Columbia University Bicentennial Collection, 1946-1957

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Series I: Bicentennial Collection, 1954-1955


Texts



Box 1 Responsible Freedom in the Americas, circa 1955

Typescript copy (partially mimeographed copy). Doubleday, 1955. Gift of Columbia University Press, 1956.



Box 2 Responsible Freedom in the Americas, circa 1955

Galley proof with manuscript corrections. Doubleday, 1955. Gift of Columbia University Press, 1956.



Box 3 The Unity of Knowledge, circa 1955

Typescript copy and 2 galley proofs with manuscript corrections. Doubleday, 1955. Gift of Columbia University Press, 1956.



Box 4 Man's Right to Knowledge and the Free Use Thereof display, circa 1954

Mounted proofs of plaques used during the Bicentennial. Black and white photographs and illustrations.



Box 5 Man's Right to Knowledge and the Free Use Thereof display, circa 1954

Mounted proofs of plaques used during the Bicentennial.



Box 6 Press releases, 1954 January-October


Box 6 Bicentennial Guest Book, 1954

Negative microfilm #2138


Box 6 Transcripts of the tape-recorded proceedings of the Arden House Conference on the draft report of the President's Committee on the Educational Future of the University, 1957 October 11-13

Five sessions.


Recordings



Box 7 First Conference: "The Metropolis in Modern Life," Sessions 1-2, 1954 January, 10 open reel audiotapes

First conference: first session, 6 reels; and second session, 4 reels.



Box 8 First Conference: "The Metropolis in Modern Life," Sessions 3-4, 1954 January, 11 open reel audiotapes

First conference, third session, 5 reels; and fourth session, 6 reels.



Box 9 First Conference: "The Metropolis in Modern Life," Sessions 5-6, 1954 January, 10 open reel audiotapes

First conference, fifth session, 4 reels; and sixth session, 6 reels.



Box 10 First Conference: "The Metropolis in Modern Life," Sessions 7-8, 1954 January, 10 open reel audiotapes

First Conference, seventh session, 5 reels; and eighth session, 5 reels.



Box 11 Second Conference: "Federalism, Mature and Emergent," Opening Dinner and Law Conference, 1954 January, 14 open reel audiotapes

Second conference, 4 reels; opening dinner, 4 reels; and law conference, 6 reels.



Box 12 Third Conference: "National Policy for Economic Welfare at Home and Abroad" Reels 1-13, 1954 May, 13 open reel audiotapes



Box 13 Third Conference: "National Policy for Economic Welfare at Home and Abroad" Reels 14-23, 1954 May, 10 open reel audiotapes


Box 13 Governor Thomas E. Dewey's speech at the Stamp Ceremony, 1954 January, 4 open reel audiotapes

The speech is recorded in 2 reels; there is a copy set.



Box 14 Unity of Knowledge Conference, 1954 October 27-30, 8 open reel audiotapes

One set of 4 reels and one set of duplicate reels


Box 14 Art History Conference, 1954 January 6, 5 open reel audiotapes

Parke-Bernet Galleries - International Congress on Art History and Museology, Taylor Galantiere, Salles


Box 14 Art Conference Dinner, 1954 January 7, 2 open reel audiotapes

Metropolitan Museum of Art



Box 15 Creative Arts Conference, 1954-1955, 16 open reel audiotapes

Lecture on Literature, Lecture on Music, Symposium #2 "What is the Responsibility of the Artist to Society?", Theatre in Our Times, Harkness Academy Theater Panel Discussion, Creative Arts Conference Dinner, Dateline Columbia with Prof. Campbell (1954) and Dateline Columbia with Mr. Reisinger (1955).



