Repository: Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division / Online Content: Not Available / Form: Correspondence -- 20th century / Year: <span class="from" data-blrl-begin="1880">1880</span> to <span class="to" data-blrl-end="1884">1884</span> - Philadelphia Area Archives Search Results

Chester W. Burton Family Papers, 1850-1910 (bulk) 1809-1956 (inclusive)

Extent:: 8 boxes and 4.0 linear feet
Abstract:: Consists mostly of correspondence along with some financial records, legal documents, such as deeds and land indentures, ephemera, and photographs dating from the 19th and early 20th centuries that relate to Chester W. Burton, a farmer from Chautauqua County, New York, and his family. Among other topics, the collection documents aspects of the Civil War and early settlement and gold mining in the west.

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Norm Flayderman Collection of George E. Albee Materials, circa 1864-2007 (inclusive)

Extent:: 4 boxes and 2.4 linear feet
Abstract:: Consists primarily of United States Army officer George E. Albee's correspondence along with other papers, including a diary documenting his service with the 41st Infantry Regiment during the Indian Wars of 1869, which earned him the Medal of Honor. Some research files on Albee and his antiquean arms collection are also included.

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

Extent:: 94 boxes
Abstract:: 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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Henry Markinfield Addey Papers, 1873-1910 (inclusive)

Extent:: 1 box and .4 linear feet
Abstract:: Henry Markinfield Addey was a London publisher who is known for publishing Gustave Doré in England and for publishing the first English edition of Edgar Allan Poe's complete poems. Consists of family correspondence, memoir drafts, and one scrapbook.

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Bayard Taylor Putnam Family Papers, 1870-1934 (inclusive)

Extent:: 4 boxes and 1.8 linear feet
Abstract:: Bayard Taylor Putnam (1854-1886) was geological surveyor in the Division of Mining Geology for the United States Geological Survey (U.S.G.S.) from the founding of the agency in 1879 to the early 1880s. This collection consists of Putnam's professional papers, including correspondence and field notes, which document his work with the U.S.G.S, specifically his surveys of iron-ore and coal mines for the Tenth U.S. Census. His papers also relate to a patented combined protractor and chart holder that Putnam invented. Other Putnam family members, particularly his wife, Grace Haven Putnam (1855-1900), are also represented.

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Vardaman Collection, 1881-1927 (inclusive)

Extent:: 8 boxes and 4 linear feet
Abstract:: Mansel V. Boyle (1877-1945) was a popular vaudeville performer best known by the stage name Vardaman. Active on the vaudeville circuit from 1901 through 1925, Vardaman was billed as a female impersonator, often appearing on programs as "Vardaman, the Gay Deceiver" or "Vardaman, the Auburn-haired Beauty." The collection consists of papers of Vardaman, including personal and business correspondence, appointment books, route sheets, contracts, scripts, photographic materials, clippings, and playbills, as well as photographs and printed materials documenting other vaudeville, minstrel, and burlesque performers active from the 1880s through the 1920s.

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Selected Papers of David Paton, 1876-1923 (inclusive)

Extent:: 2 boxes and 2.42 linear feet
Abstract:: Consists primarily of letters to Egyptologist David Paton (Princeton Class of 1874) about his four-volume work Early Egyptian Records of Travel: Material for a Historical Geography of Western Asia (1915-1922).

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F. Carrington Weems Papers, 1857-1919 (inclusive) 1906-1913 (bulk)

Extent:: 4 boxes and 2.3 linear feet
Abstract:: Consists of papers of F. Carrington Weems (Princeton Class of 1907) primarily from his student days at Princeton and several years thereafter, during which he traveled in Europe, worked for the Alaska Road Commission, and became an army colonel in World War I.

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Thomas A. Edison Collection, 1880-1925 (inclusive)

Extent:: 1 box and 0.2 linear feet
Abstract:: Consists primarily of correspondence, both original and photocopies, of Thomas A. Edison, the most influential American inventor of the twentieth century.

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James P. Kimball Papers, 1860-1910s (inclusive)

Extent:: 2 boxes and 1.9 linear feet
Abstract:: Consists of a variety of materials, including photographs, correspondence, reports, and ephemera, related to James P. Kimball's life and work as a geologist and engineer around the turn of the 20th century, primarily in the American West.

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