Max Werner papers, 1933-1955
Werner (pseudonym of Alexander Schifrin) was a Russian native who was exiled to Germany (1923-1933) and subsequently lived in France (1933-1939) and the United States (1940-1951). Consists of selected papers of Werner
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McCarter Theatre Records, 1922-2016
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The McCarter Theatre was conceived as a permanent home for the Princeton University Triangle Club. McCarter began as a booking theater but ultimately moved into producing its own performances. The McCarter Theatre records document the history of the McCarter Theatre, including administration, performances and productions, and the building itself.
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Melvin A. Hall Papers, 1895-1972
Melvin A. Hall's renaissance career as adventurer, aviator, soldier, agent, financial administrator and author spanned four and a half decades, and is well represented in this collection. The materials include: diaries; personal and business correspondence; official documents, reports and correspondence from his tenure with the American Financial Mission in Persia; copies of his published writings, including drafts of his books Journey to the End of an Era and Bird of Time; articles, reviews, speeches and military intelligence reports; copies of unpublished writings; subject files containing background and research notes; information on his medals, awards and commendations; diaries and correspondence from Hall's father, William Augustus Hall, Hall's wife Josephine Johnson Hall, a World War I field nurse; and photographs and scrapbooks.
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Melvin M. Tumin Papers, 1942-2007
Melvin Tumin was a professor of sociology and anthropology at Princeton University. Consists of correspondence, articles, papers, and book reviews by Melvin Tumin, including his dissertation research on the ladino and Pokomám Maya population of San Luis Jilotepeque in Eastern Guatemala. The collection is especially notable for Tumin's correspondence with writers Saul Bellow, Iris Murdoch, and Philip Roth.
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Memorabilia Collection, 1775-2010 (mostly 1866-1997)
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This collection contains over 1,800 items including mugs, pipes, canes, banners, hatbands, pins, jewelry, and other material collected by many individuals that document reunions, sporting events, student traditions, and other aspects of University life.
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Mexican Ephemera Collection, 1890-2000
Consists of books, maps, scrapbooks, posters, and other materials.
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Meyers List, Inc., Records, 1911-2005
Incorporated as The Melody Company by Abraham Meyers in 1911, the firm was purchased in 1967 by Princeton alumnus Charles H. Rose (Class of 1950) and his wife. By offering comic strips--the plates for printing them--to small newspapers, the firm was able to secure advertising space, which it sold to national advertisers seeking wider, more regional coverage. Advertisers knew the firm as The Meyers List; newspapers knew it as International Cartoons Limited. The company was dissolved on 20 March 1997, and its printing plates were distributed to various museums and repositories, including Princeton University. Consists of assorted records of the American Melody Company and its corporate aliases (Meyers List Inc. and International Cartoons Limited), including minute and stock books, corporate seals, scrapbooks of cartoon strips, copies of contracts with advertisers, trademark registrations, and dissolution documents.
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Michael A. Feighan papers, circa 1940-1980
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Feighan was a congressman from Ohio. Consists of papers of Feighan covering his years in Congress (1943-1971).
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Mildred Gilman Wohlforth Papers, 1910-1994 (mostly 1927-1985)
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Mildred Gilman Wohlforth was an American journalist, newspaper reporter, and novelist. Her papers include over 600 letters from friends, family, and literary associates, along with autograph and typed manuscripts for several unpublished novels. Also present are selected papers of her husband, Robert Wohlforth, a journalist, business analyst, and author.
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Milton Halsey Thomas Papers, 1796-1977 (mostly 1930-1960)
Consists of manuscripts, correspondence, documents, photographs, scrapbooks, and miscellaneous research material of librarian/archivist Milton Halsey Thomas, including research material for several of his historical publications.
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Miriam Rogers collection of Albert Schweitzer, 1945-1973 (mostly 1950-1963)
Consists primarily of papers collected by Miriam Rogers concerning Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965) as medical missionary and physician at his hospital (founded in 1913) in Lambarene, French Equatorial Africa, after World War II. Rogers shared Albert Schweitzer's interest in music (as a pianist) and medicine, leading her to become chairman (1950-1971) of the""Friends of Albert Schweitzer" in Boston. She made several trips to Africa, France, and Germany to visit Schweitzer.
Series 2: Albert Schweitzer Papers, 1945-1994 August
Consists of the papers of Albert Schweitzer, including documents, scrapbooks, and audio visual materials.
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Miriam Y. Holden Collection, 1676-1993 (mostly 1930-1969)
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The Miriam Holden Collection consists of books, periodicals, manuscripts, clippings, photographs, cartoons, letters, and other materials about women and their achievements collected by Holden.
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Miscellaneous Dance Files Collection, 1940-1989
The Miscellaneous Dance Files Collection contains printed programs, souvenir programs, clippings, and reviews of various ballet companies and choreographers.
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Miscellaneous Playscripts Collection, 1882-1961
This collection includes some playscripts stamped or addressed by theater agencies in Chicago, New York City, and Hollywood, while others were used at McCarter Theater or by the Princeton University Players. There are wartime scripts from both world wars, as well as government plays from the Federal Theater Project, the Works Progress Administration, and the Department of Agriculture's War Food Commission.
