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General Manuscripts Collection
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Held at: Princeton University Library: Public Policy Papers [Contact Us]
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 General Manuscripts Collection is largely composed of materials related to United States politics and government, including personal and business correspondence, manuscripts, memorabilia, pamphlets, and reports. The collection includes the papers of many individuals, including Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt and other United States presidents, government officials, authors and journalists, bankers and businessmen, and Princeton University alumni.
The majority of the materials documenting United States politics and government are related to either United States participation in wars or United States presidents. The papers related to wars include correspondence, reports, resolutions, memorabilia, and photographs from World War I and World War II, as well as small amounts of similar material from the Korean War, the Vietnam War, and Cold War relations between the United States and the Soviet Union. The majority of the presidential materials are the papers of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, largely correspondence, and Theodore Roosevelt, including correspondence and text for two lectures he delivered at Princeton University. Also included is a small amount of material related to Dwight D. Eisenhower, Herbert Hoover, Lyndon Baines Johnson, and William Howard Taft.
Other papers related to United States politics and government include correspondence to legislators, materials about United States policies and programs, and materials related to political activism. Additionally, the collection includes correspondence, reports, and clippings related to the careers of bankers, businessmen and lawyers, and manuscripts and correspondence of authors and journalists.
Arranged alphabetically by creator.
Materials will be added to this collection periodically by Mudd Manuscript Library staff.
FOR DIGITIZED CONTENT: Some manuscripts in this collection have been digitized and may be viewed or downloaded through this finding aid. To view materials, navigate to the specific folder or item title.
This collection is a compilation of materials donated by many individuals.
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.
Four audiocassette tapes are located in Box 7 and one reel of film is located in Box 11.
This collection was processed by Adriane Hanson in 2008. Finding aid written by Adriane Hanson in February 2008. Materials from subsequent accessions received in 2009-present were incorporated into the collection and the folder lists and finding aid were updated at that time.
No materials were separated during processing in 2008, or 2013-2017.
People
- Forrestal, James (1892-1949)
- Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945.
- Roosevelt, Théodore, 1858-1919
- Stevenson, Adlai E. (Adlai Ewing), 1900-1965
- Keating, Kenneth M.
- Trump, Donald, 1946-
Organization
Subject
- Authors
- Political activists
- Presidents -- United States
- Public officers -- United States
- World War, 1914-1918
- World War, 1939-1945
- Propaganda
- Anti-Nazi movement
Place
- Publisher
- Public Policy Papers
- Finding Aid Author
- Adriane Hanson
- Finding Aid Date
- 2008
- Access Restrictions
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The 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. For instances beyond Fair Use, 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.
Collection Inventory
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Consists of 100 Anti-Nazi propaganda postcards from various European countries.
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Flyers and memoranda produced by Fight for Freedom, Citizens for Democracy, the Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies, the Coordinating Committee for Democratic Action, and other pro-intervention groups. These materials were collected by political activist Max Berking.
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(Correspondence with Peter G. Fish, Professor of Political Science, University of North Carolina.)
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(Report in French on Congo "Belge" post-war problems.)
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(Files of letters received by Mr. Richard Dale, a graduate student in the Princeton University Politics Department, as a result of his efforts to locate materials concerning South West Africa.)
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(Includes mentions of events related to World War II and comments on the person's daily life and job, which involved issuing passports and visas.)
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(Letters to and from Irving Dillard concerning the 1940 Supreme Court flag salute decision in the Minersville v. Gobitis case.)
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Consists mainly of correspondence pertaining to various of Dorwart's book projects, but mainly about about his work The Good Men: Eberstadt, Forrestal, and the American National Security Organization, and includes correspondence with Michael Forrestal and Frederick Eberstadt.
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(Original in Collections, Firestone Library, Princeton University.)
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(Originals in Collections, Firestone Library, Princeton University.)
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Photographed copies of letters that Warren G. Harding sent to his mistress, Carrie Fulton Phillips.
The original set of these letters is housed at the Library of Congress. A microfilm copy of the correspondence, filmed by Kenneth W. Duckett, is available at the Western Reserve Historical Society.
