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This collection consists of digital files only. The digital files are available on the Columbia University Digital Library Collections (DLC), as well as on the web.

The Gale A. Yee papers contain draft manuscripts of her book Poor Banished Children of Eve : Women as Evil in the Hebrew Bible and comments from readers, drafts of other professional writings (published and unpublished), her lecture notes for Old Testament classes, her student papers and exams from Loyola University and the University of St. Michael's College (in Toronto), drafts of her doctoral thesis, large numbers of articles and papers relating to travel to Rome and Jerusalem. The bulk of the material in this collection spans Yee's university education in the early 1970s and her writings from the 1960s to 2014.

Correspondence, manuscripts, diaries of a well-known émigré art historian Grigorii Ostrovskii.

The collection includes the original manuscript of "Surrender on Demand", Mr. Fry's account of his wartime experiences, which was later rewritten for young readers as "Assignment Rescue" (New York, Four Winds Press, 1968). Among the correspondents represented in the collection are Marc Chagall, Jacques Lipchitz, Roger Baldwin, Norman Thomas, J. Edgar Hoover, and Herman Wouk. In addition to the material relating to the Emergency Relief Committee (later known as the International Rescue Committee), the collection includes correspondence and papers concerning Fry's work as a writer on foreign affairs as well as copies of his books.

The Columbia Armenian Oral History Archive is an important collection of audio and video recordings of first-person accounts of the early and recent experiences of Armenians, recorded after they had immigrated to the United States. The collection consists of 138 interviews in Armenian, English, and Turkish languages with immigrants conducted by Vazken L. Parsegian during the 1950s and 1960s, focusing largely on the survivors' memories of their personal experiences of the abduction, deportation, imporisonment and massacre of Armenians and the destruction of Armenian communities under the Ottoman Empire in the first decades of the Twentieth century. The testimonies also recount the early formation of Armenian communities in various cities of United States and socio-economic conditions. The collection is comprised of 210 hours of sound recordings in the following formats: magnetic tape reels, compact cassettes, and WAV files and compact disks representing the content of the original tapes.