Donald C. Brace Papers, 1839-1991, bulk 1901-1955

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Series III: Personal, 1899-1955

This series includes materials related to Brace's personal life and his involvement as a student and alumnus of Columbia.


Subseries III.1: Miscellaneous Personal, 1899-1956

The subseries includes Brace's high school graduation program, newspaper clippings about Donald and Ida Brace, membership booklets of Brace's clubs, obituaries of Frank Brace, two typescripts, a notebook with various memoranda (including several related to Harcourt Brace business in 1947) and addresses, a 1954 diary, an obituary of Donald Brace from the West Winfield Star, and several portraits of Brace and photographs of him with family and friends.



Box 1 Folder 10 Miscellaneous Personal, 1899-1955


Box 1 Folder 11 Miscellaneous Personal, 1956 (Conservation Job # 17095), 1956



Box 5 Folder 2 Oversize Photographs, undated


Portrait of Donald Brace, undated

Hung in Vault between aisles 36e and 37w


Subseries III:2: Columbia:, 1901-1955

This subseries contains Donald '04 and Ernest '17 Brace's undergraduate transcripts, Donald's Sigma Chi certificate, a 1904 Sesquicentennial Columbia Calendar, newspaper clippings, 1904 and 1917 Class Day and Commencement programs, photographs of the 1904 Columbia College class and Spectator editors, the 1902 Yearbook of the Junior Class, and the 1904 Class Book. The subseries also includes correspondence and other materials related to Donald Brace's activities as an alumnus and fundraiser for Columbia in the 1940s and '50s and his 1950 Columbia Medal of Excellence.



Box 1 Folder 12 Columbia, 1901-1904


Box 1 Folder 13 Columbia, 1917


Box 1 Folder 14 Columbia, 1943-1955



Box 3 Folder 1 The Nineteen Hundred and Four Columbian: Year Book of the Junior Class, 1902 (Note: gloves suggested for handling), 1902


Box 3 Folder 2 The Nineteen Hundred and Four Class Book, 1904



Box 4 Folder 1 Columbia Medal of Excellence, 1950