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Moshe Shur Papers

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: SCA-0050
Abstract Rabbi Moshe Shur is an adjunct Professor of Jewish History at Queens College of the City University of New York. During the summers of 1965 and 1966, as a student at Columbia University, Rabbi Shur traveled to Orangeburg, South Carolina to register black voters as a part of the Summer Community Organization and Political Education (SCOPE) program. The Moshe Shur Papers contain newspaper clippings from the events surrounding the two summers Shur spend in the South, newspapers from the days...
Dates: 1965-2008; Majority of material found in 1968 - 1968

Nicola Lucchi Oral History

 Collection
Identifier: QMP-0014
Scope and Contents

In this interview, Lucchi discusses the pandemic as it happened in Italy, one of the epicenters of which occurred in a small town in southern Lombardy where he grew up and where his parents still live. He also talks of his experience as a professor at Queens College who had to quickly transition to remote teaching, and how he felt his undergraduate and graduate language classes fared in the online setting.

Dates: 2020-04-06

Oscar Shaftel Papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: SCA-0052
Abstract The Oscar Shaftel papers contains correspondence, flyers, press clippings, memos, press releases, transcripts of testimony, and subject files documenting student activism at Queens College in the late 1940s and early 1950s and the effect of McCarthyism on academic freedom in New York State. Oscar Shaftel, one of the original faculty members at Queens College, was fired in 1953 under Section 903 of the New York City Charter for refusing to testify in front of the Senate Internal Security...
Dates: 1932 - 2009

Pages From the Past: Original Leaves From Rare Books and Manuscripts

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: SCA-0053
Abstract

This collection contains 150 objects from a portfolio set of “Pages From the Past”, collected and distributed by the now-defunct Society of Foliophiles in New York. They are individual leaves from original printed books and manuscripts in several languages, providing a compact yet extensive history of Western bookmaking from ancient Sumeria to the twentieth-century United States.

Dates: circa 2300 BCE – 1937 CE, bulk 1400 – 1850 ; Majority of material found within 1400 - 1850

Paul Klapper Papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: SCA-0054
Abstract

The Paul Klapper Collection contains the correspondence, administrative files, certificates and awards, photographs, public speeches, programs, newspaper clippings, a doctoral hood, and his personal book collection of the first President of Queens College. The bulk of the collection covers 1937-1948, from the founding of the school until Klapper's retirement.

Dates: 1895-1985; Majority of material found within 1937 - 1948

Peter Archer Papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: SCA-0114
Abstract

Scholarly and personal papers of Peter Archer, an accomplished musician, teacher, and academic. Archer is known publicly for his work as a consultant on the Disney movie Soul (2020). As a member of the Disney/Pixar team, Archer provided inspiration and insight for the lead character in the film, Joe Gardner.

Dates: 2004 - 2021

Phyllis Padow-Sederbaum Papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: SCA-0056
Abstract Phyllis Padow-Sederbaum graduated with honors from Queens College in 1965 with a major in sociology. At Queens College, she worked with the Student Help Project to provide free tutoring services to under-served schoolchildren in South Jamaica, Queens and Prince Edward County, Virginia. During the summer of 1963, Padow-Sederbaum was one of sixteen Queens College students who lived with black families in Farmville, Virginia and tutored African American children who had been denied formal...
Dates: 1961-2000

Professional Staff Congress (PSC) Ephemera

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: SCA-0111
Scope and Contents

Ephemera documenting PSC-CUNY contract campaigns and other activities. Includes t-shirts, buttons, posters, and fliers.

Dates: 2000 - 2023

Queens College Academic Senate Minutes

 Collection
Identifier: SCA-0085
Content Description

Digitized copies (PDFs) of Queens College Academic Senate Minutes.

Dates: 1970 - 2024

Queens College Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) Collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: SCA-0019
Abstract

This collection covers the division of the Air Force ROTC program which was at Queens College during the 1950s. It includes a variety of materials related to the program, including correspondence, publications, photographs, and extensive documentation of the death of Lieutenant Alan Rea, a graduate of the program, and subsequent renaming of the ROTC building in his honor.

Dates: 1945-1960

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