Box 16 First Bicentennial Convocation, 1954 January, 1 open reel audiotapes

President Grayson Kirk and Professor Mark Van Doren


Box 16 Adlai Stevenson, 1954 June 5, 1 open reel audiotapes

McMillin Theater


Box 16 Robert McIver, 1954 June 5, 1 open reel audiotapes

McMillin Theater


Dateline Columbia


Box 16 Grayson Kirk, 1954 January, 3 open reel audiotapes


Box 16 Syngman Rhee, 1954 August 7, 1 open reel audiotapes


Box 16 Richard Powell, 1954 November 20, 2 open reel audiotapes

Director of the Bicentennial


Box 16 Franklin Institute Program, 1954 January 5, 1 open reel audiotapes

TV program WFIL-TV Channel 6


Box 16 Fourth Conference: Barbara Ward's Speech, 1954 May, 2 phonograph records



Box 17 Fourth Conference: "National Policies for Education, Health and Social Services" , 1954 June, 14 open reel audiotapes


Large reels

Not in archival boxes



Box 52 Symposium No. 2, 1 open reel audiotapes

What is the Place and Responsibility of the Artist to Society?



Box 53 Symposium No. 3, 2 open reel audiotapes


Box 53 Art Conference, 3 open reel audiotapes



Box 52 Four Symposia: Creative Arts, Literature, Music and Theatre, 4 open reel audiotapes



Box 54 Art and Sculpture Conference, 2 open reel audiotapes

Speakers G.L.K. Morris and J.J. Sweeney. Chair P. Mangravite


Box 54 Art History, 2 open reel audiotapes


Box 54 Architecture, 1 open reel audiotapes



Box 55 Fine Arts Center at Columbia, 1 open reel audiotapes

Men's Faculty Club. Chair: Dean L. Arnaud, Speakers: Hugh Ferriss and John C.B. Moore, Discussants: Walter Cain and Max Abramovitz


Box 55 Howard Mumford Jones, 1 open reel audiotapes


Box 55 Third Conference Dinner, 1 open reel audiotapes

Speeches: Robertson, Burns, Kirk, Taylor


Box 55 First Convocation, 2 open reel audiotapes

Grayson Kirk and Mark Van Doren



Box 56 Sean O'Faolain, 1 open reel audiotapes

The Autonomy of Literature


Box 56 Harold Taylor, 1 open reel audiotapes

Freedom and the Individual


Box 56 "Man's Right to Knowledge" CBS Radio Series, 3 open reel audiotapes

W.F. Albright, Prof. Bhabitt and Prof. Campbell



Box 57 "Man's Right to Knowledge" CBS Radio Series, 5 open reel audiotapes

D'Arcy, Copland, Constable, Chisholm (x2)



Box 58 "Man's Right to Knowledge" CBS Radio Series, 5 open reel audiotapes

Ganshoff, Lord & O'Brien, Rasha Krishnan, Kirk, Ginsberg



Box 59 "Man's Right to Knowledge" CBS Radio Series, 6 open reel audiotapes

Murray (x2), Oppenheimer (x3) and MacIver.



Box 60 "Man's Right to Knowledge" CBS Radio Series, 6 open reel audiotapes

Tillich (x2), Toynbee, Woodkrutch, Westermann, Toynbee & College Professors Art Show



Box 61 "Man's Right to Knowledge" CBS Radio Series, 6 open reel audiotapes

Speir, Hu Shih, Sarton, H. Robertson, Herbert Reade, Pauli


Chronoscope: Grayson Kirk, 1 film reels



Flatbox 1 Columbia University Bicentennial Albums, 1954, 8 phonograph records

Four half-hour radio programs starring some of the country's best known actors and prepared by Columbia University to interpret in dramatic form its Bicentennial theme "Man's Right to Knowledge and the Free Use Thereof" were broadcast over the NBC network nationally Sundays during July. 2 sets of the albums: Program I: Frederic March in Socrates (with Florence Eldridge as Xantippe, his wife); Program II: Walter Hampden in Galileo (with Philip Borneuf, Edwin Jerome and Luis van Rooten); Program III: Macdonald Carey in Lovejoy (with Helen Claire, Karl Weber and Gene Leonard); and Program IV: Alfred Drake in Gandhi (with Alexander Scourby, James Monks and Alfred Shirley).


Flatbox 1 Dr. R. J. McCracken: Sermon for Bicentennial, 1954, 2 phonograph records; Two copies