Butler Banner is an exhibit led by Columbia University students and supported and sponsored by Columbia University Libraries. Based on an artifact in the Libraries’ collections and an historic campus event, the exhibit aims to foster conversations about representation in campus spaces, collections, and scholarship. Throughout Butler you’ll find different aspects of the Banner to […]
Category: Columbia University Archives
News from RBML’s Archivists | October 2019
Head Archivist Kevin Schlottmann shares collections new from the RBML Here are some new and updated finding aids, reflecting work by archivists in archival processing, collections management, and university archives, as well as by our graduate student internship program. – KWS Marie Mattingly Meloney Collection on Marie Curie “The bulk of the collection deals with […]
The Other DeWitt Clinton Chair
Most of the time, when people at Columbia talk about the DeWitt Clinton chair, they mean the professorial chair in American History currently held by Eric Foner. At the Rare Book Manuscript Library, however, we mean a literal chair on display in the Corliss Lamont reading room. As its tarnished silver plaque notes, this is […]
Jack Kerouac Played Football Here!
Jack Kerouac came to Columbia in 1940 on a football scholarship. Unfortunately, the all-Massachusetts State player in high school suffered a broken leg in only his second game of his freshman year. In a memoir by C. Ogden Beresford (CC 1943) available at the University Archives, there is a first-person account of Kerouac after the […]
Homecoming Ball 1948
In addition to the great teams, coaches and players in the history of Columbia football featured in our exhibition “Roar, Lion, Roar“, on view at the Rare Book & Manuscript Library, we wanted to show football from the fans’ point-of-view – the history of the experience of going to a game. In the exhibit we […]