Princeton Publishing Company Records, 1900-1919
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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Princeton Revolution Collection, 1777
Consists mostly of receipts for supplies and services delivered/rendered to the Continental Army, given to Enos Kelsey (Princeton Class of 1760), who at that time was a major in Colonel Chambers' Battalion of the New Jersey State Army, apparently buying supplies locally in Princeton.
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Princeton Symposium on World Affairs Audio Recordings Collection, 1963
In July of 1963, Princeton University hosted the Princeton Symposium on World Affairs, the theme of which was "The Pursuit of Excellence in Creative Arts." The collection consists of reel-to-reel audio tapes of the panel discussions on architecture, painting, and prose.
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Princeton University Balloon Club records, 1976-1980
The Princeton University Balloon Club was the creation of Gordon Sadler '76, who sought to create an organization on campus that would provide students, alumni, faculty, and staff with the ability to participate in the increasingly popular activity of ballooning. The records consist of a scrapbook documenting the existence of the Princeton University Balloon Club.
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Princeton University Bulletin Correspondence, 1899-1901
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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Princeton University Doctoral Dissertations, 1877-2010 (mostly 1950-2010)
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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Princeton University Library Collection of Church Slavic Manuscripts, circa 1700-1899
Includes 2 Russian Orthodox tropers and 2 quadriptychs dating from the 18th-19th centuries.
Russian Orthodox Quadriptych, circa 1700-1899
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Portable folding cast-brass altar in four panels, with ogee-arch crests; highlighted in blue and white enamel. Quadriptychs of this type were manufactured for Old Believer use, 18th-19th centuries. Inscriptions on rectos and outer-panels in Church Slavic. When the quadriptych is fully unfolded, the panels show the following iconographical program, with Old Church Slavic inscriptions:
Russian Orthodox Quadriptych, circa 1700-1899
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Portable folding cast-brass altar in four panels, with ogee-arch crests; highlighted in blue and white enamel. Quadriptychs of this type were manufactured for Old Believer use, 18th-19th centuries. Inscriptions on rectos and outer-panels in Church Slavic. When the quadriptych is fully unfolded, the panels show the following iconographical program, with Old Church Slavic inscriptions.
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Princeton University Library Collection of Kōnstantinos Megalokonomos Photographs, 1952
Consists of an open collection of Megalokonomos photographs.
Visit of Dwight D. Eisenhower in Greece, 1952
Consists of 37 black-and white photographs of a visit of Dwight D. Eisenhower in Greece (dimensions: from 16 x 22 cm. to 7 x 12 cm.)
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Princeton University Presidents Oral History Collection, 2004-2024
The Princeton University Presidents Oral History Project consists of two projects undertaken by the Princeton University Archives in conjunction with the Office of the Secretary to document the recollections and reminiscences of Princeton University's 16th president and seventeenth Presidents Robert F. Goheen and William G. Bowen. Consists of taped interviews with former Princeton Presidents Robert F. Goheen William G. Bowen and accompanying transcripts, as well as a Goheen video retrospective titled 'Reflections of a President' produced for a 2006 Princeton University Library exhibit.
Robert Goheen 'Reflections of a President' Video Retrospective, 2006
Consists of three BetaCam masters, two DVDs and one VHS tape of the Goheen video retrospective.
Series 1: Robert Goheen Interviews and Retrospective Video, 2004-2006
In the interviews Goheen discusses many notable aspects of his presidency including the advent of coeducation at Princeton and the establishment of the Council of the Princeton University Community. Retrospective Video consists of a variety of media including transcripts, four DVCAM cassettes, three BetaCam tapes, two DVDs, and five VHS tapes.
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Princeton University Women's Organization Records, 1973-1978
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Princeton University Women's Organization Records, 1973-1978
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The Princeton University Women's Organization (PUWO) was formed in the winter of 1972 to provide a body through which the women of Princeton University community (employees and students) could monitor and discuss issues related to employment and student life. Consists of clippings, correspondence, reports, and studies pertaining to issues such as tenure, staff relations, and student recruitment.
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Prisms: The Princeton Journal of Gender and Sexuality Studies, 2025
Included are two print journals and 6.75 MB of records.
Volume 1, Issue 2, Spring 2025
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Volume I, Issue 1, Winter 2025
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Public Works Administration Photographs of the Bonneville Dam Project, 1934-1943
Consists of a collection of seventy-six photographs documenting the construction and installation of power-generating machinery for the Bonneville Dam project in the Columbia River Gorge near Portland, Oregon, beginning in the Great Depression and continuing through World War II.
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Pyne Honor Prize Records, 1930-1969
The Pyne Honor Prize, established in 1922 in honor of Moses Taylor Pyne '77, is the highest distinction conferred on an undergraduate student at Princeton University. The collection documents the annual awarding of the Pyne Honor Prize from 1939-1960. Within each year's file is correspondence, biographical and academic information about the recipients, and award statements.
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Rector's Aid Society Minutes, 1867-1868
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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Robert Garrett Papers Concerning the 1896 Olympic Games, 1896
Consists of materials of American athlete, banker, and philanthropist Robert Garrett (1875-1961) regarding his participation in the 1896 Olympic Games.
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Roberts Lumber Company Photographs, circa 1900
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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Rowe Family Photographs, 1890-1950
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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Royal Danish Ballet Photographs, 1960
Consists of approximately 90 photographs of Royal Danish Ballet performances available from dance publicist Isadora Bennett, together with her detailed notes and numeration for each picture.
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Samuel Woodfill Correspondence, 1914-1915
The postcard "After the Battle - Ravine Where the Dead Have Been Thrown," dated November 3, 1914, features a photograph image of dead bodies.
