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Avery Library Vertical File, 1910s-1970s
16 linear feetThe materials that comprise the Vertical File have been collected and added to from a variety of sources by former Avery Librarians. The vertical file contains clippings, pamphlets, reprints, and other miscellaneous materials relating to persons, places, organizations, and topical subjects relating to architecture, housing, and city planning. The purpose of the vertical file was to arrange and store small items, memorabilia, and ephemeral material on a variety of topics to facilitate access by researchers. For the most part, the vertical file contains printed items only. Manuscript material and other unique items were, generally, not placed in the vertical file. In some cases, manuscript material has been removed from the Vertical File and placed in its corresponding collection.
RBML Office Files, 1917-2022
176.26 linear feetUniversity Seminar on Book History
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- University Seminar on Book History
The New York Bloomingdale Insane Asylum records, 1880-1910
5 Linear FeetEight large ledgers that record nearly 750 case studies of both female and male inmates, with their medical histories, background information, patient notes, and, in many instances, photographs.
Case Book Histories Continued from Daily History, 1890-1899 Volume 7
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- Case Book Histories Continued from Daily History, 1890-1899
Case Book Histories Continued from Daily History for 138 men, 1891-1910 Volume 8
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- Case Book Histories Continued from Daily History for 138 men, 1891-1910
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(With some photographs)
George Arthur Plimpton collection of Hornbooks, 1600-1900
7 boxesThis collection includes hornbooks, battledores, and facsimiles of hornbooks, a few hornbook-adjacent items, and supporting documents. Hornbooks and battledores were used from the 14th through the 19th centuries for the earliest steps of training in literacy: learning to recognize letterforms, and sometimes to read syllables and/or short texts.
Facsimile No. 4 Box 6
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- This facsimile belongs to those that have been made for Andrew White Tuer's book "History of Horn
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This facsimile belongs to those that have been made for Andrew White Tuer's book "History of Horn-Book" (Plimpton Ref R372.41 T81), for inclusion in a recessed space in the cover. This is his No. 3. *) It is similar to Nos. 7 and 16 of Grafton's catalog, but differs in typographic details. 2 x 3 1/8".
Menahem Schmelzer papers, 1969-2020
1 Linear FeetMostly paper, some notebooks and correspondence.
A. Barton Hepburn papers, 1886-1920
6 boxesCorrespondence, letter books, manuscripts, typescripts, notes, galley proofs, reports, banking records, pamphlets, and other printed materials. The so-called "private" letter books contain copies of outgoing personal and business letters, April 1914-Jan. 1918. The remaining correspondence files relate to the writing of Hepburn's two books HISTORY OF COINAGE AND CURRENCY IN THE UNITED STATES.. (New York, 1903) and A HISTORY OF CURRENCY IN THE UNITED STATES..(New York, 1915); to his activities in the fields of finance and money, such as the Pan-American Finance Commission (1915), the New York State Governor's Securities Commission (1920), and the Federal Milk Commission (1917); and his files regarding the establishment of the Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, 1918. Also, manuscripts, typescripts, notes, and galley proofs for the two books that he wrote; and six bank examiner's books used by Hepburn while he was U.S. Bank Examiner for New York, 1888-1892.
Susan Otis Thompson papers, 1965-1992, bulk 1970-1980
1.05 linear feetAndré Schiffrin papers, 1944-2014
10.5 linear feetThe collection consists of a wide range of material from early Pantheon papers (1944-1963) pertaining to the presence of Jacques Schiffrin and Helen and Kurt Wolff, including correspondence, business files, manuscripts and proofs, book covers, and media clippings. Later papers include correspondence and business files from Andre Schiffrin's time at Pantheon, followed by press clippings and correspondence regarding his forced removal, his launch of New Press, books he published, and finally personal papers that include notebooks, travel diaries and journals, along with his articles in various publications and miscellaneous press that he'd collected for personal interest.