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Community House Records, 1968-2012 (inclusive)

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2 boxes
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The Princeton University Community House is a student-led organization that was established in 1969 by seven undergraduate students to provide academic and social enrichment programming to black youth and adults living in low-income Princeton neighborhoods. The Community House Records document the origins and activities of the organization since its inception and through its first three decades.

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Undergraduate Academic Files, Series 2, 1930-1939 (inclusive)

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30 boxes
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This collection consists of the individual academic files of former undergraduate students of Princeton University. The files contain grades, transcripts, and other information relating to the subject's academic career.

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Office of the Dean of the Faculty Records, 1781-2025 (inclusive)

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167 boxes, 1 folder, 4 items, 45 volumes, and 444 digital files
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Princeton University's dean of the faculty is the senior administrator responsible for the quality and well-being of the faculty and professional staffs of the university. In the past, the office has been responsible for matters ranging from student discipline to undergraduate academic life and the curriculum. This record group consists of the files of the faculty, the dean, the office, and its staff. In addition to the office's subject files, the collection includes the records of faculty meetings, faculty and University committees, and the personnel files of faculty, senior staff, and trustees.

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Princeton University Student Christian Association Records, 1855-1967 (inclusive)

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30 boxes
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The Student Christian Association and its predecessors were the dominant religious organizations at Princeton University for almost a hundred and fifty years. The Philadelphian Society, founded by a small group of students in 1825, was the quasi-official campus religious agency by the beginning of the twentieth century. In 1930 the Student-Faculty Association (SFA), organized by the Dean of the Chapel, took over the Society's programs, focusing on community service. In 1946 the Student Christian Association (SCA) replaced both the Society and the SFA, coordinating both religious and community service activities in campus. The Student Volunteers Council succeeded the SCA in 1967.

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Physics Department Records, 1909-2015 (inclusive)

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36 boxes and 1 websites
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The records of the Physics Department document the scientific and teaching activities of Princeton University physicists from 1909 to 1962. While routine activities such as the hiring of faculty and the education of graduate and undergraduate students are recorded, these records also detail the Department's activities in early studies of theoretical physics, as well as its participation in World War II research activities. There is also a small amount of material that documents Milton White's efforts toward builing the cyclotron (1936).

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H. Hubert Wilson Collection on the Princeton University Department of Politics, 1924-1977 (inclusive) 1967-1977 (bulk)

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12 boxes
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H. Hubert Wilson was a professor in Princeton University's Department of Politics from 1943-1977. The collection consists primarily of published sources on topics of interest to Wilson, as well as materials originating in Wilson's teaching at Princeton, and drafts of a publication titled "This Isn't Princeton".

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Princeton University Diploma Collection, 1749-1998 (inclusive) 1749-1926 (bulk)

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6 boxes
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Since its first class of six graduates and one honoree in 1748, Princeton University has awarded over 80,000 diplomas. This collection contains 213 original diplomas and photostats, including executed diplomas as well as blank, sample or spoiled diplomas.

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University Research Board Records, 1925-2006 (inclusive)

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26 boxes
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The University Research Board, which consists of six faculty members from different departments, is an advisory committee to the president on all research conducted at Princeton University. The collection consists of University Research Board meeting minutes, annual reports, correspondence between members, and some subject files, as well as the memos and correspondence of Raymond J. Woodrow, executive officer and secretary of the Committee on Project Research and Invention, predecessor to the University Research Board.

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William G. Bowen Collection on the Federal Government and Princeton University, 1960-1969 (inclusive)

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3 boxes
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With the cooperation of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, Bowen launched a study that thoroughly explored the relationship between the Federal Government and Princeton University. Consists of notes and research materials compiled by William G. Bowen for use in his study The Federal Government and Princeton University, a report on the complex funding and research relationships between the two institutions.

