Russell Selkirk was born on his family's farm in Selkirk, Schoharie County on October 20, 1905. He worked for the first New York Power and Light Company and established a hardware store in 1935. He was active in the National Hardware Association, the New York State Retail Hardware Association and the Sterling Insurance Company. Selkirk was an elected member of the New York State Assembly in 1959 and held that position until 1965. In 1966, he joined the Joint Legislative Committee on the State's Economy, Imitation Food Products and Problems and Reapportionment. Selkirk died in 1993.

This collection contains lectures, notes, photographs, correspondence, and architectural drawings documenting the work of Russell Sturgis, and, secondarily, his son, Lyman Sturgis. The materials were created between 1874 and 1932.

This collection contains letters written by Russell M. Tuttle, an officer of the 107th New York Volunteers, to his family during the Civil War.

The four sheets include : [1] NYDA.1000.108.0001. [Design for a residence in Bristol, R.I. : front and side elevations] ; [2] NYDA.1000.108.0002. [Residence for Mr. Alexander Perry, Bristol, R.I. : side elevation] [3] NYDA.1000.108.0003. [Residence for Mr. Alexander Perry, Bristol, R.I. : front elevation] ; [4] NYDA.1000.108.0004. [Westminister Church (2nd. Unitarian) Providence, R.I. : perspective view] / Russell Warrn & Jas. C. Bucklin Architects. (Signed) M. Swett Invt. & delt. Pendletons Lithography.

Papers of the American industrial designer. Business records (1931-1964) pertaining to clients including American Cyanamid Corporation, Casein Company of America, Cornwall Corporation, and General Electric Company; architectural drawings, articles, lectures, book manuscripts, photographs, consumer and trade surveys, 1943-1959; clay, plaster, and paper models; and scrapbooks of clippings.

Collection of printed imperial decrees (Ukazy), primarily for the year 1813, bound with handwritten documents concerning official appointments, promotions and decorations awarded for military and civil service.

Correspondence, lists, photographs, reports, printed ephemera, and audio and video tapes which reflected the activities of Russian-American Medical Society of New York.

A collection of 268 Russian and early Soviet music scores published from 1904 to 1938. Numerous composers and lyricists (primarily Russian but also European and American) are represented. Most scores were published in Moscow or Leningrad. Other imprints include Rostov-na-Donu, Kiev, Kharʹkov, and Tiflis. Most scores are popular music, jazz or dance music. The covers were designed by many different artists. The collection includes musical settings of poems by Esenin, Lebedev-Kumach and Mayakovsky among others.

Pro-Russian and pro-Soviet posters from Russo-Japanese War, World War I and II, Cold War

Bound booklet containing the Russian Consulate key to a cipher.

Orders, financial records, subject files, lists and service records of the Russian Expeditionary Forces. The collection pertains almost entirely to World War I, and there are limited materials on the Civil War in Russia and the emigration in Europe. The bulk of the collection consists of service records (posluzhnye spiski) and lists of soldiers from the 1st and 2nd Special Infantry (Osobye Pekhotnye) divisions. There are reports, plans, orders and financial records concerning these units in 1916-1919, chiefly in France. Files in the Civil War largely concern the northwestern front. Other files concern courts of honor (sud chesti) both in World War I and in the 1920s. Also in the collection is a book, IU. N. Danilov "Russkie Otriady na Frantsuzskom i Makedonskom Frontakh, 1916-18 g.".

The collection is largely composed of Igor' Krivoshein's materials related to Freemasonry, including his manuscripts, personal documents, and printed materials. Also included are photographs and biographical materials, as well as materials relating more broadly to Russian Freemasonry.

Collection of Russian and Eastern European emigre newspapers and periodicals published in Europe, North America, South America and Australia in the 20th century, also includes a number of newspapers published in Russia and the Soviet Union.

