W. S. Merwin Collection, 1964-1969
Consists of selected correspondence, manuscripts, and galler proofs of W. S. Merwin, one of the most influential American poets of the latter 20th century.
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World War I in France Photographs, 1914-1918
Consists of a collection of photographs of World War I scenes in France that were tipped into photo albums. Some of them have appeared in published works.
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World War II Collection, 1940-1946
Consists of selected correspondence, manuscripts, and other material related to World War II.
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Woodrow Wilson Collection, 1837-1986 (mostly 1883-1924)
The Woodrow Wilson Collection consists of Wilson holdings which have been acquired by the Princeton University Library Special Collections gradually over many years by purchase and gifts from many sources. The collection is rich in material prior to Wilson's presidential years, although it is not limited to this period; researchers will find materials documenting both the public and private life of Woodrow Wilson. Various types of information written by or about Wilson are present in the collection, including manuscripts, addresses, articles, correspondence, telegrams, legal documents, booklets, pamphlets, photographs, portraits, cartoons, newspapers and scrapbooks.
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Woodrow Wilson Additional Materials, 1761-1974
The Woodrow Wilson Additional Materials consist of materials that the Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library has acquired on Woodrow Wilson since the mid-1990s.
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W. J. Linton Collection, 1840-1897
William James Linton was an English-born engraver and political activist. The collection consists of 36 of Linton's letters, related correspondence, and other miscellaneous materials. Three manuscripts of poems, possibly Linton's, a manuscript of a novel by Elizabeth Fitzgerald, and unidentified artwork complete the collection.
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Winton Dean Collection, 1957-1984
Consists primarily of twenty-seven years of correspondence between music scholars J. Merrill Knapp and Winton Dean regarding George Frideric Handel's operas and their professional work and writings about them.
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Winthrop M. Daniels Correspondence, 1911-1942
Contains selected correspondence of economics professor Winthrop M. Daniels (Princeton Class of 1888).
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William Yarrell Collection, 1830-1961 (mostly 1833-1856)
Consists of letters and drawings of William Yarrell, a nineteenth-century British naturalist, and related printed matter.
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William Wordsworth Collection, 1799-1847
Consists of selected autograph manuscript poems and correspondence of William Wordsworth, one of England's most respected poets of the nineteenth century.
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William Watson Collection, 1892-1917
Consists chiefly of correspondence of the British poet William Watson with his publisher, Grant Richards.
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William Vans Murray Collection, 1786-1800
Consists of four commonplace books kept by William Vans Murray, an American diplomat and minister to the Netherlands, during the years 1786 to July of 1800.
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William Oliver Strunk Collection, 1937-1979
Consists of selected papers of W. Oliver Strunk, who was a professor of music at Princeton University (1937-1966).
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William Michael Rossetti Collection, 1868-1907
The William Michael Rossetti Collection consists of manuscripts, sketches, correspondence, and miscellanea of the English art critic and essayist William Michael Rossetti (1829-1919).
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William H. Tower Collection, 1380-1950 (mostly 1700-1949)
Consists of envelopes both used and unused (also known as covers), letters, postcards, documents, postage stamps, and a variety of other philatelic material from around the world as collected and annotated by the Reverend William Hogarth Tower (1871-1950). The collection spans the topics of English Postal History, United States Postal History, War Covers, Philatelic Miscellany, and Franking.
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William Hayley Collection, 1775-1819
Consists of selected correspondence and poetical manuscripts of English poet William Hayley, the biographer and friend of William Cowper.
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William Francis Magie Papers, 1875-1945 (mostly 1875-1920)
Consists of miscellaneous academic records and manuscripts of William Francis Magie, distinguished Princeton physics professor and dean.
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William Faulkner Collection, 1932-1961
Consists of manuscripts and letters of American novelist and Nobel Prize winner William Faulkner and related materials, including manuscripts of Maurice Coindreau's translation into French of four Faulkner novels.
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William Dean Howells Collection, 1863-1919
Consists of correspondence and selected manuscripts of the American critic, novelist, poet, and playwright William Dean Howells.
