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Aaron Copland School of Music Records
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: SCA-0005
Overview
The Aaron Copland School of Music Collection (formerly the Department of Music) consists of materials about the administrative, faculty and student activities of the Aaron Copland School of Music. The collection contains a wide-range of materials including correspondence, brochures, photographs, audio tapes, press clippings, and department course and event schedules. The bulk of the collection consists of personnel files of prominent department faculty.
Andrew Berman Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCA-0023-002
Abstract
The Andrew Berman Collection contains newspaper clippings, publications, activist documents, correspondence, fliers, position papers, conference notes and video footage documenting Mr. Berman’s political and social activism during his tenure as a Queens College student in the early-to-mid 1960s. Materials document Mr. Berman’s activist work with several major organizations, most significantly the Queens College chapter of Students for a Democratic Society.
Arthur Gatti Papers
Collection — Box: All Boxes
Identifier: SCA-0027-001
Abstract
The Arthur Gatti Collection contains newspaper clippings, publications, documents, correspondence, fliers, posters, photographs, scrapbooks, and memorabilia documenting Gatti’s political and social activism at Queens College in the early-to-mid 1960s. Materials are from both Gatti’s direct experience and the activities of several major activist organizations in the national political and social landscape of the 1960s. The collection also documents the political career and personal life of...
Bette Weidman Oral History Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCA-0018
Abstract
This collection contains physical and digital items related to several oral history projects conducted by Dr. Bette Weidman, professor of English at Queens College, between 1987 and 2012. Physical items consist of audiocassettes and printed and handwritten documents; digital files include oral history recordings, interview outlines and related project documents.
Elliot Linzer Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCA-0036
Abstract
The Elliot Linzer Collection consists primarily of near-print materials, such as handbills, mimeographed flyers, and pamphlets documenting the activities of various New York City-area chapters of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), a civil rights organization, during the early 1960s. Elliot Linzer is a Queens College alumnus and former member of CORE.
Jean L. Konzal Papers
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: SCA-0042
Abstract
As a Queens College student, Jean Leanore Konzal, née Stein, volunteered with the Student Help Project, an initiative that provided free tutoring services to under-served children in South Jamaica, Queens from 1962-1968. During the summer of 1963, Konzal 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 public education since 1959. The collection includes personal and printed...
Karol Rathaus Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCA-0044
Abstract
Karol Rathaus established himself as an exceptional compositional talent in European musical circles before immigrating to the United States in 1938. In 1940, he became the first composition professor in the music department of Queens College, a position he held until his untimely death in 1954. His papers include correspondence, manuscripts, sketches, printed materials, performance programs, press clippings, and audio recordings in various formats. Also included are papers related to Rathaus'...
Michael Wreszin Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCA-0049
Abstract
Professor, activist, radical, and biographer, the Michael Wreszin collection contains a large number of documents related to American radical culture of the 20th century. A large portion of the collection is devoted to the 20th century radical, Dwight Macdonald, of whom Wreszin wrote a biography, and other New York Intellectuals. The collection also holds documents related to the history of radical activities in New York from the 1960's to 1980's, including protests and activism on Queens...
Oscar Shaftel Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCA-0052
Abstract
The Oscar Shaftel papers contains correspondence,
flyers, press clippings, transcripts of testimony, printed
materials and miscellanea 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...
Paul Klapper Papers
Collection
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.
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