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Rare Book & Manuscript Library

Carlos Federico Díaz Alejandro papers, 1957-1985

40 linear feet
This collection contains correspondence, manuscripts, notes, research materials, theses, course materials, subject files, printed matter and photographs, 1957-1985, pertaining to American economist, Carlos Federico Diaz Alejandro.
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Avery Drawings & Archives

Félix Candela architectural records and papers, 1950-1984

1876 drawings
Felix Candela (1910-1997) was a Spanish-born architect and engineer who gained a worldwide reputation for designing complex concrete structures, especially thin concrete shell structures, many times involving double curvature (hyperbolic paraboloid). This collection contains materials related to Candela's personal, professional, and academic lives, overarching all periods of his career. Project records document the full range of his work of both his Mexican and American periods. The collection contains extensive correspondence with personal friends, clients, and professional and academic colleagues; a large number of reference files relating to architecture, design, urbanism, technology, sociology, anthropology, and current events, compiled throughout Candela's professional life; architectural drawings and photographs from his work; and writings by and about Candela.
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Rare Book & Manuscript Library

Bella Abzug papers, 1937-1996, bulk 1970-1986

605 linear feet

Congressional papers consisting of correspondence memoranda, speeches, reports, photographs and printed materials relating to her terms in Congress. The collection contains general correspondence and administrative files, as well as extensive subject files on a wide variety of topics with which Abzug was involved while in Congress. Also included are Legislative files, being the chronological files of background material for legislation considered on the House floor, and printed versions of legislation by Abzug and others. The Casework Files, relating to Abzug's advocacy on behalf of constituents involved in civil rights, housing, military, employment and related cases, are closed. Among the major correspondents are Carl Albert, Abraham D. Beame, Hugh L. Carey, Gerald R. Ford, Edward I. Koch, John V. Lindsay, Nelson A. Rockefeller, and Gloria Steinem. Materials added in 1981 include: draft transcripts of an oral history, appointment books, speeches and subject files (particularly on privacy and freedom of information) all interfiled in the collection and campaign materials press releases and newspaper clippings.

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Compilations of CNN short clips of Abzug commenting on various topics, Tape #35, 1983 March 09-April 12 1 videocassettes (U-matic) Box 1099

German elections, Central America, "P" rated movies, 3/9/83; Grenada, 3/29/83; Jobs 4/5/83 35, 4/5

German elections, Central America, "P" rated movies, 3/9/83; Grenada, 3/29/83; Jobs 4/5/83 35, 4/5/83; Campaign costs, 4/6/83; Holocaust, 4/12/83

  1. Series XVI: Audio Visual Material, 1969-1986
  2. Subseries XVI.6: Video Cassettes

Tape #10: compilations of Bella Abzug commenting on CNN about various topics, 1981-1987 1 videocassettes (U-matic) Box 1097

, Satellite sales, Women and Budget, Surveillance, Argentina, 3/11/81; Hatch, Central America, Space invaders

Japanese Americans 3/2/198?, Cut military spending, Women and Reagan, 3/9/8[?]; Freeze in Congress, Satellite sales, Women and Budget, Surveillance, Argentina, 3/11/81; Hatch, Central America, Space invaders, 3/29/83; Affirmation, Nicaragua, Campaign cost, Product liability, 4/6/87

  1. Series XVI: Audio Visual Material, 1969-1986
  2. Subseries XVI.6: Video Cassettes
Columbia University Archives

Columbia College papers, 1703-1964, bulk 1754-1920

67.08 linear feet
The surviving files of official correspondence, reports, documents, and printed materials of King's College from 1750 to 1784 and Columbia College from 1785 to 1890, as well as Columbia University up to 1964. The King's College era materials include grants, deeds, indentures, lists of governors, leases, accounts, etc. The Columbia College era papers commence with documentation regarding the attempts to revive the college at the end of the American Revolution. In the later period these papers primarily supplement and document the minutes of the meetings of the Board of Governors and the Board of Trustees. Much material was destroyed and scattered in the late 19th century leaving this collection quite incomplete.
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Columbia College Trustees, New York, 1884 October 6, 1884 Box 52

not complete his studies, but joined Transit of Venus expedition to explore Central America; date from

(Resolution that degree of AB be conferred on Louis H. Aymé, member of the Class of 1874 who did not complete his studies, but joined Transit of Venus expedition to explore Central America; date from docket; note that resolution was adopted, initialed by Gerard Beekman; t.d., 1p.)

