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Sir William Rothenstein Letters, 1898-1943

C0923 1 box 0.2 linear feet
Consists of 34 letters and postcards by the English painter Sir William Rothenstein to four correspondents: Henry Davray, Elizabeth Jungmann, F. H. Sunderland, and E. G. Wolfe.

Allen Family Burma Collection, 1781-1935

C1441 2 boxes 0.7 linear feet
The Allen Family Burma Collection documents two generations of British aristocrats in colonial Burma, and consists of two diaries, dating from 1889 to 1890, and two scrapbooks, dating from 1781 to 1935. In total, the collection is extensive; within the scrapbooks are nearly six hundred items, including photographs, newspapers clippings, letters, and ephemera. As a group, this collection gives a great insight into colonial life in Burma immediately following Burma's incorporation into the British Empire.

Princeton History of New Jersey Series collection, 1929-1960

AC224 1 box
Thomas J. Wertenbaker was a professor of history at Princeton from 1910 to 1936, serving as department chairman from 1928-1936.

Council on Athletics Trophy Committee Records, 1929-1949

AC235 1 box
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Following a fire that destroyed the University Gymnasium in 1944, a committee was formed by the Council of Athletics for the purpose of replacing as many of the athletic trophies of the University as possible. The collection consists of the records of the Council on Athletics Trophy Committee, including subject files containing photographs, drawings, purchase orders, and other general information about the trophies.
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Council on Athletics Trophy Committee Records, 1929-1949

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Following a fire that destroyed the University Gymnasium in 1944, a committee was formed by the Council of Athletics for the purpose of replacing as many of the athletic trophies of the University as possible. The collection consists of the records of the Council on Athletics Trophy Committee, including subject files containing photographs, drawings, purchase orders, and other general information about the trophies.

Marshall Curtis Brown Collection, 1912-1914

C1347 2 boxes 1.45 linear feet
Consists chiefly of correspondence of Marshall Brown with members of his family during World War I. Also included are manuscript maps and photographs from the war.
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Undergraduate Academic Files, Series 1, 1921-1929

AC198-01 12 boxes
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This collection consists of the individual academic files of former undergraduate students of Princeton University. The files contain grades, transcripts, and other information relating to the subject's academic career.

Graduate Alumni Records, 1900-1929

AC105-02 46 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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Sir Hall Caine Letters, 1882-1928

C1024 1 box 0.2 linear feet
Consists of selected letters by British novelist and playwright Sir Hall Caine to Curtis Brown, Sir Martin Conway, Ford Madox Brown, James Fitzmaurice-Kelly, and several others.

Howard A. Loeb Papers, 1928-1951

MC188 2 boxes
Howard A. Loeb served as chairman of the board of the Tradesmens Bank and Trust Company of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and as representative of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia on the Federal Advisory Council. This collection consists of Loeb's correspondence and printed matter related to these positions.
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Emily Brown Reports and Memoranda for the War Relocation Authority and the Federal Security Agency, 1871-1988 (mostly 1944-1946)

C1736 1 box 0.2 linear feet
Primarily consists of reports, memoranda, and drafts of speeches and press releases created in the course of Emily Brown's work for various government agencies during and following World War II, in particular, the War Relocation Authority, where she worked in the Reports Division, and the Federal Security Agency.
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Emily Brown Reports and Memoranda for the War Relocation Authority and the Federal Security Agency, 1871-1988 (mostly 1944-1946)

Primarily consists of reports, memoranda, and drafts of speeches and press releases created in the course of Emily Brown's work for various government agencies during and following World War II, in particular, the War Relocation Authority, where she worked in the Reports Division, and the Federal Security Agency.

Kathleen Tankersley Young Correspondence, 1928-1932

C1273 1 box 0.2 linear feet
Consists chiefly of correspondence of American author and editor Kathleen Tankersley Young with the New York book designer and printer Lew Ney and his wife, Ruth Widen.

The Hardy Players Collection, 1882-1926

C0897 2 boxes 0.8 linear feet
Consists of material relating to productions of plays adapted from Thomas Hardy novels and short stories by the English amateur theater company The Hardy Players.

Thomas A. Edison Collection, 1880-1925

C1048 1 box 0.2 linear feet
Consists primarily of correspondence, both original and photocopies, of Thomas A. Edison, the most influential American inventor of the twentieth century.

