Manuscripts Division
Firestone Library
One Washington Road
Princeton, NJ 08544, USA
(609) 258-3184
Housed in Firestone Library, the Manuscripts Division of the Department of Special Collections includes material documenting 5000 years of recorded history and all parts of the world, with strengths in Western Europe, the Near East, the United States, and Latin America.
Our Collections
Joseph Bloomfield Collection, 1794-1813
Consists chiefly of correspondence between New Jersey mayor and governor Joseph Bloomfield and Nicholas Biddle, David Brearley, Aaron Burr, Thomas P. Johnson, Samuel McLane, Edward Miller, and Rev. Andrew Hunter.
Collection ID: C1011
William Bell Scott Collection, 1837-1891
Consists of correspondence and obituaries of the nineteenth-century English poet, painter, and art critic William Bell Scott. He was a friend of Dante Gabriel Rossetti and was accepted by the Pre-Raphaelites.
Collection ID: C0959
Wilder Haydn Haines Papers, 1920-1923
Consists primarily of four albums of photographs taken by Wilder Haydn Haines (Princeton Class of 1915) during a trip to China and Japan from October 27, 1920, to July 2, 1921.
Collection ID: C0711
Derek Patmore Papers, 1929-1963
Consists of selected papers of English poet Derek Patmore.
Collection ID: C0722
"The Free Company Presents . . ." Collection, circa 1941
Consists of manuscripts of the three radio plays in, and the introduction to, The Free Company Presents . . . (1941), compiled by James Boyd.
Collection ID: C0126
Cecil Beaton Papers, 1938-1979
Consists chiefly of correspondence of Cecil Beaton, English fashion and portrait photographer and Academy Award winning stage and constume designer for film and theater, with his author friend Hal Burton.
Collection ID: C1194
Eden Phillpotts Collection, 1906-1977
Eden Phillpotts was a prolific and popular English novelist, playwright, and poet. Papers consist of about 120 letters by Phillpotts to G. Herbert Thring and Denys Killam Roberts of the Society of Authors and Macleod Yearsley regarding the publishing of his works. Additions to the collection include 64 letters, printed matter and newspaper clippings (1921-1960) about Phillpotts and his works.
Collection ID: C0398
Legal Accounts of John Morin Scott, 1829-1858
Consists primarily of three hundred forty-six account sheets kept by American lawyer John Morin Scott (Princeton Class of 1805) covering his legal work in Philadelphia from June 1829 through March 1858.
Collection ID: C0338
Thomas Philip Le Fanu Papers, 1868-1942
Consists of selected Irish theater related records of Thomas Philip Le Fanu, an official working in the Public Record Office in Dublin.
Collection ID: C0856
Stuart Merrill Collection, 1895-1915 (mostly 1900-1911)
Consists of letters and a poetry manuscript of the American poet, translator and bohemian Stuart Merrill (1863-1915).
Collection ID: C0794
Léon-François Hoffmann Collection on Haitian Literature, 1936-2009
Consists of correspondence in French between Léon-François Hoffmann and Haitian poet René Depestre, including handwritten letters, faxes, and several other documents. Other additions include photocopies of correspondence between Haitian writer and politician Jacques Roumain and his wife Nicole Hibbert.
Collection ID: C1103
Princeton University Library Collection of William Henry Jackson Photographs, circa 1880-1890s
This collection consists of five cabinet card Albumen photographs and one photograph album. The cabinet cards depict depict Pikes Peak in Colorado and the surrounding environs. The photograph album consists of 115 images of Colorado primarily, with some images of New Mexico, that depict various scenes of frontier towns, railroads, and natural landscapes. Most, if not all, of the photographs can be attributed to the American photographer William Henry Jackson (1843-1942), known for his iconic Indian portraits and landscape photographs of the American West.
Collection ID: C1488
Victor Gollancz Author Files, 1931-1997
Consists of the British publisher Victor Gollancz's author files on Miguel Ángel Asturias, Edith Sitwell, and Richard Wright.
