Victor Kayfetz Photograph collection, 1963-1965

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Series I: Photo Album, 1963-1965

This series consists of one black leather album containing 105 archive-quality 5x7 inch historic photos (of which 90 are manually darkroom-produced, black-and-white enlargements, mainly from negatives) depicting Columbia College student life and related current events during 1963-1965. Identifying information about each image is noted in the container list.



Box 1 Page 1 Victor Kayfetz, '66 CC, at Home, 1963 June 20

(Photo by Dan Kayfetz, M.D., '37CC, who worked at the Columbia Rare Books Library in the mid-1930s.)


Box 1 Page 2 Sunset view east from Victor's apartment, 1963 June 17

(View is toward 109th and Broadway, near Columbia.)


Box 1 Page 3 Arthur Gandolfi, '66CC, 1963 July 4

(Waiting in New York for his Republican student group's bus to Draft Goldwater rally, Washington, D.C.)


Box 1 Page 4 Arthur Gandolfi, '66CC, 1963 July 4

(With his Republican group at the Mayflower Hotel, Washington. D.C.)


Box 1 Page 5 Washington D.C. Armory, 1963 July 4

(Venue for Draft Goldwater rally)


Box 1 Page 6 Senator John Tower, R-Texas, 1963 July 4

(addressing Draft Goldwater Rally, Washington, D.C.)


Box 1 Page 7 Start of black voter registration rally at Columbia's Sun Dial, 1963 October 11

(Rally was to register voters for Plaquemin Parish, Louisiana . Michael Harrison, '66 CC at right.)


Box 1 Page 8 Black voter registration rally at Columbia, 1963 October 11

(Southern white speaker)


Box 1 Page 9 Black voter registration rally at Columbia, 1963 October 11

(Unidentifed person collecting contributions)


Box 1 Page 10 After black registration voter rally at Columbia, 1963 October 11

(People conversing)


Box 1 Page 11 Pickets protesting speech by Madame Nhu (Trần Lệ Xuân), First Lady of South Vietnam, 1963 October 12

(outside McMillan Theatre, Columbia University)


Box 1 Page 12 Pickets protesting speech by Madame Nhu, 1963 October 12

(outside McMillan Theatre, Columbia University. Looking north.)


Box 1 Page 13 Madame Nhu, First Lady of South Vietnam, speaking at McMillan Theater, Columbia., 1963 October 12

( Her 18-year-old daughter Ngô Đình Lệ Thủy sits the background.)


Box 1 Page 14 Dwight D. Eisenhower speaking at Ferris Booth Hall, Columbia, 1963 November 21

(Columbia President Grayson Kirk and Abbot Rudolf, '64CC at left.)


Box 1 Page 15 Crowds outside U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., 1963 November 25

(Top photo on page; crowd waiting to view coffin of assassinated President John F. Kennedy)


Box 1 Page 15 JFK's coffin at head of his funeral procession, Washington, D.C., 1963 Novemver 25

(Bottom photo on page)


Box 1 Page 16 JFK's funeral procession, Washington, D.C., 1963 November 25

(Top photo on page; including Robert, Jacqueline and Ted Kennedy at right, President Lyndon Johnson at left.)


Box 1 Page 16 JFK's funeral procession, Washington, D.C.,, 1963 November 25

(Bottom photo on page; image taken a few seconds later with Lyndon Johnson at center left.)


Box 1 Page 17 A Columbia College sophomore's desk, Furnald Hall, 1963 November 29


Box 1 Page 18 Baseball game at Baker Field, 1964 April 9

(2 photos; CCNY beat Columbia 5-0)


Box 1 Page 19 Freshman dormitory applicants, 1964 April 15

(2 photos. Students waiting overnight for sign-up opportunity in Livingston - now Wallach - Hall.)


