- Meyer Schapiro Collection158
- Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation Archives: Taliesin Festival of Music & Dance Audio Recordings157
- International Institute of Rural Reconstruction Records156
- Spanish children's drawings of the Civil War collection154
- Union Theological Seminary Records146
- Columbia Armenian Oral History Archive139
- Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture records139
- Research Center for Arts and Culture Oral History Collection137
- Hebrew Manuscripts (Columbia University Libraries)135
- Popular arts project131
- Allard K. Lowenstein project129
- Frances Perkins Papers128
- X Manuscripts125
- Albert Field Collection of Playing Cards123
- Joan Konner Papers122
- Wan-go H.C. Weng film collection121
- Social security project117
- Barney Rosset papers116
- Ditson Fund Recordings Archive116
- Mark Tucker Papers114
- Cuban Voices oral history collection110
- Argentina project99
- Christian evangelistic and religious education posters and Christian scrolls and Bible verses99
- Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation Archives: Saturday Evening Concert audio recordings97
- Eda Rothstein Rapoport Papers94
- Black Journalists oral history collection93
- Adlai E. Stevenson project92
- George Arthur Plimpton Library92
- Sesto libro d'architettura90
- Soiuz Pazhei Records88
- Theological audiocassette collection88
- Aviation project85
- Addicts Who Survived oral history collection79
- Student movements of the 1960s project79
- Sheila Michaels civil rights organization oral history collection78
- United Nations intellectual history project (UNIHP)78
- Carnegie Corporation project. Part 176
- Carnegie Corporation project. Part 275
- Physicians and Aids oral history collection75
- Spencer Foundation project75
- Marine Corps project74
- Oscar Newman papers74
- Portrait of a City oral history collection74
- Edgar Tafel Architectural Records and Papers73
- Bennington Summer School of the Dance project71
- Jeffrey H. Brodsky oral history collection71
- Mercury Theatre/Theatre Union project68
- Radio Liberty project68
- Thomas de Waal Interviews66
- Italian Jewish Community Regulations64
- Maryse Condé Papers64
- Radio pioneers project64
- Diana Trilling oral history collection63
- Washington Press Club women in journalism oral history collection62
- Lev Loseff Papers61
- Hemophilia oral history collection59
- Robert Rauschenberg Foundation oral history collection59
- Bill Weinberg sound recordings58
- Carlyle family photograph album. Volume 758
- Edward I. Koch administration oral history project55