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Richard B. Cohen Collection of Francis S. Cockran, Reuben Yocum, and Bills Family Materials, 1845-1907 (inclusive)

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0.2 linear feet and 1 box
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Consists of three groups of 19th century materials that were formerly part of the Richard B. Cohen Civil War Collection. These include thirteen letters to Francis S. Cockran (1814-1886), a Maryland businessman, Navy officer, abolitionist, and Underground Railroad supporter; eight letters, bounty payments, and financial documents related to Reuben Yocum, 3rd Assistant Engineer on the U.S.S. Fort Hindman; and miscellaneous business records and letters related to the family business of John Houston Bills (1800-1871) and Leonidas Bills (1828-1881) in Bolivar, Tennessee.

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

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Princeton University Library Collection of Nikolaos, Prince of Greece, 1872-1936 Materials, 1890

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0.4 linear feet and 1 box
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Consists of correspondence (ALS) with Prince Nikolaos's parents and sister while his was in Petroupoli and several other places; an autograph diary book; and a notebook containing a handwritten text titled "To taxeidi mou eis tēn Rōssian to 1916" (My trip in Russia in 1916).

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

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David Schankler Papers on the Vietnam Antiwar Movement, 1967-2013 (inclusive) 1967-1971 (bulk)

Extent:
.75 linear feet (2 boxes) and 1 digital file (.44 gb)
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Consists of various literature, ephemera, correspondence of, and a video interview with, Princeton alumni and anti-war activist David Schankler '71 concerning the antiwar movement of the period 1967-1971 broadly as well as related events and activities at Princeton University while he was a student.

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

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Robert J. Sommers 1928 Alaska Tour Album and Related Materials, 1921-1972 (inclusive) 1928 (bulk)

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1.75 linear feet and 1 box
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Consists of a photograph album, loose photographs, and clippings belonging to Robert J. Sommers (1881-1972), primarily documenting his work as a highway engineer in Alaska in the late 1920s, as well as some materials related to his personal life and career as a civil engineer and businessman involved in construction. Of note is a photograph album documenting a tour of Alaska made in 1928 by Sommers with Governor George A. Parks and Major Malcolm Elliott.

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

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Bartlett Family Papers, 1776-1859 (inclusive) 1810-1834 (bulk)

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0.2 linear feet and 1 box
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Consists of correspondence, accounts, receipts, and other financial and legal documents related to the settlement of the estate of the Bartlett family of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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

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Christopher Cardozo Collection of Photographs of Native Americans, circa 1862-1910 (inclusive)

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3.2 linear feet and 3 boxes
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Consists of a selected group of over sixty photographs of Native American people collected by Christopher Cardozo (1948-2021), an American art collector, dealer, publisher, and photographer. Mostly taken by white photographers in the mid to late 19th century and around the turn of the 20th century, these photographs depict people from the following Indigenous communities (and likely others that are unidentified): Sioux, Dakota, Chippewa (Ojibwa), Winnebago, Duwamish, Paiute, Ute, Yuma, Mojave, Arapaho, Apache, Gila, Maricopa, Kiowa, Nez Perce, Flathead (Salish), and Comanche.

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

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Johnny Stanton Collection of Siamese Banana Press Records, 1969-1998 (inclusive) 1970-1978 (bulk)

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0.4 linear feet and 1 box
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Consists of records of the Siamese Banana Press assembled by its publisher, Johnny Stanton, which document the role of the press in the history of poetry, underground comics, and mimeograph publishing in New York City in the 1970s, as well as Joe Brainard's work as a book artist.

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

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Iōannēs Despotopoulos Collection of Photographs, circa 1920-1929 (inclusive)

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1 box and 0.4 linear feet
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Consists of a collection of (440) black-and white photographs (six photograph albums and a few loose photographs) of Iōannēs Despotopoulos, a Greek architect, with several family members, friends and colleagues in Athens, Chios, Mytilēnē, Delphi and other places in Greece; Constantinople and Prince island in Turkey; Berlin, Leipzig, and Munich in Germany; buildings in Romania; street scenes in Bulgaria; and Paris. They are mounted and bear handwritten captions in Greek either on the negative or the mount (measure from 1.5 x 3.5 cm to 13 x 18.2 cm.).

