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Series IX: Events

Arranged in 15 sub-series, this series contains images of annual and one-time only events held at Columbia University over the years.


Subseries: IX.1: General

Images of events that could not be categorized.



Box 194 "The Search," Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS), 1953

(Notes: Erik Barnouw; Alma Mater; some photos from CBS Photo Division.)



Box 207 The Columbia Campaign: Hong Kong Event, September 2006



Box 194 Cinematography, undated

(Notes: Unidentified film & actors filming south side of Low Library.)


Box 194 Columbia Associates Luncheon, 1952 December, 1952


Box 194 Columbian School Parade, ca, 1892

(Notes: Photograph.)



Box 213 Folder 2 Dedication of I.I. Rabi Scholars Room, 1997

Photos collected by Chauncey Olinger and donated in Fall 2022.



Box 194 Dedication of Morningside Campus, 1896 May 2, 1896



Box 208 Edward (Ted) Tayler Memorial Service, 2019 March 15

(Photo shows Professor Michael Rosenthal, Paul Auster and David Denby in the audience; photo by Jessica Raimi)



Box 194 Faculty House, 1986

(Notes: Christmas Party; Photocopy of Biographic Photo.)


Box 194 Wallach Art Gallery Opening, 1986


Box 194 Water Carnival, 1952


Box 194 West Point Parochialists, 1949

(Notes: University Seminars.)


Box 194 Women at Work Symposium, 24, September 1981

(Notes: Contact sheets.)



Box 207 World Economic Forum (Davos, Switzerland), January 2005 (with My Columbia books) (on a compact disc), January 2005



Box XL 8 American Yearbook Board, 1915 1916, 1915, 1916

(Notes: Union Club; Models.)


Box XL 8 Celtic Society of Columbia University, Dinner in honor of Dr. John Lawrence Gerig,, 1940

(Notes: Men's Faculty Club)


Box XL 8 Cribari Winery dinner for Professors of Columbia University, 1937


Box XL 8 Dinners, miscellaneous, 1890-1953

(Notes: "Grant Night" Middlesex Club, Copley Plaza Hotel; Waldorf Astoria; Ritz Carlton; Roosevelt Hotel; American Hellenic Society.)


Subseries: IX.2: Alumni

Images of events associated with Columbia University alumni, such as Dean's Days, Reunion activities, Alumni Association events, and Commencement luncheons.



Box 182 Alumni Affairs and Development, Columbia College Fund, 1953

(Notes: Scholars.)


Box 182 Alumni Day, 1929-1948


Box 182 Alumni Tour in Rome, Italy, 1972


Box 182 Black Alumni Reception, undated

(Notes: Color prints.)


Box 182 Business School Alumni Club


Box 182 Business, School of -- Dinner, undated

(Notes: Mrs. Millicent McIntosh.)


Box 182 Business, School of -- Dinner, 1926 June 10, 1926

(Notes: Hof-Brau-Hous.)


Box 182 Class of 1917 Miscellaneous, 1937, 1917, 1937


Box 182 Class Presidents Association, 1950s

(Notes: Founding meeting.)


Box 182 Class Presidents, Commencement Day, 1963

(Notes: George McKay; Milton Weill; George Jacques; Herbert Rosenthal; Mirek Stevenson; Rudolph Schroeder; Ira Cobleigh; Frederick Miller; Robert Kraft; Frank Safran; Philip Liflander; Richard Ferguson; Connie Maniatty.)


Box 182 College Alumni Association, undated


Box 182 Columbia University Alumni -- Los Angeles. California, undated


Box 182 Columbia University Alumni--Washington, D.C., 7, February1949


Box 182 Columbia University Club, 1947-1955

(Notes: Eggnog party; Joseph Coffee, Jr.; Frederick Atkinson; Robert Moore; Leonard Scully; Governor-General of Canada Field Marshal Viscount Alexander of Tunis.)


Box 182 Commencement Luncheon, 1971

(Notes: Marion Jemmott; alumni federation.)


Box 182 Commencement Luncheon, 1949

(Notes: Presenting gift to Eisenhower; Frank S. Hackett.)


Box 182 Commencement Luncheon, 1947

(Notes: Class of 1897.)


Box 182 Constitutional Convention of 1787 1931, 1787, 1931


Box 182 Dean's Day, undated


Box 182 Dean's Day-Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Graduate School of

(Notes: Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Graduate School of.)


Box 182 Dean's Day -- Dental and Oral Surgery, School of, undated


Box 182 Dean's Day -- Engineering, School of, 1948-1949


Box 182 Dean's Day-Physicians & Surgeons, College of, undated


Box 182 Dental and Oral Surgery, School of, undated



Box 183 Engineering School Alumni Association, undated

(Notes: Includes unidentified engineering alumni.)


Box 183 Father -- Son Dinner, undated


Box 183 Forty Niners, Society of, undated


Box 183 Graduate Faculties Alumni Association, 1956


Box 183 Graduate School Alumni Associationn, 1952

(Notes: James Bender; Louis Hadeer.)


Box 183 Holiday Luncheon, 1938

(Notes: Nicholas Murray Butler, H. Starr Giddings, Richard C. Patterson, Jr.)


Box 183 Holiday Luncheon, 1945 December, 1945


Box 183 Holiday Luncheon, undated


Box 183 Holiday Luncheon, 1948


Box 183 Holiday Luncheon, 1956 December, 1956


Box 183 Holiday Luncheon, 1951

(Notes: Oscar Hammerstein; Richard Rodgers.)


Box 183 Holiday Luncheon, 1954 December, 1954


Box 183 Holiday Luncheon, 1949 December, 1949


Box 183 Journalism, Graduate School of, undated


Box 183 Latino Alumni Association, undated

(Notes: Color prints. Low rotunda. Roger Lehecka.)