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Miscellaneous Screenplays, 1930-1980s
Consists of miscellaneous screenplays and related materials, such as continuity, superimposed versions (i.e. script translations), release dialogue scripts, and revisions/drafts. There are also a few information packets--these include interviews with and/or biographies of stars, synopses, and various and sundry other materials meant for release.
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M. L. Parrish Collection of Victorian Novelists, 1806-1958 (mostly 1830-1939)
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The Morris L. Parrish Collection of Victorian Novelists, consisting of the library of books, manuscripts, photographs, artwork, and ephemera as collected by Morris Longstreth Parrish, Class of 1888, came to Princeton University in 1944 as a bequest. This finding aid focuses on Parrish's original collection of manuscripts, both bound and unbound, and includes his correspondence (related to his collecting activities) and letters both to and from many of the Victorian authors, as well as the manuscript and related (non-book) items given to and/or acquired for the collection by the Princeton University Library in subsequent years.
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Moe Berg Papers, 1866-1991 (mostly 1943-1958)
Morris "Moe" Berg (1902-1972) was a Major League Baseball player, linguist, and lawyer who became a spy in World War II. The papers are comprised of correspondence, notes, photographs, and miscellaneous and printed materials covering all aspects of his life and work, but relating primarily to Berg's work with multiple government agencies.
Annotated Books, 1866-1959
Includes twelve bound volumes on Latin, Greek, French, and Sanskrit literature and language, history, foreign affairs, and physics, previously owned by Moe Berg, some of which are annotated by him.
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Molly Shenstone Collection on Thomas Mann, 1939-1969
Consists of correspondence, photographs, souvenirs, printed material, and other miscellanea collected by Molly Shenstone about her friend Thomas Mann (1875-1955), the German novelist, essayist, playwright, and lecturer in the humanities at Princeton University.
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Mormons and Mormonism Collection, 1831-1975
Consists of a collection of miscellaneous material, both originals and copies, related to Mormons, Mormonism, and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.
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Moses A. Lane Papers, 1852-1957 (mostly 1852-1885)
Consists of selected papers of Moses A. Lane, a nineteenth-century career serviceman in the U.S. Navy, serving most of his time as a gunner. Much of the material relates to a tour (1852-1855) in the Mediterranean aboard the sloop of war St. Louis.
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Moses Hadas Photographs of Greece, 1944-1946
Consists of photographs (ca. 1944-1946) of Greece and Greek partisans taken by classical scholar Moses Hadas.
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Murray S. Peyton Collection of Princeton Track & Field Materials, 1876-2016 (mostly 1950-2013)
Murray S. Peyton ('57) was on the track and football teams while at Princeton and has collected material related to Princeton and Ivy League Track & Field for over 50 years. The collection consists largely of track meet rosters, results, and program magazines.
Mixed Publications, 1908-2016
The Mixed Publications subseries contains meet program magazines from various track field and cross country events, including the Heptagonal Track Field Championship and the Intercollegiate Association of Amateur Athletes (IC4A) Competition, as well as other published materials.
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Music Performance at Princeton Collection, 1875-2007
Concerts and recitals by Princeton University's many musical clubs and organizations, as well as performers from outside the University have been standard fare on capus since the 19th century. The collection consists of reports, concert programs, posters, articles, schedules, flyers, correspondence, and photographs pertaining to performances of music on the Princeton University campus and performances elsewhere by University-affiliated groups.
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Nadine Taub Collection of Sally Frank Court Documents, 1879-1992 (mostly 1979-1992)
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The Nadine Taub Collection of Sally Frank Court Documents chronicle Nadine Taub's role as co-counsel for Sally Frank, Princeton Class of 1980, in her thirteen-year legal battle after filing a sex discrimination complaint with the New Jersey Division on Civil Rights against Ivy Club, Tiger Inn, University Cottage Club and Princeton University, alleging that the clubs discriminated against her because of her gender. A significant part of the collection contains legal documents from Sally Frank's co-counsel as well as from defending counsel; research material including minutes, reports, newspaper clippings, campus publications, correspondence, and deeds; correspondence to and from Nadine Taub and Sally Frank, which is restricted until 2016; and from various counsel and judicial members.
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Nancy Crawshaw Papers, 1930s-1996
The Nancy Crawshaw Papers contains the correspondence, photographs, and writings of Nancy Crawshaw, as well as copies of her published work. Her writings include work on her book The Cyprus Revolt (1978), lectures, broadcasts and articles from her career as a journalist, and her notes and other writings.
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Nancy Price Correspondence, 1860-1966 (mostly 1900-1955)
Consists of about 1500 letters to Price relating to her career as an actress and as founder and manager of the People's National Theatre (London).
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Nanos Valaōritēs Papers, 1928-2007
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The Nanos Valaōritēs Papers consists of the writings, notebooks, sketchbooks, correspondence, and printed matter relating to Pali of the Greek poet, novelist, playwright, and editor, Nanos Valaōritēs. There are also wtitings of other people.
