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Eating Clubs Records, 1874-2010 (inclusive)

Extent:: 53 boxes, 1 folder, and 2 items
Abstract:: The Eating Club Records consist of manuscript and printed material from almost all the clubs. The records of individual eating clubs have been combined with material on Eating Clubs in general. This material includes correspondence, reports, minutes, financial statements, constitutions, and miscellaneous records. Printed material in the records consist of newspaper and magazine clippings, club membership books, and club histories.

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Athletic Programs Collection, 1870-2017 (inclusive)

Extent:: 22 boxes
Abstract:: This collection contains printed athletic programs for football, baseball, basketball, and ice hockey and other sports, with football predominant. The programs, especially the earlier ones, provide a sweeping view of Princeton's athletic history, documenting not only team statistics and scores, but the players, the venues in which the teams competed, social aspects of advertising, and the evolution of the various games.

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Historical Subject Files Collection, 1746-2019 (inclusive)

Extent:: 442 boxes, 21 folders, and 8 items
Abstract:: The Historical Subject Files Collection documents Princeton University history and related topics from 1746 to the present. The collection consists of documents in almost every two-dimensional format: articles, books and booklets, clippings, correspondence, memoranda, non-photographic images, notes, pamphlets, posters, and reports.

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Sherwood Anderson Collection, 1922-1943 (inclusive)

Extent:: 1 box and 0.2 linear feet
Abstract:: Consists of selected correspondence and manuscripts of American fiction writer Sherwood Anderson.

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Katherine Anne Porter Collection, 1940-1945 (inclusive)

Extent:: 1 box and 0.2 linear feet
Abstract:: Consists of selected letters, holograph and typewritten, of Katherine Anne Porter.

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Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh Letters, 1900-1904 (bulk) 1900-1918 (inclusive)

Extent:: 1 box and 0.2 linear feet
Abstract:: Consists primarily of twenty-seven autograph letters by Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh, English critic and essayist, to his English publisher, Edward Arnold.

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Greek-American Community of New York Photographs, 1940s (inclusive)

Extent:: 1 box and 1.5 linear feet
Abstract:: Consists of photographs of the Greek-American community of New York in the 1940s.

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Rose Cecil O'Neill letters to Mr. and Mrs. William Curtis Gibson, 1912-1927 (inclusive)

Extent:: 1 box and 0.2 linear feet
Abstract:: Consists of letters by Rose Cecil O'Neill, the American children's book author and illustrator, and inventor of the Kewpie doll, to her friends William Curtis and Fannie Gibson.

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George Madison Priest Papers, 1917-1941 (inclusive)

Extent:: 9 boxes and 6.5 linear feet
Abstract:: Consists of papers of American literary historian George Madison Priest

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Crispin Family Genealogical Papers, 1939 (inclusive)

Extent:: 1 box and 0.4 linear feet
Abstract:: Consists of transcripts of books and notes of genealogical interest to the Crispin family, dating back to their 11th-century French ancestors.

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Ingersoll Family Collection, 1797-1865 (bulk) 1797-1954 (inclusive)

Extent:: 1 box and 0.2 linear feet
Abstract:: Consists chiefly of letters of the Constitution signer and Philadelphia lawyer Jared Ingersoll to his son Charles while he was a student at the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University).

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Princeton University Library Collection of Kōstas Zēmerēs Photographs, 1900-1999 (inclusive)

Extent:: 1 box and 1.7 linear feet
Abstract:: Kostas Zēmerēs was born in 1886 in Katēchōri Pelion. He studied at the Commercial School of Volos, where he took his first lessons from the painter Iōannēs Poulakas. In 1904 he went to the United States where he worked in photo labs collaborating with painters and photographers. There he had the opportunity to study at the Art Institute of Saint Louis. He returned to Greece in 1912 where he was recruited during the Balkan Wars. Later, after the World War I, he remained in Athens working with great photographers, such as George Bouka and Nelly's. Finally he returned to Volos where he worked as a professional photographer and painter. He participated in many exhibitions in Greece and abroad, such as in Calais (France) in 1925 and Liverpoool (England) in 1926. He received the gold medal at the International Exhibition of Thessalonikē (Greece) in 1932 and 1936. Zēmerēs gave us the unique photographs of the painter Theophilos Chatzēmichaēl. He died at the age of 96. Consists of an open...(see more)

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Charles Edward Kloeber Letters to Margaret Emerson Bailey, 1917-1920 (inclusive)

Extent:: 1 box and 0.2 linear feet
Abstract:: Consists of seventy letters sent by Charles Edward Kloeber to author Margaret Emerson Bailey from different countries where Kloeber was working as a correspondent for the Associated Press of America.

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Voula Papaiōannou photographs collection, 1900-1999 (inclusive)

Extent:: 1 box and 1 linear foot
Abstract:: Papaioannou was born in Lamia and grew up in Athens (Greece). She began working as a photographer during the 1930s, concentrating at first on studies of landscapes, monuments and archaeological exhibits. The outbreak of war in 1940 marked a turning point in her career, as she was intensely affected by the suffering of the civilian population of Athens. Realizing the power of her camera to arouse people's conscience, she documented the troops departing for the front, the preparations for the war effort, and the care received by the first casualties. When the capital was in the grip of starvation, she revealed the horrors of war in her moving photographs of emaciated children. After the liberation, as a member of the photographic unit of UNRRA (United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration), she toured the ravaged Greek countryside recording the difficult living conditions faced by its inhabitants. She often exceeded her brief, immortalizing the faces and personal stories of...(see more)

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Violet Hunt Collection, 1890-1939 (inclusive)

Extent:: 1 box and 0.2 linear feet
Abstract:: Consists of selected correspondence of Violet Hunt, the British author and biographer.

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British Military Mission to Greece Operational Intelligence Files, 1948-1949 (inclusive)

Extent:: 1 box and 0.2 linear feet
Abstract:: Consists of summary reports (1948-1949) of operational intelligence of the British military mission to Greece during the Greek Civil War (1944-1949).

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Claude Fayette Bragdon Collection, 1899-1946 (inclusive)

Extent:: 1 box and 0.2 linear feet
Abstract:: Consists of correspondence of the American architect and author Claude Fayette Bragdon, as well as related printed material.

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George Russell Brown Family Collection, 1865-1932 (inclusive)

Extent:: 1 box and 0.2 linear feet
Abstract:: Consists primarily of documents and newspaper clippings about Civil War veteran George Russell Brown and college essays of his son, Princeton student George Russell Brown, Jr.

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Alumni and Faculty Offprint Collection, circa 1800-1997 (inclusive) 1915-1955 (bulk)

Extent:: 54 boxes and 42 folders
Abstract:: This collection consists of offprints of articles written by Princeton alumni and faculty; however, in some instances the articles are written about an individual alumni or faculty member. The offprints generally consist of journals, published articles, speeches, lectures, sermons, memorials, and articles from scientific journals and magazines.

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Princeton University Library Collection of Western Americana Photographs, 1870-1915 (bulk) 1840-1998 (inclusive)

Extent:: 144 boxes and 123 linear feet
Abstract:: Consists of a closed collection of more than 5,000 Western Americana photographs, consisting mostly of documentary photographs of the Trans-Mississippi West from the late 1860s to early 1900s, largely from the perspective of white photographers and settlers. Subjects include American Indians (especially studio portraits), natural wonders, cities, towns, buildings, and economic activities (mining, railroads, logging, and agriculture). Some photographs relate to the Indigenous populations of Mexico and Central America. The dimensions, physical formats, and photographic processes of the photographs vary widely.

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