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Alfonso Ortiz Papers, 1823-1997 (inclusive) 1960s-1997 (bulk)

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93 boxes and 93 linear feet

Abstract:

Consists of the professional papers of Tewa Pueblo anthropologist, educator, and activist Alfonso Ortiz (1939-1997), including correspondence, working and research files, materials related to organizations with which he was affiliated, most notably the Association on American Indian Affairs (AAIA).

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

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"Photographs of North American Indians" Albums, circa 1840-1879 (inclusive)

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10 boxes and 13.0 linear feet

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Consists of two disbound photograph albums containing 1,025 mounted albumen photographs of various Indigenous peoples of North America, including portraits of delegates to Washington, D.C.; expedition photographs; and early Western studio portraits by American photographers. Most of the photographs in the albums are described in the Numerical Index of William Henry Jackson's Descriptive Catalogue of the Photographs of North American Indians (1877), which is pasted to the albums.

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

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L. Ashton Sly Collection of Musical Scores, 1922-1958 (inclusive)

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8 boxes

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The L. Ashton Sly Collection of Musical Scores is a 137 volume collection of vocal scores and/or libretti for one hundred twenty-three musical comedies, comic operas, and operettas, including twenty-eight full production promptbooks. These are arranged alphabetically by title and housed in 8 record center cartons.

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

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Virginia Card Papers, 1893-2002 (inclusive)

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17 boxes and 7.1 linear feet

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Virginia Card is a Native American of Delaware and Creek descent. Consists of correspondence, writings, subject files, photographs, and audio-visual material. The collection is especially noteworthy for Virginia Card's extensive documentation of the activities of Native American communities in California.

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

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Herbert S. Auerbach Collection on Mormons and Native Americans of the American West, 1808-1935 (inclusive)

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12 boxes

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Consists of copies of letters, documents, stories, newspaper articles, reports, tables, artifacts, and extracts relating to Mormons and Native Americans of the American West collected by businessman and state congressman Herbert S. Auerbach.

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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Raymond Mortimer Letters to Edward Sackville-West, 1925-1963 (inclusive)

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1 box and 0.2 linear feet

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Consists of 73 letters (1925-1961) by English author and literary critic Raymond Mortimer to his life-long friend Edward Sackville-West, both members of the "Bloomsbury Group."

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

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Richard Le Gallienne Letters, 1890-1900 (inclusive)

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1 box and 0.2 linear feet

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Consists of letters of Richard Le Gallienne, who was a British poet, essayist, and literary critic. A member of the Oscar Wilde circle, Le Gallienne contributed to the illustrated quarterly magazine The Yellow Book that is associated with Aubrey Beardsley, Max Beerbohm, and Ernest Dowson.

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

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Indians of Chiapas, Mexico, Film Negatives Collection, 1946-1964 (inclusive)

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4 boxes

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Consists of 14 negatives (8x10 inches) of the Lacandón Maya by Giles G. Healey made at the same time he discovered the Maya murals at Bonampak while on assignment from The United Fruit Company in 1946, and approximately 1,500 negatives (120 format, 6 centimeters) of the Tzeltal and Lacandón Maya of the Chiapas Highlands taken by Ralph Hilt from approximately 1960 to 1964.

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

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Norman C. Pierce Papers, 1920-1975 (inclusive)

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16 boxes and 7.2 linear feet

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Consists of papers of Norman C. Pierce, an American Mormon author, including personal correspondence, financial papers, a photograph album of a trip to Germany in 1927, family photographs, clippings, travel memorabilia and notes, articles (by others), and printed matter relating to Mormonism in Utah.

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