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Valentine Bargmann Papers, 1908-1988 (inclusive) 1937-1979 (bulk)

Extent:
5 boxes and 1.88 linear feet
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The Valentine Bargmann Papers consists of personal and professional correspondence, personal papers, awards, medals, lectures notes, drafts and published writings, and documents pertaining to the Einstein Papers Project. Valentine Bargmann was an assistant to Albert Einstein at the Institute for Advanced Study and later became a Princeton University professor of mathematical physics.

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Arthur M. Greene Collection, 1902-1953 (inclusive)

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4 boxes and 2.7 linear feet
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Consists of works, correspondence, and memorabilia of Princeton School of Engineering dean Arthur M. Greene, as well as papers of others about him.

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Warner Fite Collection, 1906-1928 (inclusive)

Extent:
1 box and 0.2 linear feet
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Collection contains the correspondence of Warner Fite ( a philosophy professor at Princeton University) with other writers, philosophers, professors and publishers.

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Howard Crosby Butler Correspondence, 1917 (inclusive)

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2 boxes and 0.2 linear feet
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Consists of correspondence of Howard Crosby Butler, Princeton professor of the history of architecture, with former students undergoing military training during World War I.

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David N. Rowe Correspondence, 1944-1948 (inclusive)

Extent:
1 box and 0.2 linear feet
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Consists of correspondence between David Nelson Rowe, a professor in Princeton University's School of Public and International Affairs, and five of his Princeton University students who had joined the U.S. Army, Navy, or the Marines, during World War II.

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Eugene Paul Wigner Papers, 1930s-1980s (inclusive) 1940s-1970s (bulk)

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119 boxes and 49.7 linear feet
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Consists of the papers of Hungarian-born, Nobel Prize-winning physicist Eugene Wigner, and includes correspondence, subject files, writings, and offprints reflecting his long career in physics.

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Charles Gillispie Wartime Letters, 1945 (inclusive)

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1 box and 0.2 linear feet
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Consists of thirteen letters from Charles Gillispie (1918-2015) home to his parents, Raymond Livingston Gillispie and Virginia Coulston, while he was stationed with the United States Army in France, Germany, and Austria during the final months of World War II in Europe. His letters, which span from March 9th to August 25th, 1945, are addressed from France, Germany, Austria, Bavaria, and Camp Shelby in Mississippi, and describe the conditions for American soldiers and prisoners of war in Europe, the state of the people and infrastructure in the German and French countryside, and other topics.

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Bernard M. Dwork Papers, 1950-1992 (inclusive)

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10 boxes
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Consists of a chronological series of 101 mathematical notebooks (1958-1997) of Princeton mathematician Bernard M. Dwork.

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Robert Bernard Martin Papers, 1852-1980 (inclusive)

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23 boxes and 9.2 linear feet
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Consists of two distinct groups of papers of author Robert Bernard Martin: material relating to his scholarly research and writings on the English novelist and clergyman Charles Kingsley and manuscripts of eight of Martin's published novels and works of non-fiction.

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Lucius Hopkins Miller Correspondence, 1903-1917 (inclusive)

Extent:
1 box and 0.2 linear feet
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Consists of personal and professional correspondence between Lucius Hopkins Miller (Princeton Class of 1897), a professor in Princeton's Department of Religion, and Princeton colleagues, including Woodrow Wilson, fellow educators at other institutions, and publishers, such as Henry Holt.

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Selected Papers of Ulric Dahlgren, 1864-1936 (inclusive)

Extent:
1 box and 0.4 linear feet
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Consists of writings, correspondence, and subject files of Ulric Dahlgren (Princeton Class of 1894), a professor in Princeton's Department of Biology.

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Henry Norris Russell Papers, 1894-1956 (bulk) 1894-1980 (inclusive)

Extent:
135 boxes and 6 items
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Consists of personal papers of American astronomer Henry Norris Russell (Princeton Class of 1897), including notes kept by Russell as a student at Princeton (1894-1898), lecture notes when a professor at Princeton, and working notes on scientific and military problems.

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Igor Stravinsky Collection, 1964-1967 (inclusive)

Extent:
1 box and 0.2 linear feet
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Consists of correspondence and documents relating to the Princeton commission of Requiem Canticles by Russian composer Igor Stravinsky, considered by many in both the West and his native land to be the most influential composer of 20th-century music.

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John Von Neumann Collection, 1919-1949 (bulk) 1919-1966 (inclusive)

Extent:
1 box and 0.2 linear feet
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Consists of selected letters and a manuscript of John Von Neumann, one of the 20th century's preeminent mathematicians, and an early pioneer in fields such as game theory, nuclear deterrence, and modern computing.

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Cameron Family Papers, 1850-1945 (bulk) 1805-1947 (inclusive)

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83 boxes and 56 linear feet
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The Cameron Family Papers consist primarily of the correspondence and writings of former Princeton University professors Henry Clay Cameron (1827-1906) and his son, A. Guyot Cameron (1864-1947), with some correspondence relating to Henry C. Cameron's wife, Wilhelmina "Mina" Louise Cécile Chollet (1832-1908). There is also a significant amount of Cameron family photographs as well as some documents, printed matter, and ephemera relating to Princeton University. Famed Swiss-American geologist, geographer, and Princeton professor Arnold Henry Guyot (1807-1884), a relative of the Cameron family through marriage, is also represented in the collection through classroom maps, correspondence, a journal, and printed articles and lectures by and about Guyot. Most of the materials in the collection are professional in nature.

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NEUK Collection, 1967-1971 (inclusive)

Extent:
3 boxes and 3.2 linear feet
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Consists of poetry, manuscripts, correspondence, plates, proofs, drawings, promotional material, paste-ups, photographic negatives, and subscription information for seven issues of NEUK, a Princeton student literary magazine, thought to have been published nine times between 1967 and January 1972.

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Henry De Wolf Smyth Papers, 1898-1988 (inclusive)

Extent:
1 box and 0.2 linear feet
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Consists of selected material by and about Henry De Wolf Smyth, the American physicist and diplomat who figured prominently in the development of atomic energy, the Manhattan Project, and the production of the atomic bomb.

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Horton Davies Collection, 1951-1964 (inclusive)

Extent:
1 box and 0.2 linear feet
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This is a collection of correspondence and selected writings of Horton Marlais Davies, a Princeton University professor of religion and author of many books on church history.

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Bliss Perry Collection, 1899-1938 (inclusive)

Extent:
1 box and 0.2 linear feet
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Consists of selected manuscripts and correspondence of Bliss Perry, an American scholar and editor especially noted for his work in American literature.

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Christian Gauss Papers, 1863-1952 (inclusive) 1900-1951 (bulk)

Extent:
94 boxes
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Christian Gauss was one of Woodrow Wilson's original preceptors, the first Class of 1900 Professor of Modern Languages, and the third Dean of the College. The Christian Gauss papers include personal and professional writings, correspondence, photographs, memorabilia, and assorted ephemera and printed matter, as well as numerous documents related to the Gauss family.

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