Oliver Stromberg Collection of William Beebe Book Collecting Files, 1912-1993

C1595 1 box
Materials collected by book collector Oliver Stromberg in preparation to write a book on American naturalist and explorer, William Beebe. Collection primarily consists of orders, invoices, book catalogs, and correspondence from booksellers.
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Horace and Thomas Meeker Papers on Admission to Princeton University, 1925-1930, 1949-1956

AC337 1 box
Horace and Thomas Meeker were father and son graduates of Princeton University. The papers document the University's admission processes circa 1925 and 1950.

Henry F. Lee Family Correspondence, 1890-1930

C0698 4 boxes 1.6 linear feet
Contains correspondence of Henry F. Lee (Princeton Class of 1855), a pastor of the Mariners' Church in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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Friedrich Dobe photographs collection, 1925-1930

C1395 2 boxes
Consists of an open collection of photographs by Dobe.

John Farson III Photograph Albums of the Evans School, 1925-1926

C1735 1 box 0.4 linear feet
Consists of two photograph albums belonging to John Farson III documenting his preparatory school years at the Evans School in Arizona from 1925 to 1926.
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James Kerney Collection on Woodrow Wilson, 1910-1927

MC169 1 box
James Kerney was a newspaper editor and publisher in New Jersey. The James Kerney Collection on Woodrow Wilson consists of speeches, correspondence, photographs, and printed material of and about Woodrow Wilson collected by James Kerney and dating from Wilson's tenure as governor of New Jersey and president of the United States.

Sidney D. Gamble Photographs, 1911-1919

C0319 2 boxes
Consists of eleven photograph albums of Sidney D. Gamble (Princeton Class of 1912). Two contain photographs taken during his senior year at Princeton; the remaining albums are filled with photographs which reflect the life he knew in China as a Y.M.C.A. official (1918-1919, 1924-1927).

Steuben Society of America files, 1923-1932

MC123 1 box
Consists of a small group of papers from various local chapters of the Steuben Society of America.

Demetrios Zoios Family Papers, 1890-1925

C1271 1 box 0.2 linear feet
Consists of over one hundred twenty-four Greek letters, documents, and other family papers of Greek high-school teacher Demetrios Zoios.

Armenia Collection, 1916-1923

C1221 1 box 0.2 linear feet
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Consists of correspondence, bulletins, documents, and printed material about the history of Armenia just after World War I.

Armstrong and Kaines Autograph Collection, 1803-1923

C0098 1 box 0.2 linear feet
Consists of letters, mostly autograph, from twenty-one United States Supreme Court justices, collected by Edward Ambler Armstrong and Richard Kaines.

Undergraduate Academic Files, 1921-2016

AC198 1293 boxes 1291 linear feet
Consists of individual academic files of former undergraduate students of Princeton University, containing grades, transcripts, and other information relating to the subject's academic career. To search for a student by name, please use the finding aids listed as "Other Finding Aids" under "Access and Use." The finding aids are divided by decade, beginning with 1921.
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Henry Burling Thompson Papers, 1889-1913

AC003 4 boxes
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The Papers of Henry Burling Thompson, Class of 1877, (1857-1935) consist of some 500 loose pieces of correspondence (much of it incoming letters), eight letterpress copy books, and one scrapbook of printed matter relating to the Princeton Endowment Fund campaign of 1919-1920. The loose letters are dated from 1906 through 1913, and all of them pertain to Princeton matters. The eight copy books contain copies of Thompson's outgoing correspondence in about 4500 pages, about 1200 of which deal with Princeton.

Dorothea Lieven Letters to Klemens Metternich, 1820 January 6-1826 December 12

C1620 2 boxes
Consists of annotated copies of Dorothea Lieven's (1785-1857) letters, dating from 1820 to 1826, to Klemens Metternich (1773-1859), which she documented in a series of 36 notebooks.

Aristides E. Phoutrides papers, 1895-1923

C1443 1 box 0.4 linear feet
Phoutrides was a Greek poet, educator, and translator. He taught classical literature and modern Greek at Harvard and Yale Universities. He was a proponent of "demotic" Greek language and literature. Consists of personal papers of Phoutrides.
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To his siblings, 1920 June 1-1923 August 12

Includes outgoing correspondence, as well as Phoutrides' wedding invitation to Mr. and Mrs. John N. Lahovary and Aspasia Phoutrides. At the end of the folder there are undated letters from Phoutrides to close family members, mostly to his sister Despoina and one letter to John Lahovary (Despoina's husband) with an excerpt in Latin.
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To his siblings, 1910 January 4- 1911 December 22

Included are letters to Phoutrides's siblings (mostly to his sister Despoina) written both in English and Greek. At the end of the folder there are undated letters to his sister (no name is specified; only one of these letters is addressed to Despoina) on the same Harvard letterhead in English; they belong to the decade 1910-1911.

