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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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Laura Engelstein Collection of Research Note Cards on Social and Cultural History of Late Imperial Russia, 1982-1992

6.25 linear feet
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This collection illustrates the research process of a distinguished professor, and also brings a great deal of otherwise scattered (in Russian archives) material together on topics of human sexuality in Imperial Russia.

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Marshall MacDuffie Papers, 1945-1962, bulk 1945-1953

5.9 linear feet
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The collection documents American attorney Marshall MacDuffie's work as chief of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration's Mission to the Ukraine, and his trip to the Soviet Union in 1953.

Spanish Refugee Relief Association Records, 1935-1957

168 linear feet
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Records of the North American Committee to Aid Spanish Democracy and Medical Bureau to Aid Spanish Democracy, two New York City-based American organizations working to raise funds and provide medical and humanitarian aid for the Republican cause in the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939), and to refugees who fled Spain after the defeat of the Republican forces in April 1939. The organizations formally merged in January 1938 and became known as the Spanish Refugee Relief Campaign. These files include the organization's official reports, correspondence, pamphlets, broadsides, photographs, and publicity material, as well as several scrapbooks of news clippings.

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Jane Howard papers, 1930-1996

62 linear feet
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Correspondence, manuscripts, drafts, notes, journals, scrapbooks, audio tapes, datebooks and calendars, photographs, printed material, and memorabilia. Included are files relating to articles which she researched and wrote while on the staff of LIFE magazine, especially on popular figures in current literature and the arts. There are also research files and typescripts for her books: PLEASE TOUCH, A DIFFERENT WOMAN, and FAMILIES. Among the correspondents are: Paul Bowles, Agnes de Mille, Ken Kesey, and Hope Cooke Namgyal

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Harriet Zuckerman papers, 1887-2014, bulk 1963-1992

71.52 linear feet
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Correspondence, manuscripts, research files, drafts, memoranda, etc.

Boris Rabbot Papers, 1930-2012

5.42 linear feet
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The Boris Rabbot Papers consist of the writings, lectures, notes, correspondence, personal documents, post-doctoral dissertation, photographs, research and reference materials related to the professional activities of Boris Rabbot—one of the first Soviet sociologists employed at the pioneering Institute for Concrete Social Studies of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (IKSI) and an influential intellectual who tried to introduce a policy of liberalization within the Soviet system in the mid-1960s - early 1970s. The collection reflects Rabbot's professional life both in the USSR and USA. The collection gives an unprecedented insider's view into the workings of the Politburo and also traces the early development of a previously banned social science discipline, sociology, in the Soviet Union.

Kōji Nakanishi papers, 1949-2010

34 linear feet
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The collection consists of the professional papers of Koji Nakanishi. The files contain correspondence with collaborators, graduate students, and others in the scientific community; files related to patents owned by Nakanishi; and subject files highlighting Nakanishi's scholarly interests and scientific pursuits throughout his career.

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Edward H. Hume papers, circa 1930s-1940s

0.5 Linear Feet
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Notes and transcripts of articles, some in Chinese periodicals, health reports, etc. relating to medicine in China, to Chinese beliefs on health and medical matters, and to folk legends and beliefs in Chinese and Japanese culture. Included also are a group of printed pamphlets and articles on medicine.

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Charles F. Chandler papers, 1847-1937, bulk 1864-1925

135.25 linear feet
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Chemist, Professor, and President of the New York Metropolitan Board of Health. Professor Chandler taught at Union College before joining the faculty of Columbia University where he taught in the Chemical Department, the College of Physicians and Surgeons, and served as one of the founders and long-time Dean of Columbia University's School of Mines. He was interested in Industrial Chemistry and Public Health, serving on the New York Metropolitan Board of Health for many years and implementing a number of significant public health and public housing reforms.
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Robert K. Merton papers, 1928-2003, bulk 1943-2001

220 linear feet
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The Robert K. Merton papers document the noted sociologist's career as a student, professor, writer, and researcher. Merton's numerous and varied academic and professional affiliations, activities, and accomplishments are reflected in correspondence, memoranda, drafts, clippings, and notes.