Collection ID: C1467
Historical Novels of Jere Wheelwright, 1948-1954
Consists of signed typescripts and galley proofs for four works of historical fiction by author Jere Wheelwright (1905-1961), (Princeton Class of 1927).
Collection ID: C0449
Frédéric Gaillardet Manuscripts, 1836-1877
Consists of several manuscripts, some of which are unpublished, by French lawyer, politician, and writer, Frédéric Gaillardet (1808-1882), including a partial manuscript draft of L'Aristocratie en Amérique (Paris, 1883) and several other manuscripts, notes, documents, and clippings, primarily relating to Gaillardet's time and travels in the United States, Canada, and Cuba from 1837 to 1848, particularly his time in Louisiana, Mississippi, and other southern states. Also included are manuscript drafts of unpublished plays and other writings.
Collection ID: C1519
Ashley Brown collection of Caroline Gordon, 1956-1980
Consists of selected manuscripts and letters of American novelist and literary critic Caroline Gordon, collected by Ashley Brown, a friend and fellow author.
Collection ID: C0249
Selected Papers of William B. Bamford, 1900-1947
Consists of selected papers of civil engineer William B. Bamford, a member of the Princeton University Class of 1900.
Collection ID: C0597
Marianne Moore Collection, 1935-1969
Consists selected correspondence and manuscripts of celebrated American poet Marianne Moore.
Collection ID: C1130
Samuel Finley Collection, 1756-1766
Consists of selected correspondence and documents of Samuel Finley, fifth president of Princeton University.
Collection ID: C1055
Edwin Arlington Robinson Letters, 1899-1968
Consists of original letters and transcriptions of additional letters by Edwin Arlington Robinson, American poet and winner of three Pulitzer Prizes.
Collection ID: C0193
Archives of John Day Company, 1926-1969
The collection consists of editorial correspondence and some business material of the American publisher.
Collection ID: C0123
George Russell Brown Family Collection, 1865-1932
Consists primarily of documents and newspaper clippings about Civil War veteran George Russell Brown and college essays of his son, Princeton student George Russell Brown, Jr.
Collection ID: C1017
Douglas Goldring Collection, 1926-1960
Consists of selected correspondence of Douglas Goldring, English writer and journalist.
Collection ID: C1066
F. Anstey Collection, 1884-1920
Consists of selected correspondence of Thomas Anstey Guthrie ("F. Anstey"), a popular British writer of humorous fantasy novels.
Collection ID: C1068
18th-century French Documents, 1700-1799
Consists of approximately 100 miscellaneous eighteenth-century French documents.
Collection ID: C0575
Dickinson Family Collection, 1790-1865
Consists chiefly of correspondence and documents from 1861-1862 when S. Meredith Dickinson was commissioned as a paymaster in the United States Navy, assigned to the U.S. sloop of war Dale.
Collection ID: C1047
William Taggart Meloy Yellowstone Scrapbooks, 1900-1901
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.
Collection ID: C1648
Louis O. Coxe Letters to William Meredith, 1939-1984
Consists of approximately 110 letters by Louis O. Coxe (Princeton Class of 1940) to his former classmate, fellow poet, and friend William Meredith, primarily during the 1940s and 1970s.
Collection ID: C0730
Rev. Alford Kelley Collection, 1886-1927
Consists of selected manuscripts of sermons, verse, and crossword puzzles by Rev. Alford Kelley, a Presbyterian minister in Baltimore, Maryland.
Collection ID: C1101
Harold McGraw Papers, 1978-1992
Consists of selcted papers, primarily photocopies, of publisher Harold W. McGraw, Jr.
Collection ID: C1002
J. H. Stocqueler Letters to John Philippart, 1846-1871
Consists of 34 letters of British author J. H. Stocqueler to military writer John Philippart.
