A year ago, as we began working remotely with no access to our physical materials, we found ourselves relying very heavily on previously digitized publications and images to help answer reference requests. One of the best tools we found was Emergency Temporary Access Service (ETAS) from HathiTrust. This temporary service (still in effect as of […]
Category: Columbia University Archives
Columbians Honored by the U.S. Post Office
Columbia physics professor Chien-Shiung Wu was recently honored by the U.S. Post Office with a commemorative stamp. This well-deserved honor has been granted to a number of Columbia faculty, alumni and even to the University itself during its 200th anniversary. […]
Beer at John Jay Hall
On March 22, 1933, not even three weeks after President Franklin D. Roosevelt (Law 1907) took the oath of office, he signed the Cullen-Harrison Act, authorizing the sale of low-alcohol beer and wine. This was the first step on the path to ending Prohibition. And Columbia College students rejoiced! […]
Charles Henry Alston at Columbia
Sam Pollard’s documentary “Black Art: In the Absence of Light” (2021) was inspired by David C. Driskell’s 1976 exhibition “Two Centuries of Black American Art.” The traveling exhibition was the first large-scale survey of African American artists, both well-known and not-so-well-known. The film discusses how this show’s legacy has influenced generations of Black artists, curators, […]
News from RBML’s Archivists | February 2021
Kevin Schlottmann, RBML’s head archivist, shares these updates of a selection of new and updated finding aids, as well as newly available collections. 🆕 Newly processed collections Josephine Baker Collection “Documents Baker’s career from her arrival in Paris in 1925 as a show girl in the Revue Negre; her selection to star in a […]