Special Collections
The Special Collections Division of the Leonard Lief Library (Room 230) contains such College records as yearbooks, catalogs, newspapers, reports, photographs and memorabilia. Rare and limited editions of books in various disciplines are also housed in the Division's temperature and humidity controlled environment.
Beyond College records, Special Collections also holds the Bronx Institute Archives of: oral history interviews; local history books; maps and atlases; newspapers; photographs, prints, and broadsides. Notable archival collections include the following:
- Black Perspective
- Bronx Regional and Community History Oral Collection
- African American Oral History Project
- Riverdale Neighborhood House Collection
- Papers of Jill Jonnes (South Bronx)
- Fordham Manor Reformed Church Collection*
- Rev. Dr. William A. Tieck Collection (Riverdale, Kingsbridge & Spuyten Duyvil)
- Robert Loeb Collection (parks and forests)
- Bronx Chamber of Commerce Collection*
- Childhood in the Bronx
- Bronx Business for Everybody
- The Joseph Tusiani Collection and Finding Aid
*Microfilmed
For additional information, contact Special Collections Librarian Janet Butler Munch at janet.munch@lehman.cuny.edu
or by calling (718)-960-8603.