School of Mines and School of Engineering and Applied Sciences records, 1863-2007

School of Mines and School of Engineering and Applied Sciences records, 1863-2007

Summary Information

Abstract

The records in this collection document the founding, growth, and evolution of the School of Mines, later known as the Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.

At a Glance

Call No.:
UA#0098
Bib ID:
5801754 View CLIO record
Creator(s):
Columbia University. School of Mines; Columbia University. School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Repository:
Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Physical Description:
20.26 linear feet (15 document boxes, 13 record cartons, 4 scrapbook boxes, and one volume)
Language(s):
English .
Access:
You will need to make an appointment in advance to use this collection material in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library reading room. You can schedule an appointment once you've submitted your request through your Special Collections Research Account.

All administrative records of the University are restricted for 25 years from the date of creation.

The following boxes are located offsite: Boxes 4-5 and 15-33. You will need to request this material from the Rare Book and Manuscript Library at least two business in advance to use the collection in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library reading room.

Description

Summary

The School of Mines Records describe the founding, growth, and evolution of the School. The materials contained in this collection show the expansion of the School's faculty, student and alumni bodies, and physical plant plus its shift in academic focus from mines and metallurgy to engineering and applied sciences. Also covered are the development of the undergraduate and graduate programs of study and the celebrations and documentation of the School's progress and history.

Arrangement

This collection is arranged in 8 series.

Using the Collection

Restrictions on Access

You will need to make an appointment in advance to use this collection material in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library reading room. You can schedule an appointment once you've submitted your request through your Special Collections Research Account.

All administrative records of the University are restricted for 25 years from the date of creation.

The following boxes are located offsite: Boxes 4-5 and 15-33. You will need to request this material from the Rare Book and Manuscript Library at least two business in advance to use the collection in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library reading room.

Terms Governing Use and Reproduction

Reproductions may be made for research purposes. The RBML maintains ownership of the physical material only. Copyright remains with the creator and his/her heirs. The responsibility to secure copyright permission rests with the patron.

Preferred Citation

Identification of specific item; Date (if known); School of Mines and School of Engineering and Applied Sciences records; Box and Folder number; University Archives, Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Libraries.

Selected Related Material--At Columbia

Buildings and Grounds Collection, 1755-2007 [Bulk Dates: 1880-2000], Columbia University Archives, Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Columbia University

Central Files Records, 1890-1971, Columbia University Archives, Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Columbia University

Charles Frederick Chandler Papers 1847-1937, Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Columbia University

Thomas Egleston Papers 1857-1929, Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Columbia University

Henry Smith Munroe Correspondence 1855-1899, Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Columbia University

Historical Photograph Collection, Columbia University Archives, Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Columbia University

Lewis Morris Rutherfurd Photographs 1864-1865, Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Columbia University

William Campbell Papers [ca. 1900]-1925, Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Columbia University

Accruals

Periodic additions are expected.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Source of acquisition--Columbia University. School of Mines. Method of acquisition--Gift.

About the Finding Aid / Processing Information

Columbia University Libraries, Rare Book and Manuscript Library

Processing Information

This collection was processed Brandi Tambasco, Queens College, April 2010. Series II: Administrative records were processed by Joanna Rios, August-September 2021.

Revision Description

2010-04-29 XML Document Instance created by Brandi Tambasco.

2019-05-20 EAD was imported spring 2019 as part of the ArchivesSpace Phase II migration.

2021-08-18 Moved alumni association records (formerly Series II) to the School of Engineering alumni association records (UA#0093) (JR)

2021-08 Merged materials from the School of Engineering records (UA#0094) (JR)

2021-09-02 Added boxes 15-23, Dean's correspondence (JR)

2021-09-08 Added boxes 24-26 (JR)

2021-09-21 Added boxes 27-28. (JR)

2021-11-10 Added box 29. (JR)

2022-11-11 Added boxes 30-33. (JR)

2022-11-29 Added 3 ledgers to Box 28. (JR)

Biographical / Historical

Based on the plan submitted by Thomas Egleston, Jr., to the Trustees of Columbia College in 1863, the School of Mines was founded in 1864 at the 49th Street location of the College. With only three professors in the School, supplemented by adjunct professors from the College, the School of Mines opened November 15, 1864, offering a three-year plan of study to its 24 entering students. The "Big Three" founding professors of the School were Egleston, as professor of Mineralogy and Metallurgy; Francis Laurens Vinton, professor of Mining; and Charles Frederick Chandler, profess of Analytical Chemistry and the first Dean of the School. The School found an early and lasting supporter in Columbia College President Frederick A. P. Barnard, as well as support and sponsorship from the Committee on the School of Mines, a "sub-board" of the College Trustees, responsible for overseeing the development of the new School.

In its first 35 years of existence, the School flourished as a pioneering, largely undergraduate program. During this period, the program and faculty grew. In 1868, the program of study was extended to four years. In its first decade, the School granted its first degrees of Engineer of Mines (1867), civil engineering and Ph. B. (Bachelor's of Philosophy) in chemistry (1871). The Faculty for the School of Mines, separate from the College's faculty, was created in 1865 by statute and two years later the Trustees of the College adopted a definite set of bylaws for the new Faculty. Known as Camp Columbia, a summer school for practical courses, such as surveying, began in the late 1870s and continued at various sites within easy commuting distance from New York City over the years until it finally settled at its permanent site in Litchfield, CT in 1903.

In 1871 the Alumni Association for the School of Mines was organized, responsible for alumni gatherings, reunions, and anniversaries of the School. Beyond its social functions, the Association also performed intellectual functions, including recommendations on the School's administration and instruction, most notably with its Committee of Ten in the early 1880s. The Alumni Association's chief organ, the School of Mines Quarterly, began by the undergraduate members of the School's student engineering and chemical societies in 1879 and taken over by the Association by the journal's sixth issue, was published for thirty-five years, providing both news on the School and scholarly articles by the School's students, alumni, and faculty. In 1875, the School of Mines sponsored Columbia's first Ph.D. degree.

