Web Address: www.carnegiehall.org

Main subject areas: Music; performing arts; entertainment;

Holdings: History of Carnegie Hall, which includes the physical building, events on the three stages, the studio spaces and tenants, and the Carnegie Hall Corporation. Administration files, concert programs, photographs, audio and video recordings of events, artifacts and special collections such as batons, autographs, posters and promotional fliers.

Publications: Brochures and booklets accompanying exhibitions in the Rose Museum

Hours: 9:30 to 5:30 Monday through Friday by appointment

Search the archives/library catalog at www.catalog.cjh.org or the digital collections at www.digital.cjh.org

Main subject areas: Jewish History and Culture, Genealogy and Family History; religion

Holdings: The Center consists of five Partners: American Jewish Historical Society, American Sephardi federation, Leo Baeck Institute, YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, and Yeshiva University Museum. The Partners’ archival and book collections are used in the Lillian Goldman Reading Room of the Center. The Center Genealogy Institute provides reference and educational services for those doing family history research. The public computers at the Center offer free access to more than 50 databases on Jewish Studies and genealogy.

Publications: Jewish Women in Daily Life: An On-line Bibliography at: http://www.cjh.org/academic/women.html

The CGI offers more than 40 fact sheets to guide family history researchers to resources at the Center and elsewhere. They are available at http://www.cjh.org/family/factsheets.cfm.

Holocaust Resources: Annotated Bibliography of Archival Holdings at CJH. http://holocaustresources.cjh.org/

Restrictions: Visitors to the Center must deposit a picture id at the 16th Street desk in exchange for a badge that must be worn at all times. The id will be returned in exchange for the badge when visitors leave the Center. Only paper, pencils and laptops are allowed in the reading room. Lockers are available for other belongings.

Hours: Monday-Thursday, 9:30-5:00

Holdings: Records of Shaar Hashomayim congregation (1839- ); Records of Ahavath Chesed congregation (1846- ); records of merged congregations (1898- ); Central Synagogue (1920- ); records of National Landmark sanctuary building built 1870-1872, H. Fernbach, architect.

Publications: Guide to the Archives, 1994; Andrew Dolkart, Central Synagogue in its Changing Neighborhood, 2001; E. Blackmar & A. Goren, Central Synagogue, 2003.

Restrictions: By appointment only; some records closed to researchers; some records stored offsite.

Hours: Wednesday afternoons; other weekdays may be available - call.

Main subject areas: Century Association, New York City, 1847-present; American Art; American Literature; American History & Biography

Holdings: The CAAF oversees the historical records of the Century Association, a prominent New York City arts and letters club. Most records relate to the activities of the club and its members within the club. The Archives houses a significant collection of photographic portraits of past members as well.

Publications: Newsletters available at website.

Restrictions: By appointment only

Hours: 10 am to 5 pm, Monday through Friday

Web address: www.ccny.cuny.edu/library/Divisions/Archives/index.html

Main subject areas: Higher Education; local history; NYC History; student activities

Holdings: History and development of City College, from its founding as the Free Academy (1847) and the subsequent development of the City University of New York. Records documenting administration, curriculum, student life and research; over 1,000 photographs; biographical information regarding alumni and faculty; papers of outstanding alumni and faculty. Also: Papers of College Presidents; all College publications (1851-); materials on St. Nicholas Heights Campus; Townsend Harris papers (founder); Russell Sage Collection on Social Welfare; Jacob Riis Collection; Henry Kates Krowl correspondence; Lewis Freeman Mott papers

Publications: In-house finding aids

Restrictions: Personnel files restricted

Hours: 9:30-5:00, Monday-Friday, appointment preferred

Main subject areas: New York City Parks & Recreation

Holdings: Comprehensive images of parks acquisition, development and use, including design and construction improvements, special events, significant features, general park activities and aerial views. A small collection of color motion picture footage from the 1930s and 1940s. Holdings include more than 200,000 images created by the Parks department from 1856 to the present. The majority of photos were taken after 1933, and the collection is especially strong in representing the era in which Robert Moses was Parks Commissioner (1934-1960).

