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Civil War Letters of Adam Badeau, 1862-1909

C0097 1 box 0.4 linear feet
Consists of 79 autograph letters from Adam Badeau to Union general James Harrison Wilson, dated 1862 to 1865, most of which were written while Badeau was General Ulysses S. Grant's military secretary in the Civil War.
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Letters Not Addressed to James Harrison Wilson and Related Material, 1870-1965

This last series consists of material not written by Badeau but related to his life and Wilson's. A great newsletter from the Ulysses S. Grant Association that provides a short biography of Badeau. A letter from Badeau while he is serving as a diplomat in England after the war, a letter concerning his work on Grant's writing, a letter of Wilson's. There are also newspaper clippings about Wilson after the war.

Saint-John Perse Pléiade Edition Collection, 1966-1971

C1434 2 boxes .8 linear feet
Saint-John Perse, pseudonym of Alexis Leger, was a major French poet, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1960. Consists of working editorial files and author letters for the Pléiade edition of Leger's complete works, published by the French publisher Gallimard in 1972.

Irving Malin Papers, 1955-2013

C1587 7 boxes
Consists primarily of correspondence with authors such as Gordon Lish, James Purdy, Cynthia Ozick, and Paul Bowles, among many others, along with some writings and publisher files of American literary critic and professor of literature Irving Malin (1934-2014).
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Wilbur Samuel Howell Papers, 1953-1981 (mostly 1965-1980)

C0679 9 boxes 3.6 linear feet
Consists of works, articles, lectures, reviews, notes, and correspondence of Wilbur Samuel Howell, professor of rhetoric and oratory (1952-1972) at Princeton.

Rush Family Papers, 1675-1885 (mostly 1817-1849)

C0079 61 boxes 55 items 11 Volumes 26.55 linear feet
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The collection documents the career of Richard Rush (Princeton Class of 1797) as lawyer, statesman, and diplomat, emphasizing diplomatic negotiations between the United States and Great Britain while he was minister to Great Britain (1817-1825) and between the United States and France when he was minister to France (1847-1849), as well as his successful efforts (1836-1838) in securing the Smithsonian bequest, which was used to establish the Smithsonian Institution. The papers of Richard Rush constitute the larger part of the collection; letters of his father, Benjamin Rush, M.D. (Princeton Class of 1760), and papers of his son, Benjamin Rush (Princeton Class of 1829, constitute the other major groups of papers in this family archive.

David Wilkinson Papers, 1957-2002 (mostly 1961-2001)

C0945 16 boxes
The David Wilkinson Papers consists of the scientific writings, professional correspondence, and subject and project files of David T. Wilkinson (1935-2002), the renowned experimental physicist and cosmologist who taught and conducted research in the Department of Physics at Princeton University from 1963 until his retirement in 2002. Wilkinson was a pioneer in the study and analysis of cosmic microwave background radiation, the nature and existence of which have yielded, through his lifetime's work, solid evidence for the Big Bang theory of the universe's birth. This collection contains the administrative (including his NASA and/or National Science Foundation funding and accounting paperwork) and background history of two of Wilkinson's main projects -- the Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE) and Microwave Anisotropy Probe (MAP) -- as well as evidence of the many and varied academic activities in his career.
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III. Subject/Project Files, 1900 October 22-2004

This series consists of selected subject and project files accumulated over the course of Wilkinson's academic career. The topics range from the Microwave Anisotropy Probe (MAP) and the Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE) satellite to Research, Administration (including financial accounts), Old Proposals, Old Course Notes and Miscellaneous. The organization of this series follows and retains, wherever possible, Wilkinson's own subject filing system, including his folder title and order.

Sir John Grenfell Maxwell Papers, 1824-1940

C0583 33 boxes 18 linear feet
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General Sir John Maxwell served in Egypt during the British Occupation, notably participating in the Battle at Omdurman during the reconquest of the Sudan, and in South Africa during the Boer War. In World War I Maxwell returned to Egypt to defend the Suez Canal and briefly served in Ireland after the Sinn Fein Rebellion. Consists of Maxwell's diaries, correspondence, documents, photographs, scrapbooks, memorabilia, printed matter and newspaper clippings.

