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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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Saul Hofstein papers, 1939-1994

23 linear feet
The research files of Saul Hofstein and his files from the Otto Rank Association.
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Rose Nadler Franzblau papers, 1930-1978

142 boxes

Papers containing correspondence, manuscripts, notes, radio scripts, letters asking Franzblau's advice, clippings, memoranda, announcements, photographs, tape recordings, records, books, pamphlets, and memorabilia. She kept the vast number of letters asking her advice and the typescripts of her replies. Among the cataloged correspondents are Ann Landers, Jo Mielziner, Dorothy Schiff, and Abigail Van Buren.

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Mary Lasker papers, 1940-1993

353 linear feet

The collection consiste of correspondence, memoranda, reports, bulletins, clippings, photographs, awards, and printed material. The files, arranged by genre and topic and reflect her philanthropic and legislative work in the areas of health, specifically cancer, heart disease, and mental health. Her civic and legislative work is covered in detail, as well as her private interests and activities.

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Medical Facts, (v.d.) Box 400-404

palsy, Cerebral vascular disease, Death rates, Dental fact sheets, Diabetes, Epilepsy, Funding, Heart

(Includes information regarding: Arteriosclerosis, Dept. of Agriculture, Appropriations from the U.S. budget, Stanley Medeiros, Arthritis, Blindness, Cancer, Chemotherapy, Gallup polls, Cerebral palsy, Cerebral vascular disease, Death rates, Dental fact sheets, Diabetes, Epilepsy, Funding, Heart disease, Head & spine injuries, Life insurance, Mental health, Maternal & child health, Medical education & training, Alcoholism, Multiple sclerosis, New York City hospitals & health committees, Parkinsonism, Popularism, Rehabilitation, Tuberculosis, Voluntary health agencies)

  1. Series III: Topical Files

Newspaper clippings, 1950-1955 Box 591-602

rehabilitation, Viruses, A.P.H.A. Awards, Arthritis, Rheumatism, Cerebral palsy, Epilepsy, Child care, Cortisone

(Files regarding one or more of the following: Blindness, Cancer, Geriatrics, Health insurance, Lasker Awards, Legislation & budgeting, Medical education, Mental health, Personal, Friends, Planned Parenthood, Polio, Tuberculosis, McCarthy, Multiple sclerosis, National Science Foundation, Ulcers, Veterans rehabilitation, Viruses, A.P.H.A. Awards, Arthritis, Rheumatism, Cerebral palsy, Epilepsy, Child care, Cortisone, Deafness, Dental, Diabetes, New drugs & techniques, Hearth, Hospitals, Hypertension, American Legion Magazine, Alcoholism, Atom bomb defense, Budgets, Flu, President's Health Commission, Medical research, Air pollution, Atlantic Power, Diet & nutrition, Miscellaneous.)

  1. Series V: Newspaper Clippings
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Bernard E. Harcourt collection on Doyle Lee Hamm, 1919-2023

16.25 Linear Feet

This collection features legal, personal, and family social history documents relating to the life, career, capital murder conviction and death sentence of Doyle Lee Hamm, who was the subject of an attempted execution by lethal injection by the State of Alabama on February 22, 2018. The social history materials collected during the mitigation investigation of Mr. Hamm's capital murder case date back to the Depression Era. Hamm died of complications from lymphatic cancer on November 28, 2021, in the William C. Holman Correctional Facility near Atmore, in southern Alabama. He was 64.

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

20 linear feet

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

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Herbert H. Hyman papers, 1942-1985

7.14 linear feet
Herbert H. Hyman (1918-1985), an expert on the science of polling, was a professor of sociology at both Columbia University (1951-1969) and Wesleyan University (1969-1985). His papers deal primarily with his professional research interests and projects, but also include some teaching materials. His files include budgets, code books, correspondence, course materials, drafts, grant files, proposals, surveys, and typescripts.
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