Box 183 Law, School of, undated


Box 183 Mines, Shool of, undated


Box 183 Older Graduates, Society of, undated


Box 183 Optometry, School of, 1946 1955, 1946, 1955


Box 183 Pharmacy, College of


Box 183 Physicians & Surgeons, College of, undated

(Notes: Hippocratic Oath plaque; Class of 1913.)


Box 183 Reunion, 1941

(Notes: Class of 1916 album.)


Box 183 Reunion, 1950 December 11, 1950

(Notes: Class of 1916 & 1917 Columbia College; School of Engineering; School of Journalism.)


Box 183 Reunion, undated

(Notes: Class of 1917 no date given.)


Box 183 Reunion, 1930

(Notes: Class of 1905.)


Box 183 Reunion, 1926 Football Team, undated, 1926, undated

(Notes: 1926 Football Team Reunion Dinner.)


Box 183 Reunion, Camp Columbia, 1951


Box 183 Reunion, Camp Columbia, undated


Box 183 Reunion, Class of 1925 undated, 1925, undated

(Notes: Class of 1925.)


Box 183 Reunion, Class of 1943 Civil Engineering, 1947, 1943, 1947

(Notes: Class of 1943 Civil Engineering Reunion; February1947 Alumni News, page 19.)


Box 183 Folder 43 Reunion, Class of 1946 Civil Engineering, 2006, 2006


Box 183 Reunion, Fall, 1955


Box 183 Reunion, Fall, 1947


Box 183 Reunion, Fall, 1942


Box 183 Reunion, Fall, 1949 October 8, 1949


Box 183 Reunion, Fall, 1950 October 21, 1950


Box 183 Reunion, Fall, 1946


Box 183 Reunion, Fall, 1943


Box 183 Reunion, Fall, 1945


Box 183 Reunion, Fall, 1948


Box 183 Reunion, Class of, 1923


Box 183 Reunion, Class of, 1928


Box 183 Reunion, 1929


Box 183 Reunion, 1931


Box 183 Reunion, 1938


Box 183 Reunions, Physicians & Surgeons, Class of, 1885


Box 183 Reunions, School of Mines, Class of, 1885


Box 183 Luncheon, Class of 1881 c. 1930-1940, 1881, 1930-1940


Box 183 Commencement Luncheon, 1949



Box 184 Reunion, Fall, 1956


Box 184 Reunion, Fall, 1952


Box 184 Reunion, Fall, 1948


Box 184 Reunion, Fall, 1960


Box 184 Reunion, Fall, 1953


Box 184 Reunion, Fall, 1951


Box 184 Reunion, Fall, 1954


Box 184 Reunion, Fall, I, 1950s


Box 184 Reunion, Fall, II, 1950s


Box 184 Reunion, Fall, 1955


Box 184 Reunion, General Studies, 1952


Box 184 Reunion, Physicians & Surgeons, 1953


Box 184 Reunion, Spring, 1949


Box 184 Reunion, Spring, undated


Box 184 Reunion, Spring, 1948


Box 184 Reunion, Spring, 1947


Box 184 Reunion, Spring, 1947/1948


Box 184 Reunion, Spring, 1950


Box 184 Reunion, Spring, 1951


Box 184 Reunion, Spring, 1943


Box 184 Reunion, Spring, 1946


Box 184 Reunion, undated



Box 207 Reunion, Engineering Alumni, 1995



Box 184 Social Work, School of, 1996

(Notes: Annual Alumni Conference: Michael J. Dowling, Alan B. Siskind, Dean Ronald Feldman.)


Box 184 Mines, School of, 50th Anniversary, 1914


Box 184 Mines, School of -- Centennial, 1964


Box 184 Mines, School of--Centennial, 1964


Box 184 Pupin Laboratories 50th, 1987


Box 184 Charter Day, 1967


Box 184 Reunion, Fall, 1951 October 13, 1951



Box OS 25 Columbia University Club, 1928

(Notes: Annual dinner to retiring governors.)


Box OS 25 Forty Niners, Society of, 1938

(Notes: Silver Jubilee at Columbia University Club.)


Box OS 25 Law School, Class of 1922 22 April 1953, 1922, April 1953

(Notes: Group portrait at class of 1928 alumni dinner.)



Box XL 8 College Alumni Association, 1890 1910 1923 1926 1936 1939, 1890, 1910, 1923, 1926, 1936, 1939

(Notes: Netherland Plaza; Columbia University Club; Hotel Brunswick; Columbia Alumni Club of Essex County.)


Box XL 8 Columbia University Club, 43rd Street, 1917

(Notes: "First meeting of the Columbia University Club at their new club house 4 West 43rd Str.")


Box XL 8 Dental and Oral Surgery Alumni Association, 1947 1957, 1947, 1957

(Notes: Roosevelt Hotel ; Pennsylvania Hotel.)


Box XL 8 Engineering School Alumni Association, 1908

(Notes: Astor Hotel.)


Box XL 8 Forty Niners, Society of, 1938 1939, 1938, 1939

(Notes: Columbia University Club.)


Box XL 8 Journalism, Graduate School of-Pulitzer Prize Dinner, 1934 1935, 1934, 1935

(Notes: Pulitzer; Men's Faculty Club; Commodore Hotel.)


Box XL 8 Law School Alumni Association Dinner, 1939

(Notes: In honor of Hon. Frederick E. Crane and Hon. Irving Lehman, Pierre Hotel.)


Box XL 8 Optometry Alumni Association, 1946

(Notes: New Yorker Hotel.)


Box XL 8 Physicians & Surgeons, College of, Alumni Association, 1926 1939, 1926, 1939

(Notes: Astor Hotel.)



