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Cole Family Papers, circa 1848-1900

C1548 1 box 0.2 linear feet
Consists of 12 letters from William, E. B., and Robert Patten to their brother-in-law and sister, George N. and Olivia Cole, along with additional Cole family documents.
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Roberts Lumber Company Photographs, circa 1900

C1677 0.4 linear feet 1 box
Consists of a group of 36 photographs documenting the Roberts Lumber Company, which was founded around 1900 outside the Sierra County town of Loyalton, California.
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Historical Photograph Collection: Slides series, circa 1899-1980

AC378 42 boxes
Consists of several hundred lantern slides containing images of Princeton University, primarily the campus and buildings.

Sheldon Jackson Collection of Indian Photographs, circa 1850-1890

WC055 3 boxes
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Sheldon Jackson was a Presbyterian missionary in the Western United States in the 19th century. This collection consists of three portfolios with 576 photographic prints and 5 photomechanical photogravures of Native Americans and related subjects compiled by Jackson, possibly from negatives in the collections of the Bureau of American Ethnology and by ordering prints from various photographic trade catalogs.
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Model of a Hopi village, circa 1899

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Racist, colonialist, and sexist language were used to describe many of the items in this collection. In most cases, descriptions were creator-supplied. In other cases, in which photographs lacked identifying information, descriptions were created by an archivist. However, the collection is a candidate for ongoing reparative description work. We hope that researchers will engage in a dialogue with staff about issues in the collection and changes that could help.
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Portrait of Gsai-Au-Tit-Sa, called Mary Ealy; Jan-I-Uk-Tit-Sa, called Jennie Hammaker; Leai-A-Se-U-Lu-Ti-Wa, called Frank Cushing; and Tas-We-Ea-Tas-Lun-Kia, Called Taylor Ealy, in partial native dress (from Zuni Pueblo), circa 1894

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Racist, colonialist, and sexist language were used to describe many of the items in this collection. In most cases, descriptions were creator-supplied. In other cases, in which photographs lacked identifying information, descriptions were created by an archivist. However, the collection is a candidate for ongoing reparative description work. We hope that researchers will engage in a dialogue with staff about issues in the collection and changes that could help.
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Pima & Papago children taken to Hampton Institute by Rev. Sheldon Jackson, 1881, circa 1881

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Racist, colonialist, and sexist language were used to describe many of the items in this collection. In most cases, descriptions were creator-supplied. In other cases, in which photographs lacked identifying information, descriptions were created by an archivist. However, the collection is a candidate for ongoing reparative description work. We hope that researchers will engage in a dialogue with staff about issues in the collection and changes that could help.

Princeton University Student Christian Association Records, 1855-1967

AC135 30 boxes
The Student Christian Association and its predecessors were the dominant religious organizations at Princeton University for almost a hundred and fifty years. The Philadelphian Society, founded by a small group of students in 1825, was the quasi-official campus religious agency by the beginning of the twentieth century. In 1930 the Student-Faculty Association (SFA), organized by the Dean of the Chapel, took over the Society's programs, focusing on community service. In 1946 the Student Christian Association (SCA) replaced both the Society and the SFA, coordinating both religious and community service activities in campus. The Student Volunteers Council succeeded the SCA in 1967.

James P. Kimball Papers, 1860-1910s

C1438 2 boxes 1.9 linear feet
Consists of a variety of materials, including photographs, correspondence, reports, and ephemera, related to James P. Kimball's life and work as a geologist and engineer around the turn of the 20th century, primarily in the American West.
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Mrs. Humphry Ward Marcella Manuscripts, circa 1894

C0184 1 box 0.4 linear feet
Consists of holograph drafts of several chapters, and other manuscript material, for Marcella, a novel by British novelist Mary Augusta Ward (1851-1920) who wrote under her married name as Mrs. Humphry Ward.
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Princeton at the World's Columbian Exhibition Records, 1893

AC373 4 boxes 1 folder
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Princeton University, then known as the College of New Jersey at Princeton, mounted an exhibition booth at the World's Columbian Exposition, a world's fair held in Chicago from May to October 1893. The collection includes three certificates from the U.S. Congress honoring Princeton for the exhibit, three copies of a photograph of Dr. and Mrs. McCosh seated in the exhibit booth, a written proposal for the exhibit, layout plans for the exhibit, and two bound registers containing the autographs and home cities of visitors to the exhibit.

