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View inside an office inside Butler Library on the third floor.

View of the college reading room (226 Butler Library).

Image of patrons using the card catalog in Butler Library.

Students sitting in the Harkness Theater, Butler Library.

Woman using old microfilm reading machine in the periodicals room of Butler Library.

Image of a woman (Vera Herman?) operating a book binding machine.

A student working with some of the rare publications dealing with the Russian Revolutionary Movement, purchased by Columbia University from funds granted by the Rockefeller Foundation.

Patron viewing a display of rare books in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library.

Table of Columbia University Press books written by Columbia Faculty, May 1951.

CMC (Columbia Movie Club?) members editing film, ca. 1947.

Woman looking at bulletin board containing examples of the media coverage for Columbia University's Bicentennial in 1954.

Image of (L to R) Pierre Douzelot, President Grayson Kirk, Jean Sarrailk, and Henri Bonnet examining a part of the exhibit of French Universities at Butler Library, 18 October 1954.

Group of students sleeping at a library table, ca. 1970s.

Tug of war for Soph-Frosh Rush taking place in front of Butler Library.

18 May 1977 Commencement ceremony. Procession of University Trustees from Butler Library to Low Plaza.

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

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

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…

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.

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