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A.C. McClurg & Co. Letters from F. G. Browne to C. F. Cazenove, 1905-1906

C1553 1 box 0.2 linear feet
Consists of 47 letters from F. G. Browne on behalf of the Publishing Department at Chicago-based American publisher A.C. McClurg & Co. to the firm's London literary agent C. F. Cazenove, regarding the sale of American titles in England, financial transactions, and other business matters related to publishing.
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Photographs of the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake Aftermath, 1906

C1678 0.2 linear feet 1 box
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Consists of a collection of photographs documenting the aftermath of the 1906 earthquake in San Francisco, California, taken by various photographers including Willard Elmer Worden, Charles C. Pierce, Frederick Arthur Webster, A. Blumberg, Shaw and Shaw, and others.
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Samuel A. Farrand Collection, 1848-1906

C1333 1 box 0.2 linear feet
Consists of selected correspondence and documents by and about Samuel Ashbel Farrand, an American educator who was headmaster of the Newark Academy from 1859 to 1865 and 1875 to 1908.
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Princeton University Archives

Princeton Student Aid Association records, 1866-1932

AC280 2 boxes
The Student Aid Association was formed in 1866 as the Princeton Charitable Institution by a group of trustees and faculty for the purpose of furnishing needy beneficiaries with the housing, textbooks, and other material items necessary for a collegiate education. The records contain the minutes, financial records, by-laws, and correspondence of the Princeton Student Aid Association and its predecessor, the Princeton Charitable Institution.
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Princeton Student Aid Association records, 1866-1932

Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript LibraryPrinceton University Archives
The Student Aid Association was formed in 1866 as the Princeton Charitable Institution by a group of trustees and faculty for the purpose of furnishing needy beneficiaries with the housing, textbooks, and other material items necessary for a collegiate education. The records contain the minutes, financial records, by-laws, and correspondence of the Princeton Student Aid Association and its predecessor, the Princeton Charitable Institution.
Manuscripts Division

Miscellaneous Ottoman Turkish Collection, 1802-1929

C1251 1 box 0.2 linear feet
Consists of selected official and legal documents from the period of the late Ottoman Turkish Empire.
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19th-Century Maritime Collection, 1781-1928

C0501 1 box 0.4 linear feet
Consists of correspondence, documents, financial material, and printed matter of Caleb Bates, captain of the Juno of Boston, John B. Church, marine insurance underwriter, and others involved in predominantly nineteenth-century American maritime trade.
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Princeton University Library Collection of Stereographs of Greece, 1903-1905

C1371 1 box
Consists of stereoscopic images of Athens by the Neue Photographische Gesellschaft A.G. [New Photographic Society] and White Co, H.C.
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Antiquities of Athens, Greece, 1905

Firestone LibraryManuscripts DivisionPrinceton University Library Collection of Stereographs of Greece, 1903-1905
Consists of ten pairs of stereoscopic images (mostly 7.4 x 7.1 cm.) of Athens by the Neue Photographische Gesellschaft A.G. [New Photographic Society], ca. 1905. Included are views of the Acropolis, the Propylaea, the temple of Erechtheum, the Theater of Herodes Atticus, the Theater of Dionysus (or Bacchus), the Arc of Adrian, the Olympieion, the Temple of Theseus, panoramic view of the city of Athens from the Acropolis with Syntagma Square and the Parliament building and Lykabettus Mount in the background. Number and printed captions in French and German at the bottom of the images.
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The Acropolis from Philopappos hill; Greek peasants, 1903 April 14

Firestone LibraryManuscripts DivisionPrinceton University Library Collection of Stereographs of Greece, 1903-1905
Consists of one pair of photographic prints of the Acropolis from Philopappos hill (8.9 x 17.8 cm.), mounted and one pair "Greek peasants driving Home-Donkey-Packs Laden with fuel" (8.9 x 17.8 cm.); printed captions at the bottom of the image and in the margins, studio's company information: "H.C. White CO., New York, London, Gen'l Office and Works, North Bennington, VT., U.S.A." and "The 'Perfect' Stereograph. (Trade Mark.) Patented April 14, 1903. Other Patents Pending."
Manuscripts Division

Thomas W. Smillie Photographs of a Yankton Sioux Delegation, 1904

C1197 2 boxes 2.0 linear feet
Consists of twenty-two photographs of a delegation of Yankton Sioux Indians that visited Washington, D.C., in 1904, taken by Thomas William Smillie for the Smithsonian's Department of Preparation's Section of Photography.
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Manuscripts Division

Matthew Phipps Shiel Collection, 1892-1946

C1199 1 box 0.2 linear feet
Consists of correspondence of Matthew Phipps Sheil, a prolific British writer of fantasy fiction, with editors, literary agents, publishers, and other authors.
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Frances Bragdon West Autograph Collection, 1873-1942

C1268 1 box 0.2 linear feet
Consists of letters and autographs of authors, poets, critics, politicians, clergy, musicians, scientists, and other prominent personlities, as well as letters of friends and family, collected by Frances Bragdon West, wife of Princeton's first curator of numismatics.
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Princeton University Archives

