Collections : [Columbia University Archives]

This collection consists of the work conducted by the Fact Finding Commission appointed to investigate the disturbances at Columbia in April and May 1968. The materials include the audio-tapes, unorganized and uncorrected transcripts, and the final transcripts of the testimony from the hearings held from May 7 to July 25, 1968. There are also the general exhibits used in the hearings and a collection of printed materials (newspapers and magazines) covering the events of 1968.

The collection consists of speeches, reports, publications, research notes, and correspondence. The bulk of the collection relates to Wu's involvement in the American Physical Society as well as her research activities. The correspondence is chiefly professional, relating to C. S. Wu's physics research, professional commitments, appointments, meetings, conferences, and publications. Correspondence also includes letters from individuals around the world praising Wu for her accomplishments, asking advice, arranging speaking engagements, discussing administrative matters, and trading research notes, as well as information on publications and other topics. In addition, the collection contains information on Wu's involvement in the development of an affirmative action program at Columbia University in the 1970's.

This collections consists of Leab's University Seminars records, University Senate minutes and his chronological files.

Senior design projects submitted to the Department of Chemical Engineering.

This collection consists of the correspondence, facutly meeting minutes and administrative records of the Department of Classics.

This collection consists of the administrative records of the Department of Computer Science.

This collection consists of the records relating to the faculty and curriculum of the Department of Economics, primarily during the 1940s and 1950s, when prominent faculty members included James Angell, Arthur Burns, Carter Goodrich, Carl Shoup, Horace Taylor and William Vickerey. The collection also includes Carl Shoup's records from when the School of Business was administratively under the Department of Economics. There are also materials from Donald Dewey's courses: outlines, reading lists, exams, etc.

The collection consists of the Master's essays or theses submitted to the Department of History from 1971 to 1989.

This collection contains one binder with the Department of Philosophy's budget proposals and requests from 1925 to 1934.

This collection consists of the administrative records of the Department of Sociology such as departmental meeting minutes and correspondence. Included are a number of publications from Paul Felix Lazarsfeld's interest in quantifying methodologies for social research. There are also two boxes of index cards kept by department with information about former graduate students.

This collections consists of the Department of Zoology staff meeting minutes (1925-1937) and the correspondence of Professor James H. McGregor (1900-1942).

This collection consites of the correspondence and project files of the Dharam Hinduja Indic Research Center at Columbia University.

This collections contains audio of Columbia University lectures recorded by Edward Jablonski. It includes audio of Joseph Wood Krutch, Brander Matthews Professor of Dramatic Literature, lecturing on Henry David Thoreau, and anthropology professor Alfred L. Kroeber on "The Concept of Culture in Science.".

Records created by faculty involved in EPIC, the organization for emeritus professors at Columbia University. Materials include correspondence, meeting minutes, lectures, events material, oral history releases and related material, membership lists, and a chronology of the group. There are groupings of files created by EPIC heads Sam Devons, Chauncey Olinger and Ene Servit. Sam Devons also left behind files of Advisory Board of Faculty House and University Seminars, which are included in this collection. Records date between 1970s and 2020s, but the bulk of the material dates from the 1990s to the 2010s.

This collection consists of administrative materials collected by Emily Lloyd. There are personal notes and letters but also planning documents, internal memos, and official reports.

Five original etchings depicting buildings on the campus of Columbia University. Each etching is signed and dated by the artist "Ernest D. Roth / 1938". Each print is in ecellent condition within an original mat and protected by original tissue guards. Four of the original six printed lables are present. The prints and labels have been preserved in the original buckram portfolio titled "Columbia Etchings / By Ernest D. Roth, N.A. / Columbia University Press." All are in excellent condition. The drawings are on extended loan to the Columbia University Alumni Center.

This collection consists of the correspondence and reports from the Eugene Higgins Scientific Trust, including records of the Board of Control.

