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Athena Tacha papers, 1942-2000 (inclusive)

Extent:
3.4 linear feet (3.4 linear feet, 12 boxes, 2 volumes )
Abstract:
Athena Tacha (1936-) is a Greek American sculptor, photographer, and conceptual artist who received degrees from the National Academy of Fine Arts (Athens, Greece), Oberlin College (Oberlin, Ohio), and the University of Paris (Sorbonne). In the 1960s she settled in the United States and became a professor of sculpture at Oberlin College. Her commissioned pieces are installed as public art across the United States and in several other countries as well. This collection contains mostly early correspondence, education materials, publications, and artwork from 1950 through the 1980s, although it spans from 1950 to 2000.

Held at: Historical Society of Pennsylvania [Contact Us]

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Aristides E. Phoutrides papers, 1895-1923 (inclusive)

Extent:
1 box and 0.4 linear feet
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Phoutrides was a Greek poet, educator, and translator. He taught classical literature and modern Greek at Harvard and Yale Universities. He was a proponent of "demotic" Greek language and literature. Consists of personal papers of Phoutrides.

Held at: Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division [Contact Us]

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Alexandros Xydēs Collection, 1939-2000 (inclusive)

Extent:
4 boxes and 1.6 linear feet
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Consists of the collection of Alexandros Xydēs, Greek diplomat and art critic. Included are typed manuscripts, correspondence, off-prints, ephemera, and other printed material with a focus on Greek politics, Cyprus, human rights, and international relations.

Held at: Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division [Contact Us]

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Nikos Kavvadias Papers, 1949-1972 (inclusive)

Extent:
1 box and 0.2 linear feet
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Consists of papers of Nikos Kavvadias, a Greek poet who spent most of his life traveling the world as a wireless operator on ocean freighters.

Held at: Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division [Contact Us]

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Stamo Papadaki Papers, 1922-1990 (inclusive) 1930-1970 (bulk)

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36 boxes and 24 items
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Consists of papers of architect, poet, editor, and author Stamo Papadaki. Included is correspondence (1922-1990) with many architects from the United States, Europe, Greece, and Brazil, as well as correspondence with organizations, artists, friends, and family. Also included are various manuscripts, articles, blueprints and plans, printed matter, photographs, and subject files on Papadaki's works.

Held at: Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division [Contact Us]

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Collection of Modern Greek Postcards, 1903-1940 (inclusive)

Extent:
9 folders
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Consists of (41) color and black-and-white postcards depicting the Ethnikē Organōsē Neolaias (National Youth Organization); Salonique (by Mario Perilla); Crete (by N. Alikiōtēs); Souvenir d' Orien (by Levy Fils); Souvenir de Smyrne; Macedonian Struggle; and International Occupation. There are also (23) color satirical postcards.

Held at: Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division [Contact Us]

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Princeton University Library Collection of Kōstas Zēmerēs Photographs, 1900-1999 (inclusive)

Extent:
1 box and 1.7 linear feet
Abstract:
Kostas Zēmerēs was born in 1886 in Katēchōri Pelion. He studied at the Commercial School of Volos, where he took his first lessons from the painter Iōannēs Poulakas. In 1904 he went to the United States where he worked in photo labs collaborating with painters and photographers. There he had the opportunity to study at the Art Institute of Saint Louis. He returned to Greece in 1912 where he was recruited during the Balkan Wars. Later, after the World War I, he remained in Athens working with great photographers, such as George Bouka and Nelly's. Finally he returned to Volos where he worked as a professional photographer and painter. He participated in many exhibitions in Greece and abroad, such as in Calais (France) in 1925 and Liverpoool (England) in 1926. He received the gold medal at the International Exhibition of Thessalonikē (Greece) in 1932 and 1936. Zēmerēs gave us the unique photographs of the painter Theophilos Chatzēmichaēl. He died at the age of 96. Consists of an open...(see more)

Held at: Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division [Contact Us]

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Kostas and Linda S. Myrsiades Papers, 1942-2017 (inclusive)

Extent:
4.0 linear feet and 7 boxes
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This collection consists of personal papers of Kostas and Linda S. Myrsiades, including correspondence, autograph manuscripts and typescripts, photographs, printed and audio material.