Box XXL 2 Architecture and Science, Schools of, Annual Banquet, 1910 February22, 1910

(Notes: Astor Hotel. Women in balcony.)


Box XXL 2 College Alumni Association, undated

(Notes: State and international chapters, such as Baltimore, Oregon, West Virginia, Cuba, and the Phillipines.)


Box XXL 2 Columbia University Alumni-Los Angeles, CA, undated


Box XXL 2 Columbia University Alumni-Washington D.C., 1949 February7, 1949

(Notes: Mrs. Arthur V. Watkins, Arthur V. Watkins, Katharine Hall, Mrs. and Mr. Edgar Ansel Mowrer, William Y. Webb, William Roy Vallance, Mrs. and Mr. Henry S. Merrick.)


Subseries: IX.3: Anniversaries

This small sub-series contains images of some of the anniversary celebrations held by schools, such as Columbia College and the School of Mines.



Box 184 Charter Bicentennial for Columbia College, 1987

(Notes: copy print of artwork by Henry Sutter.)



Box 204 C250 Bollinger in Asia, undated


Box 204 C250 Symposium: 21st Century City, 1, October 2004


Box 204 C250 Book Party for Changing the Subject, 3, November 2004


Box 204 C250 Eileen Barosso, undated


Box 204 C250 Symposium: Earth's Future, Reception, 4, April 2004


Box 204 C250 Symposium: Earth's Future, 23, April 2004


Box 204 C250 Gala Dinner Negatives, undated


Box 204 C250 Henry Graff, undated


Box 204 C250 Homecoming Football Game, 1-2, October 2004


Box 204 C250 Postal Card First Day of Issue Event, 3, March2004


Box 204 C250 Visitors to Provost Brinkley's Office, undated



Box 205 C250 Symposium Columbia's Chinese Connection, 10-11, September 2004


Box 205 C250 Community Festival, 18, September 2004


Box 205 Homecoming 2003 18 September 2003, 2003, September 2003


Box 205 C250 Postal Card First Day of Issue Event, 25, March2004


Box 205 C250 ROAR Pep Rally, 1, October 2004


Box 205 C250 Homecoming Weekend 2004 1-2 October 2004, 2004, October 2004


Box 205 C250 Opening Weekend, 18, October 2003


Box 205 C250 HRH Prince Andrew on Campus, 11, October 2004


Box 205 C250 Symposium: State of the Planet, 29, March2004


Box 205 C250 Symposium: 21st Century City, 1, October 2004


Box 205 C250 Fred Friendly Seminar, 15, October 2003


Box 205 C250 Campus, 17, October 2003


Box 205 C250 Community Festival Art Show, 18, September 2004


Box 205 C250 Homecoming Weekend 2004 (cont.), 1-2 October 2004, 2004, October 2004


Box 205 C250 Great Teachers Award Ceremony, 14, October 2004


Box 205 C250 Homecoming 2004 (cont.), 1-2 October 2004, 2004, October 2004


Box 205 C250 Symposium: Brain and Mind, 13-14, May 2004



Box 206 C250 Rosalind Rosenberg Book Launch, 3, November 2004


Box 206 C250 Business School Exhibit, undated


Box 206 C250 President Bollinger Visits Asia, 3-15, April 2004


Box 206 C250 History Series, Professor Kenneth Jackson, 7, April 2004


Box 206 C250 History Series, Provost Alan Brinkley, 13, April 2004


Box 206 C250 History Series, Professor Rosalind Rosenberg, 20, April 2004


Box 206 C250 History Series, Professor Robert McCaughey, 27, April 2004


Box 206 C250 Community Festival Negatives, 18, September 2004


Box 206 C250 Homecoming Weekend Negatives, 1-2, October 2004


Box 206 C250 Re:NEW Frontiers in Creativity Negatives, 30, September 2004


Box 206 C250 "Howl" Reading at the West End Negatives, 1, October 2004


Box 206 C250 Symposium: Earth in the Balance, 22, April 2004


Box 206 C250 Re:NEW Frontiers in Creativity, 30, September 2004


Box 206 C250 Graduation Ceremony, undated



Box XL 8 Dental and Oral Surgery, School of-25th Anniversary dinner, John Jay Hall, 1942 January 17, 1942



Box 184 Mines, School of-50th Anniversary, 1914



Box XL 8 Mines, School of-50th anniversary, 1914

(Notes: Waldorf Astoria.)



Box 184 Mines, School of -- centennial, 1964



Box 211 Music, Department of - Centennial events (prints), 1996


Box 211 Music, Department of - Centennial events (negatives and contact sheets), 1996



Box 184 Pupin Laboratories 50th, ca. 1977

(Notes: Honorary Degrees; Rabi; Eklund; H.B. Casimir; Solly Zuckerman; McGill; Perria; Frank Press.)


Subseries: IX.4: Awards

Images of awards ceremonies and related photos associated with numerous awards granted by Columbia University. Awards covered in this sub-series include the Bancroft Prizes, DuPont Awards, Alexander Hamilton Medal, Pulitzer Prizes, and Vetlesen Prizes.



Box 185 Bancroft Prizes, 1974

(Notes: Dorothy Torbert; Marion Jemmott.)


Box 185 Bancroft Prizes, 1950s

(NotesĀ : Richard N. Current; Grayson Kirk; Elizabeth Stevenson; Mrs. James Garfield Randall.)


Box 185 Butler Medal, undated

(Notes: Still life of Butler Medal.)


Box 185 Butler Medal (Shuster, George N.), 1953


Box 185 Cabot (Maria Moors) Prize, ca. 1950s

(Notes: Grayson Kirk.)


Box 185 Cabot (Maria Moors) Prize, 1952

(Notes: 1952 Maria Moors Cabot Prize.)