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William Charles Macready Collection, 1810-1866 (mostly 1825-1855)
William Charles Macready (1793-1873) was an English actor and theater manager. The collection consists of selected correspondence, letters written by members of his family, and some letters, articles, and miscellaneous documents about him. A significant number of letters (45) are from Macready's friend, William Frederick Pollock.
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William A. Packard Collection, 1857-1878
Consists of selected papers of classics professor William A. Packard.
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William Allingham and Helen Paterson Allingham Collection, 1855-1916
Consists of selected correspondence (1885-1887) of Irish writer William Allingham and twenty-seven letters (1892-1916) by his wife, watercolorist Helen Paterson Allingham, to artist William George Daffarn.
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William Alexander Collection, 1778-1813
This collection contains documents and correspodence of and about General William Alexander of the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War. This correspondence maninly concerns military tactics and includes Colonel Peabody, Alexander Hamilton, and General John Peter Muhlenburg.
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Whitney Jennings Oates Correspondence, 1949-1959
Consists primarily of correspondence of Whitney Jennings Oates (Princeton Class of 1925) during his tenure as a professor of Classics at Princeton University.
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W. H. Auden Collection, 1941-1952
Consists of selected correspondence, manuscripts, and photographs of the Anglo-American poet W. H. Auden, one of the most acclaimed poets of the 20th century.
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Western European Theater Political Pamphlet Collection, 1894-1918
These pamphlets were collected by the Princeton University Library starting from the outbreak of World War I. The collection contains pamphlets published in Europe during and immediately after World War I. They cover a broad range of topics including the economy, the press, the military, arms, territorial disputes, and others. The collection also includes speeches, sermons, bulletins, calendars, and songbooks.
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Western Americana glass plate negatives collection, 1920-1922
Consists of 319 glass plate negatives of landscape scenes in the Western United States, including the South Dakota Badlands and Yosemite Valley, taken on various geological and palaeontological expeditions under the aegis of Princeton University from 1920-1922.
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"We Saw It Happen" Collection, 1937
Consists of the typed manuscripts of We Saw It Happen (1938), edited by Hanson W. Baldwin and Shepard Stone, each chapter contributed by a different correspondent of the New York Times. The work details major news stories chronicled by important journalists of the day.
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W. B. Yeats Collection, 1888-1950 (mostly 1888-1937)
Consists of selected material by and about the Irish poet and dramatist William Butler Yeats, including correspondence, a poetry manuscript, photographs, family items, and Cuala Press ephemera.
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Washington's Birthday Celebration Records, 1880-1932
Princeton University's Washington's Birthday Celebration Records consist of collected programs, odes, schedules, and clippings pertaining to the University's commemoration of Washington's birthday throughout its history.
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Washington Irving Collection, 1831-1858
Consists of selected manuscripts, correspondence, and documents of Washington Irving, often called the first American man of letters.
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Warner Fite Collection, 1906-1928
Collection contains the correspondence of Warner Fite ( a philosophy professor at Princeton University) with other writers, philosophers, professors and publishers.
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Wanted Outlaws Posters Collection, 1911-1915
The Wanted Outlaws Posters Collection contains 10 wanted posters for horse theft, larceny, counterfeiting, and murder from Colorado, Idaho, Montana, South Dakota, Utah, and Wyoming.
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Walter Minto Collection, 1787-1793
Consists of selected correspondence and documents of the eighteenth-century Scottish mathematician Walter Minto, who was one of Princeton University's earliest teachers of mathematics.
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Walter Lowrie Papers, 1843-1978 (mostly 1891-1959)
The collection consists of autobiographical material and other works such as manuscripts of books, sermon outlines, prayers, articles, and essays; correspondence with family during the time Lowrie was in Europe (especially letters to his mother), but also correspondence with friends and colleagues, particularly Howard A. Johnson, a long-time friend and executor of his estate; photographs of religious art presumably used for his books; documents including certificates and agreements with book publishers; printed matter including reprints of published works; and writings and documents created by Howard A. Johnson and other Kierkegaard scholars.
