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Columbia College, A.B., 1883; Columbia University, Doctor of Science, 1904; Professor of Electro-mechanics, 1901-1927.
From the description of Papers, 1800-1995. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122600557Abbe, Cleveland, 1838-1916.Aldrich, Richard, 1863-1937Armstrong, Edwin H. (Edwin Howard), 1890-1954.Chapman, John Jay, 1862-1933Cole, Corinne Robinson Alsop, 1886-1971Columbia University. University Archives.Davis, Bergen, 1869-1958.Dibner, Bern,Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David), 1890-1969.Fondiller, William, 1885-1975.Herbig, Henry F.MacCracken, H. N. (Henry Noble), b. 1880.Millikan, Robert Andrews, 1868-1953.Page, Myra, 1897-1993Pupin, Michael Idvorsky, 1858-1935.Robinson, Corinne Roosevelt, 1861-1933Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919Rutherford, Ernest, 1871-1937.Sarton, George, 1884-1956Schaefler, Sam, 1920-,Smith, Louis Graham.Smith, Varvara.Stimson, John Ward, 1850-1930.Webb, Harold Worthington, 1884-1974.Pupin, Michael Idvorsky, 1858-1935Miscellaneous correspondence, 1915-1954Sarton, George,1884-1956. Miscellaneous correspondence, 1915-19541 box (.5 linear ft.)Correspondence of historian of science George Sarton with scientists,inventors, and others.Houghton LibraryJustice, Ewan, 1875-1922,. Letters of Maud Gonne, Ewan Justice, Jules Mssanet and J. J. Jusserand [manuscript] 1897-1916.Justice, Ewan, 1875-1922,Gonne, Maud, 1866-1953,Jusserand, J. J. (Jean Jules), 1855-1932Massenet, Jules, 1842-1912,Pupin, Michael Idvorsky, 1858-1935,Ward, Philip H., 1886-1963,Letters of Maud Gonne, Ewan Justice, Jules Mssanet and J. J. Jusserand [manuscript] 1897-1916.6 items.Maud Gonne writes to Ewan Justice, 1897, enclosing a French pamphlet "as hostile to England as I am" and asks if he can get it reviewed in the Post. Ewan Justice writes to Philip H. Ward, Jr., 1900, enclosing a letter from Maude Gonne. J. J. Jusserand writes to Michael I. Pupin, 1916, congratulating him on a French prize awarded for his scientific work and thanking him for his decision to donate the prize money to a fund for the widows oad orphans of French scientists. He also notes that "everybody in France...is following with the deepest admiration the various phases of the fight made by the Serbs for independence...." University of Virginia. LibraryFondiller, William, 1885-1975. Reminiscence of William Fondiller : oral history, 1970.Fondiller, William, 1885-1975.Fondiller, William,Reminiscence of William Fondiller : oral history, 1970.Transcript: 18 leaves.Tape: 1 reel.Career with Bell System; recollections of Michael Pupin and Albert Einstein. Columbia University in the City of New York, Columbia University LibrariesAddresses and articles (bound), 1899-1921.Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919. Addresses and articles (bound), 1899-1921.38v. (4 linear ft.)Addresses and articles of American president Theodore Roosevelt.Theodore Roosevelt Collection, Harvard College Library, Harvard UniversityPupin, Michael Idvorsky, 1854-1935. Papers.Pupin, Michael Idvorsky, 1854-1935.Pupin, Michael Idvorsky, 1858-1935.Dibner, Bern,Papers. 1909-1929.3 items.Autograph signature with epigram (1909 April 23, New York), T.L.S. (1929 May 24, New York) to Herbert V. Prochnow, Chicago, and printed / typed contract (1922 Dec. 30) between Pupin and Charles Scribner's Sons to publish F̲r̲o̲m̲ i̲m̲m̲i̲g̲r̲a̲n̲t̲ t̲o̲ i̲n̲v̲e̲n̲t̲o̲r̲, signed by Pupin and Scribner. Smithsonian Institution. LibrariesAbbe, Cleveland, 1838-1916. Cleveland Abbe papers, 1851-1952.Abbe, Cleveland, 1838-1916.Cleveland Abbe papers, 1851-1952.4.4 linear ft. (9 document boxes, 3 flat boxes)Collection consists of papers (1851-1952) of meteorologist and astronomer, Cleveland Abbe.Johns Hopkins University, Sheridan Libraries and the Milton S. Eisenhower LibraryDavis, Bergen, 1869-1958. Bergen Davis papers, 1898-1960.Davis, Bergen, 1869-1958.Bergen Davis papers, 1898-1960.1 linear ft. ( 2 boxes)Professional papers of Davis, including correspondence, manuscripts, photographs, memorabilia, and printed materials. The correspondence consists chiefly of Davis' typescript carbons of his letters to Columbia colleagues, other physicists, and other individuals at various manufacturers of equipment. The topics covered deal with Columbia students, faculty, course and research work, and his life long interest in the study of x-rays. The majority of these files cover the years 1914 to 