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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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Arthur Mitchell Collection, 1800s-2021, bulk 1934-2019

107 linear feet
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Arthur Mitchell (1934-2018) was an American ballet dancer, choreographer, and founder and director of the Dance Theatre of Harlem. This collection contains materials related to his career as a dancer with the New York City Ballet, and his later professional work with the Dance Theatre of Harlem and others. The collection includes administrative records, appointment books, correspondence, invitations, notes, notebooks, photographs, posters, programs, and audio and video recordings.

Committee to Protect Journalists records, 1978-2009

251 linear feet
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The records of the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) document the organization's work in promoting press freedom around the world and include clippings, correspondence, minutes, planning materials, publications, and research materials.

Allen Ginsberg papers, 1943-1991, bulk 1945-1976

11.25 linear feet
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Papers of Allen Ginsberg, American poet and one of the founders of the beat generation. The collection contains correspondence, manuscripts, and publications created by Ginsberg and his associates. Note that the main body of Ginsberg's papers is found at Stanford University.
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William J. Higginson Papers, 1950-2007

111 linear feet
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The William J. Higginson Papers consist primarily of correspondence with other poets and authors. There is also a sizable amount of Higginson's writings, including his manuscript, The Haiku Handbook: How to Write, Share, and Teach Haiku as well as many poems by both Higginson and his colleagues.
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Philip Whalen papers, 1941-1979

8.34 linear feet
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Papers of Philip Whalen, American poet, novelist, and Zen Buddhist associated with the Beat Generation and the San Francisco Renaissance.
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Jack Agüeros papers, 1914-2012, bulk 1961-2012

22 linear feet
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This collection documents the life of Jack Agüeros, a Puerto Rican poet, community activist, translator, playwright, educator and a former director of El Museo del Barrio.
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Goodie Publications records, 1999-2009

17.5 Linear Feet
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38 issues published from 1999-2009; designed, printed, collated, folded and staple-bound at the Goodie office in Brooklyn, NY; most issues were printed for subscribers, with extras being printed for special events of a given subject, and later by online orders; average between 200-500 copies per issue; readers were notified of new issues by postcard in the mail at first and later by email

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Lindley Williams Hubbell papers, 1933-2005

3.5 linear feet
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The collection contains the correspondence and written works (both published and unpublished) of the poet and ex-patriot, Lindley Williams Hubbell.
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Cecile Starr papers, 1925-2001

15 linear feet
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Personal documents, correspondence, photographs, audiocassettes, and printed material of the filmmaker, film writer, and educator Cecile Starr (1921-2014).
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L. A. Davidson papers, 1965-2007

48 linear feet
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From the mid-1960s through the beginning of the 20th century, Davidson collected English-language materials on Japanese haiku and books and periodicals of haiku in English. From 1968 to 1988 she maintained extensive correspondence with many poets of the haiku movement in North America. Materials include books and papers.

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