James W. Alexander Scrapbooks on Princeton University, 1875-1905

AC371 20 boxes
James W. Alexander, member of the Princeton class of 1860, was a prominent New York City insurance official and financier, an active alumnus, and a member of the Princeton Board of Trustees. The collection consists of 19 scrapbooks containing clippings about Princeton University from Philadelphia, New York and Princeton newspapers, arranged chronologically with occasional correspondence and ephemera from the University.
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Robert Sewall Browne Letters on Prospecting, 1896-1904

C1606 1 box
Consists of letters from Robert Sewall Browne (1866-1904) to his wife Alice E. Gray Browne in Maine, detailing his overland travels and work as a prospector, miner, and rancher in Colorado, Wyoming, and the Yukon Territory from 1896 to 1901.
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Channing Pollock plays, 1903-1944

TC057 2 boxes 2 linear feet
Consists chiefly of typescripts of plays written by Pollock over a forty-year period but includes sheet music of songs containing his lyrics, playbills, and printed matter.
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Fred Lewis Pattee Collection on The Poems of Philip Freneau, 1900-1905

C1157 1 box 0.2 linear feet
Consists of correspondence of editor Fred Lewis Pattee and others relating to the publishing of The Poems of Philip Freneau (3 vols., 1902-1907). Freneau was an eighteenth-century American poet, often called the "poet of the American Revolution."
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Public Policy Papers

Henry B. Fine Collection on Woodrow Wilson, 1902-1922

MC217 1 box
Consists of eleven letters from Woodrow Wilson to Princeton professor Henry B. Fine and other documents related to Wilson.
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Manuscripts Division

Percy H. Williams Autograph Collection, 1852-1944

C0900 1 box 0.2 linear feet
Consists of approximately 50 original autographs, including signatures of Washington Irving, Henry van Dyke, and Charles Guiteau (assassin of President James Garfield), and a letter written by Wendell Willkie.
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Princeton University Library Collection of Western Americana Miscellaneous Manuscripts, 1840-1901 (mostly 1849-1866)

C1446 1 box 0.4 linear feet
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Consists of a closed collection of miscellaneous source material--letters, documents, and other separate, unbound manuscript items--pertaining to the history of the American West and Southwest, largely from the perspective of white settlers, acquired by the Library from 2013 to 2020.
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Charles August Cooke Outgoing Letter, 1901 May 1

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Firestone LibraryManuscripts DivisionPrinceton University Library Collection of Western Americana Miscellaneous Manuscripts, 1840-1901 (mostly 1849-1866)
Three-page letter by Charles August Cooke to an unidentified recipient about Onkweonwe (Mohawk for "Aboriginal people," a Mohawk language newspaper conceived, compiled, edited, and published by Cooke) and a grammar dictionary of the Mohawk language.
Manuscripts Division

Angelos Prokopiou Photographs Collection, 1901-1999

C1344 1 box 1 linear foot
Consists of an open collection of photographs by Angelos Prokopiou.
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Manuscripts Division

Panos Geralēs Photographs Collection, 1901-1999

C1341 1 box 1 linear feet
Consists of an open collection of photographs by Geralēs.
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Manuscripts Division

George Law Mackenzie photograph albums, 1901-1905

WC003 1 box .2 linear feet
George Law MacKenzie was a student at the Institution of Mining Engineers (Great Britain) as well as an elected member of the Geological Society of London (1902). Consists of three photograph albums containing 148 albumen and gelatin silver snapshots. Two of the albums were compiled by Mackenzie and apparently document a single trip across Europe and the United States with images of cities, mines, and people encountered along the way. Many images have manuscript captions.
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George Law Mackenzie photograph albums, 1901-1905

Firestone LibraryManuscripts Division
George Law MacKenzie was a student at the Institution of Mining Engineers (Great Britain) as well as an elected member of the Geological Society of London (1902). Consists of three photograph albums containing 148 albumen and gelatin silver snapshots. Two of the albums were compiled by Mackenzie and apparently document a single trip across Europe and the United States with images of cities, mines, and people encountered along the way. Many images have manuscript captions.
Manuscripts Division

Homer Dodge Martin and Elizabeth G. Martin Letters to William Crary Brownell, 1874-1901

C1127 1 box 0.2 linear feet
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Consists of personal letters by the American landscape painter Homer Dodge Martin and his wife, Elizabeth G. Martin, to friend and editor William Crary Brownell and his first wife, Virginia Shields Swinburne.
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Princeton University Library Collection of Sir Walter Besant Correspondence, 1876-1901

C0708 2 boxes .8 linear feet
Consists primarily of incoming and outgoing letters of English novelist and historian Sir Walter Besant (1836-1901).
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Princeton University Archives

Princeton Publishing Company Records, 1900-1919

AC273 1 box
The Princeton Publishing Company was incorporated in 1900 to oversee the printing of the Alumni Princetonian, a forebear to the Princeton Alumni Weekly. The records consists of materials which document the activities of the Princeton Publishing Company, largely relating to financial matters.
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Manuscripts Division

