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This collection has no restrictions.
Correspondence; Notes; Teaching Materials; research Material, etc.
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This collection is located off-site. You will need to request this material at least three business days in advance to use the collection in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library reading room.
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); Joseph A. Borome Papers; Box and Folder; Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Library.
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Columbia University Libraries, Rare Book and Manuscript Library
2020-12-10 Papers processed cml.
Collection-level record describing unprocessed material made public in summer 2018 as part of the Hidden Collections initiative.
2020-12-10 Created a complete box list with enhanced description. cml
Joseph Alfred Boromé was a historian who compiled and edited the correspondence of diverse figures, from librarian and scholar Justin Winsor and Reconstruction Senator Hiram Revels to English abolitionist John Candler and Haitian historical figure Toussaint Louverture. A native New Yorker of Caribbean descent, Boromé's parents were from the island of Dominica. He began his career as a librarian, and was head of the Burgess Library at Columbia University (1949-1950) followed by a long career as professor of history at City College in New York (1950-1984). He authored two books"Charles Coffin Jewett" (1951) and "Toussaint Louverture, a Life with Letters" (1984), numerous articles, and wrote extensively on Dominica. Boromé died in 2002.