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Voula Papaiōannou photographs collection, 1900-1999
Papaioannou was born in Lamia and grew up in Athens (Greece). She began working as a photographer during the 1930s, concentrating at first on studies of landscapes, monuments and archaeological exhibits. The outbreak of war in 1940 marked a turning point in her career, as she was intensely affected by the suffering of the civilian population of Athens. Realizing the power of her camera to arouse people's conscience, she documented the troops departing for the front, the preparations for the war effort, and the care received by the first casualties. When the capital was in the grip of starvation, she revealed the horrors of war in her moving photographs of emaciated children. After the liberation, as a member of the photographic unit of UNRRA (United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration), she toured the ravaged Greek countryside recording the difficult living conditions faced by its inhabitants. She often exceeded her brief, immortalizing the faces and personal stories of ordinary people in photographs that stressed dignity rather than suffering. During the 1950s Papaioannou's work expressed the optimism that prevailed in the aftermath of the war with respect to both the future of mankind and the restoration of traditional values. Nevertheless, her photographs of the historic Greek landscape are not in the least romantic, but instead portray it as harsh, barren, drenched in light, and its inhabitants proud and independent, despite their poverty. Voula Papaioannou's work represents the trend towards "humanitarian photography" that resulted from the abuse of human rights during the war. Her camera captured her compatriots' struggle for survival with respect, clarity, and a degree of personal involvement that transcends national boundaries and reinforces one's faith in the strength of the common man and the intrinsic value of human life. (http://www.benaki.gr/index.asp?id=1020103&lang=en) Consists of an open collection of Papaiōannou photographs.
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Virgilio Piñera Collection, 1941-1984
Virgilio Pinera (1912-1979) was a Cuban novelist, playwright, and storywriter. The collection consists of his works, including manuscripts of various poems, an unfinished play, theatrical sketches, and prose essay. The collection also contains Piñera's extensive correspondence with Humberto Rodriguez Tomeu (1919-1994), a Cuban short story writer and translator, and Witold Gombrowicz's correspondence with Rodriguez Tomeu.
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Violet Hunt Collection, 1890-1939
Consists of selected correspondence of Violet Hunt, the British author and biographer.
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Vietnam War Manuscript Village Maps, 1960-1969
Collection of detailed manuscript maps of Vietnamese villages dating from the Vietnam War years, showing mostly villages in the Quang Ngai Province (2 villages in the Quang Tri Province), with color-coded tissue overlays that identify the political sympathies of the residents in the village houses.
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Vaudeville Collection, 1895-1931
The Vaudeville Collection consists mainly of playbills of vaudeville productions with souvenir books, printed matter, clippings, and miscellaneous material.
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Vardaman Collection, 1881-1927
Mansel V. Boyle (1877-1945) was a popular vaudeville performer best known by the stage name Vardaman. Active on the vaudeville circuit from 1901 through 1925, Vardaman was billed as a female impersonator, often appearing on programs as "Vardaman, the Gay Deceiver" or "Vardaman, the Auburn-haired Beauty." The collection consists of papers of Vardaman, including personal and business correspondence, appointment books, route sheets, contracts, scripts, photographic materials, clippings, and playbills, as well as photographs and printed materials documenting other vaudeville, minstrel, and burlesque performers active from the 1880s through the 1920s.
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Vachel Lindsay Collection, 1903-1930
The Vachel Lindsay Collection consists of correspondence, poetry manuscripts, photographs, drawings, and printed material of the American poet Vachel Lindsay (1879-1931).
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Throop and Martin Family Papers, 1693-1951
Contains manuscripts, correspondence, documents, and photographs concerning the Throop and Throop Martin families of New Jersey. In addition to the family correspondence, there is an autograph collection and other miscellaneous items.
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Thomas Potts Johnson Collection, 1769-1846
Consists of miscellaneous papers relating to Thomas Potts Johnson's legal practice covering the New Jersey counties of Hunterdon, Middlesex, Monmouth, Somerset, and Essex; papers pertaining to his position as New Jersey attorney general; and two family photograph albums.
