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Clarence Brown Papers, 1907-2005 (inclusive)

Extent:

5 boxes and 2.0 linear feet

Abstract:

Consists primarily of correspondence, travel diaries, and photographs of former Princeton University comparative literature professor Clarence Brown (1929-2015) relating primarily to his scholarship on Russian writers Osip Emilyevich Mandelstam (1891-1938) and Nadezhda Mandelstam (1899-1980). Correspondence with writer and illustrator Guy Davenport as well as with poet W. S. Merwin, Princeton Class of 1948, is also included.

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

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John Miller Papers, 1841-1917 (inclusive)

Extent:

6 boxes and 4 linear feet

Abstract:

Consists of works, correspondence, a diary (1851), financial papers, biographical material, a bibliography, and printed matter of American Presbyterian clergyman and Confederate chaplain John Miller (Princeton Class of 1836).

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

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Charles Greene Rockwood Collection on Earthquakes, 1872-1907 (inclusive)

Extent:

6 boxes and 3.25 linear feet

Abstract:

Charles Greene Rockwood was a professor of mathematics from 1877 to 1905 at Princeton Unviersity, and had many interests in seismology and general scientific study. Consists of scrapbooks of newspaper clippings, letters, notes, and printed matter compiled by Charles Greene Rockwood, relating to earthquakes, tidal waves, volcanos, and unusual astronomical occurrences.

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

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Mirhan Iranyan Photographs Collection, circa 1880 (inclusive)

Extent:

1 box and 0.85 linear feet

Abstract:

This is an open collection of photographs by Mirhan Iranyan. Currently, there are 73 photographs of Constantinople [Istanbul], Turkey.

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

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Princeton University Library Collection of John Davidson Materials, 1879-1945 (inclusive) 1890-1909 (bulk)

Extent:

4 boxes and 1.4 linear feet

Abstract:

John Davidson was a late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Scottish poet hailed for his provincial, melancholy body of work. This collection contains letters, manuscripts, reports, galley proofs with Davidson's holograph corrections, documents, and clippings pertaining to his literary career.

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

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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.

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

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Georges Braive World War I Photographs of the Macedonian Front, 1917-1918 (inclusive)

Extent:

3 boxes and 1.2 linear feet

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Consists of over 1,000 military and ethnographic photographs of the Macedonian Front of World War I taken by French architect Georges Braive (1884-1963) during his service as a lieutenant commander of the Armée d'Orient's "Section sanitaire automobile 27."

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

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Edwin H. Denby Papers, 1823-1942 (inclusive) 1900-1939 (bulk)

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7 boxes and 5.13 linear feet

Abstract:

Consists of drawings, correspondence, photographs, documents, a genealogy, financial papers, and printed matter of Edwin H. Denby.

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

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Princeton University Library Collection of F. Jay Haynes Photographs, 1877-1880s (inclusive)

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4 boxes and 3.2 linear feet

Abstract:

Consists of an assembled collection of photographs by Yellowstone National Park and Northern Pacific Railway photographer F. Jay Haynes (1853-1921), mostly from the late 1870s and 1880s, including albums of albumen prints of various Yellowstone National Park sites and scenes along the Columbia River in Oregon, as well as stereograph views of Yellowstone National Park, wheat farmers in the Dakota Territory, and locations along the route of the Northern Pacific Railway.

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

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Coventry Patmore Collection, 1803-1935 (inclusive) 1823-1896 (bulk)

Extent:

2 boxes and 0.8 linear feet

Abstract:

Consists primarily of some 200 letters written to and by English poet and critic Coventry Patmore.

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