January 27, 1944

Graeff, Susan Prowell, 1890-1967

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Leonard Eugene Graeff

One letter from Susan Prowell Graeff and Raymond James Graeff to Leonard Eugene Graeff dated January 27, 1944.

GLC09611.241.01

January 27, 1944

Graeff, Susan Prowell, 1890-1967

Newspaper clipping

Title: Charles H. Moore

One newspaper clipping dated January 27, 1944. Obituary for Chares H. Moore.

GLC09611.241.02

January 27, 1944

Graeff, Susan Prowell, 1890-1967

Newspaper clipping

Title: F.K Kitzmiller Dies; Pharmacist 50 Years

One newspaper clipping dated January 27, 1944. Obituary for Frank K. Kitzmiller.

GLC09611.241.03

January 27, 1944

Graeff, Leonard Eugene, 1920-2016

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Susan Prowell Graeff and Raymond James Graeff

One letter from Leonard Eugene Graeff to Susan Prowell Graeff and Raymond James Graeff dated January 27, 1944.

GLC09611.242

January 27, 1944

Zell, Edward B., fl. 1943-1945

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Leonard Eugene Graeff

One letter from Eddie Zell to Leonard Eugene Graeff dated January 27, 1944.

GLC09611.243

January 28, 1944

Gassert, Jo, fl. 1943-1945

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Leonard Eugene Graeff

One letter from Jo Gassert to Leonard Eugene Graeff dated January 28, 1944.

GLC09611.244

January 30, 1944

Graeff, Leonard Eugene, 1920-2016

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Susan Prowell Graeff and Raymond James Graeff

One letter from Leonard Eugene Graeff to Susan Prowell Graeff and Raymond James Graeff dated January 30, 1944.

GLC09611.246

January 30, 1944

Graeff, Susan Prowell, 1890-1967

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Leonard Eugene Graeff

One letter from Susan Prowell Graeff and Raymond James Graeff to Leonard Eugene Graeff dated January 30, 1944.

GLC09611.245

January 31, 1944

Gassert, Thomas William, fl. 1943-1945

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Leonard Eugene Graeff

One letter from Thomas William Gassert to Leonard Eugene Graeff dated January 31, 1944.

GLC09611.247

circa October 1945

Goldberg, Mildred, 1923-2008

Typed manuscript

Title: Personal recollections of Mildred Goldberg, secretary to the theoretical group, SAM Laboratories, The Manhattan Project; 1943-1946

Goldberg, a secretary working in the Substitute or Special Alloy Metals (S.A.M.) Laboratory at Columbia University, recalls the people and events that were part of her work experience. Mentions various scientists and other colleagues at the laboratory, including Drs. Richard Present, Francis Bonner, Andre J. De Bethune, Howard Levi and William Nierenberg. Worked under Drs. John Ray Dunning and Irving Kaplan at what Goldberg calls "the Nash building" (a previous automobile showroom on 137th St. and Broadway in New York City). Notes that the entire enterprise was supervised by Dr. Harold…

GLC03152.01

circa August 1945

Kaplan, Irving, 1912-1997

Typed manuscript

Title: Preliminary statement of the Association of Manhattan District Scientists

Typed by Mildred Goldberg, who was working as a secretary for the Substitute or Special Alloy Metals (S.A.M.) Laboratory at Columbia University. Goldberg notes that this manuscript was created "two or three days" after the atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki, Japan (GLC03152.01). Outlines the scientists' responsibility due to their "awareness of the possibilities of energy... it is particularly important for us to indicate the grave danger that lies ahead and the catastrophic results that may eventually follow a wrong decision by the leaders of our government." Discusses problems…

GLC03152.02

circa August 1945

Kaplan, Irving, 1912-1997

Manuscript document

Title: [Draft of the preliminary statement of the Association of Manhattan District Scientists]

Handwritten draft of GLC03152.02. Contains several inserted typed paragraphs. The remainder of the declaration is written in pencil.

GLC03152.03

circa August 1945

Kaplan, Irving, 1912-1997

Manuscript document

Title: Preliminary statement on legislation referring to the future development of atomic energy

Apparently issued by the Association of Manhattan District Scientists in conjunction with GLC03152.03. The Association states, "It has been established beyond doubt that the atomic bomb, because of its tremendous destructive power and the improbability of finding a defense against it, constitutes a grave hazard to the advance of civilization." Urges the United States government to openly declare its intentions in the development of atomic energy. Argues there should be international control of the military aspects of the bomb. Asserts that new legislation is necessary to dictate the study…

GLC03152.04

1 November 1945

Bonner, Francis T., fl. 1942-1946

Autograph manuscript signed

Title: [Newsletter for the Association of Manhattan Project scientists in the New York City area]