Vicente Llorens Collection of Blanco White Family Materials, 1713-1930 (mostly 1798-1841)

C0075 19 boxes 28 items 7.4 linear feet
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The collection contains manuscripts related to four generations of the Blanco White family, spanning two centuries: including works, diaries, correspondence, documents, accounts and expense records, and printed material. Joseph Blanco White, the Spanish-English writer and religious figure, remains the focus of the collection; however, his brother Fernando, a politician and intellectual of 19th-century Seville, also accounts for a substantial part of the material. Of particular interest are autograph manuscripts of several of Joseph's literary efforts, as well as other genealogical material relating to the Blanco White family.

Chess Papers of Eugene B. Cook, 1857-1906

C0411 21 boxes 2 items 5.9 linear feet
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The Chess Papers of Eugene B. Cook consists of correspondence, copies of classic chess manuscripts and diagrams, and memorabilia of Cook (Class of 1850), as well as notes and printed matter of the Appalachian Mountain Club.

Silvia S. Bennet Collection on the Olyphant Family, 1764-1897

C0360 13 boxes 5.3 linear feet
Consists of genealogist Silvia S. Bennet's works about, and research papers of, various members of the Olyphant family of Charleston, South Carolina, and New York State.

F. Scott Fitzgerald Papers, 1897-1944

C0187 32.45 linear feet in 61 containers
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The F. Scott Fitzgerald Papers (C0187) is a comprehensive literary archive containing the original manuscripts, working drafts, corrected galleys, personal and professional correspondence, autobiographical scrapbooks, photographs, and other original materials of F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940), Princeton Class of 1917.
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Douglas Kent Hall Papers, 1950s-2011 (mostly 1970-2000)

C1384 102 boxes 1534 digital files
Douglas Kent Hall was an American writer and photographer active from the 1960s until 2008. This collection contains manuscripts, negatives, contact sheets, prints, transparencies, notes, research files, written reviews of Hall's work, and correspondence relating to a number of published and unpublished writings and photography projects spanning Hall's entire career.
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Subseries 2B: By Project, 1940-2009

This subseries consists of negatives, contact sheets, color transparencies (slides), manuscripts, research, interviews, correspondence and a few prints for Douglas Kent Hall's unpublished photography projects. The material spans Hall's entire career and most of the projects are thematically related to other concurrent projects or publications located through the rest of the collection. When known, those relationships are listed at the project level.

Saúl Yurkievich Papers, 1960-2005

C1293 36 boxes 58 items
Saúl Yurkievich is an Argentine poet and literary critic. The collection consists of his personal and literary papers. It includes some of Yurkievich's poetic and prose-poetic manuscripts, correspondence with writers, scholars, critics and publishers and extensive subject files.
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Critical Works: Subject Files, 1925 May 17-2005

These files consist of materials pertaining to Yurkievich's scholarly investigations, which he organized by subject. Subjects include authors, artists, and large projects. A single file may include any number of items, such as drafts of manuscripts, notes, photocopies, conference programs, correspondence, and ephemera.

Kurt Gödel Papers, 1905-1980 (mostly 1930-1970)

C0282 30.75 linear feet 54 boxes, 22 items, and 9 reels
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The papers comprise documents relating to all periods of the life of Kurt Gödel, foremost mathematical logician of the twentieth century, including scientific correspondence, notebooks, drafts, unpublished manuscripts, academic, legal, and financial records, and all manner of loose notes and memoranda.

Princeton Ethiopic Manuscripts, 1600s-1900s

An open collection of bound Ethiopic manuscripts with texts in Ge'ez and occasionally in Amharic.

Kōstas Kazazēs Papers, 1924-1995 (mostly 1979-1985)

C1633 0.4 linear feet 1 box
Consists of correspondence with Modern Greek poets, autograph manuscripts of poems, and printed material.
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Korphēs, Tasos, 1921, 1968-1982 (mostly 1980-1982)

Consists of incoming correspondence. There are also handwritten poems by Korphēs, a typescript titled "Karaiskou 54. Dōdeka vinietes apo hena erēmo spiti", a short biographical note, and a printed title page of the book Hē hōraia Sachrazat inscribed by the author K. Trikoglidēs to Lapathiōtes dated 1921, and photocopies of newspaper clippings.