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Thomas Picton Collection, 1768-1807
Consists of selected manuscripts of New Jersey Rev. Thomas Picton.
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Thomas Nast Manuscript Collection, 1860-1922
Consists of selected correspondence of American political cartoonist Thomas Nast. Nast's popular artwork influenced presidential elections in the latter half of the nineteenth century, and the letters in this collection reflect both the professional and personal sides of his life.
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Thomas Mann Collection, 1881-1971
Consists of letters, manuscripts, photographs, and other materials from Nobel Prize winning author Thomas Mann, given by Caroline Newton, and also of those collected by Princeton University Library with funds provided by Caroline Newton.
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Thomas Jefferson Collection, 1781-1826
Consists of two manuscripts and assorted correspondence by the architect, scientist, author, and third president of the United States Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826).
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Thomas James Wise Collection, 1894-1932
Consists of selected correspondence of Thomas James Wise, the English bibliographer and noted forger of the early 20th century
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Thomas Bewick Collection, 1818-1826
Consists of several letters and woodcuts of 19th-century English engraver Thomas Bewick.
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Thomas Bailey Aldrich Collection, 1856-1898
Consists of selected correspondence and manuscripts of Thomas Bailey Aldrich, an influential nineteenth-century American poet, short story writer, and editor.
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Thomas A. Edison Collection, 1880-1925
Consists primarily of correspondence, both original and photocopies, of Thomas A. Edison, the most influential American inventor of the twentieth century.
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Theodore Wratislaw Collection, 1928-1933
Consists of correspondence, typescript poems, and corrected proofs of the British poet Theodore Wratislaw. The bulk of his correspondence is with John Gawsworth, pseudonym of British writer and poet Terence Ian Fytton Armstrong.
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Theodore Watts-Dunton Collection, 1878-1914
Consists of selected correspondence and a poem by the English critic and poet Theodore Watts-Dunton.
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The Library of Jacques Derrida, House Series, 1793-2013
Consists of the personal library of French philosopher Jacques Derrida and members of his household.
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Theatrical Autographs Collection, 1798-1949 (mostly 1870-1935)
Consists of a collection of letters and autographs of over 120 English, American, and a few European actors, actresses, playwrights, theatrical managers, directors, critics, and others connected with the theater from the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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Theater Photographs Collection, 1901-1976 (mostly 1925-1955)
The Theater Photographs Collection contains still photographs of American actors and actresses as well as scenes from plays and includes clippings and printed matter.
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Theater People Subject Files, 1850-1988
Consists of files (clippings, programs, books, caricatures, etc.) on people involved in theater, from the mid-19th century through the late 1980s, including actors, dramatists, directors, scholars, and designers.
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Tennent Family Papers, 1755-1936 (mostly 1770-1795)
Consists of miscellaneous eighteenth-century papers of several members of the Tennent family of New Jersey and South Carolina.
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Taos Blue Lake Collection, 1947-1972 (mostly 1954-1970)
Taos Pueblo lost thousands of acres of land as well as Taos Lake, a sacred Pueblo shrine, when Carson National Forest was created in 1906. After a sixty-four year fight, the government returned the land to the Pueblo. This collection brings together four discrete collections: the papers of Barbara Greene Kilberg, a White House Presidential Fellow at the time of the dispute; the papers of Corinne Locker, secretary to Association on American Indian Affairs (AAIA) president Oliver LaFarge (1901-1963) and later AAIA Southwest Field Secretary; the papers of Rufus G. Poole, regional attorney for the AAIA in New Mexico, and the papers of William G. Schaab, an Albuquerque attorney who became involved in the fight in 1967.
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Syllabi and Course Materials Collection, 1826-2005
The Syllabi and Course Materials Collection brings together original materials from the university archives that document the content of classes taught at Princeton University.
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Student Dances Collection, 1838-1936
Dances at Princeton, especially popular in the years prior to the Second World War, were generally held in the gymnasium and were organized by a committee of faculty and staff. This collection consists of materials documenting dances attended by the students of Princeton University in the late 19th and early 20th century.
