Gordon Merrick Papers, 1936-1991 (mostly 1954-1988)
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The Gordon Merrick Papers consist primarily of drafts of the manuscripts of Merrick's novels, written over a thirty-nine year period, from the late 1940s ( The Strumpet Wind, 1947) to the mid-1980s ( Measure of Madness, 1986). Also present is his business and financial correspondence with agents, publishers, and banks over a twenty-one year period, from 1967 until his death in 1988. In addition there is a clipping file which dates back to Merrick's first experiences as an actor in the 1930s, as well as photographs taken for publicity as well as for Merrick's personal collection.
Subseries 2B: Personal Correspondence, 1948-1954
The personal correspondence is minimal but includes nine items from E. M. Forster, the British novelist, one of which deals at length with Merrick's earliest work, The Strumpet Wind. A Christmas card, undated, includes a picture of Forster in his study. There is also a note from composer Leonard Cohen who knew Merrick from having spent much time in the Greek islands.
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Jerome Karabel Papers, 1936-1999
Jerome Karabel is an American sociologist known for his research on university admissions policies. Consists of materials compiled by Jerome Karabel while researching for his 2005 book The Chosen: The Hidden History of Admission and Exclusion at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton. The papers contain correspondence, memoranda, reports, and other documents.
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Historic, Descriptive and Subject Files Relating to or About the William Seymour Theatre Collection, Covering the Years of Operation as a Separate Library Unit, 1936-2000
Files include correspondence about the founding of Princeton University Libray's William Seymour Theatre Collection, the gala dinner opening night, efforts to enlarge the collection in the 1940 to 1960s, and descriptive writings about the collection by the various curators.
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Burgi Collection of Modern Greek Theater Playbills, Second Series, 1936-2001
This collection contains playbills from Greece.
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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.
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George Segal Papers, 1936-2010 (mostly 1970-1999)
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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.
Subseries 7A: Education, 1937-1964
This subseries contains notebooks, transcripts, syllabi, correspondence, a yearbook, papers and projects corresponding to Segal's education at P.S. 70 in the Bronx and at Stuyvesant High School in Manhattan from 1930 to 1941, Cooper Union School of Art from 1941 to 1942, Rutgers University (part-time) from 1942 to 1946, Pratt Institute of Design from 1947 to 1948, New York University from 1948 to 1949, and Rutgers University (Master of Fine Arts) from 1961 to 1963. The bulk of the material dates to Segal's time at New York University from 1948 to 1949.
Series 7: Education and Early Career, 1937-1964
This series contains material related to Segal's formative years as a student and an educator at a number of New York and New Jersey institutions. Materials include assignments, syllabi, projects, lesson plans, transcripts and ephemera accumulated over the course of Segal's primary, secondary, college-level and post-graduate studies as well as his experiences teaching from 1958 to 1964.
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D. Hugh Peniston, Class of 1941, Papers, 1936-2013 (mostly 1935-1942)
D. Hugh Peniston graduated from Princeton University in 1941. This collection includes his course notes and coursework along with his letters home during his undergraduate years.
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Elmer C. Werner Papers, 1937-1945 (mostly 1942-1945)
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The records of Elmer C. Werner (diaries, notes, clippings) document an impeded Internal Revenue Service investigation into contributions from Brown & Root, Inc. to Lyndon Baines Johnson's 1941 United States Senate campaign.
Diary, 1945
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Theodore Spencer Journals, 1937-1947
Consists of personal journals of Theodore Spencer, American poet and essayist, and distinguished Harvard University literature professor.
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Series 1: U.S. Government and United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA), 1937-1948
The U.S. Government and United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) series is composed of government reports, Cleveland's writings, and correspondence related to the many positions Cleveland held related to economic aid during the 1940s, especially with the Farm Security Administration, the Allied Control Commission in Rome, and the UNRRA. The subjects of the reports include the development of policies, reporting on the logistics of aid programs, and histories of the programs. The correspondence includes both memoranda about the policies and issues of the organizations and Cleveland's correspondence with his family. Also included are papers, diaries, and family correspondence from when Cleveland was a student at Princeton University and Oxford.
Harlan Cleveland Papers, 1937-2006 (mostly 1960-1979)
Harlan Cleveland (1918-2008) was a public administrator, ambassador to NATO, and a political scientist. He served in several positions related to the administration of economic aid programs during the 1940s, as an assistant secretary in the State Department and as U.S. ambassador to NATO during the 1960s, and also held positions at three universities and the Aspen Institute. Cleveland's papers document his government service and his work at the Aspen Institute, and include his speech and writings files, as well as correspondence and photographs.