Collection ID: C1028
Walter Kauzmann Papers, 1940-1993
Consists of correspondence and miscellaneous materials related to Walter Kauzmann's work on the Manhattan Project and his career as a professor of chemistry at Princeton University.
Collection ID: C0978
"Paul Revere's Horse" Collection, 1949
Consists of the corrected typescript of a collection of essays by A. C. M. Azoy (Princeton Class of 1914) on 18th- and 19th-century United States military history, entitled Paul Revere's Horse (1949).
Collection ID: C0139
Howard C. Rice Correspondence with Alexander D. Wainwright, 1950-1980
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.
Collection ID: C1183
"Migrant Pennsylvanian" by Marcus S. Hottenstein, 1966
Consists of a typescript copy (carbon) of Migrant Pennsylvanian, an unpublished autobiography by lawyer Marcus S. Hottenstein, in which he reflects on the changes in transportation, economics, politics, and entertainment which took place during the decades from his birth in 1876 up to 1966.
Collection ID: C0454
Néstor Perlongher Letters to Martha "Beba" Eguía and Ricardo Piglia, 1989-2012
Consists of 24 letters from Argentine poet, activist, and anthropologist Néstor Perlongher (1945-1992) to artist and translator Martha "Beba" Eguía and her husband, the novelist Ricardo Piglia, including a draft of "Evita Vive."
Collection ID: C1421
Pablo Le Riverend Correspondence, 1971-1987
Consists of letters to Cuban-American poet Pablo Le Riverend from Cuban émigré poets Lucas Lamadrid y Moya (1919-1987) and Matías Montes Huidobro (1931- ) and from Spanish poet Miguel Luesma Castán.
Collection ID: C0694
Compton Townsend Correspondence, 1816-1832
Consists of early nineteenth-century correspondence between Townsend Compton in London, England, and his relatives and friends in Philadelphia.
Collection ID: C1037
Greenwich Island, Pennsylvania, Collection, 1782-1796
Consists of 72 18th-century documents for accounts, tax collection, or the sale of land in the Township of Greenwich, in Berks County, Pa.
Collection ID: C1070
F. Van Wyck Mason's "Stars on the Sea" Typescript, 1940
Consists of the printer's typescript for American novelist F. Van Wyck Mason's novel Stars on the Sea.
Collection ID: C0040
Alan Bell Sermons, 1815-1834
Consists of the manuscripts of twenty-one sermons preached by nineteenth-century English clergyman Alan Bell.
Collection ID: C0389
Princeton University Library Collection of Alois Beer Photographs, circa 1890
Consists of an open collection for general photographs of sites and subjects in Greece.
Collection ID: C1370
Showles Circus Costume Collection, 1866-1870
William Showles (1856-1924) was an American circus equestrian. The Showles Circus Costume Collection consists of parts of costumes--caps, shoes, jackets, tights, and an equestrian hat--worn by members of the Showles family, equestrians who traveled with small circuses from the mid-1800s until after the beginning of this century.
Collection ID: TC067
Margarita Aguirre Correspondence, 1958-1981
Consists of correspondence between Chilean author Margarita Aguirre and novelist and fellow countryman José Donoso.
Collection ID: C0267
James B. Gray Scrapbooks, 1851-1852
Consists of 10 scrapbooks of newspaper clippings compiled by historian James Gray in the early 1850s from various newspapers in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Collection ID: C0895
Erwin Panofsky Letters to Mrs. Alfred Barr, 1932-1967
Consists mostly of letters by German-American art historian Erwin Panofsky to friend and art historian Margaret Scolari Barr.
Collection ID: C0050
Gypsy Rose Lee Collection, 1941
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.
Collection ID: C1107
Henry Hill Collection, 1808-1839
Consists of a file of nineteeth-century correspondence and documents primarily relating to Henry Hill's commission as United States consul in Salvador, Brazil.
Collection ID: C1076
Joseph Lea Correspondence, 1799-1802
Consists of correspondence (approximately 125 letters) between Joseph Lea (Princeton Class of 1802) and his father, Thomas Lea.
