Flat Files Collection, 1754-2017

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Series X. Portraits, 1865-1998

This series includes drawings, prints, cartoons, illustrations and photographs of portraits of Columbians.



Box 14-UA-1 Calcott, Frank, Drawing of Student Riots, 1932, 1932



Box 14-UA-4 Print of the Faculty of the College of Physicians and Surgeons with Engraving of Building, circa 1865


Color Print of Oil Painting of Franklin D. Roosevelt at his 1933 Inauguration, 1934



Box Flat Box 2 WPATT, Cartoon Depicting Subway Passengers entitled "Columbia Subway Revelers", undated


Wooy, S.J., Portrait of Dwight D. Eisenhower, undated


Gildersleeve, Alger, Illustrations, circa 1888


Neshamkin, Oliver M., Photos of Drawings of Students in Residence Halls, circa 1920s



Box Flat Box 3 The Old Print Shop, Inc., Woman Standing with Low Library in the Background, 1901

(color print from calendar)


Color Print of Unidentified Men wearing Academic/Legal Costume, undated


Kirkland, Sam, Head Portrait of an Unidentified Man, undated


Man Standing and Holding Hat, undated


Man Sitting with Chin Resting on Hand, labeled "For Browning", undated


Sone, Edward, Group Caricatures of Trustees Entitled "The Dutch Uncles" including William A.M. Burden, Frank Hagen, William S. Paley, Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, Walter N. Thayer, and Percy Uris, circa 1950s


Silhouette Portraits of Columbia Presidents Tom [Bare], John Jones, [Theophylact Zache], and Valentine Mott from Charles Peale's Museum, 1802


Rosenberg, Lindsay Rogers included in Group Portrait of Newspaper Industry, 1933


Print of Statue of Aesculapius, God of Medicine, circa 1890



Box Flat Box 9 Society Photo showing Seth Low at Governor Whitman's Inauguration, New York Times, 1915 January 10


Murphy, Porter, Drawing of Class of 1878 50th Reunion entitled "1878-1928 Fifty Years Young", 1928



Box Flat Box 13 Poster of Portrait of Great Figures in Literature, Philosophy, Political Science, and Theology before Low Library and the Alma Mater Statue, 1998



Box Flat Box 15 Boussad, Chromotypogravure of painting by Toussaint Chevreul, Michel-Eugene, undated



Box Flat Box 17 Wyatt, Stanley, Drawing of John Jay, 1978