Gordon family correspondence, circa 1870-1902

AC482 3 boxes
The collection consists of letters written and received by members of the Gordon family of Fannettsburg, Pennsylvania between the 1870s and approximately 1905. Some of the letters cover the period when Clarence Gordon '1891, son of Jeremiah Smith Gordon '1853, was a student at Princeton, as well as when Mary Gordon and Clementine Gordon attended Wilson College in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania.

D. C. Herrin "Columbia River Scenery" Photographs, circa 1892-1897

C1512 1 box 0.2 linear feet
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Consists of 13 mounted albumen card photographs from Oregon photographer D. C. Herrin's "Columbia River Scenery" series that depict various scenes along the river, including views of waterfalls; sites such as The Dalles, the Columbia River Gorge, and Mount Hood; and steamships. Herrin took the photographs via The Dalles, Portland, & Astoria Navigation Company (DP&AN) steamers and via the Oregon Railroad and Navigation Company (OR&N) line.
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D. C. Herrin "Columbia River Scenery" Photographs, circa 1892-1897

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Consists of 13 mounted albumen card photographs from Oregon photographer D. C. Herrin's "Columbia River Scenery" series that depict various scenes along the river, including views of waterfalls; sites such as The Dalles, the Columbia River Gorge, and Mount Hood; and steamships. Herrin took the photographs via The Dalles, Portland, & Astoria Navigation Company (DP&AN) steamers and via the Oregon Railroad and Navigation Company (OR&N) line.

Byzantine and post-Byzantine Inscriptions Collection, 1885-1910

C0967 5 boxes
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Consists of manuscript copies of Greek inscriptions from Orthodox churches, monasteries, and icons in Greece, Asia Minor, the Greek islands, and Serbia that were compiled in the late 19th and early 20th century by the Greek epigrapher Giorgios Lampakes (Gēorgios Lampakēs).

Galbraith Ward and Marquand Ward Letters to Margaret Heyerdahl, circa 1890s-1952 (mostly 1905-1918)

AC493 2 boxes
Galbraith Ward, Class of 1915, and Marquand Ward, Class of 1917, were both Princeton graduates who served and died in World War I. This collection consists of many letters and postcards they wrote to their childhood nurse, Margaret Heyerdahl, plus a photograph album compiled after their deaths.
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Princeton University Library Collection of William Henry Jackson Photographs, circa 1880-1890s

C1488 2 boxes 1.2 linear feet
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This collection consists of five cabinet card Albumen photographs and one photograph album. The cabinet cards depict depict Pikes Peak in Colorado and the surrounding environs. The photograph album consists of 115 images of Colorado primarily, with some images of New Mexico, that depict various scenes of frontier towns, railroads, and natural landscapes. Most, if not all, of the photographs can be attributed to the American photographer William Henry Jackson (1843-1942), known for his iconic Indian portraits and landscape photographs of the American West.
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Princeton University Library Collection of William Henry Jackson Photographs, circa 1880-1890s

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This collection consists of five cabinet card Albumen photographs and one photograph album. The cabinet cards depict depict Pikes Peak in Colorado and the surrounding environs. The photograph album consists of 115 images of Colorado primarily, with some images of New Mexico, that depict various scenes of frontier towns, railroads, and natural landscapes. Most, if not all, of the photographs can be attributed to the American photographer William Henry Jackson (1843-1942), known for his iconic Indian portraits and landscape photographs of the American West.

Julian Scott Photographs for the 11th Census, 1890-1891

C1412 2 boxes 1 item 0.7 linear feet
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Consists of 170 albumen prints of Native Americans and frontiersmen taken by Julian Scott in 1890 for the 11th United States Census with a No. 2 Kodak camera, with accompanying documentation.
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Gate of Acoma, N.M., circa 1890 October 23

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Title from manuscript caption on recto. A path between monumental rock formations (free-standing monoliths, or hoodoos) high up on a mesa, and a mesa wall on the right. Leaning against a wall to the left is a member of the census party in a dark hat, dark shirt and dark coat with a light-colored box or sheaf of papers under his right arm. He may have a cigarette in his mouth.

