Office of Public Affairs records, 1930s-1990s

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Series II: Historical Files

This series contains Columbia history-related materials, from King's College to the 1970s. This files are made up of mostly black-and-white photographs of historical portraits, etchings and drawings. There are also some press releases, articles and newspaper clippings.



Box 44 Folder 1 Alma Mater


Box 44 Folder 2 Atomic Energy

Atomic Bomb Anniversary, 1951


Box 44 Folder 3 Bard, Samuel


Box 44 Folder 4 Battle of Harlem Heights


Box 44 Folder 5 Barnard, Frederick A.P.


Box 44 Folder 6-10 Baseball game, televised, anniversaries, 5 folders


Box 44 Folder 11-13 Bicentennial of Columbia University, 1754-1954, 3 folders


Box 44 Folder 14 Bicentennial of the US, 1776-1976


Box 44 Folder 15 Bloomingdale Asylum


Box 44 Folder 16 Carlos, Prince Don Juan, visit


Box 44 Folder 17 Carter's Reorganization

Paul D. Carter, 1971


Box 44 Folder 18 Cattell, James McKeen


Box 44 Folder 19 Charter, 1754


Box 44 Folder 20 Cardozo, Benjamin


Box 44 Folder 21 Churchill, Winston


Box 44 Folder 22 Class Day, 1865


Box 44 Folder 23 Classroom Scene, First Day, 1754


Box 44 Folder 24 Clinton, DeWitt


Box 44 Folder 25 Collins, Eddie


Box 44 Folder 26 Columbia History


Box 44 Folder 27 Columbia College History


Box 44 Folder 28 Columbia's First Homes


Box 44 Folder 29 Columbia Seal - Original


Box 44 Folder 30 Columbia Alumni - Governors of New York


Box 44 Folder 31 Columbia Alumni - Mayors of New York


Box 44 Folder 32-33 Columbia Presidents, 2 folders


Box 44 Folder 34 Commencement, 1970


Box 44 Folder 35 Columbia Historical Events - Aetna Insurance Advertisements


Box 44 Folder 36 Constitution, U.S.


Box 44 Folder 37 Cooper, Myles


Box 44 Folder 38 Copeland, Aaron

Conducting Columbia College Band, 1965


Box 44 Folder 39 Creative Arts Conference


Box 44 Folder 40-44 Crisis 1968 - Correspondence, 5 folders


Box 44 Folder 45 Crisis 1968 - Discipline


Box 44 Folder 46 Crisis 1968 - Miscellaneous


Box 44 Folder 47 Cyclotron - Historical


Box 44 Folder 48 DaPonte, Lorenzo


Box 44 Folder 49 Dean and Directors' Meetings, 1967-1969


Box 44 Folder 50 Dewey Dinner


Box 44 Folder 51 Diploma 185 years old


Box 44 Folder 52-53 Draft, 1968, 2 folders



Box 56 Folder 31-34 Draft, 1967, 4 folders



Box 57 Folder 1-3 Draft, 1950-1966, 3 folders


Box 57 Folder 4 Early Diploma


Box 57 Folder 5 Earhart, Amelia


Box 57 Folder 6 Egleston, Thomas


Box 57 Folder 7 Election Recess


Box 57 Folder 8 Elgin Botanic Garden


Box 57 Folder 9 Eliot, T.S. Reading


Box 57 Folder 10 Engineering


Box 57 Folder 11 Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery


Box 57 Folder 12 First Class at King's College


Box 57 Folder 13 Fish, Hamilton


Box 57 Folder 14 Frederika, Quee


Box 57 Folder 15 Federico Garcia Lorca


Box 57 Folder 16 George VI Visit, 1939


Box 57 Folder 17 Gymnasium


Box 57 Folder 18 Harpur, Robert


Box 57 Folder 19 Halifax, Viscount


Box 57 Folder 20 Harison, Richard


Box 57 Folder 21-22 History - Columbia, 2 folders


Box 57 Folder 23-24 History, 1930-1950, 2 folders


Box 57 Folder 25 Jacobi, Abraham


Box 57 Folder 26 Japanese Visitors


Box 57 Folder 27 Johnson, Samuel


Box 57 Folder 28 Johnson, William Samuel


Box 57 Folder 29 Kearny, Major General Philip


Box 57 Folder 30 King Rufus


Box 57 Folder 31 King George I


Box 57 Folder 32 King's College


Box 57 Folder 33 King George II


Box 57 Folder 34 King's College Room


Box 57 Folder 35 King's College Tapestry


Box 57 Folder 36 Kiosk (Subway Station)


Box 57 Folder 37 Latham Mitchill, Dr. Samuel


Box 57 Folder 38 Laurens, Henry


Box 57 Folder 39 Lincoln, Abraham - "Face of Lincoln" Exhibition


Box 57 Folder 40 Livingston, Robert R.


