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Anne Buchanan Crosby Collection of Galway Kinnell Letters and Manuscripts, circa 1957-2006 (inclusive) 1957-1995 (bulk)

Extent:: 2 boxes and 0.63 linear feet
Abstract:: Consists of letters from American poet Galway Kinnell (1927-2014) to English artist Anne Buchanan Crosby (b.1929), together with several annotated poetry typescripts and manuscripts authored by Kinnell.

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Renée Weiss Papers, 1939-2006 (inclusive)

Extent:: 3 boxes and 2.42 linear feet
Abstract:: Consists of professional and personal correspondence, travel diaries and related ephemera, notebooks, writings, and files relating to the Quarterly Review of Literature (QRL) of editor and writer Renée Karol Weiss (1923-2021). Some materials relate specifically to Renée's husband, poet and professor Theodore Weiss (1916-2003).

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Uel Merrill Fisk Lectures, 1856-1868 (inclusive)

Extent:: 0.2 linear feet and 1 box
Abstract:: Consists of a series of manuscript lectures by U. M. (Uel Merrill) Fisk, a white Universalist pastor and lecturer on the radical abolitionist lecture circuit in New York and New England in the years leading up to and during the American Civil War. The lectures in the collection from this period argue for the abolition of slavery, and another from the Reconstruction Era advocates for voting rights for Black men.

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Photographs of the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake Aftermath, 1906

Extent:: 0.2 linear feet and 1 box
Abstract:: Consists of a collection of photographs documenting the aftermath of the 1906 earthquake in San Francisco, California, taken by various photographers including Willard Elmer Worden, Charles C. Pierce, Frederick Arthur Webster, A. Blumberg, Shaw and Shaw, and others.

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Benjamin Taylor Collection of Philip Roth Materials, 1987-2014 (bulk) 1951-2017 (inclusive)

Extent:: 6 linear feet and 5 boxes
Abstract:: Consists of a group of writings and speeches, biographical materials, correspondence, photographs, and medical records of American author Philip Roth (1933-2018) collected by his close friend and literary collaborator Benjamin Taylor (1952- ).

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Henry Martin Papers, 1949-2003 (inclusive) 1980s-1990s (bulk)

Extent:: 9 boxes and 1 folder
Abstract:: Consists of scrapbooks of tearsheets and clippings, original artwork in pencil and in pen and ink, correspondence, financial documents, periodicals, permission agreements, and contracts spanning Henry Martin's career as a cartoonist and illustrator.

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Bernard McSherry and Richard Coale Tavern Ledgers, 1784-1791 (inclusive)

Extent:: 1 box and 1.6 linear feet
Abstract:: Consists of two tavern ledgers kept by Bernard (Barney) McSherry (1764-1796) and Richard Coale (1760-1834), brothers-in-law who both operated taverns in Libertytown, Frederick County, Maryland. The ledgers document the sale of liquor and alcoholic drinks, as well as the hosting of games, dinners, shows, and other entertainment. Patrons listed in the ledgers include American Revolutionary War officers Ely Dorsey (1744–1803), Lilburn Williams (1748–1794), and William Lamar (circa 1755-1838), as well as members of the local free African American community.

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Public Works Administration Photographs of the Bonneville Dam Project, 1934-1943 (inclusive)

Extent:: 0.2 linear feet and 1 box
Abstract:: Consists of a collection of seventy-six photographs documenting the construction and installation of power-generating machinery for the Bonneville Dam project in the Columbia River Gorge near Portland, Oregon, beginning in the Great Depression and continuing through World War II.

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Alexandre Dumas Proofs, circa 1874

Extent:: 0.2 linear feet (1 half manuscript box)
Abstract:: Consists of hand-corrected proofs of Alexandre Dumas père's 1854 play, La Jeunesse de Louis XIV, as revised by Alexandre Dumas fils, circa 1874. Written by Dumas père while he was in exile in Belgium, the play was rejected by censors in Paris. Although it was published in the Michel Lévy's edition of Dumas père's Théâtre Complet, the play had only been performed in Brussels, Belgium. This version by Dumas fils contains rewrites, additions, and cuts throughout, and was performed in Paris in 1874.

