Lecture notes collection, 1817-1969, bulk 1877-1913

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Series I. Benjamin Franklin Miller, 1817-1847

The papers consist of the Miller's undated lecture notes in bound notebook format, copies of poems and translations, a travel notebook, miscellaneous notes, and a few letters. The lecture notes represent the lectures of a number of early nineteenth century professors, including Nathaniel Fish and Chancellor Kent (law), but not all professors were identified. The 1817 and 1847 materials may be those of family members.



Box 1 Folder 1 Correspondence and Notes, 1817-1847


Box 1 Folder 2 Poetry, Lecture Notes, circa, 1829-1831


Notebooks, undated


Box 1 Folder 3 Mechanics


Box 1 Folder 4 Natural Science


Box 1 Folder 5 Philosophy, Civil Government


Box 1 Folder 6 Law


Box 1 Folder 7 Moral Philosophy


Box 1 Folder 8 Literature


Box 1 Folder 9 History of Britain


Box 1 Folder 10 Chancellor Kent's Lectures


Box 1 Folder 11 Travel Notebook


Box 1 Folder 12 Roman Philosophy


Box 1 Folder 13 Greek and Latin


Box 1 Folder 14 Poetry


Box 1 Folder 15 Greek History


Box 1 Folder 16 History of Literature



Box 2 Folder 1 Rules of Composition


Box 2 Folder 2 Blair's Lectures, Philosophy

Series II. Walter Trimble, 1878-1933

Series II contains lecture notes from the School of law. The notes were taken by Trimble while a student at Harvard Law School and Columbia's School of Law.



Box 3 Folder 1 Provenance Information, 1933


Box 3 Folder 2 Lecture notes, Harvard '79, Fine Arts, 1878-1880


Box 3 Folder 3 Lecture notes, Harvard Law School, 1879-1880


Box 3 Folder 4 Lecture notes on Equity, School of Law, 1880


Box 3 Folder 5 Lecture notes, School of Law, Burgess, 1880


Lecture notes, School of Law


Box 3 Folder 6 to 7 1880, (2 Folders)


Box 3 Folder 8 to 9 1881, (2 Folders)

Series III: Jonathan M. Wainwright, 1880-1886

Series III consists of both lecture notes and memorabilia. Found here are nine volumes of notes and several folders of memorabilia from Wainwright's years at Columbia. A scrapbook given to Wainwright by his brother Dick for Christmas in 1880 is included, as well as copies of examinations from Columbia College. The memorabilia includes tickets, commencement programs, pamphlets, and tuition receipts.


Box 3 Folder 10 Scrapbook, 1880

(Christmas gift from brother)


Box 3 Folder 11 Notes on English Literature, Dr. Quackenbos, 1881-1882


Box 3 Folder 13 Examinations, 1882-1884


Box 3 Folder 15 Memorabilia, General


Box 3 Folder 16 Memorabilia, School of Law


Notes, School of Law


Box 3 Folder 12 Municipal Law, Professor Dwight, 1881-1882


Box 3 Folder 14 Principles of Equity, 1885


Box 3 Folder 17 Political Economy Vols. I & II, 1884-1886


Box 3 Folder 18 Political Economy, 1884-1886


Box 3 Folder 19 Contracts, 1884-1886


Box 3 Folder 20 Miscellaneous, 1884-1886



Box 4 Folder 1 Miscellaneous, 1884-1886


Box 4 Folder 2 Constitutional History of England with Professor R.M. Smith, 1884-1886


Box 4 Folder 3 Greek Notes, Exercises, Essays, 1884-1886

Series IV. Edwin R.A. Seligman/John W. Burgess, 1882-1883

Series IV contains notes taken from John W. Burgess lectures by Edwin R. A. Seligman, C.C. 1879, from 1882 to 1883. John W. Burgess (1844-1931) was professor at Columbia from 1876 to 1902 and the founder of the University's School of Political Science. The collection found here includes eight notebooks from Burgess lecture's dating from 1882 to 1883.


