Trust Administration Deeds and Gifts Records, 1755-1989

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Series I. Trust Administration Deeds and Gifts records, 1755-1989

This series includes deeds to cemetery plots, room endowments in various dormitories from alumni groups, mergers and proposals between Columbia University and area hospitals, and gifts and acquisitions from John D. Rockefeller and Joseph Pulitzer regarding Rockefeller Center and the founding of the School of Journalism. Records are organized by the name of the property (e.g. Casa Italiana, College of Pharmacy, Ferris Booth Hall) or by the name of the gift giver (e.g. Class of 1887, Estate of Nicholas Murray Butler).



Box 1 Folder 1 American Assembly, 1957


Box 1 Folder 2 American Committee of the Shanghai Anti-Tuberculosis Association, Inc.,, 1954


Box 1 Folder 3 American Mathematical Society, 1934


Box 1 Folder 4 American Press Institute Fund, 1958


Box 1 Folder 5 American Type Founders, Inc. -- Library and Museum, 1936


Box 1 Folder 6 Amsterdam Plaza Bridge, 1961-1962


Box 1 Folder 7 Arden House, 1913-1970


Box 1 Folder 8 Armstrong Memorial Research Foundation, Inc.--Engineering Building,, 1956


Box 1 Folder 9 Athens University--Cancer Clinic--Certificate, 1964-1965


Box 1 Folder 10 Avery Architectural Library, 1890


Box 1 Folder 11 Avery Architectural Library and School of Architecture--Fine Arts Endowment Fund,, 1913


Box 1 Folder 12 Baker Field, 1904-1960


Box 1 Folder 13 Barnard College, 1896-1906


Box 1 Folder 14 Barnard College, 1973


Box 1 Folder 15 Mary Imogene Bassett Hospital, 1947


Box 1 Folder 16 W. Sergeant Bouvier Memorial Cup--Freshmen Crew, 1930


Box 1 Folder 17 Brain Tumor Research--Frederick Loewe--"Brigadoon" stock, 1958-1959


Box 1 Folder 18 Busiel (Syma) Fund, 1961


Box 1 Folder 19 Nicholas Murray Butler, Estate of--Cemetery Plots, 1861-1928


Box 1 Folder 20 Cardozo, Benjamin--Book Royalties, 1921-1939


Box 1 Folder 21 Carpenter (Horace W.) Estate, 1917-1919


Box 1 Folder 22 Casa Italiana, 1907-1933


Box 1 Folder 23 Chock Full of Nuts, Co. Shares--Black, William--Endowment Fund for Chairs of Neurology,, 1959-1961


Box 1 Folder 24 Claremont Avenue Conduit, 1923


Box 1 Folder 25 Class of 1887--School of Mines--Loan Fund, 1912


Box 1 Folder 26 Class of 1889--School of Mines--Gold Medal, 1915



Box 2 Folder 1 Class of 1911--Room Endowment Fund, 1936


Box 2 Folder 2 College of Pharmacy, 1901-1961


Box 2 Folder 3 College of Physicians and Surgeons, 1891


Box 2 Folder 4 College of Physicians and Surgeons--"Bullwinkel Scholars"--Lola Bullwinkel,, 1984


Box 2 Folder 5 College of Physicians and Surgeons--Department of Psychiatry--Dorgan (Ethel J.) Fund,, 1983


Box 2 Folder 6 College of Physicians and Surgeons-- Halsen Prizes--Prayer of Retrition,, 1859-1879


Box 2 Folder 7 College of Physicians and Surgeons--Smith, Joseph Mather--Prize Fund,, 1876


Box 2 Folder 8 Columbia University Football Association Fund, 1905


Box 2 Folder 9 Committee on Employment for Students--Class of 1901 School of Applied Sciences--Decennial Fund, 1911, 1901, 1911


Box 2 Folder 10 Crew Fund--Class of 1929-- Davenport, Horace E., 1960-1989


Box 2 Folder 11 Dale Library--Dale, Samuel S., 1930-1961


Box 2 Folder 12 Darlington, Charles F., 1970-1971


Box 2 Folder 13 Davis (Edwin F.) Estate, 1946


Box 2 Folder 14 DeLamar (Joseph R.) Estate, 1915-1944


Box 2 Folder 15 Devendorf (David M.) Scholarship Fund, 1911


Box 2 Folder 16 Donovan, William J.--Gift of Books, 1957


Box 2 Folder 17 Dormitory Authority--Envelope Empty, undated


Box 2 Folder 18 Dunning, Prof. William--Book Royalties, 1897-1940


Box 2 Folder 19 Eno, Amos F., 1924-1925


Box 2 Folder 20 Fayerweather--Seligman Library, 1929-1933


Box 2 Folder 21 Ferris Booth Hall, 1956


Box 2 Folder 22 Furnald Hall (Room 431) and Hartley Hall (Room 633)--Class of 1892 Arts and Mines Endowment, 1917, 1892, 1917


