Archival & Manuscript Collections

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A collection of Chinese and Polish paper cut opera masks and other items.

Abstract The William S. Huff collection on Louis I. Kahn contains a complete set of drawings for the Tribune Review Publishing Company building in Greensburg, Pennsylvania and drawings for the Margaret Esherick House in Philadelphia. Also included are an extensive collection of newspaper clippings and periodical articles about Kahn, photographs and slides of other buildings designed by Kahn (Salk Institute for Biological Studies, Yale University Art Gallery addition, Yale Center for British Art,...

Abstract The Hochschule für Gestaltung (HfG) material covers the range of the HfG’s fourteen academic years and later accomplishments of many of the school’s faculty and a number of its students. When the HfG abruptly closed in 1968, a number of persons had the presence of mind to box documents and artifacts and to deposit them in a storehouse of the Ulmer Museum, which is part of the Cultural mandate of the City of Ulm, one of three governmental funders of the HfG. Eventually, the City of Ulm...

Abstract This collection contains compilations of first year Department of Architecture architectural design assignments, 1975-1986, and course records, project assignments, and student lists, 1975-1987; sketch model for a wood construction problem and prototype for a toy problem from first year architecture design studio; documentation and slides on all departmental, all day sketch problems, 1980 (William S. Huff, Richard C. Cordts, and Alvaro Malo were principal faculty members); designs...

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Ten (10) Weimar Republic inflation banknotes

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Papers of Jacob D. Hyman, lawyer and Dean of the University of Buffalo Law School, 1953-1964. Includes papers relating to Hyman's activities with the Citizen's Council on Human Relations and related civil rights activities in the Buffalo area.

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Papers of Jacob Hyman as member of various UB and Buffalo committees including Committee on Revision of Buffalo City Charter, Community Welfare Council, and Fact-finding Board. Collection includes documents regarding wage negotiations of Buffalo police; Black Muslim litigation; development of Buffalo Affirmative Action Plan for Amherst Campus Construction; and University governance.

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The Office of Inclusion and Cultural Enhancement's digital newsletter.

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Papers documenting aspects of the Jewish community in Buffalo and Niagara Falls through family and organizational donations.

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Digital copies of the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering's newsletter.

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This collection contains the personal and professional papers of University of Buffalo and University of Buffalo Law School alumnus Felix Infausto (1909-1992).

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Digital copies of The Informed: A Publication of the University at Buffalo’s Department of Information Science (IS).

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Analog and digital records from the Institute for Research and Education on Women and Gender, or Gender Institute.

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Documents relating to the beginnings of the Institute of American Studies in Paris, and the University at Buffalo's involvement in the Institute. Also includes proposals for a doctoral program in Policy Sciences and Center for Comparative European Studies at UB.

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Records of the Office of Institutional Analysis, a unit within the Office of the Provost. Collection includes the University Factbook.

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Statistical data by degree program, school, and faculty providing student headcount and student workload.

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Digital copies of the Department of Physics' newsletter.

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Student records, Master of Art in Humanities, Master of Science in Social Sciences, and Master of Science in Natural Science for the period 1997-2003.

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Records held by former University at Buffalo professor, Anna Kay France, as related to her involvement in the 1st International Women Playwrights Conference (IWPC) held at the University at Buffalo, October 14-23, 1988. Includes correspondence with national and international playwrights, session transcripts, and papers from the International Center for Women Playwrights.

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The Intrepid collection is comprised of the personal correspondence and manuscripts of Allen De Loach, including some material pertaining to the literary scene in Buffalo, as well as the working papers, business records, correspondence, and manuscripts relating to both the complete life of Intrepid (1964-1980) and the publication of The East Side Scene (1968, 1972).

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Five original sketches by J.B. Toomey for the 1920 and 1921 University of Buffalo student yearbook, the Iris, plus the printed versions of four of the sketches. Some sketches dated 1919.

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The Italian Visual Poetry Collection contains material solicited by Robert J. Bertholf, a curator of the Poetry Collection. Material includes correspondence, exhibition announcements, artist catalogs, and art materials ranging from 1967-1991. Formats include correspondence, photographs, mixed media visual art, and other paper formats.

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Dies for stationery and placecards, and samples, of the University at Buffalo seal designed by Ivan Chermayeff, in use from 1967 to 1982.

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Football game programs for the University at Buffalo spanning 1965-1970. A portion of the programs are from opposing teams.

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Professor Bruce Jackson's collection documenting the University of Buffalo campus unrest of 1969 and 1970. Includes minutes, reports, newspapers, student papers on press coverage and community response, WBFO radio reports, television news broadcasts and "UB Disorders" audiotapes.

Abstract Papers of Bruce Jackson, Samuel P. Capen Professor of American Culture and State University of New York Distinguished Professor of English. Included are manuscripts, working copies, drafts, notes, related correspondence, and tape transcripts for three of Jackson's published works: The Negro and His Folklore, Thief's Primer, In the Life; Versions of the Criminal Experience,and Wake Up Dead Man: Hard...

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Materials relating to the life and medical career of Dr. William F. Jacobs. Dr. Jacobs was the first full-time pathologist in Buffalo as well as a graduate in 1908 of the Buffalo School of Medicine and later faulty member. The collection includes birth/death records, correspondences, minutes of the Buffalo Pathological Society, and personal reminiscences.

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The Harry Jacobus collection includes 400 prints of digital art by Jacobus, some of which are manipulations of his paintings and drawings; photographs from San Francisco and travels in Europe and Mexico; a file on the King Ubu Gallery, including photocopied exhibition fliers; correspondence from Jess and other friends and associates; and a digital recording of Robert Duncan's "Foust Foutu" performed at The Six Gallery.

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The Jargon Society Collection features an extensive collection of materials relating to the long and influential life of the press, including numerous manuscripts and correspondence from such American and English poets as Charles Olson and Robert Duncan, production and promotional materials, financial records, and photographs as well as the manuscripts and personal papers of Jonathan Williams.

Abstract Lisa Jarnot is an American poet, scholar, and teacher. She was born in Buffalo, New York, in 1967, and studied at the University at Buffalo, later earning her MFA from Brown University. She has published multiple collections of poetry as well as the definitive biography, Robert Duncan: The Ambassador from Venus (University of California Press). She has also edited magazines and taught at the Naropa Institute, University of Colorado Boulder, Long Island University, and Brooklyn College, as...