Burgess Lectures, 1882-1883


Box 4 Folder 4 Constitutional History and Political Science


Box 4 Folder 5 Principles of International Law


Box 4 Folder 6 to 7 Comparative Constitutional Law, (2 Folders)


Box 4 Folder 8 to 11 General, (4 Folders)

Series V. Jacob S. Langthorn, 1888-1892

Series V is comprised of Jacob S. Langthorn's course notes from Charles F. Chandler lectures and other lectures from various School of Mines professors from 1888 to 1892. Included in this collection are notes from lectures given by Charles F. Chandler (1836-1925), an industrial chemist and one of the founders and long-time dean of Columbia's School of Mines. He also taught at the College of Physicians and Surgeons and was the president of the College of Pharmacy before it was merged into by Columbia.


School of Mines


Box 4 Folder 12 Practical Mining, 1888-1889


Box 4 Folder 13 Applied Chemistry, Charles Chandler, 1889


Box 4 Folder 14 Physics, Ogden N. Rood, 1889-1890


Box 4 Folder 15 Geology, John S. Newberry and J.Kemp, 1889-1892


Box 4 Folder 16 list of book on mining by ProH.S. Munroe, circa, 1890-1892


Box 4 Folder 17 Physics, circa, 1890-1892


Box 4 Folder 18 Hygiene, John S. Billings and Zoology, Nathaniel L. Britton, circa, 1890-1892


Box 4 Folder 19 to 20 General Notes and Formulas, circa, 1890-1892, (2 Folders)

Series VI. Lewis S. Bigelow, 1899-1903

Series VI consists of notes taken while Lewis S. Bigelow was enrolled in the Department of Comparative Literature from 1899 to 1903

The notes found here come from lectures given by several of the professors of the Department of Comparative Literature, including George E. Woodberry, J. E. Spingarn, and Frank Chandler. George E. Woodberry (1855-1930) studied at Harvard University and was appointed professor of literature at Columbia in 1891, moving in 1900 to the Department of Comparative Literature. He was known as both a poet and critic.

Found with this collection were a series of notes from lectures in the Department of Comparative Literature, the author of which is unknown. The notebooks have been kept and can be found with this series.



Box 5 Folder 1 Tuition Receipts, 1899-1903


George E. Woodberry lectures


Box 5 Folder 2 English II course book, 1899


Box 5 Folder 3 English Literature from 1789 to the Death of Tennyson, 1899, 1789, 1899


Box 5 Folder 4 Studies in Literature, 1900


Box 5 Folder 5 English Literature from the Birth of Shakespeare to 1660, 1900, 1660, 1900


Box 5 Folder 6 Theory, History and Practice of Criticism, 1900


Box 5 Folder 7 Literature II, 1901


Box 5 Folder 8 Shakespeare, 1901


Box 5 Folder 9 to 10 Comparative Literature II, 1901, (2 Folders)


Box 5 Folder 11 to 12 Comparative Literature IV, 1901, (2 Folders)


Box 5 Folder 13 Comparative Literature V, 1901


Box 5 Folder 19 Comparative Literature V, Criticism, 1901-1902


Box 5 Folder 20 Comparative Literature VI, 1901-1902


Box 5 Folder 22 to 23 Comparative Literature II, 1902, (2 Folders)


Box 5 Folder 28 Notes on Scott, Dickens, and Tennyson, 1902-1903


Box 5 Folder 29 Lectures given before Seminar A, 1903


Box 5 Folder 30 "The Roamer,", 1903


Box 5 Folder 34 Literature, English 13, 1899-1900



Box 6 Folder 1 Comparative Literature, English Literature from 1798 to the Death of Tennyson, circa 1900-1902, 1798, 1900-1902


Box 6 Folder 3 Comparative Literature, History of the Epic, circa, 1900-1902

(course co-taught with J.E. Spingarn)



Box 5 Folder 15 Comparative Literature VIII- frank W. Chandler, 1901


Box 5 Folder 16 to 17 Comparative Literature X, J.E. Spingarn, 1901, (2 Folders)


Box 5 Folder 18 History II, 1901


Box 5 Folder 24 Comparative Literature VII, J.E. Spingarn, 1902


Box 5 Folder 25 Comparative Literature VIII, Frank W. Chandler, 1902


Box 5 Folder 26 Comparative Literature X, J.E. Spingarn, 1902


Box 5 Folder 27 History XI, James Harvey Robinson, 1902


Box 5 Folder 31 Notes on Thackeray, 1903


Box 5 Folder 32 Reading lists for Comparative Literature courses, circa 1900-1903