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

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Vassilaki Kargopoulo Photographs Collection, circa 1850-1886 (inclusive)

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1 box and 0.4 linear feet
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Collection of photographs by Vassilaki Kargopoulo. Images depict a wide range of sites and subjects in and around Istanbul, including the Princes' Islands in the Sea of Marmara, Adrianople, as well as the greater area of Bosporus. There are also images of traditional professions and costumes. On the reverse of several photographs, there are attached etchings of historical buildings in Istanbul, Turkey.

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

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Romus Broadway Photographs of the Witherspoon-Jackson Community of Princeton, New Jersey, circa 1955-2005 (inclusive) 1970s-2005 (bulk)

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49 linear feet and 24 boxes
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Consists of 90 photograph collage boards, 30,000 photographic negatives, 760 color slides, and several hundred loose photographic prints, comprising Romus Broadway's body of work documenting the history of the Black community in the Witherspoon-Jackson neighborhood of Princeton, New Jersey, from the late 1950s through the early 2000s.

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

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Charles K. Tuckerman Papers, 1812-1929 (inclusive)

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6 boxes
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Consists of the personal papers of Charles K. Tuckerman, the first United States Minister to Greece. Included in the archive is incoming and outgoing correspondence with several military and political officials, authors, and several members of royal families of Europe. There is also a large amount of autographed letters signed from King George I.

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

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Archivo de Alma Concepción, 1939-2021 (inclusive)

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15.0 linear feet ((12 containers))
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El archivo de Alma Concepción consiste principalmente en 43 álbumes de la bailarina, educadora y coreógrafa puertorriqueña Alma Concepción, que contienen fotografías, recortes, programas, cartas, tarjetas postales, folletos, material de difusión y memorabilia. También incluye escritos de Alma Concepción, material de investigación, imágenes digitales, recuerdos, afiches y partituras musicales.

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

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Radio Scripts Collection, 1938-1947 (inclusive)

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36 boxes and 15.40 linear feet
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The Radio Scripts Collection consists of typescripts of scripts for various radio programs such as "The Cavalcade of America" (represented by the most scripts), "The Eternal Light," "Books and Authors," "What's New in Books," "Pepper Young's Family," "The Goldbergs," and others.

Held at: Princeton University Library: Rare Book Collection [Contact Us]

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George H. Hoyt Papers on John Brown, 1859-1893 (inclusive)

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0.2 linear feet and 1 box
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Consists of affidavits, clippings, correspondence, and photographs, mostly related to abolitionist lawyer George H. Hoyt's work as an attorney for John Brown (1800-1859). Materials shed light on the Virginia v. John Brown trial that followed Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry, as well as Hoyt's participation in the American Civil War and abolitionist movements.

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

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J. O. Simmons Papers, 1836-1889 (inclusive)

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2.4 linear feet (3 boxes)
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Consists of correspondence, financial documents (e.g. account books and receipts), ephemera, and legal documents (e.g. permits, contracts, and affidavits) from J. O. Simmons (1821-1890). Simmons worked in a variety of professions in Ohio, Minnesota, Mississippi, Louisiana, and the Dakota Territory, including as a merchant, storekeeper, farmer, attorney, surveyor, county clerk, justice of the peace, and homeopathic doctor. The collection largely documents agricultural and mercantile exchanges on the Mississippi River during and after the American Civil War, the employment of African American and immigrant laborers during the early Reconstruction era, and land dispute issues among white settlers in the Territory of Dakota in the 1870s.

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

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Simone de Beauvoir Letters to Françoise and Hélène de Beauvoir, 1914-1968 (inclusive) 1918-1968 (bulk)

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0.4 linear feet and 1 box
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This collection consists of over 400 letters from French writer, philosopher, and feminist theorist Simone de Beauvoir to her mother, Françoise de Beauvoir, and sister, Hélène de Beauvoir (also referred to as Henriette), dating from October 1918 to December 1968.