By 1871, the School's rapid growth became the main reason in the Trustees' decision to search for a new site for the College. The School's growing pains continued through the 1880s, during which time the School's physical plant was rebuilt in 1882-1883 to accommodate its expansion. Also during this decade, the School faced the problem of adjusting its program of study to the changing needs of an ever-developing profession. So in 1881 the admission requirements of the School of Mines were again raised and, in an effort to control its increasing enrollment within the constraints of its available physical and intellectual resources, the School no longer accepted non-degree candidates. In 1891, the trend in higher education to establish departments of faculty came to the School of Mines with the creation of the Department of Mining in the same year. By the end of its first 35 years, the School of Mines offered seven course degrees, authorized in different years: Mining (E.M., 1864), Chemistry (Ph.B. to 1896, then B.S.; 1868), Civil Engineering (C.E., 1869), Architecture (Ph.B., 1881), Metallurgy (Met.E., 1886), Electrical Engineering (E.E., 1889), and Geology and Paleontology (Ph.B., 1897).

In 1896 the School of Mines was renamed the School of Mines, Engineering, and Chemistry, a recognition long coming of the branches of engineering and science beyond the original mines concept. The Faculty of the School of Mines at the same time became the Faculty of Applied Science. These developments, though opposed by most of the faculty devoted to the primacy of the School's original mining emphasis and its traditions, addressed the rising importance of engineering in society. The same year the School recognized its broadening scope of study with an official name change, so too did Columbia College recognize the importance of graduate research and study to its mission, becoming Columbia University in the City of New York. These important changes to the School and College were followed a year later by another significant step in both institution's evolution: the University's move to Morningside Heights.

With the move of the University to the new Morningside campus, the School of Mines, Engineering, and Chemistry was able to expand and adjust to meet the growing demands of its faculty, students, and the engineering profession in general as well as realign the duties and modify the curricula of different departments at the turn of the century. In the period leading up to the first World War, from 1897 to 1914, the engineers constituted the largest undergraduate group at Morningside. In 1904, the same year the cornerstone of the new Engineering Building was laid, the Committee on the Programs of Study in Engineering recommended a new structure for the School's program, a combination six-year plan of study. In 1912 the plan was finally approved by the Trustees of Columbia University, the Faculty of Applied Science, and the School's Alumni Association, with new curricula developed from 1912 to 1913 with increased levels and standards of instruction. In 1914 the former, narrowly-technical program was replaced by the implementation of the new course and program structure, which made a general, liberal arts education a prerequisite for admission to the School. The new 6-year plan coincided with the School's first anniversary celebrations, commemorating its 50 years with special events for alumni, faculty, and students. In 1916, the School awarded its first Master's of Science (M.S.) degree, beginning a trend, realized throughout the country, toward graduate engineering study. Exploration of this new trend and the general operation of the School of Mines, Engineering, and Chemistry was interrupted by the United States' involvement in World War I.

By 1917 retirements and war duties decimated the School's Faculty. War efforts brought military training to Columbia University and the School of Mines, Engineering, and Chemistry undertook technical instruction for armed forces officers during the war. The post-war era saw a reorganization of the School and, as a direct result of lessons learned from the war, the development of the trend towards research which began in 1916. From 1917 to 1939 this new emphasis led to the transformation of the School from a pioneering, largely undergraduate school to one of the largest graduate engineering schools in the country. In 1923 the School's plan of study was again revised, now to offer two undergraduate programs along with a professional graduate degree and the M.S. degree. By the 1920a the School had seven departments total, a division which lasted well into the 1970s: Chemical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Mining-Metallurgical Engineering, and Drafting (Mechanical Drawing). The six engineering departments sponsored professional courses with drafting as a service department to the others; further specialization within these six engineering branches was confined to graduate study. As indicated by the departmental titles, engineering had become the focus of the School, reflecting the progressing needs in society, and so, in 1926, the School underwent its second name change to become simply the School of Engineering, with its Faculty of Engineering.

While in the early 1920s the School saw a slow recovery after the war in registration, faculty, and curricula, the remaining time between the two World Wars saw an increase in research and graduate education and enrollment at the School of Engineering. From this developed pressing needs for expanded research laboratories, equipment, space, and facilities, impeded by depression conditions. Throughout the School's history, however, its Faculty found innovative ways to utilize their facilities and equipment to the greatest degree, expanding into spaces unused by other College, and later University, departments, and making use of all resources available. In 1935 a special committee on the School's 75th Anniversary was appointed, chaired by the Columbia University Trustee Chairman Coykendall, an alumnus of the School. In 1939 the School celebrated 75 years of history with an events program spread out through its anniversary year. Of note are its Camp Columbia alumni reunion, called "Old Home Week" and its Fireside Talks, for which School alumni John R. Dunning, a future Dean of the School, and Edwin H. Armstrong, inventor of FM radio and School professor, spoke. Also as part of the celebrations, the first Egleston Awards were bestowed on twelve recipients "for distinguished engineering achievement." Both the Camp Columbia reunions and the Egleston Awards became annual events. Along with an open house of the School and a large, formal dinner, the 75th Anniversary celebrations included the unveiling of a commemorative plaque on the original site of the School of Mines at the corner of 50th Street and Park Avenue.

At this time, Professor Thomas T. Read of the School of Engineering strove to complete a 75-year history of the School. With the help of Mr. Roger Howson of the University's History Department, Professor Read completed an unpublished manuscript of his history. Though never realized as a published book itself, Read's manuscript was used by Professor James Kip Finch, former Dean of the School, to complete his A History of the School of Engineering for Columbia's bicentennial celebrations in 1954.

After the year-long anniversary festivities of 1939, the School once again participated in engineering education for the war effort in 1940, this time for World War II. Not only did the faculty again apply their services to research and duty at the School and elsewhere in the country and world as needed, by they also instructed armed forces men and civilian women who would relieve or replace the service men in industry. During World War II, while some faculty left to participate in the war effort, such as work on the atom bomb, at the School of Engineering the program of study accelerated to meet the growing demand for engineers. Graduate enrollment dwindled at this time, while undergraduate enrollment more than tripled, turning the School of Engineering into a relatively large undergraduate institution throughout the war.

