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Photographs collected by Albert Elsasser, circa 1901-1956
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Folder includes one campus photograph with Marquand Chapel, Whig Hall and Clio Hall visible; a photograph of Dinky railroad tracks with Little Hall and Blair Arch visible; an April, 1949 photograph of Harold Stassen and Albert Elsasser at the dedication of the Princeton University Library; three photographs of the 1947 Bicentennial Procession; and one photograph by Elizabeth Menzies of the West Stairway of Nassau Hall stairwell, accompanied by a note from Menzies to Elsasser (1956). Albert Elsasser taught in the English Department at Princeton University between 1924 and 1962.
Robert Wagner Photographs, 1940s-1950s
The 2022 donation includes 1950s slides of buildings on campus, two prints of Professor Pascu, and a photograph of a science lab.
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Typescript of "The Negro in the Western World Theatre" by Randolph Edmonds, circa late 1940s
A typescript of an unpublished book, Randolph Edmond's "definitive history of the Negro in the theatre." In the brief Acknowledgements section, Edmonds references a grant-in-aid by a Research Committee at Florida A College where he was teaching. A Forward was to have been written by Allardyce Nicoll, then a Professor of the History of Drama at the University of Birmingham in England. Some of the chapters include, "White Playwrights and Negro Characters," "White Actors in Blackface," "The Negroes Own Efforts," "Negro Stereotypes," "Negro Bands and Jazz," "The Negro Little Theatre Movement," and other chapters on radio, motion pictures, and music and dance in theatre.
Violette Leduc Manuscript Draft of "Je hais les dormeurs", circa 1948
Consists of a handwritten draft of Violette Leduc's "Je hais les dormeurs," which was first published in the journal L'Arbalète in 1948 and later in a heavily condensed version at the end of her novel Ravages (1955). The first twenty-three pages contain the entire text and are numbered and signed on the last page. The draft also includes a dedication to Jean Genet, a note mentioning Marc Barbezat (editor of L'Arbalète), typographer's notes, and corrections. Four additional pages are also present, the numbering of which resumes on page twenty-six. These offer a modified version of the end of the story. Leduc's signature appears on the last page accompanied by the note "bon à tirer" ("ready to print.")
Byron Coroneos press photographs of Haiti, circa 1946-1955
Consists of 32 silver prints of Haitians just after the Haitian Revolution of 1946 and into the 1950s. The photographs include images of agricultural and artisanal work, marketplaces, and the streets of Port-au-Prince during the Mardi Gras Carnival. Many of the photographs include captions that document the subject matter and location of the image.
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Clippings: Archivo Familia Fuentes-Macías, circa 1947-1969 (mostly 1947-1955)
Consists primarily of clippings related to Carlos Fuentes' parents, Rafael Fuentes and Berta Macías, particularly in relation to his father's diplomatic career. Also included are black-and-white photographs with images of Rafael Fuentes, Miguel Alemán Valdés, and other government officials.
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Dekavalles, Antōnēs, circa 1948-1977
Includes a carbon copy of "Pagan Days in a Circus"; a printed copy of "Aegean Pebbles" with inscription; explanatory notes on Dekavalles' poems; carbon copies of "The New Poetic Voices, The Third Stage of Modernity"; and "New Voices and their Precedents" by Dekavalles.
The Charioteer: A Quarterly Review of Modern Greek Culture, circa 1948-1961
Includes typed manuscripts with autograph corrections of the third issue of The Charioteer dated 1961 plus page proofs.
Skouterēs, Nikos, circa 1948
Includes three signed, autograph poems by Skouterēs: "Ho gyrismos" with an English translation, "Nychterino", and "Typhloi diavates", two of them are dated in1948.
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Hermann Broch Collection, 1938-1972
Consists of mostly English correspondence and manuscripts of the Austrian author Hermann Broch.
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Series 4: Posters, circa 1948-1960
Series 4: Posters, circa 1948-1960 contains posters advertising University Players productions.
Subseries 3B: Additional Photographs, circa 1948-1958
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Series 5: Scrapbooks, Clippings and Programs, 1948-1961
Series 5: Scrapbooks, Clippings and Programs, 1948-1961 consists of a scrapbook, newspaper clippings, and programs from University Players productions.
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Universities, circa 1948-1960
This folder contains photographs pertaining to college campuses other than Princeton, such as Magdalene College in Oxford, the University of Massachusetts Boston, the University of Ghent in Belgium, and a few others.
Forrestal Campus, circa 1941-1974
This folder contains photoraphs and photography contact sheets of the Forrestal Campus before and after its 1951 dedication. Included are photographs of the Rockefeller Medical Center grounds on which the Forrestal Campus was built, buildings in which Project Matterhorn experiments were conducted, the construction of the Forrestal Campus, the dedication of the Forrestal Campus, the Plasma Physics Laboratory, the external proton beam building, the Princeton-Penn Accelerator, the chemical kinetics section, and an architectural rendering of the Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor (TFTR). Also included are photographs of the Cyclotron running schedule in Jadwin Hall and the Biochemical Sciences Laboratory (Hoyt). Photographs of the following individuals are included: Queen Elizabeth II (?), a bust of Secretary of Defense James Forrestal, Secretary of Defense Robert Lovett, Lewis Strauss, Peter Forrestal, Michael Forrestal, Dodds, Governor Alfred Driscoll, Assistant Secretary of Energy Robert D. Thorne, and Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor Project Manarger Paul J. Reardon.
IAS - Einstein, circa 1933-1965
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The photographs in this folder focus mainly on Einstein at the Institute of Advanced Studies in Princeton, as well as other physicists at IAS. Included are photographs of the grounds of IAS, mainly Fuld Hall. The images of Einstein range from his youth to the age of 72. There are photographs of Einstein's daily life and a photograph of his desk (Einstein's Desk) and Einstein on a bicycle. Also included are the image of Einstein and David Ben-Gurion on the Einsteins' lawn in Princeton, as well as a photograph of Einstein on a bike in front of his home in Santa Barbara. Other physicists in these photographs include: David Ben Gurian,Arnold Toynbee, Gerald Clemence, Eugene Wigner, Kurt Godel, Rudolf Ladenberg, Niels Bohr, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Freeman Dyson, and Nobel Laureates Tsung Dao Lee and Chen Ning Yang.
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Galley Proofs and Originals, circa 1948-1959
Includes "Report from Spain," "Eisenhower: A Political Memoir," and "America the Vincible"
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Robert V. Keeley Papers, 1918-2008
Robert Vossler Keeley ('51) was a U.S. Foreign Service member and writer who served in a number of posts. The Robert V. Keeley Papers consist of reports, correspondence, writings, journals, and photographs from the breadth of Keeley's career, including his Foreign Service postings in Uganda, Cambodia, Mauritius, Zimbabwe, and Greece, as well as correspondence and other materials created and kept by Robert Keeley's wife, Louise Keeley.