Collection ID: C0875
Ruth Bernhard Papers, 1910s-2013 (mostly 1938-2006)
Correspondence, personal and business files, publicity materials, drafts, photography props, teaching materials, appointment books, and memorabilia of Ruth Bernhard (1905-2006), a German-born American photographer and teacher, active in the United States from the late 1920s through the early 2000s, best known for her complex black-and-white still lifes and classical photographs of the female nude. The papers contain professional correspondence and files, personal correspondence with friends and students, a small amount of photographic work and writings, some drafts and proofs for publications, publicity folios, exhibition catalogs and announcements, posters, props used for still life photography and teaching, planners, and a large collection of memorabilia, including snapshots of Bernhard, collected fine art photographs and artwork by others, photograph albums, gifts, personal effects, awards, and some audio and visual materials.
Collection ID: C1468
Sergio Ramírez Papers, 1916-2005 (mostly 1963-2002)
Sergio Ramírez has been a leading Nicaraguan author and politician. In 1977 Ramírez became head of the "Group of Twelve", a group of prominent intellectuals who supported the struggle of the Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional (FSLN) against the dictatorship of Anastasio Somoza Debayle. With the triumph of the Revolution in 1979, he became part of the Junta of the Government of National Reconstruction and in 1984 he was elected vice-president under Daniel Ortega. The collection consists of manuscripts of his writings, source materials, personal, literary and political correspondence, papers and documents related to Ramírez's political career and to Nicaraguan political history, writings of others, photographs, and graphic and printed materials.
Collection ID: C1123
P.E.N. American Center Records, 1922-2008 (mostly 1930-1989)
Consists of files created by P.E.N. American Center as part of its regular business operations since its founding in 1922. Includes material on governance and policies, programs, awards, and financial aid granted to authors, and the center's involvement with International P.E.N. and other P.E.N. organizations worldwide. The collection is especially notable for its extensive author correspondence and occasional original manuscripts, as well as audio and video recordings of P.E.N. programs and events.
Collection ID: C0760
Saúl Yurkievich Papers, 1960-2005
Saúl Yurkievich is an Argentine poet and literary critic. The collection consists of his personal and literary papers. It includes some of Yurkievich's poetic and prose-poetic manuscripts, correspondence with writers, scholars, critics and publishers and extensive subject files.
Collection ID: C1293
Booth Tarkington Papers, 1812-1956 (mostly 1899-1946)
Consists of extensive writings -- novels, plays, short stories, articles, film scenarios, radio scripts -- and correspondence of "The Gentleman from Indiana" Booth Tarkington, noted American author and winner of the Pulitzer Prize.
Collection ID: C0062
Modern Greek Studies Association Archives, 1968-2013
Consists jointly of the files of the Modern Greek Studies Association (MGSA), established in 1968, and its official publication, the Journal of Modern Greek Studies , which began in 1983.
Collection ID: C0821
J. O. Simmons Papers, 1836-1889
Consists of correspondence, financial documents (e.g. account books and receipts), ephemera, and legal documents (e.g. permits, contracts, and affidavits) from J. O. Simmons (1821-1890). Simmons worked in a variety of professions in Ohio, Minnesota, Mississippi, Louisiana, and the Dakota Territory, including as a merchant, storekeeper, farmer, attorney, surveyor, county clerk, justice of the peace, and homeopathic doctor. The collection largely documents agricultural and mercantile exchanges on the Mississippi River during and after the American Civil War, the employment of African American and immigrant laborers during the early Reconstruction era, and land dispute issues among white settlers in the Territory of Dakota in the 1870s.
Collection ID: C1665
Sarah Goodspeed Papers, 1913-1915
Consists of photographs, correspondence, and other papers of Sarah Goodspeed, a white Christian missionary for the Woman's American Baptist Home Mission Society (WABHMS), documenting her work on the Crow Indian Reservation in Pryor, Montana, in the 1910s. Materials include a linguistic journal, eighty photographs of Crow and Ojibwa (Ojibwe, Chippewa) people, handwritten poetry and notes, several letters and postcards, and printed and typescript articles and essays.