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Princeton University Library Collection of Simos Menardos Materials, 1884-1965 (inclusive)

Extent:: 0.2 linear feet and 1 box
Abstract:: Consists of autograph manuscript notes, notebooks, correspondence, and a copy of a legal document.

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Anne Fitzgerald Papers, 1982-2021 (inclusive) 2000-2021 (bulk)

Extent:: 9.6 linear feet
Abstract:: Consists of correspondence, drafts of poems, ephemera, and photographs documenting the working career of the Irish poet, Anne Fitzgerald.

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Princeton University Library Collection of Stephanos Stournaras Photographs, circa 1880

Extent:: 1.3 linear feet and 1 box
Abstract:: Consists of an open collection of Stephanos Stournaras photographs of Greece.

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Dhoruba Bin Wahad & Robert Boyle Collection of FBI Files Related to the Black Panther Party, 1966-1999 (bulk 1970-1975) (inclusive)

Extent:: 70 linear feet ((70 boxes))
Abstract:: Dhoruba Bin Wahad is an African American writer and activist, formerly a leader in the Black Panther Party. Robert J. Boyle is a criminal defense attorney in New York City who has worked in appeals and post-conviction motions, and has also been involved in civil rights and police misconduct litigation. The collection consists of approximately 110,000 pages of redacted FBI and NYPD photocopies about the Black Panther Party (BPP) and its top leaders, obtained pursuant to a court order in the legal case Bin Wahad v. FBI, et al.

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Van Coufoudakis Collection of Materials Relating to Cyprus and Greece, 1971-2001 (inclusive)

Extent:: 4 boxes and 1.6 linear feet
Abstract:: Consists of correspondence, writings by others regarding the Cyprus Problem, literature about several organizations, conferences, and seminars. There are also printed material, mostly offprints relating to the

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Jacques Roumani Research Files on Libya, circa 1910-1990 (inclusive)

Extent:: 5 linear feet (5 boxes)
Abstract:: Consists of research files, primarily government records, of scholar and author Jacques Roumani (1944-2016) on Libya during the period of Italian colonization.

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Thomas J. Kofodimos Papers, 1927-1998 (inclusive)

Extent:: 2 boxes and 0.6 linear feet
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson Records, 1917-2012 (inclusive) 1960-2005 (bulk)

Extent:: 403 boxes
Abstract:: Consists of the publishing and administrative records of Weidenfeld & Nicolson, a British publishing company founded by George Weidenfeld (1919-2016) and Nigel Nicolson (1917-2004), which specialized in literary fiction and nonfiction, with an emphasis on history, biographies and memoirs, books by world leaders and political figures, glossy illustrated books, travel guides, and reference books. The collection documents the operations of the firm from its establishment in 1948 through its sale in 1991, and also includes some later records from as recent as 2012 related to its continued operation as an imprint of the Orion Publishing Group.

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William J. Harsha Papers, 1873-1891 (inclusive)

Extent:: 0.6 linear feet (2 boxes)
Abstract:: This collection consists of four volumes of sermons, lecture notes, diary entries, and clippings, as well as correspondence, broadsides, a pamphlet, and a photograph belonging to William J. Harsha (1853-1938), a Presbyterian minister from Illinois who worked in Nebraska, New York, and Colorado, and who was an advocate for Indigenous civil rights.

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Collection of Lantern Slides of Antiquities of Athens, Greece, circa 1901-1910 (inclusive)

Extent:: 1 box
Abstract:: Consists of (27) color and black-and-white lantern slides of Athens, Greece depicting antiquities, architecture, local costumes and everyday life in Athens at the beginning of the 20th century.

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Collection of Blackfeet Nation and Glacier National Park Photographs, 1915

Extent:: 0.2 linear feet
Abstract:: This collection consists of 77 silver print photographs by William C. Anderson, a photographer and photojournalist active during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The collection also includes 24 real photo and pictorial postcards, and one convention handbook with photo illustrations provided by Kiser Photo Company.

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