Box 185 Cabot (Maria Moors) Prize, 1955


Box 185 Cabot (Maria Moors) Prize, 1950

(Notes: Eisenhower.)


Box 185 Cabot (Maria Moors) Prize, 1940

(Notes: John Cabot; Eduardo Rodriguez Larreta; Carl Ackerman; Jose Santiago Castillo; Carlos Romulo; Grayson Kirk.)


Box 185 Cabot (Maria Moors) Prize, 1959

(Notes: 1959 Maria Moors Cabot Prize winners.)


Box 185 Cabot (Maria Moors) Prize, 1947

(Notes: 1947 Maria Moors Cabot Prize.)


Box 185 Cabot (Maria Moors) Prize, 1943

(Notes: 1943 Maria Moors Cabot Prize.)


Box 185 Cabot (Maria Moors) Prize, 1951

(Notes: 1951 Maria Moors Cabot Award.)


Box 185 Cabot (Maria Moors) Prize, 1979

(Notes: Contact sheets.)


Box 185 Cabot (Maria Moors) Prize, 1948

(Eisenhower; 1948 Maria Moors Cabot Prize.)


Box 185 Cabot (Maria Moors) Prize, 1946

(Notes: 1946 Maria Moors Cabot Prize.)


Box 185 Cabot (Maria Moors) Prize, 1981

(Notes: Contact sheets.)


Box 185 Cabot (Maria Moors) Prize, 1957

(Notes: 1957 Maria Moors Cabot Prize.)


Box 185 Cabot (Maria Moors) Prize, 1944

(Notes: 1944 Maria Moors Cabot Prize winners.)


Box 185 Cabot (Maria Moors) Prize, 1945

(Notes: 1945 Maria Moors Cabot Prize.)


Box 185 Cabot (Maria Moors) Prize, miscellaneous


Box 185 Cabot (Maria Moors) Prize, 1949


Box 185 Casa Italiana's Merit Award, 1966


Box 185 Chandler (Charles Frederick) Medal, 1951

(Notes: 1951 Chandler Medal recipients.)


Box 185 Chandler (Charles Frederick) Medal, 1932

(Notes: Still life of Chandler Medal.)


Box 185 Chandler (Charles Frederick) Medal, 1954

(Notes: Harry Linn Fisher, President of American Chemical Society and Grayson Kirk.)


Box 185 Columbia Bicentennial Medal, 1954 ?, 1954


Box 185 Craftmanship Award, 1934

(Notes: Awards presented by President Butler in front of South Hall.)


Box 185 duPont (Alfred I.) Columbia University Award, 2000


Box 185 duPont (Alfred I.) Columbia University Award, 1995

(Notes: Walter kraft, Shellee Smith)


Box 185 duPont (Alfred I.) Columbia University Award, 1996

(Notes: Jean Elshtain, Deborah Hoffmann, Charlie Rose, Daniel Schorr, Roberta Baskin, Brian Lapping, Norma Percy.)


Box 185 duPont Awards (Alfred I.) Columbia University Award, 1969

(Notes: Still life of duPont-Columbia Award.)


Box 185 Egleston Medal, 1999

(Notes: Eliahu I. Jury, Zvi Galil, Z. Y. Fu.)


Box 185 Egleston Medal, 1948-1954 1977, 1948-1954, 1977


Box 185 Egleston Medal, Bicentennial Anniversary, 1954

(Notes: Damaged photos removed from B15.)


Box 185 Great Teacher Awards, undated


Box 185 Hamilton (Alexander) Medal, 1952

(Notes: 1952 Alexander Hamilton Dinner.)


Box 185 Hamilton (Alexander) Medal, 1947

(Notes: 1947 medal recipient Nicholas Murray Butler.)


Box 185 Hamilton (Alexander) Medal, 1999

(Notes: Axel, deBary, Shenton. Color.)


Box 185 Hamilton (Alexander) Medal, 1948

(Notes: 1948 Alexander Hamilton Dinner.)


Box 185 Hamilton (Alexander) Medal, 1950

(Notes: 1950 Alexander Hamilton Dinner.)


Box 185 Hamilton (Alexander) Medal, 1951

(Notes: 1951 Hamilton Medal Dinner.)


Box 185 Hamilton (Alexander) Medal, 1980

(Notes: Contact sheets.)


Box 185 Hamilton (Alexander) Medal, 1961

(Notes: 1961 Alexander Hamilton Dinner.)


Box 185 Hamilton (Alexander) Medal, 1955

(Notes: 1955 Alexander Hamilton Dinner.)


Box 185 Hamilton (Alexander) Medal, 1970s

(Notes: Margaret Carman; Marion Jemmott.)


Box 185 Hamilton (Alexander) Medal, 1955

(Notes: Roald Hoffman '58.)


Box 185 Hamilton (Alexander) Medal, 1949

(Notes: 1949 Alexander Hamilton Dinner.)


Box 185 Hamilton (Alexander) Medal, 1954

(Notes: 1954 Alexander Hamilton Dinner. "Cocktail party prior to Alexander Hamilton Dinner at Strats' office January 14, 1954." Members of class of 1925 including Stratford C. Wallace.)


Box 185 Hamilton (Alexander) Medal, 1957

(Notes: 1957 Alexander Hamilton Dinner.)


Box 185 Hamilton (Alexander) Medal, 1953

(Notes: 1953 Alexander Hamilton Dinner.)


Box 185 Hamilton (Alexander) Medal, 1960

(Notes: 1960 Alexander Hamilton Dinner.)


Box 185 Hamilton (Alexander) Medal, 1931


Box 185 Hamilton (Alexander) Medal, 1995



Box 186 Hearn (Norma and Murray) Social Action Award, 1947-1958

(Notes: Recipients of the award.)


