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Community Service Society records, 1842-1995
423 linear feetCorrespondence, reports, memoranda, case records, photographs and printed material. The archive include central and district administrative records; cammittee correspondence and minutes; and files on the various programs--such as sheltered workshops, tuberculosis sanitariums and health centers, public baths and employment bureaus--run by the two organizations. The archive also contains hundreds of photographs, including works by Lewis Hine and Jessie Tarbox Beals; extensive casework files from the beginning of social work (originally referred to as "friendly visiting among the poor"); and copies of masters and doctoral theses from the New York School of Sociel Work and other schools. Much of the research for these theses was based on the CSS files
Alice I. Bryan papers, 1921-1992, bulk 1935-1975
8.65 linear feetMasters' Theses, 1943, Undated, 1943, Undated Box 13, Folder 24
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- Masters' Theses, 1943, Undated, 1943, Undated
Masters' Theses--General Requirements--Manual, 1938-1947 Box 16, Folder 4
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- Masters' Theses--General Requirements--Manual, 1938-1947
Subseries II.3: Committees, 1938-1971
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- curriculum, masters' theses, instruction, research and doctoral committees.
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documents Bryan's committee work within the school, and includes files on her work on the curriculum, masters' theses, instruction, research and doctoral committees.
Columbia University Master's essays, 1891-2020
20000 VolumesDepartment of History Master's Essays, 1971-1989
29.58 linear feetThe collection consists of the Master's essays or theses submitted to the Department of History from 1971 to 1989.
Marjory Belisch Hall papers, 1920s-2021, bulk 1920s-1965
2.5 Linear FeetPare Lorentz papers, 1914-1994, bulk 1932-1960
80 linear feetSubseries 4. Writings about Pare Lorentz, 1965-1979
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- Includes several dissertations and masters theses on Lorentz, including the various works by Robert
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Includes several dissertations and masters theses on Lorentz, including the various works by Robert Snyder. Also located here is an oral history interview from the 1970s, and Lest We Forget a genealogical pamphlet written by Lorentz's "aunt" Bess. Some letters are from fifth graders who wrote Lorentz to tell them how much they enjoyed a classroom viewing ofThe River.
C. Martin Wilbur papers, 1950-1992
53 linear feetCorrespondence, subject files, manuscripts and printed materials documenting the work of C. Martin Wilbur, George Sansom Professor Emeritus of Chinese History, Columbia University. Correspondence with non-Columbia organizations includes the Institute of Pacific Relations, Far Eastern Association, INDUSCO, Council on Foreign Relations, Asia Foundation, and American Council of Learned Societies, among others. Subject files relevant to Columbia University include items pertaining to the Department of Chinese and Japanese, later renamed the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, as well as teaching files, student files and research projects directed. The manuscript files contain the notes and, in some cases, printed copies of published and unpublished works and public talks. Wilbur's writings and research concentrate on the history and politics of twentieth century China, with emphasis on the Chinese Revolution, 1920-1929, Sun Yat-sen, and communism in China. There are translations of minutes for the first and second Kuomintang Congresses, copies of documents from the Kuomintang Archives, and photographs of members of the Young China Party, Sun Yat-sen and several historical events in the 1920s. Files on fund raising efforts for the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures and the Wellington Koo Fellowship also contain relevant correspondence. Biographical information includes a curriculum vitae (ca. 1968)
Columbia University Box 35
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In September 1957 CMW, as Initiator, together with Searle Boxes Bates, Howard Boorman, Morton Fried, Franklin Ho, and James Morley as conveners, organized a University Seminar on Modern East Asia with sections on China and Japan. Both sections have continued to the present (1988) with wide memberships, and are managed by the East Asian Institute. Some files pertaining to the Modern China Seminar are in Boxes .39-55. CMW usually taught or participated in three graduate courses each semester. One was a graduate lecture course on Chinese history from approximately 1600 to 1950. A second was a graduate colloquium and .seminar on Twentieth Century China, with emphasis on social history. He participated in a one-semester Chinese bibliography course with Professors Carrington Goodrich and Mr. C.C. Wang, and in a joint lecture course on Japan and China given by Institute faculty members, displaying various social science approaches to the subjects. From these courses there developed various masters theses and doctoral dissertations. Contains some plans for courses, a run of lecture notes for G6826Y, the graduate lecture course, as given in the spring of 1976 reading notes for the colloquium and seminar on 20th Century China. Also some examples of the necessary work in evaluating students for fellowships and efforts at job placement. Box 44. CMW kept brief notes on all students from 1947 to 1976 (about 1,000), and these are now in five loose-leaf note books in Box 45. He kept more extensive records on those who earned the MA degree under his sponsorship, including correspondence with such students and his efforts to help them secure appointments or further fellowships for them. These records are in Boxes 46-49.are more extensive files on students who received the Ph.D under his guidance, or partial Ph.D guidance. With many of these students he continued correspondence.