1921 and 1932 to 1936. The cataloged letters include one each from Michael I. Pupin, Isidor I. Rabi, and Robert Simpson Woodward, one lengthy letter from Davis, and ten letters from Nicholas M. Butler. Also included are letters from Mrs. Davis relating to the research of Lucy J. Hayner and Harold Webb for Webb's biography of Davis that appeared in the National Academy of Sciences' BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS (v. 34, 1960) along with extensive notes, bibliographies and manuscript and typescript versions of Webb's article. There are also manuscripts, typescripts, and notes by Davis relating to his research and writings, photographs of Davis and of his x-ray spectograph, and clippings and memorabilia of his life and work. Columbia University in the City of New York, Columbia University LibrariesRutherford, Ernest, 1871-1937. Letters.Rutherford, Ernest, 1871-1937.Pupin, Michael Idvorsky, 1854-1935.Willows, Richard Smith, 1875-Dibner, Bern,Letters. 1913-1923.2 items.A.L.S. (1913 Feb. 1, Physical Laboratories, The University of Manchester) to Messrs. Sherratt & Hughes requesting that they stock Willows' A̲ t̲e̲x̲t̲-b̲o̲o̲k̲ o̲f̲ p̲h̲y̲s̲i̲c̲s̲, and A. card S. ([19]23 Feb. 28, Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge) to Pupin introducing J.A. Carroll. Smithsonian Institution. LibrariesPapers, 1847-1933.Robinson, Corinne Roosevelt, 1861-1933. Corinne Roosevelt Robinson papers, 1847-193364 boxes (32 linear ft.)Papers of Corinne (Roosevelt) Robinson, younger sister of American president Theodore Roosevelt and wife of Douglas Robinson; a published poet and active member of the Republican party.EnglishTheodore Roosevelt Collection, Harvard College Library, Harvard UniversityPupin, Michael Idvorsky, 1854-1935. Papers.Pupin, Michael Idvorsky, 1854-1935.Pupin, Michael Idvorsky, 1858-1935.Dibner, Bern,Papers. 1909-1929.3 items.Autograph signature with epigram (1909 April 23, New York), T.L.S. (1929 May 24, New York) to Herbert V. Prochnow, Chicago, and printed / typed contract (1922 Dec. 30) between Pupin and Charles Scribner's Sons to publish F̲r̲o̲m̲ i̲m̲m̲i̲g̲r̲a̲n̲t̲ t̲o̲ i̲n̲v̲e̲n̲t̲o̲r̲, signed by Pupin and Scribner. Smithsonian Institution. LibrariesPupin, Michael Idvorsky, 1854-1935. Papers, 1800-1995.Pupin, Michael Idvorsky, 1854-1935.Papers, 1800-1995.5 linear ft. (ca. 2,400 items in 10 boxes; 2 oversize boxes; l oversize roll).Personal and professional correspondence, including 25 long letters from Professor Henry F. Herbig; manuscripts (mainly speeches); specifications for patents in electrical fields; technical and personal photographs; and memorabilia. Included is a copy of the famous "shot in hand" x-ray photograph, ca. 1896, one of the first ever to be taken. This collection also contains the correspondence, manuscripts, documents, and memorabilia of Professor Pupin's daughter, Varvara Smith, and his son-in-law, Louis Graham Smith. His daughter's letters and documents deal with her financial difficulties, her administration of Pupin's estate and her claims against Columbia University. Louis G. Smith's letters deal with his anti-Communist sentiments and his manuscripts are mainly ideas for popular songs and plays. There are three letters (photostatic copies) to Smith from Dwight D. Eisenhower. 1986 Addition: Awards and diplomas presented to Pupin by American and European universities and charitable organizations; drawings and prints by Yugoslav artists; and miscellaneous correspondence, manuscripts, blue prints, architectural drawings and maps. Columbia University in the City of New York, Columbia University LibrariesScientists Collection, 1563-1973VariousScientists Collection 1563-19735.75 Linear feet; 13 upright boxes, 8 oversize folders.The Scientists Collection is comprised of individual letters and small groups of correspondence from American, British, French, and German scientists during the past three centuries. Although the content is highly varied, there is significant strength in astronomy, natural history, conchology, and geology. Among the scientists better represented in the collection are the astronomers William Radcliffe Birt, J.F.W. Herschel, and Franz Xaver von Zach; the conchologists A.D. Brown, Fred L. Button, Otto Mörch, Alfred Newton, Christian M. Poulsen, Temple Prime, Benjamin Lewis Vulliamy, and A. G. Wetherby; the physical scientists George Biddell Airy, Arnold Sommerfeld, Ferdinand R. Hassler, and Max Planck; the archaeologist Jean François