The records include correspondence and other materials on financial matters and planning including agreements, contracts, leases, memoranda, reports, statements, and information on budgets, funds, gifts, policies, and procedures.

This collection consists of the Faculty Association's administrative records, including University Teas minutes; committee reports; treasurer's reports and account books; membership lists; and general correspondence. There are also records related to the different events hosted by the Faculty Association.

This collection consists of the records of both the Men's and the Women's Faculty Clubs at Columbia University. The records include minutes, correspondence and other administrative files kept by former Club officers.

This collection contains the recorded minutes from the different faculty meetings: from the representative University Council to the individual schools (Columbia College, Engineering, Journalism, Law, etc.). Faculty meeting minutes include information on admissions, the academic calendar, curricular changes, faculty appointments and leaves, student petitions, fellowships, grants, prizes, and graduation requirements among other topics. Unfortunately, this collection is not complete. Additional minutes can be found in the record collections of the different faculties. For example, there is complete set of the minutes of the Faculty of Columbia College in the Columbia College records. Similarly, the minutes of the Seth Low Junior College and the minutes for the New York School of Social Work can be found in their respective collections.

This collection consists of the correspondence of the Dean and the Secretary of the Faculty of Political Science with University administrators as well as correspondents outside the university, including prospective applicants, faculty members, and current and former students. Most of the correspondence dates between 1890 and 1912 and addresses requests for matriculation and fellowships, while other areas of consideration include departmental issues, personnel issues, and lists of fellowship and degree recipients. Correspondence with University administrators concerns faculty appointments, enrollment and registration concerns, and class scheduling. Outgoing correspondence of the Dean and Secretary addresses fellowship and scholarship options in attempts to fund specific students, as well as attempts to secure teaching positions for graduating students.

This collection consists of reports, notes, and memos kept by Roger Bagnall who headed the Faculty Services Committee. Papers are divided into several faculty services areas: accounts payable, custodial, desktop support, disabilities, focus groups, human resources, and purchasing.

This collection consists of Dr. Felix H. Vann's lecture notes, essays, and drawings for his Columbia College courses: Zoology, Geology, Psychology and Sociology, Fine Arts, 1927-1929. The collection also includes correspondence regarding the Class of 1930 reunions.

This artificial collection consists of oversized posters, maps, newspapers, drawings, floor plans and architectural plans related to Columbia events, people and locations. The collection has been organized by subject matter.

This collection consists of three notebooks or field books kept by Fletcher G. Downs and a copy of his 1908 mining thesis, Gilpin County Colorado. The notebooks (I, II and IV) record Down's "Mine Trip" during the Summer of 1907. The books include drawings and schematics of equipment (pumps, shaft guides, brakes, gears, drainage valves, etc.) and field details of the West Vulcan mines.

This collection consists of da Cruz's personal papers related to the 1968 Columbia student uprising, the history of computing at Columbia, and Columbia professor of astronomy and IBM pioneer Wallace Eckert.

Photographs of Columbia University campus, students, and events taken by Columbian photographer Frank Pokorny. Photographs, mostly taken for the Columbia College yearbook, document student life at the university in the mid- 1960s.

This collection consists of Wurzbach's notebooks, lab books, exams, essays, grade reports and lecture notes as an undergraduate student at Columbia College.

This collection consists of the photograph collection of Fred Knuble from his time in the Office of Public Information. It includes oversize photographic prints.

This collection consists of the records of George Lowy as the first Director of the Herbert Lehman Library (at the time called the Chief of Social Sciences Division Library) at the School of International and Public Affairs (then the School of International Affairs (SIA)). The files contain administrative information about the library: acquisitions, annual reports, budgets, building matters, personnel, publications, security, etc.

The collection consists of correspondence, both personal and professional, speeches and calendar logs of University President George Rupp.

This collection consists of glass plate negatives compiled by Columbiana curators and University Archives staff. It includes a color glass plate negative of a photograph of Nicholas Murray Butler.