Box 1 Page 20 Freshman dormitory applicants waiting overnight, 1964 April 15


Box 1 Page 21 David B. Truman, 1964 April 21

(Top photo; Columbia College Dean speaking at "Dialogue on Student Political Apathy", Harkness Theater, Columbia)


Box 1 Page 21 Léonie Fuller Adams, 1964 April 21

(Bottom photo; Poet and Columbia English teacher reading her work)


Box 1 Page 22 Amitai Etzioni, 1964 April 21

(Associate Professor of Sociology speaking on "Socialism in the Nuclear Age" at Wollman Auditorium, Columbia)


Box 1 Page 23 Picketers at Schaefer Center, 1964 April 22

(Top photo; protesting alleged job discrimination against blacks and Puerto Ricans by the beer company. Opening Day, New York World's Fair, Queens)


Box 1 Page 23 Demonstrator confronts beer drinker at Schaefer Center, 1964 April 22

(Bottom photo; Opening Day of New York World's Fair, Queens)


Box 1 Page 24 Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) demonstrators, 1964 April 22

(Top photo; sitting on the bar at Schaefer Center, New York World's Fair. Columbia's CORE chapter sent 26 members to demonstrate.)


Box 1 Page 24 Policeman and CORE demonstrators, 1964 April 22

(Bottom photo; Policeman with bullhorn tells CORE demonstrators at Schaefer Center, New York World's Fair, to disperse or face arrest)


Box 1 Page 25 Mike Flug '66CC and Louis Perez '67 CC, 1964 April 22

(Columbia CORE demonstrators handcuffed together after being pulled off the bar at Schaefer Center, New York World's Fair. Perez had a front tooth knocked out as he was dragged from the bar by Pinkerton security guards.)


Box 1 Page 26 Joel Berger '65CC and Senator Kenneth Keating (R., New York), 1964 April 24

(soliciting a Draft Stevenson signature from incumbent Senator Kenneth Keating outside Ferris Booth Hall at Columbia)


Box 1 Page 27 Joel Berger '65CC and John W. Alexander, 1964 April 24

(Top photo; Berger getting a Draft Stevenson signature from the Columbia College Assistant Dean.)


Box 1 Page 27 Senator Kenneth Keating (R., New York) talking with students, 1964 April 24

(Bottom photo; to the Senator's right o his right: Ira Katznelson '66CC and Jesse Berman '66CC.)


Box 1 Page 28 Senator Kenneth Keating (R., New York), 1964 April 24

(Senator being interviewed by a Columbia student)


Box 1 Page 29 Columbia College Geology Class Field Trip, 1964 April 30

(Top photo; field trip to the Delaware Water Gap on the New Jersey-Pennsylvania border.)


Box 1 Page 29 Tom Cornelius '66CC on a geology class field trip, 1964 April 30

(Bottom photo)


Box 1 Page 30 Columbia College Geology Class Field Trip, 1964 April 30


Box 1 Page 31 Columbia College Geology Class Field Trip, 1964 April 30

("ice cream lover" student on field trip)


Box 1 Page 32 Picketers in front of the Soviet UN Mission, 1964 May 1

(Top photo; including 30 Columbia students protesting treatment of Jews mainly in Russia, on International Workers' Day)


Box 1 Page 32 TGIF Party, Ferris Booth Hall Patio, 1964 May 1

(Bottom photo)


Box 1 Page 33 TGIF Party, Ferris Booth Hall Patio, 1964 May 1

(Close-up of musicians and neighborhood kids.)


Box 1 Page 34 TGIF Party, Ferris Booth Hall Patio, 1964 May 1


Box 1 Page 35 TGIF Party, Ferris Booth Hall Patio, 1964 May 1

(Top photo)


Box 1 Page 35 Columbia Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps (NROTC) members at their Awards Ceremony, 1964 May 8

(Bottom photo)


Box 1 Page 36 Columbia NROTC Awards Ceremony, 1964 May 8

(Top photo)


Box 1 Page 36 Protesting Columbia NROTC Awards Ceremony on Low Library steps, 1964 May 8

(Bottom photo)


Box 1 Page 37 "Social Mockers" staging a fake murder, 1964 May 8

(Top photo; as a protest during Columbia NROTC Awards Ceremony, near Butler Library.)