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Gordon family correspondence, circa 1870-1902 (inclusive)

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3 boxes
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The collection consists of letters written and received by members of the Gordon family of Fannettsburg, Pennsylvania between the 1870s and approximately 1905. Some of the letters cover the period when Clarence Gordon '1891, son of Jeremiah Smith Gordon '1853, was a student at Princeton, as well as when Mary Gordon and Clementine Gordon attended Wilson College in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania.

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Lincoln Gilmore Smith Collection, 1950-1966 (inclusive)

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1 box and 0.2 linear feet
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Consists of miscellaneous material of Lincoln Gilmore Smith, a physicist and professor of physics at Princeton University, relating to his construction and use of mass spectrometers.

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England - Argentina Trade Collection, 1859-1885 (inclusive)

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1 box and 0.2 linear feet
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Consists of selected correspondence and documents relating to Liverpool (England) merchants and their shippers and counterparts in Buenos Aires (Argentina) during the second half of the nineteenth century. Correspondence (1882-1885) between Alexander Gifford (Liverpool) and his brother Edward (Buenos Aires) forms the bulk of the material.

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Joseph Lea Correspondence, 1799-1802 (inclusive)

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1 box and 0.2 linear feet
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Consists of correspondence (approximately 125 letters) between Joseph Lea (Princeton Class of 1802) and his father, Thomas Lea.

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William Taggart Meloy Yellowstone Scrapbooks, 1900-1901 (inclusive)

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1 box
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Consists of ten scrapbooks containing photographs and clippings from newspapers, magazines, and travel guides documenting a 1900 trip to Yellowstone National Park taken by Reverend William Taggart Meloy, John T. Meloy, Emma Meloy, Daisy Meloy Rankin, and Dr. James D. Rankin.

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Howard C. Rice Correspondence with Alexander D. Wainwright, 1950-1980 (inclusive)

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1 box and 0.2 linear feet
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Consists chiefly of correspondence between Howard C. Rice, Jr., and Alexander D. Wainwright, dating mainly during the time that Rice was working at the Collège de L'Europe Libre, in Strasbourg, France. Rice was an associate professor at Princeton University and Assistant Librarian for the Special Collections. Wainwright was a librarian at Princeton University Library for many years, serving as currator of the Morris L. Parrish Collection of Victorian Novelists and as Assistant University Librarian for Acquisitions.

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F. Anstey Collection, 1884-1920 (inclusive)

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1 box and 0.2 linear feet
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Consists of selected correspondence of Thomas Anstey Guthrie ("F. Anstey"), a popular British writer of humorous fantasy novels.

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Ferdinand Lassalle Letters, 1862-1864 (inclusive)

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1 box and 0.2 linear feet
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Consists of letters of Ferdinand Lassalle, the German "scientific" socialist who founded the Democratic Socialist Party and in 1862 proposed a theory (Lassalleanism) in opposition to Marxism.

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D. C. Herrin "Columbia River Scenery" Photographs, circa 1892-1897 (inclusive)

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1 box and 0.2 linear feet
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Consists of 13 mounted albumen card photographs from Oregon photographer D. C. Herrin's "Columbia River Scenery" series that depict various scenes along the river, including views of waterfalls; sites such as The Dalles, the Columbia River Gorge, and Mount Hood; and steamships. Herrin took the photographs via The Dalles, Portland, & Astoria Navigation Company (DP&AN) steamers and via the Oregon Railroad and Navigation Company (OR&N) line.

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Ralph Ginzburg Letters to Leonard Lyons, 1963-1970 (inclusive)

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1 box and 0.2 linear feet
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Consists of thirty-four letters and note cards of American periodical publisher Ralph Ginzburg to his friend Leonard Lyons, syndicated columnist of the "The Lyons Den" with the New York Post. The letters discuss Ginzburg's trial concerning his publication of the "obscene" periodical Eros, as well as his later publications, Fact and Avant Garde magazines.

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Anthony Wayne by Harry Emerson Wildes, 1941 (inclusive)

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1 box and 0.4 linear feet
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Consists of American historian Harry Emerson Wildes's manuscript for his 1941 biography of Anthony Wayne, the noted American Revolutionary general.

