Post-Princeton, 1966-2013
Photocopies of reunion books, records of gifts, program of service of remembrance, letter regarding son Gary Peniston '70.
D. Hugh Peniston, Class of 1941, Papers, 1936-2013 (mostly 1935-1942)
D. Hugh Peniston graduated from Princeton University in 1941. This collection includes his course notes and coursework along with his letters home during his undergraduate years.
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Barton Gellman Papers, 1965-2014
Barton Gellman is a well-known journalist and winner of the Pulitzer Prize. The records in this collection document Gellman's work as a journalist and political advisor.
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Office of the Executive Vice President Records, 1964-2017 (mostly 1964-1989)
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The Office of the Executive Vice President was created by the Board of Trustees in 2005 to administer several existing offices, including campus life, human resources, public safety, and facilities among others. The records consist primarily of correspondence documenting the office's interactions with other administrative offices, academic departments, and advisory councils.
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Butler Apartments [Butler Tract Housing], 1964-2014
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Photographs were gathered during the Butler Open House at 2014 Reunions. Photographs taken by Michael Axelrod *66, Benjamin L. Fogarty, Michele Nielsen, and Mareike Stoll.
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Office of the Recording Secretary Records, 1939-2010 (mostly 1958-1984)
Working in conjunction with the Office of Development, Princeton University's Office of the Recording Secretary receives and officially acknowledges gifts to Princeton on behalf of the president and the trustees of the University, and keeps donors informed as to the impact of their gifts. The files from the Office of the Recording Secretary consist of records of gifts donated to Princeton.
Series 2: Files on Dedications, Memorials, Inscriptions and Donors, 1939-2010
Series 2: Files on Dedications, Memorials, Inscriptions and Donors, 1939-1978, 1991-1992, 2010 (bulk 1959-1975) consists primarily of correspondence and memoranda, along with a limited amount of architectural sketches and other planning documents related to various projects and events.
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Department of Sociology Records, 1962-2017
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This collection consists of seven research reports written in the 1960s by faculty in the Department of Sociology.
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Series 13. Research Files, 1961-2999
Series 13: Research Files contains numerous files of research on a variety of topics.
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Princeton Footnotes Records, 1961-2016 (mostly 1961-1987)
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The Princeton Footnotes is an all-male a cappella group at Princeton University that was founded in 1959. The organization that became the Footnotes emerged as a dispute within the Glee Club, which resulted in twelve of the Club's members leaving the Club to form a separate group, the Prospectors. The Princeton Footnotes Records consists primarily of digitized recordings of former Footnotes albums released between 1961 and 1987.
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History of Science Program Administrative Records, 1956-2013 (mostly 1990-2013)
Contains Program in the History of Science administrative records, including flyers and invitations for History of Science workshops and colloquia between 1994-2012; programs for the Joint Atlantic Seminar 1991-2008; arrangements for and invitations to History of Science spring and fall receptions; postings and request letters for History of Science job searches 1991-1992; graduate program admissions instructions for faculty 2003-2013; and Department of History PhD lists 1956-2002.
Department of History records, 1926-2017 (mostly 1926-1979)
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From the time of the department's institution in 1924, history has typically been one of Princeton's most popular undergraduate concentrations, with the Department of History offering 40 or more undergraduate courses each year. The records consis of subject and faculty files, correspondence, departmental budgets, course syllabi, as well as records from several special projects.
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Series 6: July 2012 Accession, 1956-2008
These records, donated by Professor Jeremy Adelman, include a small cache of Hirschman's papers and records of events with which he was affiliated.
Albert O. Hirschman Papers, 1900-2008 (mostly 1950-2000)
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Albert O. Hirschman (1915- ) was a leading scholar in the field of economic development whose work focused on Latin America but encompassed the globe. He was a professor at Yale, Columbia, Harvard, and the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. Hirschman's papers document his scholarship on economic development and his academic career and include his correspondence written while he was at the Institute for Advanced Study, his writings, and his research notes and materials, especially related to his work in Latin America and for the World Bank.
