QC3. Institutional Collections

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Small collection of publications and memorabilia from the CUNY School of Law.

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Awards (plaques, certificates) honoring Félix V. Matos Rodríguez from his time as president of Queens College (2014-2019) and earlier in his career.

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The Gender, Love, and Sexuality Alliance (GLASA) is a student association at Queens College. GLASA functions as a space for LGBTQ+ students to interact in community with one another. The collection primarily consists of the club's journals, as well as supplemental materials related to GLASA events.

Scope and Contents This collection documents the history of the Home Econonomics Department at Queens College. It contains files of the Home Economics Alumni Association (circa 1950s), including including newsletters, membership information, administrative materials, and notices for programs (box 1); materials documenting departmental activities arranged chronologically from the 1940s to the 1990s, such as clippings, invitations to dinners, photographs, and brochures (box 2); and one file on the Home Economics...

Content Description One album with more than 100 black and white photographs of the Parental School, the predecessor institution to Queens College, which operated from 1909-1934. The album contains photos of the dormitory, bakery, grounds, printshop, tailor, and various educational and social activities. Some items document family photographs and trips outside of the school. The album was owned by Jannis Izaak Risseeuw, who served as music master and conductor of the Parental School Band. As depicted in the...

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Fliers and program; signed copy of Julian Bond's typed speech; text panels from display.

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This collection documents performing arts related events and programs associated with Queens College from 1938 to 2004. This includes activities from the early days of the college, such as the Orchestral Society and Choral Society; the Colden Center (founded in 1960); and today's the Kupferberg Center for the Arts. The collection contains photographs, invitations, memos, brochures, programs, and other printed ephemera.

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This collection documents the history of the Library Department at Queens College, including library buildings, services, operations, and publications.

Abstract The Lucille Kyvallos Athletics Records and Papers document Kyvallos’s career as the coach of the Queens College Women’s Basketball team from 1968-1981 and as a trailblazer in women’s college basketball. The collection contains materials related to Kyvallos’s coaching and teaching; promotional and publicity materials about Queens College’s team and women’s basketball tournaments, camps, clinics, and championships; honors and awards; administrative and planning documents; photographs; and some...

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Transcript and audio clips of Martin Luther King Jr's speech at Queens College at the Colden Center on May 13, 1965, and press coverage of the speech.