Hours: Mon - Fri, 9 - 3 by appointment only

Main subject areas: Educational assessment, education policy.

Hours: Call to arrange visit, Mon - Fri, 9-5

Website: http://library.cshl.edu/

Directions: http://www.cshl.edu/public/directions.html

Main subject areas: Molecular Biology, Genetics, Cancer Research, Neurobiology, and Bioinformatics, Eugenics, Sciences, Medicine, Long Island History.

Holdings: Archival special collections include the papers of James D. Watson, Barbara McClintock, and Alfred Hershey. Other substantial collections include the papers of Charles and Reginald Davenport, Jane Davenport Harris, Herman Muller, Sidney Brenner, and Elof Carlson. Organizations covered in the collections include Carnegie Institution of Washington, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Symposia, Watson School of Biological Sciences, and the Dolan DNA Learning Center.

The Archives of the Laboratory contain books, papers, correspondence, and photographs relating to the scientific work, the scientists, the buildings, Laboratory history, and the meetings and courses that have been held here, as well as historical Long Island materials. The Archives supports the research of scholars from around the world. We continue to collect materials relating to Dr. James Watson and other CSHL scientists, Laboratory buildings, meetings, courses, events and news stories, and we acquire books on the history of genetics and molecular biology.

Publications: There are a number of online guides and web resources at the library's website, http://library.cshl.edu/,as well as several online exhibits.

Hours: The CSHL Main Library and Archives are open, by appointment only, to outside students and researchers. Please call (516) 367-6872 or e-mail pollock@cshl.org.

Website: http://www.library.csi.cuny.edu/archives/

Main subject areas: Education; politics; local history and government; Staten Island History; History of the College of Staten Island and its predecessors

Holdings: The library collection comprehensively acquires materials about Staten Island in all formats. The manuscript collection includes: The Senator John J. Marchi Papers, The Assemblywoman Elizabeth A. Connelly Papers, The Assemblyman Eric N. Vitaliano Papers, and The Theodora DuBois Papers. New York State Senator Marchi took office in 1957 and is the longest serving legislator at any level of government in the United States. His collection is particularly strong on the topics of Staten Island Secession, the Charter Commission for Staten Island, the South Richmond Plan, Abortion, the Temporary State Commission on New York City School Governance, Taxation, Transportation, Education and the Fresh Kills Landfill. Former New York State Assemblywoman Connelly was a Speaker Pro Tempore in the Assembly, the highest position ever held by a woman in the Assembly. She retired in 2000 as the longest serving woman in the Assembly (twenty-six years). The focus of her legislative career was environmental issues and mental health care. Former New York State Assemblyman Vitaliano was in office for seventeen years and some of his career focuses were solid waste management and wetlands protection. Theodora DuBois (1890-1986) was the author of popular juvenile fiction. Her family had long-standing connections to Staten Island and she was a resident for much of her adult life. Her collection includes the manuscripts for her works and family papers.

Restrictions: No general restrictions; some material within collections may be restricted

Hours: Monday through Friday, 9:00 am to 5:00 pm; appointments may be requested to use the collection outside these hours.

Website: www.columbia.edu/cu/columbiana

Main subject areas: Education; Revolutionary America; New York City; Student Life; art;

Holdings: History of King's College, 1754-1776, and Columbia University to the present day (250 years in 2003-04). Historical and administrative records of the university; published materials by and about faculty and students; student publications; the growth of higher education in the U.S.; collections relating to Columbia's presence and expansion on Morningside Heights.

5,500 cubic feet of institutional records, photos and negatives, and vertical files; and 1,600 linear feet of books. The Archives holds records of the University's governing bodies as well as administrative offices, schools, academic departments, and student activities and ceremonies, chiefly for the Morningside Heights campus. UA-CL administers the King's College Room, a museum room with paintings, furnishings and printed works from the period of King's College (1754-1776) and early Columbia College (1778-1850). On display are portraits of King George III and King's College's two presidents, Samuel Johnson and Myles Cooper, as well as later presidents and trustees William Duer, Egbert Benson, and DeWitt Clinton.