  1. Series II: Columbia College Papers, 1784-1964
Burke Library at Union Theological Seminary

Missionary Research Library collection of scrapbooks, 1892 -- 1956

6 linear feet
This collection contains newspaper articles compiled in 32 scrapbooks by the Missionary Research Library on a variety of topics, including missionary work in China and India and mission ideology.
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Scrapbooks, 1892 -- 1912 Box 2

clippings of Missions, 1894-1898; "South America, Central America, Mexico and West Indies, No. 3", 1896-1900

Drawings and Illustrations from Africa (with annotations); "Pacific Islands No. 2" Newspaper clippings of Missions, 1894-1898; "South America, Central America, Mexico and West Indies, No. 3", 1896-1900; Newspaper Clippings of Missionary Work in India, 1894-1896; Book 6: Newspaper Clippings "Indirect Results of Mission, No. 1" 1892-1903; "Missions in General, No. 1" 1892-1893; "Untitled" Scrapbook, focus on China and Missionary Work, 1900-1902; "Lecture V, No. 7" newspaper clippings related to India Missions, 1898-1900

  1. Missionary Research Library collection of scrapbooks, 1892 -- 1962

Scrapbooks, 1892 -- 1912 Box 3

clippings of Missions, 1894-1898; "South America, Central America, Mexico and West Indies, No. 3", 1896-1900

Drawings and Illustrations from Africa (with annotations); "Pacific Islands No. 2" Newspaper clippings of Missions, 1894-1898; "South America, Central America, Mexico and West Indies, No. 3", 1896-1900; Newspaper Clippings of Missionary Work in India, 1894-1896; Book 6: Newspaper Clippings "Indirect Results of Mission, No. 1" 1892-1903; "Missions in General, No. 1" 1892-1893; "Untitled" Scrapbook, focus on China and Missionary Work, 1900-1902; "Lecture V, No. 7" newspaper clippings related to India Missions, 1898-1900

  1. Missionary Research Library collection of scrapbooks, 1892 -- 1962

Scrapbooks, 1892 -- 1912 Box 4

"South America, Central America, West Indies, and Mexico, No. 4" 1900-1904; "Lecture V, No. 12

"South America, Central America, West Indies, and Mexico, No. 4" 1900-1904; "Lecture V, No. 12" 1903-1904; "Lecture V, No. 5" 1897-1898; "Mohammedanism, No. 1" 1892-1912 (plus an envelope inside that includes more clippings from ca. 1911); "Missions in General, No. 2" 1893-1894; "Lecture 2, No. 4", related to superstitions, witchcraft, immoral behavior, 1894- 1905; "Missions in General, No. 4", 1895-1896; "Untitled" Japan and Korea,1895-1896; "Lecture V, No.?" 1896-1904.

  1. Missionary Research Library collection of scrapbooks, 1892 -- 1962
Barnard Archives & Special Collections

Barnard Center for Research on Women (BCRW) records, 1962-2020

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This collection consists of records from the Barnard Center for Research on Women, formerly known as the Barnard Women's Center. It includes bylaws; director's and financial reports; correspondence; Executive Committee minutes; planning and publicity materials for and recordings of the Scholar and the Feminist Conference, career workshops and other events; and administrative materials related to women's studies courses, the Women's Center Resource Collection, the Women's Counseling Project, and other projects and publications.
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BC13-58_SFAudio_141, The Scholar and the Feminist XI (Women and Resistance): Women's Resistance in Catholic Communities of Faith, 1984-04-14 Box 45

and Central America"; "Resistance to Patriarchy in the Catholic Church" .

Morning forum at the Scholar and Feminist XI that opens with Blaise Lupo (Clergy and Laity Concerned) discussion of her research on/experience of the Philippines during a crucial time of resistance and change in theology. Marsie Silvestro (former National Coordinator of the Women's Ordination Conference) then looks at the freedom of women and the resulting feminine image of God within the Catholic church. Papers presented or name of session: "Maryknolls and Liberationist Resistance in the Philippines and Central America"; "Resistance to Patriarchy in the Catholic Church" .

  1. Lectures, Conferences, Exhibits, and Events, 1972-2018
  2. The Scholar and the Feminist, 1972-2024
  3. Audio recordings of the Scholar and the Feminist conferences (cassette tapes), 1983-1987

BC13-58_SFAudio_118, The Scholar and the Feminist XI (Women and Resistance): Afternoon Panel, Part 2, 1984-04-14 Box 44

; Elizabeth Sutherland Martínez, U.S. Out of Central America; Grace Paley, Sarah Lawrence College, War

Plenary Panel featuring Dolores Hayden, UCLA, author of Redesigning the American Dream: The Future of Housing, Work, and Family Life; Elizabeth Janeway, feminist theorist, author of Power of the Weak; Elizabeth Sutherland Martínez, U.S. Out of Central America; Grace Paley, Sarah Lawrence College, War Resisters League; Frances Fox Piven, The Human SERVE Campaign; Barbara Ransby, Columbia University; Barbara Smith, Kitchen Table Women of Color Press, moderated by Dr. Temma Kaplan, Director of the Barnard Women's Center at the Scholar and Feminist XI. This recording is preceded by BC13-58_SFAudio_117 and followed by BC13-58_SFAudio_119. Papers presented or name of session: Plenary Panel II.