Box 2 Folder 23 Gaillard-Loubot Library, 1898


Box 2 Folder 24 Gilder, Richard Watson--Fund for the Promotion of Good Citizenship--"Gilder Fellows,", 1911


Box 2 Folder 25 Graduate School of Business--Bronfman (Samuel) Foundation,1951


Box 2 Folder 26 Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn, 1847-1960


Box 2 Folder 27 Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn--Christie (Lillian A.) Estate; Irwin (Sarah L.); George Byrnes and wife,, 1882-1889


Box 2 Folder 28 Harlem Hospital--Recruiting Professional Staff, 1961-1963


Box 2 Folder 29 Hartley Hall (Room 333)--Class of 1917 CC and School of Journalism Room Endowment Fund, 1937, 1917, 1937


Box 2 Folder 30 Hobart College, Proposed Affiliation, 1897


Box 2 Folder 31 India Studies--Das, Taraknath and Mary Keatinge, 1948


Box 2 Folder 32 International Law--Cutting, Jr., W. Bayard, 1912


Box 2 Folder 33 Lamont Geological Observatory--Grace, Charles MacDonald--yacht, 1960


Box 2 Folder 34 Laurel Oak Cemetery, Windsor, MO-- Blackmore, T.A., 1942


Box 2 Folder 35 Livingston Hall (Room 933)--Class of 1887 Mines, Dormitory Endowment Fund, 1937, 1887, 1937



Box 3 Folder 1 Livingston Manor, NY--Easton, Allan, 1965-1979


Box 3 Folder 2 Lower Estate--(Park Place or Downtown Campus), 1755-1950


Box 3 Folder 3 Morningside Heights Housing Corp., 1957


Box 3 Folder 4 Morningside Heights Housing Corp.-- Remedco Corp., 1966


Box 3 Folder 5 Morningside Park--Athletic Field, 1955-1981


Box 3 Folder 6 Morningside Park--Gymnasium, 1960-1961


Box 3 Folder 7 New York School of Social Work, 1959


Box 3 Folder 8 100 Church Street, 1956-1958


Box 3 Folder 9 Presbyterian Hospital, 1921-1956


Box 3 Folder 10 Presbyterian Hospital, 1973


Box 3 Folder 11 Presbyterian Hospital--Babies' Hospital of New York, 1925-1934


Box 3 Folder 12 Presbyterian Hospital--Cancer Center and Clinic, 1941


Box 3 Folder 13 Presbyterian Hospital--Department of Nursing, 1937-1955


Box 3 Folder 14 Presbyterian Hospital--Diagnostic Laboratories, 1952


Box 3 Folder 15 Presbyterian Hospital--District of Health and Teaching Center, 1936


Box 3 Folder 16 Presbyterian Hospital--Eye Hospital, 1931


Box 3 Folder 17 Presbyterian Hospital--Vanderbilt Clinic and Sloane Hospital for Women,, 1895-1946


Box 3 Folder 18 President's Pension Agreement, 1968


Box 3 Folder 19 Psychiatric Hospital--Various Agreements, 1925-1926


Box 3 Folder 20 Pupin Bronze Bust (DeJari, Baron Mark), 1962-1963


Box 3 Folder 21 Pupin Foundation Fund--Michael I. Pupin--Varvara Pupin, 1928-1951


Box 3 Folder 22 Riverside Park Tennis Courts, 1929-1963


Box 3 Folder 23 Rocca, Louis--"Tehani" yacht, 1971-1975



Box 4 Folder 1 Rockefeller Center, 1939-1953


Box 4 Folder 2 Rockefeller Center--Agreement, 1935 June 13, 1935


Box 4 Folder 3 Rockefeller Center--Agreement, 1936


Box 4 Folder 4 Rockefeller Center--Agreement Amending Lease, 1953 August 12, 1953


Box 4 Folder 5 Rockefeller Center--Amendments, 1938


Box 4 Folder 6 Rockefeller Center--Amendment to a Lease, 1928-1944


Box 4 Folder 7 Rockefeller Center--Committee on Finance, 1933


Box 4 Folder 8 Rockefeller Center--Consolidated Telegraph and Electrical Subway Co.,, 1936