Box 5 Folder 33 Miscellaneous, circa 1900-1903


Box 5 Folder 35 Comparative Literature, The Renaissance, Dr. J.E. Spingarn, 1901-1902


Box 5 Folder 36 Comparative Literature, J.E. Spingarn, circa, 1900-1902


Box 5 Folder 37 Comparative Literature, Mediaeval Lyric Poetry, J.E. Spingarn, circa, 1900-1902



Box 6 Folder 2 Comparative Literature, History of Criticism, circa, 1900-1902

Series VII. Lynn Thorndike, 1902-1905

Series VII consists of notes written by Lynn Thorndike during Herbert L. Osgood's lectures between 1902 and 1905. Herbert L. Osgood (1855-1918) was a distinguished colonial historian and an important critic of traditional interpretations of the American Revolution. Osgood also edited the Minutes of the Common Council of the City of New York, published 1905, and played a role in reforming state and city record-keeping practices.


Box 6 Folder 4 English Constitutional History before 1660, 1902-1903, 1660, 1902-1903


Box 6 Folder 5 to 6 Lecture Notes, English History, 1660-1832 (2 Folders)1903-1904, 1660-1832


Box 6 Folder 7 American Colonial History (Hist. 32), circa, 1903-1905


Box 6 Folder 8 to 9 American Colonial History (Hist. 33), circa, 1903-1905, (2 Folders)

Series VIII. Carl Trischka, 1884-1915

Series VIII contains lecture notes, a diary and Carl Trischka's master's thesis. Found here are notes taken by Trischka from courses in surveying, railroading, geology, and metallurgy, as well as a diary, the 1913 School of Mines Annual.


Box 6 Folder 10 Kogebog histiane Svendsens, 1884


Notes, School of Mines Courses


Box 6 Folder 11 Course 15: Plane Surveying, 1910


Box 6 Folder 12 C.E. 28: Rail Roading, 1911


Box 6 Folder 13 C.E. 27: Mining Claim Survey, 1911


Box 6 Folder 14 Metallurgy 62.S, 1912


Box 6 Folder 18 Geology 4 and Metallurgy 72, circa, 1909-1913


Box 6 Folder 15 Diary of summer work, circa, 1909-1913


Box 6 Folder 16 School of Mines Annual, 1913


Box 6 Folder 17 Map of Crittenden County, Kentucky Geological Survey, 1915


Box 6 Folder 19 Report of summer work in geology, circa, 1909-1913


Box 6 Folder 20 School of Mines, Master's Thesis, circa, 1909-1913

Series IX: James S. Ackerman, 1954-1947

This series includes notes taken by Ackerman during a P.O. Kristeller seminar.


Box 6 Folder 26 Notes re. Paul Oscar Kristeller Seminar, 1945-1947

Series X: Douglas Fraser, circa, 1950s

This series contains notes taken by Professor Douglas Fraser when he was a student at Columbia. They include notes primarily on art history lectures, but with some anthropology and other courses included as well.



Box 7 Notebooks (23 notebooks)

Series XI: James Banner, 1960-1962

Series XI contains lecture notes taken by James M. Banner, Jr. (GSAS, M.A.1961) when he was a graduate student in history.



Box 6 Folder 21 The Civil War and Reconstruction, 1960-1961


Box 6 Folder 22 The Age of the French Revolution- Peter Gay, 1961-1962


Box 6 Folder 23 The Age of Expansion, Garrett Mattingly, Fall term, 1961


Box 6 Folder 24 Colonial America- Richard B. Morris, 1960-1961


Box 6 Folder 25 The French Revolution, Shepherd B. Clough, 1960-1961

Series XII: Harold Wechsler, 1963-1969

Series XII contains lecture notes taken by Harold Wechsler (Columbia College, A.B. 1964; GSAS, M.A.1969, Ph.D. 1974) when he was an undergraduate and graduate student in history. Classes were taken with such notable professors as James Shenton, Walter Metzger, Richard Morris, Robert K. Merton, Frank Tannenbaum, and Jacques Barzun. Multiple classes are often found in one notebook and sometimes class notes are continued in a subsequent notebook. If multiple class notes are found in a notebook, flags have been placed within the notebook to delineate where notes for a particular class begin.



