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This collection consists of the photographs and graphics included in issues of the Columbia Research News newsletter. These images include Columbia faculty such as Carl F. Kayan, David Thurber, John R. Dunning, David Nachmansohn and C. S. Wu. There are also items which supplied the text for some of the articles: press releases, both internal (News Office) and external (New York Academy of Sciences and Bell Telephone), and newspaper clippings.

This finding aid represents the Columbia Alumni News holdings at the University Archives and those available online. This finding aid was created to facilitate access. If you cannot find a volume or issue you are interested in, please contact the University Archives at uarchives@columbia.edu.

Mayer's news bulletins, with some related correspondence, 1946-1954, some undated, contain descriptions of his work on city planning, rural development, architectural, and engineering projects in India, particularly the rural development projects at Etawah and elsewhere in Uttar Pradesh. Also, Mayer's impressions of India, his colleagues, Jawaharal Nehru and other Indian government officials, Indian-American relations, and personal matters.

This collection contains the Alumni News magazine's name files (A-Z). These "morgue" files contain newspaper clipplings, articles, press releases, book reviews, offprints, class reunion questionnaires, birth, marriage and death notices, change of address forms, some photographs and correspondence with the magazine, including submissions for the Class Notes section. The Alumni Federation included all Columbia schools: Columbia College but also Law, Physician and Surgeons, Journalism, Architecture, Pharmacy, etc. Files are organized alphabetically by the alum's last name and date from around 1919 to 1955.

The collection of the Russian Religious News Service (New York) consists of carbons of translations from the Soviet press, issued by the Service chiefly in the period 1927-1933. Many of the translations concern the decadence of Soviet youth, but most deal with religion in the USSR. A few items concern Russian Orthodoxy in the emigration.

Correspondence, manuscripts, proofs, and publicity materials for POETRY LONDON-NEW YORK, which appeared in four issues from 1956 to 1960. There is correspondence to and from M.J. Thurairajah Tambimuttu (1915-1983), the editor, Anthony S.M. Dickins, the "editor in Britain" from the contributors, manuscripts submitted for publication, and letters about the launching party for the magazine on 31 July 1956.

Clippings concerning Conference, May 6, 1890.