  1. Lectures, Conferences, Exhibits, and Events, 1972-2018
  2. The Scholar and the Feminist, 1972-2024
  3. Audio recordings of the Scholar and the Feminist conferences (cassette tapes, CD transfers of 1982 conference, and reel-to-reel of 1978 tapes), 1975-1983

BC13-58_SFAudio_119, The Scholar and the Feminist XI (Women and Resistance): Afternoon Panel, Part 3, 1984-04-14 Box 45

; Elizabeth Sutherland Martínez, U.S. Out of Central America; Grace Paley, Sarah Lawrence College, War

Plenary Panel featuring Dolores Hayden, UCLA, author of Redesigning the American Dream: The Future of Housing, Work, and Family Life; Elizabeth Janeway, feminist theorist, author of Power of the Weak; Elizabeth Sutherland Martínez, U.S. Out of Central America; Grace Paley, Sarah Lawrence College, War Resisters League; Frances Fox Piven, The Human SERVE Campaign; Barbara Ransby, Columbia University; Barbara Smith, Kitchen Table Women of Color Press; moderated by Dr. Temma Kaplan, Director of the Barnard Women's Center at the Scholar and Feminist XI. This recording is preceded by BC13-58_SFAudio_117 and BC13-58_SFAudio_118. Papers presented or name of session: Plenary Panel III.

  1. Lectures, Conferences, Exhibits, and Events, 1972-2018
  2. The Scholar and the Feminist, 1972-2024
  3. Audio recordings of the Scholar and the Feminist conferences (cassette tapes), 1983-1987
Barnard Archives & Special Collections

Ntozake Shange Papers, 1913-2022, bulk 1970-2018

68.8 Linear Feet
Ntozake Shange (1948-2018, BC '70) was an American playwright and poet. The Ntozake Shange Papers include manuscripts and drafts of works; correspondence; diaries and agendas; clippings, programs, and ephemera; teaching documents; personal and professional photographs; awards, memorabilia, and personal effects; and texts, music, and other works by others collected by Shange.
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Clippings, press, 1985-2006, undated Box 109, Folder 5

," undated clipping "'Tejano' Shange sees Texas as part of Central America," May 1985 Houston Post clipping

Mailer for from okra to greens/a different kinda love story at the Lorainne Hansberry Theatre (2006), undated clipping of photograph of Shange captioned "Jalapeno peppers. When I'm crazy, I can eat the whole jar in about two hours.", undated clipping "Contest focuses on black experience in Houston," undated clipping "'Tejano' Shange sees Texas as part of Central America," May 1985 Houston Post clipping "For Shange, writing's only part of her life," January 1985 Houston Post clipping "Clothes circuit," April 1986 Houston Chronicle clipping "'Ridin' the Moon' appeared disjointed" review, Real News vol. 2, no. 7 featuring "Intimate Death" article by Shange (June 1991)

  1. Press, Programs, and Ephemera, 1970-2019, undated
Avery Drawings & Archives

Arthur Rothstein photographs, 1848-2000, bulk 1932-1985

812 negatives
This collection contains the photographs, negatives, contact sheets, correspondence, printed material, and research files of and about American photographer Arthur Rothstein (1915-1985).
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Series III: Other Countries

This series comprises photographs from Rothstein's travels to Europe, Africa, Asia, and Central
America, under various personal and professional capacities, including work as a United States Army Signal

This series comprises photographs from Rothstein's travels to Europe, Africa, Asia, and Central America, under various personal and professional capacities, including work as a United States Army Signal Corps photographer, and as a photographer for LOOK and Parade magazines. Subjects include the aftermath of World War II in the United Kingdom, Germany, and Austria, views of architecture, religious ceremonials, and daily life in India, Communist Russia and Ukraine (including May Day parades in Red Square), wildlife on a safari in Kenya, coal mining in Wales, and domestic and daily life in Italy. Photographs are organized alphabetically by the country in which they were taken, and then alphabetically by title. Includes oversize material.

Oral History Archives at Columbia

Bill Weinberg sound recordings, 1992-2021, bulk 1992-2011

57 audiocassettes
Bill Weinberg is a journalist, political writer, activist, and radio personality. His work and activism has focused on human rights, indigenous movements, drug policy, the environment, the Middle East, and opposition to war and authoritarianism. The Bill Weinberg sound recordings feature 57 episodes of the show Moorish Orthodox Radio Crusade (MORC), which was broadcast on WBAI radio from 1988 to 2011. The collection's recordings date from Bill Weinberg's period as part of the show's collective from 1992 to 2011. Throughout its run, MORC covered a wide range of political, cultural, and spiritual topics. Some major themes addressed in the collection's episodes include ecology, indigenous movements, anarchism, the War on Drugs, United States imperialism, Latin America, North Africa, religion, New York City political and social movements, sustainable transportation, and gardening. The collection also contains an oral history interview with Weinberg that was taken by the curator when the collection was donated to the Oral History Archives at Columbia.
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Barnard Archives & Special Collections

Sabra Moore NYC Women's Art Movement Collection, 1969-1996, bulk 1970-1992

13.78 Linear Feet
This collection documents Sabra Moore's involvement in the Women's Art Movement, Women's Caucus for Art, Women Artists in Revolution, Heresies Collective, and other feminist artist groups based in New York City from the 1970s to the mid-1990s. The collection consists of flyers, publications, artwork, t-shirts, correspondence, photographs, and protest ephemera conceived of, and created by, Moore and her artist colleagues.
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