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Historical Photograph Collection: Alumni Photographs series, 1748-1998 (inclusive)

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99 boxes, 1 folder, and 2 items

Abstract:

The Historical Photograph Collection: Alumni Series consists of formal portraits of Princeton University alumni arranged chronologically by class year.

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

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Historical Photograph Collection: Individuals series, 1861-1993 (inclusive)

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139 boxes, 1 folder, and 1 item

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The Historical Photograph Collection: Individuals series consists of photographs of faculty, administration, trustees, staff, students, and notable visitors to Princeton University.

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

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Richard Schechner Papers and The Drama Review Collection, 1960-2007 (bulk) 1943-2012 (inclusive)

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360 boxes and 2 items

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The material in this collection pertains not only to an individual, Richard Schechner, but also to TDR, The Drama Review, a scholarly journal concerned with the broad range of performance in society and in the arts. Schechner, a renowned scholar, director, writer, and educator, edited The Drama Review from 1962-1969 and again from 1986 to the present date. Particularly in the 1960s, and again in the 1990s, both Schechner and TDR challenged traditional, prevailing ideas about theater-what it is, how it should be presented, and the ritual and ideals behind it. Schechner argued for thinking of "performance" as an all-encompassing genre with "theater" as one of its sub-categories. He is widely recognized as the founder of "performance studies" as an academic discipline. In the process of working out what performance studies is, Schechner and his colleagues at New York University created new ideas and new ways of thinking that still affect today's world of performance, theater, dance,...(see more)

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

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Historical Photograph Collection, Class Photographs Series, 1851-1998 (inclusive)

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61 boxes, 1 folder, and 6 items

Abstract:

The collection consists of group portraits and other photos of Princeton University classes. Though some photographs depict the classes while their members were students, the majority of the photographs are from alumni reunions.

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Carl W. Jones Magic Collection, 1870s-1948 (inclusive)

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4 boxes, 122 items, and 1.85 linear feet

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Consists of three scrapbooks of publicity photographs--compiled by C. A. George Newmann and collected by Carl W. Jones--of some 19th- but mainly 20th-century mentalists, magicians, ventriloquists, and illusionists.

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Julia Marlowe Collection, 1909-1950 (inclusive)

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3 boxes and 1.8 linear feet

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Julia Marlowe (1866-1950), who was also known as Sarah Frances Frost, was an American actress and Shakespearean performer. Her collection consists chiefly of letters to Ida Rissland Perscheid. Also included are photographs of both Marlowe and her husband, E. H. Sothern, articles by and about them, memorabilia, and scrapbooks of newspaper clippings.

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

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1 box and 0.2 linear feet

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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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Dwight D. Eisenhower White House photographs, 1950-1960 (inclusive)

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3 boxes

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Consists of White House photographs (1950-1960) that are mainly of President Eisenhower on various public occasions.

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

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Roger Nash Baldwin Papers, 1885-1996 (inclusive) 1911-1981 (bulk)

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33 boxes

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The Roger Nash Baldwin Papers document the life and career of Roger Baldwin (1884-1981), a prominent and active American civil libertarian for almost all of his prodigiously long life. Baldwin is remembered first and foremost as a founder of the American Civil Liberties Union. Many of the papers in this collection document his involvement with the conscientious objection movement that served as the forerunner to the ACLU and with the Union itself. He served as both its executive director from its foundation in 1920 to his retirement in 1950 and as an advisor from that date until his death in 1981. However, Baldwin cast his net much wider than just the ACLU. During the 1920s and 1930s, he was involved with various left-wing political organizations, including the Industrial Workers of the World. Following the end of World War II, he served as an advisor to the U.S. Army and the United Nations in Germany, Austria, Japan, and Korea, guiding the establishment of democracy in those...(see more)

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Gilbert F. Close Papers, 1906-1952 (inclusive) 1918-1919 (bulk)

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4 boxes and 2 items

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During World War I, Gilbert Fairchild Close held several positions in the government of President Woodrow Wilson, culminating with that of Stenographer and Private Secretary to the President. The papers document Close's work with Wilson, including the trip Close took to Europe with Wilson for the Paris Peace Conference at the conclusion of World War I.

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