The University Archives, a unit within the Rare Book & Manuscript Library, preserves the institutional memory of Columbia University through the acquisition of official University records and related historical collections and materials from its founding in 1754 to the present day.

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Apr 1, 2025 · Over the years, the University Archives has collected a number of alumni registers and directories, both from the University as a whole and from the individual schools (Architectures, Business, Columbia College, Engineering, General Studies, Journalism, Law, etc.).

Thanks to a gift from the board of the Columbia University Club Foundation, CCT and the Columbia University Libraries recently digitized back issues from 1954 through and including Summer 2016 and made them available on the Internet Archive.

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The University Archives collections include an extensive run of yearbooks from Columbia College (The Columbiad and later The Columbian) dating from 1869 to the present, as well as a representation of yearbooks from other schools of the University and a complete run of those for the Midshipmen's School (Side Boy), which was on campus during ...

Apr 1, 2025 · You can find the University Archives holdings for all the years and all the Columbia schools in the Yearbooks, Facebooks and Class Books finding aid. To request any of these publications, you will need to use your Special Collections Research Account .

The Columbia University Archives preserves the institutional memory of Columbia University from its founding in 1754 to the present day. Among its holdings are non-current official University records, publications, master’s essays, photographs, scrapbooks, artifacts and a variety of other materials related to student life, faculty and alumni.

In its commitment to the University’s overall mission of teaching and learning, the Archives informs the Columbia community and the community of scholars about the wealth and value of its holdings and encourages their use.

Please note that most materials, whether at the University Archives or at any of the Columbia libraries, are searchable through the Archival Collections Portal and/or CLIO, the Columbia Libraries online catalog.