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Center for US-China Arts Exchange records, 1956-2019, bulk 1977-2003
102 Linear FeetThis collection of records document the institutional history of the Center for US-China Arts Exchange, established in 1978. Under the directorship of professor and renowned composer Chou Wen-chung, the Center is a not-for-profit organization that connected arts professionals from the US and China through a spectrum of curated programs, conferences, and research trips. Bulk dated between 1977 and 2003, materials in this collection consist of correspondence, reports, photographs, printed materials, as well as audiovisual items. The collection serves as important material evidence that help to tell the recent history of cultural communications among individuals and organizations across the Pacific.
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Columbia Engineering Photograph Collection, 1958-2008, bulk 1988-2003
9.59 linear feetThis 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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El Diario/La Prensa Photograph Morgue, circa 1970-2006
72 linear feetEl Diario/La Prensa is the largest and oldest Spanish-language daily newspaper in New York City, and the oldest Spanish-language daily in the United States. The El Diario/La Prensa Photograph Morgue contains photographs and associated materials kept as reference, or morgue, files by the newspaper's staff. It documents events and personalities significant to New York City's Spanish-speaking communities between approximately 1970 and 2006.
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George Cserna photographs and papers, 1937-1978
10,260 photographic itemsThis collection is photograph archive of the works of architectural photographer George Cserna. Images include interior and exterior shots of prominent New York buildings primarily during the 1960s. The collection has been arranged alphabetically by the client or architect of the building. Some of George Cserna's most notable work in this collection includes photographs of Ulrich Franzen's Agronomy Building, Emerson Hall, and Goddard Library at Cornell University; Haines, Lundberg, and Waehler's U.S. Trust Building and Schering-Plough Headquarters; Victor Lundy's I. Miller Store and IBM Headquarters; and I. M. Pei's John Hancock Tower, Mount Royal Bank and Ville Marie Complex, and MIT Chemistry Building. The collection also contains photographs of exhibitions and openings at the Museum of Modern Art in the 1960s and 1970s, such as The Responsive Eye and Toward a Rational Automobile. Finally, the collection has photographic portraits of notable persons including John dos Passos, W.H. Auden, and William Faulkner.
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Graduate School of Business Photographs, 1954-2005, bulk 1980-2000
7.51 linear feetThis 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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Office of Alumni and Development Photograph Collection, 1948-2006, bulk 1982-1997
20.6 linear feetThis 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 feetThis 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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School of Social Work Records, 1898-circa 2010s, bulk circa 1930s-1980s
93.5 linear feetRecords of one of the oldest schools of social work in the United States, founded in 1898 as the New York School of Philanthropy and affiliated with the Charity Organization Society of New York City. The school merged with Columbia University in 1959, becoming the Columbia University School of Social Work. This collection includes the records of the office of the Dean, Development and Alumni Relations, and the Social Work Library, the bulk of which date from the 1930s through the 1980s.
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