Restrictions: Twenty-five years for administrative records fifty years for Trustee records

Hours: Mon., Wed., Fri. 9:30-4:30; Thursdays 1:30-4:30, except University holidays.

Web: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/avery/index.html

Main subject areas: Architecture; New York City History;

Holdings: A diverse range of original and reprographic drawings, photographic materials, project and building files, business papers, correspondence, diaries, scrapbooks, and faculty and personal papers. With a few exceptions, we do not collect building models, fragments, or material samples. The bulk of our collection represents 19th- and 20th-century American architecture, particularly of New York and the surrounding region. Most of the collections represent firms no longer in active practice.

Restrictions: varies with collection; open to non-CU researchers

Hours:
Reading room: By appointment only, Monday, Tuesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, 9:30am-1pm, 2-5pm, and Wednesdays, 2-5pm.
Phone/email inquiries: Monday-Friday, 9:30am-5pm

Web:http://library.cpmc.columbia.edu/hsl/archives/

Main subject areas: History of the health sciences in general and of Columbia University health sciences schools in particular. Healthcare; medicine; nursing

Holdings: Records of the College of Physicians & Surgeons (1790s- ) and the School of Dental & Oral Surgery (1916-1970s); various materials on the School of Nursing (1892) Mailman School of Public Health (1922) and Presbyterian Hospital (1868); personal papers of physicians & scientists; Florence Nightingale Collection; Freud Library; several thousand photographs; over 15,000 rare books from 1476 to the 20th

Restrictions: varies with collection; open to non-CU researchers

Hours: Reading room: Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, 9:15am - 4:45pm; appointments on closed days available by appointment for out-of-town researchers. Phone/email inquiries: Monday-Friday, 9:15am - 4:45pm

Website: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/rare/

Main subject areas: English and American literature and history; classical authors; children's literature; education; mathematics; astronomy; economics and banking; photography; the history of printing; New York City politics; librarianship; the performing arts.

Holdings: The Rare Book and Manuscript Library owns over 600,000 rare books in some 20 book collections and almost 26 million manuscripts in nearly 2,600 separate manuscript collections. Individual collections are as eclectic as they are extensive.

Publications: Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Collections and Treasures - a catalogue of an exhibition held in 1984 upon the opening of the new library quarters.
See http://www.columbia.edu/acis/textarchive/rare/

Restrictions: See individual collections

Hours: Sept-May: Mon, 12-7:45, T-Fri 9-4:45; mid-May-Jul: Mon, noon-4:45, T-Fri, 9-4:45; Aug: Mon-Fri, noon-4:45. Closed holidays.

Main subject areas: History of the Congregation, 1654 - present.

Holdings: Congregational records of the only synagogue in NYC from 1654-1825. Records of Congregational organizations, and organizations associated with the Congregation.

Publications: Preliminary Guide to the Archives of Congregation Shearith Israel

Hours: By appointment only

Holdings: Minutes, correspondence, and other records of Consumers Union (1936-); photos, films, videotapes produced by Consumers Union; oral histories of 40 movement leaders; copies of print material published since 1936; and papers of 15 consumer leaders and consumer organizations.

Restrictions: Qualified researchers

Hours: Mon-Fri, 9:30-4:30

Holdings: Subject areas include the personal and professional life of Doris Duke, her family, her properties, and her foundations. Also, includes documentation of the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation (established in 1996).

Restrictions: Not open to the public

Hours: N/A

Main subject areas: Business history; science/technology; manufacturing; popular culture; motion pictures; sound recordings.

Holdings: 2,400 linear feet of business records of the companies founded by Thomas Edison to manufacture consumer goods (phonographs, sound recordings, kitchen appliances, storage and primary batteries); motion pictures and related equipment; experiment and lab records, including 4,000 lab notebooks; 35,000 disc and cylinder sound recordings; 60,000 photographs.

