World War II Collection, 1933-1956.

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World War II Collection, 1933-1956.

http://findingaids.cul.columbia.edu/ead/nnc-ua/ldpd_4202606

Records documenting Columbia University’s activities prior to, during and immediately following World War II represent the focus of the collection. The collection contains material generated by a variety of groups and offices on campus evidencing the varied activities undertaken by the Columbia community during this time of world crisis.

21 linear feet (20 record cartons, 3 index card boxes)

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Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 6347736

Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library

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Columbia University

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The Columbia University community and administration mobilized to the fullest extent in answer to the entry of the United States into World War I. Summed up by President Nicholas Murray Butler in the 1918 Annual Report, the effects of the war on the University were far-reaching: "Students by the hundred and prospective students by the thousand entered the military, naval, or civil service of the United States; teachers and administrative officers to the number of nearly four hundred...

Gildersleeve, Virginia Crocheron, 1877-

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Educator. From the description of Reminiscences of Virginia Crocheron Gildersleeve : oral history, 1956. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122481372 Dean of Barnard College, 1911-1947. From the description of Virginia Crocheron Gildersleeve papers, 1898-1962. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 472459635 Virginia Crocheron Gildersleeve served as Dean of Barnard College from 1911-1947. A grad...

Lane, W. H. (William H.)

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Hawkes, Mrs. Herbert E. (Anne)

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McKnight, N. M. (Nicholas McDowell)

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Miner, Dwight Carroll, 1904-

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Historian. Miner began teaching history at Columbia in 1927 and held the rank of Moore Collegiate Professor of History Emeritus at his death. (Columbia University A.B., 1926; A.M., 1927; Ph.D., 1940). From the description of Papers on the history of Columbia University, 1938-1978. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122421713 ...

Matzke, Edwin Bernard

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Goetze, Frederick A.

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Gentzler, W. Emerson, (Waldo Emerson)

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Boardman, Fon Wyman, 1911-2000

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Pegram, George Braxton, 1876-1958

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Nuclear physicist, professor of physics, and Dean of Graduate Faculties at Columbia University. Pegram, a prominent nuclear physicist, conducted a great deal of defense-related research and was responsible for the famous meeting between Franklin Delano Roosevelt and American nuclear scientists prior to World War II that eventually led to the establishment of the Manhattan Project. From the description of Papers, 1903-1958. (Columbia University In the City of ...

Campbell, Joseph

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Finch, James K.

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Fackenthal, Frank Diehl, 1883-1968

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University administrator. From the description of Reminiscences of Frank Diehl Fackenthal : oral history, 1956. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309733041 ...

Rappleye, Willard C. (Willard Cole), 1892-1976

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