After the war, the School returned to its pre-war undergraduate program and revived its graduate instruction and research. In 1942 the School of Engineering changed its rules to allow women admission, the last of Columbia's professional schools to do so. Interest engineering flared after World War II, reflected in increased enrollment in the School, and so the School looked into expanding its facilities. In 1948 plans were announced for a new School of Engineering facility at 125th Street and Broadway to address the School's perpetual space issues. The fundraising campaign for the new Engineering Center for laboratory instruction and research began in 1950 during Dwight D. Eisenhower's Columbia University presidency and received notable support from this future President of the United States. With a strong campaign throughout the 1950s, the new center was finally realized in 1961 as the Seeley Wintersmith Mudd Building of the Columbia Engineering Center.

In 1964 the School of Engineering and Applied Science (SEAS), as it was now called by this time, celebrated the 100th anniversary of the founding of the School of Mines. At this time, the School of Mines, the title of which was retained by Columbia University, honoris causa, was renamed the Henry Krumchool of Mines after this alumnus and his wife Lavon Duddleson Krumb.

The School continued on its course of constant growth and evolution with the addition of three departments over the years: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics, founded in 1978; Computer Science, established in 1979; and Biomedical Engineering, founded in 2000. Though not new, two of the School's departments evolved from their 1920s incarnations. Operations research courses were added to the industrial engineering program in 1952, forming the Industrial Engineering and Operations Research Department. In 1998 the Henry Krumchool of Mines became the Earth and Environmental Engineering department. The School again underwent another name change in 1997, becoming the Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science.

Though the original School of Mines evolved well beyond the original plan of its founder Thomas Egleston, Jr., the Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science continues its ancestor's tradition of producing pioneering, successful, and well-respected professionals, educators, and researchers in science and engineering.

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Name
Columbia University. School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Columbia University. School of Mines
Subject
Chemical engineering -- Study and teaching
Civil engineering
Electrical engineering -- United States
Engineering -- Study and teaching -- United States
Engineering schools
Engineering students
Industrial engineering
Mechanical engineering -- Study and teaching
Metallurgy -- Study and teaching
Mining engineering -- History
Mining schools and education

Series I: Academics, 1864-1963

Material related to academic issues and administrative governance of the School of Mines is gathered in this series. This includes curriculum, course and examination schedules, registration information, admission requirements, guide for students, and annual school catalogues. Faculty and trustee reports cover finance, education, instruction, administration, and development of the School. Limited correspondence of the faculty and general inquiry, statistics of enrollment and teaching, and research and patent policies and procedures are also found in this series. Publications issued by the School regarding its departments and engineering at Columbia University in general make up the bulk of this series. Of note are the academic issues of the faulty response to changing its name to encompass the broader, evolving scope of the School's subjects as well as the process of changing the School's course degree program.


Box 1 Folder 1 to 5

Academic Issues and Curriculum, 1864-1951, (5 Folders)


Box 27 Folder 1

Academic records - Fahs, Charles Frederick, 1874-1878


Box 1 Folder 6

Camp Columbia, 1901-1904


Box 1 Folder 7

Correspondence, 1869, 1878-1879, 1869, 1878-1879


Box 1 Folder 8

Curriculum and Course Materials of Braschi, Victor Manuel, 1879-1882


Box 1 Folder 9

Enrollment and Teaching Statistics, 1944-1950


Box 1 Folder 10

Examination and Attendance Schedules, 1864-1897


Box 1 Folder 11

Guides for Students, 1947-1950


Box 1 Folder 12

Laboratory Information, 1870s


Box 26

Negatives, stress tests, 1939-1943

(Black-and-white, mostly 5" x 7" negatives, prepared by the Columbia University Library's Photograph Division for the School of Engineering. The images record stress tests, impact tests, fire tests, load tests, shrinkage tests, etc. There different materials: acoustical tile, I-beams, gypsum sheeting, aerocrete, etc. And the photos include test setup, closeups, top views, breaking points and/or after test shots.)


Planning Reports, 2003-2007


Box 29 Folder 1

An Action Plan: 2004-2009, 2003 September

Zvi Galil, Dean


Box 29 Folder 2

A 2020 Vision for SEAS, 2007 May 1

Report of the Long Range Planning Committee of the SEAS Board of Visitors to Dean Zvi Galil.


Publications


Box 1 Folder 13

"Abstracts of Photographic Science & Engineering Literature,", 1963 July


Box 2 Folder 1

"Columbia Institute for Research in Production and Industrial Management," circa, 1950s


Box 2 Folder 2

Combined Plan for Liberal Education in Engineering, 1950-1952


Box 2 Folder 3

"Department of Industrial Engineering and Management,", 1950


Box 2 Folder 4

"Engineering, Today and Tomorrow and the School of Engineering of Columbia University"--Draft,, 1947


Box 2 Folder 5

Industrial Development, 1948-1950


Box 2 Folder 6

"Manual of Physical Measurements,", 1928


Box 2 Folder 7 to 8

"Reports in Industrial Engineering,", 1949-1950


Box 3 Folder 1

Registration, 1877-1903


Box 3 Folder 2 to 4

Reports, 1881-1956, (3 Folders)


Box 3 Folder 5

Research and Patents, 1939-1949


Box 25

Thesis for Degree of EE "Motor Speed Controls" by W.L.S. Pierce and F.E. Ward, 1905 May

Inscription: "Presented to Mr. M. Arendt (Morton Arendt, Lecturer in Electrical Engineering), in token of our appreciation of past favors received at his hands by F.E. Ward and W.L.S. Pierce. June 11, 1905"

Accession 2007.004

Series II: Administrative Records, 1895-1936

This series contains the Office of the Dean's correspondence files. These files include information on faculty and student matters, department budgets and annual reports, enrollments, Camp Columbia, alumni gifts, trustee decisions, etc. The first alphabetical run is supposed to be from 1900 to 1910 but includes later materials. School of Engineering Deans during this period: Frederick R. Hutton, 1899-1905; George F. Sever (Acting), 1905-1907; Frederick A. Goetze, 1907-1917; George B. Pegram, 1917-1930 and Joseph Warren Barker, 1930-1946. This series also includes materials related to the School's self-study and/or reviews undertaken as part of the re-accreditation proces, which were submitted to the Education and Accreditation Commission of the Engineers' Council for Professional Development, later known as the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology.


