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Boxes from the Bakhmeteff Archive of Russian and East European History and Culture. RBML Stacks

Collections Processed, 2007-2009

Once a collection is fully processed a finding aid, written by the intern who processed the collection, is published online:


Papers of Individuals:

The Thomas Bonn Research Files, a small collection regarding  the founding and early years of Pocket Books, a New York publishing firm.

Correspondence of literary agent Jenny S. Bradley to poet and playwright Susan Sherman:
Jenny S. Bradley Papers

John Bates Clark, a United States economist, educator and peace activist:
John Bates Clark Papers

Louis Dropkin, American radio, stage and screen writer and producer:
Louis Dropkin Papers

The H. Lawrence Freeman Papers, which include original scores, clippings, correspondence and ephemera, document the lives and careers of Harry Lawrence, Carlotta, and Valdo Freeman, a family of African-American performing artists involved in opera, theatre, and music in early-twentieth-century New York City.

Television comedy writer, Willliam "Billy" Friedberg:
William "Billy" Friedberg Papers

The Joanne Grant Research Files consist of  the working materials that Grant, a journalist and activist, collected for the writing of her 1969 book Confrontation on Campus: Columbia Pattern for the New Protest.

Sighle Kennedy, a scholar of Samuel Beckett, received her Ph.D. from Columbia University and began her teaching career in the English Department of Hunter College in the early 1970s when women in academia were rare:
Sighle Kennedy Papers

Ephraim London, a United States attorney, practiced entertainment and publishing law from the 1940s to the 1970s, and specialized in issues of censorship:
Ephraim London Papers

Louis Napoleon Parker, an English playwright, translator and producer of historical pageants, was active in the theater from the 1890s through the early 1940s:
Louis Napoleon Parker Papers

The Professorial Memorial Collection, assembled by R. K. Webb, contains materials related to the lives and work, and memorials for, three Columbia University professors known by Webb: J. Bartlet Brebner, Stephen Koss, and Garrett Mattingly.

Jason Rogers, journalist and publicist, contributed to the field of newspaper advertising:
Jason Rogers Papers

Film critic and Columbia University professor Andrew Sarris's column, "Films in Focus," was long a mainstay of The Village Voice:
Andrew Sarris Papers

Writer and editor Ben Sonnenberg, Jr. is best known for founding Grand Street (1981-2004), a New York literary quarterly which he edited until his retirement in 1989.
 Ben Sonnenberg, Jr. Papers

Author, editor and publisher Sol Stein worked with many literary figures including Elia Kazan and James Baldwin. Stein also was an Executive Director of the American Committee for Cultural Freedom and wrote for Voice of America:
Sol Stein Papers


Records of Organizations:

The Boehm Foundation, a philanthropy, primarily funded groups devoted to promoting democracy and civil rights:
Boehm Foundation Records

The New York Clearing House Association Records comprise 42 ledgers that provide accounts of the daily, and occasionally monthly, exchanges and settlements of New York City banks between 1868-1950.

Ecumenical Association of Third World Theologians (EATWOT) is dedicated to the liberation of Third World peoples from economic and socio-political injustices:
Ecumenical Association of Third World Theologians (EATWOT) Records, 1975 – 2001

Collections from the Missionary Research Libraries Archives of Burke Library provide first-hand accounts of political movements and everyday life in late 19th and early 20th century China and Korea, as well as records of the educational and evangelical efforts of Christian missionaries:
Henry Gerhard Appenzeller
James Whitford Bashford Diaries
Chinese Church of Christ in Korea Papers
George Heber Jones Papers
Korea Conspiracy Case, 1912-1913
Korea General Collection
Korean Independence Outbreak Records
Timothy Tingfang Lew
Emory Warren Ross, treasurer of the Disciples of Christ Congo Mission and missionary in Liberia 1912-16, friend of Albert Schweitzer, and the 'go to' source of information on Africa for most of the 1930s-1960s.
Elwood G. and Donald G. Tewksbury Papers
Abbe Livingston Warnshuis Papers

The New Leader (1924-2006), a social-democratic journal of “news and opinion," printed significant work by prominent intellectuals on an array of subjects, but it devoted its best energies and much of its editorial space to criticizing the Soviet Union:
The New Leader Records

Saturday Press, dedicated to publishing the work of women poets over the age of 40:
Saturday Press Records

Architectural Collections:

Peter Blake Architectural Records and Papers
Giorgio Cavaglieri
William Adams Delano Scrapbook
James Marston Fitch Papers
Talbot Hamlin Architectural Records and Papers
Joint Advisory Committee on Planning and Development of the United Nations Headquarters
Hermann Muthesius/Haus Cramer Records
Paul Nelson Papers and Records
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill Photographs
Walter Sobotka
Shadrach Woods

Collections in Process, 2008-2009:

Academics:
Society of American Historians
Philip Butcher
Guglielmo Ferrero
Karl Polanyi
Barry Ulanov

Architectural:
Index of American Design
Felix Candela Architectural Records and Papers
Simon Breines
Georg Cserna Photographs And Papers
Norman Jaffe
Woodlawn Cemetery Records

Children's Organizations and
Advocates:
Children's Village (formerly the New York Juvenile Asylum)
Katherine Lenroot
Emma O. Lundberg

Collectors and Collections:
Albert Field Playing Card Collection
George Plimpton

 

 

Film:
Pare Lorentz

Music:
Vladimir Ussachevsky 

Politics and Government:
George Perkins Jr.

Prominent Families:
The Plimpton Family

Publishers, Publications, Writers,
Editors and Journalists:
Ernestine Evans
Grand Street Publications, Inc.
Oscar Hijuelos
Maureen Howard
Hettie Jones
Herbert L. Matthews
Samuel Roth 

Religious Leaders:
J. Stanley Durkee

Russian émigré and Political Activist:
Alexander Kazem-Bek

Sociologists and Urban Planners:
Herbert Gans

 
 


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