With a long list of Lions participating at the Olympic Games in Tokyo, the University Archives looked for past Columbia Olympic competitors. Here are the medal-worthy collections used to rediscover these great athletes. […]
How the Whitney M. Young, Jr. papers came to Columbia
The finding aid to the Whitney M. Young, Jr. papers, 1960-1977 was recently updated and improved. Fittingly, Columbia acquired this civil rights leader’s papers thanks to student activists protesting at the President’s House in the early 1970s. […]
News from RBML’s Archivists | June 2021
Kevin Schlottmann, RBML’s head archivist, shares a selection of new and updated finding aids, as well as newly available collections. Newly Linked Audio-visual and Moving Image Collections Max Neuhaus papers, 1950s-2008 “Research materials relating to the creation and installation of sound sculptures by Max Neuhaus.” Newly Available Oral History Collections The Columbia University […]
Bourke-White at Columbia
A striking self-portrait of Margaret Bourke-White welcomes visitors to the Met’s latest photography exhibition “The New Woman Behind the Camera.” Before she became a renowned photojournalist, Bourke-White was a student at Columbia, who took her first photography class with Clarence H. White in 1922. […]
Comics Scrapbook Offers a Window into Depression-era Kansas
RBML welcomes an exciting new addition to its collections: a scrapbook compiled by a Kansas barber named I. A. Persinger, who began the book in 1928. […]