John A. Roebling's Sons Company Records, 1821-1936

C1483 2 boxes 1.4 linear feet
The John A. Roebling's Sons Company was a family-run wire rope manufacturing business based in Trenton, New Jersey, and established in 1848 by John Augustus Roebling (1806-1869), a German-born American civil engineer best known for his wire rope suspension bridge designs, particularly the Brooklyn Bridge. The records consist of 10 bound volumes of business records, correspondence, and clippings kept by the company during the 19th and early 20th centuries, including typescript copies of John A. Roebling's professional correspondence, a company address book and manufacturing specifications catalog for wire rope, Ferdinand W. Roebling, Jr.'s business ledger, a minute book for the Roebling Construction Company, a volume of John Ferreol Monnot's patents, and a two-volume scrapbook on the German civil engineer and bridge-builder Karl Bernhard.
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Edith Wharton Letters to Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Austin, 1903-1927

C1277 1 box 0.2 linear feet
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Consists chiefly of letters (1903-1927) sent by the American novelist Edith Wharton to her English friends Alfred and Hester Austin. During that period Wharton lived in Lenox, Massachusetts, and several places in France.
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Junior and Senior Orations Collection, 1835-1942

AC160 2 boxes
Consists of programs for orations given at commencement, oration contests held by the American Whig and Cliosophic Societies, and other orations given on campus. The programs generally contain the date of the orations, lists of participants, and the subjects to be covered.

Thomas Oldham Barlow Correspondence, 1856-1929 (mostly 1870-1873)

C0440 1 box 0.5 linear feet
Thomas Oldham Barlow was an English mezzotint engraver, best known for his engravings of the works of John Phillip and Sir John Everett Millais. The collection consists of selected correspondence of Barlow to friends and relatives.

China Famine Relief Fund Records, 1920-1921

AC272 1 box
The New Jersey State China Famine Relief Fund was a short-lived charitable organization based at Princeton University and staffed by administrators and students. The records consist of financial records, receipts for gifts made to the fund, announcements, staff lists, and correspondence with other organizations working towards famine relief in China.
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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.

James Holly Hanford Correspondence, 1912-1954

C0163 1 box 0.2 linear feet
Consists of selected letters to American scholar and educator James Holly Hanford, most of them concerning his studies of John Milton.
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Smith Ordway Collection, 1880-1927

C0536 4 boxes
Consists of diaries written by Smith Ordway while he was an undergraduate at Princeton (1880-1884), a seminarian (1885-1888) at Auburn Theological Seminary (N.Y.), a traveler to Europe and the Middle East (1907), and a Presbyterian minister to congregations mainly in New York State (1888-1923). The collection also contains an album of photographs of members of the Class of 1884, scenes of Princeton, and Ordway family members.

Wenceslao Ramirez de Villaurrutia Papers, 1862-1924

C0700 1 box 0.4 linear feet
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Consists of manuscript notes, reports, and letters of Spanish diplomat Wenceslao Ramirez de Villaurrutia concerning the Spanish position on Morocco and negotiations with statesmen and ambassadors of countries with interest in Morocco.

United Spanish War Veterans Mrs. Edmund Rice Auxiliary Meeting Records, 1906-1922

C1673 1 box 2.0 linear feet (1 container)
Consists of three meeting ledgers documenting the activities of the Mrs. Edmund Rice Auxiliary of the United Spanish War Veterans, an American women's organization run by suffragists and philanthropists that advocated for veterans and their families during the first two decades of the 20th century, including during World War I.
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Selected Papers of Robert Thompson Sloss, 1881-1917

C0005 0.21 linear feet 1 container
Consists of selected correspondence and other material of American journalist Robert Sloss.

Marcus Lester Aaron Correspondence, 1916-1923

AC420 2 boxes
Marcus Lester Aaron was a member of the Class of 1920, the president of the Homer Laughlin China Company, and a member of the Rodef Shalom Congregation in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The Marcus Lester Aaron Correspondence collection primarily contains letters written from Aaron to his parents in Pittsburgh during his four years as an undergraduate at Princeton University from October 9, 1916 to June 9, 1920.
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Marcus Lester Aaron Correspondence, 1916-1923

Marcus Lester Aaron was a member of the Class of 1920, the president of the Homer Laughlin China Company, and a member of the Rodef Shalom Congregation in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The Marcus Lester Aaron Correspondence collection primarily contains letters written from Aaron to his parents in Pittsburgh during his four years as an undergraduate at Princeton University from October 9, 1916 to June 9, 1920.