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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Charles-Antoine Chancerel Manuscripts on Oidapa, 1888-1892

C1639 1 box
Consists of manuscript grammar books and a dictionary documenting an artificial language called Oidapa (Oïdapa, Oīdapa) that was invented by French civil engineer Charles-Antoine Chancerel in the late 19th century.

A. Kasphikis Photographs Collection, circa 1890

C1244 1 box 1 linear feet
Consists of an open collection of photographs by Greek photographer A. Kasphikis. Included are portraits of men and women of Corfu, Greece, in traditional dress.
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Walter Dundas Bathurst Papers, 1883-1923

C1588 1 box
Consists primarily of three diaries that William Dundas Bathurst (1859-1940) kept while serving as an officer of the Association Internationale du Congo (AIC) from December 1883 to September 1886.

Photographs Documenting Logging Crews and Rural Life in Western Washington and Northwest Oregon, circa 1889-1910

C1713 1.3 linear feet 1 box
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Consists of a collection of twenty-two photographs documenting logging equipment, camps, crews, working conditions, and family life, primarily in Western Washington and Northwest Oregon along the Columbia River during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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William J. Harsha Papers, 1873-1891

C1723 0.6 linear feet 2 boxes
This collection consists of four volumes of sermons, lecture notes, diary entries, and clippings, as well as correspondence, broadsides, a pamphlet, and a photograph belonging to William J. Harsha (1853-1938), a Presbyterian minister from Illinois who worked in Nebraska, New York, and Colorado, and who was an advocate for Indigenous civil rights.
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Princeton University Student Clubs Records, 1821-1926

AC406 2 boxes
Princeton students have formed clubs for social, charitable, religious, political and other purposes nearly since the school's founding. Princeton University Student Clubs Records, 1821-1926 consists of bound volumes including minute books, financial ledgers, and other record books from student-organized campus clubs including the Nassau Hall Education Society (1821-1839), Literary Sharpshooters (1887-1888), the Philosophical Club (1889-1894), the Hill Club (1900-1904), and the Internaional Polity Club (1914-1926).

360 Photographs of American Scenery Collected by Norman Selfe on the Spots Represented in 1884, 1870-1884

C1573 3 boxes 6.25 linear feet
Consists of a photograph album containing over 300 photographs of urban and rural locations in North America, Hawaii, and New Zealand, collected by Australian engineer Norman Selfe (1839-1911) during his 1884 tour to inspect engineering and architectural works abroad. The photographs document street architecture in San Francisco, California; redwood logging ventures in Humboldt County, California; as well as locations in the Oregon, Washington, and Utah Territories; the states of Colorado, Nevada, Missouri, Illinois, New York, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts; federal buildings in Washington, D.C.; and cities and natural features in Canada, including British Columbia, Montreal, Toronto, Niagara Falls, and the St. Lawrence River. Includes photographs taken by William Henry Jackson (1843-1942), George Dobson Valentine (1852-1890), George Fiske (1835-1918), I. W. Taber (1830-1912), and others.

Ben Wittick Photographs of Hopi Villages, circa 1880-1903

WC053 1 box 2.5 linear feet
Consists of a large bound volume of nine black-and-white photographs by American West photographer Ben Wittick, probably taken between 1880 and 1903.
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Princeton University Library Collection of Rubellin et Fils Photographs, circa 1880

C1146 1 box 1.4 linear feet
Consists of an open collection of photographs of Ottoman scenes by Rubellin et fils, a French photography studio based in Izmir, Turkey..
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Rhodes, Greece, circa 1870

Consists of (4) photographs (albumen prints, 26 x 21 cm.) issued by Rubellin with photographer's stamp "Rubellin - Smyrne - Photographie Parisienne" on the reverse. Images depict parts of the fortification of the city; two round towers of the fortress with a muleteers gathering on the left lower corner; the Gate d'Amboise; and the Avenue of the Knights. There is an image titled "Ancienne salle d'armes des chevaliers," which according to the dealer's note the original photo was probably taken by Alexander Svoboda ca 1865 and then issued by Rubellin in Smyrna. All photographs bear handwritten titles in French on the reverse.

