Columbia's Distinctive & Special Collections
Contributing to this Exhibition
   

 Arthur W. Diamond Law Library
Exhibition Item No.
     
  Archdiocese of Sao Paulo.  Projeto A "Brasil: Nunca Mais" #88
  Antonio Hernandez Palacios (1921-2000) and Will Eisner (b. 1917).  Les Droits de l'homme #89
  Nicholas Statham (fl.1472).  Abridgment #174
  Thomas Littleton (1422-1481).  Tenures #176
  William III, King of Great Britain(1650-1702).  Anno regni Gulielmi III Regis Angliae, Scotiae, Franciae & Hiberniae, Decimo #177
  Catherine II, Empress of Russia (1729-1796).  Nakaz Eia Imperatorskago Velichestva Ekateriny Vtoriya, Samoderzhitsy Vserossiiskiia dannyi Kommissii o sochinenii proekta novago ulozheniia #178
  Ephraim Kirby (1757-1804).  Reports of cases adjudged in the Superior Court of Connecticut; with some determinations in the Supreme Court of Errors #179
  William Samuel Johnson (1795-1883).  Litchfield notebook of law lecture courses #180
  Georgios Kalognomos.  Enchiridion peri synallagmatikon #181
  Hirobumi Itō (1841-1909).  Teikoku kenpō, Kōshitsu tenpan gige [Commentaries on the Constitution of the Empire of Japan and Imperial ordinance] #183
  Yatsuka Hozumi (1860-1912).  Kenpō Teiyō [Outline of the Constitution] #184
  Tatsukichi Minobe (1873-1948).  Kenpō satsuyō [Principles of the Constitution] #185
  Dwight's retirement folio #186
  Edmonston Studio.  Harlan Fiske Stone with his law clerks #187
  Telford Taylor (1908-1998).  Public Relations Photo Section, Office, Chief of Counsel for War Crimes, Nuremberg, Germany, APO 696-A, US Army, Photo No. OMT-IX-P-7 #188a
  Telford Taylor (1908-1998).  Statement on Nuremberg Trials for the International News Service #188b
  Faried Adams.  R. v. Adams and others. South African Mass Treason Trial #189
     

 Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library

 
     
  Alexander Jackson Davis (1803-1892).  United States Custom House #43
  Trinity Church perspective view #44
  Louis Prang (1824-1909).  Views in Central Park, New York #46
  Architectural Iron Works of New York.  Illustrations of Iron Architecture, Made by the Architectural Iron Works of the City of New York #47
  Charles Follen McKim (1847-1909).  Typed letter, signed, to Stanford White, with initial sketch of Low Library #49
  Lewis Hine (1874-1940).  Photograph of welder, Empire State Building #51
  Leon Battista Alberti (1404-1472).  De re aedificatoria #53
  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio (b. ca. 80/70 BCE).  De Architectvra #54
  Antoine Lafréry (1512-1577).  Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae #56
  Sebastiano Serlio (1475-1554).  Book VI, On Domestic Architecture #57
  John Shute (d. 1563).  The First and Chief Grovndes of Architectvre vsed in all the auncient and famous monymentes: with a farther & more ample discouse vyppon the same, than hitherto hath been set out by any other. Pvblished by Ihon Shute, Paynter and Archytecte #58
  Thomas Wright (1711-1786).  Various & Valuable Sketches and Designs of Buildings #59
  François de Cuvilliés (1695-1768).  A collection of engravings after the designs of François de Cuvilliés, the elder and his son, François the younger (1731-1777) #60
  James Adam (d. 1794).  British Order #61
  Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778).  Elevazione ortografica della Tribuna, e del Presbiterio della Basilica Lateranense #62
  Abraham Swan (ca. 1720-ca. 1765).  A Collection of Designs in Architecture, Containing New Plans and Elevations of Houses, for General Use #63
  Minard Lafever (1797-1854).  Drawings for unbuilt church in Brooklyn Heights, 1840 #64
  David Octavius Hill (1802-1870).  A Series of Calotype Views of St. Andrews #65
  Dickinson's Comprehensive Pictures of the Great Exhibition of 1851. From the Originals Painted for H. R. M. Prince Albert, by Messrs. Nash, Haghe, and Roberts #66
  Stanford White (1853-1906).  Album of family letters with sketches #67
  Louis H. Sullivan (1856-1924).  Drawing for Doorknob, Guaranty Building, Buffalo, New York, 1895 #68a
  Yale & Towne.  Doorknob, Guaranty Building #68b
  Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959).  Drawing of dining room, Dana House, Springfield, Illinois #69
  Greene & Greene.  Detail drawing of decorative window, Earle C. Anthony House, Los Angeles, California #70
  Rafael Guastavino (1842-1908).  Drawing for Dater House, Montecito, California #71a
   –Tile made for Dater House #71b
  Hendrick Petrus Berlage (1856-1934).  Frank Lloyd Wright. Wendingen #72
  Harrison & Abramovitz.  Sketch of original plans for United Nations building #113
  Delano and Aldrich.  Marine Terminal, LaGuardia Airport #173
  Thomas W. Lamb (1871-1942).  Drawing for a proposed new lobby, Audubon Ballroom, New York City #242
  Ely Jacques Kahn (1884-1972).  Drawing, Dowling Theater, Times Square, New York City #245
     