William Taggart Meloy Yellowstone Scrapbooks, 1900-1901

C1648 1 box
Consists of ten scrapbooks containing photographs and clippings from newspapers, magazines, and travel guides documenting a 1900 trip to Yellowstone National Park taken by Reverend William Taggart Meloy, John T. Meloy, Emma Meloy, Daisy Meloy Rankin, and Dr. James D. Rankin.
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Princeton University Archives

Princeton University at Exposition Universelle Internationale Records, 1900

AC372 2 boxes
Princeton University mounted an exhibition booth including photographs and information about the school at the Exposition Universelle Internationale de 1900, a world's fair held in Paris, France between April and November 1900. The collection includes photographs, graphic charts, and wall labels used in the exhibition, as well as an official certificate awarded to Princeton University for its exhibition.
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Notes of George L. Denny on Woodrow Wilson Lectures, 1899-1900

C0416 1 box 0.2 linear feet
Consists of four notebooks of George L. Denny (Princeton Class of 1900) containing notes on lectures in history, politics, and jurisprudence delivered by Woodrow Wilson in his courses at Princeton.
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Manuscripts Division

The World of the Great Forest: Novel by Paul Du Chaillu, 1900

C0153 1 box 0.4 linear feet
Consists of the autograph manuscript of The World of the Great Forest by the French-American traveler and anthropologist Paul Du Chaillu.
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A. F. Machemer Collection of Augustus W. Bradford and Samuel Bradford, 1843-1932

C0394 1 box 0.2 linear feet
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Contains some miscellaneous papers of A. W. Bradford, governor of Maryland during the Civil War, but the collection consists primarily of speeches, correspondence, documents, and printed matter of Bradford's son, Samuel Webster Bradford (Princeton Class of 1875).
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Princeton University Archives

Princeton University Bulletin Correspondence, 1899-1901

AC377 1 box
The Princeton University Bulletin, a quarterly publication edited by the president and members of the faculty, was published from 1889 to 1904. The collection contains a single letterpress copybook of business correspondence.
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Manuscripts Division

Philip Vickers Fithian Journal Edited by John Rogers Williams, 1899-1900

C0307 1 box 0.4 linear feet
Consists of the textural material used by John Rogers Williams for his edition of Philip Vickers Fithian: Journal and Letters, 1767-1774. Fithian's journal of his life tutoring on a Virginia plantation is one of the most valuable sources of information on early Virginia plantation life and slavery.
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Princeton University Archives

Undergraduate Alumni Records, 19th century, 1800-1899

AC104-02 203 boxes
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Consists of personal files of former undergraduate students of Princeton University. Information in each file varies greatly but can include the names of relatives, notable achievements and news items, address updates, and obituaries.
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Princeton University Archives

Graduate Alumni Records, 1839-1899

AC105-01 3 boxes
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The records consist of the academic files of former graduate students of Princeton University. The information contained in each file varies greatly but can include grades cards, Graduate School applications, a photograph of the student, letters of recommendation, as well as biographical information, lists of achievements, news clippings, and obituaries.
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Manuscripts Division

Notes of James Lawson Norris on Woodrow Wilson Lectures, 1897-1899

C0595 1 box 0.2 linear feet
Consists of six notebooks (1897-1899) of James Lawson Norris (Princeton Class of 1899) containing notes on lectures in jurisprudence, constitutional law, and English common law delivered by Woodrow Wilson in his courses at Princeton.
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Archive of the Commission for Refugee Women and Children from Crete, 1897-1899

C1179 1 box 0.2 linear feet
Consists of material relating to the relief of refugees of the Cretan War of Independence.
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Cretan Revolution and Greco-Turkish War of 1897 Collection, 1897

C1242 1 box 0.4 linear feet
Consists of a collection of 205 documents from the papers of former Greek prime minister Dēmētrios Rallēs, concerning the Cretan Revolution and the Greco-Turkish War of 1897.
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Jack Randall Crawford Letters to Mason A. Stone, 1897-1901

C1322 1 box 0.2 linear feet
Consists of twenty-four letters of Jack Randall Crawford, Princeton Class of 1901, to his friend Mason A. Stone, who was a student at Yale University.
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Ernest Dowson Collection, 1889-1897

C1325 1 box 0.2 linear feet
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Consists of selected letters, both in English and French, by the nineteetnh-century English poet and novelist Ernest Christopher Dowson. His correspondents include other writers, poets, journalists, and editors from France and England.
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Nelson A. Miles Memorabilia, 1897

WC016 1 box 0.4 linear feet
Consists of a scrapbook of memorabilia collected by U.S. Army officer Nelson A. Miles while in England representing the United States at Queen Victoria's Jubilee in 1897.
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Herbert Weld Blundell Photographs of Greco-Turkish War, 1897

C1788 1 box 0.2 linear feet
Consists of 58 original black-and-white photographs by Herbert Joseph Weld Blundell, who was covering the Greco-Turkish War of 1897.
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Princeton University Archives