Box 186 Jay (John) Awards, ca. 1979


Box 186 Kemp (James Furman) Medal, undated

(Notes: Still life of medal and recipients of medal.)


Box 186 Lane (Edward) Award, 1962


Box 186 Lazarsfeld (Paul) Lectures, 1981


Box 186 Li (K.C.) Medal, undated

(Notes: Still life of medal and recipients of medal.)


Box 186 Monell (Ambrose) Medal, undated

(Notes: Recipients of medal.)


Box 186 Nobel Prize winners

(Notes: 1965; 1975; 1982; 1986; 1987 ca. 1990)


Box 186 Pulitzer Prize, 1955

(Notes: Copy print from New York Daily News.)


Box 186 Pulitzer Prize, 1951

(Notes: 1951 Pulitzer Prize.)


Box 186 Pulitzer Prize, 1972

(Notes: From Central Files, 1971-1972 "Pulitzer Prize" box 698 folder 9.)


Box 186 Pulitzer Prize, 1974


Box 186 Pulitzer Prize, 1971

(Notes: Kent State copy print.)


Box 186 Pulitzer Prize, 1956

(Notes: Advisory board of 1956 Pulitzer Prize.)


Box 186 Pulitzer Prize, 1954


Box 186 Pulitzer Prize, 1958


Box 186 Pulitzer Prize, 1947

(Notes: 1947 Pulitzer Prize.)


Box 186 Pulitzer Prize, 1973

(Notes: 1973 Pulitzer Prize winners and their work.)


Box 186 Pulitzer Prize, 1970


Box 186 Pulitzer Prize, 1959

(Notes: 1959 Pulitzer Prizewinners.)


Box 186 Pulitzer Prize, 1990

(Notes: 1990 Pulitzer Prizewinners.)


Box 186 Pulitzer Prize, 1960

(Notes: Advisory Board; Miller; Ferguson; Minot; Hathway; Rogster; Lucas; Harris; Steven; McGill.)


Box 186 Pulitzer Prize, Centennial, 1947

(Notes: Anniversary of Joseph Pulitzer's birth.)



Box 187 Pulitzer Prize, 1998

(Notes: Examples of prize recipients work.)


Box 187 Pulitzer Prize, 1992

(Notes: Examples of prize recipients work.)


Box 187 Pulitzer Prize, 1995

(Notes: Photographs of Prize winners and prize winning photos and cartoons.)


Box 187 Pulitzer Prize, 1994

(Notes: Photographs of Prize winners and prize winning photos and cartoons.)


Box 187 Pulitzer Prize, 1991

(Notes: 1991 Pulitzer Prizewinners.)


Box 187 Pulitzer Prize, 1993

(Notes: Examples of prize recipients work.)


Box 187 Pulitzer Prize, 1996

(Notes: Examples of prize recipients work.)


Box 187 Pulitzer Prize, 1997

(Notes: Examples of prize recipients work.)


Box 187 Pulitzer Prize, 1999


Box 187 Pulitzer Prize, Miscellaneous, undated, (2 folders)

(Notes: Still life of Medal.)


Box 187 Van Doren Award, 1981

(Notes: Contact sheets.)


Box 187 Vetlesen (G. Unger) Prize, 1978

(Notes: Contact sheets.)


Box 187 Vetlesen (G. Unger) Prize, 1996

(Notes: Winners John Imbrie and Robert Dickinson with George Rupp.)


Box 187 Vetlesen (G. Unger) Prize, 1981

(Notes: From OPA files; Sovern.)


Subseries: IX.5: Commencement

Chronological arrangement of images of university commencement ceremonies held over the years. The holdings for the ceremonies are predominantly from the 20th century. Also includes files of images depicting more general subjects associated with commencement day at Columbia.



Box 188 1811 1811, 1811, 1811

(Notes: Photo of sketch.)


Box 188 1843 1843, 1843, 1843

(Notes: Photo of a document.)


Box 188 1909 1949-1964, 1909, 1949-1964

(NotesĀ : Reunions.)


Box 188 1910 1910-1913, 1910, 1910-1913

(NotesĀ : Class Portrait, Class Day Activities.)


Box 188 1913 1913, 1913, 1913

(NotesĀ : Class Day Activities.)


Box 188 1914 1914, 1914, 1914

(Notes: Early Eighties Band.)


Box 188 1915 1915, 1915, 1915


Box 188 1917 1917, 1917, 1917

(Notes: Marconi and others.)


Box 188 1918 1918, 1918, 1918

(Notes: Nicholas Murray Butler and others.)


Box 188 1919 1919, 1919, 1919


Box 188 1920 1920, 1920, 1920

(Notes: Men in academic and military dress.)


Box 188 1921 1921, 1921, 1921

(Notes: Class Photo, Class Day.)


Box 188 1922 1922, 1922, 1922

(Notes: Class Day/Commencement Exercises.)


Box 188 1923 1923, 1923, 1923


Box 188 1924 1924, 1924, 1924

(NotesĀ : Class Day Parade, Ceremony, Faculty.)


Box 188 1925 1925, 1925, 1925

(Notes: Class Portraits, Faculty.)


Box 188 1926 1926, 1926, 1926

(Notes: Exterior Shots, Class Portraits.)


Box 188 1927 1927, 1927, 1927

(Notes: Mainly Faculty in Academic Dress.)


Box 188 1929 1929, 1929, 1929

(Notes: Faculty, Class Day Parade.)


Box 188 1930 1930, 1930, 1930

(Notes: Seating and ceremony set up on Low Plaza)


Box 188 1931 1931, 1931, 1931

(Notes: Commencement Ceremony.)


Box 188 1932 1932, 1932, 1932

(Notes: Overhead Shot, N.M. Butler and others.)


Box 188 1933 1933, 1933, 1933

(Notes: Official Photos.)


