Project by Safi El-Gamal
In exploring the tunnels under Columbia University’s campus, we can pair its history through Butler Library’s own narratives of the region with the tunnels’ physical layout. In doing so, we understand the constructed narrative of the tunnels through Columbia’s own manuscripts, from their use in transporting patients at Buell, for the transport of radioactive material in the Manhattan project, air raid shelters in World War II, but also their use by student protesters throughout the past century.