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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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Subseries 1A: Correspondence, 1937-1981
Consists of correspondence of the Orchestra of America, including city and state officials, supporters of the orchestra, and the New York College of Music, as well as others.
Series 1: Orchestra of America, 1937-1981
Consists of papers of the Orchestra of America, including correspondence, legal documents, photographs, and printed material.
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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.
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Series 1: Diaries, 1937-1956
Consists of the diaries of Robert Warren Anthony, including notes on a trip to Italy, the Conference of Science, Philosophy and Religion at Columbia University, and Activities as Field Secretary of the Servicemen's Council of the Federation of Churches of Greater New York.
Robert Warren Anthony Papers, 1937-1959
The Robert Warren Anthony Papers consists of diaries, notes, reports, correspondence, and photographs of the American Presbyterian clergyman Robert Warren Anthony (1880-1960, Princeton Class of 1902).
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Selected Papers of William Meredith, 1937-1967
Consists, for the most part, of letters to American poet William Meredith (Princeton Class of 1940) from American authors, most of whom have been associated with Princeton.
Series 1: Correspondence, 1937-1982
Consists of correspondence with individuals such as R. P. Blackmur, Christian Gauss, Peter Rushton, and Allen Tate, as well as others.
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Borgese Family Collection, 1937-1970
Consists of manuscripts, correspondence, photographs, postcards, and clippings of Elizabeth Mann Borgese, her husband, Giuseppe Antonio Borgese, and her mother, Katia Mann.
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Series 2: Correspondence Files, 1937-1999
Consists of the business ( QRL-related) and personal correspondence of Theodore Weiss (exceptions noted above in Series 1). Correspondents include many of the authors listed in the Author/Issue index.
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George R. Collins Papers, 1937-1985
Consists of notebooks and notes taken by George R. Collins during his years as an undergraduate and graduate student at Princeton (Classes of 1939, 1942) in the fields of art and architecture.
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H. L. Mencken Correspondence with Dent Smith, 1938-1945
Consists of 108 letters by Mencken to Dent Smith between the years 1938 and 1945, with Smith's side of the correspondence present in carbon copies.
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Booth Tarkington Letters to the Burrages, 1938-1946
Consists of 42 letters by novelist Booth Tarkington to Mildred and Madeleine Burrage, friends that he and his wife made in Kennebunkport, Maine.
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Radio Scripts Collection, 1938-1947
The Radio Scripts Collection consists of typescripts of scripts for various radio programs such as "The Cavalcade of America" (represented by the most scripts), "The Eternal Light," "Books and Authors," "What's New in Books," "Pepper Young's Family," "The Goldbergs," and others.
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Series 1: Princeton Years, 1938-1999
The Princeton Years series documents Crespi's career prior to joining the USIA . It includes correspondence, research notes, clippings, reports, and published articles relating to Crespi's graduate research at Princeton on gambling addiction, his research on German public opinion of the United States, and other research projects on topics such as such tipping in America and the Kinsey Reports. Also included is correspondence relating to his professorship at Princeton in the psychology department, and his time at UCLA as an undergraduate.
Leo P. Crespi Papers, 1938-1999 (mostly 1940-1985)
Leo Paul Crespi was a leading public opinion researcher best known for his studies of U.S. prestige abroad. The collection consists primarily of Crespi's public opinion research files and his early research files on gambling addiction.
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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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1938-1950 Speeches, 1938-1950
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Series 1: 1938-1952 and General, 1938-1952
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Series 1: 1938-1952 and General includes a memorandum on the content of the collection, a folder of speeches, and materials related to Adlai Stevenson's 1952 Presidential campaign.
W. Willard Wirtz Collection on Adlai Stevenson, 1938-2002 (mostly 1938-1966)
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W. Willard (Bill) Wirtz was a lawyer, an arbitrator, a law professor, and served as undersecretary and secretary of labor under Presidents Kennedy and Johnson. He was a speechwriter for, and close advisor to, Adlai Stevenson from 1952 to 1960. The W. Willard Wirtz Collection on Adlai Stevenson documents Stevenson's campaigns for president in 1952 and 1956, as well as Stevenson's political activities in 1960 and in between campaigns. Because Wirtz was a speechwriter in 1952, in charge of speech content in 1956, and a close advisor and occasional speechwriter at other times, this collection most strongly documents the campaign activities of drafting speeches and fine-tuning campaign policy.
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Princeton University Library Collection of Maria Chrousakē Photographs, 1938-1950s?
Consists of an open collection for Maria Chrousakē photographs of several places in Greece and Cyprus mostly Byzantine churches and monasteries and archaeological sites.