Collection ID: C1663
Simone de Beauvoir Letters to Françoise and Hélène de Beauvoir, 1914-1968 (mostly 1918-1968)
This collection consists of over 400 letters from French writer, philosopher, and feminist theorist Simone de Beauvoir to her mother, Françoise de Beauvoir, and sister, Hélène de Beauvoir (also referred to as Henriette), dating from October 1918 to December 1968.
Collection ID: C1667
Maria Edgeworth Papers, 1799-1852
Consists primarily of Maria Edgeworth's notebooks and sketchbooks for various literary projects. There is also correspondence between Edgeworth and others, including letters to various publishers concerning the printing of her work, as well as a small amount of miscellaneous material including rent slips, a copy of her poem "Jacob," a copy of a will of a publisher at Baldwin & Craddock, an advertisement for an octavo edition of her work, and a leather carrying case.
Collection ID: C1664
Princeton University Library Collection of Amiri Baraka Materials, circa 1963-1986
An open collection of manuscripts and other papers related to the writings of American author Amiri Baraka (1934-2014).
Collection ID: C1668
Anton Tedesko Papers, 1913-2005 (mostly 1922-1990)
Anton Tedesko (1903-1994) was a German-born American structural engineer, best known for his extensive work in reinforced thin-shell concrete design, often on significant industrial, institutional, and government construction projects, largely in the United States during World War II and the Cold War. The papers consist of Tedesko's writings, correspondence, calculations, engineering drawings and designs, personal papers, photographs, reference materials and technical journals, along with some film reels and glass lantern slides, including materials from his time at the Dyckerhoff & Widmann and Roberts & Schaefer firms, representing his professional work and activities from the 1920s through the 1990s.
Collection ID: C1478
Guillermo Cabrera Infante Papers, 1962-1988
Consists of manuscripts and correspondence of the Cuban novelist and storywriter Guillermo Cabrera Infante (1929-2005). These papers contain published work and screenplays from 1964 through 1982, a manuscript of Three Trapped Tigers (1971), the English translation of Tres tristes tigres (1967), and film stills from Wonderwall (1968). Furthermore, the collection contains extensive correspondence between Cabrera Infante and literary agents, publishers, film producers, Latin American writers, and others.
Collection ID: C0272
Samuel Miller Papers, 1754-1898 (mostly 1800-1849)
Contains writings and correspondence of and relating to Samuel Miller, a nineteenth-century American Presbyterian clergyman and author.
Collection ID: C0277
John Wild Autograph Collection, 1548-1904 (mostly 1800-1850)
Consists of over 2,000 autograph items of prominent English and European figures from the 16th to the mid-19th centuries compiled by the English collector John Wild.
Collection ID: C0047
Arthur Symons Papers, 1883-1945
Consists of manuscripts, typescripts, notebooks, tear sheets, clippings, photographs, watercolors, paintings, and much miscellaneous material of British poet, literary critic, and translator Arthur Symons.
Collection ID: C0182
Thomas Jefferson Wertenbaker Papers, 1910-1959
Thomas Jefferson Wertenbaker was an American historian who taught at Princeton from 1910 to 1947. He was internationally recognized and wrote a number of important historical works. In 1947, he was president of the American Historical Association. His papers consist of Wertenbaker's works, correspondence, photographs, miscellaneous material, and printed matter.
Collection ID: C0359
Louis Adamic Papers, 1848-1951 (mostly 1921-1951)
Louis Adamic was an author deeply concerned with American immigrants and their experiences in the "melting pot." This collection consists of papers of Adamic, including manuscripts of his books, short stories, articles, and lectures, as well as sketches, paste-ups, and proofs of Adamic's own journal T & T. Also included are correspondence, subject files, and works of other writers.