Nadaillac; the philosopher William Whewell; and the naturalists Walter Henry Bates, Robert Chambers, Edme Dupuget, Robert Kaye Greville, Joseph Henry, John Stevens Henslow, John Lubbock, and Herbert Spencer. American Philosophical SocietyDavis, Bergen, 1869-1958. Notebooks, 1899-1912.Davis, Bergen, 1869-1958.Notebooks, 1899-1912.1.8 linear ft.Student notebooks and experimental notebooks. The student notebooks (1899-1904) consist of lecture and laboratory notes taken by Davis while a student at Columbia University, the University of Göttingen, and Cambridge University's Cavendish Laboratory. Courses and professors at Columbia University include Mechanics, taught by Robert S. Wood; Light Theory, by William Hallock; and Electronics and Magnetism, by Michael I. Pupin. At the University of Göttingen courses included Mechanics, taught by R.G. Weber; Basic Mechanics and Magnetism, taught by Woldemar Voigt; and Electric Phenomena, by Carl V.E. Reicke, as well as other courses (teachers unidentified) on thermodynamics, the theory of gases, and electric phenomena in gases. At the Cavendish Laboratory courses included Electrodynamics, taught by Sir Joseph Larmor, and Hydrodynamics by Sir George Stokes. The experimental notebooks (1899-1900) are for work done while a research fellow at Columbia University in the fields of electricity and magnetism, electron dymanics, and circuit equations. American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr LibraryMillikan, Robert Andrews, 1868-1953. Papers.Millikan, Robert Andrews, 1868-1953.Michelson, Albert Abraham, 1852-1931.Pupin, Michael Idvorsky, 1854-1935.Dibner, Bern,Papers. 1923-1936.6 items.Three T.L.S., one to Mrs. George M. Millard enclosing an A. Ms. (4 p.) of a speech introducing Michelson, and one to Pupin, and 2 A.S. Smithsonian Institution. LibrariesArmstrong, Edwin H. (Edwin Howard), 1890-1954. Edwin H. Armstrong papers, 1890-1972.Armstrong, Edwin H. (Edwin Howard), 1890-1954.Edwin H. Armstrong Papers, 1886-1982 [Bulk Dates: 1912-1954]324.7 linear ft. (297 boxes: 57 document boxes, 1 half-sized document box, 207 record storage cartons, 10 lantern slide boxes, 10 flat boxes, 10 index card boxes, 2 scroll boxes)Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript LibraryHistorical Biographical Files, [18--?] - 2012.Historical Biographical Files [18--?] - 2012.182.02 linear ft. (429 document boxes, 10 half-size document boxes).ItalianColumbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript LibraryMyra Page Papers, 1910-1990Page, Myra, 1897-1993.Myra Page Papers, 1910-19904000; 12.0Writer, union activist, and communist Dorothy Markey (nee Dorothy Page Gary) was born in Newport News, Va., in 1897. Under the name Myra Page, Markey was an active political journalist and writer in the 1930s. In the early 1940s, she taught writing at the Writers' School sponsored by the League of American Writers in New York City. During the 1950s and 1960s, she wrote and published the juvenile biographies. Dorothy Markey died in 1993. The collection includes materials relating to the journalistic and literary activities of Dorothy Markey/Myra Page. Included are business and personal correspondence; contracts and other materials concerning the publication of her works in the United States and the Soviet Union; typed and handwritten manuscripts, newspaper clippings, notebooks, and notes relating to the writing of newspaper articles, radio plays, short stories, poems, books, and screenplays; lecture notes, handouts, student writings, and other materials relating to her writing courses; subject files relating to the American South, organized labor, progressive and radical politics, and other topics; and biographical and family materials including photographs of southern sharecroppers and people in the Soviet Union in the 1930s.EnglishUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical CollectionJohn Jay Chapman papers, 1841-1940.Chapman, John Jay, 1862-1933. John Jay Chapman papers51 boxes (25.5 linear ft.)Correspondence between American essayist John Jay Chapman and his family and friends, as well as compositions by him.Houghton LibraryJohn Jay Chapman additional papers, 1841-1940.Chapman, John Jay, 1862-1933. John Jay Chapman additional papers, 1841-1940.37 boxes (18.5 linear ft.)Chiefly correspondence between American essayist John Jay Chapman and family, friends, and associates.EnglishHoughton LibraryFamily papers, 1853-1954.Cole, Corinne Robinson Alsop, 1886-1971. Family papers, 1853-1954.36 boxes (18 linear ft.)Family papers of Corinne Douglas (Robinson) Alsop Cole, daughter of Douglas Robinson and Corinne (Roosevelt) Robinson, younger sister of American president Theodore Roosevelt.Theodore Roosevelt Collection, Harvard College Library, Harvard UniversityStimson, John Ward, 1850-1930. [Letter] 1926 January 9, Wichita, Kansas [to] Mr. [Edwin] Markham, [Staten Island] / J.W. Stimson.Stimson, John Ward, 1850-1930.Markham, Edwin, 1852-1940,[Letter] 1926 January 9, Wichita, Kansas [to] Mr. [Edwin] Markham, [Staten Island] / J.W. Stimson. 