Subseries II.1: Correspondence, circa 1900-1936


Dean's Correspondence, circa 1900-1910


Box 4 Folder 1

A, 1907-1909


Box 4 Folder 2

B, 1907-1910


Box 4 Folder 3

Brimberg, Jacob, 1912


Box 4 Folder 4

Butler, Nicholas Murray, 1902-1910


Box 4 Folder 5-6

C, 1904-1910, 2 folders


Box 4 Folder 7

D, 1905-1912


Box 4 Folder 8

E, 1905-1910


Box 4 Folder 9

F, 1903-1925


Box 4 Folder 10

G, 1907-1910


Box 4 Folder 11-12

H, 1905-1928, 2 folders


Box 4 Folder 13

I, 1905-1909


Box 4 Folder 14

J, 1905-1923


Box 4 Folder 15

K, 1905-1912


Box 4 Folder 16

L, 1906-1910


Box 4 Folder 17

Layton, William, 1908-1909


Box 4 Folder 18

Lovell, Earl B., 1905-1910


Box 4 Folder 19

Lucke, Charles E., 1907-1910


Box 4 Folder 20

Mc, 1906-1910


Box 4 Folder 21

M, 1902-1910


Box 4 Folder 22

N, 1908-1910


Box 4 Folder 23

O, 1906-1909


Box 4 Folder 24

P, 1895-1910


Box 4 Folder 25

Q, 1905


Box 4 Folder 26

R, 1905-1910


Box 4 Folder 27

S, 1901-1926


Box 4 Folder 28

T, 1905-1909


Box 4 Folder 29

U, 1907-1910


Box 4 Folder 30

V, 1905-1910


Box 4 Folder 31

W, 1907-1910

(Includes a photo of George V. Wendell)


