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Rose Nadler Franzblau papers, 1930-1978

142 boxes

Papers containing correspondence, manuscripts, notes, radio scripts, letters asking Franzblau's advice, clippings, memoranda, announcements, photographs, tape recordings, records, books, pamphlets, and memorabilia. She kept the vast number of letters asking her advice and the typescripts of her replies. Among the cataloged correspondents are Ann Landers, Jo Mielziner, Dorothy Schiff, and Abigail Van Buren.

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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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Barnard Archives & Special Collections

Karen Durbin Papers, 1929-2016, bulk 1970-2000

25.51 Linear Feet
Karen Durbin is a journalist and film critic based in New York. Durbin is best known for her work with the Village Voice, where she has served as staff writer, senior editor, arts editor, and editor-in-chief. Her writing spans decades and reflects her position as a radical feminist in the second and third waves of the movement. This collection documents Durbin's professional and personal life through correspondence, journals and calendars, photographs, writing, and administrative work materials representing the years 1929 to 2016.
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Rick Shur papers, 1949-2016, bulk 1970-2003

27 linear feet
The Rick Shur Papers document the life and work of New York City video artist, gay activist, English as a Second Language teacher, and cultural critic Rick Shur (1953-2016). As "Rick X," he hosted The Closet Case Show, a popular Manhattan cable access TV show featuring safer sex gay "edurotica" along with commentary on culture and politics. Shur attended Columbia College (1971-1975) and Teacher's College (1977-1979), and led the Gay Alumni of Columbia organization through the 1980s.
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Drugs and Alcohol, 1973-2004 Box 3, Folder 1

; Alcoholics Anonymous literature and meeting schedule, circa 1993; papers related to purchase of ephedrine and

3 copies of 1973 Physicians' Drug Manual; typescript of 1986 experience using crack cocaine; Alcoholics Anonymous literature and meeting schedule, circa 1993; papers related to purchase of ephedrine and confiscation by US Customs, 1996-1999; papers related to purchase of dextromethorphan, 2001-2004

  1. Series I: Personal, 1949-2016
  2. Subseries I.3: Correspondence, Photographs, and Ephemera, 1963-2015
Oral History Archives at Columbia

Phoenix House Foundation oral history collection, 2014-2015

183 Gigabytes
Phoenix House was founded in 1967 as a therapeutic community to treat addiction in an 85th Street apartment in New York City. In the following decades, Phoenix House expanded to locations throughout New York City and ten states. At the time of the interviews, Phoenix House was serving over 5,000 individuals and remained committed to supporting individuals and families by providing a wide range of services including prevention, early intervention, treatment, continuing care, and recovery support. The Phoenix House Oral History Collection documents three periods of Phoenix House's work: origins, growth, and established leadership. In the first period, spanning from 1967 to the 1970s, narrators detail the founding of a therapeutic community, the dynamics of this community, and the influences of other self-help drug treatment organizations such as Synanon on the program. In the growth period, narrators speak of opening up new facilities, and designing and launching new programs. Topics covered include the political and funding challenges of expanding Phoenix House's reach, increases in medical and mental health staff, and partnering with state departments of corrections to provide the Phoenix House program as an alternative to incarceration. In the final period, narrators describe changes in the therapeutic community model, further expansion of programs across the United States, acquisitions of competitors, new funding challenges, and transitions in leadership.
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Mitchell Rosenthal, 2014 November 6 and June 26 and July 10 and 2015 February 19 and April 15 Box 3

Alcoholics Anonymous and Synanon on the creation of Phoenix House. Rosenthal also discusses therapeutic

In the first session, Mitchell Rosenthal discusses his childhood, and formative moments in becoming a doctor and a successful politician. He then speaks to the impacts of organizations such as Alcoholics Anonymous and Synanon on the creation of Phoenix House. Rosenthal also discusses therapeutic methods used in Phoenix House and in drug rehabilitation overall, and his use of these methods as a doctor in the Navy. He highlights challenges in beginning to work with the therapeutic community model, and his eventual move to New York City to work in drug rehabilitation government services after his naval career. Rosenthal concludes with a story about the origins of Phoenix House.

  1. Interviews