A collection of leaflets, newspapers, booklets, handouts and other items relating to Russian candidates and political parties including Edinaia Rossiia, Spravedlivaia Rossiia, Za pravdu za Moskvu, Nasha Pravda, LDPR, Rodina Rossiia, IAbloko, KPRF and others. Also includes a folder pertaining to the 2013 Moscow Mayoral race.

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.

The collection consists of seventy seven letters to the editors of the Parisian Russian-emigre newspaper "Russkaia myslʹ." The letters date from 1953 to 1957 and touch on a variety of topics, including the search for lost relatives.

The collection contains RNK correspondence, documents, photographs, subject files, organizational records and printed materials. There are letters from Boris Bakhmeteff, Pavel and Petr Dolgorukov, Zinaida Gippius, Aleksandr Kutepov, Dmitrii Merezhovskii, Bernard Pares, Ariadna Tyrkova-Williams, George Vernadsky, and Petr Vrangel. There is a short essay by Aleksandra Tolstaia about her father. The manuscripts relate to political, historical and sociological issues. Most of the subject files relate to emigre organizations other than the RNK, while those of the RNK are classified into files of financial records, bulletins, minutes and lists of names and addresses. Among the printed materials are brochures and pamphlets, clippings, newspapers, and books.

ROVS North America (ROVS-N.A.) Records consist of correspondence, manuscripts, documents, photographs, organizational records, subject files, and printed materials. There are also papers of the Paris-based Sovet Rossiiskogo Zarubezhnogo Voinstva (Council of the Russian Military Abroad) and other emigre military and political organizations active in New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles and South America. The cataloged correspondence includes letters by Evgenii Miller, Nikolai Tsurikov, Aleksandr Kutepov and other emigre figures and by Richard Nixon, Lyndon Johnson, Barry Goldwater and other prominent American politicians. Arranged correspondence series consist of general office files, Paris-New York files, correspondence of Aleksei von Lampe and Vladimir Vitkovskii and topical correspondence files. Among the manuscripts are short articles and reminiscences by various people. There are photographs of Evgenii Miller, Nicholas II and of emigre organizational gatherings during the 1950s and 1960s. The organizational records include circulars, bulletins, orders, memoranda, reports, publications and financial records for ROVS and the Sovet Rossiiskogo Zarubezhnogo Voinstva. Subject files concern such topics as the Elisavetgrad Military Academy, the Union of the First Kuban Campaign, the Gallipoli societies, the Ingermanlandskii Regiment and the Russian Anti-Communist Center in New York. The printed materials include a book by Boris Kuznetsov and publications and circulars from other emigre organizations.

Related materials can be found in the following Bakhmeteff Archive collections: Arkhangel'skii, Kutepov, Lampe, ROVS-North America, and Shatilov.

The slides are all labelled; they concern the Russo-Japanese War and many have detailed descriptions.

The collection consists of 4 film reels, which have been digitized and are available online to Columbia affilates (and available to our public in our reading room).

Correspondence, Halsband's chemistry dissertation, articles on chemistry, Columbia University memorabilia, photographs, and drawings. There are many letters from Professor Halsband concerning the progress of his books. Letters to and from her family and from her friends have been added. Correspondents include Samuel Hopkins Adams, Samuel Atkins Eliot, Jr., and Italo Montemezzi.

Photocopies of handwritten diaries from a Central New York wife and mother, primarily concerned with family matters. The originals are privately owned and not in the possession of the library.

A collection of items left by members of the Columbia community, as well as some local community neighbors, in tribute to Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg following her death on September 18, 2020. The contents include notes, letters, posters, flowers and objects. Also includes 136 digital images of the memorial at Alma Mater as well as at Ginsburg's portrait in the Law School taken by the University Photographer, Eileen Barroso

The papers pertain to the career of Ruth Bartholomew as a librarian at the University of Buffalo. The bulk of the papers are in the form of an alphabetical file and date from 1922 to the early 1940s and pertain to the general administration of the Library. Some of the later papers pertain to her more specialized responsibilities in gifts and exchange, supplies and the bindery.

American literacy advocate and author. Collection includes videotapes, clippings, slides, and presentations and publications by Colvin.