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Series 1, Correspondence and Subject Files, 1938-1977
Series 1, Correspondence and Subject Files, 1938-1977, contains correspondence and reference material. While some correspondence relates to Wilson's outside interests, a majority of the material in this series was compiled to aid in preparation for his course lectures. Many of these files relate directly to a particular course. Material for his courses includes syllabi, lecture outlines, and reading lists.
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Personal Correspondence to Renée and Theodore, 1938-1951
Includes letters from Renée's parents around the time of their marriage
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).
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Radio Broadcasting Collection, 1938-1959
The Radio Broadcasting Collection consists of typescripts of scripts for "The Cavalcade of America" and "The Bookman" as well as promotional material for the major radio networks, such as ABC, CBS, NBC, the Mutual Broadcasting System, and the Municipal Broadcasting System (WNYC). Included is material regarding the coverage of news during the latter years of World War II and copies of clippings about the Orson Welles broadcast of "The War of the Worlds" in 1938.
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Alice Raphael Collection of Faust Materials, 1938-1960
The Alice Raphael Collection of Faust Materials contains photographs and epherema relating to the Yale bicentennial of Goethe's Faust , for which Alice Raphael's translation was used, as well as information about other productions of Faust and about Raphael's other work.
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Antonio Pace Correspondence with Princetonians, 1938-1976
Consists primarily of incoming correspondence to Antonio Pace (1914-2004), a professor of Romance Languages at Syracuse University and the University of Washington, from Princeton faculty, particularly those in the fields of language and cultural studies, as well as from former Princeton classmates (*43). Other notable scholars are also represented. Some correspondents include: Gilbert Chinard (1881-1972), Claude Lévi-Strauss (1908-2009), Julian P. Boyd (1903-1980), Kenneth McKenzie (1870-1949), Theodore Fred Kuper (1886-1981), and Giuliano Bonfante (1904-2005).
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Erwin Panofsky Letters to the Burrages, 1938-1969
Consists primarily of letters by Erwin and Dora Panofsky to the artist Mildred Burrage and her sister Madeleine ("Bob").
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Subseries 5F: Study Files, 1938-1990
Consists of music, clippings, and writings by others that Frank Lewin collected as study materials.
Series 5: Business of Composition, 1938-2008
Consists of business files relating to composition and other projects of Frank Lewin. Contracts (originally Subseries 5B within the donor's arrangement scheme) were retained by Lewin's literary executor and are therefore not present in the collection.
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Calvin S. Hathaway Collection, 1938-1974
The Calvin S. Hathaway Collection consists of correspondence (especially with Florence C. Quinby), photographs, postcards, offprints, slides, and newspaper clippings of American Curator Calvin S. Hathaway (Princeton Class of 1930) relating to his collection on equestrian statues of the world.
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Series 1: Office of Research and Project Administration Records, 1938-2007
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The Office of Research and Project Administration Records consist of annual reports, board minutes, policies, and interoffice correspondence of ORPA. Additionally, it contains files assembled for large-scale university research projects such as the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, as well as on research-related issues such as the use of human subjects and biosafety. Also included in the collection are research proposals submitted to ORPA from academic departments in both the sciences and the humanities.
Office of Research and Project Administration Records, 1938-2010
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The Office of Research and Project Administration acts as coordinator for all grants sought by the University, and also ensures the conformance of University practice with governmental regulations. The collection consists of annual reports, board minutes, policies, and interoffice correspondence of ORPA. Additionally, it contains files assembled for large-scale university research projects such as the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, as well as on research-related issues such as the use of human subjects and biosafety.
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Series 3: Personal Materials, 1938-1998
The Personal Materials series contains materials that fall outside the scope of the organizations and professional activities that are included in Series 1. This includes miscellaneous correspondence to Carl and Hedda Fields, high school and college documents (including alumni activities), military papers, and memorial service programs and correspondence received posthumously.
Carl A. Fields Papers, 1938-2009 (mostly 1960-1998)
Educator and advocate of minority education Dr. Carl A. Fields, the first African American to hold a high-ranking position at an Ivy League school, was appointed Assistant Director of Student Aid and then Assistant Dean of the College at Princeton before serving in other leadership positions outside the University. The Carl A. Fields Papers consist of correspondence, reports, research material on race relations and minority education, handwritten notes, project proposals, and other papers that document his life and career.
Copies of photograph, St. John's honorary degree and citation, clippings on Fields, 1944-1998
Also includes the text of a 1996 lecture, "Changing Faces," by Georgia Nugent.
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Helmut Meyer Papers, 1938-2000
Helmut Meyer was a German-born American citizen who fought for the United States in World War II and founded the Helmut Meyer Literary Agency in New York City. The collection contains files from the Helmut Meyer Literary Agency, propaganda from both the Allies and the Axis from World War II, manuscripts of Meyer's own work, and correspondence from friends and clients.