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Series 12: Additions, 1907-2999
This series consists of unprocessed additional, including binders of notes relating to a myriad of topics (such as math, navigation, population, and social physics) (1931-1971), correspondence (1920-1972), and miscellaneous files covering Stewarts eclectic fields of interest. This series is roughly organized by material type (binders, reprints, correspondence, and other materials).
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Shirley Ecker Boskey Papers, 1944-2012
Shirley Ecker Boskey was an attorney who served as director of the International Relations Department of the World Bank. The Shirley Ecker Boskey Papers consist of reports, correspondence, meeting minutes, and publications from Boskey's time at the Department of the Interior and at the World Bank.
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Nikos Stangos Papers, 1953-2009
Consists of personal papers of Nikos Stangos, a prolific Modern Greek poet and one of the most influential figures in British art publishing. For more than 30 years he was responsible for some of the most important art books of the late 20th century. As a result, in his modest way, he helped shape the discipline of art history in Britain and the United States.
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Individuals, 1952-2009
Spector corresponded with influential people in the United States and Europe seeking support for the abolition of the detention camps and prisons in Greece during the years 1952-1959 and 1967-1974. There is also correspondence with family members of the Greek political prisoners. She served as the Executive Secretary of the Greek American Committee for the Abolition of Makronēsos detention camp.
Correspondence, 1950-2009
Consists primarily of personal and professional correspondence received by Spector from individuals, organizations, and committees supporting the abolition of the detention camps, the re-establishment of democracy in Greece, and the defence of political prisoners. The correspondence has been organized into four groups: Individuals, Organizations-Committees, Politicians, and Miscellaneous-Unidentified. Arranged alphabetically. There are also letters written by Spector as well as letters among others.
Norma Spector Papers, 1947-2009
Consists of papers relating to post-World War II Greek history and politics, 1940s-1970s, collected by Norma Spector in her role as the public relations liaison of the Federation of Greek Maritime Unions (FGMU) in New York City.
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Voice of America, Smith and Mundt Trip, 1947-2910
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Foreign Relations Committee, 1944-2910
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Japan, 1946, 2008
This folder contains photographs taken at Toho Motion Picture Studios in Tokyo, Japan. The photographs were taken during a 1946 studio tour given by actress Ri- Ko-Ran (Yoshiki Yamaguchi), and there is a description of the other people in the photograph written by participant Dick Thomas in 2008. Also included in the folder are two CD-ROMS of the tour, sent by Thomas in 2008.
Subseries 1F: General, 1900-2008
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Series 1: Records of Men, 1944-1950
Series 1: Records of Men consist of records of individual Princeton University students who served in the military from the Class of 1943 through the Class of 1949. There are single cards for each individual on which is noted biographical information, military rank, home address, service address, and other related information. There are also folders for individuals which include correspondence between Princeton University faculty and staff of the War Service Bureau office, as well as other materials relating to that student's class. For the Class of 1943 there are only cards, but for the Class of 1944 through 1949 there are individual folders for most men. The records are arranged chronologically by class, and alphabetically within each class. In general, the cards appear at the beginning of the chronological run.
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Victor Gollancz Publishing Files, 1926-2018
Consists of author and administrative files of Victor Gollancz Publishing company, including correspondence, publication agreements, and ephemera (e.g. clippings, tearsheets, dust jackets). Some records include those associated with the Left Book Club's operations and Joyce Carol Oates' publications, among others.
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Series 2: Incoming Correspondence, 1026-2937
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This series includes some 10,000 letters, telegrams, postcards and other communications received by Russell and his immediate associates over the years 1897 to 1956. The letters are arranged alphabetically by correspondent and then chronologically for each correspondent, with corporate entries and cross reference cards as described for the outgoing correspondence. Russell's colleagues often sought his opinion of their work, and some 175 manuscripts are interspersed with the incoming letters. Folders of correspondence which contain one or more manuscripts are labeled on the right side "Manuscript enclosed with correspondence". At the same time, there is a 3 x 5 yellow card for each manuscript which lists its author, title, length, date, and location. The yellow cards are arranged alphabetically by author in a file stored in the manuscripts catalogue.