Written by Bonner, a Manhattan Project scientist and present-day professor emeritus of chemistry at the State University of New York. He writes as Secretary of the Executive Committee. Introductory note on first page indicates that the association hopes to recruit new members. In the following pages, the Association urges members to write to their Congressmen, asking that the May-Johnson bill "be reported back to the Committee on Military Affairs, and that extensive public hearings be held on all atomic energy legislation" (the May-Johnson bill, proposing governmental and military control…

GLC03152.05

circa 1 November 1945

Bonner, Francis T., fl. 1942-1946

Autograph document signed

Title: [Bonner's notes related to a recent meeting of the Association of Manhattan Project scientists in the New York City area]

Written by Bonner, a Manhattan Project scientist and present-day professor emeritus of chemistry at the State University of New York. At the time this note was written, Bonner was Secretary of the Executive Committee of the Association of Manhattan Project Scientists. Begins with a struck note to Dr. Rosenberg, possibly Lawson Rosenberg, who worked on the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos, New Mexico. The note states: "This is it. Please touch up whatever is necessary, add anything you feel essential. Last [paragraph] is corny- please write another one." Initialed by Bonner, perhaps in…

GLC03152.06

January 31, 1945

Dunning, John Ray, 1907-?

Typed letter

Title: [To staff members of Columbia University, S.A.M. Laboratories, Division 1]

Dunning, a physicist working on the Manhattan Project, tenders his resignation as Director of Division I (at the Nash building, where Columbia University's Substitute or Special Alloy Metals Laboratory was located). Writes, "The work to which we are all giving our best efforts has progressed a great distance since the early days of 1939 and 1940. The loyal cooperation, the brilliant ideas and the sound practical realism which have been welded together in this work have been virtually unparalleled. A miracle of development and production has been wrought." Marked "restricted" with a red…

GLC03152.07

January 1981

Browne, Malcome W., fl. 1959-1981

Newspaper clipping

Title: Harold Urey, scientist, dies at 87; war foe's work led to H-bomb [incomplete]

Written by Browne, a noted journalist, for the New York Times. Contains only the first page of the article. Discusses Urey's achievements, including his receipt of the 1934 Nobel Prize in chemistry for the discovery of heavy hydrogen. Describes how, in 1953, Urey and graduate student Stanley L. Miller conducted a landmark experiment demonstrating that electricity can transform earth's primordial materials (methane, ammonia, hydrogen, and water) into amino acids, "the building blocks of protein."

GLC03152.08

circa 1945

Photograph

Title: [Photograph of scientists involved with the Manhattan Project]

Depicts Drs. Irving Kaplan, Francis Bonner, Ernest O. Lawrence, and [Robert] Harrison together looking at an open volume on the table before them.

GLC03152.09

April 28, 1942 - January 19, 1945

Diamond, Sidney, 1922-1945

Header Record

Title: [Collection of WWII letters of Sidney Diamond to Estelle Spero] [decimalized]

Sidney Diamond (1922-1945) enlisted in mid-April 1942, interrupting the chemical engineering degree that he was undertaking at City College. Diamond was sent to the South Pacific in June 1943, where he served as First Lieutenant to the Eighty-Second Chemical Battalion. On January 29th 1945, Diamond was killed by a Japanese knee mortar while acting as a forward observer during an assault on Fort Stotsenburg, north of Manila. Throughout his time in service, Sidney maintained an epistolary correspondence with Estelle Spero, his sweetheart and subsequently fiancée, the letters from which she…

GLC09120

1940

Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965

Book

Title: Mr. Sumner Welles' Historic Mission to Europe

Collateral to GLC01750.01 P.W. Townshend Somerville letter concerning Welles's mission.

GLC01750.02

25 March 1947

Niemöller, Martin, 1892-1984

Typed letter signed

Title: to Brother Leis

Niemoller writes to Leis that his travels in the US, where he has learned about Church life in America, are coming to an end. He thanks Leis for his prayers and fellowship: "We have been badly in need of this brotherly help and I am sure, we are now, since the situation in Germany as well as in the rest of Europe has become more embarrassing than ever before." Also mentions that he will attend the meeting of Committees of the World Council of Churches in April. Written on stationary of the Inn at Buck Hill Falls, Pennsylvania.

GLC05508.195.02

1945

Henley, Raymond D., fl. 1945-1953

Object

Title: [Medal of honor, Asiatic Pacific campaign]

In original box.

GLC06567.01

1945

Henley, Raymond D., fl. 1945-1953

Object

Title: [Purple heart medal, World War II]

In original case.

GLC06567.03

circa 1945

Henley, Raymond D., fl. 1945-1953

Photograph

Title: [Box of photographs of marines in World War II]

Snapshots and negatives of Raymond D. Henley, a marine in World War II. Includes images of marines in training and at leisure, the devastation of battle areas, the wounded and the dead, Japanese P.O.W's, and some of friends and family.

GLC06567.08

1945

Henley, Raymond D., fl. 1945-1953

Object

Title: [Campaign and service medal World War II]

Victory medal, World War II. Rainbow ribbon with medal depicting allegorical female image of victory. In original box.

GLC06567.02