Year: <span class="single" data-blrl-single="1874">1874</span> - Philadelphia Area Archives Search Results

Noël Riley Fitch Papers, 1858-2018 (inclusive) 1965-1995 (bulk)

Extent:: 41 boxes, 2 items, and 19.4 linear feet
Abstract:: Consists of the writings, correspondence, interviews, printed works, and other additional papers of the American educator and author Noël Riley Fitch (1937- ). Also included are a selection of Sylvia Beach papers that Fitch consulted for her book Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation: A History of Literary Paris in the Twenties and Thirties (1983).

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

William L. Dayton Papers, 1791-1897 (inclusive) 1861-1864 (bulk)

Extent:: 6 boxes
Abstract:: William Lewis Dayton, Princeton Class of 1825, served as U.S. senator (1841-1850) and U.S. minister to France (1861-1864). His papers are largely from his years in France and consist of diplomatic dispatches, legation accounts, personal correspondence, documents pertaining to household affairs in Paris (insurance policies, leases, etc.), and material relating to his sudden death. Also included is a box of correspondence to and from his son, William Lewis Dayton Jr., Princeton Class of 1858, along with other papers concerning other members of the family.

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

New Jersey Miscellaneous Collection, 1671-1956 (inclusive)

Extent:: 9 boxes and 5.6 linear feet
Abstract:: Consists of a collection of miscellaneous legal and financial documents, correspondence, and other manuscript materials, assembled from various sources, that relate to New Jersey history or inhabitants of New Jersey from the late 17th century through the mid 20th century.

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

Wilkinson Collection of Mary Mapes Dodge, 1703-1955 (inclusive) 1869-1900 (bulk)

Extent:: 8 boxes and 2.70 linear feet
Abstract:: Mary Mapes Dodge was an author and editor of St. Nicholas magazine. This collection consists of manuscripts and correspondence concerning St. Nicholas, and correspondence, documents, photographs, and memorabilia relating to the Dodge family.

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

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

Extent:: 144 boxes and 123 linear feet
Abstract:: 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.

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

Edward and Maude Ottley Collection of W. E. Gladstone Correspondence, 1841-1908 (inclusive)

Extent:: 2 boxes and 0.8 linear feet
Abstract:: This collection consists of correspondence of Gladstone (and related persons) collected by Edward and Maude Ottley. In addition to letters by prominent government officials and statesmen, a number of literary and artistic figures are represented, including Robert Browning, Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones, Samuel Langhorne Clemens ("Mark Twain"), Charles Lutwidge Dodgson ("Lewis Carroll"), Kate Greenaway, Joseph Joachim, Andrew Lang, James Russell Lowell, Robert Bulwer Lytton, George MacDonald, Sir John Everett Millais, Anne Thackeray Ritchie, John Ruskin, George Augustus Sala, Anthony Trollope, Mrs. Humphry Ward, and Charlotte M. Yonge.

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

Winans Collection of New Jersey Documents, 1703-1883 (inclusive)

Extent:: 2 boxes and 0.8 linear feet
Abstract:: Consists of almost 200 eighteenth-century documents, mostly deeds to land, relating to several towns in Essex County, New Jersey, particularly Westfield, collected by Samuel Ross Winans (Princeton Class of 1874).

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

Henry Van Dyke Family Papers, 1694-1963 (inclusive) 1840-1950s (bulk)

Extent:: 179 boxes and 75.9 linear feet
Abstract:: The Henry Van Dyke Family Papers consists of papers of three generations of the prominent Van Dyke family of New York and Princeton, beginning with Henry Jackson Van Dyke (1822-1891) and his wife, Henrietta [Ashmead] Van Dyke (1820-1893), followed by their children, Henry Van Dyke (1852-1933) and Paul Van Dyke (1859-1933), and ending with Henry van Dyke's son Tertius Van Dyke (1886-1958).

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

Delafield Family Papers, 1393-1985 (inclusive) 1800-1950 (bulk)

Extent:: 164 boxes, 1 oversize folder, and 70 linear feet
Abstract:: The Delafields were avid collectors of family history and family-related memorabilia in the Hudson River Valley region of New York state. This collection consists of the papers of the Delafield family and related families, most prominently the Livingstons, containing both personal papers and papers collected for their genealogical and historical significance.

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

Allan Marquand Papers, 1858-1951 (inclusive) 1878-1950 (bulk)

Extent:: 54 boxes and 27.2 linear feet
Abstract:: Consists of the papers of Allan Marquand, Princeton art professor, founder of the University's Department of Art and Archaeology, and first director of its Art Museum.

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

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