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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
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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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Association of Russian Orthodox Church in Nice records, 1860-1989

29 Linear Feet

Collection of Church records and personal papers accumulated during 150 years of existence. Some materials are fragile. Consists of ledgers, administrative documents, photographs, correspondence, diaries, and manuscripts.

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Records of the Non-Sectarian Anti-Nazi League to Champion Human Rights, 1836-1978, bulk 1933-1975

331.84 linear feet
This collection documents the work of the Non-Sectarian Anti-Nazi League to Champion Human Rights, a group originally founded in 1933 to coordinate boycotts against Nazi Germany. It later investigated and reported on extremist and hate groups of many kinds, primarily within the United States.
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New York Juvenile Asylum records (Children's Village), 1853-1954

117 linear feet
The collection is composed primarily of ledgers used in the operation of the New York Juvenile Asylum, a reception center, home, and placement agency for orphaned, abandoned, and impoverished children. The Asylum operated in Manhattan from 1853 until 1905 when it moved to a rural campus in Dobbs Ferry, New York. In 1920 the Asylum was renamed Children's Village. The collection provides copious information about the experience of poor and orphaned children, children sent West on "orphan trains," social work, and the home life and living arrangements of poor and immigrant New Yorkers in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
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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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Ivan Vladimirovich Lopukhin Memoirs, 1809

310 pages

Lopukhin's bound manuscript "Zapiski nekotorykh obstoiatel'stv zhizni i sluzhby Deistvitel'nogo Tainogo Sovetnika, Senatora I.V.Lopukhina, sochinennye im samim." and an engraving dated 1809, from the journal "Vestnik Evropy" of Lopukhin's estate.

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Varian Fry papers, 1940-1967

9 linear feet

The collection includes the original manuscript of "Surrender on Demand", Mr. Fry's account of his wartime experiences, which was later rewritten for young readers as "Assignment Rescue" (New York, Four Winds Press, 1968). Among the correspondents represented in the collection are Marc Chagall, Jacques Lipchitz, Roger Baldwin, Norman Thomas, J. Edgar Hoover, and Herman Wouk. In addition to the material relating to the Emergency Relief Committee (later known as the International Rescue Committee), the collection includes correspondence and papers concerning Fry's work as a writer on foreign affairs as well as copies of his books.

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9421, 1940-1941 Box 16, Folder 9414-9428

, now forbidden), free masonry, avarice, wine. House on right is French 'State' of Marshal Petain, solid

Vichy propaganda poster. Black Star caption: "Official propaganda poster of the Vichy government, widelyVichy propaganda poster. Black Star caption: "Official propaganda poster of the Vichy government, widely seen in unoccupied France. Poster promotes ideas of Marshal Henri Philippe Petain's "national revolution," and shows spirit of Vichy government. House on left is Third Republic, swept by storm, and dominated by Star of David, Red flag of communism, and spirit of commercialism ('France and Company'). Words on foundation stones include laziness, demagogy, internationalism, democracy, speculation, communism, capitalism, anti-militarism, 'jewishness.' radicalism, egoism, parliament, disorder, 'pastis' (a strong drink, now forbidden), free masonry, avarice, wine. House on right is French 'State' of Marshal Petain, solid, sunny, built on firm foundations, and dominated by the seven stars, insignia of the rank of marshal, and the tricolor, symbol of French nationalism. Words on pillars under house are school, artisanry, peasantry. Legion (Petain's quasi-fascist legion of war veterans). Those below are discipline, order, thrift, courage, and the slogan of the Petain government, work, family, country." See 9257, where same poster is in Vichy window.

  1. Series VI: Photographs