This collection contains correspondence, bulletins, reports, budgets, and off-prints from 1879. It contains early correspondence between the founders of the school and President Butler, and correspondence of the deans and founders of the Ware and Avery libraries. The post-1930 records consist of alumni newsletters, bulletins, and press releases.

This collection contains records and publications from the Office of the Dean of the Graduate School of Business. It includes materials from the Columbia Business School Centennial in 2015-2016.

This collection contains Harold Brown's course work in physics, mathematics, chemistry, and the core curriculum. Materials include syllabi, readings, notebooks, exams, problem sets, and essays from both his undergraduate and graduate studies at Columbia University in the 1940s. A copy of his dissertation (Beta-spectra of gaseous A41 and O15) is also included in this set of materials.

Cross's papers consist of a diary and a series of letters written chiefly to wife Elaine during his residence in China and while en route. The letters to his wife from Chungking were numbered seriatim and are arranged in chronological order per the numbering by Cross on the envelopes, most of which are present. The chronological order refers to the dates written; the letters were often posted or received well after composition. One or two are missing, were withdrawn, or contain a numbering error.

This collection consists of Judge Medina's personal papers related to his days as a student and faculty member at Columbia University and materials from the Columbia Law School Alumni Association.

Conferences and notable lectures from the 1950s to the 1990s; fellows files; visiting scholars (1960 - 1995); USSR propaganda (books, posters), correspondence, events, alumni files.

This collection contains theses and dissertations submitted to Columbia University's Harriman Institute.

This collection consists of Henry Krumb's records as a mining consultant. It includes correspondence and information about various properties in the western states (Arizona, Nevada, Wyoming) and the Philippines.

This collection consists of a selection of Heyman Center for the Humanities event records (both paper and audiocassettes) and publications. It includes the correspondence files of Ruth A. Levenson, who served as the Associate Provost for Special Projects, Director of the Center for the Study of Global Habitability and Associate Director of the Heyman Center for the Humanities. There are also annual reports and correspondence for the Society of Fellows in the Humanities.

The materials that comprise the Historical Biographical Files have been collected and added to from a variety of sources over the years by current and previous staff. The files consist of materials related to people who have a connection to the University whether as student, alumni, administrator, faculty, staff, guest lecturer, or honorary degree recipient. Materials generally consist of newspaper and magazine clippings, press releases, programs, ephemera, printed matter, lists, reports, and pamphlets.

This collection consists of the correspondence and administrative records of the University Extension's Home Study Division, which offered not-for-credit courses by mail. The records include communication with faculty members, students, and University administration (Buildings and Grounds, Office of the President, Office of the Secretary, Office of the Registrar, etc.). They document the Home Study division's outreach or promotional efforts (advertising, partnerships with other institutions), operational records (course fees, registrations, mailing services, office supplies), policy matters (academic credit, prison students, high school classes and the New York State Regents exams) and many requests for information from potential students, nationwide and from abroad. In addition to the short-lived Home Study program, there are records of other adult education experiments and initiatives at the University Extension such as courses by radio, extramural courses (held off-campus, across the East Coast), and Guidance Study (a replacement to Home Study). These are the administrative records held in the Office of the Director, mostly from the end of the Home Study experiment and organized alphabetically. The records do not include much about the origins of the Home Study at Columbia. They are more closely related to the evolution of the program and the continued interest in correspondence education after the program was discontinued. There is also an extensive collection of materials documenting other home study and adult education efforts around the country, from correspondence with individual programs to materials from national associations.

This collection consists of over 50 audio cassettes of lectures sponsored by the IIJS and related paper announcements of the lectures.

This collection consists of the official records of the Columbia intercollegiate athletic teams as well as the administrative records, minutes, press releases, media guides, programs, photographs, and scrapbooks from the Intercollegiate Athletics and Physical Education Department. It includes the records of former Director John A. Reeves.