 Barnard College Library

  
     
  Memorial to the Columbia College Board of Trustees #75
  Jane Addams (1860-1935).  Twenty Years at Hull-House with Autobiographical Notes ... with Illustrations by Norah Hamilton, Hull-House, Chicago #111
  Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935).  The Yellow Wall Paper #205
  Gertrude Stein (1874-1946).  Tender Buttons, Objects, Food, Rooms #207
     

 Burke Library at Union Theological Seminary

 
     
  Alexander de Villa Dei (1175-1240).  Doctrinale #3
  Lexicographical Works #123
  Biblia Germanica #125
  Nocturnale for Carthusian Use #127
  Martin Luther (1483-1546).  Der Prophet Jona #128
  The Holy Bible, Conteyning the Old Testament, and the New: Newly Translated out of the originall tongues & ... revised, by his Maiesties speciall Cōmandement #131
  Hymnal – Manuscript on parchment, Crimea, Kafay, 1646 #132
  Solomon Stoddard (1643-1729).  Common Place Book and Sermon Notes #133
  The African Union Hymn book, designed as a companion for the pious, and friends of all denominations ... compiled by Peter Spencer #134
  Amanda Smith (1837-1915).  An Autobiography: the story of the Lord's dealing with Mrs. Amanda Smith, the Colored Evangelist; containing an account of her life and work of faith, and her travels in America, England, Ireland, Scotland, India and Africa, as an Independent Missionary #135
  Collection of magical prayers and "images" #136
  Emily Grace Briggs (1867-1944).  The Deaconess in the Ancient and Medieval Church: A Study in the History of Christian Institutions #137
  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945).  Application to Union Seminary #138
  Johannes Andreae (d. 1348).  De arbore consanguinitatis, affinitatis et cognitionis spiritualis #175
     

 C. V. Starr East Asian Library

  
     
