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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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Dwight D. Miner papers on the history of Columbia University, 1938-1978

19.6 Linear Feet

Miner's correspondence, manuscripts, typescripts, manuscript and typescript notes, and printed materials relating to the history of Columbia University. Interfiled with Miner's papers are the correspondence, manuscripts, and notes of Columbia librarian Roger Howson (1882-1962) who had been writing a history of the University at the time of his retirement in 1948. Howson and Miner's correspondence is chiefly with Columbia University administrators, faculty, staff, and alumni and deals entirely with the history of the university. The two major Columbia correspondents are Provost Frank D. Fackenthal and Secretary Philip M. Hayden. There are manuscript and typescript drafts of chapters and parts of chapters by Howson and Miner, but neither's history was ever completed or published. These drafts along with the related correspondence, notes, and typescript copies of original manuscripts from Columbia's archives and manuscript collections are filed together under the appropriate headings in the Name and Subject Files. In addition there are two partially completed typescript drafts of each history.

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Joseph Boromé papers, 1939-1981

7.14 linear feet

Correspondence; Notes; Teaching Materials; research Material, etc.

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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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Susan Otis Thompson papers, 1965-1992, bulk 1970-1980

1.05 linear feet
The papers consist primarily of correspondence and documentation related to her professional activities as a professor, a librarian, and a scholar of early print and book history.
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John Boynton Kaiser papers, 1928-1971

4.5 linear feet

Files dealing with many aspects of Kaiser's professional life.

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The Oakland Public Library, miscellaneous printed material, 1933-1943 Box 4, Folder 3

History and Appraisal, 1916-1938" ALA Bulletin (June 1938).
This folder includes a copy of an article entitled "Civil Service and the Oakland Public Library

This folder includes a copy of an article entitled "Civil Service and the Oakland Public Library History and Appraisal, 1916-1938" ALA Bulletin (June 1938).

  1. Series II: Oakland Public Library and Newark Public Library
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Wayne A. Wiegand research files, circa 1960s-2000s

5 linear feet
Research files of library historian Wayne Wiegand.
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Research Files

history. A significant portion of the material is related to the history of the American Library
The Research Files contain index card files about a variety of topics related to American library

The Research Files contain index card files about a variety of topics related to American library history. A significant portion of the material is related to the history of the American Library Association.

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George A. Plimpton Papers, 1634-1956

24 linear feet
The George A. Plimpton Papers consist largely of personal and professional correspondence, financial and real estate records, personal diaries and albums, writings, and lectures produced by or for George Arthur Plimpton. But the Papers also contains not only the correspondence and records of Plimpton's colleagues at Ginn and Company, the publishing house that Plimpton led for decades, but also correspondence and records relating to the dozens of other institutions and organizations that Plimpton helped lead. In addition to extensive correspondence relating to Plimpton's collecting of rare books, manuscripts, and historical artifacts, the Papers also contain such diverse items as autographs of presidents, handwriting specimens, studies of medieval manuscripts, and documents relating to the American slave trade.
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