Our Growing Collections

KENNETH A. LOHF

Bamiing gift. The Libraries' holdings of political campaign mem¬
orabilia has been enlarged through the gift by Mr. John P. Ban¬
ning, Jr., of a collection of nearly nine hundred campaign buttons
and badges, including: 400 relating to races for Mayor of New
York City and Governor of New York State for the period,
1898-1974; 450 pertaining to various candidates involved in the
1972 and 1976 Presidential Campaigns; eleven ribbons with at¬
tached medallions issued for delegates to the Republican and
Democratic National Conventions from 1916 to i960; and a com¬
plete collection of the twenty-four campaign buttons produced
for the Norman Mailer-Jimmy Breslin 1969 New York City
Mayoral Campaign.

Barnett gift. Dr. A. Doak Barnett, professor of political science
at Columbia from 1961 to 1969 and now senior fellow at the
Brookings Institution, has established a collection of his papers
with the gift of approximately 3,500 manuscripts, notes, proofs
and correspondence relating to his major publications. Cadres,
Bureaucracy and Political Power, China and the Major Powers
and China's Economy in Global Perspective.

Barzun gift. More than two thousand letters, papers and inscribed
books have been added by University Professor Emeritus Jacques
Barzun (A.B., 1927; A.M., 1928; Ph.D., 1932) to his collection,
including correspondence with Alortimer Adler, Lillian Hellman,
Frances Steegrauller and Robert Penn Warren.

Beinecke gift. A fine copy of Jacob H. Studer's The Birds of
North America, New York, 1895, has been presented by Mr.

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