Box 8 Folder 1 Contemporary Civilization C1101x – C1102y: Development of Western Institutions and Social Ideas, 1963-1964

(course taught by Robert Dullete)


Box 8 Folder 1 Anthropology C1201y: Human and Cultural Evolution, 1965 Spring

(course taught by Robert Stegler)


Box 8 Folder 2 Math C1001x – C1002y: Intro to the Basic Concepts of Math, 1963-1964

(course taught by Serge Lang)


Box 8 Folder 3 Physics C1006y: General Physics I: Mechanics and Heat, 1964 Spring

(course taught by Jack Sternberger)


Box 8 Folder 4 Government C1201x – C1202y: Democracy and Dictatorship in the 20th Century, 1964-1965

(course taught by Joseph Rothschild)


Box 8 Folder 5 Humanities C1121x: Readings in European and American Literature and Philosophy of the 19th and 20th Centuries, 1964 Fall

(course taught by W. David Noakes)


Box 8 Folder 5 Government C1201x – C1202y "Democracy and Dictatorship in the 20th Century, 1965

(notes continued; course taught by Joseph Rothschild)


Box 8 Folder 6 Government 10 (Barnard): American State and Municipal Politics, 1965

(course taught by Demetrois Caraley)


Box 8 Folder 7 History C3121x: The U.S. in the 19th Century: 1789 – 1900, 1964 Fall

(course taught by James Shenton)


Box 8 Folder 8 History C3122y: The U.S. in the 19th Century: 1789 – 1900, 1965 Spring

(course taught by James Shenton)



Box 9 Folder 1 History C3133x – C3134y: The United States in the 20th Century, 1965-1966

(notebook 1 of 3; course taught by Walter Metzger)


Box 9 Folder 2 History G6661x – G6662y: Colonial America 1607 – 1763, 1965 Fall

(course taught by Richard Morris)


Box 9 Folder 2 English C3007y: English Speech and Pronunciation, 1966 Spring

(course taught by Ronald Baken)


Box 9 Folder 2 Science and Society 3001y: Philosophical and Social Implications of 20th Century Physics, 1966 Spring

(course taught by I.I. Rabi)


Box 9 Folder 2 History C3134y: The United States in the 20th Century, 1966 Spring

(notebook 3 of 3; course taught by Walter Metzger)


Box 9 Folder 3 History C3134y: The United States in the 20th Century, 1966 Spring

(notebook 2 of 3; course taught by Walter Metzger)


Box 9 Folder 4 History C4882y: Russia through Foreign Eyes, 1966 Spring

(course taught by Alexander Dallin)


Box 9 Folder 4 Sociology G4050y: History of Sociological Theory, 1966 Spring

(course taught by Robert K. Merton)


Box 9 Folder 5 History C3204y: Europe, 1714 – 1870, 1966 Spring

(course taught by Jeffry J. Kaplow)


Box 9 Folder 6 Economics G4311x – G4312y: American Economic History, 1965-1966

(course taught by Louis Hacker)


Box 9 Folder 7 Government C3611x – C3612y: International Politics, 1965-1966

(course taught by Donald Puchala and Waynde A. Wilcox)


Box 9 Folder 8 Sociology C3666x: Political Sociology, 1965 Fall

(course taught by Allen Silver; supplementary lectures: Sociology G6047x; Political Sociology: Structures and Processes, 1968 Fall)


Box 9 Folder 9 Contemporary Civilization C1201x – C1202y: Development of Western Institutions and Social Ideas, 1965-1966

(course taught by Milton Hassol)



Box 10 Folder 1 Sociology F1105x: Problems of Complex Societies, 1966 Fall

(course taught by Amitai Etzioni)


Box 10 Folder 1 Sociology C2208y: The Logic of Social Inquiry, 1967 Spring

(course taught by William Martin)


Box 10 Folder 2 Philosophy G4060y: Society and its Institutions: A Pluralistic Institutional Social Theory, 1967 Spring

(course co-taught by John H. Randall, Horace L. Friess, James Gutman, Frank Tannenbaum and Robert P. Wolff)