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(Report entitled "Basic Data on the Japanese Mandated Islands: I. Marianas; II. Carolines; III. Marshals (With Map)," Board of Economic Welfare, Enemy Branch, Southwest Pacific Unit.)
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Consists of one letter from a Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School history class to George Kennan regarding the concept of "winning" the Cold War, along with Kennan's response to the class.
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Speech given by George F. Kennan at the International Council of the Museum of Modern Art New York.
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This photo album was compiled by Antoinette Libonati, documenting her service in the 1st Company, 20th Regiment of the Women's Army Corps. Specifically, the album records her time training at Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia and Mission, Texas. The album contains 45 leaves with 329 black and white photographs, together with 12 ephemeral items, and 45 commercial images. The first section, titled "Basic Trng—Ft. Oglethorpe Ga June 7-July 28, 1944," contains 45 commercial photographs of WAC life at the camp. The next section, titled "Co. 1—20th Regt. In Review," contains 90 photographs of women in the company. Another section, titled "Chattanooga, the nearest town to Oglethorpe," contains photographs of that city as well as printed color drawings of Lookout Mountain. The last section, taking up the majority of the album, is titled "Life at Moore Field," and covers Libonati's time at the base in Mission, Texas, to which the regiment was relocated on July 30, 1944. This section contains both candid and posed shots of the women in uniform, in review, at work, at play, and at rest. WACs are shown at drafting tables, working with lab equipment, cooking, filing, working in the mail room, in the commissary, as nurses, and as officers behind desks. Other photos depict WACs during leisure time in the barracks. [Adapted from description provided by Caroliniana Rare Books]
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(Letters to Lloyd from Senators George D. Aiken, William Langer, H. Alexander Smith, and Margaret Chase Smith concerning the vote by the senators against the proposed dismissal of Dean Acheson as Secretary of State.)
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Reports and notes concerning relations between regular and reserve officers and the organization of postwar naval reserve forces
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Signed by Woodrow Wilson.
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Contains conference materials and news article related to Oram's work in public relations and event organization for the Fund for the Republic and the Convocation on Pacem In Terris held in Racine, Wisconsin in 1964. Also includes the transcript of a speech Oram gave at Princeton University in 1955 on Communist China.
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(Manuscripts by Reston of two articles: "Alice Seeks For Light in Wonderland, D.C.," The New York Times, 1951 April 15 and "Memorandum to General MacArthur: A Report to the Distinguished Soldier on How America Has Changed in His 14-year Absence," The New York Times Magazine, April 22, 1951.)
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(Includes medal, notebook, ration books, driver's license, dog tag plate, negatives, postal censorship card, and weapon data manual.)
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(Anti-Nuclear Testing, SANE-Boston Committee and Anti-Vietnam War.)
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(Includes an interview with George Schultz on July 6, 1994.)
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(Histories of Divisions prepared by the National Archives.)
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(Includes German Magnetic Tape Recorder, 1944 December 21 Neuropsychiatric Organization in the German Air Force, 1945 June 4 German Aircraft Industry in the Bremen-Hamburg Area, 1945 June 26 and The Manufacture and Application of Lubricants in Germany, July 1945.)
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(Original located in the Henry Van Dyke Family Papers, Firestone Library, Princeton University.)
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Found in repository near Brooks Emeny Papers.
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Includes a number of German V-1 pamphlet s dropped on Britain, a propaganda cigarette pack (now empty) dropped on The Netherlands in 1943 by the Allies, poly-chrome Japanese pamphlets for Australian troops, American pamphlets for German troops with official US security-stamped translations, German pamphlets for American troops including one directed at African-Americans, plus others for Polish, Indian, French, and Indonesian soldiers and civilians produced by the Allies. There are also two rare WW1 pamphlets.
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Panel interview with Donald Trump, led by Julian Zelizer, coinciding with the publication of The Presidency of Donald J. Trump: A First Historical Assessment, Edited by Julian E. Zelizer, Princeton University Press (2022). Panelists include Julian Zelizer, Jeffrey Engel, Margaret O'Mara, Michael Kazin, Beverly Gage, Merlin Chowkwanyun. Interview begins at 13.29
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