The Pine Tree Scholars program introduces Columbia and Barnard graduate and undergraduate students to the crafts associated with fine book production, such as typography, letterpress printing, bookbinding, and papermaking, as well as to the rare and art book trades. This program is open to students in all departments and programs. An informational session for the 2018-2019 […]
Newly opened (or refreshed) collections – August 2018
Head Archivist Kevin Schlottmann shares collections newly opened* by RBML archivists. * Some collections are not new, but have been re-processed and properly described. Consider them refreshed! Aleksandr Kazem-Bek papers, 1898-2014 “The Aleksandr Kazem-Bek Papers consist of correspondence, family and personal documents, writings, lectures, notes, manuscripts, photographs, printed and research materials related to the […]
Exhibition | The Arthur Rackham Collection
Friday is your chance to see “Enchanted Vision, an exhibition drawing on the Arthur Rackham Collection held here at the RBML. Rackham, a British illustrator illustrated 50 major works beginning with Rip Van Winkle in 1905, Alice in Wonderland, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Winnie the Pooh, and other English and American classics. The collection contains 26 […]
New Collection | Morningside resident’s papers document her fight against CU’s 1960s gentrification
On October 7, 2018 Marie Runyon passed away at 103. Rachel Klepper, a summer intern with RBML’s archives, shares what she’s found through processing the Marie Runyon collection. In the early 1960s, Marie Runyon received notice that she and her young daughter would have to leave their Morningside Drive apartment building just a few years after […]
RBML Acquires Underground Comix Artist S. Clay Wilson’s Archives
Columbia University’s Rare Book & Manuscript Library (RBML) has acquired the papers of artist S. Clay Wilson, a transgressive pioneer of underground comix, whose mark on creative movements extended from the Beats to punk. Born and raised in Nebraska, Wilson lived briefly in New York in 1965, where he worked for the East Village Other. […]