Harry Z. O'Brien Correspondence, 1896-1899

AC336 1 box
Harry Zebulon O'Brien (1878-1907), from Clarksboro, New Jersey, was a member of the Class of 1899. The collection documents student life at Princeton just before the turn of the 20th century.
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Mathematics Correspondence of Sylvester Robins, 1880-1899

C0515 1 box 0.4 linear feet
Consists of nineteenth-century correspondence of Sylvester Robins discussing mathematical questions, computations, and solutions.
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Alfred Leeb Collection, 1874-1897

C0480 1 box 0.2 linear feet
Consists of nineteenth-century account books of Alfred Leeb and his wife relating to their home in South Orange, N.J.
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Pliny Papers of J. H. Westcott, 1895-1902

C0451 1 box 0.4 linear feet
Consists of manuscript material used in the preparation of Selected Letters of Pliny (1898), edited by Princeton classics professor J. H. Westcott.
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Princeton University Archives

Master's Theses Collection, 1894-2010

AC101 2100 Volumes
Graduate work in a formal sense emerged at Princeton in the 1870s when President James McCosh added new faculty and graduate fellowships. This collection consists of theses submitted toward the fulfillment of requirements for master's degrees at Princeton University.
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Henry S. Julier and F. W. Cram Correspondence, 1891-1910

C1096 1 box 0.2 linear feet
Consists of correspondence of Henry S. Julier with F. W. Cram regarding the Bangor and Aroostook Railroad and the involvement of the American Express Company in its establishment in Maine.
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Princeton University Archives

William R. Weeks Papers, 1746-1897

AC320 1 box
The Papers of William R. Weeks, Esq., consist of three folders of material researched and correspondence written for the furtherance of a book on Princeton University's early history Weeks planned to write. The title of the book was to be, "History of the First Endowment of the College of New Jersey, now Princeton University." It is highly doubtful that the book was ever written; there is no copy of it on record.
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William R. Weeks Papers, 1746-1897

Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript LibraryPrinceton University Archives
The Papers of William R. Weeks, Esq., consist of three folders of material researched and correspondence written for the furtherance of a book on Princeton University's early history Weeks planned to write. The title of the book was to be, "History of the First Endowment of the College of New Jersey, now Princeton University." It is highly doubtful that the book was ever written; there is no copy of it on record.
Manuscripts Division

Ford Madox Brown Collection, 1854-1893

C1018 1 box 0.2 linear feet
Consists of selected correspondence of the English painter Ford Madox Brown with his daughter and several art friends and colleagues.
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Princeton University Archives

William Wells Church Collection, 1893-1910

AC395 1 box
Bill Church was a noted football player at Princeton University at the end of the 19th century. This collection includes correspondence, telegrams, ephemera, clippings, and other materials related to his time at Princeton.
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Alexander Marshall Thompson Letters to His Family, 1889-1893

C1254 1 box 0.2 linear feet
Consists of letters written by Alexander Marshall Thompson while he was attending the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University) from 1889 to 1893, giving a view of a student's social, athletic and academic life, while providing valuable information regarding the history of the College.
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Maria P. Hedden Diaries, 1892-1925

C1737 1 box 0.4 linear feet
Consists of 24 diaries kept by Maria P. Hedden of Edgartown, Massachusetts, on Martha's Vineyard.
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Stephen Thurston Farwell Collection, 1856-1893

C1382 1 box 0.4 linear feet
Consists mainly of diaries of Stephen Thurston Farwell, a retail clerk living in Chicago during the Civil War who later travels overland to Denver.
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Thomas Nast Manuscript Collection, 1860-1922

C1135 1 box 0.2 linear feet
Consists of selected correspondence of American political cartoonist Thomas Nast. Nast's popular artwork influenced presidential elections in the latter half of the nineteenth century, and the letters in this collection reflect both the professional and personal sides of his life.
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Public Policy Papers

Dorothy Shipley White Photograph Collection, 1890-1970

MC161 1 box
The Dorothy Shipley White Collection encompasses two sets of photographs, one on the life of Charles deGaulle and the other on French Africa. White presumably collected the photographs in preparation for her book, Black Africa and deGaulle (Pennsylvania State University Press, 1979). Mrs. White sent the photographs and negatives of the deGaulle photographs to Princeton in 1989.
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Dorothy Shipley White Photograph Collection, 1890-1970

Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript LibraryPublic Policy Papers
The Dorothy Shipley White Collection encompasses two sets of photographs, one on the life of Charles deGaulle and the other on French Africa. White presumably collected the photographs in preparation for her book, Black Africa and deGaulle (Pennsylvania State University Press, 1979). Mrs. White sent the photographs and negatives of the deGaulle photographs to Princeton in 1989.
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Rowe Family Photographs, 1890-1950

C1691 1.25 linear feet 1 box
Consists of over one hundred photographs documenting the Rowe family in Spokane and Edgecomb, Washington, and Lawrence County, Missouri. Photographs depict sawmills, steam engine threshers, store interiors, Theodore Roosevelt's "Rough Riders," and snapshots of the Rowe family who operated engines and owned farms in Washington state, Missouri, and Kansas.
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Rowe Family Photographs, 1890-1950

