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The Lens
"The Lens" was Queens College's first student-run general magazine, including photographs of campus life and brief feature articles. This is the second issue, published in the fall semester of 1939. (Selections - full volume available from Queens…
Testimonial Dinner to Dr. Paul Klapper
A panoramic shot showing the large turnout of a testimonial dinner to Queens College's first president, Dr. Paul Klapper, which took place at the Hotel Astor in Manhattan on October 30, 1937, the year of the college's opening. Dr. Klapper is seated…
Paul Klapper Group Portrait
Queens College's first President Paul Klapper, first row center, poses with others, unidentified. They may be other Queens College faculty or staff.
Study on Freshman and Junior Awareness of Contemporary Affairs
This report addresses the level of awareness of incoming Freshmen and Juniors at Queens College in the year 1940, as determined by a standardized test. The study was conducted as a means of determining how Queens students related to college students…
Letter to Robert Moses
A letter written by Queens College President Paul Klapper to Robert Moses, then-Executive Officer of the 1939-1940 New York World's Fair, regarding potential leftover materials to be donated.
Program of Studies 1937-38
Included in a bound volume of Queens College staff minutes is this course catalog for the first year of the college's operation.
Draft of Paul Klapper Biography
Type- and handwritten pages for a biography entry of Queens College's first president, Paul Klapper, following his death in 1952.
City College of New York Postcard
The front of this postcard reproduces a mosaic of the City College class of 1913, along with professors. Paul Klapper, who became the first President of Queens College, was an instructor and then Dean of Education at City College. His photograph is…
Photograph of Paul Klapper
A photograph of Queens College's first President, Dr. Paul Klapper, dating from around the time of the college's founding.