The collection consists of the directors' records of the Casa Italiana and later the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America. It includes administrative files, correspondence, event files, press clippings, conference and awards materials, and a selection of campus architectural drawings and studies.

This collection contains records about the athletic league's policies.

This collection consists of research material for magazine articles by journalist James C.G. Conniff. One is for an article "The Menace of Morningside Heights" about Teachers College; the other is for an article about Judge Harold Medina (Columbia Law, 1912).

This collection consists of four bound volumes: a handwritten preface, two full manuscripts on the summer cruises of 1886 and 1887, and a transcription of the manuscript of the 1886 cruise. The volumes relate the events of the Columbia College Canoe Club's 6-week summer cruises on Lake George, Lake Champlain, Richelieu River, St. Lawrence River, and Thousand Islands in summer 1886. In summer 1887, the Canoe Club had a permanent camp at Little Harbor Island, Lake George.

This collection consists of Winsten's records from her time on the Commission on the Status of Women, the University Senate and the Columbia Administration Staff Association (CASA). The records include her work on subcommitees and task forces addressing issues such a salary equity, fringe benefits, retirement plans, staff professional development, parental leave or workload relief, child care, sexual assault policy and procedures, personnel grievance procedures, and staff representation on the University Senate committees.

The collection consists of correspondence, memos, publications, reports, press clippings, press releases, sermons and speeches retained by the Rev. John D. Cannon, University Chaplain at Columbia University, 1966-1969.

This collection consists of materials created by Professor John Palfrey. It contains some materials related to his role on the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) but the majority of the collection documents his career at Columbia Law School and includes course materials, student papers, articles, reading materials, etc. There is also some material from his work at Harvard Business School, as well as personal material, and material related to his book manuscript, Bottling the Genie (on atomic energy).

This collections consists of John Purroy Mitchel's (Columbia College 1899) college papers, notebooks, essays and exam books. There are also penmanship handbook and exercise books.

This collection consists of the correspondence, chronological files and subject files of Joseph P. Mullinix in his different posts over a decade of service to Columbia. It includes materials related to institutional real estate, security, affirmative action, the closing of the School of Library Service, investments, benefits, and other projects.

Fliers, printed matter, clippings, programs, correspondence, artifacts, and A/V content documenting the student experiences of Kevin M. O'Connor and his friends between 1988 and 1992. Content includes materials related to life in his suite dubbed the Existential Despair Suite (EDS), events at the Postcrypt Art Gallery and Coffeehouse housed in the basement of St. Paul's Chapel, and the Columbia Outdoor Orientation Program (COOP). There are also photographs of him and his friends from Spring 1991 and Commencement 1992. Three items of audio-visual content: featuring a news report about the Postcrypt Gallery from 1991, an original song performed at the Furnald Folk Fest in 1991, and a performance/reading by Allen Ginsberg at St. Paul's Chapel in 1990.

Lantern slides depicting copies of photographs, published images, and original photographs comprise this collection. Slides are arranged into subject series: Alumni, Artifacts, Athletics, Buildings and Grounds, Cartoons, Class of 1882 (Arts), Class of 1883 (Arts), Class of 1883 (Mines), Columbia Club, Documents, Events, 49th Street Campus, Morningside Campus, Park Place Campus, Portraits, Students' Songs, and World War I (1914-1918). Unidentified miscellaneous slides are housed at the end of the last box.

This collection includes Kobrin's student files, course materials, memorabilia, and textbooks. There is also correspondence with Columbians, Class of 1954 materials, and a copy of Kobrin's memoir "Looking Back from Here" (2019).

This collection consists of the Law School Alumni Association committee and board meeting minutes as well as the records from reunions, conferences, and regional association events.

This collection consists of photographs, articles, reviews, and correspondence related to portrait artist Lester Merton Chace, Jr. CC 1950. The materials were collected and organized by Anne Battley Phipps, BC 1948 and it includes some reminiscences recorded by Anne Phipps.