Flat Files Collection, 1754-2017

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Series V. Events, 1802-2016, bulk 1890s-1960s

This series includes oversize posters from various events such as dances, performances, convocations, talks, exhibitions, films, opening exercises and other events and campus celebrations. There are also fraternity charters and society certificates.



Box 14-UA-2 Poster for Columbia Gay and Lesbian "Same But Different Dance" held at Earl Hall on October 20, circa 1970s



Box 14-UA-3 Poster Board with Poster for Ben Greet Woodland Players Shakespeare, Cloth Crew Patch, Columbia University Seal, University of Pennsylvania/Columbia Dance (1909), Political Handbills, Senior Surprise (1911), "Tableaux & Pictured Songs of Eastern and Western Life" (undated), and Ye Annual Country Fair, 1909-1911

(multiple posters on single board)


Christmas and Holiday Events: the Yule Log and Men's Faculty Club Punch Bowl, 1910, undated


Poster for University Convocation, circa 1968


Poster for Columbia Libraries Special Exhibition on Tsunoda Ryusaka and poster for Sister Exhibition at Waseda University in Japan, 2008



Box 14-UA-5 National Women's History Month, Poster for Women in Science and Mathematics with image of Chien-Shiung Wu, 1992



Box 14-UA-8 Posters of Student Life Sciences including Women with Photographs of Old College Hall and the interior of Earl Hall, circa 1900-1915


Poster for the Convocation of the Computer Science Building, 1983


Calkins, Professor Gary N., Poster for Talk in The Department of Zoology on the Smallpox Virus Life Cycle, circa 1910


Poster for Visit of Italian University Students, 1935


Poster of University Income, Appropriated in Budget, Donations, and Legacies, 1884-1910, 1910


Poster from Universal Exposition: Grand Prize for General Exhibit Illustrating Courses of Instruction and Methods and Results of University Work in Various Departments, 1904


Poster of Award for Exhibit of Photographs and Publications and Award for Exhibit of Library Book Shelving from the World's Columbian Exhibition, 1893



Box Flat Box 4 Zimbel, George, Exhibit of Photographs from 1947-2000, 2001



Box Flat Box 5 Poster for Exhibits Cambodia Witness: "Murder by Government, 1975-1979" and "1968 Columbia in Crisis", 2007, 2008


World Science Festival New York City, 2008


Dedication of New Columbia University Site at Morningside Heights, Harper's Weekly, 1896 May 16



Box Flat Box 12 Poster for Women's History Month, 1996


Poster for Varsity Drag, 1939


Poster for Constantin Meunier Sculpture Exhibit, circa 1915


Poster with Chart of Standard Electrical Diagrams and Symbols, circa 1900



Box Flat Box 13 Poster for the AIDS Memorial Quilt on Campus, 1995


Class of 1914 Poster for Divorce, Class of 1914 vs. History A; Execution of Calcul-o-Hell; with Columbia University Democratic Club Posters on Reverse, 1912, 1914


Poster for the Film "King: A Filmed Record…Montgomery to Memphis," 1996 Poster for the film "Selma: One Dream can Change the World," 2015 Poster for "Calling One, Calling All-February-Black History Month," 2016, 1996, 2015, 2016


Poster for University Opening Exercises, 1931


Poster with Student Life Scenes including Women, circa 1905-1915


Poster with Student Life Scenes, 1908-1910


Poster for the Varsity "C" Club, undated


A.E.N., Posters with Original Illustrations for "A Mediaeval Pageant of 13th Century Culture in honor of Roger Bacon", 1914


Poster for Relationship Violence Awareness Month, 2015


Poster for the "G. Stork Symposium," and poster for the talk "Modern Alchemy-Grandpierre Memorial Lecture," , 1992, 1996



Box Flat Box 14 Poster for Charity with Tagline "The Children of Brittany Lack Clothing-We are Working to Clothe Them. Help Us", 1917


Poster for Prayer and Commemoration Services: the Death of Warren G. Harding, Allied Invasion of Normandy on D-Day, September 11 Memorial Events on Campus, 1923, 1944, 2002



Box Flat Box 17 Charter for the Establishment of Sigma Chi, 1902 December 1


Charter for the Establishment of Delta Sigma Rho, 1910 December 14



Box Flat Box 18 McGill, William, Message of Congratulations for his Inauguration from University of Lagos, Nigeria, 1971 June


Peitho Logiana Society, Certificate, 1806


Philo Lectica [Philolexian] Society, Certificate, 1802


Posters for event, "HOWL Poetry and Jazz in Honor of Columbia's Beats" , 2005, 2006, 2008, 2009


Poster for Columbia College Charter Day, 2014 October


Poster for "Columbia Spectator: A Celebration of History", 2014 November 20


Poster for Creative Art Works, Columbia University School of the Arts, 2014


Posters for Voting Week, 2016


Box Flat Box 18 Posters for 5K Fun Run, 2006-2007



Box Flat Box 16 Poster for "Agents of Change: A Symposium in Honor of Marcellus Blount", 2019 March 26



Box Flat Box 18 Poster for Exhibit "The Way We Remember: Fritz Koenig's Sphere, The Trauma of 9/11, and The Politics of Memory" at The Wallach Gallery, Fall 2021


Box Flat Box 18 Posters for Academic Cafes (Arts, Humanities, Social Science, Science), 2009