The RBML’s University Archivists feature a different graduate as part of their Columbia Lion series. Learn more information about Lions in the University Archives Collections and on exhibit in the RBML reading room cases. “I made the university my hobby and stuck around. My idea was that somebody had to watch the oven.” “Oven Watcher,” […]
Category: Columbia University Archives
Was your grandfather a Columbia engineer?
At the University Archives we receive a number of requests every year about Columbia alumni: a grandfather, great aunt, parent, cousin, etc. For this purpose, we put together a research guide to help genealogists find information about former Columbia students. The guide offers the most popular or most frequently consulted sources, both online and available […]
Placing Columbia in the American Revolutionary past
Check out The Ear’s podcast delving into “Columbia’s Hidden Loyalist Past.” And then visit the RBML’s University Archives to examine related papers and collections: King’s College Research Guide Columbia College papers, 1703-1964 [Bulk Dates: 1754-1920] […]
Now available | Photo album collections ready for researchers
The University Archives is working hard to bring more and more of its collections out of hiding and make them available to researchers. As part of that effort we recently published finding aids for three Columbia photograph album collections: two featuring scenes of the Morningside campus from the 1930s and 1940s and one from President […]
Concerned Black Students demands for campus MLK Memorial
When Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated 50 years ago, Columbia University responded as most other institutions did – with shock and grieving. Flags were set to fly at half-mast until after Dr. King’s funeral and President Kirk sent a telegram on April 5, 1968 to Dr. King’s widow expressing condolences on behalf […]