Philadelphia Area Archives

Start Over Form Lecture notes. Year 1950 to 1999

Lecture Notes Collection, 1772-1990 (inclusive)

Extent:: 80 boxes
Abstract:: This collection contains over 600 sets of student notes taken from lectures given by members of Princeton's faculty. They represent the broad range of courses taught at Princeton University (known as the College of New Jersey prior to 1896) and include the works of numerous famous faculty and students.

Held at: Princeton University Library: University Archives [Contact Us]

Joseph Coy Green Papers, circa 1907-1977 (inclusive) 1931-1953 (bulk)

Extent:: 41 boxes
Abstract:: Joseph Coy Green (Princeton Class of 1908) served in a number of State Department positions, including his appointment as special representative to the International Institute of Agriculture in Rome (1931), chairman of the Armaments Commission (1944-1946), member of the U.S. Mission to observe the elections in Greece (1946), director of the Foreign Service Board of Examiners, and ambassador to Jordan (1952-1953). Included in this collection are correspondence, journals, scrapbooks, diaries, reports, notes, and printed matter.

Held at: Princeton University Library: Public Policy Papers [Contact Us]

Jacob Viner Papers, 1909-1979 (inclusive) 1930-1960 (bulk)

Extent:: 144 boxes
Abstract:: Jacob Viner (1892-1970) is considered one of the greatest economists of the twentieth century. His career was spent at the University of Chicago and Princeton University, and he also frequently served as an advisor to the United States government. His primary academic interests included international economics, international economic relations, and the history of economic thought, but his investigations ranged across many disciplines. Viner's papers document his scholarship, as well as his government service, and include correspondence, manuscripts, reports, and research materials.

Held at: Princeton University Library: Public Policy Papers [Contact Us]

D. Hugh Peniston, Class of 1941, Papers, 1936-1944 (bulk) 1936-2013 (inclusive)

Extent:: 3 boxes
Abstract:: D. Hugh Peniston graduated from Princeton University in 1941. This collection includes his course notes and coursework along with his letters home during his undergraduate years.

Held at: Princeton University Library: University Archives [Contact Us]

Selected Manuscripts of Rudolf Ladenburg, 1889-1953 (inclusive) 1935-1952 (bulk)

Extent:: 7 boxes and 2.35 linear feet
Abstract:: Rudolf Ladenburg was a German-born scientist who became a nuclear physicist at Princeton University until his retirement in 1950. The collection contains some of Ladenburg's manuscripts, lecture and course notes, and notes on nuclear physics.

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

Kurt Weitzmann Papers, 1930-1991 (inclusive)

Extent:: 60 boxes
Abstract:: Kurt Weitzmann left his native Germany in 1935 for Princeton where he spent the remainder of his life, at the Institute for Advanced Study as a permanent member (1935-1972) and as a professor in Princeton University's Dept. of Art and Archaeology (1945-1972). Included are personal and professional correspondence, related files, course outlines, lectures, manuscripts and notes for various published works, scrapbooks of clippings, and printed matter.

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

N. Howell Furman Papers, 1903-1961 (inclusive)

Extent:: 21 boxes and 22.5 linear feet
Abstract:: N. Howell Furman (Princeton Class of 1913) was a professor of analytical chemistry at Princeton. His collection consists of scholarly papers, correspondence, miscellaneous material relating to the teaching of chemistry at Princeton.

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

Charles Rufus Morey Papers, 1924-1945 (bulk) 1895-1955 (inclusive)

Extent:: 20 boxes, 3 oversize folders, and 22.4 linear feet
Abstract:: American art historian Charles Rufus Morey (1877-1955) served as professor in the Department of Art and Archaeology at Princeton University from 1918-1945 and as chairman from 1924-1945. The collection includes Morey's drafts for catalogues, mainly at the Museo Sacro and Museo Cristiano; photographs; professional papers, lecture and course notes; and drafts, extracts and contents of vertical files.

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

Robert L. Patten Papers, 1961-1996 (inclusive) 1961-1962 (bulk)

Extent:: 1 box
Abstract:: A scholar of nineteenth-century British literature, Robert L. Patten earned an M.A. in 1962 and a Ph.D. in 1965 in the the Department of English at Princeton University. These papers are the files he kept on coursework in the English Department, together with his correspondence with Professor E.D.H. (Dudley) Johnson.

Held at: Princeton University Library: University Archives [Contact Us]

George R. Collins Papers, 1937-1985 (inclusive)

Extent:: 4 boxes and 3.5 linear feet
Abstract:: Consists of notebooks and notes taken by George R. Collins during his years as an undergraduate and graduate student at Princeton (Classes of 1939, 1942) in the fields of art and architecture.

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