Department of English and Comparative Literature records, 1910s-1990s

The student cards are for graduate students who attended Columbia roughly from 1912/13 to 1966/67. The department continued to update the cards (noting new addresses and dates of death) through the 1970s. We have a mostly full alpha run: only missing G-Huang and there are no "Ke" last names. The cards contain home and local addresses, previous degrees, and (some) registrar photos in the front. In the back, the cards include the academic years and the department classes taken (identified only by course number).

Indexes

The by-author and the by-subject sets of cards serve as a catalogue or guide to finding the microfilm with a particular student's MA Essay. The essays in the microfilm are organized mostly by year (all the essays in a roll are from the same year or consecutive years) but not alphabetically by the student's last name. MA essays up to 1971 can be found in the Columbia University library catalog, CLIO.

By author (student's last name)

Request Box 18

Box 18 A-L

Request Box 19

Box 19 M-Z

By subject

Request Box 20

Box 20 Comparative Literature and British literature

Request Box 21

Box 21 American literature

Microfilm with "student records" which are later identified as "MA essays."

There are four sequences or batches of MA essays captured in the microfilm. There are two copies of each roll, except for Roll #4 (1326-1385) and Roll#11 (1756-1819) of the first sequence.

Request Box 22

Box 22 Sequence 1, Rolls 1-21, student numbers 1-671, 1967-1981

Request Box 23

Box 23 Sequence 1, Rolls 22-33, student numbers 672-1301, 1967-1981

Box 23 Sequence 2, Rolls 1-9, student numbers 55-1685, 1967-1987

Request Box 24

Box 24 Sequence 2, Rolls 10-15, student numbers 1686-2048, 1967-1987

Box 24 Sequence 3, Rolls 1-4, student numbers 1823-2312, 1985-1989

Box 24 Sequence 4, Rolls 1-5, student numbers 2313-2599, 1989-1993

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Department of English and Comparative Literature records