Columbia University Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University

New York, New York, United States

Contacts

Butler Library, 6th Fl. East;535 West 114th St.;New York, NY 10027

Phone: (212) 854-5153;Fax: (212) 854-1365;Email: rbml@libraries.cul.columbia.edu

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

Description

"The range of the library's holdings spans more than 4,000 years, from cylinder seals created in Mesopotamia to artists' books on which the ink is barely dry. In addition to printed and manuscript resources, the library contains cuneiform tablets, papyri, ostraca, astronomical and mathematical instruments, maps, works of art, photographs, posters, early printing presses and papermaking equipment, type specimens, sound and moving image recordings, theater set models, puppets, masks, ephemera and memorabilia."