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Humanities Council Records, 1935-2021
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The Council of the Humanities was founded in 1953 at Princeton University to foster teaching, research and intellectual exchange. Consists of materials collected and generated by the Council of the Humanities, including materials pertaining to the Ford Foundation Project.
Series 2: Council Records, 1933-2014 June 17
Series 2: Council Records contains administrative records of the committees and programs of the Council of the Humanities, as well as the Council itself.
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Princeton Football Films Collection, 1935-2012 (mostly 1935-1990)
Princeton University was a participant in the first intercollegiate football game in America in 1869. Since then, the University has maintained a varsity football team, competing each season against other colleges in the Ivy League Athletic Conference, including traditional rival Yale. The collection consists of film reels documenting Princeton varsity football games between 1935 and 1990, as well as video of the 2012 season.
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Department of Near Eastern Studies Records, 1933-2017
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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 the Arabic, Turkish, and Persian languages and the regions in which they were spoken until 1969, when it was reorganized into the separate Departments of Near Eastern Studies and East Asian Studies. The records consist of correspondence, memoranda, printed materials, course syllabi, and other materials which document the activities of the department and it's faculty inside and outside of the classroom.
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Department of Music Records, 1932-2015
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Since 1935 Princeton University's Department of Music has offered courses in composition, music history, and related areas to students at the graduate and undergraduate level. The records of the Department of Music document the department's wide range of activities including teaching, research, curriculum development, and the planning of music-related programs on campus.
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Subseries 2A: Personal, 1680-2999
Consists of personal correspondence between James Gould Cozzens and individuals such as M. Estelle Angier, Frederick Bracher, and William Jovanovich. Also includes correspondence with publishers, such as Harcourt, Brace and Company, Inc and educational institutions, such as Princeton University.
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Office of the Vice President for Finance and Treasurer Records, 1930-2017 (mostly 1972-1997)
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The Office of the Vice President for Finance and Treasurer is the administrative office at Princeton University responsible for overseeing the university's budget, procurement services, tax compliance, risk management, and other general, non-investment related fiduciary responsibilities. The records in this collection primarily document the activities of three consecutive administrators who held the position of vice president for finance, either solely or in combination with the roles of treasurer and vice president for administration: Paul B. Firstenberg (1972-1976), Carl W. Schafer (1976-1987), and Richard R. Spies (1988-2001). Also included are the records of Laurel B. Harvey, who served as assistant vice president for finance and administration under Schafer and Spies.
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Series 4: Debate Panel, 1930-2012
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The Debate Panel is Princeton University's intercollegiate debating team. The series contains the Panel's correspondence dealing with its competitions against teams from other American colleges and universities as well as activity reports and internal administrative material. Activity reports collect the results and social activities of the panel at all of the tournaments the members attended during a particular academic year; after 1968 these activity reports are called Style Reports. For material dealing with intercollegiate debating at Princeton before 1928, see the Cliosophic Society Records (AC# 016) Series XI: Joint Documents with Whig; Debating Committee, Boxes 85-87. The Guide to North American Platform Debate, published by the Debate Panel in the 1960s and 1970s to help popularize the current [1993] impromptu style of intercollegiate debating can be found in Series VII - Publications.
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Series 5: Papers of Other Persons, 1775-2999
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Consists of papers (primarily correspondence) of individuals such as Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Mackenzie Bell, Alice Boyd, Ford Madox Brown, Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones, Charles Dodgson (Lewis Carroll), William Gladstone, the Hogarth Club, William Holman Hunt, Jane Morris, William Morris, Elizabeth Siddal Rossetti, John Ruskin, Alfred Lord Tennyson, and Thomas Woolner. This series comprises the correspondence of many members of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood during Victorian England.
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Senior Thesis Collection, 1926-2022
Since its introduction in the mid-1920s the senior thesis has been a core element of the undergraduate curriculum at Princeton University. The collection contains the senior theses of Princeton undergraduates.