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Ottoman Turkish Documents from Greece, 1829-1906 (inclusive)

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1 box and 0.2 linear feet
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Consists of various Ottoman Turkish documents (1829-1906), with some Greek annotations, pertaining to the areas of Trikala (Tricca), Ioannina (Janina), Karditsa and Thessaly in Greece.

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W. Howard Adams Collection, 1962-1968 (inclusive)

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1 box and 0.2 linear feet
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Collection consists of miscellaneous material relating to Black Mountain College and the Penland School of Arts and Crafts, collected by Adams, during his tenure as associate director of The Arts Council of America.

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John Dunn Gardner Papers, 1855-1859 (inclusive)

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1 box and 0.2 linear feet
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Consists of selected papers of John Dunn Gardner, a nineteenth-century high sheriff of Cambridgeshire, England.

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Auguste Plée Sketchbook, 1821 (inclusive)

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1 box and 0.2 linear feet
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Consists of microfilm strips and prints from microfilm of French botanist Auguste Plée's sketchbook of American and Canadian views and a long letter (with typed copy) to his family in France describing his journey in the United States and Canada in 1821 as a botanist for the Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle in Paris.

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John Hulick Collection, 1812-1826 (inclusive)

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1 box and 0.2 linear feet
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Consists of selected documents of John Hulick, who was a farmer and constable in Middlesex County, N.J., and a captain in the New Jersey Militia during the War of 1812.

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Agnes Repplier Letters, 1901-1917 (inclusive)

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1 box and 0.2 linear feet
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Consists of twenty letters of Agnes Repplier, an American essayist and biographer whose writing career spanned sixty-five years. Most of the letters are addressed to her friend Margaret Farrand (Mrs. WIlson Farrand).

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James Gibson Papers, 1858-1859 (bulk) 1858-1932 (inclusive)

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2 boxes and 0.6 linear feet
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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.

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David Starr Hoyt Manuscripts, 1852-1853 (inclusive)

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1 box and 0.2 linear feet
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Consists of two manuscripts by David Starr Hoyt, an officer in the Mexican War: an overland account in route to the California gold rush fields (1852) and an account of Native Americans drawn from Hoyt's experiences as a member of Isaac Stevens's exploring expedition surveying a route for the Northern Pacific Railroad from Oregon to Wisconsin in 1853. Images of this collection are also available online at Digital PUL.

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Spanish Papal Nuncio Records, 1656-1675 (inclusive)

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2 boxes and .8 linear feet
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Consists chiefly of financial records, household accounts, inventories of moveable property, and some correspondence of Galeazzo Marescotti (1627-1726), who seved as papal nuncio to the royal court of King Carlos II of Spain from 1670 to 1675.

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James Robertson photographs collection, circa 1854 (inclusive)

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1 box and 2 linear feet
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James Robertson was one of the first prominent traveller-photographers to depict scenes of mid-nineteenth century Greece. Of Scottish descent, he has been identified as the engraver James Robertson, who worked in London around 1830. He first settled in Constantinople in 1841, where he spent forty years of his life working as a master engraver in the imperial mint. His photography career began in the early 1850's when he opened a photographer's studio in Peran, the European district of Constantinople. His photographs, which were immediately popular among the art lovers of his period, appeared in international exhibitions in Paris and London and were frequently reproduced in the leading periodical "The London Illustrated News". He died in 1888 in Yokohama. Robertson earned his place in the history of photography with his coverage of the Crimean war, and with his photographs of Constantinople and other historical Mediterranean sites, such as Athens, Malta, Damascus, Egypt and the Holy...(see more)

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Gypsy Rose Lee Collection, 1941 (inclusive)

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1 box and 0.2 linear feet
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Consists of the original typescript, and related letters, of the crime novel The G-String Murders by Gypsy Rose Lee, the American burlesque entertainer and film star.

