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Photograph of Orchard Street from 1905. Title based on caption used in the "Report of the Mayor's Push-Cart Commission," City of New York, 1906. Facing first page of text, top.

Photograph of banner of seven great female authors (Sappho, Marie de France, Christine de Pizan, Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, Bronte, Dickinson, and Woolf) unfurled over Butler Library.

Sol Hurok and other man looking at publication entitled "The Bolshoi Ballet"

Published in the souvenir program of the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo

Portrait of Sol Hurok published in the souvenir program of the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo.

Photograph of Jacob Adler in costume

Thalia Theatre, 46 Bowery, New York, on the West Side of the Bowery Just Below Canal Street

Isaac Bashevis Singer at work (facing Broadway at 86th Street, New York)

Mirra Ginsburg's father, Joseph Ginsburg (sitting 3rd from the left), among a group of emigrants from Russia in Libava, Latvia, waiting for visas for America.

Inscribed on verso: "150 W 96 St 9-G New York, NY 10025-6469"

A distinguished translator from Russian and Yiddish, an active member of professional associations (American Translators Association, Authors Guild, Authors League of America, and PEN),…

Herbert H. Lehman (1878-1963) giving to David Dubinsky a check for tickets to the benefit of the Committee for Relief and Rehabilitation of Victims of Persecution in Europe. David Dubinsky served as treasurer of the Committee.

David Dubinsky (1892-1982), one of the most influential labor leaders of 20th century America. He managed to make his way to the United States in 1911 after escaping while in transit to exile in Siberia. He was being sent there by the Tsarist…

1953 Columbia graduate, holding two children, having his picture taken after the ceremony is over.

View of Butler Library from Low Library entrance, during the 1957commencement.