Box 57 Folder 41 Macmillan, Harold


Box 57 Folder 42 McArthur Chair


Box 57 Folder 43 Manhattanville Neighborhood Center


Box 57 Folder 44 Medallion, Bicentennial


Box 57 Folder 45 Medina, Harold


Box 57 Folder 46 Men's Faculty Club


Box 57 Folder 47 Miliraty Convocation, 1947


Box 57 Folder 48 Millikan, Robert A.


Box 57 Folder 49 Mitchel, John Purroy


Box 57 Folder 50 Morris, Gouverneur


Box 57 Folder 51 Morse, Samuel


Box 57 Folder 52 Mozart Festival


Box 57 Folder 53 Morgenthau, Henry, Sr.


Box 57 Folder 54 O'Dell, Benjamin


Box 57 Folder 55 Observatory, 49th Street


Box 57 Folder 56 Peace Corps


Box 57 Folder 57 Pibulsongkram, Field Marshal P.


Box 57 Folder 58 Presidents, Columbia


Box 57 Folder 59 Prestige Sheet


Box 57 Folder 60 Pulitzer, Joseph


Box 57 Folder 61-62 Pupin Physics Laboratory, 2 folders


Box 57 Folder 63 Pupin Cyclotron



Box 58 Folder 1 Forty Ninth Street


Box 58 Folder 2 Queen Juliana


Box 58 Folder 3 Radio Courses


Box 58 Folder 4 RCA Fellowship


Box 58 Folder 5 Radio TV


Box 58 Folder 6 Randolph, John


Box 58 Folder 7 Regents - First Meeting


Box 58 Folder 8 Renwick, James, Sr.


Box 58 Folder 9 Rives, George


Box 58 Folder 10 Rodgers, Hart and Hammerstein


Box 58 Folder 11 Roosevelt, Franklin D.


Box 58 Folder 12 Russell, James E.


Box 58 Folder 13 Sato Degree, 1967

Prime Minister Eisaku Sato of Japan


Box 58 Folder 14 Seixas, Gershom


Box 58 Folder 15 Selassie, Emperor Haile


Box 58 Folder 16 Seme, Pixley


Box 58 Folder 17 Seton, Mother


Box 58 Folder 18 School of the Arts


Box 58 Folder 19 School of Dental and Oral Surgery


Box 58 Folder 20 School of Pharmacy


Box 58 Folder 21 Shah of Iran Convocation, 1955


Box 58 Folder 22 Silver Bowl

View of Trinity Church


Box 58 Folder 23 Silver Lectures


Box 58 Folder 24 Silver Tankard


Box 58 Folder 25 Sloan, William Mulligan


Box 58 Folder 26 Smith, Al


Box 58 Folder 27 Smith Testimonial Dinner


Box 58 Folder 28 Stamp, US

Columbia's Bicentennial postage stamp


Box 58 Folder 29 Stevens, John 1768


Box 58 Folder 30 Stickman Filter


Box 58 Folder 31 Strontium-90


Box 58 Folder 32 Stone, Harlan Fiske


Box 58 Folder 33 Straus, Oscar S.


Box 58 Folder 34 Sukarno Convocation, 1956


Box 58 Folder 35 Tompkins, Daniel


Box 58 Folder 36 Theodolite Returned to Columbia


Box 58 Folder 37 Toussaint, Pierre


Box 58 Folder 38 Treadwell, Daniel


Box 58 Folder 39 Trinity Drawing

First day of classes at King's College, based on Silver Bowl


Box 58 Folder 40 Tree Ring Evidence


Box 58 Folder 41 Truman, Harry


Box 58 Folder 42 Tunnels


Box 58 Folder 43 University Seminars


Box 58 Folder 44 Verplank, Samuel


Box 58 Folder 45 Van Bermuth, Pop


Box 58 Folder 46 Washington, George


Box 58 Folder 47 Washington Letter


Box 58 Folder 48 Wilson, Woodrow War Message


Box 58 Folder 49 Women's Hospital