On Tuesday, October 22, 2013, at 6:00 pm Columbia University Columbia University Office of the Chaplain’s Concert Series will feature the Harlem Chamber Players at St. Paul’s Chapel at Columbia University 117th Street and Amsterdam (See, map @ no. 12). This concert is part of what the Harlem Chamber Players have titled […]
Category: manuscripts
RBML Exhibition— “Ernst Reichl: Wide Awake Typographer”
Kempner Gallery July 8 – September 13, 2013 The Rare Book and Manuscript Library is delighted to present a major exhibition of the work of Ernst Reichl (1900-1980), German-American book designer, active and prominent in New York/American publishing from the 1930s into the 1970s. A ‘whole book’ designer, Reichl believed in the harmonious totality of […]
Now Online: Jack Agüeros Papers, 1914-2012
Agüeros pictured in 1967, far right, then the deputy director of the Puerto Rican Community Development Project–the nation’s first Puerto Rican anti-poverty organization (Image credit: Agüeros Family) The papers document the life of Jack Agüeros, a Puerto Rican-American poet, community activist, translator, playwright, educator and a former director of El Museo del Barrio. The papers […]
Now Online: Joseph McCrindle Papers, 1895-2003
Joseph McCrindle was a literary agent, art collector, and philanthropist. He founded the Transatlantic Review in 1959, and created the Henfield Foundation which awards grants to arts, music, and social justice organizations in 1977. The collection contains both personal and professional papers of Joseph McCrindle. The professional papers are centered on the records of his […]
Columbia to House El Diario Photo Archive
Watch the video to learn more about the El Diario collection. So much of New York’s history has been lived, sung and reported in Spanish. With the great migration of the 1950s, what had long been a relatively small Latino community in New York became a thriving center of Puerto Rican life and culture. But […]