Box 188 1938 1938, 1938, 1938


Box 188 1940 1940, 1940, 1940


Box 188 1941 1941, 1941, 1941

(Notes: Photos by Jack Lewis.)


Box 188 1942 1942, 1942, 1942


Box 188 1943 1943, 1943, 1943


Box 188 1944 1944, 1944, 1944



Box 189 1945 1945, 1945, 1945

(Notes: N.M. Butler, Senator George.)


Box 189 1946 1946, 1946, 1946


Box 189 1947 1947, 1947, 1947

(Notes: Manny Warman Photos.)


Box 189 1948 1948, 1948, 1948

(Notes: Manny Warman Photos.)


Box 189 1949 1949, 1949, 1949

(Notes: Class Day; McKnight, Bob Milch, Thomas W. Chrystie.)


Box 189 1950 1950, 1950, 1950

(Notes: Warman.)


Box 189 1951 1951, 1951, 1951

(Notes: Warman.)


Box 189 1952 1952, 1952, 1952

(Notes: Warman.)


Box 189 1953 1953, 1953, 1953

(Notes: Warman.)


Box 189 1954 1954, 1954, 1954

(Notes: Warman.)


Box 189 1955 1955, 1955, 1955


Box 189 1956 1956, 1956, 1956


Box 189 1957 1957, 1957, 1957

(Notes: Morton Weinstein Photographs. Grayson Kirk.)



Box 190 1960 1960, 1960, 1960


Box 190 1961 1961, 1961, 1961


Box 190 1962 1962, 1962, 1962


Box 190 1965 1965, 1965, 1965

(Note: Warman Photograph.)


Box 190 1966 1966, 1966, 1966


Box 190 1973 1973, 1973, 1973


Box 190 1974 1974, 1974, 1974


Box 190 1975 1975, 1975, 1975


Box 190 1976 1976, 1976, 1976

(Notes: Two Photos/Some Photocopies.)


Box 190 1977 1977, 1977, 1977


Box 190 1980 1980, 1980, 1980

(Notes: Contact sheets for negatives.)


Box 190 1983 1983, 1983, 1983

(Notes: Honorary degree recipients.)


Box 190 1984 1984, 1984, 1984

(Notes: Honorary degree recipients.)


Box 190 1985 1985, 1985, 1985

(Notes: Honorary degree recipients.)


Box 190 1986 1986, 1986, 1986

(Notes: Honorary degree recipients.)


Box 190 1987 1987, 1987, 1987

(Notes: Honorary degree recipients.)


Box 190 1988 1988, 1988, 1988

(Notes: Honorary degree recipients.)


Box 190 1989 1989, 1989, 1989

(Notes: Honorary degree recipients.)


Box 190 1990 1990, 1990, 1990

(Notes: Honorary degree recipients.)


Box 190 1991 1991, 1991, 1991

(Notes: Honorary degree recipients.)


Box 190 1992 1992, 1992, 1992

(Notes: Honorary degree recipients.)


Box 190 1993 1993, 1993, 1993

(Notes: Honorary degree recipients.)


Box 190 2000 2000, 2000, 2000

(Notes: George Rupp and students in cap and gown.)



Box 208 2018, 2018

(photos by Jessica Raimi)



Box 190 Baccalaureate, 1973-1974


Box 190 Class Day, undated

(Notes: Scenes of class day.)


Box 190 Costume Parade, 1903-1926

(Notes: Arthur M. Wolff.)


Box 190 Miscellaneous with Eisenhower (Dwight D.), 1948-1949

(Notes: June 1st; Class of 1899.)


Box 190 Miscellaneous, c., 1915-1985


Box 190 Nursing, School of, undated


Box 190 Physicians & Surgeons, College of, 1918 undated, 1918, undated


Box 190 Social Work, School of, undated



Box OS 25 1926 1926, 1926, 1926

(Notes: Collage; Costume Parade; Baseball Game; Baker Field; Nicholas Murray Butler; Bishop Murray; Ernest Cardozo.)



Box XXL 2 1927 ca. 1928, 1927, ca. 1928

(Notes: Photocollage of commencement activities and alumni dressed for costume parade)


Subseries: IX.6: Community Affairs

Images of Columbia sponsored community related programs and events.



Box 191 Community Athletic Field, 1966 1968, 1966, 1968

(Notes: Arthur Hill.)


Box 191 Community Impact, undated


Box 191 Community Service, 1948 1952, 1948, 1952


Box 191 Community Service, Committee for, 1951 1957, 1951, 1957

(Notes: Pat Boone; Chet Forte; Bud Collyer; McMillin Theater; "Morningside-Manhattanville Hit Parade".)


Box 191 Double Discovery Center, undated


Box 191 Literacy, 1995

(Notes: Ed Bradley and Geraldine Ferraro.)


Box 191 Morningside Area Alliance, Inc.-proposed gymnasium, 1968

(Notes: Part of the Morningside Heights Alliance, Inc. Collection; Signing of lease with Kirk and Commissioner of Parks, Newbold Morris.)


Box 191 Morningside Heights, Inc., ca. 1961

(Notes: Exhibit, "Citizens of Morningside Heights"; Richard Conrad; Grayson Kirk.)


Box 191 Pamphatria Canned Food Drive, 1970s

(Notes: Group.)


Box 191 Thrift Shop, 1950s

(Notes: Mrs. William M. Rogers; Kevin C. McCann; Kate Butler Scholarship.)


Subseries: IX.7: Concerts and Performances

Images of some of the performances held at Columbia University. Includes images of the First Institute Concerts held in 1928-1929.



Box OS 25 First Institute Concert Series, 1928-1929

(Notes: Institute of Arts and Sciences; Souise Homer; Walter Gieseking; Lawrence Tibbett; The Kedroff Quartet; The Flonzaley Quartet.)