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Series 1: Correspondence, 1939-1982
Consists of the correspondence of Robert H. Dicke, arranged by year.
Robert H. Dicke Papers, 1939-1996 (mostly 1953-1990)
Robert H. Dicke, born in 1916, was a Princeton physicist, educator, and author. The collection includes Dicke's professional correspondence, files from his work with the Office of Naval Research, NASA, and the National Science Board, and the National Science Foundation, and assorted other documents.
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Series 3: General, 1940-1962
Series 3: General, 1940-1962, arranged alphabetically by topic, contains articles and dispatches written by Hughes for Time-Life, Inc., notes and book reviews related to his monographs, newspaper clippings on Hughes, and schedules, calendar pages and diary notes related to the Eisenhower administration. Photos found at the end of this series include those for Report from Spain, official Navy photos from the trip on the U.S.S. Helena to Korea with Eisenhower, and a set of general photos kept by Hughes.
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Álbumes 35-40, 1939-1946
Incluye seis álbumes fotográficos con fotos de la infancia y la familia de Alma Concepción. Un álbum contiene detalles sobre Alma Concepción durante sus primeros meses.
Álbumes, 1939-2021
Esta serie consta de 42 álbumes organizados cronológica y temáticamente que documentan la vida de Concepción desde su infancia en Nueva York y Puerto Rico hasta su carrera como artista en las artes escénicas y como académica independiente. Contienen recortes, fotografías, programas, cartas, tarjetas postales, folletos, material de difusión y memorabilia que documentan la historia de las artes escénicas en Puerto Rico desde 1950 hasta principios de la década de 1980 y otros aspectos culturales de la vida puertorriqueña contemporánea en la isla y su diáspora en Estados Unidos. Contiene materiales que hacen referencia principalmente a los Ballets de San de Juan (codirigido por Ana García y Gilda Navara), y al Taller de Histriones (colectivo de mímica dirigido por Gilda Navarra), así como a numerosos bailarines puertorriqueños. También hay referencias a coreógrafos como George Balanchine; los bailarines Alicia Alonso, Antonio Ruiz, Carmen Amaya, Frederick Franklin, María Tallfchief, Jacques d'Amboise; músicos puertorriqueños como la Familia Figueroa, Jack Delano, Héctor Campos Parsi, Amaury Veray, Ernesto Cordero, y los artistas plásticos Lorenzo Homar, Rafael Tufiño y Antonio Martorell.
Archivo de Alma Concepción, 1939-2021
El archivo de Alma Concepción consiste principalmente en 43 álbumes de la bailarina, educadora y coreógrafa puertorriqueña Alma Concepción, que contienen fotografías, recortes, programas, cartas, tarjetas postales, folletos, material de difusión y memorabilia. También incluye escritos de Alma Concepción, material de investigación, imágenes digitales, recuerdos, afiches y partituras musicales.
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Sinclair Lewis, 1939-1947
7 A.Ls.S. (all to Troxell) and 4 T.Ls.S. (1 to Mr. Tinker, 1 to James T. Babb, 2 to Troxell).
Gilbert Troxell Correspondence, 1939-1949
Consists of letters to Gilbert Troxell from Sinclair Lewis, John O'Hara, and Carlotta Monterey O'Neill, the wife of Eugene O'Neill, discussing the donation of manuscripts to the Sterling Memorial Library at Yale University.
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Wesley Halliburton Correspondence, 1939-1950
Consists of four small groups of correspondence between Wesley Halliburton and others after the death of his famous son Richard in 1939. Richard Halliburton was a celebrated adventurer and author known, among other things, for having swum the length of the Panama Canal.
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Subseries 15B: French, 1939-1950
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English, 1939-1967
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Series 3: Clippings and Articles, 1939-1967
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The Clippings and Articles series includes newspaper clippings, cartoons, and published articles. Clippings collected from the 1940s deal with World War II and include topics such as Mussolini, the Ciano Diaries, and Hitler and the Nazis. In the late 1940s the subjects transition to the Cold War and secrecy and security, focusing more on public statements by Dulles and articles relating to the Central Intelligence Agency.
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Moses Hadas Photographs of Greece, 1944-1946
Consists of photographs (ca. 1944-1946) of Greece and Greek partisans taken by classical scholar Moses Hadas.
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Glyphs and Bardic Glyph-Books, 1939-2021
Collection of Glyphs created on boards of various sizes. Several other glyph books including Fuck You, Recent Poems, A Gathering of Glyphs, Poems for Revolution, and Can Love Survive the Big Bang?