  Oracle Bone.   #14
  Hyakumantō darani (One million pagoda dhārāni) #16
  Da bo re bo luo mi duo jing (Prajna-paramita sutra) #18
  Nestorian Crosses.   #19
  Yongbi Ŏch’on’ga (Songs of the Dragons Flying to Heaven) #20
  Kuzuoka Nobuyoshi (1629-1717).  Urashima Tarō #21
  Urashima Tarō #22
  Nogŏltae ŏnhae #23
  Kitamura, Kigin, 1625-1705.  Genji monogatari kogetsu shō #24
  Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1798-1861).  Yume no ukihashi (Bridge of dreams) #25
  Andō Hiroshige (1797-1858).  Tōkaidō Gojūsantsugi no uchi: Fujikawa (Fifty-three stations of the Tōkaidō: Fujikawa station) #27
  Amanoto Toryū (1818-1877).  Kyōka chakizai gazōshū #28
  Tibetan Printing Block #29
  Fabric "cheat sheet" #30
  Chen Menglei (1651-1741) and Jiang Tingxi (1669-1732).  Qin ding gu jin tu shu ji cheng #31
  Chinese Paper Gods #33
  [Pigŭk sosŏl] Pulsanghan insaeng (An unhappy life) #34a
  Yŏngsŏn (n.d.).  Syongdo mallyŏn pulgasari chyŏn (The account of a pulgasari in the last years of Songdo) #34b
  [Kodae sosŏl] Tang Taejyong chyŏn (Biography of Tang Taizong) #34c
  Fukuda Bisen (1875-1963).  Chūgoku sanjū emaki #36
     

 Gabe M. Wiener Music & Arts Library

 
     
  René Descartes (1596-1650).  Renati Des-Cartes Musicae compendium #222
  Henry Purcell (1659-1695).  Orpheus Britannicus. A collection of all the choicest songs...The Second Book, which renders the First Compleat #223
  Leonard Euler (1707-1783).  Tentamen novae theoriae musicae #225
  Vesperal – Manuscript on paper, Austro-Hungarian Empire #226
  Joseph Mazzinghi (1765-1844).  Chains of the Heart, or the Slave by Choice. A Comic Opera. #228
  Joseph Haydn (1732-1809).  [Gebote Gottes den Herm] Die X Gebothe Gottes, in Musik gesetzt als Canons von Joseph Hayden (Eigenthum der herausgeber) [The Ten Commandments] #229
  Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827).  Wellingtons-Sieg, oder: Die Schlacht bey Vittoria. In Musik gesetzt ... 91tes Werk #230
  Anton Bruckner (1824-1896).  Symphony IV, (Romantic) #232
  Gustav Holst (1874-1934).  Egdon Heath #234
     

 Health Sciences Library

  
     
  Articella nuperrime impressa cum quamplurimis tractatibus pristine impressioni superadditis #141
  Jacopo Berengario da Carpi (1460?-1530?).  Commentaria cum amplissimis additionibus super anotomia Mundini #142
  Hans von Gersdorff (1455-1529).  Feldtbuch der Wundartzney #143
  Andreas Vesalius (1514-1564).  De humani corporis fabrica libri septem #144
  Giovanni Andrea dalla Croce (1509?-1580).   Chirurgiae...libri septem #145
  Gaspare Tagliacozzi (1545-1599).  De curtorum chirurgia per insitionem #146
  William Harvey (1578-1657).  De motu cordis & sanguinis in animalibus, anatomica exercitatio #147
  Robert Hooke (1635-1703).  Micrographia: or, Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies made by Magnifying Glasses #148
  John Hunter (1728-1793).  The Natural History of the Human Teeth #150
  James Graham.  Doctor Bard's Lectures upon the Palsey #151
  Luigi Galvani (1737-1798).  De viribus electricitatis in motu musculari commentarius #152
  René Théophile Hyacinthe Laennec (1781 - 1826).  De l'Auscultation Médiate, ou Traité du Diagnostic des Maladies des Poumons et du Coeur fondé principalement sur ce Nouveau Moyen d'Exploration. #153
  Florence Nightingale (1820-1910).  Notes on Nursing: What it is, and What it is Not #154a
  A. A. Turner.  Portrait of Florence Nightingale #154b
  The Holy Bible, containing the Old Testament and the New #155
  Jean-Martin Charcot (1825-1893).  Ueber die Localisationen der Gehirn-Krankheiten #156
  Sigmund Freud (1856-1939).  Totem und Tabu #157
     

