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Henry Markinfield Addey Papers, 1873-1910

C1392 1 box .4 linear feet
Henry Markinfield Addey was a London publisher who is known for publishing Gustave Doré in England and for publishing the first English edition of Edgar Allan Poe's complete poems. Consists of family correspondence, memoir drafts, and one scrapbook.

The Italian Madrigal, by Alfred Einstein, 1949

C0423 2 boxes 0.8 linear feet
Consists of the German manuscript of, and other material related to, The Italian Madrigal (1949) by the German-American musicologist Alfred Einstein.

Peggy Liss Collection on Carlos Fuentes, circa 1970s-1992

C1627 2 boxes
The Peggy Liss Collection on Carlos Fuentes consists of photographs, public relations materials, newspaper clippings, reviews, articles, publications, and program outlines pertaining to the collaboration between Peggy K. Liss and Carlos Fuentes on the television documentary series, The Buried Mirror.
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Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston Letters to Emily Ashley-Cooper, 1836-1837

C1525 1 box 0.2 linear feet
Consists of 15 letters, dating from August 1836 to January 1837 from Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, to his putative daughter Emily Ashley-Cooper, Countess of Shaftesbury, referred to in the letters as "Mrs. Ashley," along with a portrait engraving of Maria Ann Ashley-Cooper.

Olden Family Papers, 1769-1847

C0531 1 box 0.2 linear feet
Consists mostly of eighteenth-century correspondence and documents of members of the Olden family of New Jersey and Pennsylvania, including Benjamin Olden, Ephraim Olden, John Olden, and Samuel Olden.

Gypsy Rose Lee Collection, 1941

C1107 1 box 0.2 linear feet
Consists of the original typescript, and related letters, of the crime novel The G-String Murders by Gypsy Rose Lee, the American burlesque entertainer and film star.

The Great Circle by Carlton Beals, 1940

C0606 1 box 0.2 linear feet
Consists of the printer's copy of Carlton Beals' travel book The Great Circle (1940), containing descriptions of his travels in Tunisia, Russia, Mexico, Spain, Italy, Turkey, and Germany.
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Princeton University Library Collection of Logan Pearsall Smith Materials, 1897-1953

C0293 4 boxes 1.4 linear feet
Consists of selected papers, including manuscripts, research materials, and correspondence, of American-born British essayist and critic Logan Pearsall Smith.

Robert Rudd Whiting Papers, 1901-1918

C0573 3 boxes 1.15 linear feet
Consists of works, correspondence, photographs, and scrapbooks of American journalist Robert Rudd Whiting (Princeton Class of 1901).
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"The Glass Dove" Collection, 1961

C0149 1 box 0.4 linear feet
Consists of manuscripts of American naturalist Sally Carrighar's novel The Glass Dove.

Bretaigne Windust Collection, 1929-1958

TC087 10 boxes 6.4 linear feet
Contains records concerning plays directed by Bretaigne Windust (Princeton Class of 1929), mainly for the University Players, of which he was a co-founder.

Princeton University Rowing Collection, 1874-2003

AC223 27 boxes 1 folder
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Princeton has participated in intercollegiate rowing contests since 1874. The collection consists of photographs, memorabilia, scrapbooks, programs, correspondence and posters documenting the history of the Princeton University rowing program.

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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Arthur M. Greene Collection, 1902-1953

C0434 4 boxes 2.7 linear feet
Consists of works, correspondence, and memorabilia of Princeton School of Engineering dean Arthur M. Greene, as well as papers of others about him.

Marie Bashkirtseff Collection, 1922-1937

TC135 10 items 0.4 linear feet
The Marie Bashkirtseff Collection consists of newspaper and book reviews about her published journal and later biographies about her; one engraved portrait; one engraved illustration.