Firestone LibraryManuscripts Division
Consists of over one hundred photographs documenting the Rowe family in Spokane and Edgecomb, Washington, and Lawrence County, Missouri. Photographs depict sawmills, steam engine threshers, store interiors, Theodore Roosevelt's "Rough Riders," and snapshots of the Rowe family who operated engines and owned farms in Washington state, Missouri, and Kansas.
Manuscripts Division

Pennington Satterthwaite Collection, 1883-1893

C1145 1 box 1.4 linear feet
Consists of one hundred and twenty-seven original pen-and-ink sketches and watercolor drawings by architect Pennington Satterthwaite, including some sketches and designs he did for the Nassau Herald and other Princeton University publications while he was a student (Princeton Class of 1893).
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N. R. Davis & Co. Account Books, 1871-1893

C1162 10 boxes 1.5 linear feet
Consists of ten volumes of accounts for the N. R. Davis & Company cattle ranch in Cheyenne, Wyoming.
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Benson Lossing Collection, 1853-1889

C1112 1 box 0.2 linear feet
Consists of selected correspondence, manuscripts, and printed material of the nineteenth-century American author and illustrator Benson Lossing.
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Taos (N.M.) Letters of Bonnie Scotland, 1889-1890

WC009 1 box 0.2 linear feet
Consists of eighteen letters by Bonnie Scotland, a nineteenth-century Englishwoman living in Taos, New Mexico, to her sister, Mary N. Williams, in England.
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Charles Trollope Papers, 1848-1856, bulk 1848-1850

C1772 5 boxes 1 oversize folder 3.4 linear feet
Consists of correspondence, manuscript documents, and eight letter books, related to the British Lieutenant Colonel Charles Trollope (as individual and commanding officer) and a thrilling, and at times barbarous, and a view of mid-nineteenth century British colonial military life and rule in the Mediterranean. Commander Charles Trollope Papers suppressed Greek rebels on the Island of Cephalonia in Greece.
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Alexander Scotland Collection, 1869-1893

WC008 1 box 0.2 linear feet
Consists of works, correspondence, documents, photographs, a diary (1869), and a journal (1888) of Alexander Scotland (Princeton Class of 1874), most of which reflects the life he led in Colorado mining areas after leaving the East because of tuberculosis.
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Fulton McMahon Collection, 1882-1911 (mostly 1882-1884)

C1119 1 box 0.2 linear feet
Consists chiefly of academic documents of American politician Fulton McMahon while he was attending the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University).
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Princeton University Archives

Edwin Mortimer Hopkins Papers, 1887-1894

AC241 1 box
Edwin Mortimer Hopkins was a member of the Princeton University class of 1888, earning an AB in English and completing his MA a year later. The collection documents the undergraduate and graduate career of Edwin Mortimer Hopkins at Princeton, and consists primarily of orations, poetry, and literary essays.
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David Hosack Family Papers, 1793-1916 (mostly 1818-1850)

C0687 1 box 0.4 linear feet
David Hosack (1769-1835) was an American physician, botanist, educator, and graduate of Princeton University (Class of 1789). This collection consists of correspondence, deeds, indentures, wills, maps, printed materials, and other assorted family papers related to estates and land owned by David Hosack and his family. Many of the papers concern land in the Lackawanna River valley of Luzerne County, Pennsylvania.
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J. Arthur Hutton Angling Notebooks, 1886-1891

C1570 1 box 0.4 linear feet
Consists of two notebooks or scrapbooks dating from 1886 to 1891 kept by noted English angler, J. Arthur Hutton that include a series of essays read before the Manchester Anglers' Association and monthly entries of descriptions of fishing flies.
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Notebook of Essays, 1886-1891

Firestone LibraryManuscripts DivisionJ. Arthur Hutton Angling Notebooks, 1886-1891
Handwritten journal spanning 269 pages (some of which are blank) that primarily includes a series of essays read before The Manchester Anglers' Association: "Fishing in Derbyshire" (1886) with a map and illustration by the author along with a contemporary newspaper review of the talk with letters to the editor; "The Dove" (1887); "Grayling Fishing" (1887); "Water Flies" (1888), written for the Manchester Anglers' Notebook, with 3 printed color plates of flies; "Manchester Anglers' Notebook," a suggested preface which was not adopted; "Northern Angler's Conference," a speech to move a resolution in favour of better protection of grayling (Leeds November 17, 1888); "Angling Writers on the Distribution of Grayling" (1888); "500 Miles in Norway" (1888), in which Hutton recounts a fishing trip (56 pages); and "A Plea for the Grayling," the opening of a discussion on the advisability of introducing Grayling into the Ribble at Horton (1891).
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Fishing Scrapbook, 1886

Firestone LibraryManuscripts DivisionJ. Arthur Hutton Angling Notebooks, 1886-1891
A monthly (January-July 1886) scrapbook of 55 handmade fishing flies (actual flies tipped in) with handwritten descriptions. Also included is a handwritten treatise of fly-tying with accompanying drawings by the author; and fishing ephemera, including clippings, cards (including a double-page card titled "Derbyshire Flies" and two of Hutton's membership cards for Ribble Angling Association (1884) and Birdsgrove Fly Fishing Club (1885)), letters, and flies.
Manuscripts Division

