Flat Files Collection, 1754-2017

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Series IX. Politics & Protest, 1762-1972, bulk 1910s-1960s

From King George II proclamation (1762) to the Graduate Student Union strike (2018), this series covers a wide range of events. It consists of posters, speeches, publications and protest signs.



Box 14-UA-2 Poster "UAW On Strike", 2018 April

(used during Graduate Student Union strike)



Box 14-UA-3 King George III of England, Proclamation appointing James Duane to position of Clerk of Chancery Court, 1762 April 20

(parchment with wax seal, has received conservation treatment)



Box 14-UA-4 Pamphlets Honoring Columbia's dead in World War I, circa 1917


Box 14-UA-4 Student Workers of Columbia (SWC-UAW Local 2710) - Protest/Strike Posters, 2021, 5 items

(Two large cardboard posters which were 55" and 54", respectively, when attached to heavy cardboard handles which were removed for storage purposes. There are also three smaller, hand-held posters in this folder. All were used during the 2021 graduate student strike. See also: Historical Subject Files for related information.)


Maps from World War I Collection, circa 1917



Mapcase 14-UA-6 Mapcase 14-UA-7 Protest Signs



Box 14-UA-8 Columbia University Democratic Club, Posters including Seth Low campaign poster, circa 1900-1912



Box Flat Box 4 Newspaper Clippings from World War I, 1917-1922


Student Army Training Corps from World War I Collection, 1917-1918


Underground Newspapers: "Hard Core," "May Flowers," and "College", 1968-1970



Box Flat Box 11 "Militants Riot at Columbia: Demand Black Panther Bail," Daily News, 1970 March 14



Box Flat Box 13 Young Socialist Alliance, Poster for "From Student Revolt to Socialist Revolution" Dan Rosenshine Speech, circa 1968


Anti-Anti-Ballistic Missile Demonstration, Poster, 1969


Progressive Labor Party, Puerto Rican Independence Speech by Juan Antonio Corretjer, circa 1969


The Committee for the Defense of Property Rights, Poster for "A Call to Intellectual Rebellion", 1968 May 2


The Committee for the Defense of Property Rights, Poster of "An Open Letter to President Grayson Kirk", 1968 April 29



Box Flat Box 15 Posters for War Fund from the World War II collection, 1943-1945



Box Flat Box 18 "A Close-up Look at Columbia's 1972 Dilemma," Bullhorn, 1972 May 12, 1972


"What's Behind the Student Revolt," Saturday Evening Post, 1968 September 21



Box 14-UA-3 Poster- Eugene McCarthy for President (with "Fascist" graffiti), 1968

Poster is from Joel Ziff materials [accession 2010.2011.M0007]. Unprocessed collection at the time it was encapsulated and flattened for use in Global 1968 exhibit in 2018.