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Frank Tannenbaum papers, 1915-1969

35 linear feet
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Correspondence, manuscripts, subject files, and photographs of Tannenbaum, including typewritten lists of property records in the various states of Mexico, ca. 1926; and clippings relating to Mexico. Some of these materials were used in the preparation of his book THE MEXICAN AGRARIAN REVOLUTION. Also, personal letters and files relating to the Farm Security Program, and specifically the Bankhead Bill and the Farm Tenant Bill, 1937, 1934-1937.

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Book Arts Ephemera collection, 1890-2019

158.5 Linear Feet
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These files have been compiled by the Rare Book and Manuscript Library from its origin in 1930 through the present day. The material derives largely from gifts, and the occasional purchase; much of the subject file in particular is made of ephemera included in the American Type Founders, Co. Library, purchased in 1942. Prospectuses and information sent by fine presses and book artists are added to the relevant files in an ongoing fashion. The files cover subjects from the beginning of printing to the current day.

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Juan Antonio Lerdo de Tejada letters, 1811-1817

0.5 linear feet
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This collection of 106 letters from Juan Antonio Lerdo de Tejada to Manuel de Urquiaga, 2 documents, and 2 related letters, was written for the most part from Vera Cruz and is principally concerned with commercial matters, including acknowledgments of shipments, letters of credit, invoices, etc. There are many comments on contemporary affairs, particularly uprisings and subsequent troop movements in the region of Vera Cruz.

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Ian McLellan Hunter collection of Trotsky assassination materials, 1940-1970

1.5 linear feet
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Copies and translations of original Mexican police reports, statements, depositions, manuscripts, news clippings related to the attack on Leon Trotsky in 1940, collected by Ian McLellen Hunter for his screenplay "Trotsky."

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Edgar Willis Turlington papers on the Mexican national debt, 1910-1929

4.84 linear feet
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Correspondence, notes, drafts, reports, translations of documents, clippings, periodicals, and books used by Edgar Turlington in writing his book Mexico and her Foreign Creditors (Columbia University Press, 1930). This work was issued by the Council for Research in the Social Sciences of Columbia University as volume one of its series Mexico in International Finance and Diplomacy. His collaborators included Georgia L. Baxter, Frederick Sherwood Dunn, Parker Thomas Moon, and G. Butler Sherwell.

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Robert Hiester Montgomery papers, 1600-1945

13 boxes
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Letters and documents, the majority written between 1700 and 1900, dealing with both personal and corporate business and financial matters, assembled by Montgomery. The letters are chiefly by American and English writers. Many of the American letters are to and from various United States Treasury officials, usually the Secretary of the Treasury. Of the 107 letters by Joseph Anderson (1757-1835), U.S. Senator and jurist, the majority are written to Samuel Swartwout (1783-1856) when he was Comptroller of the United States and Collector of the Port of New York. Most of the documents are American with New York City firms predominating.

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Bill Weinberg sound recordings, 1992-2021, bulk 1992-2011

57 audiocassettes
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Bill Weinberg is a journalist, political writer, activist, and radio personality. His work and activism has focused on human rights, indigenous movements, drug policy, the environment, the Middle East, and opposition to war and authoritarianism. The Bill Weinberg sound recordings feature 57 episodes of the show Moorish Orthodox Radio Crusade (MORC), which was broadcast on WBAI radio from 1988 to 2011. The collection's recordings date from Bill Weinberg's period as part of the show's collective from 1992 to 2011. Throughout its run, MORC covered a wide range of political, cultural, and spiritual topics. Some major themes addressed in the collection's episodes include ecology, indigenous movements, anarchism, the War on Drugs, United States imperialism, Latin America, North Africa, religion, New York City political and social movements, sustainable transportation, and gardening. The collection also contains an oral history interview with Weinberg that was taken by the curator when the collection was donated to the Oral History Archives at Columbia.
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Douglas Putnam Haskell papers, 1866-1979-(bulk 1949-1964).

56 Linear Feet
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Douglas Putnam Haskellan (1899-1979) was an American writer, architecture critic and magazine editor. This collection contains correspondence, memos, articles, speeches, lectures, transcripts, clippings, notes, printed matter, photographs, audiotapes, and memorabilia mainly relating to Douglas Haskell's editorship at Architectural Forum and his professional activities. The collection includes items dating from 1866 to 1979, with the majority of materials dating from the period of 1949 to 1964.
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