1926.2 p. on 2 leaves ; 28 cm.Complains about the noise of street cars and the warped sense of values of todays modern cities; was much impressed by the Hoe-poem; heard Miller's theory on the solar system which is contradictory to Einstein's system and Millikam who won the Nobel prize for "stripped atom"; was most impressed by Michael Pupin; reflects on the world of science; was impressed by the Lincoln poem. Wagner College, Horrmann LibraryMacCracken, H. N. (Henry Noble), b. 1880. Papers, 1914-1968.MacCracken, H. N. (Henry Noble), b. 1880.Papers, 1914-1968.ca. 210 linear ft.Correspondence, memoranda, minutes, reports, contracts, publications, and other materials pertaining to Vassar College Trustees and administration, Buildings and Grounds, faculty, students, alumnae, programs, and activities, 1914-1950; to the World Youth Congress of 1938; to his own teaching activities; to Sarah Lawrence College, 1926-1937; to World War I, 1915-1920; to the Dutchess County Health Association, 1919-1945; and to the Kosciuszko Foundation (New York City), 1923-1962. Correspondence files from his personal involvement in such organizations as the American Civil Liberties Union, the Congregational Church, American Red Cross, International Migration Service, National Student Federation, the Southern Women's Educational Alliance, and the National Conference of Christians and Jews, 1915-1946. Personal and business correspondence with Felix Frankfurter, F.J. Furnivall, Herbert Hoover, Charles Evans Hughes, G.L. Kittredge, Herbert Lehman, John M. Manley, Henry Morgenthau, Michael Idvorsky Pupin, Eleanor Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Constance Rourke, Alfred E. Smith, William Howard Taft, M. Carey Thomas, Mary E. Woolley, and others, 1915-1946. His speeches, manuscripts, typescripts, publications, and related correspondence, some of which concern Dutchess County history. Scrapbook of letters and clippings concerning his radio talk on religious liberty in the United States, 1928. Campbell University, Wiggins Memorial LibraryBergen Davis Papers, 1898-1960.Davis, Bergen, 1869-1958.Bergen Davis Papers 1898-1960.1 linear ft (2 boxes).Professional papers of Bergen Davis (1869-1958) Professor of Physics, Columbia University, 1903-1939 (A.M., 190ffl; Ph.D. 1901;DD.Sc. 1929) containing correspondence, manuscripts, photographs, memorabilia and printed materials.EnglishColumbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript LibraryRichard Aldrich papers, 1842-1956 (inclusive), 1883-1938 (bulk). Aldrich, Richard, 1863-1937. Richard Aldrich papers, 1842-1956 (inclusive), 1883-1938 (bulk).9.5 linear feet (9 boxes)Correspondence, compositions, andother papers of the music critic Richard Aldrich (1863-1937), including collectedphotographs and programs. Also includes collection of letters from Aldrich to OttoDresel (1826-1890).EnglishFrenchGermanHoughton LibraryPupin, Michael Idvorsky, 1854-1935. [Letter] 1908 March 15 [to] Mrs. Lewis / M.I. Pupin.Pupin, Michael Idvorsky, 1854-1935.[Letter] 1908 March 15 [to] Mrs. Lewis / M.I. Pupin.3 p. ; 18 x 23 cm.Holograph signed. Personal response to a letter from a Mrs Lewis. Texas Tech University Libraries, Academic LibrarySchaefler, Sam, 1920-,. Historical and Literary Letters and Documents, 1674-197-.Schaefler, Sam, 1920-,Sam Schaefler historical and literary letters and documents, 1674-1970s2 linear feet (5 boxes, several oversized items)Correspondence, documents and manuscripts from late seventeenth and eighteenth century France, especially from the French Revolution, collected by Sam Schaefler. Authors include J.B. Colbert Torcy and the Duchesse Du Lude. Many of the items from the French Revolution represent the work of the Committee of Public Safety and the Committee of General Security. French Revolutionary leaders represented in the collection include François-Antoine Boissy D'Anglas, Jean-Baptiste-Noel Bouchotte, Pierre Joseph Cambon, Lazare Carnot, Jean-Marie Collot D'Herbois, l'Abbʹe de Fauchet, Philippe-Antoine Merlin de Douai, Jean Victor Moreau. C.A. Prieur-Duvernois, and Antoine Joseph Santerre. In addition, the collection includes a letter from the Danish physicist Hans Christian Oersted to Sir John Herschel, a letter by the French poet Romain Rolland, a document of the Philadelphia Artists' Fund Society of 1846 with signatures of its officers, and an autograph letter and a photograph of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. 