Box 10 Folder 3 Oriental Studies V3355x: Oriental Civilizations: Introduction to the History and Culture of Oriental Societies, 1966 Fall

(course co-taught by Myron Cohen and Ellen M. Gumpertz)


Box 10 Folder 4 Oriental Studies V3356y: Intro to the History and Culture of Oriental Studies, 1967 Spring

(course co-taught by Ainslee T. Embree and Morton Klass)


Box 10 Folder 5 Government G4471x: Political Institutions of China, 1966 Fall

(course taught by A. Doak Barnett)


Box 10 Folder 5 Government G6868y: Communism in Asia, 1967 Spring

(course taught by Donald Zagoria)


Box 10 Folder 6 History 12 (Barnard): England from the Norman Conquest to the 20th Century, 1967 Spring

(course taught by Stephen E. Koss)


Box 10 Folder 7 Sociology G8015y – G8016y: Analysis of Social Structures, 1967-1968

(course taught by Robert Merton)


Box 10 Folder 7 NYU Summer Class: Philosophy of Education, 1968 Summer


Box 10 Folder 7 Mathematical Statistics – Sociology G4181x – G4182y: Statistical Methods in the Social Sciences, 1968-1969


Box 10 Folder 8 History G6693x – 6694y: American Economic History, 1607 – 1960, 1967-1968

(course taught by Stuart W. Bruchey)


Box 10 Folder 9 History G6697x – G6698y "History of the Foreign Relations of the U.S., 1967-1968

(course taught by Henry F. Graff)



Box 11 Folder 1 History TW3162: History of American Social Thought, 1967 Fall

(course taught by Frederick D. Kershner)


Box 11 Folder 1 History G6000x: Nature and Types of History and Historiography, 1967 Fall

(course taught by Jacob W. Smit)


Box 11 Folder 2 History G8707x – G8708yy "American Social History, 1967-1968

(course taught by David J. Rothman)


Box 11 Folder 2 History G4166y: The Passage from the 19th to the 20th Century, 1969 Spring

(course taught by Jacques Barzun)


Box 11 Folder 3 History G4670y: Political Parties and Issues, 1968 Spring

(course taught by Richard Hofstadter)


Box 11 Folder 3 Sociology G4043x: The Social Structure of the United States, 1967 Fall

(course taught by Daniel Bell)


Box 11 Folder 3 History W3501x "History of Education in the U.S, 1968 Spring

(course taught by Jonathan C. Messerli)


Box 11 Folder 4 History C3123x – C3124y: American Urban History, 1967-1968

(course taught by Robert Fogelson)


Box 11 Folder 4 History W3051x "History of Education in the U.S., 1968 Spring

(continuation of notes; course taught by Jonathan C. Messerli)


Box 11 Folder 5 Teachers College TP3000S: Psychological Foundations of Education,, 1968 Summer

(course taught by Samuel Ball)


Box 11 Folder 5 History G4667x – G4668y: Political and Social History of the U.S., 1828 – 1860, 1968-1969

(course taught by Eric L. McKitrick)


Box 11 Folder 6 Government G4411x: Political Systems of Revolutionary and Post-Revolutionary Societies, 1968 Fall

(course taught by Michel Oksenberg)


Box 11 Folder 6 Sociology G4051y: Social Change: Modernization, 1969 Spring

(course taught by Immanuel Wallerstein)


Box 11 Folder 7 History G8701x – G8702y: American Economic History, 1968-1969

(course taught by Stuart Bruchey)


Box 11 Folder 8 History C3135y: Afro-American History, 1969 Spring

(course taught by Eric Foner; first pages may be Gary Becker lectures on urban economics.)


Box 11 Folder 9 Sociology G6098y: Historical Method and Documentary Analysis, 1969 Spring

(course taught by Sigmund Diamond; first pages are lecture by Arno Mayer.)

Series XIII: Mildred Daum, 1940-1941

Series XIII contains lecture notes taken by Mildred Daum (M.A. 1941)when he was a graduate student in Medieval History. These are her notes from Columbia classes taken between Fall 1940 and Spring 1941. They are eminently legible, and seem more or less to reproduce the lectures given in the various courses that she took, including Prof. Lynn Thorndike's History 231-2.



