Call Number:

C0774

Repository:

Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division

Extent:

• 2 boxes
• 0.6 linear feet

Language:

English

Preferred Citation:

Identification of specific item; Date (if known); James Gibson Papers, Box and Folder Number; Special Collections, Princeton University Library.

Date:

1858-1859 (bulk) and 1858-1932 (inclusive)

Creator:

Gibson, James, 1837-1912

Form:

Diaries -- 19th century, Photographs -- 19th century., and Scrapbooks -- 19th century

Abstract:

Consists of scrapbook pages and a diary kept by James Gibson from May, 1858, to May, 1859, while traveling in the United States and Canada and attending Princeton Theological Seminary.

James Gibson, the son of an Irish Presbyterian minister, attended Belfast Theological Seminary and was a student at the Princeton Theological Seminary.

The collection consists of scrapbook pages and a diary kept by Gibson from May, 1858, to May, 1859, while traveling in the United States and Canada and attending Princeton Theological Seminary. Both the scrapbook, containing newspaper clippings and photographs (mostly of Princeton), and the diary document his travels. Also present is a brief sketch (7 pp.) of the life of James Gibson written by his son, Thomas, in 1932.

Arranged as follows: scrapbook, pages 1-443; diary, pages 1-226; miscellaneous papers.