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Sir Paul Rycaut Letters to William Blathwayt, 1692-1699 (inclusive)

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2 volumes and 0.6 linear feet
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Consists chiefly of letters by English diplomat Sir Paul Rycaut to William Blathwayt (1649?-1717), who served James II and William III of England as secretary-at-war and was also William III's commissioner of trade, 1696-1706.

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Lewis Cass Collection, 1832-1873 (inclusive)

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1 box and 0.2 linear feet
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Lewis Cass, a nineteenth-century senator from Michigan, had prominent roles in the administrations of Andrew Jackson and James Buchanan. This collection consists of selected correspondence, printed material, and ephemera of Cass.

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H. L. Mencken Letters to David Warren Ryder, 1922-1955 (inclusive)

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1 box and 0.2 linear feet
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Consists of 110 letters by influential magazine editor and critic H. L. Mencken to David Warren Ryder, a San Francisco area journalist, written mainly from Baltimore and New York between the years 1922 and 1947.

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Walden, ou, La Vie dans les Bois, 1922 (inclusive)

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1 box and 0.2 linear feet
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Consists of a typed manuscript, with holograph corrections, of Louis Fabulet's translation of Henry David Thoreau's Walden.

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Horton Davies collection of Frederick Buechner, 1943-1982 (inclusive) 1978-1981 (bulk)

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1 box and 0.5 linear feet
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Horton Davies was a Princeton University professor of religion; his wife, Marie-Helene Davies, is author of LAUGHTER IN A GENEVAN GOWN: THE WORKS OF FREDERICK BUECHNER, 1970-1980 (1983). Consists of papers relating to the novelist Frederick Buechner (Princeton Class of 1947) collected or created by Davies.

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Alba Houghton Warren Papers, 1938-1940 (bulk) 1864-1940 (inclusive)

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1 box and 0.4 linear feet
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Consists of selected papers of Alba Houghton Warren (Princeton Class of 1936), professor of English at Princeton (1945-1955), relating to his earlier work "Richard Hengist Horne: A Literary Biography," which apparently was never published.

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Cole Family Papers, 1883-1913 (inclusive)

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2 boxes and 1.7 linear feet
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Consists of the papers of Harriet and Alma Cole, wife and daughter of Charles K. Cole, largely relating to the women's stakes in mining operations in Montana and Colorado.

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The Great Circle by Carlton Beals, 1940 (inclusive)

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1 box and 0.2 linear feet
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Consists of the printer's copy of Carlton Beals' travel book The Great Circle (1940), containing descriptions of his travels in Tunisia, Russia, Mexico, Spain, Italy, Turkey, and Germany.

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Thomas Maxwell Henry Translations, 1911 (inclusive)

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1 box and 0.2 linear feet
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Consists of English translations of Edmond Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac and three of Theophile Gautier's short stories by Thomas Maxwell Henry (Princeton Class of 1879), an American lawyer.

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A.C. McClurg & Co. Letters from F. G. Browne to C. F. Cazenove, 1905-1906 (inclusive)

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1 box and 0.2 linear feet
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Consists of 47 letters from F. G. Browne on behalf of the Publishing Department at Chicago-based American publisher A.C. McClurg & Co. to the firm's London literary agent C. F. Cazenove, regarding the sale of American titles in England, financial transactions, and other business matters related to publishing.

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Cole Family Papers, circa 1848-1900 (inclusive)

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1 box and 0.2 linear feet
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Consists of 12 letters from William, E. B., and Robert Patten to their brother-in-law and sister, George N. and Olivia Cole, along with additional Cole family documents.

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Dag Hammarskjöld Collection, 1958-1961 (inclusive)

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1 box and 0.2 linear feet
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Consists of selected copies of correspondence and manuscripts of Dag Hammarskjöld, Swedish secretary-general of the United Nations (1953-1961) and Nobel Peace Prize winner.

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Claude Adrien Meney Letters, 1734 (inclusive)

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1 box and 0.4 linear feet
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Consists of contemporary manuscript copies of 38 letters (in a bound volume) written by the eighteenth-century French attorney Claude Meney during a visit to London..