Box 4 Folder 9 Rockefeller Center--Cromwell, William Nelson, 1936


Box 4 Folder 10 Rockefeller Center--Easement and Right of Way, 1936


Box 4 Folder 11 Rockefeller Center--Memorandum Stating Goetze is Treasurer, 1933


Box 4 Folder 12 Rockefeller Center--Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., 1928-1962


Box 4 Folder 13 Rockefeller Center--Pedestrian Passageways, 1933-1940


Box 4 Folder 14 Rockefeller Center--Pedestrian Passageways; Resolutions #67 and #69,, 1933


Box 4 Folder 15 Rockefeller Center--Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, 1928-1933


Box 4 Folder 16 Rockefeller Center--Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, 1933


Box 4 Folder 17 Rockefeller Center--Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, 1935


Box 4 Folder 18 Rockefeller Center--Sixth Avenue Properties-- City Title Insurance Co., 1953 August 12-1953 November 2, 1953


Box 4 Folder 19 Rockefeller Center--Underel Holding Corp., 1939


Box 4 Folder 20 Rockefeller Center--Underel Holding Corp.; Envelope Addressed to Goetze, Frederick,, 1947


Box 4 Folder 21 Rockefeller Center--Upper Estate-- Murray, Aldrich, and Roberts, 1906-1929


Box 4 Folder 22 Rockefeller Center--Upper Estate--J.D. Rockefeller, Jr.; Metropolitan Square Corp.,, 1928-1929



Box 5 Folder 1 Rockefeller Center--Upper Estate--J.D. Rockefeller, Jr.; Metropolitan Square Corp.,, 1930-1931


Box 5 Folder 2 Rockefeller Center (Metropolitan Square Corp.), 1928-1951


Box 5 Folder 3 Rockefeller Center (Metropolitan Square Corp.)--American Type Founders (À); Consolidated Telegraph and Electrical Subway Co.,, 1930-1941


Box 5 Folder 4 Rockefeller Center (Metropolitan Square Corp.)--Center Theater Building and U.S. Rubber Co. Building,, 1931-1954


Box 5 Folder 5 Rockefeller Center (Metropolitan Square Corp.)--Certificate of Change of Name,, 1928-1932


Box 5 Folder 6 Rockefeller Center (Metropolitan Square Corp.)--Consolidated Telegraph and Electrical Subway Co.,, 1928-1934


Box 5 Folder 7 Rockefeller Center (Metropolitan Square Corp.)--Cromwell, William Nelson; Green, Edward H.; Seligman, Eustace,, 1948-1949


Box 5 Folder 8 Rockefeller Center (Metropolitan Square Corp.)--Goelet, Robert--DeWitt, Edward,, 1930-1936


Box 5 Folder 9 Rockefeller Center (Metropolitan Square Corp.)--Memorandum of Settlement Conference,, 1930


Box 5 Folder 10 Rockefeller Center (Metropolitan Square Corp.)--Rocknom, Inc., 1955-1965


Box 5 Folder 11 Romaine (Benjamin F.) Prize Fund, 1922-1932


Box 5 Folder 12 Roosevelt Hospital, 1952


Box 5 Folder 13 Scientific Research Fund--Campbell, William Estate, 1937


Box 5 Folder 14 School of Architecture--Division of Urban Planning--Brainerd, Harry B.,, 1959


Box 5 Folder 15 School of Engineering--Homestake Mining Co. Stock-- Aldridge (Walter H.) Scholarship Fund,, 1936-1937



Box 6 Folder 1 School of Journalism--Pulitzer, Joseph, 1903-1916


Box 6 Folder 2 School of Mines, Department of Metallurgy--Dwight, Arthur S., 1925


Box 6 Folder 3 Society of New York Hospital--116th to 120th Streets, 1892-1895


Box 6 Folder 4 Tappin, Charles L.--Dilton Estate, 1911-1940


Box 6 Folder 5 Teachers College, 1893-1949


Box 6 Folder 6 Traveling Fellowships--Cutting, Bayard W., 1913


Box 6 Folder 7 Tubby Hook--Dyckman Institute Fund, 1943


Box 6 Folder 8 Union Theological Seminary, 1891-1928


Box 6 Folder 9 Yiddish Language, Literature, and Culture--Professorship-- Atran Foundation, Inc.,, 1952