 Office of Art Properties

  
     
  China, Zhou Dynasty, 1050-256 BCE.  Vessel (gui) #15
  Japan, Fujiwara period, 12th century CE.  Standing Bodhisattva #17
  Charles Willson Peale (1741-1827).  Portrait of Alexander Hamilton #39a
  Archibald Robertson.  New York from Long Island #41
  Florine Stettheimer (1871-1944).  Portrait of Myself, 1923 #73
  Roy Lichtenstein (1923-1997).  Untitled, 1974 #74
  Eastman Johnson (1824-1906).  Portrait of Fredrick A. P. Barnard, 1886 #76
  Unidentified photographer.  Portrait of John Watson Webb #169
  Sir Thomas Lawrence (1769-1830).  Portait of George Gordon, Lord Byron #198
     

 Oral History Research Office

  
     
  September 11th 2001 Oral History Narrative and Memory Project #52
  Thurgood Marshall (1908-1993).  Transcript of Oral History Interview #118
     

 Rare Book & Manuscript Library

 
     
  Aelius Donatus (fl. 354 CE).  Ars Minor #1
  Canon Missae #2
  Iamblichus Chalcidensis (ca. 240-325).  De mysteriis Aegyptiorum, Chaldaeorum, Assyriorum #4
  John De Beauchesne (1538? -after 1610) and John Baildon (fl. 1570).  A Booke Containing Divers Sortes of Hands #5
  William Caslon (1693-1766).  A Specimen by W. Caslon, Letter-Founder, Ironmonger-Row, Old-Street, London #6
  Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790).  Composing stick #7
  Alexander Anderson (1775-1870).  Diarium commentarium vitae Alexander Anderson #8a
  John Plumbe (1809-1857).  Daguerreotype portrait of Alexander Anderson #8b
  Alexander Anderson (1775-1870).  Wood engraving of garden-house scene, signed in the block "AA" #8c
  Washington Hand Press #9
  Kelmscott Press.  Specimen copy of the Kelmscott Chaucer #10
  Arthur Rackham (1867-1939).  Self-portrait, 1924 #11a
  Arthur Rackham (1867 -1939).  Sketchbook for A Midsummer Night's Dream, ca. 1908 #11b
  W. R. Johnson (b. 1933).  Lilac Wind, poems by W.R. Johnson on a pulp painting made by Claire Van Vliet with Kathryn Clark #12
  Vincent Fitz Gerald & Company.  Maquette for The Reed, by Jalaluddin Mohammad Rumi, translated by Zahra Partovi #13
  Court of Raja Jaisingh II (1686-1743).  Yantraraja #26
  Jo Davidson (1883-1952).  Portrait of V. K. Wellington Koo #32
  Peter H. L. Chang (Zhang Xueliang), (1901-2001).  "Recollections of Xian Incident [Review]" #35
  Johannes Nevins (1627-before 1672).  Document pertaining to a plot of land #37
  New York City, Coroner's Office.  Minutes of the Coroner's Proceedings in the City and County of New York #38
  Alexander Hamilton (1757-1804) and Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton (1757-1854).  Gold double-band wedding ring of Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton, and wedding handkerchiefs of Alexander and Elizabeth Hamilton, 1780 #39b
  Tammany Society.  Journal & Rules of the Council of Sachems of Saint Tammany's Society #40
  DeWitt Clinton(1769-1828).  Letterbooks #42
  Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865).  Manuscript letter in John Hay's hand, signed by Lincoln, to Columbia University President Charles King #45
  Daly's Theatre, New York.  Account book #48
  William Barclay Parsons (1859-1932).  Diary, Rapid Transit System of New York #50
  Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528).  Underweysung der Messung #55
  Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919) Carnegie Corporation of New York.  Records of College Donations, New York #77
  Carnegie Family Convention, Pittsburgh – Black and white photograph #78
  Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919).  Typed letter, signed, to Robert A. Franks #79
  Sigmund Freud (1859-1939).  Contract for "The Psycho-Analytic Problem of the War" #80
  Lillian D. Wald (1867-1940).  The House on Henry Street #81
  Jessie Tarbox Beals (1870-1942).  Photograph of slum children, ca. 1918-19 #82
  Varian Fry (1907-1967).  Surrender on Demand #83
  John Howard Griffin (1920-1980).  Journal #84
  Hiroshima Project #85
  John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917-1963).  Executive Order, Equal Opportunity in Housing #86
  Presidential Medal of Freedom and Certificate signed by the President, Awarded to Herbert H. Lehman (posthumously) by President Lyndon B. Johnson, December 6, 1963 #87a
  Photograph of President Johnson presenting the Medal of Freedom to Edith Altschul Lehman (Mrs. Herbert H. Lehman) #87b
  Cuneiform Tablet.   #90
  Grant of the monastery of San Salvador de Cornellana to Cluny #91
  Marco Polo (1254-1324).  Buch des edeln Ritters und Landtfahrers Marco Polo #92
  Gilles Le Bouvier (1386-ca. 1457).  La chronique des rois Charles 6 et 7 conformé aux troubles d'aujourduy #93
  Denga.  – [Silver wire coin], Moscow (16th century) #94
  Abraham Ortelius (1527-1598).  Theatrum orbis terrarum #95
  Joan Oliva (1580-1615).  Portolan atlas of five charts of the the European and African Coasts of the Mediterranean and Atlantic #96
  Peter I, Czar of Russia (1672-1725).  Patent #97
  A plan of the boundary lines between the Province of Maryland and the three lower counties on the Delaware with part of the parallel of latitude which is the boundary between the provinces of Maryland and Pennsylvania #98
  John Jay (1745-1829).  Federalist Number 5 #99
  George Washington (1732-1799).  Proposals for the additional army #100
  France. Ministère de la Marine.  Comptabilité particulière du Citoyen David, pour l'Expedition d'Angleterre #101
  Kara George (1762-1817).  Agreement #102
  Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865).  Arithmetic exercises from manuscript sum book #103
  Alexander I, Czar of Russia (1777-1825).  Funeral scroll #104
  Alexander Bestuzhev (1797-1837).  On Your Namesake Day #105
  Lorenzo Da Ponte (1749-1838).  Memorie. In tre volume. Seconda editione corretta, ampliata e accresciuta #106
  Nicholas I, Czar of Russia (1796-1855).  Autograph letter, signed, to Count Alexander Benckendorff (with envelope) #107
  John Stuart Mill (1806-1873).  Autobiography of J. S. Mill, written by himself #108
  K. F. von Gan.  Czar Nicholas II with his family #109
  Nicholas Murray Butler (1862-1947).  Medal, Nobel Prize for Peace, 1931 #110
  Frances Perkins (1880-1965).  Draft notes of reply to F. D. Roosevelt on her nomination to the Cabinet #112
  Mikhail Taube (1869-1961).  Reminiscences, 1900-1917 [Fragment of a memoir] #114
  Herbert L. Matthews (1900-1977).  Interview with Fidel Castro in Sierra Maestras Mountains #115
  L. S. Alexander Gumby (1885-1961).  Collection of Negroiana #116
  Kate Millett (b. 1934).  Sexual Politics [Submitted in partial fulfillment of the Ph.D.] #117
  Harrison E. Salisbury (1908-1993).  China Diary-Tiananmen #119
  Aurelius Isidoros (4th century CE).  Petition to Dioskoros Caeso #120
  Anthology of Church Dogma #121
  Quran: 3rd section, in muhaqqaq script with Persian interlinear translation #122
  Antiphonal #124
  Book of Hours, use of Paris #126
  Babylonian Talmud #129
  Gospel lectionary #130
  Elizaveta Kuzmina-Karavaeva Skobtsova (1891-1945).  Untitled #139