Box 12 Folder 1 Economics 121: Current types of economic theory, 1940 Fall


Box 12 Folder 2 Notes from seminar and reading notes, 1940 Fall


Box 12 Folder 3 History 101: Nature, methods, and types of history, 1940 Fall


Box 12 Folder 4 Economics 161: The Regulation of public utilities, 1940 Fall


Box 12 Folder 5 History 231-2: Intellectual history of Western Europe from the time of Petrarch to the French encyclopedia, 1940-1941


Box 12 Folder 6 History 150: European thought and culture in the nineteenth century, 1941 Spring


Box 12 Folder 7 Latin u145: Medieval Latin, 1940 Fall


Box 12 Folder 8 German language class, 1940 Fall

Series XIV: Elizabeth Fisher, 1948-1951

Series XIV contains typed lecture notes for General Studies classes taken by Elizabeth Fisher (M.A. 1944) while she was employed as social secretary to Margaret B. Pickel, Dean of University Women, between 1946 and 1951.


Box 12 Folder 9 G.S. Astronomy 1: Introduction to general and practical astronomy, 1948 Fall


Box 12 Folder 10 G.S. Astronomy 2: Introduction to general and practical astronomy, 1948 Sping


Box 12 Folder 11 G.S. English 31-32: Shakespeare, 1949-1950


Box 12 Folder 12 G.S. English 31-32: The Novel in English, 1950-1951

Series XV: Jonathan Liebowtiz, 1958-1961

Series XV: contains lecture notes taken by Jonathan Liebowtiz (Columbia College BA 1961) when he was an undergraduate student, mostly from his Junior and Senior years. Classes were taken with such notable professors as James Shenton, C. Wright Mill, Milton Smith, F.W. Dupee, Walter Metzger and Ernest Nagel. Notebooks usually contain the notes from just one course, though sometimes a two-part course is found in one notebook (e.g. Compartive Literarture 19-20). Note that fall semester classes started in September of a year and finished in January of the following year.



Box 13 Folder 1 Astronomy 1-2: Introduction to Astronomy, 1958-1959

Taught by Professor Epstein


Box 13 Folder 2 French 41-42: Advanced Composition and Conversation, 1958-1959

Taught by Professor Clamens


Box 13 Folder 3 History 9: History of the American Republic 1789-1958, 1958-1959

Taught by Professor James Shenton


Box 13 Folder 4 History 10: History of the American Republic 1789-1958, 1959

Taught by Professor James Shenton


Box 13 Folder 5 Comparative Literature 19-20: Poetry in the 20th Century, 1959-1960

Taught by Professor F.W. Dupee


Box 13 Folder 6 Economics 5-6: Economic Analysis, 1959-1960


Box 13 Folder 7 Government 51-52: Democracy and Dictatorship, 1959-1960

Taught by Professor Joseph Rothschild


Box 13 Folder 8 History 5: Ancient History I, 1959-1960

Taught by Professor Morton Smith


Box 13 Folder 9 History 21-22: Renaissance and Reformation, 1959-1960

Taught by Professor John Cammett


Box 13 Folder 10 History 13: U.S. in the 20th Century, 1959-1960

Taught by Professor Walter Metzger


Box 13 Folder 11 History 6: Ancient History II, Spring 1960

Taught by Professor Morton Smith


Box 13 Folder 12 History 14: U.S. in the 20th Century, Spring 1960

Taught by Professor Walter Metzger


Box 13 Folder 13 Government 61: International Relations, 1960-1961

Taught by Professor Larus


Box 13 Folder 14 Philosophy 33: Philosophy of Law, 1960-1961

Taught by Professor Ernest Nagel


Box 13 Folder 15 Sociology 1: Social Stratification, 1960-1961

Taught by Professor C. Wright Mills


Box 13 Folder 16 History 25 II- 26: European Society and Politics Since 1870, 1960-1961

Taught by Professor David Ralston


Box 13 Folder 17 History 26 II: European Society and Politics Since 1870, Spring 1961

Taught by Professor David Ralston


Box 13 Folder 18 Government 62: International Relations, Spring 1961

Taught by Professor Larus


Box 13 Folder 19 History 24: Europe in the Age of Revolution, Spring 1961

Taught by Professor Peter Gay