Course notes, manuscript drafts, and copies of publications by Masters, including her course notes for Prof. Joseph Chamberlain's classes on international organization and international waterways, a draft of her manuscript on public health, other manuscripts, and copies of printed works.

Materials include photographs of RPI flag and pushball rushes and the school's '86 Field; two tickets for the Hudson River Day Line with artwork by Hayner, who worked for the Troy Times; and loose notebook pages documenting early WHAZ programming from 1922 to circa 1924.

Wife of Colonel Elvid Hunt, U.S. Army. Four travel journals covering trips within the United States (includes cities in California, Arizona, Utah and Nevada as well as various national parks such as Yosemite. Two travel journals covering trips abroad (China, Manchuria, Korea, Japan, England and continental Europe).

American painter. Collection contains biographical data, one photograph, one article about her.

Includes minutes, rosters, reports, newsletters, and other materials of the Early Childhood Education Council of Western New York (ECEC) and the New York State Association for Nursery Education (NYSANE).

Correspondence with many well known authors and scientists, correspondence with publishers, contracts, and other materials dealing with the many series of books which she has organized. Dr Anshen has edited over one hundred works in fields ranging from physics and biology to philosophy, education, psychology, and esthetics. Her series - WORLD PERSPECTIVES (Harper), RELIGIOUS PERSPECTIVES (Harper), CREDO PERSPECTIVES (Pocket Books/Simon & Schuster), THE SCIENCE OF CULTURE SERIES (Harcourt, Brace), PERSPECTIVES IN HUMANISM (World Pub. Co.), and THE TREE OF LIFE SERIES - have been concerned with new trends in scientific thought and the mutual intelligibility of the various arts and sciences. A new series, CONVERGENCE (Columbia University Press), was started in 1981 dealing with ideas that changed, or that are changing the world. Books from the various series are also included. There is also personal material of Dr Anshen and her family.

This collection consists of 84 World War I-era scrapbooks compiled by Ruth Payne Burgess.

The material that now comprises the African-Americans in Albany Research Collection began in 1967 as a research project at Guilderland Junior/Senior High School where Ruth Winne Roberts was teaching at the time. The collection contains brochures, notes, photocopied documents, clippings, invitations, programs, articles, bibliographies and photographs relating to the history of African Americans in Albany.

Papers of Ruth Roosa, a pioneer in the study of early twentieth-century Russian capitalism. Roosa, who studied Russian history at Columbia University under professor Geroid T. Robinson, was the author of the book "Russian Industrialists in an Era of Revolution: The Association of Industry and Trade, 1906-17.".

The Ruth H. Scott Papers are comprised of three series: Career Materials, Civic Activism, and Personal Papers. The majority of the items in Career Materials document Scott's terms serving on the Rochester City Council, from 1977-1989. A small group of materials in this series includes items from her unsuccessful 1993 campaign for Rochester City Mayor. There are additional materials related to her consulting work for banks, and non-profit companies. Most of the consulting material dates from 1989, when she began Scott Associates Consulting, Inc. The second series, Civic Activism, documents Scott's participation and interest in a variety of community organizations, locally and nationally. This series includes three subseries: Leadership America, Housing and Urban Development, and Education. The materials on education also include consulting work and positions held within the Rochester City School systems, beginning in the 1950s. The final series, Personal Materials, includes family photographs, documents related to Scott's primary, secondary and college education. There are also awards, invitations, and birthday cards from the 1940s-2000s.

Correspondence of Granniss with various persons, relating to the preparation of her book AN AMERICAN FRIEND OF SOUTHEY (New York, 1913), a sketch of Maria Gowen Brooks (1795-1845). Included also are a copy of Granniss' book, two copperplates used to illustrate it, and a copy of Maria Brooks' ZÓPHIËL, a poem, Boston, 1925.

