Main subject areas: Education; student life

Holdings: Student and college publications. Internal program and academic program records. Video recrds of programs and special events. Photographs. Student events. Selected papers of faculty and administrators. Selected University records for college use. Responses to tragedies of Sept. 11 2001 and the aftermath. Approximately 582 lf. This is a growing collection with active collection policy. Video recordings, Photo/slides/negatives, Publications, Objects (including 9/11/01 story boards).

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

Web: http://www.laguardiawagnerarchive.lagcc.cuny.edu

Main subject areas: Politics; New York City History; Queens history

Holdings: Fiorello H. La Guardia Collection; Robert F. Wagner Collection;Edward I. Koch Collection; Abraham D. Beame Collection; New York City Housing Authority Papers Collection; Queens Local History Collection; Steinway & Sons Collection; City Council Collection

Publications: Annual History Calendar; Annual Fourth Grade Curriculum Guide; Exhibits throughout the corridors of the College

Restrictions: Please call for appt to use Archives

Hours: 9:30 - 4:30 M-F for research and normal College hours seven days a week to view exhibits

Main subject areas: Judaism; German Jewry; religion

Holdings: History of German-speaking Jewry early modern period to present. 70,000 library volumes; 800 periodicals; 2,500 linear feet of archives & manuscripts; 20,000 photographs; 4,000 art items

Publications: The Library and the Archives of the Leo Baeck Institute (1972); Catalog of the Archival Collections (1990); LBI Newsletter (biannually)

Restrictions: Open to genealogical, historic & scholarly researchers/students

Hours: Reading room: Mon-Thurs 9:30-4:30

Holdings: Materials relating to lesbian history, culture and politics, international in scope but largest holdings are U.S. and NYC. Wide range of materials: over 10,000 books; subject files; video/audio tapes; photographs; conference proceedings; oral histories; personal papers; diaries; art, posters and ephemera.

Publications: Irregularly published newsletter, bibliographies, and traveling exhibits

Hours: Must call for schedule, by appointment only

Main subject areas: Performing arts, education, architecture.

Holdings: Records of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Inc., and its programs and departments. Records include documents, photographs, films and videotape, oral histories and architectural records.

Restrictions: Open to bona fide researchers, approved by director

Hours: By appointment only

Main subject areas: Education; religion; religious orders

Holdings: Manhattan College History; History of the De La Salle Christian Brothers in the Eastern United States; The life, spirituality and pedagogy of John Baptist de La Salle and the history of his Institute.

Manhattan College Archives: Records of Manhattan College including administrative, departmental, student, alumni, board of trustees and academic affairs; Publications, photographic and audio material and ephemera. De La Salle Archives: Records of the De La Salle Districts, its affiliates and subsidiary schools and ministries and Brothers; Publications, photographic and audio material and ephemera; Lasallian Research Library.

Restrictions: Some records closed to external research

Hours: Mon.-Fri. 8am-4pm (Appointments highly recommended)

Main subject areas: Education; Westchester; New York City

Holdings: Historical records of the college which was founded as the Academy of the Sacred Heart in New York City in 1841 and chartered as a college by New York state in 1917. Holdings document the history of the academy and college in the Manhattanville neighborhood of New York City through the 1940s and the creation of a new campus on the former Westchester County estate of publisher Whitelaw Reid. Documents, office files, scrapbooks, news clippings, photographs, college publications, and artifacts.

Restrictions: Restrictions may apply to some materials.

Hours: By appointment only.

Main subject areas: Publishing; financial markets; financial ratings; engineering; trade publications

Holdings: History of McGraw-Hill and its predecessors.  Publishing history, with particular emphasis on "trade" or "business" magazines and books, especially engineering, science, business, and aviation.  Also includes some information on financial markets and the ratings industry by way of McGraw-Hill subsidiary Standard & Poor's. Approximately 300 feet of records, including paper, photographs, audio and video formats, some memorabilia.

