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Columbia University Archives

Columbia University Archives

6th Floor East Butler Library
535 West 114th Street
New York, NY 10027, USA
uarchives@columbia.edu
The University Archives, a unit within the Rare Book & Manuscript Library, preserves the institutional memory of Columbia University through the acquisition of official University records and related historical collections and materials from its founding in 1754 to the present day.

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Class Photograph Albums Collection, 1856-1902

26 linear feet
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A collection of photo albums (111 items) representing the faculty and graduating classes of Columbia College (now known as Columbia University in the City of New York), and more specifically, the School of Arts (the undergraduate college now known as Columbia College). While the majority of the albums represent Columbia College, there are a few from other Schools including: the School of Law, the School of Mines, and the School of Music. Additionally, there is one album with portraits of Trustees, one from the School of Mines Summer School of Practical Engineering, and one documenting the performance of Capt. Kidd.

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Columbia Engineering Photograph Collection, 1958-2008, bulk 1988-2003

9.59 linear feet
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This collection consists of photographs, negatives, and contact sheets of alumni and alumni activities, faculty, students and annual events which were taken to illustrate the School of Engineering and Applied Science alumni magazine Columbia Engineering.
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Columbia Spectator Photograph collection, 1950-1999

10.5 linear feet
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This collection contains approximately 5,500 photographic prints and 12,400 negatives taken and used by the Spectator. The photographs consist of black and white, silver gelatin prints and 35mm negatives. The bulk of the images are portraits, with many press photographs provided to the newspaper by outside sources. Not all prints have corresponding negatives. Photographs were filed together by name so that several views can be found in one folder. The original folder-level description was maintained.

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Columbia University Faculty Photographs collection, 1938

5.5 linear feet
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Arranged alphabetically, these individual portraits of Columbia University faculty members are black and white images mounted on heavy cardboard with the name of the individual typed underneath the image. Names that begin with L-M-N-O-P and Q are missing from this collection.

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Columbia University in World War I Collection, 1914-1970

8.92 linear feet
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This collection contains records documenting Columbia University's activities slightly prior to, during and immediately following World War I. The collection consists of mostly correspondence, but also includes newspaper clippings, pamphlets, various publications, reports, photographs, service record cards, and numerous lists of Columbia men and women who served during the war.
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Columbia University Matriculant Photographs, 1937-1947

1.5 linear feet
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This collection contains student identification photographs, indicating the college or school of enrollment, date, signature, and portrait of individual.
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Columbia University Office of Art Properties Records, 1960-2012

7.9 linear feet
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The records in the collection reflect the Department's mission and its daily operations. The materials contained within it include exhibition proposals, catalogs and posters, photographs, general correspondence, and other administrative files.
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Division of Student Affairs Photograph Collection, 2003-2008

1.5 linear feet
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A collection of color photographs documenting major campus events for undergraduate students primarily from 2003 to 2004 collected by the Division of Student Affairs. Events include Columbia College and School of Engineering Class Day graduation ceremonies, Move-In Day for the freshmen class in August 2003, Columbia250th "Birthday Bash" in October 2003, Homecoming and Family Weekend, both in 2003.
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Double Discovery Center records, 1965-2005, bulk 1985-1995

61.5 linear feet
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Established in 1965 by Columbia University, the Double Discovery Center (DDC) provides educational programs and services to low income and first generation college-bound junior high and high school students in New York City. The DDC is one of the oldest Upward Bound programs in the United States. The collection contains the records of the DDC from 1965 to 2005, including student files and materials documenting the DDC's primary programs, Upward Bound and Talent Search.
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Gabriel Cooney Photograph Collection, 1991-1999, bulk 1996-1998

4.29 linear feet
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This collection consists of photographic prints (8x 10 and 11x14) and negatives (35mm and 2 ¼" square) taken by professional photographer Gabriel Amadeus Cooney for Columbia University. Many of the images were ultimately used in a brochure titled Broadway Local published in 1991 and in a series of brochures for the Campaign for Columbia produced between1996 and 1999. Some prints and negatives are in color, but most are in black and white. Many of these negatives and prints correspond directly to contact sheets and prints found in Series I of the Office of Alumni and Development Photograph Collection (UA#0208).
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Graduate School of Business Photographs, 1954-2005, bulk 1980-2000

7.51 linear feet
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This collection consists of photographs of academic and social life at Columbia's Graduate School of Business as well as alumni activities. Compiled by the Office of Communications, photographs range from the 1950s to the early 2000s and concentrate on the 1980s and 1990s. In addition to photographic prints, the collection contains contact sheets, color slides, negatives, and digital image files.
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Graduate School of Journalism Facebooks, 1950-2008

3.25 linear feet
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Collection of annual "facebook" publications issued by the Graduate School of Journalism. These small volumes list members of the incoming class for a particular year with a photo, address, educational background, employment history and personal interests.
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Graduate School of Journalism records, 1912-2011, bulk 1950-1989