1986 ADDITION: One letter from James Monroe and two from Theodore Roosevelt. 1987 ADDITION: Correspondence, documents, manuscripts, and photographs dealing with American and English literature, and American and French history during the era of the Revolutions. Included are letters from Erskine Caldwell, Will Durant, Howard Fast, Rachel Field, Emil Ludwig. Edwin Markham, Christopher Morley, and John Howard Payne; manuscripts of John Drinkwater, Felicia Hemans, Romain Rolland, Louis Untermeyer, and Tennessee Williams; and documents of James Duane, Joseph Hopkinson, and Sir Walter Scott. 1988 ADDITION: Correspondence and documents dealing with American and English history during the 18th and 19th centuries. There are letters from Dubo and Demante de Millot (about the French fleet in Haiti in 1780), U.S. Grant, Victor Hugo, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, Robespierre, W.H. Seward, and Daniel Waldo; and documents of the Sultan of Borneo and James Madison. There are also photographs taken by Lee David Hamilton of Central Park and of Polaris submarines. 1989 ADDITION: Correspondence, manuscripts, and documents on American history and literature, from the 17th through the 20th centuries. There are letters and some manuscripts to the editor of ANTHOLOGY OF MYSTICAL VERSE and LYRA MYSTICA dating from the 1920s and the 1930s; letters and autographs of early 20th century Americans and New York and Connecticut colonial documents signed by Isaac Huntington, Jacob Remer, and Thomas Dongon. Also included are photographs of foreign travels in a Packard motorcar, 1903-1904, and a photographic travelogue (photographs taken by Henry C. Rem) of the first European motorcar tour by Americans in a Packard, 1907-1910. 1990 ADDITION: Documents dealing with finance and land sales in New York from 1789 to 1879. There are land deeds resulting from the dispersal of the assets of John Lamb at the end of the 1790s, mortgage bonds, insurance policies, and papers about the insurance claims of Ebenezer Stevens for shipping seized by France in 1808. There is also a letter in rebus form, written in 1734. 1992 ADDITION: Three letters from Richard Le Gallienne to Margot Holmes, his photograph signed and inscribed to her, and a Berenice Abbott photograph have been added. 1997 ADDITION: Naval commission of Richard Morice as Commander of H.M.S. Tarrier.EnglishColumbia University in the City of New York, Columbia University LibrariesWebb, Harold Worthington, 1884-1974. Autobiography, ca. 1962.Webb, Harold Worthington, 1884-1974.Autobiography, ca. 1962.13 pp.Webb describes working as a child with his father, who had studied in Göttingen with Hermann von Helmholtz and was a consultant for the building of the Manhattan Bridge; his early education; his undergraduate education at Columbia College and further work with his father at Stevens Institute during his senior year; graduate work at Columbia University under Michael Pupin, Albert Wills, George Pegram, William Hallock, and Ernest F. Nichols; his assistantship to visiting professors Vilhelm F. K. Bjerknes, Hendrik A. Lorentz, and Otto Lummer; work with George Pegram on heat developed by thorium; Ph.D. work under Nichols; research at the Cavendish Laboratory where he heard lectures by John J. Thomson and Joseph Larmor, and at Berlin where he attended lectures by Max Planck and Walther Nernst; a brief account of the state of physics in the first decade of the 20th century; his World War I work in the Signal Corps in radio and arc cathodes; his return to Columbia University after the war, where he reorganized the Ernest Kempton Precision Laboratory and taught graduate courses; his early research in atomic physics; the growth of physics during the 1920s; activities as secretary of the American Physical Society (1923-1929 and 1939-1941); and his outside interests, marriage, and family American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library