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Vanguard Press records, circa 1925-1985

134 linear feet

The collection consists of the editorial and production archives of Vanguard Press: correspondence, manuscripts, contracts, memoranda, galley proofs, photographs, clippings, and printed materials. The correspondence and editorial files contain a wealth of detailed information about individual authors and the growth and development of the Press. Among the cataloged correspondents are: Nelson Algren, Saul Bellow, Stephen Vincent Benét, William Rose Benét; Phyllis Bottome; Pierre Boulle; Jocelyn Brooke; Cyril Connolly; A.J. Cronin; Nigel Dennis; John Dewey; Max Eastman; James T. Farrell; Vardis Fisher; Richard Garnett; Theodor Seuss Geisel; Louis Golding; Paul Goodman; Horace Gregory; Geoffrey Grigson; Lillian Hellman; William Heyen; Harold L. Ickes; Christopher Isherwood; Alfred Kazin; Philip Lamantia; Sinclair Lewis; Emanuel Litvinoff; Dwight Macdonald; Archibald MacLeish; Marshall McLuhan; Thomas Mann; Edgar Lee Masters; H. L. Mencken; William Meredith; Joyce Carol Oates; Katherine Anne Porter; Barbara Pym; William Sansom; William Saroyan; Ramon J. Sender; Upton Sinclair; Rex Stout; Edith Sitwell; Paul Theroux; Lionel Trilling; Harry S. Trumam; Louis Untermeyer; Eudora Welty; Richard Wilbur; and Thornton Wilder. There are some manuscripts by Bellow; Bottome; Boulle; Farrell; Grigson; Litvinoff; MacDonald; Oates; John Cowper Powys; Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.; Patrick Tanner; William Targ; Theroux; and Sitwell.

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Columbia University Archives

Lawrence A. Kobrin papers, 1948-2019

1 linear feet

This collection includes Kobrin's student files, course materials, memorabilia, and textbooks. There is also correspondence with Columbians, Class of 1954 materials, and a copy of Kobrin's memoir "Looking Back from Here" (2019).

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Campus secret societies, 1954 Box 1, Folder 27

Campus secret societies, 1954
over the place of secret societies. It all led to nothing more than a Spectator editorial but did

(According to Kobrin, "A files of student correspondence from 1954 when there was a big campus fuss over the place of secret societies. It all led to nothing more than a Spectator editorial but did involve the Deans and considerable campus excitement.")

  1. Series I: Lawrence A. Kobrin papers, 1948-2019
  2. Subject files
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Sylvia Ardyn Boone Papers, 1925-2011, bulk 1961-1993

40 linear feet
This collection contains the personal and professional papers of Sylvia Ardyn Boone, a scholar of Art History with a focus on African art, and the first African-American woman to receive tenure at Yale University. The collection includes manuscripts, correspondence, course materials and syllabi, research notes, printed materials, photographs, video and sound recordings, and other papers relating to professional projects. Also included are dissertation manuscripts for recipients of the Sylvia Ardyn Boone Memorial Prize at Yale.
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Brander Matthews Dramatic Museum realia, 1700-1966

214 boxes
This collection contains puppets, masks, and set models from the collection of the Brander Matthews Dramatic Museum and Library.
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Burke Library at Union Theological Seminary

John Ferguson Moore papers, circa 1925 -- 1927

0.5 linear feet
John Ferguson Moore, Protestant author and secretary in the Railroad Department of the Y.M.C.A. who wrote several pieces on the Roman Catholic Church, including an unfinished manuscript titled The Attitude of the Christian Church Toward Secret Societies. The collection contains Parts 1 and 2, as well as reports, bibliographies, and interviews on the subject of Catholicism.
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The Attitude of the Christian Church Toward Secret Societies , Part 1, circa 1927 5 folders Box 1, Folder 1-5

The Attitude of the Christian Church Toward Secret Societies , Part 1, circa 1927
This file contains Part 1 of The Attitude of the Christian Church Toward Secret Societies , in
which Moore focuses on Roman Catholic views of secret societies, particularly the Freemasons. Part 1

This file contains Part 1 of The Attitude of the Christian Church Toward Secret Societies, in which Moore focuses on Roman Catholic views of secret societies, particularly the Freemasons. Part 1 comprises Chapters 1-12, pages 1-229.