Princeton University Art Museum Teaching Materials, Spring/Fall 2025, January 2025

PUAM001 689 items flat works
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Consists of approximately 689 flat works from the collections of the Princeton University Art Museum, temporarily transferred to the Princeton University Library for use in Princeton University courses during the 2025 Spring/Fall semesters.

Documentos de Yolanda Pantin, alrededor de 1950s-2010s

C1722 20.08 linear feet 19 boxes
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Consiste principalmente en manuscritos escritos por la poeta venezolana Yolanda Pantin y materiales relacionados con su actividad como poeta, incluyendo correspondencia, fotografías, cuadernos y diarios, entre otros.
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Juan Gelman Papers, 1927-2014

C1511 72 boxes 3575 digital files
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Juan Gelman (1930-2014) was an Argentine poet, translator, journalist, and human rights activist. His papers contain handwritten, typewritten, and printouts of his writings, correspondence, notes, research files, awards and certificates, and personal photographs. A significant portion of the papers feature analog and born-digital investigative files relating to human rights investigations and campaigns Gelman conducted with his spouse, Mara La Madrid, on the forced kidnapping and death of his son and pregnant daughter-in-law, Marcelo Gelman and María Claudia García Irureta Goyena. Also included are files on his search to find his missing granddaughter, Macarena Gelman. Additional materials consist of original drafts and documents related to Juan Gelman's writing; letters; publishing contracts; documents about Juan Gelman's work as a translator; materials related to the campaign to lift the ban on Juan Gelman's entry into Argentina and his return to Buenos Aires; newspaper and magazine clippings related to the ban on Juan Gelman's entry into Argentina, as well as celebrating his return; materials related to Marcelo and Paulina, including photographs of Gelman and the family; works by other writers; and audio cassettes.
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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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Photographs, 1927-1947

Consists of black-and-white photographs of Thomas Kofodimos, his parents and their house in Almyros (Volos, Greece); an elementary school photograph; early photographs of Thomas in Indianapolis and after moving back to Almyros; pre-war photographs with his fellow students at the Polytechnic School in Thessalonikē; at BP plant in Thessalonikē during civil war while trying to get out of Greece. There are also photographs of his 54th Regiment on mount Pēlion, and portrait photographs of Arēs Velouchiōtēs. Included also is an oversize group photograph depicting several leaders of the 54th Regiment ELAS taken by N. Stournaras (see folder 1, D-Middle 73, drawer 3).
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Thomas J. Kofodimos Papers, 1927-1998

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.

Dimitri H. Gondicas '78 Collection of Modern Greek Theater Playbills, 1948-2019

C1761 4 boxes 1 archival box and 1 half-archival box 1.4 linear feet
A collection of playbills for theater mainly in the United States and Greece, as well as in Canada and Europe. Included also are a few playbills for Greek Concert Performances in the United States and Europe (Series 4).

Dimitri H. Gondicas '78 Collection of Offprints Relating to Hellenic Studies, 1940-2017

C1763 7 boxes 2.8 linear feet
Consists of offprints relating to Modern Greek literature, poetry, art and archaeology, theater, history, and politics.

Indigenous Boarding Schools and Missions in North America Photograph Collection, 1860-1960

C1787 5 linear feet 6 boxes
Consists primarily of photographs documenting Indigenous boarding and residential schools as well as missions and missionary work in the United States and Canada.
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David Weissman Papers, 1950s-2020s

C1780 9 linear feet 6 boxes 1 oversize folder 945.1 GB 2198 digital files
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Consists of filmmaker David Weissman's professional records, personal papers, photographs, posters, and audiovisual interviews related to his personal life, career as a film director, and activism.
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French Press Photographs, 1930s-1990s

