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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

Political Posters

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: SCA-0119
Abstract

The collection contains a diverse array of political and social issue posters, as well as several art prints, bumper stickers, and postcards from the 1960s-2020. Used as tools for community organizing, to express political and social discontent, and fight for social change, political posters offer unique insights into histories of struggles using a combination of high-contrast colors, striking images and vivid illustrations coupled with sharp slogans and descriptive text.

Dates: circa 1960s-2020

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

Queens College Anniversaries Records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: SCA-0088
Scope and Contents

Commemorative publications; printed and 3d ephemera; and research and administrative files associated with various anniversaries of Queens College.

Dates: circa 1962-present

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City University of New York. Search for Education and Knowledge Program 1
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