Repository: Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division / Year: <span class="single" data-blrl-single="1952">1952</span> - Philadelphia Area Archives Search Results

Drake Bros. Studio Photograph Collection, 1863-1969 (inclusive)

Extent:: 5 boxes and 4.5 linear feet
Abstract:: Consists of photographs (and related material) by June D. Drake, which provides a visual record of Silverton, Oregon, and surrounding areas in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

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John Insley Blair Family Papers, 1843-1961 (inclusive) 1891-1910 (bulk)

Extent:: 13 boxes, 1 folder, and 12.5 linear feet
Abstract:: Consists primarily of travel diaries, scrapbooks, and photograph albums composed by railroad industrialist John Insley Blair and his family. There is also a small selection of letters of Clinton Ledyard Blair regarding a fight over Woodrow Wilson's reforms at Princeton University and Blair's relationship with the University's Board of Trustees.

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Eugene O'Neill Collection, 1913-1993 (inclusive) 1913-1944 (bulk)

Extent:: 1 box and 0.45 linear feet
Abstract:: Eugene O'Neill, the celebrated American playwright, was a director of the Provincetown Players and a founder of the Theatre Guild. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Strange Interlude (1928) and, posthumously, for Long Day's Journey Into Night (1956). The collection consists of fifteen manuscripts of O'Neill, most of which are first drafts of plays and include preliminary notes.

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Peter Schwed Correspondence, 1948-1994 (inclusive) 1982 (bulk)

Extent:: 1 box and 0.2 linear feet
Abstract:: Consists of 40 letters by various authors to Peter Schwed on the occasion of his retirement in 1982 as editor, publisher, and vice-president (1945-1982) of Simon and Schuster, Inc. Also present are brief comments on these letters by Schwed and a copy of his self-published Plum to Peter: Letters of P. G. Wodehouse to his Editor Peter Schwed (1996).

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Jackson Mathews Collection of Sylvia Beach, 1921-1965 (inclusive)

Extent:: 1 box, 2 items, and 0.2 linear feet
Abstract:: Consists of letters and other material related to Sylvia Beach (1887-1962), the American proprietress of the Paris bookshop Shakespeare and Company, collected by Jackson Mathews (1907?-1978).

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Princeton University Library Collection of Albert Einstein Materials, 1930-1955 (bulk) 1913-1975 (inclusive)

Extent:: 5 boxes and 3.7 linear feet
Abstract:: Consists of a wide range of miscellaneous material by or about the Nobel Prize-winner and world famous physicist Albert Einstein, including correspondence, manuscripts, photographs, drawings, ephemera, medical records, and printed material.

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R. D. Blackmore Collection, 1630-1956 (inclusive) 1873-1899 (bulk)

Extent:: 1 box and 0.45 linear feet
Abstract:: The collection contains 120 letters, which is mostly personal correspondence, by English novelist and poet R. D. Blackmore.

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New York Urban League Correspondence, 1922-1979 (inclusive) 1922-1933 (bulk)

Extent:: 7 boxes
Abstract:: The New York Urban League was founded circa 1913. Its stated goals were to "promote sympathetic understanding between white and colored people" and to improve the economic status of African-Americans through health, housing, and recreation programs as well as an effort to increase the number and the quality of jobs for minorities. The League's motto: "Not alms, but opportunity." This collection is comprised mainly of the correspondence of Arthur C. Holden, president of the N.Y. Urban League from 1922-1931, and a member of the executive board until 1943. It contains general files of the organization's correspondence predominantly spanning the years 1922-1933, with a few items from the years 1968-1979.

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Hamilton Cottier Papers, 1752-1977 (inclusive)

Extent:: 17 boxes and 8 linear feet
Abstract:: Consists of correspondence, documents, photographs, account books (1925-1975), financial papers, and printed matter of Hamilton Cottier (Princeton Class of 1922, professor of English, 1925-1962), and material relating to "Southlawn," the home of his father, Alonzo Cottier, in Scarsdale, N.Y.

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Eileen B. Simpson Papers, 1979-1991 (bulk) 1941-1991 (inclusive)

Extent:: 3 boxes and 1.2 linear feet
Abstract:: Consists of papers primarily related to Eileen Simpson's book, Poets in their Youth: A Memoir, about her married years with poet John Berryman.

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