Box 4 Folder 32

X, Y, Z, 1910


Dean's Correspondence, 1910-1915


Box 5 Folder 1

A, 1910-1915


Box 5 Folder 2-4

B, 1910-1915, 2 folders


Box 5 Folder 5

C, 1910-1915


Box 5 Folder 6

D, 1910-1915


Box 5 Folder 7

F, 1910-1915


Box 5 Folder 8

G, 1910-1915


Box 5 Folder 9

H, 1910-1915


Box 5 Folder 10

J, 1910-1915


Box 5 Folder 11-12

K, 1910-1915, 2 folders


Box 5 Folder 13-14

L, 1910-1915


Box 5 Folder 15

Mc, 1910-1915


Box 5 Folder 16-17

M, 1910-1915


Box 5 Folder 18

N, 1910-1915


Box 5 Folder 19

O, 1910-1915


Box 5 Folder 20-21

P, 1910-1915


Box 5 Folder 22

Q, 1910-1915


Box 5 Folder 23

R, 1910-1915


Box 15 Folder 7-10

S, 1910-1915, 4 folders


Box 5 Folder 24

T, 1910-1915


Box 5 Folder 25

U, 1910-1915


Box 15 Folder 1

V, 1910-1915


Box 15 Folder 2-3

W, 1910-1915, 2 folders


Box 15 Folder 4

X, Y, Z, 1910-1915


Box 15 Folder 5

Unsorted, 1910-1915


Box 15 Folder 6

Damaged, 1910-1915


Dean's Correspondence, 1915-1920


Box 15 Folder 11

A, 1915-1920


Box 15 Folder 12-15

B, 1915-1920, 4 folders


Box 15 Folder 16

C, 1915-1920


Box 15 Folder 17

D, 1915-1920


Box 15 Folder 18

E, 1915-1920


Box 15 Folder 19

F, 1915-1920


Box 15 Folder 20

G, 1915-1920


Box 16 Folder 1

H, 1915-1920


Box 16 Folder 2

I, 1915-1920


Box 16 Folder 3

J, 1915-1920


Box 16 Folder 4-5

K, 1915-1920, 2 folders


Box 16 Folder 6-8

L, 1915-1920, 3 folders


Box 16 Folder 9

Mc, 1915-1920


Box 16 Folder 10-11

M, 1915-1920, 2 folders


Box 16 Folder 12

N, 1915-1920


Box 16 Folder 13

O, 1915-1920


Box 16 Folder 14-16

P, 1915-1920, 3 folders


Box 16 Folder 17

Q, 1915-1920


Box 16 Folder 18-19

R, 1915-1920, 2 folders


Box 16 Folder 20-21

S, 1915-1920, 2 folders


Box 17 Folder 1

S, 1915-1920


Box 17 Folder 2

T, 1915-1920


Box 17 Folder 3-5

U, 1915-1920, 3 folders


Box 17 Folder 6

V, 1915-1920


Box 17 Folder 7-9

W, 1915-1920, 3 folders


Box 17 Folder 10

X, Y, Z, 1915-1920


Dean's Correspondence, 1920-1925


Box 17 Folder 11

A, 1920-1925


Box 17 Folder 12-14

B, 1920-1925, 3 folders


Box 17 Folder 15-16

C, 1920-1925, 2 folders


Box 17 Folder 17

D, 1920-1925


Box 18 Folder 1

E, 1920-1925


Box 18 Folder 2

F, 1920-1925


Box 18 Folder 3

G, 1920-1925


Box 18 Folder 4

H, 1920-1925


Box 18 Folder 5

I, 1920-1925


Box 18 Folder 6

J, 1920-1925


Box 18 Folder 7

K, 1920-1925


Box 18 Folder 8-9

L, 1920-1925, 2 folders


Box 18 Folder 10

Mc, 1920-1925


Box 18 Folder 11

M, 1920-1925


Box 18 Folder 12

N, 1920-1925


Box 18 Folder 13

O, 1920-1925


Box 18 Folder 14-15

P, 1920-1925, 2 folders


Box 18 Folder 16

Q, 1920-1925


Box 18 Folder 17

R, 1920-1925


Box 18 Folder 18-19

S, 1920-1925, 2 folders


Box 18 Folder 20

T, 1920-1925


Box 18 Folder 21

U, 1920-1925


Box 19 Folder 1-2

U, 1920-1925, 2 folders


Box 19 Folder 3

V, 1920-1925


Box 19 Folder 4-5

W, 1920-1925, 2 folders


Box 19 Folder 6

X, Y, Z, 1920-1925


Box 19 Folder 7

Unsorted, 1920-1925


Dean's Correspondence, 1925-1930


Box 19 Folder 8

A, 1925-1930


Box 19 Folder 9-11

B, 1925-1930, 3 folders


Box 19 Folder 12-14

C, 1925-1930, 3 folders


Box 19 Folder 15

D, 1925-1930


Box 19 Folder 16

E, 1925-1930


Box 19 Folder 17

F, 1925-1930


Box 19 Folder 18

G, 1925-1930


Box 19 Folder 19

H, 1925-1930


Box 19 Folder 20

I, 1925-1930


Box 19 Folder 21

J, 1925-1930


Box 19 Folder 22

K, 1925-1930


Box 19 Folder 23

L, 1925-1930


Box 20 Folder 1

L, 1925-1930


Box 20 Folder 2

Mc, 1925-1930


Box 20 Folder 3

M, 1925-1930


Box 20 Folder 4

N, 1925-1930


Box 20 Folder 5

O, 1925-1930


Box 20 Folder 6

P, 1925-1930


Box 20 Folder 7

Q, 1925-1930


Box 20 Folder 8

R, 1925-1930


Box 20 Folder 9

S, 1925-1930


Box 20 Folder 10

T, 1925-1930


Box 20 Folder 11-12

U, 1925-1930, 2 folders


Box 20 Folder 13

V, 1925-1930


Box 20 Folder 14

W, 1925-1930


Box 20 Folder 15

X, Y, Z, 1925-1930


Dean's Correspondence, 1930-1934


Box 20 Folder 16

A, 1930-1934


Box 20 Folder 17

Advisory Committee on Education, 1934-1936


Box 20 Folder 18

Annual Reports, 1931-1934


Box 20 Folder 19

B, 1930-1934


Box 20 Folder 20

Berkey, Charles, P., 1930-1933


Box 20 Folder 21

Beyer, Albin H., 1931-1933


Box 20 Folder 22

Blossom, Francis, 1931-1934


Box 20 Folder 23

Budget, 1930-1934


Box 20 Folder 24

Butler Commission on Economic Affairs, 1933


Box 20 Folder 25

C, 1930-1934


Box 20 Folder 26

Committee on Instruction (COI) minutes, 1930-1934


Box 20 Folder 27

Committee, conference and council reports, 1930-1934


Box 21 Folder 1

Committee on Unemployment of Engineers, 1930-1934


Box 21 Folder 2

Committee on Housing - 21 Claremong Avenue, 1930-1934


Box 21 Folder 3

Butler, Nicholas Murray, 1930-1934


Box 21 Folder 4

Coss, John J., 1930-1934


Box 21 Folder 5

D, 1930-1934


Box 21 Folder 6

Dunn, Gano, 1930-1934


Box 21 Folder 7

E, 1930-1934


Box 21 Folder 8

Egbert, James C. - Director of University Extension, 1930-1934


Box 21 Folder 9

F, 1930-1934


Box 21 Folder 10

Fackenthal, Frank D., 1930-1934


Box 21 Folder 11

Faculty Load Reports - Teaching and Research, 1930-1934


Box 21 Folder 12

Faculty Minutes, 1930-1934


Box 21 Folder 13

Faculty Planning Committee, 1932


Box 21 Folder 14

Finch, James K., 1930-1934


Box 21 Folder 15

G, 1930-1934


Box 21 Folder 16

Goetze, Frederick A., 1930-1934


Box 21 Folder 17

Grant, Edward J., Registrar, 1930-1934


Box 21 Folder 18

H, 1930-1934


Box 21 Folder 19

Hayden, Philip N., 1930-1934


Box 21 Folder 20

Hinckley, A. Dexter, 1930-1934


Box 21 Folder 21

I, 1930-1934


Box 21 Folder 22

J, 1930-1934


Box 21 Folder 23

Jackson, D. D., 1930-1934


Box 21 Folder 24

K, 1930-1934


Box 21 Folder 25

L, 1930-1934


Box 21 Folder 26

Lovell, Earl B., 1930-1934


Box 21 Folder 27

Lucke, Charles E., 1930-1934


Box 21 Folder 28

Mc, 1930-1934


Box 21 Folder 29

M, 1930-1934


Box 21 Folder 30

Mayer, Ralph Edward (Fund), 1930-1934


Box 21 Folder 31

