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Richard Schechner Papers and The Drama Review Collection, 1960-2007 (bulk) 1943-2012 (inclusive)

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360 boxes and 2 items

Abstract:

The material in this collection pertains not only to an individual, Richard Schechner, but also to TDR, The Drama Review, a scholarly journal concerned with the broad range of performance in society and in the arts. Schechner, a renowned scholar, director, writer, and educator, edited The Drama Review from 1962-1969 and again from 1986 to the present date. Particularly in the 1960s, and again in the 1990s, both Schechner and TDR challenged traditional, prevailing ideas about theater-what it is, how it should be presented, and the ritual and ideals behind it. Schechner argued for thinking of "performance" as an all-encompassing genre with "theater" as one of its sub-categories. He is widely recognized as the founder of "performance studies" as an academic discipline. In the process of working out what performance studies is, Schechner and his colleagues at New York University created new ideas and new ways of thinking that still affect today's world of performance, theater, dance,...(see more)

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Princeton University Library Collection of Western Americana Photographs, 1870-1915 (bulk) 1840-1998 (inclusive)

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144 boxes and 123 linear feet

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Consists of a closed collection of more than 5,000 Western Americana photographs, consisting mostly of documentary photographs of the Trans-Mississippi West from the late 1860s to early 1900s, largely from the perspective of white photographers and settlers. Subjects include American Indians (especially studio portraits), natural wonders, cities, towns, buildings, and economic activities (mining, railroads, logging, and agriculture). Some photographs relate to the Indigenous populations of Mexico and Central America. The dimensions, physical formats, and photographic processes of the photographs vary widely.

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Woody Allen Papers, 1955-2012 (inclusive)

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56 boxes, 10 items, and 26.8 linear feet

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This collection contains writings by filmmaker and author Woody Allen. It includes copies of short stories, essays, articles, and the majority of Allen's films, along with original and various drafts of his prose work, plays and screenplays, some of which are either unpublished or unproduced.

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Carl W. Jones Magic Collection, 1870s-1948 (inclusive)

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4 boxes, 122 items, and 1.85 linear feet

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Consists of three scrapbooks of publicity photographs--compiled by C. A. George Newmann and collected by Carl W. Jones--of some 19th- but mainly 20th-century mentalists, magicians, ventriloquists, and illusionists.

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Gipson Family Correspondence, 1911-1970 (inclusive) 1911-1947 (bulk)

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7 boxes and 2.8 linear feet

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Consists primarily of correspondence written by members of the Gipson family of Caldwell, Idaho, as contributions to a family chain letter.

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San Juan Pueblo Records, 1863-1958 (inclusive)

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1 box and 0.4 linear feet

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Consists of photocopies of a Tewa-speaking tribe's documents from the archive of the governor of San Juan Pueblo, New Mexico, including leases, operating accounts, financial statements, contracts, and notices. There are also three open-reel audiotapes containing recordings of songs from the Hopi, San Juan, and Zuni peoples.

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John G. Reynolds Journal, 1837 (inclusive)

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1 box and 0.2 linear feet

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Consists of a journal containing daily notations and copies of correspondence between Reynolds and his military superiors and the U.S. Commissioner of Indian Affairs during an emigration expedition (1837) of Creek Indians.

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Matthew Phipps Shiel Collection, 1892-1946 (inclusive)

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1 box and 0.2 linear feet

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Consists of correspondence of Matthew Phipps Sheil, a prolific British writer of fantasy fiction, with editors, literary agents, publishers, and other authors.

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Caleb Frank Gates Papers, 1919-1932 (inclusive)

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1 box and 0.4 linear feet

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Consists of papers of Caleb Frank Gates dating from part of his tenure as president of Robert College, Istanbul, including the years on leave (1922-1923) that he served as adviser to the United States high commissioner at the peace conference on Near Eastern affairs in Lausanne, Switzerland.

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Theodore Spencer Journals, 1937-1947 (inclusive)

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1 box and 0.4 linear feet

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Consists of personal journals of Theodore Spencer, American poet and essayist, and distinguished Harvard University literature professor.

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Charles Edward Kloeber Letters to Margaret Emerson Bailey, 1917-1920 (inclusive)

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1 box and 0.2 linear feet

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Consists of seventy letters sent by Charles Edward Kloeber to author Margaret Emerson Bailey from different countries where Kloeber was working as a correspondent for the Associated Press of America.

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Voula Papaiōannou photographs collection, 1900-1999 (inclusive)

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1 box and 1 linear foot

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Papaioannou was born in Lamia and grew up in Athens (Greece). She began working as a photographer during the 1930s, concentrating at first on studies of landscapes, monuments and archaeological exhibits. The outbreak of war in 1940 marked a turning point in her career, as she was intensely affected by the suffering of the civilian population of Athens. Realizing the power of her camera to arouse people's conscience, she documented the troops departing for the front, the preparations for the war effort, and the care received by the first casualties. When the capital was in the grip of starvation, she revealed the horrors of war in her moving photographs of emaciated children. After the liberation, as a member of the photographic unit of UNRRA (United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration), she toured the ravaged Greek countryside recording the difficult living conditions faced by its inhabitants. She often exceeded her brief, immortalizing the faces and personal stories of...(see more)

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Notes of James Lawson Norris on Woodrow Wilson Lectures, 1897-1899 (inclusive)

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1 box and 0.2 linear feet

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Consists of six notebooks (1897-1899) of James Lawson Norris (Princeton Class of 1899) containing notes on lectures in jurisprudence, constitutional law, and English common law delivered by Woodrow Wilson in his courses at Princeton.

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Edward Robert Hughes Letters, 1883-1914 (inclusive)

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1 box and 0.2 linear feet

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Consists of approximately 155 letters by English painter Edward Robert Hughes to his friend and patron Mrs. Sydney Morse.

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Einstein in Japan Collection, 1920-1923 (inclusive)

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3 boxes and 3.7 linear feet

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Consists of memorabilia from German physicist Albert Einstein's 1922 trip to Japan.

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Karl Eller photographs collection, 1930-1960 (inclusive)

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1 box and 1 linear foot

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Consists of an open collection of photographs depicting Greek antiquities, portraits, and landscapes by Karl Eller.

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Moses Hadas Photographs of Greece, 1944-1946 (inclusive)

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1 box and 0.2 linear feet

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Consists of photographs (ca. 1944-1946) of Greece and Greek partisans taken by classical scholar Moses Hadas.

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"To Be a Marine" by Henry Aplington, 1986-1989 (inclusive)

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1 box and 0.2 linear feet

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Consists of a typescript of American marine Henry Aplington's unpublished autobiography "To Be a Marine" and two related letters he wrote to Princeton professor Samuel Hynes.

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Edwin Forrest Letters to James Oakes, 1860-1871 (bulk) 1849-1872 (inclusive)

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1 box and 0.2 linear feet

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Consists of 178 letters by American actor Edwin Forrest to his friend James Oakes.

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Richard Hooper Correspondence, 1856-1876 (inclusive)

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1 box and 0.2 linear feet

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Consists primarily of letters by British author and editor Richard Hooper to his publisher, John Russell Smith.

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