The papers comprise correspondence, documents, institutional files, writings, lectures, memoirs, research notes, photographs, third party materials, printed materials, periodicals, microfilms, audio material, and digital files accrued by historian and professor emeritus of Columbia University, Leopold H. Haimson, during his professional life.
This collection consists of correspondence, translated letters, memoranda, and reports related to Inter-University Committee on Travel Grants activities, an organization that facilitated the exchange of students and scholars between American universities and the Soviet Union.