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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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League of Women Voters of the City of New York records, 1919-2019

80 Linear Feet

Correspondence, memoranda, minutes, reports, scrapbooks, printed material, and photographs. The files contain much material of the League of Women Voters of New York State as well, and some material pertaining to the national organization. The files document the League's activities in the areas of voter registration, election reform, New York City government, foreign policy, ecology, and numerous other concerns, and contain the records of city, state, and national conventions, annual reports, and Board and Council minutes. Major correspondents include Emanuel Teller, Stanley M. Isaacs, Jacob K. Javits, Robert F. Kennedy, Edward I. Koch, John Vliet Lindsay, Nelson A. Rockefeller, Anna Lord Strauss, and Percy E. Sutton.

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Herbert H. Lehman Papers, 1878-2002, bulk 1930-1963

607 linear feet
This collection documents the personal and political life of Herbert H. Lehman, who served as lieutenant governor, governor, and senator of New York, and as director-general of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration.
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New York State Democratic Committee records, 1970-2020, bulk 1990-2004

22 linear feet
The New York State Democratic Committee (NYSDC) is the official organization of the Democratic Party in the State of New York. The NYSDC adopts and approves changes in the rules that govern party membership, meetings, delegates, conventions, nominations, campaigns, and other functions that take place within the Democratic Party.
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Subseries I.3: Delegates and Electoral College, 1991-2020

Subseries I.3: Delegates and Electoral College, 1991-2020
Electoral College in elections. Prominently featured are statements of candidacy, as well as official DNC

This small subseries includes information regarding delegate selection and the role of the Electoral College in elections. Prominently featured are statements of candidacy, as well as official DNC rules and regulations for selecting delegates.

  1. Series I: Files, 1980-2006
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Julius Edelstein papers, 1917-1961, bulk 1948-1958

76.11 linear feet
Julius Caesar Claude Edelstein (1912-2005), served as advisor and executive assistant to military officials and political figures. His papers primarily encompass his job as executive assistant and chief of legislative staff to Senator Herbert H. Lehman during Lehman's senatorial years 1949-1956. Edelstein remained executive assistant to former senator Lehman from 1957-1960. His files include correspondence, memoranda, press releases, clippings, speeches, statistics, maps, pamphlets and government publications.Julius Caesar Claude Edelstein (1912-2005), served as advisor and executive assistant to military officials and political figures. His papers primarily encompass his job as executive assistant and chief of legislative staff to Senator Herbert H. Lehman during Lehman's senatorial years 1949-1956. Edelstein remained executive assistant to former senator Lehman from 1957-1960. His files include correspondence, memoranda, press releases, clippings, speeches, statistics, maps, pamphlets and government publications..
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David A. Paterson papers, 2005-2011

38.75 linear feet
The papers consist primarily of records created or maintained during David A. Paterson's tenure as Lieutenant Governor and Governor of New York. The papers include approval and veto messages, budget materials, certificates, correspondence, litigation records, messages of necessity, photographs, press releases, proclamations, program bills, resolutions, schedules, speeches, video recordings, and visitors' logs.
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RBML Office Files, 1917-2022

176.26 linear feet
This collection contains the administrative records of the Rare Book and Manuscript Library, from its days as the Department of Special Collections to the present.
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Dennis Ryan Editorial Cartoon Collection, 1873-2010

8.5 linear feet
Dennis B. Ryan began collecting cartoons in the early 1980s, ultimately focusing on cartons related to moments and topics of significance in American history, or on topics of personal interest.
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Group Research Inc. records, 1955-1996

215 linear feet

Wesley McCune founded Group Research Inc. in 1962 after a successful career as a journalist for such magazines as "Newsweek", "Time", "Life", and "Changing Times. Group Research Inc. was based in Washington DC until ceasing operations in the mid-1990s. The organization collected materials that focus on the right-wing and span four decades. The archive includes information about and by right-wing organizations and activists in the form of publications, correspondence, pamphlets, reports, the newspaper "Congressional Record," and magazine clippings and other ephemera. McCune and his small staff also published an initially bi-monthly but in later years monthly newsletter Group Research Report which kept its subscribers abreast of the latest views and actions of right-wingers.

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William B. Welsh papers, 1819-1956, bulk 1952-1956

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The collection contains the papers of William B. Welsh, who served as a research and legislative assistant to Herbert H. Lehman when he was a New York senator.
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Series III: Constitutional Amendment, 1940-1956

Amendment, which would have eliminated the Electoral College and replaced it with a proportional electoral

This series contains correspondence, fliers, clippings, press releases and other documents on two proposed amendments: the Bricker Amendment, which concerned treaty regulation, and The Lodge-Gossett Amendment, which would have eliminated the Electoral College and replaced it with a proportional electoral vote.