George Pretyman Collection, 1741-1886

C1383 1 box 0.2 linear feet
Consists of material of British clergyman and bishop George Pretyman (also known as George Pretyman Tomline) related to William Pitt the Younger (1759-1806) and others.
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Princeton University Archives

Autograph Book Collection, 1825-1884 (mostly 1848-1882)

AC040 43 boxes
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This collection contains more than two hundred autograph books from more than two hundred members of classes between 1825 and 1884. The books were used to collect not only the autographs of classmates, but also good wishes, bits of favorite verse, letters of farewell, or reminiscences of shared events during undergraduate years.
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Princeton University Archives

University Hotel Records, 1876-1886

AC324 3 Volumes
The University Hotel existed at the corner of Railroad Avenue (today University Place) and Nassau Street from 1876-1887. Consists of three volumes of guest registers from the University Hotel.
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Charles and Cora Bonney Correspondence, 1883-1885

C1430 1 box 0.2 linear feet
Contains letters and postcards between Charles Bonney and his wife Cora while Charles was travelling in the American West.
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Stephen Alexander Collection, 1827-1882

C1004 2 boxes 2.2 linear feet
Consists primarily of correspondence of nineteenth-century American astronomer Stephen Alexander.
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Chester H. King Diaries, 1875-1883

C1510 1 box 0.2 linear feet
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Consists of three diaries, two of which chronicle Chester H. King's overland journey to the southwestern frontier from Kansas along the Santa Fe Trail from 1881 to 1883.
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Diary, 1875 February-1876 May

Firestone LibraryManuscripts DivisionChester H. King Diaries, 1875-1883
Documents a two-year period that predates King's travels to the southwest and covers various topics. King includes information about his residences in Kankakee County, Illinois and Earl Park, Indiana; some travelling that he did in the area, including a trip to Washington Island (Wisconsin); and his studies and interests. At the beginning of the diary, King explains that similar to a previous diary he kept, this one includes "a little of everything in it, Travels, History, Chronology and Poetry."
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Thomas Craig Correspondence, 1882-1899

C1040 1 box 0.2 linear feet
Consists of selected correspondence of the nineteenth-century American mathematician Thomas Craig on various mathematical subjects.
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Manuscripts Division

William Agnew Paton Collection, 1880-1889

C0016 4 boxes
Consists of portfolios of photographs, illustrations, and articles of William Agnew Paton related to his travel books.
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Princeton University Archives

Washington's Birthday Celebration Records, 1880-1932

AC200 1 box
Princeton University's Washington's Birthday Celebration Records consist of collected programs, odes, schedules, and clippings pertaining to the University's commemoration of Washington's birthday throughout its history.
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James Geddes Family Correspondence, 1797-1879

C1572 1 box 0.2 linear feet
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Consists of family correspondence of James Geddes (1763-1838), a Scottish American surveyor, civil engineer, salt manufacturer, judge, and politician who settled along Onondaga Lake in New York in the 1790s. Included is a detailed list of his expenses related to a 1804 land survey of locations in Onondaga, Cayuga, Oneida, and Oswego counties in New York. Geddes's correspondence, mostly dating from the 1820s and 1830s, pertains to his engineering and surveying work, politics, family matters, and other topics, and includes detailed observations he recorded on local weather patterns, plant life, and topography.
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James Geddes Letters to His Nephews and Nieces, 1827-1838

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Firestone LibraryManuscripts DivisionJames Geddes Family Correspondence, 1797-1879
Consists of sixteen letters from James Geddes to his nephews and nieces, John Geddes (1801-1889), Robert Geddes (1795-1866), and Jane Geddes (1804-1882) in Michigan, and William Geddes (1802-1877) in Pennsylvania. Most letters are addressed to John Geddes and are written either individually to John, or to John, Robert, and Jane collectively. One letter is addressed to William.
Princeton University Archives

Nassau Hall Bible Society Records, 1813-1877

AC038 2 boxes
The Nassau Hall Bible Society was a student religious organization at the College of New Jersey, active from 1813 through the 1840s and from 1864 through the 1880s. It distributed Bibles and New Testaments throughout New Jersey and across the country. These records contain minutes and financial records of the Society's work.
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Ernest Cushing Richardson Collection of Papal Seals, 1484-1903

C1516 1 box 0.4 linear feet
This collection consists of twelve lead papal seals, ranging in dates from the 15th century to the late 19th and early 20th century.
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Princeton University Archives

Princeton University Doctoral Dissertations, 1877-2010 (mostly 1950-2010)

AC100 1242 linear feet
The dissertations represent doctoral work in over forty graduate departments. They date from 1877 to the present and they are arranged chronologically.
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Hunter, Rose & Company Collection, 1871-1879

