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Botanists letters, 1779-1879
0.5 linear feetLetters from 18th and 19th century botanists, mostly German. All of the letters relate to botanical studies.
David Nachmansohn papers, 1918-1981
5 linear feetCorrespondence, manuscripts, photographs, memorabilia, and printed materials primarily concerning biochemistry. Correspondents include 24 Nobel Prize winners, including Otto Loewi, Otto Meyerhof, Archibald Vivian Hill, Feodor Lynes, Severo Ochoa, and Otto Warburg. Other correspondents include Sir Hans Krebs, John Farquhar Fulton, Jean Pierre Changeux, and others in Europe, Israel, Japan, and the USSR as well as the USA. Nachmansohn's concern with the place of Jews in science appears throughout the collection, especially in material concerning the Weismann Institute and other academic institutions to which he belonged. There are photographs of colleagues, many signed and inscribed during his many trips. The printed materials consist chiefly of Nachmanson's published works beginning with his 1927 doctoral dissertation (University of Berlin) and continuing throughout his professional life at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute (1926-1930), the Sorbonne (1933-1939), Yale University (1939-1942), and Columbia University (1942-1982).
Mothes, Kurt (1900-1983) (German botanist and president Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina [German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina].), 1963-1972 Box 2
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- Mothes, Kurt (1900-1983) (German botanist and president Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher
Linskens, Hans Ferdinand (1921-2007) (German botanist, geneticist, and prof. of botany at the Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen now Radboud U. Nijmegen, Netherlands.), 1979 Box 3
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- Linskens, Hans Ferdinand (1921-2007) (German botanist, geneticist, and prof. of botany at the
Ludwig Schweinitz student drawings, October 7, 1797
2 drawingsPlans and elevation of a shop in Nazareth, Pennsylvania, 1797 with measurements and annotations in English, French and German. Also includes a folder with a handwritten note.
Columbia University Calendars, 1902-2011
2.5 linear feetThis collection contains calendars produced by various departments and offices of the University to serve as mementos, record the academic year, or mark anniversaries, such as the sesquicentennial calendar in 1904. Some are calendars made to be displayed on walls; others are weekly appointment books. The calendars contain original artwork (drawings, cartoons) and photographs. Earlier calendar feature photos which originally appeared in the yearbook, the Columbian. Later calendars contain photos of the Morningside Heights campus buildings and students, many of which can be found in the Historical Photograph Collection (including those by Manny Warman, University Photographer) and in the Walter L. Bogert Photograph album.
The Columbia Calendar for Engagements (appointment), 1951 Box 1, Folder 9
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- used for Research by Columbia Botanists"; 'Spring Fever" [ students sitting in Van Am memorial; "Safe
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(Cover: Alma Mater Statue; "Entrance to Low Memorial Library"; "President and Mrs. Eisenhower at Home" [Standing portrait] ; Bound for the Library [students in snow scene]; "The Van Am Quad" [snow scene]; "A Shot From the Floor" [basketball]; "Butler Library Seen From Low Memorial"; "Senior Ball at the Waldorf"; "Columbia's New Cyclotron at Nevis"; "The Chapel" [rain]; "President Eisenhower and Dean Carman Going to the Forum on Democracy"; "Russell Hall, Teachers College" [women]; "'Le Marteleur' -- School of Mimes"; "Ed Kennedy Coaching Swimming"; "Hamilton Hall"; "Flying High" [Pole Vaulter with Low Library Dome in background]; "Columbia Seen from the air"; "South Court"; "New York Botanical Gardens are used for Research by Columbia Botanists"; 'Spring Fever" [ students sitting in Van Am memorial; "Safe?" [baseball]; "Iris Time"; "The Zero Hour" [lecture hall interior during examination]; "Class Day in Van Am Quadrangle"; "'Stand, Columbia'" [commencement]; "the Tumult and the Shouting Dies" [ Earl Hall]; "Poughkeepsie Regatta" [crew]; "Summer School Registration"; "The Half-Open Gate"; "Teachers College"; "Refreshment Time -- Summer Students in the Grove"; "117th Street"; "Main Gate, Barnard College" [with Broadway, Earl Hall]; "Engineering Camp at Lakeside, Connecticut" [ Camp Columbia];"Avery Library"; "Riverside Drive"; "Repairing the Bricks"; "The Students Return" [with Earl Hall]; "University Book Store During September Rush"; "Freshman Week -- Columbia Meets Barnard" [women]; "Feeding Time" [pigeons]; "College of Physicians and Surgeons from the George Washington Bridge"; "The Season Opens at Baker Field" [football]; "Graduate Seminar in American History" [ classroom interior, women]; "Riverside Church from Barnard Campus"; "Crew Practice"; "College Reading Room"; "First Down!" [football coaches]; "The First Snow -- Morningside Drive"; "December Morning" [St. Paul's Chapel, snow scene]; "Trustees Room, Showing Portrait of Columbia's First President, Samuel Johnson"; "'The Thinker' and Kent Hall" [snow scene]; "Candlelight Service in the Chapel"; "Christmas Tree at Rockefeller Center"; 'After the Exodus" [Hamilton Hall Steps snow scene])
Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory and Library architectural drawings, 1928-1983
79 drawingsThe collection contains primarily architectural drawing reproductions documenting the site history of Columbia University's Geology Library from Schermerhorn Hall on Columbia Unversity's Morningside campus to, later, the Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory in Palisades, N.Y. The drawings are largely floor plans and some building elevations of both the early and later sites, but the collection also includes a survey map of the Palisades, N.Y. site, and site plans for the Thomas W. Lamont, Esq. Country Residence and Gardens. Also included are 9 student drawings of the Geology and Zoology Library in Schermerhorn Hall by School of Mines student Eugene B. Sieminski, Jr. dated 1958. Architects represented include McKim, Mead, and White, Paver & Wildfoerster, and Olmstead Brothers Landscaper Architects.