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Markos Veremēs Papers, 1908-1970 (inclusive)

Extent:

3 boxes and 1.2 linear feet

Abstract:

Consists of personal papers of Markos Veremēs, a Greek engineer. Included are photograph and postcard albums of Greece, the United States, Chile, Argentina, Brazil, Germany, Austria, Italy, Switzerland, France, England, Turkey, and Romania; lantern slides and glass-plate negatives of Alaska, correspondence (professional and personal), typed manuscripts, official documents, and printed matter.

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

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Ernest Moore Foster Collection, 1905-1907 (bulk) 1905-1926 (inclusive)

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2 boxes and 1.6 linear feet

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Consists of five journals and photograph albums of American West traveler and photographer Ernest Moore Foster.

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

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R. Ridgely Lytle World War I Collection, 1915-1916 (inclusive)

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1 box

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Consists of World War I memorabilia, letters, photographs, and documents collected by R. Ridgely Lytle (Princeton Class of 1913) when he was a delegate in the province of Luxembourg for the Commission for Relief in Belgium and, later, a member of the American ambulance drivers in France.

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

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General John J. Pershing Expedition Photographic Postcard Collection, 1916-1917 (inclusive)

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1 box and 0.2 linear feet

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Photographic scenes of military camp life, soldiers, equipment, and battle scenes, including the identification and disposal of Mexican causalities during General John J. Pershing's Punitive Expedition into Mexico in 1916.

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

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

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2 boxes and 2.42 linear feet

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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).

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

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Sonya Rudikoff Papers, 1935-2000 (inclusive)

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7 boxes and 7.0 linear feet

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Sonya Rudikoff (1927-1997) was a writer, literary critic, and independent scholar, active from the 1950s through the 1990s, who wrote primarily on Victorian literature, feminism, and Virginia Woolf. The papers include Rudikoff's professional and personal correspondence, including five decades of extensive correspondence from second-generation Abstract Expressionist painter Helen Frankenthaler; typescripts of Rudikoff's unpublished fiction and lectures; notebooks, papers, and diaries from her time at Bennington College in the late 1940s; along with a curriculum vitae and bibliography of her work and some related materials.

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

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François Wahl Collection on Severo Sarduy, circa 1939-2013 (inclusive)

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20 boxes and 8.5 linear feet

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The collection contains edited typescripts and copies of Cuban writer Severo Sarduy's poems, essays, and translations, along with writings about Sarduy, interviews, notes, clippings, photographs, and other printed materials. Correspondence includes a group of postcards sent to Severo Sarduy and his partner François Wahl in the 1960s and 1970s from various European and Latin American writers and philosophers, including Roland Barthes, Alain Badiou, Reinaldo Arenas, Octavio Paz, and Jacques Lacan, and additional correspondence of French editor and structuralist François Wahl.

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

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Collection of Blackfeet Nation and Glacier National Park Photographs, 1915

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0.2 linear feet

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This collection consists of 77 silver print photographs by William C. Anderson, a photographer and photojournalist active during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The collection also includes 24 real photo and pictorial postcards, and one convention handbook with photo illustrations provided by Kiser Photo Company.

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

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Levering Cartwright Collection on "Death Valley Scotty", 1939-1973 (inclusive) 1963-1971 (bulk)

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2 boxes and 0.60 linear feet

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Consists of papers of journalist Levering Cartwright (Princeton University Class of 1926) relating to the association of "Death Valley Scotty" (Walter Scott, 1872-1954), an eccentric prospector, Wild West show entertainer, and hoaxer, with his friend and financier, Albert M. Johnson, an insurance company executive.

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Guy Warszawski Correspondence, Postcards, and Ephemera Related to the Collège de 'Pataphysique, 1950-2019 (inclusive) 1970-2019 (bulk)

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0.8 linear feet and 2 boxes

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This collection comprises correspondence, postcards, and ephemera related to the Collège de 'Pataphysique, collected by Guy Warzawski, a Polish-Belgian professor. The Collège de 'Pataphysique was founded in Paris in 1948 and is dedicated to the furtherment of pataphysics, a parodistic "science of imaginary solutions" invented by French symbolist writer Alfred Jarry.

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George C. Fraser Collection, 1886-1935 (inclusive)

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11 boxes

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Consists of twelve diaries (1886-1922) containing typed or hand-written notes, approximately 2,110 photographs, approximately 350 lantern slides, and 100 postcards of Fraser (Princeton University Class of 1893) relating to his trips to the Southern and Southwestern United States and Canada with different family members and one (1886-1889) from several trips as a youth to Europe and the Middle East.

Held at: Princeton University Library: Rare Book Collection [Contact Us]