Restrictions: Open to McGraw-Hill employees

Hours: By appointment only

Main subject areas: Healthcare; pharmaceutical industry

Holdings: The history of the pharmaceutical company Merck & Co., Inc. and the companies with which Merck either merged or acquired, including Sharp & Dohme, H.K. Mulford, and Powers-Weightman-Rosengarten.Approximately 3,000 cubic feet of records, from the 1880s to the present, including documents, oral histories, photographs, audio/video recordings, and artifacts such as product packaging.

Restrictions: Open to outside researchers by appointment. Access is subject to the discretion of the Corporate Archivist.

Hours: By appointment only.

Main subject areas: Finance; banking; products and services of Merrill Lynch.

Holdings: Papers of partners, past presidents and CEOs, including Charles E. Merrill, Roger E. Birk, Donald Regan, and William A. Schreyer. Also includes promotional materials, photographs, publications, and an extensive collection of oral history interviews.

Restrictions: Restricted to internal use

Main subject areas: History of MetLife; the insurance industry.

Holdings: Subject files, photographs, periodicals, papers and speeches, three-dimensional objects.

Restrictions: Open to qualified researchers

Hours: By appointment only

Website: http://metro.org

Main subject areas: Historical records relating to under-documented groups in post-WWII New York.

Holdings: No original materials on-site. The Documentary Heritage Program's aim is to encourage documentation of new population groups in New York State since 1945--ethnic and racial groups that have immigrated in search of more stable economic, political, and social conditions; and, the impact of economic change, deindustrialization and revitalization in the State after WWII.

Publications: Documenting Community Organizations, Documentary Heritage Program

Hours: Mon - Fri, 9 - 5

Main subject areas: Health care; medicine; nursing; Montefiore Medical Center.

Holdings: Records of Montefiore Medical Center (1884-) and personal papers of individuals affiliated with Montefiore. Publications, photographs, artifacts.

Restrictions: Restrictions apply to certain material

Hours: By appointment only

Main subject areas: Medicine; healthcare; nursing; and medical education; Mount Sinai Medical Center.

Holdings: History of Mount Sinai Hospital Mount Sinai School of Medicine and Mount Sinai Hospital School of Nursing as well as general history of medicine nursing and medical and nursing education. Records of The Mount Sinai Hospital (1852- ), the Mount Sinai School of Medicine (1963- ), the Mount Sinai Medical Center (1969- ), and the Mount Sinai Hospital School of Nursing (1881-1971). Materials include minutes, publications, office files, photographs, films, student records (nursing), and oral history interviews.

Publications: Unpublished finding aids available.

Hours: Tuesday-Friday by appointment only

Main subject areas: New York City history

Holdings: Archival materials available for research include prints, photographs, drawings, postcards, newspapers, manuscript items,theater memorabilia and documents relevant to MCNY\'s institutional history. Photography collection particularly strong from the late 19th century to mid-20th century and on the architectural history of New York City.

Publications: Peter Simmons, Gotham Comes of Age: New York through the Lens of the Byron Company, 1892-1942 (Pomegranate, 1999). Bonnie Yochelson, Berenice Abbott: Changing New York (The New Press/Museum of the City of New York, 1997).

Hours: By appointment on weekdays.

Main subject areas: Twentieth century Jewish history including the Holocaust; Judaism; religion.

Holdings: Artifacts and photographs reflecting 20th century Jewish life including the Holocaust; some documents.

Hours: By appointment only

Main subject areas: Art; art history

Holdings: History of the Museum of Modern Art, its departments and personalities. Administrative and program records; personal papers of former staff; sound and video recordings of Museum-related events; oral histories of former staff trustees artists and others closely associated with the Museum; archival collections from non-MoMA individuals and institutions.

Restrictions: Access to some collections is restricted.

Hours: Mon,Tues, Wed 11-5, by appointment only