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Student Academic Work Collection, 1862-2009
This collection consists of essays, notes on readings, laboratory notebooks, drawings and similar academic work products created by Princeton students.
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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).
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Stone Seals Collection
Consists of 244 stones used in Mesopotamia and adjacent areas of the ancient Near East from prehistoric times to make impressions in clay, particularly seals on clay tablets and their envelopes.
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Steward and Refectory Records, 1782-1869
The Steward and Refectory records relate to various expenses incurred by students while at Princeton. They are divided into two series. The first, refectory accounts, consists predominantly of lists of students and the amounts due from each for itemized expenses including room and board, tuition, library, servant wages, washing, damages and fuel. Other materials include bills, various accounts and reports, an inventory of furniture belonging to the kitchen in 1816, and bills, accounts and reports relating to the building of a new refectory in 1834-35. The second series consists of accounts, vouchers, correspondence, receipts and statements of expenses relating to the University Steward. The 1869 Steward's file consists of a list of local boarding houses and the owners, student residents and payments.
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Stereographs of Athens, 1905
Consists of 10 pairs of stereoscopic images (mostly 7.4 x 7.1 cm.) of Athens by the Neue Photographische Gesellschaft A.G. [New Photographic Society], ca. 1905 .
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Stephen Thurston Farwell Collection, 1856-1893
Consists mainly of diaries of Stephen Thurston Farwell, a retail clerk living in Chicago during the Civil War who later travels overland to Denver.
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Stephen French Whitman Collection, 1880-1950
Consists primarily of manuscripts of Stephen French Whitman (Princeton Class of 1901), as well as correspondence and documents concerning their publication and the career of the author.
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Stephen Alexander Collection, 1827-1882
Consists primarily of correspondence of nineteenth-century American astronomer Stephen Alexander.
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Spanish Papal Nuncio Records, 1656-1675
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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Spanish Military Documents Relating to 19th Century Cuba, 1845-1976
Consists of Spanish legal and military documents relating to the administration of Cuba in the 19th century.
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Society of Friends Collection, 1775-1829
Consists of selected manuscripts, epistles, minutes and other documents related to the Society of Friends, members of which are informally known as Quakers.
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Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh Letters, 1900-1918 (mostly 1900-1904)
Consists primarily of twenty-seven autograph letters by Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh, English critic and essayist, to his English publisher, Edward Arnold.
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Sir Richard Owen Collection, 1824-1866
Consists of selected manuscript material of Sir Richard Owen, the nineteenth-century English biologist and paleontologist who coined the term "dinosaur."
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Sir Hall Caine Letters, 1882-1928
Consists of selected letters by British novelist and playwright Sir Hall Caine to Curtis Brown, Sir Martin Conway, Ford Madox Brown, James Fitzmaurice-Kelly, and several others.
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Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones Collection, 1871-1940
Consists chiefly of 48 letters by Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones to his daughter, Margaret Burne-Jones (1866-1953), who married J. W. MacKail, a biographer of William Morris, in 1888.
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Signers of the Declaration of Independence Collection, 1765-1813
Contains one or more letters and/or documents of each of thirty-six signers of the Declaration of Independence.
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Shippen Family Collection, 1750-1810 (mostly 1750-1783)
Consists of correspondence, manuscripts, and documents of several members of the prominent Shippen family of Philadelphia during the colonial, revolutionary, and early federal periods. Portions of the material are related to the College of New Jersey and its move from Newark, N.J. to Princeton, N.J.
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Sherwood Anderson Collection, 1922-1943
Consists of selected correspondence and manuscripts of American fiction writer Sherwood Anderson.
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Sergeant Family Collection, 1746-1843
Consists of selected correspondence and documents by and about three members of the Sergeant family and their relationship with the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University) during the Colonial period: Jonathan Sergeant, his son Jonathan Dickinson Sergeant, and his grandson John Sergeant.