Meixell, Granville (Report on Applied Science Libraries), 1930-1934


Box 21 Folder 32

Mines, School of - Minutes of the Staff meetings, 1930-1934


Box 21 Folder 33

N, 1930-1934


Box 21 Folder 34

O, 1930-1934


Box 21 Folder 35

P, 1930-1934


Box 21 Folder 36

R, 1930-1934


Box 22 Folder 1

Rautenstrauch, Walter, 1930-1934


Box 22 Folder 2

Read, Thomas T., 1930-1934


Box 22 Folder 3

S, 1930-1934


Box 22 Folder 4

Shoudy, W. A., 1930-1934


Box 22 Folder 5

Slichter, Walter I., 1930-1934


Box 22 Folder 6

Student Council, 1930-1934


Box 22 Folder 7

Trustees, Minutes of Meetings, 1930-1934


Box 22 Folder 8

T, 1930-1934


Box 22 Folder 9

U, 1930-1934


Box 22 Folder 10

University of the State of New York, 1930-1934


Box 22 Folder 11

United States Coast Guard, 1930-1934


Box 22 Folder 12

United States Naval Academy, 1930-1934


Box 22 Folder 13

V, 1930-1934


Box 22 Folder 14

W, 1930-1934


Box 22 Folder 15

Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Co., 1930-1934


Box 22 Folder 16

X, Y, Z, 1930-1934


Dean's Correspondence, 1934-1936


Box 22 Folder 17

A, 1934-1936


Box 22 Folder 18

Annual Reports, 1934-1936


Box 22 Folder 19

Armour Institute of Technology, 1934-1936


Box 22 Folder 20

B, 1934-1936


Box 22 Folder 21

Blossom, Francis, 1934-1936


Box 22 Folder 22

Budget, 1934-1936


Box 22 Folder 23

Butler, Nicholas Murray, 1934-1936


Box 22 Folder 24

C, 1934-1936


Box 22 Folder 25

Committee and Conference Reports, 1934-1936


Box 22 Folder 26

Committee on Curriculum, 1934-1936


Box 22 Folder 27

Committee on Instruction (COI) minutes, 1934-1936


Box 22 Folder 28

D, 1934-1936


Box 22 Folder 29

Dunn, Gano, 1934-1936


Box 22 Folder 30

E, 1934-1936


Box 22 Folder 31

Engineers' Council on Professional Development - Accrediting Procedure, 1935


Box 23 Folder 1

F, 1934-1936


Box 23 Folder 2

Fackenthal, Frank D., 1934-1936


Box 23 Folder 3

Faculty Minutes, 1934-1936


Box 23 Folder 4

Finch, James K., 1934-1936


Box 23 Folder 5

G, 1934-1936


Box 23 Folder 6

H, 1934-1936


Box 23 Folder 7

I, 1934-1936


Box 23 Folder 8

J, 1934-1936


Box 23 Folder 9

Inside Silvered Lamp, 1934-1936


Box 23 Folder 10

K, 1934-1936


Box 23 Folder 11

L, 1934-1936


Box 23 Folder 12

Mc, 1934-1936


Box 23 Folder 13

M, 1934-1936


Box 23 Folder 14

N, 1934-1936


Box 23 Folder 15

O, 1934-1936


Box 23 Folder 16

P, 1934-1936


Box 23 Folder 17

Q, 1934-1936


Box 23 Folder 18

R, 1934-1936


Box 23 Folder 19

Read, Thomas T., 1934-1936


Box 23 Folder 20

S, 1934-1936


Box 23 Folder 21

Scholarships, 1935-1936


Box 23 Folder 22

Slichter, Walter I., 1934-1936


Box 23 Folder 23

T, 1934-1936


Box 23 Folder 24

United States Coast Guard, 1934-1936


Box 23 Folder 25

Statistics, Report on Committee of, 1935-1936


Box 23 Folder 26

Trustees, Minutes of Meetings, 1934-1936


Box 23 Folder 27

U, 1934-1936


Box 23 Folder 28

V, 1934-1936


Box 23 Folder 29

W, 1934-1936


Box 23 Folder 30

X, Y, Z, 1934-1936


Correspondence - Professors, 1881-1914


Box 27 Folder 6

Egleston, Prof. Thomas, 1881-1899

(Bound and typed copies of Prof. Thomas Egleston's correspondence)


Box 27 Folder 2-3

Peele, Prof. Robert, 1904-1906 and 1912-1914, 2 folders


Subseries II.2: Accreditation Records, 1954-1988


Box 24 Folder 1

Procedure for review of undergraduate engineering curricula, work copy, 1954 May


Box 24 Folder 2

Questionnaire for review of engineering curricula, 1959 February


Box 24 Folder 3

Questionnaire for review of engineering curricula, 1965 April


Box 24 Folder 4

Questionnaire for review of engineering curricula, Volume I, 1970 November


Box 24 Folder 5

Questionnaire for review of engineering curricula, Volume II (by discipline), 1971 January


Box 24 Folder 6

Questionnaire for review of engineering programs, Volume I, 1976 May


Box 24 Folder 7

Questionnaire for review of engineering programs, Volume II (by discipline), 1976 May


Box 24 Folder 8

Report on Engineering Programs, 1978 May


Box 24 Folder 9

Questionnaire for review of engineering programs, Volume I, 1982 May


Box 24 Folder 10

Questionnaire for review of engineering programs, Volume II - Chemical Engineering, 1982 May


Box 24 Folder 11

Questionnaire for review of engineering programs, Volume II - Civil Engineering, 1982 May


Box 24 Folder 12

Questionnaire for review of engineering programs, Volume II - Engineering Mechanics, 1982 May


Box 24 Folder 13

Questionnaire for review of engineering programs, Volume II - Electrical Engineering, 1982 May


Box 24 Folder 14

Questionnaire for review of engineering programs, Volume II - Industrial Engineering, 1982 May


Box 24 Folder 15

Questionnaire for review of engineering programs, Volume II - Mechanical Engineering, 1982 May


Box 24 Folder 16

Questionnaire for review of engineering programs, Volume II - Metallurgical Engineering, 1982 May


Box 24 Folder 17

Questionnaire for review of engineering programs, Volume II - Mining Engineering, 1982 May


Box 24 Folder 18-19

Self-Study Questionnaire, Volume I, 1988 May, 2 folders

Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology, United Engineering Center


Box 24 Folder 20

Self-Study Questionnaire, Volume II - Chemical Engineering, 1988 May


Box 24 Folder 21

Self-Study Questionnaire, Volume II - Civil Engineering, 1988 May


Box 24 Folder 22

Self-Study Questionnaire, Volume II - Electrical Engineering, 1988 May


Box 24 Folder 23

Self-Study Questionnaire, Volume II - Engineering Mechanics, 1988 May


Box 24 Folder 24

Self-Study Questionnaire, Volume II - Industrial Engineering, 1988 May


Box 24 Folder 25

Self-Study Questionnaire, Volume II - Mechanical Engineering, 1988 May


Subseries II.3: Ledgers, 1864-1895


Box 28 Folder 7

Department of Metallurgy attendance records, 1904-1907

(This ledger or "class book" organizes students by course (Metallurgy 2, 4, 54, 175), records attendance, and, for some, records grades.)


