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Guastavino Fireproof Construction Company architectural records, 1866-1985, bulk 1890-1942
40.1 linear feetThis collection is made up of architectural drawings, correspondence, specifications, contracts, invoices, minutes, financial statements, patents, advertisements, photographs, photograph album, test results and reports, memoranda, tile samples, factory order cards, and other materials pertaining to The Guastavino Fireproof Construction Company's projects. The dates of the materials span 1866-1985, with bulk dates 1890-1942. The architectural records include structural, decorative, and acoustical sample products and fragments. Also included are materials added to the files by George Collins (1917-1993), Professor of Art History at Columbia University. Prof. Collins secured the donation of this archive in 1963, and remained its custodian until it was transferred to the Drawings and Archives Collection at the Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library in 1988. The records document Prof. Collins' research efforts, as well as the Company's projects in forty states (including District of Columbia), four Canadian provinces, and eleven other foreign countries.
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Andrew W. Cordier papers, 1918-1975
160 linear feetThe large collection covers all aspects of Cordier's life. It contains letters, memoranda, reports, cables, printed materials and photographs, mostly pertaining to his tenure at the United Nations and Columbia University.
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15 Mar 1962 National Council of Churches, Dept. of Int. Affairs, Riverside Church, New York, N.Y. "Review and Preview of UN Developments" (Text on file: No), 1962 Box 71
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7 Mar 1961 Men's Class, of the Riverside Church, New York, N.Y., annual dinner. "The United Nations and the World Crisis". (live broadcast over Church Radio Station WRVR) (Text on file: No), 1961 Box 69
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- 7 Mar 1961 Men's Class, of the Riverside Church, New York, N.Y., annual dinner. "The United Nations
Hannah Elizabeth Gough Stannard papers, 1913 -- 2006
1.25 linear feetHannah (Betty) Elizabeth Gough Stannard was secretary to Harry Emerson Fosdick when he worked at Riverside Church. The collection contains information on activities that Betty Gough Stannard was involved with as one of Fosdick's secretaries, as well as information on other secretaries that Fosdick employed, correspondence, and books given to Betty by Fosdick.
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John B. Trevor papers on Riverside Church, 1920-1956
1 manuscript boxConsists of correspondence, architectural drawings of Riverside Church, photographs of Riverside Church (models and religious figures), photo print of architectural drawings, financial papers, meeting minutes and newspaper clippings.
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Sophia Lyon Fahs papers, circa 1850 -- 1987
3 linear feetSophia Lyon Fahs was a Unitarian educator, author, editor, minister, innovator in religious education of children, one of the first women faculty members at Union Theological Seminary, and wife of Methodist minister Charles Harvey Fahs. The collection contains papers from Sophia Lyon Fahs' UTS Alumni File as well as her personal files, including materials related to her husband Charles Fahs' writings; correspondence with her biographer Edith Hunter as well as general correspondence; Riverside Church Sunday School papers and religious education publications; and materials donated by Dorothy Beck Fahs, including articles about SLF, memorials, and correspondence, as well as drafts and correspondence related to Cobb and Dorothy Fahs' work on Old Tales for a New Day (Buffalo, NY: Prometheus Books, 1981), the companion volume to Sophia Fahs' earlier books on mythic stories for children.
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Morningside Area Alliance records, 1947-1992
149 linear feetThe Morningside Area Alliance is an organization working for community improvement on behalf of its member institutions in the Morningside Heights neighborhood in New York City. The organization was founded as Morningside Heights Inc. in 1947 through joint action of fourteen Morningside Institutions--Columbia University, St. Luke's Hospital, Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine, Teacher's College, Barnard College, Corpus Christi Church, Home for Old Men and Aged Couples, International House, Jewish Theological Seminary, Juilliard School of Music, St. Hilda's and St. Hugh's School, The Riverside Church, Union Theological Seminary, and the Women's Hospital of St. Luke's Center--with the expressed purpose of "[promoting] the improvement of Morningside Heights as an attractive, residential, educational, and cultural area." The collection includes much, if not all, of the material that was created by the organization as part of its daily business from 1947 to 1992, when the materials were accessioned into University Archives at Columbia University. This includes records of the Board of Directors and the various Committees within the Alliance; assorted publications, reports, pamphlets, and theses both acquired and created by the organization; files of the different offices within the organization; maps, plans, and photographs used and created by the Alliance for its work; and the collected materials and files created for the organization's projects in different subject areas--specifically buildings, community services and programs, public safety, schools, and the Morningside General Neighborhood Renewal Plan. The collection also includes a large quantity of material rearranged into subject files on different areas of concern within the organization.
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