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Rare Book & Manuscript Library

Rare Book & Manuscript Library

6th Floor East Butler Library
535 West 114th Street
New York, NY 10027, USA
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The Rare Book & Manuscript Library is Columbia University’s principal repository for special collections. We collect, preserve, describe, promote, and provide access to the material evidence of diverse individuals and activities in alignment with the University’s research and teaching mission. We build and steward deep collections in select subject areas and connect them to a global audience through reference, teaching, exhibitions, publications, and public programs.
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Daniel Talbot Papers, 1923-2010, bulk 1960-2008

495 linear feet
The Dan Talbot Papers document the business operation of the New Yorker Films, an independent film acquisition and distribution company, dating from 1960s to 2008, as well as movie theaters in the Upper West Side Manhattan which he operated, dating from 1960 to 2007. It is of particular relevance to New Yorkers as the Talbots operated the New Yorker Theater, Cinema Studio, Metro, and Lincoln Plaza Cinemas, on the Upper West Side, as popular venues to view independent and foreign films.
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Maryse Condé papers, 1979-2012

2.5 linear feet
Maryse Condé is a prominent contemporary Caribbean writer. She has published ten novels to date while continuing an academic career which brought her to UC Berkeley, the University of Virginia, the University of Maryland, and Harvard before coming to Columbia in 1995. The collection consists primarily of audio/visual material. Most items are labeled in French and it is presumed that the content consists of various lectures and interviews given by Condé.
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Max Neuhaus papers, 1950s-2008

31.25 linear feet
Research materials relating to the creation and installation of sound sculptures by Max Neuhaus.
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