Hours: Mon - Fri, 9-4:30, by appointment only

Website: www.exitart.org

Main subject areas: Art; Art History

Holdings: Curatorial and administrative records (1980-present); artist files; exhibition documentation, including photographs, slides, and video; artist interviews; catalogues; and a a small library

Hours: Mon-Fri, 10-6; by appointment only.

Website: www.explorers.org

Main subject areas: Science & scientific investigation; Terrestrial exploration, 19th and 20th centuries; Explorers Club members

Holdings: Materials relating to deceased Club members (1904 to present). Correspondence and membership files relating to 5000+ deceased Members; Club Minutes (1911-present); Several large collections of private papers, including those of The Lady Franklin Bay Expedition (1881-1884); The Peary Arctic Club (1899-1910); The Arctic Club of America (1894-1912); Numerous small collections of manuscripts, film, and photographic materials, much of which is not yet processed; Library holdings include 15,000+ catalogued books on exploration and explorers with subject strengths in late 19th and early 20th century polar regions and Africa (in the James B. Ford Library); Map collection of 5000 sheet maps, none antiquarian, many annotated (in the Sir Edmund Hillary Map Room)

Publications: The Explorers Club publishes two quarterly serials: The Explorers Journal (magazine; since 1921) which features a column "Ex Post Facto" about its archives (since 2002); The Explorers Log (newsletter)

Restrictions: Materials do not circulate

Hours: Call for appointment, Monday - Thursday [closed Fridays]

Main subject areas: Fashion; Costume; Dressmaking and tailoring; Textile -- design, industry, and science; Art and architecture; Decoration and ornament

Holdings: Rare books and materials pertinent to the library's specialized areas. All titles in library's book collection that predate 1860. Periodical holdings between 1800 and 1950. Original fashion sketches and illustrations, scrapbooks on designers and companies, archives, portfolios of plates, photographs, and the FIT archives. Oral histories of major 20th century fashion world personalities.

Restrictions: Open to qualified researchers by appointment, scheduled several days in advance

Hours: Mon 10--1, 2--5. Tue, Wed & Thurs 9--12, 1-5. Fri 1-5.

Main subject areas: US Central Banking and Monetary Policy; Relations with Foreign Central Banks and International Financial Organizations (e.g., International Monetary Fund and the Bank for International Settlements)

Holdings: Available records include: papers of the president's office and select senior officers; redacted minutes of board of directors' meetings; publications (e.g, annual reports and staff magazine); photographs of Bank facilities and personnel

Restrictions: All records created within the past 15 years are closed to research. Access to older records is subject to internal restrictions, and is at the discretion of the archivist. Appointments available only after an application process has been completed.

Hours: Monday-Friday, 9am-4pm; as a private corporate archives, this is subject to change according to business needs.

Holdings: Records of the Ford Foundation: grant files; staff and consultant reports; Foundation & grantee publications; files of executive, program & field offices; oral histories. Records from 1936 - present, most after 1950.

Restrictions: On case-by-case basis to outside researchers

Hours: Mon - Fri, 9:30-4:45 by appointment only

Holdings: Fordham University records

Hours: 9 am- 5 pm Mon-Fri

Holdings: Almost 140 years of historic data about Irish American Religious Community.

Restrictions: Historic materials only, no current records

Hours: By appointment only

Holdings: Correspondence of founders, Fr. Paul Wattson, Mother Lurana White; history; mission work; administrative papers; some photographs of Sisters, Friars, and mission wor

Publications: Women of Unity (Mother Lurana); In the Beginning (correspondence of founders).

Restrictions: Outside researchers must phone for appointment

Hours: Mon - Thur, 9-4

Main subject areas: The Frick Collection; Frick Art Reference Library; Frick Family (including Henry Clay Frick and his descendents) Art History

Holdings: The Frick Collection Archives primarily consists of the institutional archives of The Frick Collection(1931 - )and Frick Art Reference Library (1921 -) the history of the Frick family and gifts of research relating to artists galleries and art history.

Restrictions: Undergraduates may use materials in the library, including archives, only after providing a letter of reference from an instructor.

Hours: M-F 10-5