Form: Scrapbooks. - Philadelphia Area Archives Search Results

Yeandle Collection of Film Star Photographs, 1918-1949 (inclusive) 1932-1947 (bulk)

Extent:: 2 items, 91 volumes, and 13.95 linear feet
Abstract:: consists of scrapbooks of publicity photographs of American motion-picture actors and actresses, mainly of the 1930s and 1940s, collected by Mrs. A. M. Yeandle.

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

S. S. Van Dine Scrapbooks, 1916-1939 (inclusive)

Extent:: 68 volumes and 7.21 linear feet
Abstract:: Educated in California and at Harvard, Willard Huntington Wright became editor of The Smart Set (1913-1914). After suffering a serious illness in 1925, he turned to writing detective novels under the pseudonym of "S. S. Van Dine". His papers consist of scrapbooks reflecting the professional and private life of Van Dine, including articles by and about him (1926-1930), reviews of his books, motion pictures, and radio plays, his literary and art criticism, and miscellaneous and general notes (1926-1937).

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

Chambers Family Papers, 1772-1962 (inclusive)

Extent:: 22 boxes and 9.4 linear feet
Abstract:: Consists of diaries, correspondence, documents, scrapbooks, and printed matter of the Chambers family of Bucks County, Pennsylvania.

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

Sesquicentennial Celebration Records, circa 1887-1993 (inclusive) 1894-1904 (bulk)

Extent:: 17 boxes
Abstract:: The collection consists of materials relating to the three-day Sesquicentennial Celebration in October 1896, at which the College of New Jersey became Princeton University. In addition to ephemera and printed material distributed at the celebration, the collection includes a typescript draft of President Francis Landey Patton's sermon, sesquicentennial memorial books, a published sketchbook, official congratulations from other institutions, and press releases and newspaper clippings reporting the events.

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

Carlos Fuentes Papers, 1830s-2012 (inclusive) 1950-2012 (bulk)

Extent:: 381 boxes and 60 items
Abstract:: The Carlos Fuentes Papers consists of personal and working papers of Fuentes (1928-2012), Mexican author, editor, and diplomat, including notebooks, manuscripts of novels and novellas, short stories, plays, screenplays, nonfiction writings, speeches and interviews, translations of fiction and nonfiction, correspondence, juvenilia, drawings, documents, photographs, audiocassettes, videocassettes, papers of others, scrapbooks, clippings, and printed material.

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

K. Montgomery Ogden Papers, 1899-1938 (inclusive)

Extent:: 3 boxes
Abstract:: Consists of photographs, scrapbooks, memorabilia, and newspaper clippings of Kneass Montgomery Ogden (Princeton Class of 1902). The bulk of the collection relates to his years as bursar of Canton Christian College in China.

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

Bretaigne Windust Collection, 1929-1958 (inclusive)

Extent:: 10 boxes and 6.4 linear feet
Abstract:: Contains records concerning plays directed by Bretaigne Windust (Princeton Class of 1929), mainly for the University Players, of which he was a co-founder.

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

J. Monroe Thorington Collection, 1848-1983 (inclusive) 1920-1964 (bulk)

Extent:: 43 boxes
Abstract:: Consists of works, correspondence, diaries, documents, photographs, maps, scrapbooks, miscellaneous material, and printed matter by and about mountaineer J. Monroe Thorington (Princeton Class of 1915), as well as some papers of other people.

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

Blair and Lee Family Papers, 1640-1946 (inclusive) 1812-1920 (bulk)

Extent:: 474 boxes and 253 linear feet
Abstract:: The collection consists of the personal and family papers of five members of the Blair and Lee families of Maryland, Washington, D.C., and Virginia -- Francis Preston Blair (1791-1876); his daughter, Elizabeth Blair Lee (1818-1906); her husband, Samuel Phillips Lee (1812-1897); their son, Blair Lee (1857-1944, Princeton Class of 1880); and his cousin, Andrew Alexander Blair (1848-1932) -- reflecting their various political, journalistic, naval, family, business, legal, and domestic interests.

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

Arthur Friedman Collection of Programs and Playbills, 1893-1973 (inclusive)

Extent:: 4 boxes, 13 volumes, and 7 linear feet
Abstract:: Arthur Friedman is an American collector in music and theater. His collection consists of bound scrapbooks of opera programs and playbills for theater and concert performances covering eighty years of regular attendance by Friedman in New York City at the Metropolitan Opera House, Carnegie Hall, Town Hall, and various legitimate theaters.

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

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