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Sam Harris Collection, 1923-1940 (inclusive)

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7 boxes
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Sam H. Harris was an American theatrical producer. His collection consists of bound typescripts of 121 plays, most of which were produced by Harris in the 1920s and 1930s, written by such well-known playwrights as George S. Kaufman, Otto Harbach, John Golden, and Noel Coward.

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Townsend Martin Collection, 1928 (inclusive)

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3 boxes and 1.2 linear feet
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This collection consists of two boxes of typescripts, screenplays, and scene descriptions by American playwright and screenwriter Townsend Martin (Princeton Class of 1917) as well as one box of similar material by other authors, such as Willis Goldbeck and Fannie Hurst.

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William Seymour Family Papers, 1870-1933 (bulk) 1733-1967 (inclusive)

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89 boxes and 42 linear feet
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Consists primarily of the professional papers of prominent late 19th- and early 20th-century American theatrical stage manager and director William Seymour (1855-1933). The majority of papers include correspondence as well as numerous production-related materials, such as playscripts, promptbooks, and sheet music. Family members, particularly other well-known theater figures, such as Seymour's sister-in-law Fanny Davenport (1850-1898), are also represented in the collection through correspondence, production materials, ephemera, and newspaper clippings.

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Princeton University Library Collection of Blanche Pauli Materials, 1890-1904 (bulk) 1866-1932 (inclusive)

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4 boxes and 2.25 linear feet
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Blanche Pauli (born Virginia C. Taney) was an American singer, actress, and vaudeville performer who worked mainly in stock companies touring the northeastern United States and Canada from the late 1890s through 1904. The collection consists of personal and family correspondence and documents, photographs, play scripts and actor's sides, sheet music, playbills, clippings, and other materials related to her professional career. Some materials also relate to Pauli's husband, Herman Utley Boardman; her performance partner, Robson Dalton; and other members of her family.

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Richard Pleasant Papers, 1940-1960 (bulk) 1930-1970 (inclusive)

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12 boxes and 5.2 linear feet
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Consists of writings, correspondence, photographs, diaries, scrapbooks, press releases, newspapers, clippings, and miscellaneous material relating to Richard Pleasant, a founder of the Ballet Theatre.

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C. Lawton Campbell Papers, 1904-1974 (inclusive) 1914-1962 (bulk)

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28 boxes and 11.2 linear feet
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Charles Lawton Campbell (Princeton Class of 1916) was an American playwright and advertising writer. His collection contains ninety-four drafts, fragments, and fully-conceived plays, as well as poems, essays, and an autobiography covering fifty years of his life as a devotee of the theater.

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Clinton Wilder Collection, 1934-1979 (inclusive)

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20 boxes and 10.1 linear feet
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Clinton Wilder (Princeton Class of 1943) was an American theatrical producer. His collection consists of playbills he collected as well as typescripts and production materials of plays he produced.

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Tennessee Williams Manuscripts, 1947-1961 (inclusive)

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1 box, 6 items, and 0.45 linear feet
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This collection consists of early versions of seven works by American playwright, novelist, and storywriter, Tennessee Williams.

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Historic, Descriptive and Subject Files Relating to or About the William Seymour Theatre Collection, Covering the Years of Operation as a Separate Library Unit, 1936-2000 (inclusive)

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2 boxes and 0.6 linear feet
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Files include correspondence about the founding of Princeton University Libray's William Seymour Theatre Collection, the gala dinner opening night, efforts to enlarge the collection in the 1940 to 1960s, and descriptive writings about the collection by the various curators.

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Alexander Family Collection, 1815-1914 (inclusive)

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2 boxes and 0.6 linear feet
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Consists of miscellaneous material relating to various members of the Alexander family, many of whom lived and worked in Princeton, N.J.