Box 1 Page 37 Columbia College Freshman Orientation, 1964 September

(Bottom photo; Jeff Garrett '68CC and Paul de Bary '68CC in front row.)


Box 1 Page 38 Columbia College Freshman Orientation, 1964 September

(Top photo)


Box 1 Page 38 Law School Bridge Construction, 1964 September

(Bottom photo; looking north at bridge being built over Amsterdam Avenue)


Box 1 Page 39 Robert F. Kennedy at Ferris Booth Hall, 1964 October 5

(campaigning at Columbia for Republican Kenneth Keating's seat in the U.S. Senate representing New York)


Box 1 Page 40 Robert F. Kennedy in a crowd of Columbia students, 1964 October 5

(Top photo)


Box 1 Page 40 New York City policeman entering Morningside Park at night, 1964 October 14

(Bottom photo; Taken for Spectator series "Crime in Morningside". )


Box 1 Page 41 Apartment robbery victims in nightclothes with policeman, 1964 October 16

(Top photo; Taken for "Crime in Morningside" series.)


Box 1 Page 41 Resident in garbage-filled hallway at Bryn Mawr SRO, 1964 October 14

(Bottom photo; troubled single-room occupancy (SRO) hotel on 121st Street. Taken for "Crime in Morningside" series.)


Box 1 Page 42 Ragpicker with his horse and wagon, Morningside Heights, 1964

(Top photo)


Box 1 Page 42 Wine Merchants' Society president speaking at Ferris Booth Hall, 1964 October 21

(Bottom photo; before wine tasting)


Box 1 Page 43 Wine tasting at Ferris Booth Hall, 1964 October 21

(Top photo)


Box 1 Page 43 Republican students promoting Barry Goldwater for President, 1964 October

(Bottom photo; students at an outdoor table)


Box 1 Page 44 Democratic students promoting Lyndon Johnson for President and Hubert Humphrey for Vice President, 1964 October

(Top photo; At right is Joel Berger '65CC. )


Box 1 Page 44 Bishop Homer A. Tomlinson visits Columbia, 1964 October 29

(Bottom photo; Homer was the Theocratic Party candidate for President)


Box 1 Page 45 Students at official Democratic election night party, 1964 November 3

(Party held at the Statler Hilton - now Pennsylvania Hotel - in Manhattan)


Box 1 Page 46 Democratic election night party at Statler Hilton, 1964 November 3

(with slide of Robert Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson shaking hands.)


Box 1 Page 47 Democratic election night party, Statler Hilton, Manhattan, 1964 November 3

(Enthusiastic supporter)


Box 1 Page 48 Kenneth A. Lohf, 1964 November

(Assistant Director of Special Collections, Columbia University Library, showing a rare bound volume)


Box 1 Page 49 Students playing touch football in Riverside Park, 1964 November 29

(Top photo)


Box 1 Page 49 Neighborhood kids on a rock in Riverside Park, 1964 November 29

(Bottom photo; Riverside Church in the background)


Box 1 Page 50 Mario Savio, 1964 December 11

(Top photo; Savio was leader of the Free Speech Movement at University of California, Berkeley, speaking outdoors at Columbia)


Box 1 Page 50 Crowd gathering to hear Mario Savio, 1964 December 11

(Bottom photo; crowd in center of Columbia's campus)


Box 1 Page 51 Mario Savio, 1964 December 11

(speaking to a crowd outdoors at Columbia)


Box 1 Page 52 Christopher Dykema '66CC, 1965 February 2

(Dykema dates: 1944-2008), who later became a social worker in New York. Taken at his home near Columbia)


Box 1 Page 53 Andrew W. Cordier unveiling the design of the new International Affairs building, 1965 February 3

(Top photo; Cordier was International Affairs School Dean. The SIPA building was designed by Harrison & Abramovitz)


Box 1 Page 53 Dean Andrew W. Cordier and a model of the planned International Affairs building, 1965 February 2

(Bottom photo)


Box 1 Page 54 Burned-out Black Muslim mosque in Harlem, 1965 February 27

(following assassination of Malcolm X)