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Selected Papers of Ulric Dahlgren, 1864-1936
Consists of writings, correspondence, and subject files of Ulric Dahlgren (Princeton Class of 1894), a professor in Princeton's Department of Biology.
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Selected Papers of Neilson Abeel, 1916-1947
Consists of selected papers of poet Neilson Abeel (Princeton Class of 1924).
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Selected Papers of Edward Naumburg, 1882-1993
Consists of correspondence, files relating to collecting interests, and miscellanea of the American stockbroker and manuscripts collector Edward Naumburg (Princeton Class of 1924).
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Selected Papers of A. Edward Newton, 1893-1940
Consists of letters by and collected by the American essayist, bibliophile, and author Alfred Edward Newton (1863-1940).
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Sebah & Joaillier Photographs Collection, 1880-1890
The Sebah & Joaillier Photographs Collection consists entirely of 19th-century photographs of Constantinople and the surrounding area.
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Screenplays Collection, 1931-1979
Consists of screenplays for over 500 films produced by Columbia Studios, Paramount Pictures, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Twentieth Century Fox, and others.
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Scrapbook collection of playbills, 1808-1967 (mostly 1880-1950)
Consists of 486 scrapbooks of playbills covering not only theater but also opera, ballet, and music.
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Scrapbook Collection, 1843-1954 (mostly 1860-1920)
This collection contains scrapbooks created by Princeton students which document their social and academic activities while undergraduates.
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Saxe Commins Papers, 1930-1973 (mostly 1945-1960)
Consists of the papers of Saxe Commins, concentrating primarily while he was chief editor at Random House (1933-1958). Commins worked with many major writers of the literary world, such as Eugene O'Neill and William Faulkner, as well as Irwin Shaw and Budd Schulberg. Commins also compiled several collections of others' works, such as "The Public Papers and Addresses of Franklin D. Roosevelt" and "Major Speeches of Adlai E. Stevenson."
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Samuel Stanhope Smith Collection, 1772-1817
Consists of manuscripts, letters, and documents of Samuel Stanhope Smith, covering, for the most part, the years (1795-1812) he served as president of the College of New Jersey, now Princeton.
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Samuel Shellabarger Collection, 1916-1956
Samuel Shellabarger attended Princeton University as member of the Princeton Class of 1909 and was an English professor between 1914-1923. The collection contains Samuel Shellabarger's manuscripts for two biographies and five works of historical fiction, as well as a small amount of miscellaneous material related to his writings.
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Samuel Ladd Howell Family Collection, 1797-1838
Consists of selected eighteenth- and nineteenth-century papers of Samuel Ladd Howell and other members of the Howell family of Woodbury, Gloucester, and Princeton, New Jersey.
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Samuel Finley Collection, 1756-1766
Consists of selected correspondence and documents of Samuel Finley, fifth president of Princeton University.
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Samuel Davies Collection, 1752-1931 (mostly 1752-1759)
Consists of selected correspondence and several manuscript sermons of Samuel Davies, fourth president of Princeton University.
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Samuel Beach Family Collection, 1783-1884
Consists of eighteenth-century correspondence and documents of Princeton graduate (Class of 1783) Samuel Beach and mostly 19th-century material relating to the Beach and Jones families.
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Samuel A. Farrand Collection, 1848-1906
Consists of selected correspondence and documents by and about Samuel Ashbel Farrand, an American educator who was headmaster of the Newark Academy from 1859 to 1865 and 1875 to 1908.
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Royal Danish Ballet Photographs, 1960
Consists of approximately 90 photographs of Royal Danish Ballet performances available from dance publicist Isadora Bennett, together with her detailed notes and numeration for each picture.
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Rose Cecil O'Neill letters to Mr. and Mrs. William Curtis Gibson, 1912-1927
Consists of letters by Rose Cecil O'Neill, the American children's book author and illustrator, and inventor of the Kewpie doll, to her friends William Curtis and Fannie Gibson.
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Roosevelt Family Collection, 1911-1959
Consists of selected correspondence and documents of several members of the Roosevelt family.