Held at: Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division [Contact Us]

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Demetrios Zoios Family Papers, 1890-1925 (inclusive)

Extent:
1 box and 0.2 linear feet
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Consists of over one hundred twenty-four Greek letters, documents, and other family papers of Greek high-school teacher Demetrios Zoios.

Held at: Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division [Contact Us]

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Byzantine and post-Byzantine Inscriptions Collection, 1885-1910 (inclusive)

Extent:
5 boxes
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Consists of manuscript copies of Greek inscriptions from Orthodox churches, monasteries, and icons in Greece, Asia Minor, the Greek islands, and Serbia that were compiled in the late 19th and early 20th century by the Greek epigrapher Giorgios Lampakes (Gēorgios Lampakēs).

Held at: Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division [Contact Us]

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Princeton University Library Collection of Nikolaos, Prince of Greece, 1872-1936 Materials, 1890

Extent:
0.4 linear feet and 1 box
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Consists of correspondence (ALS) with Prince Nikolaos's parents and sister while his was in Petroupoli and several other places; an autograph diary book; and a notebook containing a handwritten text titled "To taxeidi mou eis tēn Rōssian to 1916" (My trip in Russia in 1916).

Held at: Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division [Contact Us]

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Iōannēs Despotopoulos Collection of Photographs, circa 1920-1929 (inclusive)

Extent:
1 box and 0.4 linear feet
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Consists of a collection of (440) black-and white photographs (six photograph albums and a few loose photographs) of Iōannēs Despotopoulos, a Greek architect, with several family members, friends and colleagues in Athens, Chios, Mytilēnē, Delphi and other places in Greece; Constantinople and Prince island in Turkey; Berlin, Leipzig, and Munich in Germany; buildings in Romania; street scenes in Bulgaria; and Paris. They are mounted and bear handwritten captions in Greek either on the negative or the mount (measure from 1.5 x 3.5 cm to 13 x 18.2 cm.).

Held at: Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division [Contact Us]

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Henry R. Labouisse Papers, 1785-2004 (inclusive) 1940-1987 (bulk)

Extent:
52 boxes and 2 items
Abstract:
Henry R. Labouisse (1904-1987) was a distinguished American diplomat and international public servant. He served as director of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) from 1954 to 1958 and as executive director of the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) from 1965 to 1979. He also served as a United States government official working on the formation and implementation of foreign economic policies during World War II and the 1960s. Labouisse's papers document his career with the United Nations and with the State Department and include correspondence, speeches and publications, as well as biographical and genealogical material.

Held at: Princeton University Library: Public Policy Papers [Contact Us]

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Antōnēs Dekavalles Papers, 1935-2008 (inclusive)

Extent:
30 boxes and 4 items
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This collection consists of papers of Antōnēs Dekavalles, a Greek poet, professor at Fairleigh Dickenson University, and editor of The Charioteer, A Review of Modern Greek Culture. Included are: correspondence, autograph manuscripts and typescripts, drafts, miscellaneous notes, and files related to his affiliated organizations.

Held at: Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division [Contact Us]

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Constantine Tsaldaris Papers, 1920-1929 (inclusive) 1921-1922 (bulk)

Extent:
1 box and 0.4 linear feet
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Consists of an unpublished archive pertinent to Tsaldari's activities as Commander-in-Chief of Crete, Greece during the years 1921-1922. It comprises mainly correspondence, incoming and outgoing, official and personal documents, the political movements of the time, Anti-Venizelist activity (political opponents of Venizelos), speeches, telegrams and generally everything he sent or received during his tenure in Crete.

Held at: Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division [Contact Us]

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Edmund Keeley Papers, 1910-2013 (inclusive) 1960-2011 (bulk)

Extent:
278 boxes, 12 items, and 134.8 linear feet
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Edmund Keeley (1928-) is an author, translator, and Charles Barnwell Straut Professor Emeritus of English at Princeton University, best known for his translations and writings on Greek poets C. P. Cavafy, George Seferis, Odysseus Elytēs and Giannēs Ritsos. The papers consist of Keeley's drafts and proofs of translations, fiction, and nonfiction, including novels, articles, essays, introductions, reviews, and other writings, as well as for works he edited, along with personal and professional correspondence, faculty material, files of the P.E.N. American Center and other institutions with which he was involved, awards and speeches, biographical materials, family papers, scrapbook and other printed materials, manuscripts of others, and photographs and photograph albums.

Held at: Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division [Contact Us]

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