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Petr Evgrafovich and Evgraf Petrovich Kovalevskii Papers, 1917-1973
4100 itemsCorrespondence, manuscripts, subject files, and printed materials. Cataloged correspondents in the collection include Georgii Adamovich, Mstislav Dobuzhinskii, and Sergei Lifar'. Manuscripts consist of typed copies of Pierre Kovalevskii's extensive diaries, which begin in Petrograd in 1918 and continue to 1973; the only missing years are 1961-1969. Subject files chiefly concern emigre organizations with which Evgraf was involved, especially the Russian Academic Group (Russkaia Akademicheskaia Gruppa) and the Russian Committee of United Organizations (Russkii Komitet Obʺedinennykh Organizatsii). Post-World War II organizational files of Petr Kovalevskii are on the Society for the Preservation of Russian Cultural Valuables (Obschestvo Okhraneniia Russkikh Kul'turnykh TSennostei), and the Committee to Commemorate the 250th Anniversary of St. Petersburg (IUbileinyi Komitet Oznamenovaniia 250-ti letiia St. Peterburga).
George Economou papers, 1954-2017
12.5 linear feetGeorge Economou identity cards Box 19, Folder 15
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- George Economou identity cards
Alfred Neumann architectural records and papers, 1900-1985, bulk 1950s-1960s
8 document boxesCanada Immigration Identity Card, 1966 Box 9, Folder 11
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- Canada Immigration Identity Card, 1966
Patricia Koo Tsien and Kia Chi Tsien papers, 1910s-2018, bulk 1932-1999
16.5 Linear FeetNational Registration Identity Card, 1944-1945 Box 1, Folder 17
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- National Registration Identity Card, 1944-1945
Al Mutanabbi Street Starts Here collection, 2007-2019
3 Linear FeetAl-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here is an arts initiative and an archival collection, conceived as a response to violence and directed at creating shared cultural spaces. The project and the collection were initiated in 2007 following a car bombing of al-Mutanabbi Street (the street of the booksellers) in Baghdad, Iraq. As of 2019, the archive holds approximately 260 artists' books, 200 prints, and 100 letterpress broadsides as well as 35 photographs (from the newly launched and related project, Shadow and Light).
No. 77: Hassiba, Andrea. Identity Cards Box 1
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- No. 77: Hassiba, Andrea. Identity Cards
Ann Greyson Papers, 1971-2000
1 linear feetCorrespondence, contracts, reviews, brochures, fliers, and photographs of various theatrical productions involving Ann Greyson.
Hofstra University Identity Card for Ann Greyson, 1996 Box 1, Folder 4
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- Hofstra University Identity Card for Ann Greyson, 1996
Gay J. McDougall South Africa and Namibia Papers, 1932-2006, bulk 1980-1994
268 linear feetFourth Observer Group Applications for Election Observer Identity Cards, 1989 Box 14
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- Fourth Observer Group Applications for Election Observer Identity Cards, 1989
Walter Samuel Lentschner papers, 1923-1986
1 linear feetCorrespondence, documents, photographs, and printed materials documenting his displacement in Europe, his emigration to the United States, and the legal steps he took to obtain reparations from Germany.
Marc Raeff papers, 1941-2008
38.2 linear feetDocuments related to the Raeff family's emigration from France, circa 1941 Box 89, Folder 1
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- Includes French identity cards; police certificates of identity for Isaac and Victoria; safe
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Includes French identity cards; police certificates of identity for Isaac and Victoria; safe-passage documents; Marc's student ID, and various police documents from France, Spain and Portugal. Many documents contain photographs.
Edwin H. Armstrong papers, 1886-1982, bulk 1912-1954
295.7 linear feetProfessional and personal files including Armstrong's correspondence with professional associations, other engineers, and friends, his research notes, circuit diagrams, lectures, articles, legal papers, and other related materials. Of his many inventions and developments, the most important are: 1) the regenerative or feedback circuit, 1912, the first amplified radio reception, 2) the superheterodyne circuit, 1918, the basis of modern radio and radar, 3) superregeneration, 1922, a very simple, high-power receiver now used in emergency mobile service, and 4) frequency modulation - FM, 1933, static-free radio reception of high fidelity. More than half the files concern his many lawsuits, primarily with Radio Corporation of America, over infringement of the Armstrong patents. Litigation continued until 1967. Other files deal with his work in the Marcellus Hartley Research Laboratory at Columbia University, 1913-1935, and with the American Expeditionary Forces in France during World War I, his Air Force contracts for communications development, Army research during World War II, the Radio Club of America, the Institute of Radio Engineers, FM development at his radio station at Alpine, N.J., the use of FM in television, his involvement in Federal Communications Commission hearings and legislation, and his work with the Zenith Radio Corporation. Also, letters to H.J. Round
1916-1922 Box 2, Folder 1-8
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- Superregenerative Receiver--An American Expeditionary Forces Identity Card (photographs)
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Correspondents Include Armstrong's Mother and Sister's Ethel and Edith (Crick), William Davis, Alfred Goldsmith, H.J. Round, Herman Burgi--Includes Invoices from Pennie, Davis and Marvin--Radio Club of America Meeting Minutes--Armstrong Notes and Drawings--Paper Titled "A Method of Receiving Short Continuous Waves" Witnessed by Major O.E. Buckley--Cables of Transmittal--Atlantic Tests--Patent Litigation--World Championship Boxing Contest via Radio Telephone--Requests for Information Regarding Armstrong's Superregenerative Receiver--An American Expeditionary Forces Identity Card (photographs)