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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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Random House publications, 1897-1980, bulk 1940s-1970s

6700 items
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This record colocates books received in conjunction with the Random House records.

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Amos Vogel papers, 1896-2001, bulk 1960-1990

68 linear feet
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This collection documents the professional work of film critic, professor, and author, Amos Vogel. The bulk of the records are concerned with numerous films that Vogel has screened for Cinema 16, the independent film society that he founded and directed for sixteen years, as well as administrative records, correspondence, photographs, and printed material.

New Press records, 1992-2014, bulk 1993-2011

99 linear feet
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The New Press is an independent, non-profit, book publisher. It was established in 1992 by André Schiffrin and Diane Wachtell. The Press focuses on publishing books that are in the public interest. The records include appointment books, catalogs, correspondence, clippings, contracts, drafts, financial records, meeting notes, proposals, production records, reviews, rolodexes, and sales reports.
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Marshall Berman papers, 1940-2013

47.5 linear feet
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The collection includes drafts of his work, professional and personal correspondence, emails (both digital and in hard copy), notebooks, dream journals, heavily annotated books, lecture notes, teaching materials, photographs and ephemera. Several RBML collections already contain correspondence with Berman. For scholars, this collection will provide important new insights into the thought and work of a leading late-20th-century New York City intellectual. An important segment of the Marshall Berman papers consists of digital materials connected with his more recent work as a writer, scholar, and teacher. The files are currently stored on his home computer.

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Clippings: Jews (1 of 3), 1970s-1980s Box 8, Folder 6

Bob Fass Recordings and Papers, 1935-2011, bulk 1963-1991

200 linear feet
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The Bob Fass Recordings and Papers contains materials created by Bob Fass, host of the late-night program Radio Unnameable on New York City's WBAI radio station. The collection primarily consists of audio recordings of Radio Unnameable and other radio programs hosted by Bob Fass between 1963 and 2011. A small number of video recordings, photographs, correspondence, printed ephemera, and motion picture films are also included in the collection.

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Subseries VI.1: Individual correspondence and subject files, 1941-2008, bulk circa 1960s-1990s

Series VI: Papers, photographs, and slides, 1941-circa 2010s, bulk circa 1960s-1990s

Angus and Hetty MacLise papers, 1950s-2010

15.5 linear feet
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Angus MacLise was a musician, poet, artist, and countercultural figure who was a mainstay of the downtown New York arts scene in the 1960s, which included Fluxus alongside other avant-garde communities and scenes. Hetty MacLise was an English-born artist, poet, and multi-instrumentalist likewise associated with various overlapping movements and milieus within the 1960s and 70s avant-garde. This collection contains papers, documents, publications, ephemera, sound and video recordings, photographs, and artwork primarily created by, given to, or related to Angus MacLise and Hetty MacLise.
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Series II: Hetty MacLise, 1950s-2010

Series III: Friends, Associates, and Other Material Not Directly Related to the MacLises, 1960s-2010

Amiri Baraka papers, 1945-2015, bulk 1970s-2000s

219.5 linear feet
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The Amiri Baraka Papers contains correspondence, writings, and the personal, political activism and teaching materials related to Amiri Baraka's career as a poet, writer, editor, activist, and teacher in the New York City Beat, Downtown, and Black Arts literary scenes from the 1960s through the 2000s. Included are manuscripts from Baraka's numerous books of poetry, non-fiction, fiction, plays, editorial work, and screenplays. The collection also features organizational and documentary materials relating to Baraka's university teaching and Newark, NJ-based Black radical activism, as well as audio/visual material, photographs, and printed material collected and created by Baraka.
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Hettie Jones papers, 1895-2009, bulk 1958-2009

26.5 linear feet
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The Hettie Jones Papers contains correspondence, writings, and teaching materials related to Hettie Jones' career as a writer, editor, and teacher in the New York City Beat and Downtown literary scene, from the 1960s through the 2000s. Included are manuscripts from Jones' numerous books of poetry and children's and young adult novels, as well as her 1990 autobiography, How I Became Hettie Jones. The collection also features materials from her time as co-editor of Totem Press and Yugen literary journal. A small amount of material pertaining to Jones' former husband, the poet LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka, including unpublished early manuscripts and photographs is also here.
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Kitchen Sink Press records, 1965-2013

280 linear feet
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Kitchen Sink Press was a comic book publisher founded by Denis Kitchen in 1969. The company closed in 1999. The press was known for publishing underground comics and reprints of classic comic strips. The records include contracts, correspondence, editorial files, financial records, proofs, and other materials. This collection is still being processed; currently, only the correspondence is available for research.

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European 1968 Protest and Activism collection, 1967-1969

0.42 linear feet
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Contains photographs and ephemera from the May 1968 student uprising in Paris, as well as material from the German 1968 student movement.

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APO-Énten auf MM-Trip, 1969 Box 1, Folder 5