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Alexander Leitch Princeton, Harvard, and Yale Scrapbooks Collection
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Alexander Leitch was a member of the Princeton Class of 1924 and an administrator at Princeton University for the entirety of his professional career, most notably holding the Office of the Secretary from 1936 to 1966. Following his retirement from the University, he assembled A Princeton Companion, a reference work containing 400 articles on Princeton life and traditions.
Consists of 55 oversized scrapbooks assembled by Alexander Leitch '24 during his career as a Princeton University administrator. The scrapbooks include academic and athletic clippings primarily about Princeton, Harvard and Yale, mostly from New York-based newspapers.
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A container list for this collection was created by Christie Peterson with assistance from Eleanor Wright '14 and Suchi Mandavilli '14 in November 2011. Finding aid updated by Christie Peterson in November 2011.
Organization
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- University Archives
- Finding Aid Author
- Christie Peterson
- Finding Aid Date
- 2007
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The collection is open for research use.
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Collection Inventory
Series 1: Daily Clippings Scrapbooks, 1925-1944 consists of volumes with daily clippings about Harvard, Yale, and Princeton, mostly from the New York Times. Each daily entry consists of two pages, one for "Academic" and one for "Athletic" clippings, and each page is divided into three columns, one each for Harvard, Yale, and Princeton, under wich the day's clippings are pasted.
The scrapbooks in Series 1: Chronological Athletics Scrapbooks, 1925-1944 are arranged by date.
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Series 2: Scrapbooks Organized by Subject, 1926-1945 consists of scrapbooks containing mostly clippings about Harvard, Princeton and Yale, although a few clippings about other schools, such as Cornell and Penn are also occasionally included. Most of the clippings are sports-related, although one book contains general, non-athletic clippings. Most of the clippings are from various New York-based newspapers, although at least one volume features Boston-based clippings.
The clippings in Series 2: Scrapbooks Organized by Subject, 1926-1945 are arranged within the scrapbooks according to their subject, but the scrapbooks themselves are not arranged in any particular order.
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