  1. John Ferguson Moore papers, circa 1925 -- 1927

The Attitude of the Christian Church Toward Secret Societies, Part 2, circa 1927 1 folder Box 1, Folder 6

The Attitude of the Christian Church Toward Secret Societies, Part 2, circa 1927
Societies , in which Moore examines Leo Taxil's hoax that began in 1884 with his sudden conversion to
This file contains Part 2, pages 1-66, of The Attitude of the Christian Church Toward Secret

This file contains Part 2, pages 1-66, of The Attitude of the Christian Church Toward Secret Societies, in which Moore examines Leo Taxil's hoax that began in 1884 with his sudden conversion to Catholicism and subsequent exposure of Freemason societies' secret satanic practices. Taxil revealed in 1897 that his revelations and conversion were fabricated with the goal of exposing anti-Masonic fanaticism within the Catholic Church.

  1. John Ferguson Moore papers, circa 1925 -- 1927
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Human Rights Watch records : Record Group 6: Asia Watch, 1978-1997, bulk 1987-1997

152.5 linear feet
Record Group 6 documents Asia Watch's (AW) three-branched program of documentation, campaigning, and lobbying in order to promote the observance of internationally recognized human rights norms throughout the region. Utilizing this paradigm, for example, AW tackled such difficult issues as economic aid and democratization efforts; the plight of political prisoners and refugees; the advancement of the freedom of expression, the suppression of political violence in Indonesia and Sri Lanka; and the effect of AIDS and prostitution on women. In the late 1990s, AW expanded its mission by seeking allies within the NGO and business communities in Europe and Japan in order to bring more direct pressure on human rights offenders.
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Records of the Non-Sectarian Anti-Nazi League to Champion Human Rights, 1836-1978, bulk 1933-1975

331.84 linear feet
This collection documents the work of the Non-Sectarian Anti-Nazi League to Champion Human Rights, a group originally founded in 1933 to coordinate boycotts against Nazi Germany. It later investigated and reported on extremist and hate groups of many kinds, primarily within the United States.
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Roberts Brothers papers, 1838-1932, bulk 1882-1898

2.5 linear feet

Correspondence files of Roberts Brothers, pertaining to all departments, editorial, production, advertising, and sales. Also, some miscellaneous letters and documents, unrelated to Roberts Brothers, which deal with various legal matters, including those of Frederick D. Ely and of William A. Dunn, from 1838 until 1932, and letters to the Secretary of Harvard University from 1900 to 1907.

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George Hunt Kwak'wala ethnographic manuscripts, 1890s-1930s

30 Volumes
The George Hunt Kwak'wala ethnographic manuscripts consist of 30 volumes (about 8,500 pages) of linguistic and ethnographic notes made about the Kwakwaka'wakw by George Hunt in Fort Rupert between about 1898 and about 1931, at the request of and in collaboration with Franz Boas. The texts, which contain a wide array of stories and cultural information, were written by Hunt in Kwakʼwala with interlinear English translations. The material also includes two of the published volumes that resulted, with Boas's annotations correlating the printed texts to the manuscripts.
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Volume 11, No. 2, 1927 Volume 11(2)

publication Hunt refers to appears to be Boas, F. 1895. The Social Organization and the Secret Societies of

Manuscripts in library case, 117 pages.

  1. Volumes 11-12
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Benckendorff Family Papers, 1772-1968

16.32 linear feet
The bulk of the collection consists of Benckendorff family correspondence with prominent Russian noble families, documents, and photographs. There are also manuscripts, financial statements and drawings.
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