Arthur J. Horton Collection on Coeducation, 1968-1980

AC039 4 boxes
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In January 1969, Princeton's trustees voted to make the undergraduate college coeducational, breaking the 224-year tradition of an all-male student body. The Patterson Committee, made up of faculty and administrators, had studied and advocated the change. The one dissenting voice on the committee was Arthur J. Horton '42, the university's director of development; he wrote a minority report and became a rallying point for those opposing the move. Horton's collection of materials on coeducation contains his annotated copy of the committee's report, his memoranda to the committee's chair and university administrators, official university releases and letters to alumni, and newspaper clippings regarding the change and campus issues in general. A quarter of the collection is letters from alumni, some welcoming coeducation but most strongly opposed.
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Ashley Brown collection of Caroline Gordon, 1956-1980

C0249 1 box 0.4 linear feet
Consists of selected manuscripts and letters of American novelist and literary critic Caroline Gordon, collected by Ashley Brown, a friend and fellow author.

Joshua Butler Wright Papers, 1909-1938

MC137 3 boxes
The Joshua Butler Wright Papers (1909-1938) document a thirty year diplomatic career in legations and embassies of the United States in Europe and South America and as Assistant Secretary of State under President Calvin Coolidge. The Collection contains correspondence, documents, publications and most notably, diaries reflecting Wright's impressions of various official and non-official activities.
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Series IV: Diaries, 1909-1936

Series IV: Diaries (1909-1936) includes sixteen diaries. The diaries reflect topographic descriptions as well as ethnic and cultural mores of Latin and South American countries visited during Joshua Butler Wright's foreign service career. Anti-American sentiments, declarations of martial law, and rumors of revolution are all documented together with routine encounters at various embassies.

Jessica Lanier Collection of Woody Allen Set Photographs, 1997-2000

C1503 4 boxes 1.6 linear feet
The collection consists of set decorator Jessica Lanier's set photographs for several of Woody Allen's films, including Sweet and Lowdown (1999), Small Time Crooks (2000), and The Curse of the Jade Scorpion (2001), as well as her copies of shooting scripts and revisions. Photographs consist of contemporary color prints and Polaroids, as well as some negatives.

Chandler & Company Records, 1916-1921

MC036 1 box
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Chandler & Company was a New York investment banking house with offices in New York and Philadelphia. The Company issued bonds for many companies and countries, including Bolivia, China, Costa Rica, and Germany. Chandler & Company's records document the company's investment decisions in Germany, as well as Bolivia and Costa Rica, during the early 1920s and include correspondence and meeting minutes.

"Old Nassau" Collection, 1859-1989

AC051 3 boxes
This collection contains early scores and lyrics to Princeton University's alma mater "Old Nassau" as well as information about the song and the men who created it.

Department of East Asian Studies Records, 2016-2022

AC503 3 websites
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The Department of Oriental Studies was formed at Princeton University in the spring of 1927 as the Department of Oriental Languages and Literature. It offered an interdisciplinary curriculum centered on the study of Chinese and Japanese language, history, and literature. The Program in East Asian Studies drew heavily on the Gest Oriental Library. In 1969, the Department of Oriental Languages and Literature was reorganized into the separate Departments of Near Eastern Studies and East Asian Studies. The records consist of websites produced by the department.

Fundamental Laws and Constitutions of New Jersey, 1664-1961

C0654 1 box 0.4 linear feet
Consists of copies of fundamental legal instruments of government (1664-1961) under which people have lived in New Jersey for the last 300 years, gathered by historian, Julian P. Boyd, for the book Fundamental Laws and Constitutions of New Jersey (1964), which he edited.
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Control Systems Laboratory Technical Reports, 1962-1963

ENG009 5 Volumes 1.0 linear feet
Consists of technical reports created by the Control Systems Laboratory at Princeton University from 1962 to 1963. The Control Systems Laboratory is a division of the Department of Electrical Engineering at Princeton University.

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

TC120 2 boxes 0.6 linear feet
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.

