Head Archivist Kevin Schlottmann shares collections newly opened by RBML archivists Dennis Ryan Editorial Cartoon collection, 1873-2010 “Dennis B. Ryan began collecting cartoons in the early 1980s, ultimately focusing on cartons related to moments and topics of significance in American history, or on topics of personal interest.” This collection contains 2071 items, described and […]
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Gallery Talk | The Second-Hand Binding
October 23, 2018, 6:00 PM 523 Butler Reproduction technologies, from chromolithography to digitization, have long been heralded as boon as to scholarship in the arts of the book. Nevertheless, bookbinding, especially that from the Muslim world, has remained at the fringes of the field. Exhibition curator Matthew Gillman will talk about the historical circumstances (such […]
Arthur Mitchell, a charismatic dancer with the New York City Ballet in the 1950s and ’60s and the founding director of the groundbreaking Dance Theater of Harlem, died on Wednesday in Manhattan. He was 84. https://t.co/W45rGEO4kY — The New York Times (@nytimes) September 19, 2018 Along with admirers the world over, we mourn the loss […]
Workshop | Explore oral history and the future with CCOHR
Our colleagues over in the Columbia Center for Oral History Research (CCOHR) will host series of workshops on Oral History and the Future. The sessions are centered around the question, “How is this future orientation made real?” Read more about the series and see the list of presenters coming to campus this fall. September 13, […]
Newly opened (or refreshed) collections – August 2018
Head Archivist Kevin Schlottmann shares collections newly opened* by RBML archivists. * Some collections are not new, but have been re-processed and properly described. Consider them refreshed! Aleksandr Kazem-Bek papers, 1898-2014 “The Aleksandr Kazem-Bek Papers consist of correspondence, family and personal documents, writings, lectures, notes, manuscripts, photographs, printed and research materials related to the […]