William M. Leary Collection on H. Alexander Smith, 1918-1979

MC285 1 box
William M. Leary (1934-2006) was an aviation historian who wrote his doctoral thesis on the politician H. Alexander Smith. The collection contains materials that Leary consulted in the process of writing his thesis, along with a manuscript of the thesis.
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Theodore Roosevelt Family Letters to the Russell Family, 1881-1925

MC114 1 box
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The Roosevelt and Russell families became acquainted in Oyster Bay, Long Island, New York, where both had homes. Theodore Roosevelt, a Republican politician, was the twenty-sixth president of the United States. Alexander G. Russell and his son Gordon M. Russell were both Presbyterian pastors, Alexander Russell in Oyster Bay and Gordon Russell in Merchantville, New Jersey. The majority of the Theodore Roosevelt Family Letters to the Russell Family collection consists of personal letters written by Theodore Roosevelt and members of his family to Gordon M. Russell.

Admiral Caspar Frederick Goodrich papers on the Princeton University Naval Training Unit, 1918-1920

AC069 1 box
Rear Admiral Casper Frederick Goodrich was the commander of the Naval Training Unit and the Pay Officers Material School established at Princeton University in 1917. The records consist of Goodrich's correspondence and program records pertaining to the administration of the Naval Training Unit at Princeton University.
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Admiral Caspar Frederick Goodrich papers on the Princeton University Naval Training Unit, 1918-1920

Rear Admiral Casper Frederick Goodrich was the commander of the Naval Training Unit and the Pay Officers Material School established at Princeton University in 1917. The records consist of Goodrich's correspondence and program records pertaining to the administration of the Naval Training Unit at Princeton University.

World War I Papers of William Collins Vandewater, 1918-1919

MC136 1 box
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Consists of selected papers of Vandewater (Princeton Class of 1907) relating to his participation (1918-1919) as a captain in the 160th Infantry Brigade of the 80th Division of the American Expeditionary Forces in France where they were attached to British Army forces.
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Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh Letters, 1900-1918 (mostly 1900-1904)

C1182 1 box 0.2 linear feet
Consists primarily of twenty-seven autograph letters by Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh, English critic and essayist, to his English publisher, Edward Arnold.

HF Bar Ranch Photograph Albums, 1918

C1574 1 box 1.3 linear feet
Consists of two photograph albums containing photographs taken on and around the HF Bar Ranch in Johnson County, Wyoming, in 1918. One album depicts ranchers and cowboys engaged in cattle and horse wrangling, dehorning, branding, and herding. The other documents a group of visitors, including many women travelers, participating in a camping trip on horseback through the foothills of the Bighorn Mountains. Photographs of Frank O. Horton (1880–1948), the founder and owner of the ranch, are included.
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HF Bar Ranch Photograph Albums, 1918

Consists of two photograph albums containing photographs taken on and around the HF Bar Ranch in Johnson County, Wyoming, in 1918. One album depicts ranchers and cowboys engaged in cattle and horse wrangling, dehorning, branding, and herding. The other documents a group of visitors, including many women travelers, participating in a camping trip on horseback through the foothills of the Bighorn Mountains. Photographs of Frank O. Horton (1880–1948), the founder and owner of the ranch, are included.

Howard Crosby Butler Correspondence, 1917

C1026 2 boxes 2.2 linear feet
Consists of correspondence of Howard Crosby Butler, Princeton professor of the history of architecture, with former students undergoing military training during World War I.

George A. Vaughn, Jr. Papers, 1917-1991

AC343 1 box
George "Bob" Vaughn, Jr., Class of 1919, was a decorated World War I pilot and a pioneer in the aviation field. The collection consists of newspaper clippings, scrapbook pages, photographs, filmed interviews, an autobiographical manuscript and other materials that document the life and aeronautical career of George Vaughn.
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John Cobb Cooper Papers, 1917-1966

AC341 1 box
John "Judge" Cobb Cooper (1887-1967) was a Princeton University graduate and a pioneer in the field of Aerospace Law. The collection is composed of correspondence and other materials pertaining to Cooper's activities as Curator of Class Records and as an active member of the Friends of the Library and the Graduate Council.
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