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Arthur Poillon Papers
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This is a finding aid. It is a description of archival material held at the Princeton University Library: Public Policy Papers. Unless otherwise noted, the materials described below are physically available in their reading room, and not digitally available through the web.
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Poillon was stationed in the Philipine Islands from 1899-1906 as a lieutenant with the U.S. 14th Cavalry.
Consists of papers of Poillon mainly related to the Philippine Islands where Poillon was stationed (1899-1906) as a lieutenant with the U.S. 14th Cavalry. Included are typed translations of Jesuit letters (1885-1886) from missions on Mindanao; articles and notes on the history, customs, and folklore of the Moro Indians; diaries (1906-1911); Poillon's two reports, "A Report on the Celebes Islands" (1906) and "A Report on the Colonial Army of the Netherlands Indies" (1906); notebooks of clippings concerning the Philippine Islands and his commanding officer General Tasker H. Bliss; and a large group of photographs of the American Expeditionary Forces in France (1911-1918).
Box 1--Diaries (1906-1911), Subjects A-L; Box 2--Subjects M-Z; Box 3--Clippings, Photographs.
Information about how this material was acquired is not available.
Inventory created by Tal Eisenzweig in August 2008.
No information about appraisal is available for this collection.
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Organization
Subject
- Folk-lore -- Philippines
- Jesuits -- Philippines -- 19th century -- Correspondence
- Jesuits -- Missions -- Philippines -- 19th century
- Moro Indians
- World War, 1914-1918 -- France -- Photographs
Place
- Publisher
- Public Policy Papers
- Finding Aid Author
- Tal Eisenzweig
- Finding Aid Date
- 2007
- Access Restrictions
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The collection is open for research.
- Use Restrictions
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Single photocopies may be made for research purposes. For quotations that are fair use as defined under U. S. Copyright Law, no permission to cite or publish is required. For those few instances beyond fair use, researchers are responsible for determining who may hold the copyright and obtaining approval from them. Researchers do not need anything further from the Mudd Library to move forward with their use.
Collection Inventory
Series 1: Papers on the Philipines includes diaries, notes, letters, military documents and newspaper clippings pertaining to Poillon's time in the Phillipines from 1906-1918.
The diaries in this series are arranged in chronological order; the remaining materials are loosely grouped together by type (e.g., military documents).
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