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QC3. Institutional Collections

 Collecting Area
Identifier: QC3
Special Collections and Archives collects records, publications, photographs, audio-visual materials, and ephemera documenting the administrative, scholarly, physical, and social history of Queens College from its founding in 1937 to the present day.

Found in 38 Collections and/or Records:

Queens College Presidential Portraits (Photographic Prints)

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: SCA-0093
Scope and Contents

Black and white photographic prints of Queens College presidents: Paul Klapper, 1937-1947; Margaret Kiely, Academic Dean from 1937-1947 and Interim President from 1947-1949; John J. Theobald, 1949-1958 (and Deputy Mayor of New York from 1956-1958); Harold W. Stoke, 1958-1964; Joseph P. McMurray, 1965-1970; Joseph S. Murphy, 1971-1977; Nathaniel H. Siegel, Interim 1977-1978.

Dates: 1937 - 1978

Queens College Retirees Association newsletters

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: SCA-0084
Abstract

The Queens College Retirees Association was founded in 1972 and through its newsletter strives to discuss the issues and rights of Queens College retirees.

Dates: 1978 - 2021

Queens College Seal Designs and Logos

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: SCA-0032
Scope and Contents Note

The collection contains proposed seal designs from the founding of Queens College, an engraved stone of the official seal, and digital designs of subsequent logos and medals used at Queens College over the decades.

Dates: 1937

Queens College SEEK Records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: SCA-0010
Abstract

This collection document the history of The Percy Ellis Sutton Search for Education, Elevation, and Knowledge (SEEK) program at Queens College from 1966 to the present. It contains administrative records, publications, photographs, ephemera, and audiovisual materials. SEEK is a higher education opportunity program that played a historic role in opening the City University of New York (CUNY) system to more diverse students populations.

Dates: 1965 - 2023

Queens College Student Publications Bound Volumes

 Collection
Identifier: SCA-0017
Content Description

This collection consists of 86 bound volumes containing the student publications of Queens College. The titles represented include: Phoenix, Knightbeat, The Crown, Rampart, The Globe, HA-OR, The Beacon, The Last Word, Kastle, Our World, The Spectrum, Third World News, Update, QC Quad, Skyline, Newsbeat, Queens WOrld, and The Knight News. There are some volumes that are duplicates.

Dates: 1937-2004

Queens College Student Publications Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SCA-0003
Abstract

The Student Publications Collection consists of 28 Queens College student newspapers and 34 student magazines from the school’s founding in 1937 to the present. They cover national, local, and campus news. Some were developed as competitors with other newspapers; others were made by multicultural groups on campus. A few titles have spin-off “joke” counterparts.

Dates: 1937-Present

Queens College Yearbooks

 Collection
Identifier: SCA-0011
Scope and Contents

The Silhouette, annual yearbook of Queens College.

Dates: 1941 - (additions ongoing)

Revisions (Publication)

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: SCA-0095
Scope and Contents

Set of Revisions: A Zine on Writing at Queens College. The publication variously features writing by Queens College faculty, staff, and students, as well as CUNY Writing Fellows, on particular themes.

Dates: 2004 - 2019