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Collection of China's Spring 1989 Democracy Movement, 1988-1997, bulk 1989-1990
11.5 Linear FeetThe Collection of China's spring 1989 democracy movement (六四前后中国民主运动资料汇集) documents the legacy of the democracy movement in China during 1989 as well as events leading up to the Tiananmen Square Incident and its aftermath, dating from 1988 to 1997, and with the bulk of the materials dating from 1989 to 1990. The collection holds the originals and the photocopies of over 300 ephemeral posters, leaflet/handbills, newsletters, open letters, and petitions created and distributed in 1989, including those issued by the Peking Workers Autonomous Association (北京工人自治联合会), student groups from various universities, the "Hunger Strike Newsletter" and other unofficial news bulletins, intellectuals' petitions to the government, cartoons, and poetry. The collection also comprises over 200 photographs depicting demonstration banners, big character posters, petitions and letters to the leaders. The collection also contains 15 eye-witness reports by Asians and Westerners, reports of human rights organizations, as well as books, miscellaneous news magazine articles and newspaper clippings. Related materials in the collection also include Spring 1989 issues of the banned intellectuals' journal "Eastern Record"; 147 slides of work shown at the Peking National Gallery's avant-garde exhibition; and a video tape of interviews with artists and performance art at the February 5, 1989 opening of that exhibition. Other items are several VHS, audiocassettes, floppy disks, fragments of wall posters, a T-shirt, and commemorative envelopes. A large fabric banner prepared by Chinese students at the University of Michigan which was sent to Peking where it was displayed at Tiananmen Square in May 1989 and later returned to the U.S., is also included in the collection.
Russo-Japanese War Photographs, 1904-1905
0.5 linear feetThe slides are all labelled; they concern the Russo-Japanese War and many have detailed descriptions.
Lynn Thorndike papers, 1902-1963
60 linear feetPapers of Thorndike, consisting of correspondence, mansucripts, diaries, notes, photocopies of medieval scientific manuscripts, glass slides, books, pamphlets, and reprints. The correspondence relates to his scholarly research and publication in the field of the history of medieval science. Also, some family and personal correspondence. One half of the collection consists of photostatic copies of manuscripts Thorndike indexed in his major work, A CATALOGUE OF INCIPITS OF MEDIAEVAL SCIENTIFIC WRITINGS IN LATIN (1963), the first draft, final copy, galley proofs, related correspondence, and extensive card files of notes used in compiling the work. There is also a typescript of the 1937 edition. Thorndike's 76 volumes of personal diaries, 1902-1963, detail his daily activities, appointments, trips abroad, and lists of reading. In addition there are his other manuscripts for journal articles and book reviews.
Daniel Talbot Papers, 1923-2010, bulk 1960-2008
495 linear feetEdmund Stevens papers, 1939-1992
16 linear feet"No More Shadows: Women Leaders of Color at Columbia University" records, 1993
0.25 linear feetSlides (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.
New York Chamber of Commerce and Industry records, 1768-1984, bulk 1860-1973
185 linear feetMax Neuhaus papers, 1950s-2008
31.25 linear feetMarion Meade papers, 1859-1993
9 linear feetMarshall MacDuffie Papers, 1945-1962, bulk 1945-1953
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