C1085 1 box 0.2 linear feet
Consists of selected correspondence and some documents of the Canadian publisher Hunter, Rose & Company.
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Lowes Cato Dickinson Correspondence, 1851-1907

C0152 1 box 0.2 linear feet
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Consists primarily of letters from pre-Raphaelite painters to English painter Lowes Cato Dickinson.
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Joseph Tucker Papers, 1841-1875

C0030 2 boxes
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Consists of the ship's papers of Joseph Tucker while he was shipmaster of several Wiscasset, Maine, merchant ships. The materials reflect the trading activities of a thirty-year period (1841-1875) between ports including Charleston (SC), Savannah (GA), Liverpool, England, and Le Havre de Grâce (today, Le Havre), France.
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Lucy A. Merrill Diaries, 1873-1931

C1738 1 box 0.4 linear feet
Consists of 25 diaries, primarily kept by Lucy Amanda Merrill of Hudson, New Hampshire.
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Princeton University Archives

Hikoichi Orita Diary, 1872-1876

AC033 1 box
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This photocopied two-volume diary was written by Hikoichi Orita (1849-1920), a Japanese student, while he attended Princeton University between 1872 and 1876. Upon his graduation from Princeton, Orita returned to Japan and became a leading educational reformer. Orita made entries in English for each day of his time at Princeton, including accounts and bills paid, as well as memoranda written in Japanese. For the most part, the entries are brief, listing classes and recitations, visits to the chapel, letters from friends, the weather, and some personal notes such as visits with faculty and friends, illnesses and his loneliness. He also writes of travels to New York City, New Brunswick and New England.
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Hikoichi Orita Diary, 1872-1876

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Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript LibraryPrinceton University Archives
This photocopied two-volume diary was written by Hikoichi Orita (1849-1920), a Japanese student, while he attended Princeton University between 1872 and 1876. Upon his graduation from Princeton, Orita returned to Japan and became a leading educational reformer. Orita made entries in English for each day of his time at Princeton, including accounts and bills paid, as well as memoranda written in Japanese. For the most part, the entries are brief, listing classes and recitations, visits to the chapel, letters from friends, the weather, and some personal notes such as visits with faculty and friends, illnesses and his loneliness. He also writes of travels to New York City, New Brunswick and New England.
Manuscripts Division

Richard Hooper Correspondence, 1856-1876

C1012 1 box 0.2 linear feet
Consists primarily of letters by British author and editor Richard Hooper to his publisher, John Russell Smith.
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Charles Felton Pidgin Correspondence on Aaron Burr, 1871-1910

C0194 1 box 0.4 linear feet 1 box 0.4 linear feet
Consists primarily of letters to American author/inventor Charles Felton Pidgin relating to his study of Aaron Burr (1756-1836).
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Jason Chamberlain Ledger on Hemp Production and Farming, 1846-1880

C1644 1 box
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Consists of a ledger, along with some receipts, advertisements, and correspondence, of Missouri farmer and hemp producer Jason Chamberlain (1804-1901), documenting Chamberlain's business accounts from 1853 to 1880, as well as the accounts of an anonymous Kentucky hemp producer and merchant from 1846 to 1851. These materials provide insight into hemp and other agricultural production in Missouri and Kentucky before, during, and after the American Civil War and document the employment of African American and immigrant laborers during the early Reconstruction era.
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George Maxwell Robeson Collection, 1842-1890

C1187 2 boxes 1.2 linear feet
Consists of selected correspondence of George Maxwell Robeson, attorney general of New Jersey, relating to his appointment as Secretary of the Navy in June 1869.
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Princeton University Archives

Steward and Refectory Records, 1782-1869

AC032 1 box
The Steward and Refectory records relate to various expenses incurred by students while at Princeton. They are divided into two series. The first, refectory accounts, consists predominantly of lists of students and the amounts due from each for itemized expenses including room and board, tuition, library, servant wages, washing, damages and fuel. Other materials include bills, various accounts and reports, an inventory of furniture belonging to the kitchen in 1816, and bills, accounts and reports relating to the building of a new refectory in 1834-35. The second series consists of accounts, vouchers, correspondence, receipts and statements of expenses relating to the University Steward. The 1869 Steward's file consists of a list of local boarding houses and the owners, student residents and payments.
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J. H. Faucher Letters to His Family, 1866-1867

C1332 1 box 0.2 linear feet
Consists of thirteen letters by J. H. Faucher to his parents while he was a seaman aboard the USS Augusta on its official rip to St. Petersburg, Russia, in 1866-1867.
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Princeton University Archives

Rector's Aid Society Minutes, 1867-1868

AC319 1 box
The Rector's Aid Society was an organization of students at the College of New Jersey who were members of the Protestant Episcopal Church. It provided opportunities for fellowship and theological discussion; it also organized Episcopal services on campus and supported the church's mission in the Princeton area. The Society met monthly to report on its work and discuss a theological topic; this minute book records the proceedings of those meetings.
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Rector's Aid Society Minutes, 1867-1868

Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript LibraryPrinceton University Archives
The Rector's Aid Society was an organization of students at the College of New Jersey who were members of the Protestant Episcopal Church. It provided opportunities for fellowship and theological discussion; it also organized Episcopal services on campus and supported the church's mission in the Princeton area. The Society met monthly to report on its work and discuss a theological topic; this minute book records the proceedings of those meetings.
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Lewis French Stearns Correspondence, 1862-1866

C1257 1 box 0.2 linear feet
Consists of correspondence of Lewis French Stearns (Princeton Class of 1867) from the American Civil War years. The letters shed light not only on general student life at the University in the mid-nineteenth century, but also on the local effects of the war--on the University, its students, and on the town of Princeton, N.J.
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Rare Book Division

John H. Scheide Collection on Slavery in North America, 1688-1865 (mostly 1766-1865)

SL001 1 box 1.4 linear feet
Consists of a group of around forty documents, primarily from the 18th and 19th centuries, that were assembled by collector John H. Scheide on the topic of slavery in North America.
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Manuscripts Division

Edward Everett Collection, 1828-1865

C1050 1 box 0.2 linear feet
Consists of selected correspondence of the nineteenth-century American statesman Edward Everett.
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Constantine Cavafy Photograph Collection, 1865-1933

C1043 1 box 0.2 linear feet
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Consists of photographs of the Greek poet Constantine Cavafy and members of his family that were collected by Ben Sonnenberg.
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Richard B. Cohen Collection of Francis S. Cockran, Reuben Yocum, and Bills Family Materials, 1845-1907

C1712 0.2 linear feet 1 box
Consists of three groups of 19th century materials that were formerly part of the Richard B. Cohen Civil War Collection. These include thirteen letters to Francis S. Cockran (1814-1886), a Maryland businessman, Navy officer, abolitionist, and Underground Railroad supporter; eight letters, bounty payments, and financial documents related to Reuben Yocum, 3rd Assistant Engineer on the U.S.S. Fort Hindman; and miscellaneous business records and letters related to the family business of John Houston Bills (1800-1871) and Leonidas Bills (1828-1881) in Bolivar, Tennessee.
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George Mifflin Dallas Collection, 1815-1864

C1041 1 box 0.2 linear feet
Consists primarily of selected correspondence of George Mifflin Dallas, nineteenth-century American senator and vice-president.
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George Roden Civil War Letters to His Family, 1861-1864

C1213 1 box 0.2 linear feet
Consists of twenty-eight letters sent by George Roden, Jr., while he was on tour during the American Civil War, to his family in Newark, New Jersey.
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United States Colored Troops 39th Infantry Regiment Muster Rolls, 1864 August 31-October 31

C1626 1 box
Consists of a complete set of muster rolls for the 39th Infantry Regiment of United States Colored Troops for the period of August 31st to October 31st, 1864, documenting African American soldiers who fought in the American Civil War in Virginia under the command of Colonel Ozora Pierson Stearns.
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Public Policy Papers

American Civil Liberties Union Records, 1864-2011 (mostly 1917-1995)

MC001 4207.37 linear feet 5727 boxes 1886 Volumes 288 items
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The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is the pre-eminent civil liberties organization in the United States, utilizing litigation, lobbying, and public education to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution. These records document the administration and work of the ACLU's national office, regional offices, and legal projects, with particular emphasis on the areas of civil rights, children and women's rights, freedom of speech (and all First Amendment questions), and due process, among many others. The records include case files, correspondence, meeting minutes, research files, and files of staff members. Portions of the records (Subgroup 1; Subgroup 2, Series 2, 3, and 4; Subgroup 3, Subseries 5B) have been digitized and are available for members of the Princeton community to view here. To view the database from outside Princeton University, please see the Guide to the American Civil Liberties Union Records.
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American Civil Liberties Union Records, 1864-2011 (mostly 1917-1995)

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Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript LibraryPublic Policy Papers
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is the pre-eminent civil liberties organization in the United States, utilizing litigation, lobbying, and public education to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution. These records document the administration and work of the ACLU's national office, regional offices, and legal projects, with particular emphasis on the areas of civil rights, children and women's rights, freedom of speech (and all First Amendment questions), and due process, among many others. The records include case files, correspondence, meeting minutes, research files, and files of staff members. Portions of the records (Subgroup 1; Subgroup 2, Series 2, 3, and 4; Subgroup 3, Subseries 5B) have been digitized and are available for members of the Princeton community to view here. To view the database from outside Princeton University, please see the Guide to the American Civil Liberties Union Records.
Manuscripts Division

William A. Prickitt Papers Related to Company G of the 25th United States Colored Infantry Regiment, 1864-1869

C1657 0.4 linear feet 1 box
Consists of a group of military records collected by Captain William A. Prickitt (1839-1929) documenting the daily operations of African American soldiers in Company G of the United States Colored Infantry's 25th Regiment during the final year of the American Civil War.
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Philadelphia Navy Yard Collection, 1831-1865

C0545 2 boxes 0.6 linear feet
Consists chiefly of official correspondence and a few documents related to the operations of the Philadelphia Navy Yard starting in the 1830s and leading up to the Civil War.
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