Creator: Princeton University. Library. Special Collections / Language: English / Year: <span class="single" data-blrl-single="1890">1890</span> - Philadelphia Area Archives Search Results

Robert H. Taylor Collection of English and American Literature, 1280s-1958 (inclusive) 1800s-1930s (bulk)

Extent:: 51 boxes, 229 items, and 13 volumes
Abstract:: The Robert H. Taylor Collection consists of over 4,000 3,300 manuscripts illustrating in their wide range the scope of English literature from the fourteenth century to the 1940s. This finding aid focuses on the modern manuscripts, both bound and unbound, in the collection, which is designated "RTC01" within the Manuscripts Division of the Special Collections Department of the Princeton University Library.

Held at: Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division [Contact Us]

DeWitt Family Collection, 1836-1907 (inclusive)

Extent:: 1 box and 0.2 linear feet
Abstract:: Consists of correspondence and documents of members of the DeWitt family, particularly William Radcliffe DeWitt, a nineteenth-century Pennsylvania clergyman.

Held at: Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division [Contact Us]

Ellis Voting Machine Collection, 1879-1900 (inclusive)

Extent:: 1 box and 0.2 linear feet
Abstract:: Consists of selected material relating to the Ellis Voting Machine developed by W. R. Ellis in California in the 1890s.

Held at: Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division [Contact Us]

Thomas Nast Manuscript Collection, 1860-1922 (inclusive)

Extent:: 1 box and 0.2 linear feet
Abstract:: Consists of selected correspondence of American political cartoonist Thomas Nast. Nast's popular artwork influenced presidential elections in the latter half of the nineteenth century, and the letters in this collection reflect both the professional and personal sides of his life.

Held at: Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division [Contact Us]

Mary Mapes Dodge Collection, 1873-1904 (inclusive)

Extent:: 1 box and 0.2 linear feet
Abstract:: Consists of selected correspondence of Mary Mapes Dodge, the American children's writer.

Held at: Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division [Contact Us]

Madeira-Mamoré Expeditions Collection, 1875-1914 (inclusive)

Extent:: 1 box and 0.2 linear feet
Abstract:: Consists of postcards, photographs, wood engravings, memorabilia, and printed material collected by Robert Hopewell Hepburn relating to expeditions sent down to tropical South America in an attempt by the Brazilian government to construct a railroad along the Madeira River. Robert Hopewell Hepburn, a young engineer with the Pennsylvania Railroad System and a Princeton graduate of the Class of 1871, made the trip in 1878. He son undertook the same effort twenty-nine years later, sending back postcards to his father from Brazil.

Held at: Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division [Contact Us]

Homer Dodge Martin and Elizabeth G. Martin Letters to William Crary Brownell, 1874-1901 (inclusive)

Extent:: 1 box and 0.2 linear feet
Abstract:: Consists of personal letters by the American landscape painter Homer Dodge Martin and his wife, Elizabeth G. Martin, to friend and editor William Crary Brownell and his first wife, Virginia Shields Swinburne.

Held at: Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division [Contact Us]

Princeton University Library Collection of Circus Miscellany, 1837-1982 (inclusive)

Extent:: 17 boxes and 9.1 linear feet
Abstract:: The Miscellaneous Circus Collection consists of subject files on all aspects of the circus: acts, organizations, and specific performers and circuses. Included are photographs, manuscripts, programs, broadsides, posters, scrapbooks, clippings, and other ephemera.

Held at: Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division [Contact Us]

Brigham Young Collection, 1846-1872 (bulk) 1846-1968 (inclusive)

Extent:: 1 box and 0.2 linear feet
Abstract:: Contains selected correspondence of American pioneer and religious leader Brigham Young. Images of this collection are also available online at Digital PUL.

Held at: Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division [Contact Us]

Princeton University Library Collection of Christina Georgina Rossetti Materials, circa 1850-1894 (inclusive)

Extent:: 1 box and 0.4 linear feet
Abstract:: Consists primarily of signed autograph manuscripts--over 50 letters and 19 poems--of Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830-1894), a poet and sister of Dante Gabriel and William Michael Rossetti.

Held at: Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division [Contact Us]

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