C1740 1 linear foot 1 box
Consists of several hundred print photographs (most are captioned) primarily from various French news outlets and agencies documenting people and events of numerous countries and geographic regions spanning the mid to late 20th century.
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Karen Van Dyck Papers, 1967-2022

C1754 23 boxes 9.2 linear feet
The collection comprises 23 archival boxes containing correspondence with many renown Modern Greek writers, poets and novelists, translators, critics, artists, politicians, and publishers, such as Kikē Dēmoula, Antōnēs Dekavalles, Kaiē Tsitselē, Helenē Vakalo, Margarita Lymperakē, Nikos Papandreou, Margarita Papandreou, Tzenē Mastorakē, as well as American and European scholars, writers, and translators specializing in Modern Greek, such as Edmund Keeley and Peter Mackridge. Also, included are Karen Van Dyck's notebooks, autograph drafts, typescripts, and heavily annotated proof-reads of her published or unpublished works, printed material and compact cassettes related to her work as a Modern Greek translator with an emphasis on contemporary Greek women's literature and censorship.
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Miscellaneous Writings, 1941-1997

Consists of photocopies of early writings (annotated typescripts) by Tsitselē; photocopies of a notebook with handwritten essays dated 1941; "Lexodrama"; "Still Standing"; photocopies of handwritten drafts of "Τρόποι του λέγειν" dated September 1996 and "Η Τελετή" (Princeton, 1994)΄"Ο χορός των Ωρών."

Sponge Diving in Dodecanese Islands (Greece) Collection, 1896-1954

C1781 5 folders 0.4 linear feet
Consists of documents related to sponge diving activity of the Dodecanese islands, 1896-1954. Letters, contracts, taking out loans, invoices, legal decisions, draft regulation on sponge diving written in Italian; documents of the Italian administration; three sheets of the Nea Rodos newspaper with related articles; a copy of Geōrgios Eleuth. Geōrgas' printed work "Μελέτη περί σπόγγων, σπογγαλιείας και σπογγεμπορίου από των αρχαιοτάτων χρόνων μέχρι σήμερον"; letter (a document) of protest from spongers about the desperation in which they have found themselves because of the greed and indifference of traders who seek to exploit the situation and to speculate, etc. Handwritten and typed, in Greek, Italian, French, and Ottoman Turkish. Signatures, stamps, seals. 167 documents, 419 pages in total.
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Sponge Diving in Dodecanese Islands (Greece) Collection, 1896-1954

Consists of documents related to sponge diving activity of the Dodecanese islands, 1896-1954. Letters, contracts, taking out loans, invoices, legal decisions, draft regulation on sponge diving written in Italian; documents of the Italian administration; three sheets of the Nea Rodos newspaper with related articles; a copy of Geōrgios Eleuth. Geōrgas' printed work "Μελέτη περί σπόγγων, σπογγαλιείας και σπογγεμπορίου από των αρχαιοτάτων χρόνων μέχρι σήμερον"; letter (a document) of protest from spongers about the desperation in which they have found themselves because of the greed and indifference of traders who seek to exploit the situation and to speculate, etc. Handwritten and typed, in Greek, Italian, French, and Ottoman Turkish. Signatures, stamps, seals. 167 documents, 419 pages in total.

Catholic Church in Cuba, III, 1995-2001

LAE015 4 boxes 2 linear feet
This collection contains materials published and distributed by various Catholic Church organizations in Cuba.

Brazilian "Literatura de Cordel", 1970s-1990s

LAE048 1275 items
The cordéis or Brazilian chapbooks included in this collection were published between 1970 and 1990. Many of the items are undated.

Politics in Chile I, 1968-2001

LAE070 927 items 1 linear feet
This microfilm consists of monographs, serials, and ephemeral material associated with politics in Chile from 1968 to 2001. The bulk of the material dates from about 1985 on.

Jeanette Mirsky Collection on Aurel Stein, 1874-1943

EA01 3 boxes
This collection consists of reference files collected by Jeanette Mirsky for her book Sir Aurel Stein, archaeological explorer (1977). It includes original material passed on by the family as well as reproductions from a number of archival collections.
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