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Daniel Webster Collection, 1824-1852

C1279 1 box 0.2 linear feet
Consists of selected correspondence and documents of and about Daniel Webster, the nineteenth-century American attorney, congressman, and secretary of state.

Harpur Allen Gosnell Papers, 1890-1937

AC350 1 box
Harpur Allen Gosnell was a member of the Princeton University Class of 1912 who went on to become an engineer and a member of the Naval Reserve. The Harpur Allen Gosnell Papers consist of various documents pertaining to Gosnell's ultimately unsuccessful efforts to initiate a Princeton University chapter of the Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps between 1927 and 1930. Also in the papers are several items of a more personal nature relating to Gosnell's childhood.

Avramidou Collection of Modern Greek Playbills, 1942 November-1944 October

C1647 1 box 0.2 linear feet
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.
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Roland S. Morris Papers, 1855-1988 (mostly 1915-1929)

MC214 4 boxes
Roland S. (Sletor) Morris was a leader of the Democratic Party in Pennsylvania and was the ambassador to Japan from 1917-1921. The Roland S. Morris Papers consist of correspondence, diaries, writings, and other materials that document Morris's family life, political involvement in the Democratic Party, and his position as the U.S. Ambassador to Japan from 1917-1921.

Thomas J. Kofodimos Papers, 1927-1998

C1706 2 boxes 0.6 linear feet
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.
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Award Ceremony, 1983-1995

Consists of materials related to Thomas Kofodimos' award ceremony in Volos (Greece) including the program and photographs of the honorary event in 1995. There are also other printed material regarding the 46th anniversary of EAM, the contribution of the 54th Regiment ELAS during the National Resistance, a handwritten English translation of the Resolution of the City of Volos to award Kofodimos with the city's silver metal for his actions and accomplishments during the resistance as commander of the 54th Regiment ELAS.
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Documentation and Efforts to Get "Asēmina" Published in English, 1977-1996

Consists 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". Included are letters from Kofodimos to Stratis Haviaras, copies of newspaper clippings containing critiques on Lephousēs' book "Asēmina Laiou", and a copy of a contract for tranlsation in Bulgarian. According to Jean Kofodimos, translating and publishing this book was Lephousēs' request to Kofodimos.

H. Freeman Matthews, Jr. Papers, 1947-1999

MC277 2 boxes
H. Freeman Matthews, Jr., son of H. Freeman Matthews, was a career Foreign Service officer, serving with the State Department from 1952 to 1991. The collection consists of materials documenting Matthews, Jr.'s service with the State Department, in particular, his time as Deputy Chief of Mission in Cairo from 1976 to 1980.

Lloyd E. Cotsen Papers, 1949-2021

COTSEN6 71 boxes 109.85 linear feet
The Lloyd E. Cotsen Papers consist of papers and personal items of Lloyd Cotsen's related to his time as an executive at Neutrogena Corporation, his art and book collection practices, his philanthropic contributions, his archaeological interests, and photographs shot by Cotsen. Items related to the production of Cotsen Occasional Press publications are also included. Material dates from 1949 to 2021.
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Cotsen Occasional Press records, 1996-2018

Comprises correspondence, production samples, proofs, photographs, and notes which document the production of Cotsen Occasional Press publications including: Japanese Bamboo Baskets (1999), Early Chinese Textiles from the Lloyd Cotsen Collection (2015), The Box Project (2016), Education in the Earliest Schools (2008), and Lloyd Cotsen Study Collection of Chinese Bronze Mirrors (2012).
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Lloyd Cotsen's card files

Undated card files created by or for Lloyd Cotsen, probably while he was an executive at Neutrogena. The first set of cards provides details for business contacts, art and antiquity dealers, restaurants, hotels, and places of interest in various US states and cities. The next set of cards provides business contacts, art and antiquity dealers, restaurants, hotels, and places of interest in various countries. Card files also include an incomplete card catalog of purchases for Cotsen Children's Library (with gaps, G-K and U-Z are not present). A card file containing material related to Cotsen's retirement and a card file containing miscellaneous recipes are also included.

Lawrence Rauch Papers, circa 1932-1951

AC393 3 boxes
Lawrence Rauch was a Princeton University graduate student (Ph.D. Mathematics, 1949) and a pioneer in the field of radio telemetry. The bulk of the collection consists of letters written home by Rauch during his time as a graduate student at Princeton from 1941 to 1949, which document Princeton academics and student life as well as Rauch's work in radio telemetry, and include references to his defense work for the United States government.
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Princeton Equality Project Records, 2015-2016

AC445 140 digital files
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The Princeton Equality Project, founded in 2010, is an activist group focused on LGBT issues. The Princeton Equality Project records document the the group's activities during the 2015-2016 school year.
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Kim Worthington Oral History Collection on Nelson Mandela and South Africa, 2016

MC293 34 items
The collection consists of seventeen oral history interviews conducted by Kim Worthington, a graduate student in Princeton University's Department of History, as part of her research for her Ph.D. dissertation on the writings of and about Nelson Mandela.
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Ayob, Ismail, 2016 July 26

Ayob describes his legal career (including his defense of Winnie Mandela on several occasions), the circumstances surrounding the publication of various biographies on Nelson Mandela, and his visits to Mandela during Mandela's imprisonment. He also briefly discusses the national government in South Africa in the years since Mandela's tenure as president.
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Gerhart, Gail, 2016 November 17

Gerhart discusses her academic interest in South Africa and her impressions of well-known figures in South African history whom she met, such as Steve Biko and Robert Sobukwe. She also recounts the process of writing and publishing Nelson Mandela's autobiography, on which she served as an editor for factual accuracy.