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

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Maria Edgeworth Papers, 1799-1852 (inclusive)

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2.0 linear feet and 4 boxes
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Consists primarily of Maria Edgeworth's notebooks and sketchbooks for various literary projects. There is also correspondence between Edgeworth and others, including letters to various publishers concerning the printing of her work, as well as a small amount of miscellaneous material including rent slips, a copy of her poem "Jacob," a copy of a will of a publisher at Baldwin & Craddock, an advertisement for an octavo edition of her work, and a leather carrying case.

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

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John Whelan Luke Papers, 1838-1853 (inclusive)

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0.2 linear feet and 1 box
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Consists of a group of documents and correspondence recording the activities of John Whelan Luke (1815-1896) as a store owner, postmaster, and county treasurer in Waterloo, Missouri, from 1838 to 1841, and as a farmer and trader of enslaved persons in Berryville, Virginia, in the 1840s and 1850s.

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

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William Morris Davis and Elizabeth M. Jacobs Davis Correspondence, 1829-1863 (inclusive)

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2 boxes and 0.6 linear feet
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Consists primarily of correspondence of Quaker abolitionists and husband and wife, William Morris Davis (1815-1891), member of the 37th U.S. Congress, and Elizabeth M. Jacobs Davis (1817-1904) of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, primarily documenting their activities during the antebellum and Civil War periods.

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

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Muzio Pansa Manuscripts, circa 1586-1630 (inclusive)

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2.2 linear feet (in two record center cartons and a half-manuscript box.)
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Consists of twelve mostly unpublished manuscripts from Renaissance scholar, Muzio Pansa. He was a medical doctor and humanist writer from the Abruzzo region in Italy, though he completed his studies in Rome. The works in this collection range from fragments to tomes, and range in subject matter as well; in addition to the lecture notes from his university days are Pansa's unpublished Latin treatise on pharmacology, his pious Italian tragedy, Il mundo redento (published posthumously), writings on theology, and the De osculo, a significant work in the history of Renaissance Neo-Platonism.

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

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United Spanish War Veterans Mrs. Edmund Rice Auxiliary Meeting Records, 1906-1922 (inclusive)

Extent:
1 box and 2.0 linear feet ((1 container))
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Consists of three meeting ledgers documenting the activities of the Mrs. Edmund Rice Auxiliary of the United Spanish War Veterans, an American women's organization run by suffragists and philanthropists that advocated for veterans and their families during the first two decades of the 20th century, including during World War I.

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

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Protestant Churches in Cuba III, 1947-2002 (inclusive)

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8 boxes and 4.5 linear feet
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This microfilm contains materials published or distributed by Protestant organizations in Cuba. Many are published or printed by independent evangelical groups but distributed by various Protestant denominations or individual churches.

Held at: Princeton University Library: Latin American Ephemera [Contact Us]

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Ed Sanders Papers, 1960-2020 (bulk) 1939-2021 (inclusive)

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451 linear feet (397 boxes)
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Consists of drafts, manuscripts, research files, correspondence, artwork, and other related materials of American musician, poet, writer, artist, and activist Ed Sanders.

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

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Immanuel Velikovsky Papers, 1930-1979 (bulk) 1920-1996 (inclusive)

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162 boxes
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The collection consists of manuscripts, writings, correspondence (both personal and professional), photographs, works of others, microfilm, printed material, and film reels, spanning more than 50 years, concerning Velikovsky's controversial ideas, the books that he wrote, and the history of opposition and criticism from the academic community that he received following the publication of his first book, Worlds in Collision, in 1950. Colleges and universities threatened to boycott the textbook division of the publisher, Macmillan & Co., which led to the transfer of the publishing rights to Doubleday & Co., even though the book had reached the number one spot on the best-sellers list. The book was eventually banned from a number of academic institutions, and several people lost their jobs because of it.

