The Apollo Theater Foundation will support the two-year Apollo Theater Oral History Project. The project will conduct oral history interviews and produce audio/video recordings, transcripts, and related materials on the history of the Apollo Theater and its surrounding communities. […]
Category: Gifts & Grants
New Grant from the Getty Foundation
The Getty Foundation has granted RBML $145,000 to process the papers of art historian and critic Meyer Schapiro (1904-1996). The collection comprises 187 linear feet of material, including Schapiro’s research files, audio tapes, correspondence, and gallery invitiations. Work is set to begin in January 2009. […]
Starr Foundation Grant for the C. V. Starr Library
The C. V. Starr East Asian Library received a three-year grant of $300,000 from the Starr Foundation. The unrestricted grant will support initiatives including infrastructure improvements, staff, and collection development. […]
Delmas Supports Dramatic Puppets & Masks
The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation provided a grant to RBML to make accessible the nearly 450 puppets and 138 masks from the former Brander Matthews Dramatic Museum, which are now housed at RBML. James Brander Matthews (1852-1929), America’s first professor of dramatic literature, created a Dramatic Museum at Columbia in 1911 to supplement his teaching. […]
NHPRC Renews Funding for The Selected Papers of John Jay
The National Historical Publications & Records Commission granted RBML $150,000 for one year to continue work on a series of unpublished papers of John Jay. Work has been supported by the NHPRC since 2004. […]
Carnegie Corporation: David A. Hamburg Papers
RBML submitted a proposal to the Carnegie Corporation of New York requesting support to preserve and make available the papers of David A. Hamburg, president emeritus of the Carnegie Corporation and one of the world’s leading voices on international security issues and science policy. […]
Oral History of Atlantic Philanthropies
Over three years, OHRO has conducted 560 hours of interviews with 138 individuals to provide a lasting and comprehensive record of the altruistic intitiatives of The Atlantic Philanthropies and Charles F. Feeney, founding chairman and director. The interviews will be opened to the public in 2018 or when Altantic ceases to exist as a legal […]
Oral History of The Council on Foreign Relations
OHRO is completing its project to document the Council’s institutional history through the narratives of key members, leaders, fellows, and staff. The purpose of the project was to capture reminiscences relating to the institutional history of the Council and its impact on foreign affairs. The project recorded nearly 85 hours of interviews. […]
Survey of Audio and Moving Image Collections
The Preservation & Digital Conversion Division completed a Mellon-funded project to create a tool to inventory and assess the physical condition and intellectual control of audio and moving image materials. The tool was tested by surveying our own holdings of rare and unique recordings. The Preservation Survey Tool for Audio and Moving Image Collections is now […]
The Charles Adam Platt Archive Now Available
Thanks to a grant from the Reed Foundation, Avery has processed the archive of landscape architect Charles Adam Platt, which includes glass plate negatives of Platt’s visit to Italy and thousands of his drawings. Please go to http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/avery/da/platt.html. […]