Samuel Woodfill Correspondence, 1914-1915
Consists of 64 pictorial postcards written by Samuel Woodfill, mostly addressed to Lorena "Blossom" Wiltshire. Written during Woodfill's time serving in the U. S. Army, the postcards feature images of San Antonio, Fort Sam Houston, Laredo, and Mexico and its inhabitants. Woodfill writes of camp life, daily activities, weather, training, and conflicts on the Texas-Mexican border.
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William Taggart Meloy Yellowstone Scrapbooks, 1900-1901
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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Selected papers of Louis E. Laflin, 1914-1966 (mostly 1916-1926)
Consists of letters by Laflin (Princeton Class of 1924) to Helen D. Hill, covering his years at the Lawrenceville School and Princeton University, and typescripts of four of his plays based on religious themes.
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Seminar on Research in Progress Papers, 1963-1971
Since its founding as part of the Department of History, Politics, and Economics in 1904, Princeton University's Department of Economics has acquired a worldwide reputation for research and scholarship, attracting faculty and students alike. he collection consists of papers produced by department faculty and doctoral candidates as part of the Department of Economics' Seminar on Research in Progress.
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Sergei Alekseyev Correspondence
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Sergei Alekseyev Correspondence, 1915-1987, (mostly 1964-1970)
Consists of correspondence, photographs, and emphera sent to Ina Tillman from her friend Sergei Alekseyev in the Soviet Union (Siberia). Tillman and Alekseyev were pen pals, and, as Esperantists, they used Esperanto to communicate with each other. The collection spans 1915 to 1987, with a bulk of the collection being their correspondence from 1964 to 1970.
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Series 1: University Hotel Registers, 1876-1886
Series 1: University Hotel Registers, 1876-1886 consists of three volumes of guest registers.
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Sin, One Way, Economy Class, 1976
Consists of a typescript, with a few corrections, for Sin, One Way, Economy Class (1976) by author Lucy Caldwell, concerning her work in Vietnam in support of the American armed forces during the Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975.
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Statistical Unit records, 1962-1963
The Statistical Unit at Princeton University was founded in 1961 for purpose of collecting and analyzing student data regarding education, career plans, and pre-college and post-graduate attitudes and life. The records consist of research reports and administrative bulletins of the Statistical Unit.
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Steuben Society of America files, 1923-1932
Consists of a small group of papers from various local chapters of the Steuben Society of America.
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Student Dances Collection, 1838-1936
Dances at Princeton, especially popular in the years prior to the Second World War, were generally held in the gymnasium and were organized by a committee of faculty and staff. This collection consists of materials documenting dances attended by the students of Princeton University in the late 19th and early 20th century.
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"The Glass Dove" Collection, 1961
Consists of manuscripts of American naturalist Sally Carrighar's novel The Glass Dove.
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"The Man Who Could Grow Hair" Collection, 1949
Consists of the typed manuscript of The Man Who Could Grow Hair, a book by William Attwood (Princeton Class of 1941) based on his experience as a foreign correspondent in Europe.
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Theodore Spicer-Simson Correspondence and Etchings, 1913-1933 (mostly 1921-1922)
Consists mainly of letters received by sculptor and medallist Theodore Spicer-Simson during the preparation of his Men of Letters of the British Isles:Portrait Medallions from the Life (1924).
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Uel Merrill Fisk Lectures, 1856-1868
Consists of a series of manuscript lectures by U. M. (Uel Merrill) Fisk, a white Universalist pastor and lecturer on the radical abolitionist lecture circuit in New York and New England in the years leading up to and during the American Civil War. The lectures in the collection from this period argue for the abolition of slavery, and another from the Reconstruction Era advocates for voting rights for Black men.
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Undergraduate Academic Files, 1921-2016
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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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Walter Kauzmann Papers, 1940-1993
Consists of correspondence and miscellaneous materials related to Walter Kauzmann's work on the Manhattan Project and his career as a professor of chemistry at Princeton University.
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Washington's Birthday Celebration Records, 1880-1932
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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Wilhelm Groener correspondence, 1915-1938
Consists of copies of Groener's correspondence held in the National Archives, Washington D.C.
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William McOran Campbell Photograph Albums, Sketchbooks, and Other Materials, 1873-1925, 1943 (mostly 1900-1914)
Consists of photograph albums, fishing ledgers, and sketchbooks from William McOran Campbell's fishing trips to Iceland between the late 1800s and the early 1900s.
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William M. Leary Collection on H. Alexander Smith, 1918-1979
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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William Tuckey Meredith Letters to Mary Watson, 1863-1864
Consists of Civil War letters by Union paymaster William Tuckey Meredith to his fiancee, Mary Watson of Perth Amboy, N. J.
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William Wells Church Collection, 1893-1910
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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William Woodhull Notebook, 1763-1850 (mostly 1763-1766)
This single notebook was for the most part written by William Woodhull (1741-1824), Class of 1764. The bulk of the book consists of recipes for medicinal prescriptions, catechisms, student orations and a poem. A good deal of the book appears to have been written during Woodhull's days at Princeton, but some of the recipes date to 1850, beyond Woodhull's death and so were entered by another unidentified individual.
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Women's Golf at Princeton Records, 1979-2011
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Women's Golf at Princeton Records, 1979-2011
These records document the struggle to establish a women's golf program at Princeton University in the 1970s and its development since that time. Records include correspondence, memoranda, notes and clippings pertaining to Women's Golf at Princeton and Betty Whelan Donovan's tenure as creator and coach of the organization.
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World War I Papers of William Collins Vandewater, 1918-1919
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World War I Papers of William Collins Vandewater, 1918-1919
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.