Box 1 Page 55 Picketers on 125th Street, 1965 February 27

(demanding that stores close to honor the assassinated Malcolm X)


Box 1 Page 56 Technician adjusting dials in the boiler room under Uris Hall, 1965 February

(Top photo)


Box 1 Page 56 Columbia student in zoology class dissecting a frog, 1965

(Bottom photo)


Box 1 Page 57 Barnard Gilbert & Sullivan Society's production of "The Mikado", 1965 April 7

(Top photo; at Minor Latham Playhouse, featuring Antonia Hess, J. Harris Spero, and Diane Tramontini.)


Box 1 Page 57 Barnard G&S Society's "Mikado", 1965 April 7

(Bottom photo; showing Robert Binder and Tom Neugebauer. )


Box 1 Page 58 "Il Troubleshootore" Varsity Show, 1964 May

(70th annual Varsity Show, opening night. Bill Henderson as Zachary Mandolin confronts Stephanie Ellington as Fanciulla Delawest. Music by Daniel Paget, lyrics by Howard Kissel.)


Box 1 Page 59 "Il Troubleshootore" Varsity Show, 1964 May

(At left is Anthony Abeson)


Box 1 Page 60 Big Men on Campus outside Ferris Booth Hall, 1964 May 5

(Person on left is Robert Kronley '65CC)


Box 1 Page 61 Columbia Daily Spectator office, Early 1965

(Top photo; Dan Epstein '66CC and Stan Sesser '65CC. )


Box 1 Page 61 The new Spectator editors, 1965 March

(Bottom photo; Jesse Berman, Philip Brenner, Stephen Steiner, David Spiegel (top), Daniel Epstein, Michael Drosnin. Michael Gengler, all '66C.)


Box 1 Page 62 The new Spectator business staff, 1965 March

(Harold Jawetz, Steve Weiner, Cliff Kern (top), Mike Talbot, Jay Goldsamt, Stuart Schlang, all '66CC or '67CC)


Box 1 Page 63 Spectator office, 1964 October 9

(Stephen Steiner, Business Manager L. Michael Kruger and Editor Donald H. Shapiro. )


Box 1 Page 64 Spectator office, 1964 October

(Bill Wertheim '65CC with his latest photo for the newspaper. Also a poet and political activist. )


Box 1 Page 65 Spectator office, 1964 October 14

(Michael Drosnin, later Editor.)


Box 1 Page 66 Spectator office, 1964 October

(Edwin Goodgold '65CC, Features Editor.)


Box 1 Page 67 First All-University Trivia Contest, 1965 March 1

(Two photos; Showing judges Doron Gopstein '66CC, '67L, Dan Carlinsky '65CC, Edwin Goodgold and Arnold Fleischer '65CC.)


Box 1 Page 68 Satirical montage for the April Fool's issue of Spectator, 1965

(Mad science professor has turned student into a lab rat and is now ready to sacrifice him.)


Box 1 Page 69 Montage for the April Fool's issue of Spectator, 1965

(History Professor Orest Ranum closing the books on student)


Box 1 Page 70 Columbia College students playing banjo and guitar, 1964


Box 1 Page 71 Columbia College students playing banjo and guitar, 1964

(Top photo)


Box 1 Page 71 Students and their dates at a dance in Ferris Booth Hall, 1964

(Bottom photo; At right is Stuart Schlang)


Box 1 Page 72 Broadway between 113th and 114th Streets, 1964

(Top photo; West End bar and restaurant)


Box 1 Page 72 Columbia College Dean David B. Truman, 1964

(Bottom photo)


Box 1 Page 73 Guitarist with female fan, 1964

(Top photo; in Greenwich Village)


Box 1 Page 73 Cheerful-looking woman in conversation, 1964

(Bottom photo; Washington Square Park, Greenwich Village)


Box 1 Page 74 Outdoor chess game in Greenwich Village, 1964


Box 1 Page 75 Washington Square crowd in Greewich Village, 1964


Box 1 Page 76 A Morningside Heights neighbor, 1964