Series 1: Senior Theses, 1924-2021
This series consists of bulk of the senior theses in our collection representing each of the academic departments of the university. Senior theses in this series appear in variety of formats including microfiche, bound volumes, unbound paper copies and digital files. Theses can be searched in our repository (https://dataspace.princeton.edu/handle/88435/dsp019c67wm88m) or in the library catalog https://library.princeton.edu/).
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Series 12: Additional Material, 1924-2011
Consists of more articles and scientific papers by Eugene Paul Wigner, several photographs, works about Eugene Paul Wigner, honors, invitations, speeches, and biographical material.
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Department of Politics Records, 1921-2017 (mostly 1921-1978)
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The Department of Politics at Princeton University is one of the University's largest academic departments, offering undergraduate and graduate courses touching on nearly every aspect of the discipline of political science. The Department of Politics records document the activities of the Department of Politics and its faculty from the time of its founding in 1924 until the mid-1960s, and contain correspondence, course syllabi and notes, examinations, and subject files.
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Undergraduate Academic Files, 1921-2016
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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Undergraduate Alumni Records, 1921-2008
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Consists of individual files of former undergraduate students of Princeton University, compiled by the Bureau of Alumni Information. Material in each file varies greatly but most include the names of relatives, notable achievements at Princeton and post-graduation, news items, address updates, and obituaries.
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Series II DOCUMENTS, 1800-2999
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Series II, Documents: (1917-1969) The Documents principally concern Eddy's military promotions, citations and service records from both World Wars, medical records, geneological information, part of his will and property deeds, and a list of books in his personal library. They are arranged chronologically.
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Subseries 2B: Microfilm, 1162-2223
The Microfilm Subseries contains correspondence, documents, newspapers, and writings of Wilson and others which had been microfilmed by various repositories and purchased by the editorial staff for reference and inclusion in the Papers of Woodrow Wilson Project. Repositories from which significant amounts of reels were purchased include the Library of Congress, the National Archives, the London Public Records Office, Princeton University, and Yale University. This subseries is closely related to Subseries 1C: Miscellaneous Photocopies, in that similar types of materials are included in both subseries, although there is little or no overlapping content.
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Series 2: Works of Others, 1909-2999
Consists of the works of others such as Odyssea Elytēs, Alexandros Kotzias, and Miltos Sachtourēs, as well as others.
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Physics Department Records, 1909-2015
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The records of the Physics Department document the scientific and teaching activities of Princeton University physicists from 1909 to 1962. While routine activities such as the hiring of faculty and the education of graduate and undergraduate students are recorded, these records also detail the Department's activities in early studies of theoretical physics, as well as its participation in World War II research activities. There is also a small amount of material that documents Milton White's efforts toward builing the cyclotron (1936).
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Autobiography: Days and Years, 1895-2999
This is an autobiography giving an account of Velikovsky's life from the earliest years until 1958.
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Department of Classics Records, 1894-2017 (mostly 1894-1935)
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The Department of Classics at Princeton University offers courses, both in English and in the original languages, that treat the whole range of ancient culture, from its mythology to its philosophy, law, and literature. Consists of the records of the Department of Classics from the late 19th and early 20th century.
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Master's Theses Collection, 1894-2010
Graduate work in a formal sense emerged at Princeton in the 1870s when President James McCosh added new faculty and graduate fellowships. This collection consists of theses submitted toward the fulfillment of requirements for master's degrees at Princeton University.
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Series 9: Miscellaneous Materials, 1890 August 25 - 2011
The series contains non-photographic materials related to and derived from the collection.
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Department of Art and Archaeology Records, 1882-2017 (mostly 1925-1981)
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The Art and Archaeology Department is one of the University's most distinguished academic departments, responsible for the education of students on the graduate and undergraduate level as well as the administration of the Princeton Art Museum. This collection consists of the records of the Department of Art and Archaeology, which include advisory council minutes; faculty files; gift records; correspondence; recommendations; project files; course lists; historical documents; and lists of images used in classes.
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Department of Psychology Records, 1880-2017
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The Department of Psychology dates from 1893, but was not officially established as an independent department until 1920. This collection includes group portraits and portraits of deparment faculty as well as some photos of individuals and locations that may not be Princeton-related.