90 linear feet
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The Graduate School of Journalism Records document the progression of the school from its founding in 1912 through the 1990s. The records consist of audio/visual material, clippings, copies of various publications, administrative correspondence, notes, photographs, and transcriptions of articles and speeches.
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Harry Bernard Koopman Papers, 1917-1967, bulk 1917-1919

0.42 linear feet
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A collection of photos and memorabilia kept by Harry Bernard Koopman, pertaining to his time with the Columbia Ambulance Corps during World War I.
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Historical photograph collection, 1858-

180.81 Linear Feet
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The Historical Photo Collection contains images of persons, events, and activities associated with Columbia College (1754-1896) and Columbia University (1896-).
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Holcomb E.M. Jones Photograph Album, 1936-1943, bulk 1936-1940

1.58 linear feet
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This album documents Holcomb E.M. Jones's time as a student at Columbia College from 1936 to 1940.
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John Mladinov Photograph Collection, 1939-1942

.83 linear feet
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Collection of black and white photographs depicting campus activities, individuals, and student life taken by John K. Mladinov, an undergraduate student enrolled at Columbia University between 1939 and 1942.
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Michael Dolin Photographs, 1960s

0.21 Linear Feet
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This collection consists of photographs taken by Columbia College student Michael Dolin (CC 1966). It includes photos of campus views, student protests, and former Columbia University presidents Dwight Eisenhower and Grayson Kirk.
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Morningside Area Alliance records, 1947-1992

149 linear feet
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The Morningside Area Alliance is an organization working for community improvement on behalf of its member institutions in the Morningside Heights neighborhood in New York City. The organization was founded as Morningside Heights Inc. in 1947 through joint action of fourteen Morningside Institutions--Columbia University, St. Luke's Hospital, Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine, Teacher's College, Barnard College, Corpus Christi Church, Home for Old Men and Aged Couples, International House, Jewish Theological Seminary, Juilliard School of Music, St. Hilda's and St. Hugh's School, The Riverside Church, Union Theological Seminary, and the Women's Hospital of St. Luke's Center--with the expressed purpose of "[promoting] the improvement of Morningside Heights as an attractive, residential, educational, and cultural area." The collection includes much, if not all, of the material that was created by the organization as part of its daily business from 1947 to 1992, when the materials were accessioned into University Archives at Columbia University. This includes records of the Board of Directors and the various Committees within the Alliance; assorted publications, reports, pamphlets, and theses both acquired and created by the organization; files of the different offices within the organization; maps, plans, and photographs used and created by the Alliance for its work; and the collected materials and files created for the organization's projects in different subject areas--specifically buildings, community services and programs, public safety, schools, and the Morningside General Neighborhood Renewal Plan. The collection also includes a large quantity of material rearranged into subject files on different areas of concern within the organization.
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"No More Shadows: Women Leaders of Color at Columbia University" records, 1993

0.25 linear feet
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Slides (28 items) were taken of the exhibited black-and-white photographs. The slides were separated and rehoused in a slide storage box. The remaining documentation was re-foldered and arranged in its original order.

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Office of Admissions Photograph collection, 2000-2007

3.75 Linear Feet
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Color slides, prints and large format contact sheets of Columbia College and Columbia Engineering students on campus used for CC/SEAS admissions brochures 2000-2007. Also includes a set of the published brochures from this time period.

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Office of Alumni and Development Photograph Collection, 1948-2006, bulk 1982-1997

20.6 linear feet
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This collection contains photographs and contact sheets of alumni, faculty and student life taken expressly for a 1980s admissions brochure, capital campaign brochures in the 1990s and the Columbia alumni magazine in the 1980s through early 2000s. Additionally, there are reproductions of photographs and illustrations dating prior to the late 1970s which were used in the magazine.
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Office of Public Affairs Photograph Collection, 1947-2016

138.80 linear feet
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This collection is a combination of several different accessions of prints, negatives, contact sheets, color slides and digital files that were created by the University Photographer and others in the Columbia University Office of Public Affairs. The collection documents many events held on campus (e.g., commencement, homecoming, 1968 protests), the Morningside campus, individuals (faculty, student athletes), and sporting events.
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Psychology Department Fifty Years photographs, 1942

0.72 linear feet
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This collection consists of the photographs of the Department of Psychology's PhD recipients in its first 50 years, from 1891 to 1941.
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Robert Pollack papers, 1953-2017

11.25 linear feet
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Contents include correspondence, articles, reports, photographs, clippings, printed materials and floppy disks documenting the career of Professor Robert Pollack at Columbia University as Professor of Biology (1978-present) Dean of Columbia College (1982-1989) Director of CSSR (1999-present) and Director of University Seminars (2010-present).

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Seth Low Junior College Records, 1928-1941

0.83 linear feet
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This collection consists of the records of the Seth Low Junior College. It includes minutes, alumni letters, bulletins, photographs, and student data.
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Wallach Art Gallery Records, 1985-2017

17.25 linear feet
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This collection consists of exhibition files, general operations files and exhibition catalogs generated by the Wallach Art Gallery staff between 1985 and 2017.
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