Princeton University Library Collection of Konstantinos Dimitriou Photographs, 1889

C1365 1 box
Konstantinos Dimitriou (dates unknown) worked in Athens from ca. 1875 to 1900. He photographed towns, archaeological sites, and monuments, producing large-format pictures for the tourist trade. [http://www.getty.edu/research/tools/guides_bibliographies/photography_greece/photographers.html] Consists of an open collection for Dimitriou photographs of classical sites in Athens, including the Syntagma square, theTemple of Olympian Zeus, the Erechtheum, the Propylaea, the arch of Hadrian, the Acropolis, the Odeion of Herodes Atticus, the Byzantine church of Saints Theodore, and two grave-markers. There is also an image of Piraeus signed by Dimitriou.
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Areopagus and the city of Athens (Greece) - Archaic statue of Athena, circa 1880

Consists of two photographs mounted on both sides of a card board. The first one, an albumen print (19.5 x 25.5 cm.) depicts the Areopagus (Mars' Hill) with a panoramic view of the city of Athens. Photograph bears a handwritten title in French "Aréopage" and photographer's signature "K. Dimitriou", on the print. Handwritten title: "Athens. The Areopagus from the Acropolis. Temple of Theseus below," on the card board and the number "10" on the left hand-side corner. On the reverse, there is attached a silver print (25.5 x 19 cm.) of Athena's statue entitled "Athens. Archaic statue of Athena (Coloured) from the ancient Parthenon", on the board and "Muse de l' Acropole" on the print. The photographer is unknown.
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The Olympieion - Hill of Areopagus (Athens, Greece), circa 1880

Consists of two albumen prints (25.5 x 19 cm each) mounted on both sides of a mat board. The first image depicts the Temple of Olympian Zeus, with handwritten title on the image "Jupiter Olympien." On the reverse, the second image depicts the Hill of Areopagus with handwritten title "Aréopage" and the photographer's signature "K. Dimitriou", on the negative.

Princeton University Library Collection of Stephanos Stournaras Photographs, circa 1880

C1630 1.3 linear feet 1 box
Consists of an open collection of Stephanos Stournaras photographs of Greece.
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Holy Monasteries of Meteora and Kalabaka, circa 1880

Consists of three mounted photographs of monasteries of the Holy Meteora and one photograph of Kalabaka. Images show: the Monastery of the Holy Trinity (28 x 21.5 cm), photographer's signature and title on the print, in white ink. Handwritten captions on card board in French, in black ink, "Thessalie. Les Météores. Couvent la Sainte Trinité"; the Monastery of Saint Stephanos (28 x 22.7 cm), part of the title "Hagiou Stephanou" in Greek on the print; and the Monastery of Varlaam (28 x 21.3 cm), part of the title "Meteora V[arlaam] on the print in white ink. Handwritten caption on card board in black ink reads "Thessallie. Les Meteores."

"Photographs of North American Indians" Albums, circa 1840-1879

WC054 10 boxes 13.0 linear feet
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Consists of two disbound photograph albums containing 1,025 mounted albumen photographs of various Indigenous peoples of North America, including portraits of delegates to Washington, D.C.; expedition photographs; and early Western studio portraits by American photographers. Most of the photographs in the albums are described in the Numerical Index of William Henry Jackson's Descriptive Catalogue of the Photographs of North American Indians (1877), which is pasted to the albums.
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Samuel Downing, Cherokee, circa 1879

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Racist, colonialist, and sexist language were used to describe many of the items in this collection. In most cases, descriptions were creator-supplied. In other cases, in which photographs lacked identifying information, descriptions were created by an archivist. However, the collection is a candidate for ongoing reparative description work. We hope that researchers will engage in a dialogue with staff about issues in the collection and changes that could help.
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Sam, Ute, circa 1878

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Racist, colonialist, and sexist language were used to describe many of the items in this collection. In most cases, descriptions were creator-supplied. In other cases, in which photographs lacked identifying information, descriptions were created by an archivist. However, the collection is a candidate for ongoing reparative description work. We hope that researchers will engage in a dialogue with staff about issues in the collection and changes that could help.
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Tom, Ute, circa 1878

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Racist, colonialist, and sexist language were used to describe many of the items in this collection. In most cases, descriptions were creator-supplied. In other cases, in which photographs lacked identifying information, descriptions were created by an archivist. However, the collection is a candidate for ongoing reparative description work. We hope that researchers will engage in a dialogue with staff about issues in the collection and changes that could help.

Princeton University Library Collection of James Payn Materials, 1864-1898 (mostly 1891-1894)

C1156 2 boxes 0.6 linear feet
Consists primarily of letters by James Payn, the English novelist and editor, to William Morris Colles, his literary agent, regarding the possible sale of his stories and books.

Princeton University Library Collection of F. Jay Haynes Photographs, 1877-1880s

C1485 4 boxes 3.2 linear feet
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Consists of an assembled collection of photographs by Yellowstone National Park and Northern Pacific Railway photographer F. Jay Haynes (1853-1921), mostly from the late 1870s and 1880s, including albums of albumen prints of various Yellowstone National Park sites and scenes along the Columbia River in Oregon, as well as stereograph views of Yellowstone National Park, wheat farmers in the Dakota Territory, and locations along the route of the Northern Pacific Railway.

William Courtenay Papers, 1850-1965 (mostly 1870-1897)

C1645 1 box
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The collection consists of documents, correspondence, photographs, and other papers of William Courtenay (1832-1901), an English settler, veteran of the American Civil War, and frontier businessman who held positions in the United States Department of the Interior as postmaster, clerk, and Indian Agent at Fort Berthold, Dakota Territory, from 1874 to 1882. These materials document conditions at the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation and are of particular interest for their documentation of frontier transactions, corruption and mismanagement within the reservation system, and the relationships between the people of the Three Affiliated Tribes (Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara), the Sioux people, and white settlers.
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Testimony by Lean Wolf, circa 1874-1881

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Consists of an eight-page manuscript copy of a testimony given by Lean Wolf, 2nd Chief of the Gros Ventres in answer to questions in relation to Colonel Gilherst's communication to General Hancock. In the testimony, Lean Wolf describes in great detail his tribe's relationship to the Sioux, an incident in which a trader was attacked by Sioux warriors, and the sentiments shared among his people that the Great Father had abandoned them and that the Sioux were correct in their assertion that the poverty and sickness his tribe experienced were attributable to their friendship with white settlers.

Alexandre Dumas Proofs, circa 1874

C1659 0.2 linear feet 1 half manuscript box
Consists of hand-corrected proofs of Alexandre Dumas père's 1854 play, La Jeunesse de Louis XIV, as revised by Alexandre Dumas fils, circa 1874. Written by Dumas père while he was in exile in Belgium, the play was rejected by censors in Paris. Although it was published in the Michel Lévy's edition of Dumas père's Théâtre Complet, the play had only been performed in Brussels, Belgium. This version by Dumas fils contains rewrites, additions, and cuts throughout, and was performed in Paris in 1874.
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Alexandre Dumas Proofs, circa 1874

Consists of hand-corrected proofs of Alexandre Dumas père's 1854 play, La Jeunesse de Louis XIV, as revised by Alexandre Dumas fils, circa 1874. Written by Dumas père while he was in exile in Belgium, the play was rejected by censors in Paris. Although it was published in the Michel Lévy's edition of Dumas père's Théâtre Complet, the play had only been performed in Brussels, Belgium. This version by Dumas fils contains rewrites, additions, and cuts throughout, and was performed in Paris in 1874.

Frederick T. Brown Family Papers, 1830-1959

C0726 1 box 0.4 linear feet
Consists of selected papers of the Frederick T. Brown family, which originated in Ohio but at various times lived in Indiana, Minnesota, and New Jersey.
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John Frippo Brown Papers, circa 1873-1875

C1662 1 box 0.2 linear feet
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Consists of a small collection of materials relating to Seminole chief John Frippo Brown (1842-1919) and his family, including a manuscript notebook, calling card, and five tintype photographs.
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Suez Canal Collection, 1838-1953 (mostly 1870-1889)

C1775 6.25 linear feet in one manuscript box, one half manuscript box, two oversize flat boxes, and one oversize folder.
Consists of publications, reports, notes, photographs, ephemera, and print illustrations documenting the Suez Canal's administration, its development and construction, depiction in travel and tourism, and impact on shipping and world trade in the late 19th century and early 20th century.
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Kaiser Friedrich III Travel Diary, circa 1870s

A presentation copy of the published travel diary by Frederick William, Kaiser Friedrich III, "Tagebuch meiner Reise nach dem Morgenlande," inscribed to his cousin, Marie of Orange-Nassau. In 1869, the Prussian Crown Prince Frederick William was invited by Ismail Pasha to the inauguration of the Suez Canal. A very small number of copies of this travel diary was printed.

Princetoniana Collection, circa 1870-2009

AC108 850 linear feet
Each volume or set of volumes in the Princetoniania Collection is represented in the Princeton University Library Main Catalog, which is searchable by title, author, or call number.
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James McNeill Whistler Collection, 1868-1910 (mostly 1892-1903)

C1274 1 box 0.2 linear feet
Consists chiefly of selected autograph letters and notes of the American-born, England-based painter and etcher James McNeill Whistler addressed to his friend Jonathan Sturges, Princeton Class of 1885, the majority of which relates to the affair of the "Baronet and the Butterfly," a public scandal which concerned an oil portrait of Lady Eden.

Walter B. Roberts and Roberts Petroleum Torpedo Company Correspondence, 1850-1902 (mostly 1865-1867)

C1469 1 box 0.4 linear feet
U.S. Civil War veteran Colonel E.A.L. (Edward Augustus Leonard) Roberts (1829-1881), of New York, revolutionized the nation's burgeoning oil industry with his invention of an explosive device, or "torpedo," which greatly increased oil wells' production. Upon the first successful explosion of one of his torpedoes in Titusville, Pennsylvania on January 21, 1865, Roberts and his brother, Walter B. Roberts (1823-1889), established the Roberts Petroleum Torpedo Company. For almost two decades, the company controlled oil well production as Roberts was awarded sole rights to the highly contested torpedo patent in the fall of 1866. This collection consists primarily of incoming letters to Walter B. Roberts, mostly from E.A.L. Roberts, about the Roberts Petroleum Torpedo Company and to a lesser degree one of its affiliated companies, Houghton, Roberts, & Company. Other correspondents include L.L. Houghton, various business associates, and patent attorneys. Also included are some financial and legal papers relating to the two companies.

Christopher Cardozo Collection of Photographs of Native Americans, circa 1862-1910

C1693 3.2 linear feet 3 boxes
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Consists of a selected group of over sixty photographs of Native American people collected by Christopher Cardozo (1948-2021), an American art collector, dealer, publisher, and photographer. Mostly taken by white photographers in the mid to late 19th century and around the turn of the 20th century, these photographs depict people from the following Indigenous communities (and likely others that are unidentified): Sioux, Dakota, Chippewa (Ojibwa), Winnebago, Duwamish, Paiute, Ute, Yuma, Mojave, Arapaho, Apache, Gila, Maricopa, Kiowa, Nez Perce, Flathead (Salish), and Comanche.
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Christopher Cardozo Collection of Photographs of Native Americans, circa 1862-1910

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Consists of a selected group of over sixty photographs of Native American people collected by Christopher Cardozo (1948-2021), an American art collector, dealer, publisher, and photographer. Mostly taken by white photographers in the mid to late 19th century and around the turn of the 20th century, these photographs depict people from the following Indigenous communities (and likely others that are unidentified): Sioux, Dakota, Chippewa (Ojibwa), Winnebago, Duwamish, Paiute, Ute, Yuma, Mojave, Arapaho, Apache, Gila, Maricopa, Kiowa, Nez Perce, Flathead (Salish), and Comanche.

William Morris Davis and Elizabeth M. Jacobs Davis Correspondence, 1829-1863

C1660 2 boxes 0.6 linear feet
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Consists primarily of correspondence of Quaker abolitionists and husband and wife, William Morris Davis (1815-1891), member of the 37th U.S. Congress, and Elizabeth M. Jacobs Davis (1817-1904) of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, primarily documenting their activities during the antebellum and Civil War periods.
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Genealogical Research, circa 1837-1861

Includes a family tree of the Davis family, a typed obituary for William Morris Davis, photocopies of a letter of William M. Davis to General Cameron dated June 30, 1861, a letter of Edward M. Davis to his brother William M. Davis, dated August 25, 1861, and a pass allowing William M. Davis to travel and pass through the lines of the Army, dated July 19, 1861. Also included is an incomplete letter/note of Alexander Agassiz (1835-1910) of the Harvard Museum of Natural History concerning a microscope maker in New York State.