Papers of the American businesswoman, writer, editor, speaker and church leader; wife of clergyman Norman Vincent Peale. Collection contains correspondence, organizational records, business and financial records, and manuscripts pertaining to the National Council of Churches, the Foundation for Christian Living, the Reformed Church in America, and other organizations. Correspondents of note include Smiley Blanton, Billy Graham, Leonard LeSourd, and Norman Vincent Peale.

Papers of Dr. Ruth T. McGrorey, professor of nursing education and Dean (1966-1974) of the State University of New York at Buffalo School of Nursing. The collection consists of papers, articles and speeches by McGrorey; annual reports of the School of Nursing; working papers for projected books on nursing administration, information on her teaching and consultation activities; and materials concerning a sabbatical study of new patterns of nursing administration and patient care in the US, UK and Spain; as well as personal memorabilia and tape recordings of seminars, speeches and meetings.

The Ruthven Todd collection consists of papers produced between 1938 and 1986. The collection contains handwritten and typed manuscripts, correspondence, and artwork.

Papers of the British author, novelist, poet. Died 1978. Holograph manuscript draft in notebook of an unfinished novel, "When the Bad Bleed, detective novel no. 2 by Richard Brothers" (pseud).

Photograph albums of Ruth V. Hewlett and Theodosia Stickney [née Hewlett], graduates and lifelong donors of the University at Buffalo. Also includes photograph albums belonging to their older sister, Josephine Hewlett, an alumni of the School of Social Work at the University at Buffalo.

The Ruth White Carr Collection contains materials from her time as a student at Syracuse University and from her missionary work in China.

Roy Walter Riehlman was a U.S. Representative from New York born in Otisco, Onondaga County, NY on August 26, 1899. Riehlman operated a general store and served as postmaster of Nedrow, NY from 1921 through 1923. In 1923, he became owner and operator of a bakery in Tully. Riehlman was a member of the Tully Board of Education from 1933-1938. Riehlman sat on a variety of boards in Onondaga County. Riehlman, a Republican was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives (Eightieth Congress) for eight consecutive terms from 1947-1965. After an unsuccessful reelection in 1964, he became the vice president of Lu-Mar Enterprises, Inc. and resided in Ormond Beach, Florida until his death there on July 16, 1978. He is buried in Tully Cemetery in Tully, NY. His papers contain records relating to his work in Congress.

The materials in this collection were collected and produced by Glen Vail in his research on settler land speculation and acquisition in Western New York, in preparation for his unpublished book entitled Land Speculation in New York State, 1791-1847. The materials consist largely of handwritten notes, as well as original source materials in the form of correspondence, maps, land survey diagrams, anthropological studies, scrapbooks, and bound volumes. Vail approached his research as a bibliographer- indeed, he subtitled the introduction to his manuscript "A Bibliographical Study of Certain New York Real Estate Rarities"- and many of the materials and his notes concern the purchase and citations of old books, through which he was conducting his research. The date range of this finding aid describes the date range of the original materials in the collection, some of which are notes on or photocopies of earlier primary sources; the date ranges on the folders reflect the dates of the sources, and so in some instances the enclosed material may be Vail's (usually undated) notes on a much earlier document. Although Vail continued to return to his research on land tenure and speculation throughout the course of his several decades in the library profession, his focus shifted over time to care more about the people of the Seneca Nation who had originally held tenure of the land before the arrival of the white settlers- a focus which may have been inspired by the depth of the notes in George S. Conover's papers, which contain descriptions of many historical Seneca individuals, rites, rituals, and traditions.

Three pen and ink drawings by Ryszard Dabrowski for the comic "Likwidator" in Ukraine. Two drawings signed by the artist. Original comic book artwork.

The autograph manuscript of 'Onward Christian Soldiers,' written by Sabine Baring-Gould.

This collection contains the manuscript "The Story of the Mohawk Valley,"(1924); addresses on history; (undated); and two articles on school libraries, (undated). Sabra W. Vought was supervisor of school libraries in Albany, New York.

Collection of material relating to the trial and execution of Italian immigrants Ferdinando Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti.