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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 34 titles 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

Ellen Weingart, Linda Tucker, and Edith Balan Oral History

 Collection
Identifier: QMP-0003
Scope and Contents

In the group interview, the three Queens College alumnae, Ellen Weingart, Edith Balan, and Linda Tucker, reminisce about what an achievement it was to get admitted to Queens College in the early 1960s when they were college students, about joining house plans and enjoying a vibrant social life in the campus, and about choosing and enjoying the required physical education classes like lacrosse, swimming, and folk dancing.

Dates: 2018-10-14

Elliot Linzer Papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
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 New York City 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.

Dates: 1961-1966

Fern Kruger Oral History

 Collection
Identifier: QMP-0027
Scope and Contents Fern Kruger reflects on her time as a student at Queens College in the 1960s, as well as the extent of her participation in the Queens College Jamaica Student Help Project. Kruger was a volunteer in the Jamaica Student Help Project, where she was a tutor to young Black elementary school students in Jamaica, Queens. At its height, the Jamaica initiative of the Student Help Project engaged 500 Queens College students who volunteered to tutor more than one thousand educationally challenged,...
Dates: 2020-11-6

Fine Print Periodicals

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: SCA-0077
Abstract

Fine Print: The Review for the Arts of the Book was published from 1975 until 1990. This is a complete set of all issues, including stand-alone index.

Dates: Publication: 1975 - 1990

Félix V. Matos Rodríguez Honors and Awards

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: SCA-0131
Content Description

Awards (plaques, certificates) honoring Félix V. Matos Rodríguez from his time as president of Queens College (2014-2019) and earlier in his career.

Dates: 2009 - 2015

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