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Personal and professional correspondence, including 25 long letters from Professor Henry F. Herbig; manuscripts (mainly speeches); specifications for patents in electrical fields; technical and personal photographs; and memorabilia. Included is a copy of the famous "shot in hand" x-ray photograph, ca. 1896, one of the first ever to be taken. This collection also contains the correspondence, manuscripts, documents, and memorabilia of Professor Pupin's daughter, Varvara Smith, and his son-in-law, Louis Graham Smith. His daughter's letters and documents deal with her financial difficulties, her administration of Pupin's estate and her claims against Columbia University. Louis G. Smith's letters deal with his anti-Communist sentiments and his manuscripts are mainly ideas for popular songs and plays. There are three letters (photostatic copies) to Smith from Dwight D. Eisenhower.
1986 Addition: Awards and diplomas presented to Pupin by American and European universities and charitable organizations; drawings and prints by Yugoslav artists; and miscellaneous correspondence, manuscripts, blue prints, architectural drawings and maps.
Selected materials cataloged; remainder arranged. Box 1: Cataloged correspondence & manuscripts; Boxes 2-4: Uncataloged correspondence & manuscripts; Box 5: Printed materials; Boxes 6-7: Patent materials; Boxes 8-10: 1986 addition; 2 Oversize boxes; 1 Oversize roll (Stack 15/23/30); & Map case drawer 14/14/8.
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This collection is located on-site.
This collection has no restrictions.
Reproductions may be made for research purposes. The RBML maintains ownership of the physical material only. Copyright remains with the creator and his/her heirs. The responsibility to secure copyright permission rests with the patron.
Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Michael Idvorsky Pupin papers; Box and Folder; Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Library.
See also the Pupin glass negatives in the Edwin H. Armstrong Papers.
Materials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. Contact rbml@columbia.edu for more information.
Boxes 1, 2, 6 and 7 are on: microfilm.
Papers: Source of acquisition--Various. Method of acquisition--Gifts.
2 video cassettes: Source of acquisition--Vujovic, Ljubo. Method of acquisition--Gift; Date of acquisition--12/10/1993. Accession number--M-93-12-10.
Gift of Mrs Rose Trbovich Andrews, 1965 & 1970.
Gift of Seymour H. Kott & Richard Roberts, 1965.
Gift of the Armstrong Memorial Research Foundation, 1977.
Gift of Mrs Clark W. Fisher, 1986.
Gift of Ljubo Vujovic, 1993.
Columbia University Libraries, Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Papers Entered in AMC 11/27/1990.
2 video cassettes Processed HR 07/21/1998.
June 2020 PDF replaced with full finding aid, YH
Columbia College, A.B., 1883; Columbia University, Doctor of Science, 1904; Professor of Electro-mechanics, 1901-1927.
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