Collection ID: C0246
John Peale Bishop Papers, 1913-2008
John Peale Bishop (Princeton Class of 1917) was a noted author, poet, and editor. This collection consists of manuscripts, correspondence, documents, drawings, printed materials, and memorabilia of Bishop.
Collection ID: C0138
George Segal Papers, 1936-2010 (mostly 1970-1999)
Business files, correspondence, photographs, artwork, writings, and clippings of George Segal (1924-2000), 20th-century American sculptor, artist, and photographer active from the late 1950s until 1999. The papers contain photographs taken by and of the artist, correspondence and all business files relating to exhibitions, records of the production of public commissions, writings by and about Segal, audio and visual media, and exhibition catalogs.
Collection ID: C1303
Henry Martin Papers, 1949-2003 (mostly 1980-1999)
Consists of scrapbooks of tearsheets and clippings, original artwork in pencil and in pen and ink, correspondence, financial documents, periodicals, permission agreements, and contracts spanning Henry Martin's career as a cartoonist and illustrator.
Collection ID: C1686
Warren Alfred Stark Papers, 1947-1957 (mostly 1950-1952)
Consists of correspondence, photographs, newspapers, and ephemera belonging to missile researcher Warren Alfred Stark that document his time in the United States Army at the White Sands Proving Grounds in New Mexico during the Korean War and the early years of the Cold War. The majority of the collection consists of correspondence between Warren Stark and Jean Anne Baldwin Stark (1928-1999), his girlfriend and later wife, and other family members and close friends.
Collection ID: C1679
Muzio Pansa Manuscripts, circa 1586-1630
Consists of twelve mostly unpublished manuscripts from Renaissance scholar, Muzio Pansa. He was a medical doctor and humanist writer from the Abruzzo region in Italy, though he completed his studies in Rome. The works in this collection range from fragments to tomes, and range in subject matter as well; in addition to the lecture notes from his university days are Pansa's unpublished Latin treatise on pharmacology, his pious Italian tragedy, Il mundo redento (published posthumously), writings on theology, and the De osculo, a significant work in the history of Renaissance Neo-Platonism.
Collection ID: C1671
Anne Buchanan Crosby Collection of Galway Kinnell Letters and Manuscripts, circa 1957-2006 (mostly 1957-1995)
Consists of letters from American poet Galway Kinnell (1927-2014) to English artist Anne Buchanan Crosby (b.1929), together with several annotated poetry typescripts and manuscripts authored by Kinnell.
Collection ID: C1680
Renée Weiss Papers, 1939-2006
Consists of professional and personal correspondence, travel diaries and related ephemera, notebooks, writings, and files relating to the Quarterly Review of Literature (QRL) of editor and writer Renée Karol Weiss (1923-2021). Some materials relate specifically to Renée's husband, poet and professor Theodore Weiss (1916-2003).
Collection ID: C1655
Glen Shoemaker and Douglas Bates Columbia River Dam Sites Aerial Photographs, 1935 September- 1937 May
Consists of 177 silver gelatin aerial photographs taken by civil engineers Glen Walter Shoemaker (1892-1982) and Douglas Bates (1893-1963) for the Portland District U.S. Amry Corps of Engineers documenting the Columbia River during the Great Depression as construction and installation of power generating machinery at the Bonneville Dam project began changing the flow and nature of the river.
Collection ID: C1681
Faber and Faber Author File on Jacob Peter Mayer, 1943-1989 (mostly 1943-1960)
Consists of an author file kept by the British publishing house Faber and Faber and editor T. S. Eliot (1888-1965) on Jacob Peter Mayer (1903–1992), a German-born scholar of Alexis de Tocqueville, Karl Marx, and Max Weber and professor at the University of Reading. There are letters from T. S. Eliot and other Faber and Faber editors to Mayer, as well as related contracts, publication lists, publishers' catalogs, and book proposals.