Corson Family Collection, 1860-1892

C1038 1 box 0.2 linear feet
Consists of correspondence and documents of members of the Corson family, particularly Theodore Corson, of Cape May Court House, New Jersey.

New Mexico Documents Collection, circa 1777-1890

C1397 1 box 0.2 linear feet
Consists of retained copies of 66 notarial documents for primarily 19th-century land transactions in what is now the state of New Mexico.
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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.

George H. Hoyt Papers on John Brown, 1859-1893

C1675 0.2 linear feet 1 box
Consists of affidavits, clippings, correspondence, and photographs, mostly related to abolitionist lawyer George H. Hoyt's work as an attorney for John Brown (1800-1859). Materials shed light on the Virginia v. John Brown trial that followed Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry, as well as Hoyt's participation in the American Civil War and abolitionist movements.

Blanckley Family Papers, 1813-1890

C1542 1 box 0.2 linear feet
Consists of family correspondence and documents of the Blanckley family, centering on Henry Stanyford Blanckley (1752-1820), British consul in Algeria and the Balearic Islands, and his children and grandchildren. Materials also document the Tonna, Philippides Cammenos, Androutsos, and Rogers families in Great Britain, Malta, the Balearic Islands, France, and Greece.
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Letter to Maria Tonna in Argos, circa 1827-1828

One letter, undated but on paper watermarked 1827, addressed to Mrs. (Maria) Tonna in Argos. The signature is damaged, but the letter is likely written by an English official on the Ionian Islands. It refers, among other things, to the arrival of goods from France at Navarino. In parentheses underneath is written, "This for Mrs. Trelawny," followed by, "The Packet leaves Malta this day - no hoax this time." By this time the marriage between Edward Trelawny and his wife Tersitsa had broken down, and Trelawny returned to England in 1828, leaving behind Tersitsa with their daughter, Zella.

James Robertson photographs collection, circa 1854

C1380 1 box 2 linear feet
James Robertson was one of the first prominent traveller-photographers to depict scenes of mid-nineteenth century Greece. Of Scottish descent, he has been identified as the engraver James Robertson, who worked in London around 1830. He first settled in Constantinople in 1841, where he spent forty years of his life working as a master engraver in the imperial mint. His photography career began in the early 1850's when he opened a photographer's studio in Peran, the European district of Constantinople. His photographs, which were immediately popular among the art lovers of his period, appeared in international exhibitions in Paris and London and were frequently reproduced in the leading periodical "The London Illustrated News". He died in 1888 in Yokohama. Robertson earned his place in the history of photography with his coverage of the Crimean war, and with his photographs of Constantinople and other historical Mediterranean sites, such as Athens, Malta, Damascus, Egypt and the Holy Land. A close study of his work in Athens reveals that he first visited the city in 1853-1854 and probably returned later with Felice Beato, another renowned, somewhat younger, photographer. The monuments of the Acropolis (Propylaea, Temple of Athena Nike, Parthenon, Erechtheum) and the city of Athens (Temple of Olympian Zeus, Tower of the Winds, Gate of Athena Archegetis, Lysicrates Monument) as well as the Temples of Poseidon in Sounion, Aphaia on the island of Aegina, and Apollo in Corinth were magnificently portrayed by his camera while contemporary Athens was only infrequently depicted or used as a setting for its ancient remains. Although he rarely photographed people in his early work, in later work he handled them with consummate skill as a means of alleviating the monotony of ancient ruins and as an allusion to contemporary paintings. (http://www.benaki.gr/index.asp?id=1020101&lang=en) Consists of an open collection of photographs of Robertson.
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Princeton University Library Collection of General John Ross Delafield Family Materials, 1811-1915

C1508 4 boxes 2 linear feet
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Consists of miscellaneous professional and personal papers created by various members of the Delafield, Livingston, and other related families, including Edward Livingston (1764-1836), Philip Livingston (1740-1810), and Philip Schuyler (1788-1865), among others. Materials about family members are also included.
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Delafield and Shipman Families Genealogy Papers, circa 1840s-1915

Includes a printed lineage of the Delafield family, headed "Delafield of Fieldston," which describes descendents of the Delafield family of Alsace, France; a handwritten family tree beginning with John Delafield (1748–1824) and Ann Hallet; and a Shipman family coat of arms.

