Homecoming Ball 1948

In addition to the great teams, coaches and players in the history of Columbia football featured in our exhibition “Roar, Lion, Roar“, on view at the Rare Book & Manuscript Library, we wanted to show football from the fans’ point-of-view – the history of the experience of going to a game. In the exhibit we […]

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Trending Collections | Summer 2019

These are the top ten RBML collection finding aids accessed from July 2019 through September 2019 Carnegie Corporation of New York records, circa 1872-2015 (see: Carnegie Corporation Digital Archives) Historical Photograph collection, 1858- Meyer Schapiro collection, 1919-2006 Central Files, 1890-1984 Bob Fass Recordings and Papers, 1960-2011 1963-1991 Carnegie Endowment for International Peace New York and […]

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Chinese Telegraphic Codebooks and Cryptography

The Chinese codebooks were essential tools for encoding and decoding confidential messages in the age of telegraphic communication under the Chinese Nationalist governance. Messages exchanged between high level officials were often encoded to prevent information leaks. Unlike the codes in English, one might wonder how the Chinese encoded telegrams as its writing system is entirely […]

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