Alan S. Downer Collection, 1939-1970
Consists of personal papers of Alan S. Downer, Princeton professor of English (1946-1970), including correspondence, articles, lecture notes, and photographs, as well as material relating to various professional organizations to which he belonged, much of it associated with American theater.
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Alan W. Richards Photographs of Princeton University Athletics, 1946-1970
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Alan Windsor Richards was a freelance photographer known for the images he captured of people and events associated with Princeton University from the mid-1940s through the late 1960s. The collection consists of photographic negatives and a very few photographic prints of images captured by Richards of Princeton University athletes and sports events.
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Albert Einstein Duplicate Archive, 1859-1979 (mostly 1912-1955)
Consists of a photocopied duplicate archive of the original Albert Einstein Archive at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, divided into scientific and non-scientific sections, including published and unpublished manuscripts, articles, lectures, notebooks, notes, travel diaries (1925-1933), family papers, and correspondence.
50th Anniversay of Theory of Relativity, 1949-1955
Corresponds to microfilm reel V file 3. File 32 in compl. works. 5-090 to 5-124.
70th Birthday (Addresses, Articles, Clippings), 1949
Corresponds to microfilm reel 30 file 12. 30-1094 to 30-1124.
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Albert Mathias Friend Papers, 1913-1955
Albert Mathias Friend, Jr. (Princeton Class of 1915), was an officer and a scholar. Friend served in World War I and then did his graduate studies in art and architecture in Europe, studying and salvaging the great works of art and architecture that may have been damaged by the fighting. He then worked with Harvard's Dumbarton Oaks Research Library before becoming a professor at Princeton University. The collection contains notes and course materials from Friend's time as a student and as a professor, correspondence, and some of his research materials, photographs, and negatives, focusing on medieval art and architecture in Greece, Rome, and other Mediterranean cultures.
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Albert Montefiore Hyamson Papers, 1940-1948
Albert Montefiore Hyamson was a British civil servant, Zionist author, and historian who served from 1917-1921 in the Jewish Bureau of the United Kingdom Department of Information and from 1921-1934 in Mandate Palestine as Director of Immigration. The Albert Montefiore Hyamson Papers consist primarily of reports written by the Palestine Group in the The Royal Institute of International Affairs, correspondence regarding Palestine between Hyamnson and J. L. Magnes, and a small amount of clippings.
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Albert O. Hirschman Papers, 1900-2008 (mostly 1950-2000)
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Albert O. Hirschman (1915- ) was a leading scholar in the field of economic development whose work focused on Latin America but encompassed the globe. He was a professor at Yale, Columbia, Harvard, and the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. Hirschman's papers document his scholarship on economic development and his academic career and include his correspondence written while he was at the Institute for Advanced Study, his writings, and his research notes and materials, especially related to his work in Latin America and for the World Bank.
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Albert Schweitzer Collection, 1896-1976 (mostly 1930-1965)
The collection contains both original and printed material relating to Albert Schweitzer, the French missionary physician who founded the Lambaréné Hospital in French Equatorial Africa in 1913 and who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1953 for his philosophy of "reverence for life."
About Dr. Schweitzer--Before 1956 [magazines], 1947, 1949-1950, 1953-1955
13 magazines or magazine pages with articles about Schweitzer, including a brochure (1955), "Liber Librorum," describing an international project designed to celebrate the 500th anniversary of the 42-line Gutenberg Bible, where Albert Schweitzer's hospital in Lambaréné is listed as the recipient of any profit that might arise from the venture
About Dr. Schweitzer--Ross List [32-51], 1949-1966
9 articles, clippings, and magazines, with articles, about Schweitzer [organized numerically to correspond with numbers given on a list of Schweitzer Articles donated by Mr. Mrs. Emory Ross, affiliates of The Albert Schweitzer Fellowship--New York]
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Alejandro Rossi Papers, 1812-2010 (mostly 1955-2009)
The Alejandro Rossi Papers consist of personal notebooks, manuscripts, correspondence with writers, academics, editors and artists, and printed material of the writer.
Series 2: Correspondence, 1949-2009
The correspondence files reveal the depth and breadth of Rossi's involvement in a variety of intellectual circles in Mexico and abroad. While the format may have changed over the years from typed or handwritten letters to faxes and emails, the regularity and discipline with which Rossi corresponds with his friends and associates does not at all diminish. If anything, it even flourishes in later years.
Series 3: Documents and Photographs, 1812-2009
Includes materials that Rossi considered important, such as founding documents of Vuelta and two items related to his ancestor, the Venezuelan general José Antonio Páez [1790-1873]. This series also includes several scrapbooks that were assembled around the time of Rossi's death.
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Alexander D. Wainwright Collection of Thomas Wolfe, 1924-1989
Alexander D. Wainwright (Princeton Class of 1939) was an avid bookman and collector. He had a lengthy career at the Princeton University Library, serving as assistant university librarian for collection development and as curator of the Morris L. Parrish Collection of Victorian Novelists. His collection consists of of manuscripts, correspondence, drawings, and related material by and about Thomas Wolfe, the American novelist, playwright, and storywriter.
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Alexander Leitch Princeton, Harvard, and Yale Scrapbooks Collection, 1925-1945
Alexander Leitch was a member of the Princeton Class of 1924 and an administrator at Princeton University for the entirety of his professional career, most notably holding the Office of the Secretary from 1933 to 1963. Consists of 55 oversized scrapbooks assembled by Alexander Leitch '24 during his career as a Princeton University administrator.