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Juma, 1942-

It is the largest known collection of performances from the loft era in New York City, a significant but under-documented period of jazz history. The recordings collection of ca. 430 items, spanning the period from 1965-1975 (on open reel and cassette) contains unique, unreleased concert recordings, with the exception of a small amount of the collection included in the much-praised box set of Aboriginal Music Society recordings, Father of Origin (Eremite records produced in 2011). The recordings document not only the music of Sultan's own groups, such as the Aboriginal Music Society, but also a wide variety of recordings of other bands at Studio We, at other loft spaces in Lower Manhattan (e.g., Studio Rivbea, Artist House, the Ladies Fort, and Ali's Alley), as well as in Woodstock. In addition, the collection includes paper documentation which is contained in 256 containers, with over 2,800 individual items, including ca. 160 individual photographic prints and 44 contact sheets. Further documentation includes a timeline and calendar with detailed information on performers, repertory, performance locations, etc.

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Sherry, James
James Sherry (b. 1946) is the author of 13 books of poetry and theory and a leading proponent of both Language Writing and Environmental Poetics. The papers include address books, appointment books, catalogs, correspondence, editorial files, event fliers, manuscripts, notebooks, professional files, and publications.
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Chauncey, George

The George Chauncey papers include materials documenting Chauncey's research and activism related to LGBTQ+ history and activism. The collection reflects Chauncey's teaching, public speaking, and writing, including notes and other files related to his groundbreaking book, Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940. The collection also includes all the proposals submitted for a conference Chauncey organized in 2000, The Future of the Queer Past, (ultimately 200 papers, 50 panels, people from a dozen countries, funding from the Ford and Rockefeller Foundations), which provides a fascinating snapshot of the LGBTQ+ history field as it was just beginning to take off.

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Diario, la prensa
El Diario/La Prensa is the largest and oldest Spanish-language daily newspaper in New York City, and the oldest Spanish-language daily in the United States. The El Diario/La Prensa Photograph Morgue contains photographs and associated materials kept as reference, or morgue, files by the newspaper's staff. It documents events and personalities significant to New York City's Spanish-speaking communities between approximately 1970 and 2006.
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Columbia University
The collection consists of 624 cuneiform tablets (dating from circa 3100-539 BCE), and some ancient clay objects. Accompanying these are some twentieth century casts, and a collection of catalogs of the collection, articles about various parts, especially Plimpton 322, and correspondence about the tablets, including a number of letters, mostly from Edgar J. Banks, to George A. Plimpton, and others about tablets now in the Columbia collection.
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Rautenstrauch, Walter, 1880-1951

Scientific, professional, and academic papers of Rautenstrauch, consisting chiefly of notes, outlines, charts, and memoranda assembled by him for his courses at Columbia, his lectures, articles, and professional consultations. There is also a group of blueprints, plans, charts, and graphs related to various American industries and a large group of miscellaneous unbound periodicals, pamphlets, reports, and other printed material.

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Don Melnick Papers 3.35 Linear Feet

Professional papers of Professor Don Melnick. They include files on the creation of the Center for Environmental Research and Conservation, on its annual Environmental Leaders Forum and education program in collaboration with a middle school in Brooklyn, and the construction of the CERC space in Shermerhorn extension. There is a lesser amount of research files and some of Melnick's scholarly articles and conservation work, such as the creation of the Rainforest Standard, a socioeconomic mechanism for tropical forest protection. There is correspondence among faculty regarding faculty displeasure with the budget for Arts and Sciences when all but one department chair write a letter of protest. Materials include photographs, clippings, correspondence and research data.The dates range from about 1987 to 2018. The files and photographs are all in fair to very good condition. There is one CD-ROM containing scientific research data.

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Durst, Seymour B., 1913-1995

9 autograph letters signed, totalling approximately 34 pages, chiefly between family and friends of Maria L. Patterson, concerning her disappearance en route from New York City to Saco, Maine in March 1867. Letters dated chiefly between April and October 1867, with one undated letter, and one letter by Maria dated 1861. Some letters mention the consultation of a clairvoyant who claimed Maria could be found in Lowell, Mass., but she was apparently never located. From Maria L. Patterson, Albany, to her cousin Mary, Nov. 19, 1861 -- From Margaret (Maria's sister), Saco, Maine, to Mary, April 2, 1867 -- From Charles L. Snow, New York, to Post Master, Lowell, Mass., May 30, 1867 -- From Mary, New York, to Maria, Lowell, Mass., May 30, 1867 (copy) -- From Benjamin Patterson (Maria's father), Saco, Maine, to Charles L. Snow, New York, June 19, 1867 -- From Benjamin Patterson, Saco, Maine, to Charles L. Snow, New York, July 20, 1867 -- From E.P. Davis, Newark, N.J. to her brother, Oct. 4, 1867 -- Margaret, Saco Maine, to friends, Oct. 8, 1867 -- Benjamin Patterson, Saco Maine, to Charles L. Snow, New York, Oct. 8, 1867 -- Charles L. Snow, New York, to a friend, dated Monday morning; with embossed stamp of Snow & Richardson Commission Merchants, 23 South St. N.Y.

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Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library

Artificial collection of photographs of RBML materials created for customer orders in a pre-digital era. The RBML retained master negatives and extra prints for such orders to avoid the need to image the same document repeatedly. The index card boxes (Boxes 1-20, 25) contain negatives, transparencies and slides in paper envelopes; the record storage cartons (Boxes 21-24) contain file folders with black and white photographic prints.

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William G. Lambert papers 8.84 linear feet

Lambert, William G, 1920-1998

This collection consists of journalist William G. Lambert's (1920-1998) collected investigative materials such as correspondence, news clippings, notes, notebooks, photographs and transcripts related to his award winning reporting for The Oregonian, Portland, and for Life magazine. In 1957, Lambert and his college Wallace Turner received the Pulitzer Prize for their reporting, which uncovered widespread vice and corruption within the municipal Portland city government that involved labor union officials of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Warehousemen and Helpers of America, Western Conference. In 1970, Lambert accepted the George Polk Award for his Life magazine reporting, which revealed that Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas accepted and later returned a suspect $20,000 fee, spurring Fortas' resignation.

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The Parsons Railroad Prints cover various aspects of railroading, American and European, from the early days of the "iron horse". Many are by such well-known names as Currier and Ives, Ackermann, etc. They are mounted and filed inboxes according to size. Presented to Columbia by the family of William Barklay Parsons as a memorial to the collector.

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American Type Founders Company

Art and realia from the American Type Founders Company Typographic Museum includes the type specimen, paper molds, Goudy stuff, printing presses, the Schiller pictures made from type ornaments, the printing blocks, glass slides, the stained glass windows, woodblocks and framed artworks. Partial lists available upon request. Many items purchased from the American Type Founders Company were included into the Book Arts Ephemera collection, while books on the history of printing and printing processes from the 15th to the 20th century are being cataloged individually for the RBML Book Arts collection.

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Cosenza, Mario Emilio, 1880-1966

Files and records of Professor Cosenza, for his monumental work, BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY OF THE ITALIAN HUMANISTS AND OF THE WORLD OF CLASSICAL SCHOLARSHIP IN ITALY, 1300-1800. Also, his notes on Petrarch, the Italian Renaissance, and the Italian Humanists.

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Kellis Parker papers 13.75 Linear Feet

Parker, Kellis E.

Course materials, notes, research materials, notebooks and writings of Professor Kellis Parker (1942-2000), first full-time African-American law professor at CU. Known for outspoken advocacy of ending racial discrimination in academia and for embracing jazz as a framework for understanding law.