Collection ID: C1683
Marquis Du Bouzet, Letters to his Mother, 1826-1831
Consists of 62 ALsS by Marquis du Bouzet to his mother, written while on service in the French Navy in the Mediterranean. The letters range in date from 1826 to 1831.
Collection ID: C1631
Uel Merrill Fisk Lectures, 1856-1868
Consists of a series of manuscript lectures by U. M. (Uel Merrill) Fisk, a white Universalist pastor and lecturer on the radical abolitionist lecture circuit in New York and New England in the years leading up to and during the American Civil War. The lectures in the collection from this period argue for the abolition of slavery, and another from the Reconstruction Era advocates for voting rights for Black men.
Collection ID: C1684
John Farson III Photograph Albums of the Evans School, 1925-1926
Consists of two photograph albums belonging to John Farson III documenting his preparatory school years at the Evans School in Arizona from 1925 to 1926.
Collection ID: C1735
Iōannēs Despotopoulos Collection of Photographs, circa 1920-1929
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.).
Collection ID: C1733
Vassilaki Kargopoulo Photographs Collection, circa 1850-1886
Collection of photographs by Vassilaki Kargopoulo. Images depict a wide range of sites and subjects in and around Istanbul, including the Princes' Islands in the Sea of Marmara, Adrianople, as well as the greater area of Bosporus. There are also images of traditional professions and costumes. On the reverse of several photographs, there are attached etchings of historical buildings in Istanbul, Turkey.
Collection ID: C1732
Emily Brown Reports and Memoranda for the War Relocation Authority and the Federal Security Agency, 1871-1988 (mostly 1944-1946)
Primarily consists of reports, memoranda, and drafts of speeches and press releases created in the course of Emily Brown's work for various government agencies during and following World War II, in particular, the War Relocation Authority, where she worked in the Reports Division, and the Federal Security Agency.
Collection ID: C1736
Maria P. Hedden Diaries, 1892-1925
Consists of 24 diaries kept by Maria P. Hedden of Edgartown, Massachusetts, on Martha's Vineyard.
Collection ID: C1737
Lucy A. Merrill Diaries, 1873-1931
Consists of 25 diaries, primarily kept by Lucy Amanda Merrill of Hudson, New Hampshire.
Collection ID: C1738
Joseph O'Connor Papers, 1981-2020 (mostly 1989-2020)
Joseph O'Connor is an Irish novelist, screenwriter, playwright, journalist, broadcaster, poet, and professor of creative writing. The collection consists of drafts, research, publicity, and recordings related to O'Connor's books and plays for radio, screen, and stage; as well as notebooks and diaries, correspondence, business and publicity files, and photographs.
Collection ID: C1652
Stuart Mills Papers, 1956-2017
Consists of notebooks, manuscripts, correspondence, photographs, and ephemera documenting the working career of the poet and small-press publisher, Stuart Mills (1940-2006).
Collection ID: C1654
Pluto Press Publisher Files, 1982-2017 (mostly 1997-2010)
Consists of Pluto Press publisher files produced by scholars writing about the conflicts of the Middle East, containing 164 publisher's files for 113 books. Pluto Press is a British independent book publisher founded in 1969 and is known for being a radical political publishing house that focuses on contemporary issues. Collection includes correspondence between authors and publishers, publishing contracts, financial projects, press releases, author questionnaires, chapter drafts, and cover designs. The collection spans the years 1982-2017, with the bulk of materials from 1997 to 2010.
Collection ID: C1707
Van Coufoudakis Collection of Materials Relating to Cyprus and Greece, 1971-2001
Consists of correspondence, writings by others regarding the Cyprus Problem, literature about several organizations, conferences, and seminars. There are also printed material, mostly offprints relating to the
Collection ID: C1704
Jacques Roumani Research Files on Libya, circa 1910-1990
Consists of research files, primarily government records, of scholar and author Jacques Roumani (1944-2016) on Libya during the period of Italian colonization.
Collection ID: C1708
Collection of Modern Greek Postcards, 1903-1940
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.
