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Woodrow Wilson Additional Materials
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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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The Woodrow Wilson Additional Materials consist of materials that the Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library has acquired on Woodrow Wilson since the mid-1990s through donations. Materials include correspondence, photographs, programs and other ephemera, realia, published materials and other assorted items.
The Woodrow Wilson Additional Materials have been maintained in the order that they were acquired except for oversize materials, which are in Box 2 and Cabinet 6, Drawer 4. Materials are added to the end of this collection as they are accessioned.
As documents deemed appropriate for inclusion in the Woodrow Wilson Additional Materials are accessioned by the Mudd Manuscript Library, they are added to the collection and finding aid.
FOR DIGITIZED CONTENT: The first seventeen items have been digitized and may be viewed or downloaded through this finding aid. To view materials, navigate to the folder title.
Materials in the Woodrow Wilson Additional Materials have been donated or transfered from a variety of individuals and collections since the mid-1990s. Please contact the Mudd Manuscript Library for more details. A photograph of Woodrow Wilson at the New York Press Club dinner in 1912 was donated by Martin Torodash in July 2012. The accession number for this accrual is ML.2012.030. A letter from Wilson was donated by Donald Lamm in November 2012. The accession number for this was ML.2012.045. Materials related to the poem "Three Cheers for Woodrow Wilson" were donated by Lorraine Murray Budion in 2013. The accession number associated with this is ML.2013.009. In 2013, Charles W. Mitchell donated a letter written from Wilson to Dr. Carles W. Mitchell in 1909 (accession number ML.2013.030). Also in 2013, Bob Largey donated a souvenir kerchief (accession number ML.2013.032). In 2014, James Studdiford donated a signed photograph of Wilson's cabinet members (accession number ML.2014.047). In 2015, Cary Hart donated correspondence written by Woodrow Wilson to Albridge C. Smith (accession number ML.2015.027). In 2016, William C. Schaumburg donated correspondence written by Woodrow Wilson, Oswald Garrison Villard, R.H. Leavell, and George Haynes (accession number ML.2016.032). In 2016, the Mudd Manuscript Library purchased 2 photographs of Wilson and others (accession number AR.2016.061). In 2017, Diana Myers donated a letter from Woodrow Wilson to Dr. Hubert Clark (accession ML.2017.011).
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 is an unprocessed collection. The contents list provided is a preliminary inventory.
A copy of Wilson's "Princeton for the Nation's Service" speech and some materials related to the 2002 exhibition on Wilson at Princeton University Library were removed from accession ML.2016.012 because they duplicated materials found in other Mudd Library collections.
Materials from accession ML.2016.012 related to Jessie Wilson Sayre were separated and added to the Jessie Wilson Sayre Collection.
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- Public Policy Papers
- Finding Aid Date
- 2007
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Collection is open for research use.
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Collection Inventory
Photocopied Booklet on Wilson's Car
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Found in University Archives Class Records, 1879
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From Wilson, W. W. Scrapbook
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From Kirkpatrick, John Alexander, Scrapbook
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An oversize collage of portraits of Wilson's cabinet, an illustrated excerpt of text from a Wilson address in 1918, a proclamation naming Herman A. Spangler postmaster of Defiance, Ohio in 1915, a Pen and ink picture of Woodrow Wilson, drawn for W.J. Halleran by W.J. Bell, and "The Vaudeville Enthusiast:" a drawing of a cartoon of Woodrow Wilson which appeared in the Washington Star in 1913 by Clifford K Berryman.
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A 1909 letter from Daniel Robardieu to Woodrow Wilson accompanied this record.
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Contents include the poem "Three Cheers for President Wilson", a photograph of the poet, Jocefa Feely, and related correspondence.
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Program from a dinner held for Woodrow and Edith Wilson by Sir Horace Brooks Marshall in London
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Recording on audiocassette
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Correspondence between Edith Bolling Wilson and Princeton's Division of Manuscripts regarding a letter written by Woodrow Wilson about the Quad Plan, along with a copy of the letter in question
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Issued by the Democratic Congressional Committee and the Democratic National Committee
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Letters between Woodrow Wilson and Reverend Samuel McLanahan regarding Wilson's difficulties with the trustees that preceded his resignation as president of Princeton University. Also includes a note from John Grier Hibben to McLanahan.
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Two typed, signed letters from Woodrow Wilson dated July 5, 1905 and November 14, 1910, along with two small Princeton ribbons and one Wilson card
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This letter is notable for its Woodrow Wilson signature that post-dates his 1919 stroke
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Two photographs of Wilson with Dean Henry Burchard Fine, Professor C.H. Smyth, Jr., and members of the Secret Service.
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Letter from Woodrow Wilson to Mary H. Chamberlin about membership in the Pocohontas Memorial Association
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Printed silk kerchief with a colorful international flag border, likely made in 1912 to support Wilson's presidential campaign, or else in 1913 to celebrate his inauguration.
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Oversize Harris and Ewing photograph of Woodrow Wilson's cabinet, signed by the members of the cabinet.
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