Box 192 Performance of Garcia Lorca's play MARIANA PINEDA, December 17, 1938

Performance at McMillin Theatre, under the auspices of the Columbia University Hispanic Institute


Subseries: IX.8: Conferences

Images of some of the conferences held at Columbia University. Columbia Scholastic Press Association conference is well represented in this sub-series.



Box 191 "College Program in Action", 1946

(Notes: Fackenthal and others sitting at table.)


Box 191 "Mexican-Modernism:Re-generation" symposium, 1990 October 10-11, 1990

(Notes: Agustin Hernandez, Felix Candela, Mario Pani, Humberto Ricalde.)


Box 191 Air Conditioning and Refrigeration, 1954 September 13, 1954


Box 191 Black Business Students M.B.A. Conference, 1990 February, 1990

(Notes: "Black Empowerment 1990 Strengthening Our Community from Within.")


Box 191 Care of Dependent Children, Conference on the, undated


Box 191 "College Program in Action," 27, May 1946

(Notes: Events -- Conferences.)


Box 191 Forum on Democracy, undated


Box 191 Global Influence of the U.S. Constitution, 1987

(Notes: Jurists of six nations meet at Columbia Law School.)


Box 191 National Academy of Sciences, 1922

(Notes: Group portrait of attendees.)


Box 191 Scholastic Press Association, 1962

(Notes: (CSPA); Pulitzer plaque.)


Box 191 Scholastic Press Asociation, undated

(Notes: (CSPA).)


Box 191 Scholastic Press Associationm, 1954

(Notes: (CSPA); Malberry Smith, area representative of CU Bicentennial; Savannah State College, Georgia.)


Box 191 Scholastic Press Association, 1961

(Notes: (CSPA).)



Box OS 25 1955 February4, Shah of Iran Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, 1955, 1955, 1955



Box XL 8 Scholastic Press Association, 1937 1940 1941 1942 1946, 1937, 1940, 1941, 1942, 1946

(Notes: Luncheon group portrait.)


Subseries: IX.9: Convocations

Images of some of the numerous convocations held at Columbia University in the 20th century.



Box 191 1904 September 23, 1904, 1904, September 23, 1904


Box 191 1920 June 2, 1920, 1920, June 2, 1920


Box 191 1921 November 19, 1921, 1921, November 19, 1921

(Notes: Foch.)


Box 191 1930 September 4, 1930, 1930, September 4, 1930


Box 191 1936 November 18, 1936, 1936, November 18, 1936

(Notes: Erasmus Celebration.)


Box 191 1939 1939, 1939, 1939

(Notes: SEE portraits: Georg VI, King of England.)


Box 191 1951 April 3, 1951, 1951, April 3, 1951

(Notes: Honorary degree given to Vincent Auriol, President of France.)


Box 191 1954 November 23 (Viscount Montgomery), 1954, 1954, 1954

(Notes: Honorary degree given to Field Marshal, the Viscount Montgomery of Alamein.)


Box 191 1954 November 5 (Prime Minister Yoshida), 1954, 1954, 1954

(Notes: Kirk and Yoshida.)


Box 191 1955 April 1 Scelba (Mario), 1955, 1955, 1955


Box 191 1955 February 4, 1955, 1955, February 4, 1955

(Notes: LLD given to the Shah of Iran.)


Box 191 1970 April 13 (Pablo Casals), 1970, 1970, 1970


Box 191 Folder 35 Bishop Desmond Tutu Convocation, 1982 August 3


Box 191 1982 February3, 1982, 1982, February3, 1982

(Notes: St. Paul's Chapel.)


Box 191 Pibulsonggram (Marshal P.), May 1955



Box OS 25 1955 February 4, Shah of Iran Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, 1955, 1955



Box XL 8 1920 June 2, 1920, 1920, June 2, 1920

(Notes: Group portrait on Low Memorial Library stairs of Nicholas Murray Butler, Henry Pomeroy Davison, Admiral William Sims, John Joseph Pershing, Rev. Charles Henry Brent, Herbert Hoover, William Barclay Parsons.)



Box XXL 2 1921 November 19 (Marshal Foch), 1921, 1921, 1921

(Notes: Torn print. View of Low Library and plaza during ceremony. Photo by Langman & Davis, 1841 Broadway.)


Subseries: IX.10: Exhibits

Small sub-series of images depicting some of the exhibitions that have been presented at Columbia University over the years.



Box 192 "Gordon Hamilton", undated


Box 192 Alexander Hamilton, 1954 ?, 1954


Box 192 Architecture, 1980s-1990s

(Notes: Avery Art and Architecture Library.)


Box 192 Battle of Harlem Heights, The, 1944


Box 192 Birds of America, Rare Books and Manuscripts Library, undated

(Notes: By Audubon, John James, first edition.)


Box 192 Bookbinding


Box 192 College and Industry Exhibit, 1956

(Notes: "First Atomic Submarine.")


Box 192 Faculty Art Show, 1943-1987


Box 192 Firdausi, n.d.

(Notes: Firdausi Celebration.)


Box 192 Harlem Horizon Art Studio, 1996

(Notes: Program from Harlem Hospital's Injury Prevention Program in the division of Pediatrics and Pediatric Surgery. Low rotunda.)


Box 192 Louvain, University of, 1940

(Notes: After invasion of Belgium by German Army; sent to N. M. Butler.)


Box 192 Melvil Dewey Exhibit-School of Library Service

(Photographs of photographs in exhibit.)


Box 192 Mexican Exhibit, undated


Box 192 Miscellaneous, undated

(Notes: Views of miscellaneous exhibits.)


