News from RBML’s Archivists | March 2020 – News from Columbia's Rare Book & Manuscript Library

Columbia University Libraries (CUL) are closed until further notice to aid in the containment of COVID-19, RBML’s archivists won’t be physically processing materials.

We do, however, have these updates about our collections.

Please be safe and take advantage of this time to engage with materials you may have collected on previous visits to the RBML. Your are also welcome to explore these resources:

– CUL’s Digital Library Collections
– the Columbia University Archives online and
– the RBML’s Digital Collections and Exhibitions.

New finding aids

Yuri and Bill Kochiyama Papers – Series I (New York Accession)

Letters, diaries, albums, photographs, and printed material of Yuri and Bill Kochiyama.

https://findingaids.library.columbia.edu/ead/nnc-rb/ldpd_13204194

Jean Nathan / Dare Wright

“This collection contains Jean Nathan’s extensive biographical research on the life of Dare Wright (1914-2001) a children’s book writer, photographer, and model, who spent most of her career in New York.”

https://findingaids.library.columbia.edu/ead/nnc-rb/ldpd_12918915

Seymour B. Durst Collection of Historical Manuscripts and Documents, 1764-1885

“A collection of 17 cataloged items collected by Seymour B. Durst as part of his Old York Library collection.”

https://findingaids.library.columbia.edu/ead/nnc-rb/ldpd_14623593

Joseph Marks papers about Anne Frank, 1950-1999

“These files concern the publication of Anne Frank: the Diary of a Young Girl in 1952, the dramatization of this diary and the subsequent legal disputes with Meyer Levin over the play, and the motion picture made from the play”

https://findingaids.library.columbia.edu/ead/nnc-rb/ldpd_7269170

Alvin Singleton archive, 1968-2014

https://findingaids.library.columbia.edu/ead/nnc-rb/ldpd_14410252

Material remains unprocessed, but the finding aid provides a detailed listing of the collection contents.

Annie Stein papers, 1954-1993, bulk 1954-1981, 2020 Addition to the Papers

https://findingaids.library.columbia.edu/ead/nnc-rb/ldpd_6909494/dsc/

This addition is unprocessed. This is only a rough list of box contents.

Updated finding aids

Dmitriev Family Papers, 1739-1810

“Collection consists of four imperial patents: by Anna I, promoting Cavril Dmitriev to the rank of major (1739); by Peter III, promoting Ivan Dmitriev to the rank of captain (1762); by Catherine II, appointing Ivan Dmitriev to the rank of ensign (1787); and by Alexander I, appointing Ivan Dmitriev to the rank of privy councillor (1810). The latter two may concern Ivan Ivanovich Dmitriev (1760-1837), Minister of Justice under Alexander I.”

https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/4077454

A small but important collection, this improved description will make it much more discoverable.

Thomas W. Olcott papers, 1811-1925

https://findingaids.library.columbia.edu/ead/nnc-rb/ldpd_4079178

Richard Hofstadter Papers, 1944-1970

https://findingaids.library.columbia.edu/ead/nnc-rb/ldpd_4079537

Robert College Records and American College for Girls Records

https://findingaids.library.columbia.edu/ead/nnc-rb/ldpd_6607719

https://findingaids.library.columbia.edu/ead/nnc-rb/ldpd_6799283

ABMAC papers

https://findingaids.library.columbia.edu/ead/nnc-rb/ldpd_4079642/dsc/17

Links added to previously digitized AV material