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Ananda K. Coomaraswamy Papers, 1917-1947 (bulk) 1827-1970 (inclusive)

Extent:
93 boxes
Abstract:
Ananda K. Coomaraswamy was a noted art historian and champion of Ceylonese and Indian culture. This collection covers a broad spectrum of Ananda K. Coomaraswamy's work in the fields of art history, philosophy, religion, and social criticism.

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

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Morgan Family Papers, 1840-1940 (inclusive)

Extent:
80 boxes and 34.5 linear feet
Abstract:
Consists primarily of the correspondence of Josephine Perry Morgan, her husband Junius Spencer Morgan, her daughter Sarah Morgan Gardner, and various other Perry family members. This correspondence concerns mostly family and social matters.

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

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Isaac Plumb, Jr. Family Papers, 1859-1864 (bulk) 1767-1929 (inclusive)

Extent:
8 boxes and 3.0 linear feet
Abstract:
Captain Isaac Plumb, Jr. (1842-1866) served in Company A of the 61st New York Infantry of the Union Army during the Civil War from his enlistment in the fall of 1861 until his death at the Battle of Cold Harbor in 1864, and saw action at Fair Oaks, the Seven Days Battle, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, the Wilderness, and Cold Harbor. During his experience as a Union soldier, Plumb's attitudes towards politics, the War, the North and South, and slavery underwent enormous transformations, from wild patriotism, to bitterness, and finally to a more realistic patriotism. This collection documents the Civil War from the soldier's perspective as well as the home front, detailing the day-to-day life of a Union soldier, with vivid descriptions of camp life, marches, battles, aftermath of battles, upheaval of the ranks, morale issues, and disillusionment; and from the perspective of family and friends not involved in the fighting, but actively offering opinions of...(see more)

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

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Robert H. Taylor Collection of English and American Literature, 1280s-1958 (inclusive) 1800s-1930s (bulk)

Extent:
51 boxes, 229 items, and 13 volumes
Abstract:
The Robert H. Taylor Collection consists of over 4,000 3,300 manuscripts illustrating in their wide range the scope of English literature from the fourteenth century to the 1940s. This finding aid focuses on the modern manuscripts, both bound and unbound, in the collection, which is designated "RTC01" within the Manuscripts Division of the Special Collections Department of the Princeton University Library.

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

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John Frippo Brown Papers, circa 1873-1875 (inclusive)

Extent:
1 box and 0.2 linear feet
Abstract:
Consists of a small collection of materials relating to Seminole chief John Frippo Brown (1842-1919) and his family, including a manuscript notebook, calling card, and five tintype photographs.

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

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Princeton University Library Collection of Mucker Materials, 1840-1877 (inclusive)

Extent:
1 box and 0.25 linear feet
Abstract:
This is an open collection consisting of materials, such as personal letters and religious and commercial records, related to the 19th century Mucker community of southern Brazil. Also included are military records of the war that led to the community's purge in 1874, and a bound manuscript containing theological and everyday reflections of the German-born Georg Klein, who immigrated to southern Brazil in 1853.

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

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Sheldon Jackson Collection of Indian Photographs, circa 1850-1890 (inclusive)

Extent:
3 boxes
Abstract:
Sheldon Jackson was a Presbyterian missionary in the Western United States in the 19th century. This collection consists of three portfolios with 576 photographic prints and 5 photomechanical photogravures of Native Americans and related subjects compiled by Jackson, possibly from negatives in the collections of the Bureau of American Ethnology and by ordering prints from various photographic trade catalogs.

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

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William Courtenay Papers, 1870-1897 (bulk) 1850-1965 (inclusive)

Extent:
1 box
Abstract:
The collection consists of documents, correspondence, photographs, and other papers of William Courtenay (1832-1901), an English settler, veteran of the American Civil War, and frontier businessman who held positions in the United States Department of the Interior as postmaster, clerk, and Indian Agent at Fort Berthold, Dakota Territory, from 1874 to 1882. These materials document conditions at the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation and are of particular interest for their documentation of frontier transactions, corruption and mismanagement within the reservation system, and the relationships between the people of the Three Affiliated Tribes (Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara), the Sioux people, and white settlers.

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

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