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

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Mario Vargas Llosa Papers, 1958-1995 (bulk) 1944-2010 (inclusive)

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230 linear feet, 362 boxes, and 60 items
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The Mario Vargas Llosa Papers consists of notebooks, manuscripts of novels, plays and screenplays, short stories, nonfiction, documents, correspondence, and printed and recorded material.

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

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Sergio Ramírez Papers, 1916-2005 (inclusive) 1963-2002 (bulk)

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2 items and 107.25 linear feet ((187 containers))
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Sergio Ramírez has been a leading Nicaraguan author and politician. In 1977 Ramírez became head of the "Group of Twelve", a group of prominent intellectuals who supported the struggle of the Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional (FSLN) against the dictatorship of Anastasio Somoza Debayle. With the triumph of the Revolution in 1979, he became part of the Junta of the Government of National Reconstruction and in 1984 he was elected vice-president under Daniel Ortega. The collection consists of manuscripts of his writings, source materials, personal, literary and political correspondence, papers and documents related to Ramírez's political career and to Nicaraguan political history, writings of others, photographs, and graphic and printed materials.

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

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Labor in Argentina, 1989-2002 (inclusive)

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599 items and 1 linear feet
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This collection consists of pamphlets, flyers, and some serials issued between 1989 and 2002 by a wide variety of labor organizations in Argentina, including actors guild, state workers, financial sector employees, and industrial laborers; also included are publications from various research and academic centers.

Held at: Princeton University Library: Latin American Ephemera [Contact Us]

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Women in Peru, III, 1986-2003 (inclusive)

Extent:
3 boxes, 3 items, and 1.6 linear feet
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This collection contains pamphlets, articles, declarations, posters, and other miscellaneous items addressing a variety of women's issues in Peru, such as health, violence, labor, prostitution, ethnicity, grass-roots organizing, and political participation.

Held at: Princeton University Library: Latin American Ephemera [Contact Us]

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Politics in Mexico, II, 1968-2008 (inclusive)

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11 boxes and 7.6 linear feet
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This collection of ephemera from Mexico consists of pamphlets, flyers, serials, and election paraphernalia printed between 1968 and 2008, but the bulk of the materials dates from the early 1990s to 2006.

Held at: Princeton University Library: Latin American Ephemera [Contact Us]

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Women in Argentina, VI, 1989-2001 (inclusive)

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269 items and 0.5 linear feet
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This collection consists of pamphlets published between 1989 and 2001 by community and national organizations as well as government agencies covering women-related issues in Argentina.

Held at: Princeton University Library: Latin American Ephemera [Contact Us]

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Indigenous Peoples in Chile, 1970-2002 (inclusive)

Extent:
2 boxes and 0.8 linear feet
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This microfilm consists of pamphlet materials relating to the culture, living conditions, and legal rights of the indigenous peoples of Chile.

Held at: Princeton University Library: Latin American Ephemera [Contact Us]

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Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transvestite Issues in Argentina, 1985-2001 (inclusive)

Extent:
187 items and 1 linear feet
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This film contains materials either published by or targeted towards the gay, lesbian, bisexual, transvestite and transgender population of Argentina. The materials include flyers, pamphlets, posters, and public communications in the form of press releases, letters, and e-mails.

Held at: Princeton University Library: Latin American Ephemera [Contact Us]

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Statistics-Operations Research Series Technical Reports, 1987-1993 (inclusive)

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159 volumes and 1.0 linear feet
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Consists of technical and research reports created by the faculty and staff of the Department of Civil Engineering between 1987 and 1993. These reports are issued as part of the Statistics-Operations Research Series.

Held at: Princeton University Library: Lewis Science and Engineering Library [Contact Us]

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Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Sciences Technical Reports, 1967-1970, 1967-1970 (inclusive)

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3 volumes and 1.0 linear feet
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The technical reports created by the Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Sciences describe results of research on viscoelasticity, micromorphic mechanics and micropolar elasticity. Some reports have also been issued as PhD dissertations. The reports are bound in 3 volumes.

Held at: Princeton University Library: Lewis Science and Engineering Library [Contact Us]

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