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Boarded Hall Estate (Barbados) Plantation Records, 1676-1887 (inclusive) 1712-1845 (bulk)

Extent:

2 boxes and 1.5 linear feet

Abstract:

Consists of eighteenth and nineteeth-century records of Boarded Hall Estate, a slave plantation in Barbados in the West Indies. The material was found on the estate in the 1820s by George Harnage, the son of its last English owner, and annotated by him in subsequent years.

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

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Manuscript Maps Collection, 1700-1900 (inclusive)

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6 boxes and 9.1 linear feet

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Consists of an open collection of manuscript maps. Included is the eastern section of the Mason-Dixon Line drawn by Charles Dixon and Jeremiah Dixon in 1768.

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

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Edith Wharton Manuscripts, 1903-1925 (inclusive)

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1 box and 1 linear feet

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Consists of corrected typescripts of several novels and articles by American novelist Edith Wharton.

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

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Bayard Taylor Putnam Family Papers, 1870-1934 (inclusive)

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4 boxes and 1.8 linear feet

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Bayard Taylor Putnam (1854-1886) was geological surveyor in the Division of Mining Geology for the United States Geological Survey (U.S.G.S.) from the founding of the agency in 1879 to the early 1880s. This collection consists of Putnam's professional papers, including correspondence and field notes, which document his work with the U.S.G.S, specifically his surveys of iron-ore and coal mines for the Tenth U.S. Census. His papers also relate to a patented combined protractor and chart holder that Putnam invented. Other Putnam family members, particularly his wife, Grace Haven Putnam (1855-1900), are also represented.

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

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William Courtenay Papers, 1870-1897 (bulk) 1850-1965 (inclusive)

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1 box

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The collection consists of documents, correspondence, photographs, and other papers of William Courtenay (1832-1901), an English settler, veteran of the American Civil War, and frontier businessman who held positions in the United States Department of the Interior as postmaster, clerk, and Indian Agent at Fort Berthold, Dakota Territory, from 1874 to 1882. These materials document conditions at the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation and are of particular interest for their documentation of frontier transactions, corruption and mismanagement within the reservation system, and the relationships between the people of the Three Affiliated Tribes (Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara), the Sioux people, and white settlers.

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

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Selected Papers of Jonathan Pennington Alward, 1834-1874 (inclusive) 1834-1841 (bulk)

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1 box and 0.4 linear feet

Abstract:

The Jonathan Pennington Alward Collection consists of correspondence and assorted writings of the Basking Ridge, N.J., native Jonathan Pennington Alward—a clergyman, missionary, and graduate of Princeton (Class of 1836)—and his family.

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

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The Rochester Courier Collection, 1850-1903 (inclusive)

Extent:

1 box and 0.20 linear feet

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The Rochester Courier was a weekly, local newspaper published on Friday nights in Rochester, New Hampshire, beginning in 1864. The collection consists of manuscript speeches, articles, editorials, and correspondence from the newspaper, reflecting some of the national issues which dominated American political life leading up to and following the Civil War, including the antislavery movement, the Missouri Compromise, and temperance.

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

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Claude-Henri Dufour Art Course Materials, 1797-1822 (inclusive)

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2 boxes and 1.5 linear feet

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The collection consists of course planning materials, manuscripts for an illustrated treatise on art and design, speech drafts, and drawings of French professional designer and art teacher Claude-Henri Dufour (1766-1845), dating from the period during and following the French Revolution, related to an art course he developed and taught at l'École Centrale d'Allier in the Auvergne region of central France. Dufour's writings depict an ardent republican who promoted the value of design education for artists during the Industrial Revolution and early years of industrial design. Course materials cover elements of design and perspective, anatomy and proportion of the human figure, aesthetics, composition, and ornamental design, as well as touch on architecture and natural history.

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

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Miguel Correa Novels, 1980-1987 (inclusive)

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2 boxes and 0.70 linear feet

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Miguel Correa is an author from Cuba. The collection consists of different manuscript version of two of Correa's novels: Fragmentos del Discurso Humano (2001) and Al Norte de Infierno (1984). There are also some notes for an article in the papers.

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Daniel Chamier Revolutionary War Financial Documents, 1777-1798 (bulk) 1774-1798 (inclusive)

Extent:

2 boxes and 2.0 linear feet

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Consists of financial documents and letters pertaining to the accounts of Daniel Chamier, Commissary General of the British Army in North America from 1774 to 1777, detailing the funds expended for provisioning the British Army at the beginning of the American Revolution.

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