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Stone Seals Collection, 3000 bce - 500 ad (inclusive)

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18 boxes and 5 items

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Consists of 244 stones used in Mesopotamia and adjacent areas of the ancient Near East from prehistoric times to make impressions in clay, particularly seals on clay tablets and their envelopes.

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Princeton University Art Museum Teaching Materials, Spring/Fall 2025, January 2025

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689 items (flat works)

Abstract:

Consists of approximately 689 flat works from the collections of the Princeton University Art Museum, temporarily transferred to the Princeton University Library for use in Princeton University courses during the 2025 Spring/Fall semesters.

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Princeton University Library Single Item Acquisitions, 1600-2024 (inclusive)

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4.4 linear feet (7 boxes)

Abstract:

Consists of miscellaneous single-item acquisitions that span multiple collecting areas, topics, genres, and time periods.

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Roy Pedersen Collection of Gaston Longchamp Materials, 1894-2024 (inclusive)

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2 boxes and .63 linear feet

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Consists of correspondence, ephemera, and other manuscripts relating to the life of artist Gaston Longchamp. Also includes newspaper articles, handwritten notes, and other materials related to Roy Pedersen's research on Gaston Longchamp and other artists.

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boundary 2 Records, 1962-2023 (inclusive)

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36 linear feet (36 boxes ), 488.1 gb, and 262960 digital files

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Consists of the records of boundary 2 from around the time of its founding in 1972 until 2023. It mostly documents the period of time during the tenure of Paul Bové as editor and Margaret Havran as managing editor.

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Princeton University Library Collection of Robert H. Taylor, 1970s-1980s (bulk) 1900-2023 (inclusive)

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1 linear foot, 3 boxes, and 2 folders

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Consists of drafts of speeches, articles, and other writings; correspondence; obituaries and tributes; photographs; and interviews of Robert H. Taylor, a collector of books and manuscripts of English and American literature.

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Charles Ruas Papers, 1974-1990 (bulk) 1860-2022 (inclusive)

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25 boxes, 21 linear feet, 9.8 gb, and 293 digital files

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Charles Ruas is an American author, interviewer, editor, literary and art critic, and French translator, who served as the Director of the Drama and Literature Department for New York's Pacifica radio station WBAI-FM in the late 1970s and interviewed writers for radio broadcast and print, including Toni Morrison, Michel Foucault, Carlos Fuentes, Eudora Welty, Susan Sontag, Truman Capote, Buckminster Fuller, Andy Warhol, Mario Vargas Llosa, and others. Included are photographs and documents on Allen Ginsberg and William Burroughs, the St. Marks poetry project, and avant-garde artists and performers. The papers include transcripts and audiocassette tapes of Ruas's interviews with authors and artists, as well as typescripts and galleys of work by writers Ruas edited, including Marguerite Young, and some related photographs, notes, recordings, and correspondence. There are also some translations and other writings by Charles Ruas, as well as a collection of family photographs and papers...(see more)

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Edmund Keeley Papers, 1910-2020 (inclusive) 1960-2011 (bulk)

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278 boxes, 12 items, and 134.8 linear feet

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Edmund Keeley (1928-) is an author, translator, and Charles Barnwell Straut Professor Emeritus of English at Princeton University, best known for his translations and writings on Greek poets C. P. Cavafy, George Seferis, Odysseus Elytēs and Giannēs Ritsos. The papers consist of Keeley's drafts and proofs of translations, fiction, and nonfiction, including novels, articles, essays, introductions, reviews, and other writings, as well as for works he edited, along with personal and professional correspondence, faculty material, files of the P.E.N. American Center and other institutions with which he was involved, awards and speeches, biographical materials, family papers, scrapbook and other printed materials, manuscripts of others, and photographs and photograph albums.

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Evelyn Conlon Papers, 1968-2022 (inclusive)

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8.4 linear feet (9 boxes) and 2.33 gb

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A literary archive containing original manuscripts, working drafts, notebooks, corrected proofs, personal and professional correspondence of Evelyn Conlon, member of Aosdána.

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Reina María Rodríguez Papers, 1979-2022 (bulk) 1940-2022 (inclusive)

Extent:

18.0 linear feet ((28 containers))

Abstract:

This collection consists of correspondence, writings (poetry and prose), notebooks, photographs, and printed materials.

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