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United States Colored Troops 39th Infantry Regiment Muster Rolls, 1864 august 31-october 31 (inclusive)

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1 box
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Consists of a complete set of muster rolls for the 39th Infantry Regiment of United States Colored Troops for the period of August 31st to October 31st, 1864, documenting African American soldiers who fought in the American Civil War in Virginia under the command of Colonel Ozora Pierson Stearns.

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Windborne Productions Recordings of Ernest Gordon, 1991 may (inclusive)

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1 box
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Consists of eleven Betacam video tapes containing an interview of Ernest Gordon (1916-2002) about his capture and internment in the Japanese camps in Burma and Siam (now Myanmar and Thailand) during World War II, along with raw scenes, stills, and B-roll. The videos were shot in the Princeton University Chapel in May 1991 by Windborne Productions, which was then working on a project to turn Gordon's book Through the Valley of the Kwai into a feature film.

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John A. Roebling's Sons Company Records, 1821-1936 (inclusive)

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2 boxes and 1.4 linear feet
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The John A. Roebling's Sons Company was a family-run wire rope manufacturing business based in Trenton, New Jersey, and established in 1848 by John Augustus Roebling (1806-1869), a German-born American civil engineer best known for his wire rope suspension bridge designs, particularly the Brooklyn Bridge. The records consist of 10 bound volumes of business records, correspondence, and clippings kept by the company during the 19th and early 20th centuries, including typescript copies of John A. Roebling's professional correspondence, a company address book and manufacturing specifications catalog for wire rope, Ferdinand W. Roebling, Jr.'s business ledger, a minute book for the Roebling Construction Company, a volume of John Ferreol Monnot's patents, and a two-volume scrapbook on the German civil engineer and bridge-builder Karl Bernhard.

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Gabriel Iturri, Letters to His Mother, 1876-1910 (inclusive)

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1 box and 0.2 linear feet
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Gabriel Iturri (1860-1905), an Argentine from the Tucumán province, was secretary and companion to the French aristocrat, poet, and dandy Robert de Montesquiou (1855-1921) during the latter part of the 19th century. A colorful figure in Paris of the Belle Époque, Iturri inspired a poem by Paul Verlaine, and was a character study for Marcel Proust. These letters, written to his mother over a quarter-century, document his exceptional life abroad and his place in the history of literature.

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Morris W. Croll Collection, 1905-1930 (inclusive)

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8 boxes and 3.5 linear feet
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Consists of the notes for lectures, articles, and books of Morris W. Croll, who taught literature at Princeton.

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W. M. Spackman Novels, 1950-1980 (inclusive)

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5 boxes
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Consists of various typescript drafts, revisions, and galley proofs for three published novels by American novelist W. M. Spackman.

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Essays by Jewish-American Immigrant Women, circa 1925-1929 (inclusive)

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1 box and 0.5 linear feet
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This collection consists of essays written by mainly Jewish women immigrants to the United States, regarding their lives and experiences. They were written in connection with English language classes given by the National Council of Jewish Women's Department of Immigrant Aid, and initially collected through a contest sponsored by the same organization. The winning essays were originally published in the journal The Immigrant, a publication of the Council.

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George Lynde Catlin Diaries, 1835-1836 (inclusive)

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1 box and 0.2 linear feet
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Consists primarily of nine travel diaries used by New York attorney George Catlin during his travels through France, Switzerland, Italy, Greece, Turkey, Romania, and Scotland between 1835 and 1836.

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Cooley Family Papers, 1796-1942 (inclusive)

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1 box and 0.4 linear feet
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Consists of papers relating to the Cooley family of Alexandria, Hunterdon County, New Jersey.

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Emily Treslove Diaries, 1818-1910 (inclusive)

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2 boxes and 0.83 linear feet
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Diaries spanning several years that belonged to Emily Treslove, wife of prominent English Barrister Thomas Crosby Treslove, as well various miscellaneous materials.

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James Clement Moffat Collection, 1832-1861 (inclusive)

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1 box and 0.4 linear feet
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Consists of selected manuscripts and corresondence of the nineteenth-century Scottish-born church historian and educator James Clement Moffat.

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