Institution: New York City College of Technology, CUNY
Event Title: Open House: Archives and Special Collections @ NYCCT
Date and Time: Thursday, October 16, 2025; 3:00 PM to 4:00 PM
Event Type: In-Person Open House
Location: Archives and Special Collections of the Ursula C. Schwerin Library, New York City College of Technology, 300 Jay Street, Library Building L543C, Brooklyn, NY 11201
Registration Link: https://citytech-cuny.libwizard.com/f/archivesweek2025
Event Description: Please join the NYCCT team for an open house. The Archives is home to historical materials from City Tech's precursors: the New York Trade School, Voorhees Technical Institute, and the New York City Community College. Materials include: student records, administrative memos, correspondence, yearbooks, photographs, videocassettes, ephemera, and realia.
The Archives also contains two special collections, the Vogel Ophthalmology Collection and the City Tech Science Fiction Collection. The Vogel Collection of rare ophthalmic textbooks are from the estate of the late Irwin Vogel. Mr. Vogel was an adjunct lecturer at NYCCT before becoming the program director at Cañada College in California. Irwin Vogel is credited with an optical formula still in use in opticianry.
The City Tech Science Fiction Collection contains over 600-linear-feet of near-complete runs of the major science fiction magazines, and an extensive holding of science fiction anthologies, novels, and scholarship. Additionally, there are significant selections of fringe texts, including mystery, horror, and the supernatural.
We will gather for 1 hour and cap registrants at 20. Please use the registration link to RSVP.
Note: ID will be required to check in at the security desk.