  Thomas Merton (1915 -- 1968).  The Seven Storey Mountain #140
  King's College Board of Trustees.  Draft of medical diploma of Robert Tucker #149
  Cuneiform Tablet #158
  Omar Khayyam (1048-1122 CE).  Maqalah fi al-jabr wa-al muqabalah #159
  Arte dell'Abbaco #160
  Georg Agricola (1494-1555).  De re metallica #161
  Astrolabe #162
  Galileo Galilei (1564-1642).  Sidereus nuncius #163
  Isaac Newton (1642-1727).  The Three Mysterious Fires: Commentary on Monte -Snyder's Tractatus de Medicina Universali #164
  Giovanni Domenico Cassini (1625-1712) and Giovanni Cassini (1677-1756).  Planisphere terrestre ou sont marquees longitudes de divers lieux de la terre #165
  John James Audubon (1785-1851).  The Birds of America #166
  Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre (1787-1851).  Historique et description des procédés du daguerréotype et du diorama #167
  Robert Stephenson and Company, Newcastle-upon-Tyne.  "America" #168
  Michael Idvorsky Pupin (1858-1935).  X-ray photograph of lead shot in hand #170
  Harold Miller Lewis (1893-1978).  Laboratory notebook, recording Edwin H. Armstrong's discovery of superheterodyne reception #171
  Academic cap worn by Marie Curie while receiving honors at American colleges and universities, 1921 #172a
  Marie Sklodowska Curie (1867-1934).  Impressions of America #172b
  Benjamin N. Cardozo (1870-1938).  Communism #182
  Homer (fl. 9th or 8th century BCE?).  Iliad [Book 2.433-452] #190a
  Homer (fl. 9th or 8th century BCE?).  Odyssey [Book 12.384-390] #190b
  La Mort le roi Artu #191
  Homer (fl. 9th or 8th century BCE?).  Ilias; Ulyssea; Batrachomyomachia; Hymni xxxii #192
  Edmund Spenser (1552?-1599).  Colin Clouts Come Home Again #193
  Valerius Maximus (fl. 20 CE).  Facta et dicta memorabilia #194
  John Milton (1608-1674).  Letterbook #195
  Phyllis Wheatley (1753-1784).  Poems on various subjects, religious and moral #196
  Hornbook mould, 18th century? #197
  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797-1851).  Frankenstein, or, the modern Prometheus #199
  Alexandra Vereshchagina (1810-1873).  Autograph album #200
  William Pratt (1822-1893).  Daguerreotype portrait of Edgar Allan Poe #201
  Harper &Brothers.  Contract between Herman Melville and Harper & Brothers for "The Whale," [Moby Dick] #202
  Walt Whitman (1819-1892).  Leaves of Grass #203
  Stephen Crane (1871-1900).  Maggie, a Girl of the Streets, a story of New York, by Johnston Smith #204
  Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967).  Notes and rough drafts #206
  Virginia Woolf (1882-1941).  Two Stories #208
  Manfred B. Lee (1905-1971) and Frederic Dannay (1905-1982).  The Roman Hat Mystery: A Problem in Deduction #209
  Hart Crane (1899-1932).  The Bridge #210
  Alexei Remizov (1877-1957).  Deed (Gramota) #211
  René Bouchet.  Portrait of Bennett Cerf #212
  James Joyce (1882-1941).  Ulysses #213
  Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977).  Untitled Poem, Album #214
  Rockwell Kent (1882-1971).  Ceramic cup, saucer, plate from the "Moby Dick" pattern #215
  Cornell Woolrich (1903-1968).  Night Has a Thousand Eyes #216
  Gwendolyn Brooks (1917 - 2000).  Annie Allen #217
  Ralph Ellison (1914-1994).  Working notes and outline for Invisible Man #218
  Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961).  Autograph letter, signed to Daniel Longwell, 3 pages, #219
  Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997).  Howl (for Carl Solomon) #220