Form: Correspondence / Year: <span class="from" data-blrl-begin="1920">1920</span> to <span class="to" data-blrl-end="1924">1924</span> - Philadelphia Area Archives Search Results

New York Urban League Correspondence, 1922-1979 (inclusive) 1922-1933 (bulk)

Extent:: 7 boxes
Abstract:: The New York Urban League was founded circa 1913. Its stated goals were to "promote sympathetic understanding between white and colored people" and to improve the economic status of African-Americans through health, housing, and recreation programs as well as an effort to increase the number and the quality of jobs for minorities. The League's motto: "Not alms, but opportunity." This collection is comprised mainly of the correspondence of Arthur C. Holden, president of the N.Y. Urban League from 1922-1931, and a member of the executive board until 1943. It contains general files of the organization's correspondence predominantly spanning the years 1922-1933, with a few items from the years 1968-1979.

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

Selected Papers of Herbert Spencer Murch, 1902-1943 (bulk) 1852-1943 (inclusive)

Extent:: 2 boxes and 1.3 linear feet
Abstract:: Consists of correspondence, photographs, clippings, and a scrapbook of Herbert Spencer Murch, a professor of English at Princeton (1906-1944).

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

Hugh S. Taylor Papers, 1911-1972 (inclusive)

Extent:: 13 boxes and 1 tube
Abstract:: Consists of articles, correspondence, and printed matter of Hugh S.Taylor, chairman of the Princeton Chemistry Department (1926-1951) and dean of the graduate school (1945-1958).

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

Bernardo Canal Feijóo Correspondence, 1922-1981 (inclusive) 1930-1945 (bulk)

Extent:: 1 box and 0.25 linear feet
Abstract:: Bernardo Canal Jeijóo was a lawyer and poet in Argentina during the twentieth century. His correspondence consists of letters with other writers and artists about both the arts and everyday life.

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

Sonja Karsen Papers, 1897-1993 (inclusive) 1950-1973 (bulk)

Extent:: 4 boxes
Abstract:: Sonja Karsen, born in 1919, was a professor of Spanish at Skidmore College and intensively researched Jaime Torres Bodet and Guillermo Valencia, two Latin American politicians and poets. The Sonja Karsen papers contain much of her research on these two figures.

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

Maria Hornor Lansdale Correspondence, 1884-1931 (inclusive) 1900-1928 (bulk)

Extent:: 4 boxes and 1.7 linear feet
Abstract:: Consists of correspondence and miscellanea of the American author Maria Hornor Lansdale (b. 1860).

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

Thomas Jefferson Wertenbaker Papers, 1910-1959 (inclusive)

Extent:: 60 boxes and 25.8 linear feet
Abstract:: Thomas Jefferson Wertenbaker was an American historian who taught at Princeton from 1910 to 1947. He was internationally recognized and wrote a number of important historical works. In 1947, he was president of the American Historical Association. His papers consist of Wertenbaker's works, correspondence, photographs, miscellaneous material, and printed matter.

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

Frank N. Doubleday and Nelson Doubleday Collection, 1734-1966 (inclusive) 1890s-1940s (bulk)

Extent:: 33 boxes, 1 item, and 14 linear feet
Abstract:: Consists primarily of papers of Frank Nelson Doubleday and his son, Nelson, relating to their personal and business relationships with prominent authors and artists published under the Doubleday imprint, such as Joseph Conrad, A. B. Frost, Rudyard Kipling, T. E. Lawrence, and W. Someset Maugham.

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

Sir John Grenfell Maxwell Papers, 1824-1940 (inclusive)

Extent:: 33 boxes and 18 linear feet
Abstract:: General Sir John Maxwell served in Egypt during the British Occupation, notably participating in the Battle at Omdurman during the reconquest of the Sudan, and in South Africa during the Boer War. In World War I Maxwell returned to Egypt to defend the Suez Canal and briefly served in Ireland after the Sinn Fein Rebellion. Consists of Maxwell's diaries, correspondence, documents, photographs, scrapbooks, memorabilia, printed matter and newspaper clippings.

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

Hamilton Cottier Papers, 1752-1977 (inclusive)

Extent:: 17 boxes and 8 linear feet
Abstract:: Consists of correspondence, documents, photographs, account books (1925-1975), financial papers, and printed matter of Hamilton Cottier (Princeton Class of 1922, professor of English, 1925-1962), and material relating to "Southlawn," the home of his father, Alonzo Cottier, in Scarsdale, N.Y.

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

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