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Dean Savage Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SCA-0033
Abstract

The Dean Savage Papers documents civil rights initiatives by northern student volunteers under the auspices of the Summer Community Organization and Political Education (SCOPE) Project during the summer of 1965. This collection primarily consists of color photographs taken in Orangeburg County, South Carolina and Atlanta, Georgia. Also included are newspaper articles, pamphlets, and photocopied transcripts of speeches given at orientation in Atlanta, Georgia.

Dates: 1965-2011; Majority of material found in 1965 - 1965

Debby Yaffe Oral History

 Collection
Identifier: QMP-0042
Scope and Contents Debby Yaffe was one of the youngest members of the Student Help Project who volunteered to go to Prince Edward County, Virginia, in the summer of 1963 to tutor local Black children who were denied a public education for four years in massive resistance to the desegregation of schools. Yaffe contributes her memories of organizing and preparing for the summer initiative. In Prince Edward County, Yaffe served as the librarian of the Queens College group, rather than as a tutor, which she had to...
Dates: 2021-03-26

Debby Yaffe Papers

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: SCA-0034
Abstract As a Queens College student, Debby Yaffe volunteered with the Student Help Project, an initiative that provided free tutoring services to underserved children. During the summer of 1963, sixteen members of the project, including Yaffe, travelled to Prince Edward County, Virginia, to provide instruction to African American children. These children had been denied formal public education since 1959, when the county defunded and closed its schools rather than comply with federally-ordered...
Dates: 1963-2009 (bulk 1963-1964); Majority of material found in 1963 - 1963

Don Quixote Collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: SCA-0002
Abstract

The Don Quixote Collection is comprised of valuable editions of and related works about Miguel De Cervantes’ Don Quixote spanning over 300 years. The collection contains original and facsimile editions in English, Spanish, and Italian, in a variety of sizes and bindings, and related works by other authors.

Dates: 1620-1933

Dorothy (Dottie) Zellner Oral History

 Collection
Identifier: QMP-0045
Scope and Contents Dorothy “Dottie” Zellner (born in 1938) discusses growing up in Manhattan as the daughter of immigrants in a Left, Jewish family in Manhattan. She recalls being a young child during the second World War, when Nazi hatred of Jews and the potential for Germany to attack the United States were experienced as imminent threats. Zellner discusses how McCarthyism affected her family in the late 1940s through the 1950s, and her experience at Music and Art High School, which she attended from...
Dates: 2019-06-10

Early Rare Books Collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: SCA-0035
Abstract

Consisting of materials from the early years of print history, the Early Rare Books Collection is currently comprised of about forty items from the 16th and 17th centuries. It includes early printed books in a variety of sizes, languages, bindings, and conditions.

Dates: Majority of material found in 1512-1694

Edward G. Clark Jr. Cruise Ship Memorabilia Collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: SCI-1948-001
Scope and Contents The collection consists of materials collected from cruise ships and vacations during the years 1948-1974. Materials include menus, tourism pamphlets, luggage name tags (eight attributing to Edward G. Clark Jr.), and other ephemeral materials. Many of the items were produced for first-class passengers.Menus are written in various languages including English, French, Italian, and Portuguese, and contain information such as dates, the names of the ship and of the ship captain, and...
Dates: 1948 - 1972

Edward M. Cohen Papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: SCA-0115
Abstract

The Edward M. Cohen Papers collects the publications, manuscripts, drafts, notes, journals, and other ephemera of Edward M. Cohen (b. 1936 - d. 2023), a gay author, playwright, director, former Queens College student and Jewish New Yorker.

Dates: 1955 - 2023

El Molino Informativo (Publication)

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: SCA-0126
Scope and Contents

The collection is comprised of issues 001 through 010 of El Molino Informativo, a publication that addresses the precarious conditions, low wages, and discrimination faced by immigrant delivery workers in New York City. The publication features articles by workers and community members without formal training as journalists to cover issues facing immigrant workers often overlooked by mainstream media. It is printed in Mexico.

Dates: 2022 - 2024

Eleanor Roosevelt at Queens College in 1953 (Framed Item)

 Item — Box: 1
Identifier: SCA-0141
Scope and Contents

Framed item contains a letter from Eleanor Roosevelt dated September 24, 1953 accepting an invitation from the Queens College Institute of Public Affairs to speak at the college at a "small noon luncheon" on October 9, 1953. There is also a photograph of Roosevelt accepting a bouquet of flowers during her visit.

Dates: 1953

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