Welcome to the Archive of the Columbia Daily Spectator, the newspaper of Columbia University and Morningside Heights and the second-oldest college daily paper in the country. Here, you can now search and browse all issues of the paper published from 1953 to 1992, amounting to nearly 50,000 pages. Our goal is to make available the complete run of the publication from 1877 to the present.
Whenever possible pages were scanned from original paper copies and digitized using state of the art technology that provides full-page, searchable reproductions of articles, photographs, and advertisements. (For articles published in the last 15 years, please search the main Spectator website.)
The goals of the Archive are to provide a public resource for Columbia University history and to preserve the Spectator's past work. It is the result of a partnership between the Spectator and Columbia University Libraries, and funded jointly by the Libraries and through generous gifts from Spectator alumni and friends, especially members of the class of 1958.
If you are interested in republishing Spectator content, please contact the newspaper's sales staff at sales@columbiaspectator.com. If you have comments or questions about the archive, contact Spectator's editors at archives@columbiaspectator.com. Send any problem reports to: ldpd-help@libraries.cul.columbia.edu
The original printed copies of the Columbia Spectator are housed in Columbia University Archives.