Monique Fong Wust Collection of Octavio Paz, 1961-1999

C1529 1 box
The collection includes correspondence to and from Mexican poet and Nobel Prize Laureate Octavio Paz (1914-1998) and French translator and friend Monique Fong Wust. Other correspondents include Robert Lebel, Marie-Jo Paz, and Juan García de Oteyza. Also included are original English typescripts of Paz's essay, "The Centurions of Santiago" with corrections and additions from Paz and Fong Wust, an annotated and corrected printed copy of Paz's Apariencia desnuda. La obra de Marcel Duchamp for French translation, and various ephemera about related Paz events.
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The Centurions of Santiago, 1973 September 28

Original English typescript, 7 pages, with handwritten corrections and additions in the hand of Octavio Paz (black ink) and Fong Wust (purple ink). The text, published in Descent, was written on the occasion of General Augusto Pinochet's coup d'état in Chile. Includes carbon copy of final version. Also here is a collection of Fong Wust's personal keepsakes of Paz related events.
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Series 1: Correspondence, 1961 January 10-1999 October 7

The Paz-Fong Wust correspondence largely dwells on their collaboration, but also documents the Nobel Prize laureate's ideas about life, writing and poetics, his opinions on the political regime in Mexico during the 1960s, and his intimate feelings about such figures as John Cage and Marcel Duchamp. Other correspondents with Fong Wust include Robert Lebel, Marie-Jo Paz, and Juan García de Oteyza.

Selected Papers of Wilson Farrand, 1878-1941

C0155 3 boxes 2.9 linear feet
The collection contains selected papers of Wilson Farrand (Princeton Class of 1886), including correspondence, addresses, articles, and writings from his student days.
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Harison Collection of Mark Twain Miscellanea, 1905-1933

C0615 1 box 0.2 linear feet
Consists of various items collected by Leonard Harison relating to Mark Twain, including correspondence of Madeline Sinsheimer Block with Clara Gabrilowitsch (Twain's daughter), Harper's souvenir issue (1905) of Twain's 70th birthday, two Twain commemorative calendars (1910-1911), The Bookman's Twain issue of June, 1910, and a copy of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1904) inscribed by Twain in 1905.

Broude Brothers Limited Files on Arthur Lourié, circa 1961-1992

C1583 3 boxes 2.5 linear feet
Consists of a handwritten score and copies of Funeral Games in Honor of Chronos, as well as a music copyist's handwritten score and published parts for "The Blackamoor Suite," by Russian composer Arthur Lourié (1892-1966).

Al Hine Novels, 1951-1961

C0225 3 boxes 1.2 linear feet
Consists of manuscripts for three novels by American novelist and children's writer Al Hine.

Collection of Materials Relating to the Anguillan Revolution, 1967-1971

C1777 .4 linear feet 1 box
Consists of materials relating to the Anguillan Revolution of 1967, including the Anguillan-published newspaper The Beacon, news articles from American publications, and memorabilia. Also includes policy statements on Anguilla from the British Information Services, Economic & Political Affairs Division.
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Program in Hellenic Studies Collection of Modern Greek Theater Playbills, Second Series, 1933-1981

RCPXR-6386581 3 boxes 1.2 linear feet
This collection contains playbills mostly from Greece and a few from other countries.

Princeton Summer Theater Records, 1968-2008

AC295 4 boxes
Princeton Summer Theater was founded in 1968 by three members of Theatre Intime who sought to continue acting during the summer offseason. The collection consists of organizational records and promotional materials which document the activities of Princeton Summer Theater dating back to its inception as Summer Intime.

Princeton University Library Collection of Konstantinos Athanasiou Photographs, 1870s-1880s

C0946 2 boxes 3.5 linear feet
Consists of an open collection of photographs by Greek photographer Konstantinos Athanasiou.
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Gertrude Smith Collection, circa 1895

C1202 1 box 0.2 linear feet
Consists of material related to Arabella and Araminta Stories, a collection of short children's stories written by Gertrude Smith, an American writer of fiction and children's books, and illustrated by Ethel Reed, an American book illustrator, poster designer, and painter.

