Media
Digitized Audio & Video Materials
Original poster for 1955 Varsity Show "When in Rome." Varsity Show Records, University Archives, Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Libraries.
Over the years, the Columbia University Archives has collected audio and video recordings of performances, games, events, and speakers on campus on different media (8 inch reel-to-reel tapes, audio cassettes, vinyl records, etc.). A small portion of these recordings has been digitized and is now available for researchers. Below is a sampling of some of the files available in our collections.
- Selections from the 1933 Columbia Symphonic Band recording.
- Speeches from the Lewis Carroll Centennial Celebration at Columbia in 1932, including Alice Hargreaves, the "Alice" of Carroll's works, who had been awarded an honorary degree
- Varsity Show recordings from 1952 to 1955, Columbia University's oldest performing arts tradition
- "Highlights of King's Crown Radio" from WKCR, Columbia's student radio station
- Columbia Blue Lions dance band music from 1940-1941
- 1934 Rose Bowl: Columbia defeats Stanford 7-0
- School songs performed by the Columbia Glee Club in 1952 and at their reunion in 2010
- WKCR's Music Humanities HB-1 Review of Contemporary Classical Music
The RBML cannot provide access to original time-based media material which has not been first been reformatted for preservation. Researchers are welcome to examine archival time-based media items and decide whether they wish to place an order for Audio/Video reformatting. If copyright and/or condition restrictions apply, it may not be possible to digitize a requested item. Please note that A/V reformatting is handled by an outside vendor and typically takes 6 to 8 weeks.