Collection ID: C1709
Collection of Documents Related to the Incarceration of Japanese Americans at Tule Lake Relocation Center, 1941-1945
Consists of a collection of thirty-one miscellaneous documents concerning the incarceration of Japanese Americans by the United States government during World War II at the Tule Lake Relocation Center (later Tule Lake Segregation Center) and other American concentration camps. Most of the materials in this collection relate to a 1943 loyalty questionnaire and the resulting segregation at Tule Lake of those labeled as "disloyal," which led to thousands of incarcerated Japanese Americans deciding to renounce their U.S. citizenship and apply for repatriation to Japan. Materials document resistance efforts by organized groups, such as Sokuji Kikoku Hoshi-dan, as well as individual acts of resistance by incarcerees.
Collection ID: C1710
Thomas J. Kofodimos Papers, 1927-1998
Consists of documentation that Thomas Kofodimos pulled together, when he was trying to find a United States publisher for his English translation of Lephousēs' book Asēmina Laiou. Also, includes letters from Ēlias Lephousēs to Thomas Kofodimos and to Joan Kofodimos, family photographs, and miscellaneous photographs of ELAS (Greek People's Liberation Army) leaders, materials related to Kofodimos' escape from Greece to the United States, information about his career after coming to the United States, various memoirs and personal history, death notices and obituaries of Kofodimos' published both in the United States and in Greece.
Collection ID: C1706
Avramidou Collection of Modern Greek Playbills, 1942 November-1944 October
Consists of a collection of 103 bilingual and trilingual playbills (written in Greek, German, and Italian), together with handwritten and typed leaves including information about the date of performance and detailed notes for each play.
Collection ID: C1647
Sergei Alekseyev Correspondence, 1915-1987, (mostly 1964-1970)
Consists of correspondence, photographs, and emphera sent to Ina Tillman from her friend Sergei Alekseyev in the Soviet Union (Siberia). Tillman and Alekseyev were pen pals, and, as Esperantists, they used Esperanto to communicate with each other. The collection spans 1915 to 1987, with a bulk of the collection being their correspondence from 1964 to 1970.
Collection ID: C1705
George H. Hoyt Papers on John Brown, 1859-1893
Consists of affidavits, clippings, correspondence, and photographs, mostly related to abolitionist lawyer George H. Hoyt's work as an attorney for John Brown (1800-1859). Materials shed light on the Virginia v. John Brown trial that followed Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry, as well as Hoyt's participation in the American Civil War and abolitionist movements.
Collection ID: C1675
Alice Cort Holden Papers, 1870-1978 (mostly 1870-1919)
Consists primarily of correspondence and printed material, along with two diaries from 1926, a matted postcard, a photogravure plate, and a piece of hair jewelry. These family papers primarily center on Alice Holden (née Cort), as the correspondence are letters between members of the Cort family, or letters to her from her children. The collection largely documents the relationships of the Holden and Cort families in New York state between the 19th and 20th centuries.
Collection ID: C1669
Flores and Viramontes Families Papers, 1880s-1989 (mostly 1900-1954)
Consists of a group of family photographs, ephemera, and other papers belonging to the Flores and Viramontes families, two interconnected Mexican American families living in southwest Texas and New Mexico in the 20th century.
Collection ID: C1670
United Spanish War Veterans Mrs. Edmund Rice Auxiliary Meeting Records, 1906-1922
Consists of three meeting ledgers documenting the activities of the Mrs. Edmund Rice Auxiliary of the United Spanish War Veterans, an American women's organization run by suffragists and philanthropists that advocated for veterans and their families during the first two decades of the 20th century, including during World War I.
Collection ID: C1673
Haynes McMullen Data Cards for American Libraries before 1876, circa 1960-2000
Consists of librarian Charles Haynes McMullen's data cards (numbering about 10,000) that McMullen compiled for his publication American Libraries before 1876 (2000).
Collection ID: C1666