Box 192 Miscellaneous, 1945


Box 192 National Library Week, undated


Box 192 Piranesi Exhibit, 1972

(Notes: reception for Piranesi exhibit (March 21-April 14, 1972))


Box 192 Ransohoff Exhibit, ca. 1960

(Notes: Exhibit photographs and photographs of the exhibit area.)


Box 192 Russian Exhibit, undated


Box 192 Summer Session, 1951


Subseries: IX.11: Lectures

Images of some of the lecture events held at Columbia University over the years.



Box 193 Bampton Lectures, 1982

(Notes: Fritz Stern, Sir Anthony Kenny.)


Box 193 DAG Hammarskjold Memorial Lectures, 1964


Box 193 Faculty House Lectures, 1986

(NotesĀ : Photocopies of Biographic Photos.)


Box 193 Fred Friendly Seminars, 1986

(Notes: Photocopies of Biographic Photos.)


Box 193 Gabriel Silver Lecture, 1958

(Notes: Lecture by Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, V.P. of the Republic of India.)


Box 193 Hamilton (Alexander) Papers, 1981

(Notes: Book: THE LAW PRACTICE OF ALEXANDER HAMILTON)


Box 193 Lazarsfeld (Paul) Lectures


Box 193 McKinsey Foundation Lectures, undated

(Notes: International Business Machines Corporation; Thomas Watson; "Meeting the Challenge of Growth"; "Organizations and Beliefs"; "The Vital Need: Broader Corporate Purpose".)


Box 193 Russell (Bertrand) Lecture, 1950

(Notes: First of three lectures on "The Impact of Science on Society," in McMillin Theater.)



Box OS 25 Bampton Lecture, 1952

(Notes: James B. Conant Harvard President; Grayson Kirk.)


Subseries: IX.12: Opening Exercises

Very small sub-series depicting Columbia University opening exercises held in 1926 and 1940 to 1950.



Box 193 1926 1926, 1926, 1926

(Notes: Photographs taken by Oliver Wm. Nicoll, Columbia University, 22 September 1926.)


Box 193 1940 1940, 1940, 1940


Box 193 1943 1943, 1943, 1943


Box 193 1946 1946, 1946, 1946


Box 193 1948 1948, 1948, 1948


Box 193 1949 1949, 1949, 1949


Box 193 1950 1950, 1950, 1950


Subseries: IX.13: Protest and Activism

Small sub-series of images depicting protest activities on campus. Images are mostly from the 1960s but there are some events from the 1940s and 1950s represented in this sub-series. See Office of Public Affairs Photograph Collection and the University Protest and Activism Collection for more extensive collections of images from campus protests in 1968 and surrounding years.



Box 192 Office of Public Information, 1968 undated

(Notes: accession 2002.054)



Box 193 1968 1968, 1968, 1968

(Notes: Occupation of Columbia University.)


Box 193 1968 "Demonstrations" occupying 202 Low Library, from Kirk-Cordier Records, 1968, 1968, 1968


Box 193 1968 Crisis 1968-1969, 1968, 1968-1969, (3 folders)

(Notes: accession 2002.054.)


Box 193 1968 Hamilton Hall-from records of Joint Committee on Disciplinary Affairs, 1968, 1968, 1968

(Notes: Hamilton Hall.)


Box 193 1968 Office of Public Information Photos, 1968 Undated, 1968, 1968 Undated



Box 211 Anti-War Strike, 1972 April

(photos by Jessica Raimi printed from digitized color slides in 2021. Digital versions exist of these four images)



Box 194 Barnard College student protestors, 1972

(Notes: Accession 2002.054)


Box 194 Columbus Day, 1992

(Notes: Taken & donated by John H. Bolender; general views.)


Box 194 Communism, 1983



Box 208 Demonstrations on Low Library Steps, 2014-2016

(depicts protests against sexual assault and supporting immigration)



Box 194 El Salvador, 1990


Box 194 General, ca. 1970s

(Notes: Students demonstrating on Low Library steps)


Box 194 Morningside United, undated

(Notes: Photostatic prints Initials, "C.R.")


Box 194 R.O.T.C., 1965

(Notes: Printed from negatives, "Pickets-N.R.O.T.C., 1 June 1965" Office of Public Affairs Negatives.)


Box 194 Rivera (Diego) speaking for the reappointment of Donald Henderson,, ca. 1933

(Notes: Sunball; Professor of economics.)


Box 194 Tuition rise, 1948 February12, 1948

(Notes: Students picketing Alumni Day Luncheon.)


Box 194 Unions, 1952

(Notes: Kitchen & Cafeteria employees.)


Box 194 Wall Stenciling, in President's Records B15, 1970

(Notes: U.S. invasion of Cambodia; "Black Power" or "strike" fist symbol.)



Box OS 25 Morningside Campus, 1968-1969

(Notes: From Morningside Area Alliance Records?)


Subseries: IX.14: University Seminars

Small sub-series of images of just a few of the many University Seminars held at Columbia University over the years.


Box OS 25 Latin American Seminar, 1966 October 2, 1966

(Notes: A. Berenguer; Juan O'Gorman; Frank Tannenbaun.)


Box OS 25 Miscellaneous, ca. 1970



Box 194 West Point Parochialists, 1949

(Notes: Photograph given to Frank Tannenbaum.)


Subseries: IX.15: Visitors

Small sub-series of images of some of the visitors who have come to Columbia University campus over the years.


Box 194 Foreign Professors, ca. 1923


Box 194 Glen Ridge Congregational Church, New Jersey, ca. 1950s

(Notes: Photos by Esther Bubley.)


Box 194 Miscellaneous, ca. 1940s-1960s

(Notes: Japanese; University Presidents.)


Box 194 Parents Day, 1958

(Notes: Counter to Dad's Day)


Box 194 Dorm Council, undated