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This is a finding aid. It is a description of archival material held at the Princeton University Library: University Archives. Unless otherwise noted, the materials described below are physically available in their reading room, and not digitally available through the web.
Overview and metadata sections
The scrapbook collection consists of scrapbooks maintained by students. It documents the social and academic activities of Princeton undergraduates. By their very nature, scrapbooks are idiosyncratic, but generally they contain mementos relating to athletic events (such as tickets, programs, printed cheers, ribbons, and buttons), reunions, or life as a Princeton undergraduate. Items in this last category include senior questionnaires, exam questions, admission materials, posters, ephemera from social organizations and clubs, postcards, flyers, photographs, and letters. Frequently newspaper clippings, orchestra, opera, or play programs and tickets, pressed flowers, or three-dimensional items are found. Some scrapbooks include materials about Princeton University added after the individual graduated.
These scrapbooks, individually and in total, provide insight into undergraduate life at Princeton, as they document what students valued enough to preserve. Also, the social history of the college is revealed as mementos of the full range of student life and the importance of athletics, drama, musical groups, journalism, travel, theatre, as well as academics are found. Because of the large number of scrapbooks from the 1870s through 1920, the changing interests and tastes of students over time are revealed.
The condition of the books vary greatly. Some Princetonians whose scrapbooks are found in this collection include Hobey Baker, Ivy L. Lee, Henry Fairfield Osborn, Moses Taylor Pyne, John Hinsdale Scheide, and William Berryman Scott.
The scrapbooks are arranged chronologically by class year and then alphabetically.
The scrapbooks were donated by alumni and family of alumni over the course of several decades.
For preservation reasons, original analog and digital media may not be read or played back in the reading room. Users may visually inspect physical media but may not remove it from its enclosure. All analog audiovisual media must be digitized to preservation-quality standards prior to use. Audiovisual digitization requests are processed by an approved third-party vendor. Please note, the transfer time required can be as little as several weeks to as long as several months and there may be financial costs associated with the process. Requests should be directed through the Ask Us Form.
This finding aid was updated by Lynn Durgin in April 2017. Updated by Phoebe Nobles in 2022.
Appraisal information was not recorded at time of processing.
People
- Baker, Hobey
- Lee, Ivy L. (Ivy Ledbetter) (1877-1934)
- Osborn, Henry Fairfield (1857-1935)
- Pyne, M. Taylor (Moses Taylor) (1855-1921)
- Scott, William Berryman (1858-1947)
Organization
- Publisher
- University Archives
- Finding Aid Date
- 1997
- Access Restrictions
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Collection is open for research use.
- Use Restrictions
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Single copies may be made for research purposes. To cite or publish quotations that fall within Fair Use, as defined under U. S. Copyright Law, no permission is required. The Trustees of Princeton University hold copyright to all materials generated by Princeton University employees in the course of their work. For instances beyond Fair Use, if copyright is held by Princeton University, researchers do not need to obtain permission, complete any forms, or receive a letter to move forward with use of materials from the Princeton University Archives.
For instances beyond Fair Use where the copyright is not held by the University, while permission from the Library is not required, it is the responsibility of the researcher to determine whether any permissions related to copyright, privacy, publicity, or any other rights are necessary for their intended use of the Library's materials, and to obtain all required permissions from any existing rights holders, if they have not already done so. Princeton University Library's Special Collections does not charge any permission or use fees for the publication of images of materials from our collections, nor does it require researchers to obtain its permission for said use. The department does request that its collections be properly cited and images credited. More detailed information can be found on the Copyright, Credit and Citations Guidelines page on our website. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us through the Ask Us! form.
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This scrapbook is notable for two reasons: it contains one of the earliest orange and black ribbons in the school's history and it is also has the "cheating cuff" that Cook used that is featured in "Princeton University, The First 250 Years" by Don Oberdorfer and J.T. Miller (Trustees of Princeton University, 1995).
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This scrapbook contains academic materials related to Harvey's B.S. degree, as well as newspaper clippings, social mementoes, Philadelphian Society materials, Woodrow Wilson Princeton inaugural material including an Alexander Hall ticket, a New York baseball club Polo Grounds ticket, and football programs.
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Scrapbook contains some material from Wallis Clinton Bird, Class of 1921.
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Includes newspaper clippings, Phillips Acadamy memorabilia, and Princeton University memorabilia.
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The scrapbook contains dance cards, calling cards, athletic event programs, newspaper clippings, class schedules, orders of examination for the School of Science, and similar materials.
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The scrapbook (one of two scrapbooks in this collection compiled by Barnett) was mostly likely assembled while Hugh Wilson Barnett was attending Lawrenceville School in the early 1890s; it contains many newspaper articles about eastern college football.
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The scrapbook (one of two scrapbooks in this collection compiled by Barnett) documents Hugh Wilson Barnett's undergraduate years at Princeton from 1892 to 1896, including football programs (Wilson was half-back), dance programs, newspaper clippings, musical and theatrical programs, exams, and correspondence.
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This scrapbook contains clippings, examinations, and some materials from Evelyn College, among other items.
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The scrapbook contains newspaper clippings that document Lawrenceville and Princeton athletics from roughly 1899 1907. The clippings mainly pertain to football and track and field, and many of them feature DeWitt who was a member of the Princeton football team and a hammer thrower in Track and Field. The scrapbook includes a few original Princeton-related documents such as Dewitt's acceptance to Princeton's freshman class. It contains two X-ray photographs of Dewitt's hand, which was broken during his college years, as well as some cyanotype photographs of family and friends. The scrapbook also includes two articles about James Collins, also known as Jimmy Johnson, who was an escaped enslaved person and who sold food items on campus from approximately 1840 until the early 1900s.
DewittJohn R. Dewitt was a member of the Class of 1904 and a football and track and field athelete.
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This scrapbook contains grade reports, a Clio invitation and other social activity mementoes, New York Law School material, handwritten correspondence, tuition receipts, and commencement material, including photographs.
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Contains newspaper clippings mainly about Princeton sports teams.
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In addition to the usual clippings, academic mementos, sports and theater programs and tickets, this volume also contains a June, 1908 passenger list of the Lusitania. There are also mementos of Hutcheson's travel to and around England, as well as Paris. These items are found not quite halfway into the volume.
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Contains photographs of peace parade on Nassau Street that celebrated the armistice agreement ending the First World War, 1918 November 11.
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Documents Princeton football in the mid-1920s.
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Scrapbook of Harold H. Saunders, Class of 1952, covering his junior and senior years. The scrapbook includes athletic schedules, tickets and programs; newspapers clippings on various university events; ephemera from dances and proms; programs for Triangle Club and Intime productions; as well as documents relating to the Undergraduate Marriage Course, Commencement and the Campus Club. Also includes a folder of loose materials on related themes, as well as the Princeton Alumni Weekly "Nassau Hall Issue" from 1956 containing commemorative three-cent stamps.
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