Box 28 Folder 12

Department of Metallurgy petty cash and furnace room accounts, 1904-1915


Box 28 Folder 13

Department of Metallurgy summer school, special funds and laboratory attendant accounts, 1904-1910


Box 28 Folder 4

Directory of Chemists, 1867-1870

(Alumni listed by class year, then by last name, with notes on their careers.)


Box 28 Folder 1-2

Fees of Students, 1865-1887, 2 Volumes

(Ledger includes student's name, class year, date of payment, amount of payment and remarks (i.e., "free by permission"). Organized by matriculation year and by last name.)


Box 28 Folder 11

Fee book, 1887-1888

Begins with Summer 1887 for the School in Chemistry. Ledger book compiled by Registrar George Fisher.


Box 28 Folder 3

Fee book, 1887-1895


Box 28 Folder 8-9

Inventory of the Chemical Department, circa 1878-1882, 2 Volumes

(Includes apparatus room, laboratory of A.A. Julien, quantitative laboratory, qualitative laboratory, assay laboratory, students apparatus, Dr. Chandler's laboratory and lecture room, store room, photographic room, Dr. Chandler's apparatus room, photometric room, Dr. Chandler's office, etc. Includes inventory for the Chemical Museum.)


Box 28 Folder 5

Inventory of the Furniture Collections and Apparatus in the Department of Mineralogy and Metallurgy, 1882-1883

(Organized by space: private offices, balance room, chemical laboratory, collecion room, blowpipe closet, blowpipe laboratory, store room and lecture room. Index available on pages 115-117. Mineralogical collections start on page 119.)


Box 28 Folder 6

Inventory of the Geological Department, 1878-1883

(Lithological collection, geological and paleontogical collection, collection of antiquities, collection in economic geology, zoological collection, botanical collection, and miscellaneous.)


Box 30

Student Accounts, 1873-1877

School of Mines, Ledger #4


Box 31

Student Accounts, 1883-1895

School of Mines, Ledger #6


Box 32

Student Accounts, 1894-1899

School of Mines, Ledger #7


Box 33

Student Accounts, 1898-1900

School of Mines and Chemical Department, Ledger #8

Series III: Anniversaries, 1913-1965

Contained in this series are correspondence, programs, announcements, and guest lists of the three School of Mines anniversary celebrations: the 50th anniversary in 1914, the 75th anniversary in 1938, and the 100th anniversary in 1964. The majority of this series resides in the 50th and 75th anniversary materials. The 50th anniversary celebrations included a banquet, convocation, an alumni luncheon, campus night, and commencement. Banquet materials consist of correspondence, menus, programs, guest lists, and announcements. Programs, admission tickets, invitations, and announcements represent the other 50th anniversary celebration events. The remaining 50th anniversary material consists of celebration badges; general correspondence; meeting minutes of the anniversary celebration committee; news clippings; financial papers including bills, reservations, and correspondence; poems and songs written for or performed at the celebrations; commemorative issues of campus publications; and copies of speeches given at the celebrations. The 75th anniversary celebrations included a dinner, convocation, an open house, "old home week" at Camp Columbia, and the unveiling of an Old School of Mines plaque commemorating the original site of the School at 50th Street and Park Avenue. Correspondence, including letters to and from President Nicholas Murray Butler; guest lists; programs; committee meeting minutes; announcements; schedules; news clippings; and commemorative issues of campus publications all compose the 75th anniversary celebration items. Three black and white photographs of the Old School of Mines unveiling ceremony are also included. The 100th anniversary celebration materials consist of a celebration badge, the centennial dinner seating list and program, convocation program and announcement, an alumni centennial questionnaire, and a speech draft for the celebration.


50th Anniversary of the School of Mines


Box 3 Folder 6

General, 1914


Box 3 Folder 7

Banquet, 1914


Box 3 Folder 8

Committee Meeting Minutes, 1913-1914


Box 6 Folder 1

Correspondence--General, 1913 September-1914 June


Box 6 Folder 2

Events, 1914


Box 6 Folder 3

Finance--General, 1913-1915


Box 6 Folder 4

Finance--Columbia Knickerbocker Trust Company, 1913-1914


Box 6 Folder 5

News Clippings, 1913-1914


Box 6 Folder 6

Poems and Songs, 1914


Box 6 Folder 7

Publications, 1914


Box 6 Folder 8

Speeches, 1914


75th Anniversary of the School of Mines


Box 6 Folder 9

General, 1935-1939


Box 6 Folder 10

Convocation, 1939 November


Box 7 Folder 1

Correspondence, 1938 November-1939 November


Box 7 Folder 2

Dinner--General, 1939


Box 7 Folder 3 to 4

Dinner--Correspondence, 1939, (2 Folders)


Box 7 Folder 5

Egleston Awards, 1939


Box 7 Folder 6

News Articles and Publications, 1936-1939


Box 7 Folder 7

Old Home Week, 1939


Box 7 Folder 8

Old School of Mines Plaque, 1939-1940


Box 7 Folder 9

Open House, 1939


Box 7 Folder 10

100th Anniversary Celebrations, 1964-1965

Series IV: Building and Grounds, 1881-1961

Fundraising materials and design publications; invitations to and programs for announcement and preview dinners; press releases; news articles and clippings; maps; copies of photographs and artist's building conceptions; reports; and newsletters all concerning the new Engineering Center comprise the bulk of the series. Original photographs, which include President Dwight D. Eisenhower, then-president of Columbia University, and Dean James Kip Finch, are located in the Subject Photo files. Also included in this series are 49th Street building analysis correspondence; announcements and fundraising correspondence related to the move to Morningside Heights; and two photograph-and-blueprint books of proposed new laboratories building for the School of Engineering at 134th Street and Riverside Drive.


