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Rare Book & Manuscript Library

Rare Book & Manuscript Library

6th Floor East Butler Library
535 West 114th Street
New York, NY 10027, USA
rbml@library.columbia.edu
The Rare Book & Manuscript Library is Columbia University’s principal repository for special collections. We collect, preserve, describe, promote, and provide access to the material evidence of diverse individuals and activities in alignment with the University’s research and teaching mission. We build and steward deep collections in select subject areas and connect them to a global audience through reference, teaching, exhibitions, publications, and public programs.

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Felix Adler papers, 1830-1933

27 linear feet
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Felix Adler, religious leader and educator, taught courses in social and political ethics at Columbia between 1902 and 1933. The collection includes correspondence, manuscripts, typescripts, notes, photographs, and printed materials.

Algernon D. Black papers, 1932-1979

12 linear feet
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Correspondence, speeches, memoranda, minutes, and publications, including radio talks and platform addresses given at the Society, the papers of several housing committees on which Black served, and autobiographical subject files compiled by Black and documenting his participation in many organizations and social causes.

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Benjamin Nelson papers, 1925-1977

106 linear feet
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Professional and personal correspondence, manuscripts and notes for his many publications in the social sciences and Renaissance studies, drafts and notes for his THE IDEA OF USURY and writings about Max Weber, other papers collected during his teaching career, and materials for the many professional conferences which he attended and for the academic associations and societies in which he was active.

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Collection of American Civil War documents, 1850-1917

4 linear feet
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Materials relating to the American Civil War and the men who fought in it, chiefly of the Union Army.

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Leo H. Downes Papers, 1789-2014, bulk 1950s-2014

20 linear feet
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The collection comprises 753 cassette tapes; 2 videotapes, and 13 boxes of papers.

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Anna Grimshaw papers, 1939-2004, bulk 1983-1995

5 linear feet
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These papers contain correspondence, manuscripts and drafts, interview transcripts, and printed material related to the autobiography / biography—which was never completed—of C.L.R. James, a writer, teacher and political activist from the West Indies, and to various C.L.R. James related projects which Anna Grimshaw, his one time assistant, undertook or on which she collaborated.
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Series II: Anna Grimshaw Projects, 1983-2004

C. L. R. James papers, 1933-2001, bulk 1948-1989

27.75 linear feet
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These papers contain correspondence; drafts, manuscripts and notes; transcripts of lectures and interviews; printed material; photographs; and audio and video tapes related to life and work of C. L. R. (Cyril Lionel Robert) James--a West Indian athlete, scholar, teacher, writer and political activist.

Yosef Yerushalmi papers, 1957-2006, 1957-2006

40 linear feet
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Yosef Yerushalmi was a Jewish historian and a professor of Jewish history, primarily at Harvard University and Columbia University. This collection includes most of his academic records and many of his personal records as well. This includes research, correspondence, and notes.
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Roger Bagnall Papers, 1967-2019

24 linear feet
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Professional papers of Roger Bagnall, papyrologist and Columbia University Professor Emeritus of History. The collection includes lectures and other records from Bagnall's teaching work, professional correspondence, records related to conferences and professional organizations in which Bagnall participated, and records of Bagnall's service to and participation in the Columbia University community. There are also research materials, published and unpublished works, and other records of Bagnall's participation in scholarly projects.

Sidney Kramer papers and library, 1940s-1980s

176 linear feet
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Papers and 50 boxes of paperback books.

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