Web address: http://www.nyu.edu/library/bobst/research/tam/

Main subject areas: Labor history; NYC history; women's history; politics; The History of U.S. labor, radicalism, and progressive social movements, mid-19th century to the present, with a concentration on New York City,including the relationship between labor and the left, anarchism, communism, socialism, the cultural left, more recent radicalism, civil rights and liberties, academic freedom, the women's movement.

Holdings: Books and Proceedings: 50,000 titles; Periodicals: 10,000 titles; Archival & Manuscript: 600 collections totally over 15,000 cubic feet; Photographs/film: 300,000 images/400 hours; Posters: 2500; Buttons: 3500; Oral Histories: 3000. The Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives collects the historical records of NYC labor organizations. The Library also houses the Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives, and the Archives of Irish America.

Publications: Brochure.

Restrictions: Open to the public; photo id required.

Hours: Monday through Friday, 10 am to 5:45 pm and Saturdays, 10 am to 5 pm. (Hours vary during the summer and intersession.)

Main subject areas: Television productions produced or co-produced by Thirteen/WNET public television; entertainment

Holdings: Broadcast quality videotape of Thirteen/WNET productions from the past 40 years. Underlying videotape and paper records related to Thirteen/WNET productions.

Restrictions: For internal use only. Telephone queries accepted from qualified researchers and professionals.

Main subject areas: Pensions & insurance; retirement planning; institutional investing.

Holdings: Holdings document development of TIAA (founded 1918) & CREF (founded 1952) and their role in higher education. Includes corporate publications; office files; oral histories; photos; and audio/video recordings.

Main subject areas: Education; religion; student activities; History of Union Theological Seminary; Women's History; Missionary History

Holdings: over 300 archival collections, ca. 2340 linear feet; UTS records and papers of faculty and students, including Charles Augustus Briggs, Harry Emerson Fosdick and Harry Frederick Ward. Missionary Research Library collections such as Henry Gerhard Appenzeller, Abbe Livingston Warnshuis and World Missionary Conference of 1910, with in depth coverage of Protestant missions in 20th century China. Ecumenical collections of the Evangelical Alliance, National Council of Churches of Christ, North American Academy of Ecumenists and the Student Interracial Ministry. AWTS archives include Carter Hayward, Suzanne Hiatt and Phyllis Trible.

Main subject areas: United Nations activities in the areas of diplomacy and conflict resolution, peace-keeping, and social & economic development.

Holdings: Records of the UN Secretariat, including Secretaries-General, UN missions and commissions, and predecessors and related organizations

Restrictions: Records usually open after 20 years

Hours: Mon - Fri, 9-5, by appointment only

Web address: www.kwf.org

Main subject areas: Kurt Weill; Lotte Lenya; Music and culture of the Weimar Republic; American musical theater; entertainment; performing arts

Holdings: Manuscript music, published music, libretti; play scripts, correspondence; personal papers, business records, performance histories, programs, photographs, press clippings, oral histories, audio recordings, video recordings, films, books.

Publications: A Guide to the Weill-Lenya Research Center (1995); Kurt Weill Newsletter (semi-annual)

Hours: Mon - Fri, 9:30-5

Main subject areas: Art; Whitney Museum of American Art History

Holdings: Whitney Museum Historical and Exhibition records; Hopper Research Collection; Florence Rubenfeld Research Collection for "Clement Greenberg, A Life"; Marius de Zayas Research Collection for "How Modern Art Came to NY"; Avis Berman Resource Material for "Rebels on Eighth Street"

Main subject areas: Science; zoology;

Holdings: Records of the Wildlife Conservation Society, founded in 1895 as New York Zoological Society. Records of Bronx Zoo, NY Aquarium, international programs, other past/present operating units including Department of Tropical Research. Records of directors & curators including William Hornaday Charles Townsend and William Beebe. Holdings partially listed in New York State Historical Documents Inventory RLIN OCLC and NUCMC. Some microfilm available via interlibrary loan. Call or write for details.

Publications: Guide to the Archives (1982), 46 p., available free upon request

Restrictions: Access requires approval of written application

Hours: By appointment 10-5 M-F except legal holidays

Web address http://www.yu.edu/libs/arch/index.html

Main subject areas: Twentieth Century Jewish History; education; student activites

Holdings: Records of Yeshiva University administrators; records of rescue and relief organization including Vaad Hatzala, Rescue Children, Inc., National Council of Jewish Women, Central Relief Committee, and the Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry

Publications: Many inventories to the collection are available for purchase

Restrictions: Some collections are restricted

Hours: Mon - Thurs, 9-5 by appointment only

Web address: www.yivoinstitute.org

Main subject areas: Judaism; religion; immigration; World War II

Holdings: History & culture of Eastern European Jewry before the Holocaust. Holocaust and its aftermath. Jewish immigration to U.S, and Development. of American Jewish Community, Yiddish literature, press, theater, music, and folklore. Holdings include 1,400 collections occupying 10,000 linear feet. (85% are manuscript collections, personal papers and institutional records). Special collections include 100,000 photos; 3,200 art & ceremonial objects; 350 films; 3,000 sound recordings in various formats.

Publications: Guide to the YIVO Archives (1998), YIVO News (quarterly newsletter)

Restrictions: None, unless specified by donors

Hours: Mon - Thurs, 9:30-5:30