incorporated through an Act of Congress and renamed Near East Relief in 1919.