Mathieu-Guillaume-Thérèse Villenave's Collection on Alina d'Eldir, circa 1829 - 1950s (mostly 1829-1845)

C1624 1 box
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Consists of correspondence and other materials collected by Mathieu-Guillaume-Thérèse Villenave relating to Alina d'Eldir, including her biography, her work with magnetism treatments, and the Ordre Asiatique de Morale Universelle.
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Alina d'Eldir Biographical Materials, circa 1840s

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Includes a portrait of Alina d'Eldir; a handwritten, short biographical statement in Italian; and handwritten copies of correspondence from the early 1820s regarding Alina d'Eldir's background in India. Identified correspondents include the Governor in Council at Bombay, James Pattison at the East India House, Edouard Alletz, A. Passchiers-Bisson, and Charles Mercier d'Eldir. An unidentified correspondent writing in Persian could be Gulam Mushi-ud-din. Some letters are in English and Persian; English letters have translations into French and some parts of the Persian letters are romanized. There are notes in pencil on the portrait and in some of the margins. These copies are undated.
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Materials Related to the Ordre Asiatique de Morale Universelle, circa 1834-1912

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Includes a typewritten statement and bibliography regarding d'Eldir and Ordre Asiatique contemporaries, J. B. M. Gence and Agricol-Joseph Fortia d'Urban; original certificates and a handwritten copy of a certificate from the Cercle de la Noble Porte and the Ordre Asiatique to Villenave and le Baron de Saint-Mexant, Armand-Charles; printed and handwritten copies of speeches by Alina d'Eldir; a handwritten copy of the statutes of the organization; a handwritten timeline of the founding of the organization; and on the verso of the timeline a handwritten inventory of letters from Fortia d'Urban and Villenave. The copies are undated.

Martha Bradstreet Family Papers, 1780-1880

C1646 1 box
Consists of a collection of correspondence, writings, legal documents, and genealogical papers belonging to Martha Bradstreet (1780-1871) of Bennettsville, New York. Bradstreet inherited land in Oneida, Herkimer, and Delaware Counties, New York, through her step-grandfather, Major General John Bradstreet (1711-1774), and fought legal battles surrounding her land claims for much of the 19th century.
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Josiah S. Studdiford Family Correspondence, 1807-1862

C1495 1 box 0.2 linear feet
Consists of the personal correspondence of Josiah S. Studdiford (1837-1862), documenting his service with the 4th New Jersey Infantry during the U.S. Civil War, including battles in which he was involved; his capture and time as a prisoner of war at Libby Prison (Va.) in the summer of 1862; and his death during the Battle of South Mountain (Md.) on September 14, 1862. Also included is the largely personal correspondence of several of Studdiford's relatives, including his grandfather, John Neely Simpson (1770-1832); his brother, Peter Augustus Studdiford (1828-1886); and his uncles, James Hervey Simpson (1813-1883) and Josiah Simpson (1815-1874). Many of those represented were Princeton University graduates.
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Simpson, J. H. (James Hervey), circa 1839-1860

Includes 2 letters to his nephew, Peter Augustus Studdiford, and his sister, Ellen Simpson Studdiford written from Buffalo, NY and Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin; and 1 unidentified letter about Simpson. In one of the letters to his nephew (March 4, 1839), Simpson describes Native American attacks that occurred in and around Tallahassee while Simpson was overseeing coastal surveys and road construction in Florida.
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Studdiford, Josiah S., 1859 February, 1861 August-1862 October

Most of the letters are from Studdiford to his family. Two letters are photocopies, including one dated July 5, 1862 from Chaplain Camp to Peter O. Studdiford regarding his son's capture, and one from Major General John E. Wool granting permission for Studdiford's brothers to bring his remains back to New Jersey (September 19, 1862).

Edmund Morford Collection, 1828-1830

C1141 1 box 0.2 linear feet
Consists of manuscript drafts of two articles by nineteenth-century American editor Edmund Morford.