From Columbia Magazine’s Spring 2019 print edition with the title “The World on a String”: The marionette shown here was purchased in Singapore in 1926 by John Mulholland, who taught at Teachers College and later became a famous magician. Matthews, a skilled conjurer himself, retired from teaching in 1924. He died five years later, leaving […]
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Oral history collection on addiction featured in NPR podcast, Throughline
Addiction and the opioid epidemic gripping the nation are investigated in a new NPR podcast, Throughline. Taking advantage of decades of NPR’s archival sound and the Oral History Archives at Columbia’s collections, podcast co-host Rund Abdelfatah spent time here in the RBML listening to the voices and stories of people struggling with addiction. The interviews […]
RBML Pulitzer collections on PBS’ American Masters 📺📰📺📰📺
Mere days ahead of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize announcements, tune in Friday, April 12, 2019 for the debut of a new program, Joseph Pulitzer: Voice of the People. The makers of the long-running PBS series, American Masters, visited the RBML to examine the Pulitzer and World paper collections, speak with Curator for Performing Arts Jenny Lee […]
New and Updated Collections | March 2019
Head Archivist Kevin Schlottmann shares collections newly opened or updated by RBML archivists. Dawn Powell Papers “Dawn Powell (1896-1965) was an American author of novels, plays, and short stories. The collection includes address books, appointment books, books, clippings, correspondence, diaries, ephemera, family materials, manuscripts, notes, notebooks, photographs, programs, research files, reviews, scrapbooks, sketches and drawings. […]
100 years of Bauhaus
Bauhaus, the German school where crafts met fine arts and spawned a style, brand and movement, turns 100 this year. Walter Gropius received an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters at a 1961 commencement. Columbia President Grayson Kirk recognized him as “a formulator of architectural controls which help to guide the Contemporary Movement” and as a […]