The Anscombe Society Records, 2005-2016

AC442 73 digital files 1 websites
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The Anscombe Society is a student organization founded at Princeton University in 2005 with the stated mission to affirm the importance family, marriage, and a proper understanding for the role of sex and sexuality. The Anscombe Society Records document the organization's first decade of activities, especially the group's proposed Center for Abstinence and Chastity.
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The Anscombe Society Records, 2005-2016

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The Anscombe Society is a student organization founded at Princeton University in 2005 with the stated mission to affirm the importance family, marriage, and a proper understanding for the role of sex and sexuality. The Anscombe Society Records document the organization's first decade of activities, especially the group's proposed Center for Abstinence and Chastity.

Jonathan Odell Collection, 1750-1780

C1151 1 box 0.2 linear feet
Consists of selected material of Jonathan Odell, an eighteenth-century New Jersey clergyman and loyalist in the American Revolution, and his father, John Odell.

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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The Acropolis from Philopappos hill; Greek peasants, 1903 April 14

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."
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Antiquities of Athens, Greece, 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.

Princeton University Library Collection of Alois Beer Photographs, circa 1890

C1370 1 box
Consists of an open collection for general photographs of sites and subjects in Greece.
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Greek-American Community of New York Photographs, 1940s

C0949 1 box 1.5 linear feet
Consists of photographs of the Greek-American community of New York in the 1940s.

Henry Robert Taylor Family Papers, 1849-1915

C1621 1 box
Consists of a group of family papers documenting Henry Robert Taylor's role in a California gold prospecting company called Cunningham & Co. from 1849 to 1851, his travels in South America from 1852 to 1857, his survey work in the Nebraska Territory in 1858 and 1859, and his family's efforts to publish his travel journals in the early 20th century.

Michael A. Feighan papers, circa 1940-1980

MC175 74 boxes
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Feighan was a congressman from Ohio. Consists of papers of Feighan covering his years in Congress (1943-1971).

Stephen Alexander Collection, 1827-1882

C1004 2 boxes 2.2 linear feet
Consists primarily of correspondence of nineteenth-century American astronomer Stephen Alexander.

Selected Papers of David Paton, 1876-1923

C0599 2 boxes 2.42 linear feet
Consists primarily of letters to Egyptologist David Paton (Princeton Class of 1874) about his four-volume work Early Egyptian Records of Travel: Material for a Historical Geography of Western Asia (1915-1922).
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T. Crofton Croker Collection, 1827-1925

C0088 1 box 0.2 linear feet
Consists primarily of letters by Irish antiquary T. Crofton Croker or other Noviomagians, members of the English antiquarian society which Croker founded, called the Noviomagus Society.
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Jansenism in France Collection, 1728-1780

C0838 1 box 0.25 linear feet
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Jansenism was a religious movement based on the teachings of the theologian Cornelius Jansen (1585-1638). His doctrines held that human beings cannot achieve goodness without the intervention of God's grace and that a minority of individuals has been predestined by God for salvation. Consists of a collection of papers related to the Jansenist controversy in France in the 18th century.

James Carnahan Collection, 1802-1858

C1029 1 box 0.2 linear feet
Consists of correspondence, documents, and a fragment of a sermon by James Carnahan, ninth president of the College of New Jersey (now Princeton).

Charles H. McIlwaine Papers, 1707-1946 (mostly 1894-1946)

C0720 5 boxes
Author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning book The American Revolution (1923), Charles H. McIlwaine (Princeton Class of 1894) was a professor of history and government at both Princeton (1905-1910) and Harvard University (1926-1946). His papers include notes, lectures, and other miscellaneous personal papers.

John Sanderson, T. E. Pritt, and Henry Wade Trout Flies and Manuals, 1860-1872

C1672 0.4 linear feet 1 box
Consists of a small collection of 19th century trout flies and related manuals by John Sanderson, T. E. (Thomas Evan) Pritt, and Henry Wade.

Achille François Bazaine Correspondence, 1862-1866

C0865 1 box 0.25 linear feet
A collection of 74 letters and documents, 1862-1866, concerning the efforts of the French to establish and maintain an empire in Mexico under the rule of the Austrian Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian (1832-1867). Almost all the letters were sent to General Achille François Bazaine.