Engineering Center


Box 7 Folder 11

General, 1949-1952, 1959, 1961, 1949-1952, 1959, 1961


Box 7 Folder 12

Announcement Dinner, 1951


Box 8 Folder 1

"Engineering Education and the Business Dollar," circa, 1951


Box 8 Folder 2

Fundraising Materials, 1950-1951


Box 8 Folder 3

Department Design Booklets, circa, 1950


Box 8 Folder 4

"The Heat and Mass Flow Analyzer," circa, 1950s


Box 8 Folder 5

"The New Engineering Center,", 1950


Box 8 Folder 6

Preview Dinner, 1951


Box 8 Folder 7

"Report of the Council for the School of Engineering,", 1956


Box 8 Folder 8

49th Street Building--Analysis, 1881


Box 8 Folder 9

Move to Morningside, 1891-1896


Box 8 Folder 10

"Proposed New Laboratories," circa, 1940s-1950s

Series V: Events, 1874-1962

This series contains materials related to events held by and/or at the School of Mines. The items include invitations, a guest list, programs, schedules, press releases, correspondence, news articles, dance cards, a registration application, and records of proceedings of lectures, dinners, reception, conferences, a symposium, and graduation exercises.


Box 8 Folder 11

General, 1906-1949


Box 8 Folder 12

Conference on Industrial Personnel, 1951


Box 8 Folder 13

Dunning (John R.) Luncheon, 1951


Box 8 Folder 14

Lecture Announcements, 1885-1888


Box 8 Folder 15

"Proceedings of the Junior Science Symposium,", 1962


Box 8 Folder 16

Students' Annual Reception, 1874-1881

Series VI: History, 1863-1952

Materials related to the history of the School of Mines populate this series. Three distinct subject areas within this series are the planning of the School, the summer surveying school (commonly called Camp Columbia), and a complete history of the School, the last of which forms the bulk of this series. Items related to the planning of the School include a copy of the trustee meeting minutes in which the creation of the School is discussed, the resolutions of the trustees on the founding of the School, a blank subscription form for the School, and copies of Thomas J. Egleston's original 1863 plan for the School reprinted in booklet form in 1914. "A History of the Summer School of Surveying of Columbia University" by James Kip Finch is a bound draft with handwritten annotations. Included in the back of this book is a letter from Finch to the then-University Librarian regarding Finch's donation of this material to the Columbiana collection. The vast majority of this series is devoted to the creation of a complete history of the School of Mines. Correspondence and draft chapters of a 75-year history completed and exchanged by Professor Thomas T. Read and Roger Howson as well as both a complete manuscript and partial manuscript (chapters six through nine), both with handwritten corrections and annotations, of Read's "Columbia School of Mines-Engineering 1864-1939: Seventyfive [sic] Years of Progress in Engineering Education" are included along with James Kip Finch's correspondence, handwritten notes, research, and drafts of his "A History of the School of Engineering at Columbia University 1864-1939."


Box 8 Folder 17

Founding of the School, 1863-1865, 1914, 1863-1865, 1914


History of the School of Mines


Box 9 Folder 1 to 3

Drafts and Correspondence, 1935-1952, (3 Folders)


Box 9 Folder 4

Manuscript by Read, Thomas T.--Complete, 1939


Box 9 Folder 5

Manuscript by Read, Thomas T.--Partial, 1939


Box 9 Folder 6

"Summer School of Surveying" by Finch, James K., 1917, 1938, 1917, 1938

Series VII: Press, 1865-1985

This series consists of newspaper and other print press clippings about the School of Mines, its events, students, alumni, and faculty as well as press releases issued by the School or Columbia University related to the School and engineering.


News Articles and Clippings


Box 9 Folder 7

Clippings, 1865-1878


Box 10 Folder 1 to 2

Articles, 1900-1929, (2 Folders)


Box 10 Folder 3

Clippings Book, 1936-1945


Box 10 Folder 4 to 5

Clippings, 1931-1985, (2 Folders)


Press Releases


Box 10 Folder 6

1944-1948


Box 11 Folder 1 to 4

1950-1969, (4 Folders)

Series VIII: School of Mines Quarterly, 1895-1918

This series contains bank and treasurer books and other financial papers for The School of Mines Quarterly. The bulk of this series consists of correspondence related to the Quarterly, mostly dealing with subscriptions, advertising, and article reprints. Half of the correspondence is organized chronologically, with the remainder in original alphabetical order. A copy of the journal, Volume XXXVI, No. 4 from July 1915, is also included in this series.


Box 11 Folder 5

Bank and Treasurer Books, 1879-1918


Correspondence


Box 11 Folder 6 to 7

1895-1905, (2 Folders)


Box 29 Folder 3

1900-1902

Prof. Austin P. Evans


Box 27 Folder 4 to 5

1906-1908, 2 folders


Box 12 Folder 1 to 7

1906-1911, (7 Folders)


Box 13 Folder 1 to 5

1914-1917, (5 Folders)


Box 13 Folder 6

A-F, 1911-1916


Box 14 Folder 1

G-M, 1910-1916


Box 14 Folder 2

N-U, 1909-1916


Box 14 Folder 3

W, 1911-1916


Box 14 Folder 4

Finance, 1910-1917


Box 28 Folder 10

Record of the School of Mines Quarterly, 1881-1906

(Includes foundation information, meeting minutes, treasurer's reports, and regulations.)


Box 14 Folder 5

The School of Mines Quarterly Volume XXXVI, No. 4, 1915 July


Box 14 Folder 6

Subscriptions, 1915 June-December