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Department of Near Eastern Studies Records, 1933-2017 (inclusive)

Extent:

25 boxes, 4 items, and 1 websites

Abstract:

The Department of Oriental Studies was formed at Princeton University in the spring of 1927 as the Department of Oriental Languages and Literature. It offered an interdisciplinary curriculum centered on the study of the Arabic, Turkish, and Persian languages and the regions in which they were spoken until 1969, when it was reorganized into the separate Departments of Near Eastern Studies and East Asian Studies. The records consist of correspondence, memoranda, printed materials, course syllabi, and other materials which document the activities of the department and it's faculty inside and outside of the classroom.

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

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Shokri K. Swydan Papers, 1894-1940s (inclusive)

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4 boxes and 5.8 linear feet

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Swydan was a Syrian journalist who emigrated to the United States in 1909. He served as secretary of the Russian Imperial Orthodox Society and the United Syrian Christian Association of North America, and founded a business, S. Swydan and Sons, Russian traders, in Worchester, Mass. The collection consists of papers of Swydan, including correspondence (personal and business, some in Russian), family photographs and negatives, framed documents (including several embroidered floral and Arabic pieces), writings, maps, and newspaper clippings.

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

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Arabic Manuscript Leaf on Alchemy, undated

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0.10 linear feet (1 folder)

Abstract:

This is a single undated leaf of paper related to the study of alchemy.

Held at: Science History Institute Archives [Contact Us]

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Elizabeth Dodge Huntington Clarke Collection of Arabic, Persian and Turkish Calligraphy, 1803-1916 (inclusive)

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7 boxes

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Collection of Ottoman Turkish berat (imperial certificates of award or authorization), calligraphy, mottos and tughras.

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

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James Elroy Flecker Collection, 1907-1915 (inclusive)

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1 box and 0.2 linear feet

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Consists of selected correpondence and manuscripts of James Elroy Flecker, the English poet, novelist, and playwright.

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

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William McElwee Miller Collection of Bābī Writings and Other Iranian Texts, 1846-1923 (inclusive)

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47 volumes

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Consists of 47 bound volumes of chiefly Babi texts in Arabic and Persian composed or copied between 1846 and 1923 and purchased by William McElwee Miller, a Presbyterian clergyman and a missionary in Iran from 1919 to 1962.

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

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Hādhā kitāb munyat al-muṣallī Manuscript, [19th century] (inclusive)

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0.1 linear feet (1 volume)

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Held at: Temple University Libraries: Special Collections Research Center [Contact Us]

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Sam Frank photographs of immigrant transit camps, 1950-1952 (inclusive)

Extent:

.15 linear feet (1 box)

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Sam Frank (1920-2007) was a Jewish photographer who documented Israel and its people from the 1950s to the 1970s. This collection consists of 231 black and white photographs taken by the photographer Sam Frank, 28 loose and 203 photographic proofs, dating from 1950 to 1952 in Arabic English, French, German, Hebrew, and Romanian.

Held at: University of Pennsylvania: Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts [Contact Us]

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Henry R. Labouisse Papers, 1785-2004 (inclusive) 1940-1987 (bulk)

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52 boxes and 2 items

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Henry R. Labouisse (1904-1987) was a distinguished American diplomat and international public servant. He served as director of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) from 1954 to 1958 and as executive director of the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) from 1965 to 1979. He also served as a United States government official working on the formation and implementation of foreign economic policies during World War II and the 1960s. Labouisse's papers document his career with the United Nations and with the State Department and include correspondence, speeches and publications, as well as biographical and genealogical material.

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

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Jacques Roumani Research Files on Libya, circa 1910-1990 (inclusive)

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5 linear feet (5 boxes)

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Consists of research files, primarily government records, of scholar and author Jacques Roumani (1944-2016) on Libya during the period of Italian colonization.

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