Philadelphia Area Archives

Geographical Playbills Collection, 1832-1980 (inclusive) 1925-1965 (bulk)

Extent:: 242 boxes and 105.61 linear feet
Abstract:: The Geographical Playbills Collection consists chiefly of playbills from the United States, but Great Britain, Canada, Bermuda, France, Germany, and Japan are also represented. Although this is a collection of playbills, there are also some letters, documents, printed matter, newspaper clippings, and miscellaneous material.

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

James Stewart Collection, 1936-1959 (inclusive)

Extent:: 3 boxes and 1.2 linear feet
Abstract:: The James Stewart Collection contains seventeen screenplays of films in which starred American actor, Jimmy Stewart (Princeton Class of 1932).

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

T. H. Vail Motter Playbills Collection, 1900-1969 (inclusive) 1913-1959 (bulk)

Extent:: 8 boxes and 5.7 linear feet
Abstract:: The collection consists mainly of playbills of American dramatic productions covering over forty-five years of play-going by T. H. Vail Motter (Princeton Class of 1922) but includes some early 20th-century playbills from the London theater as well as foreign playbills from Greece, Turkey, Belgium, China, Japan, Denmark, Holland, and England.

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

Violette Leduc Manuscripts and Correspondence with Simone de Beauvoir, 1945-1972 (inclusive)

Extent:: 1.6 linear feet and 4 boxes
Abstract:: Consists of nearly 300 letters from Simone de Beauvoir to Violette Leduc documenting their literary friendship spanning four decades, along with 23 notebooks containing manuscript drafts of Leduc's autobiography, La Bâtarde (1964).

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

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.

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

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).

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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