AMs and TMs Drafts, 1928-1964
Included are writings in English, Greek, and French by several authors, such as Alain Jouffroy, Fernando Pessoa (1928), Angus Maclice; Eric J. Solibakke, Norse Harold, Nikos Engonopoulos, and Kaiē Tsitselē (May 30, 1964).
AMs and TMs Drafts, 1947-1967
Included are writings by Bill Barker, Zina Rachevski (1964), Gerard Belart (1967); one bound copy of poems by Emmett Jarrett (Crete 1967), Frederic Brown, Harold Norse (Nov. 1963), Nanos Valaōritēs, Inez Cavanaugh, Leōnidas Chrēstakēs, Papapolitēs Sōtērēs, Peter Stevens (1959, 1963), Poulikakos Dēmētrēs, Philip Lamantia, Panos Koutroumpousēs (1964), Kyriakos Phrangoulēs, Vasilēs Ziōgas (1956), Ted Joans (2 autograph poems, 1947 and 1954), and Barbara Rubin.
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Nassau Hall Iconography, 1760-1981
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The collection contains representations of Nassau Hall and other historic buildings of Princeton University. Most of them are reproductions, some photographic.
"Nassau Hall," Print of the Painting by Dudley Morris, Published by The Little Gallery, Princeton, New Jersey, circa 1940-1958
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Peale, Polk & Trumbull, Battle Paintings, Reproductions, 1784-
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Nassau Hall War Memorial records, 1946-1950
In 1946 the University unveiled a memorial to those students who had been lost during the Second World War in Nassau Hall. The records document the planning and execution of the memorial including pictures, preliminary lists of honorees, correspondence with parents and campus groups, and programs from the memorial's unveiling ceremony.
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Nathaniel Burt Papers, 1923-1986
The Nathaniel Burt Papers contain materials related to the works of novelist Nathaniel Burt (Princeton Class of 1936), such as Leopards in the Garden (1968), Palaces for the People (1977), The Perennial Philadelphians (1963), and Scotland's Burning (1953), as well as personal correspondence and financial papers about the Burt family property.
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Nathan Kantrowitz Tokyo War Crimes Trials Photographs, 1946-1947
140 b/w negatives as well as prints of the International Military Tribunal of the Far East taken by Nathan Kantrowitz of the Army photography unit, 1946-1947. The April 2009 Accrual contains prints and negatives of the Lower East Side and Little Italy, Manhattan, 1947.
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Naumburg Collection of Ford Madox Ford, 1871-1992 (mostly 1910-1970)
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Ford Madox Ford, formerly "Ford Madox Hueffer", founded The English Review, a literary journal, in 1908 and published novels (such as The Good Soldier, 1915) and critical works. The collection consists jointly of letters and works of Ford and letters and works about Ford collected by Edward Naumburg (Princeton Class of 1924).
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Naval Papers of Harpur Allen Gosnell, 1928-1947
Consists of personal papers of American naval officer Harpur Allen Gosnell (Princeton Class of 1912), including his articles on naval history and naval subjects.
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Neil Goldstein Collection of Working Files on Moe Berg, 1921-1995
Neil Goldstein (b. 1950) and Jerry Feldman (b. 1947) were filmmakers who made a documentary regarding Morris "Moe" Berg (1902-1972), a professional baseball player who also served in the Office of Strategic Service (OSS) during World War II. This collection, dating from 1921 to 1995, consists of Neil Goldstein's working files, including production files for the film and audio and video segments and masters of the documentary; and research on Moe Berg, including hours of oral histories and photocopies of Moe Berg's documents, particularly those created during World War II.
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Neilson Campbell Hannay Collection of William Cowper, 1711-1965 (mostly 1750-1799)
Consists of poetry manuscripts, documents, pictorial works, correspondence, and miscellanea relating to the English poet William Cowper (1731-1800), and to his circle of family, friends, and editors, collected by Neilson Campbell Hannay.
Series 1: William Cowper Poems, Miscellaneous Documents, and Pictorial Works, 1762 July 13-1963
Consists of the poems, documents, and pictoral works of William Cowper.
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Nelson R. Burr Papers, 1917-1956
The Nelson R. Burr Papers consists of works, correspondence, documents, photographs, scrapbooks, juvenilia, and printed matter of American historian, Nelson R. Burr (Princeton Class of 1927). The collection contains materials from his book Education in New Jersey, 1630-1871 (1942), as well as notes, essays and personal correspondence from his undergraduate and graduate school years at Princeton.
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New Jersey Documents Collection, 1601-1983 (mostly 1750-1890)
Westfield, New Jersey, was part of Elizabethtown from the time it was settled in late 1664 until 1794, when the Township of Westfield was created. The New Jersey Documents Collections, 1601 to 1983, consists of New Jersey legal documents, the bulk of which are from the town of Westfield, Union County, and include land records, financial records, estate records, and court records, many of which were created by various members of the Baker, Downer, Hetfield, Johnson, Miller, Pierson, Ripley, Ross, and Woodruff families. The majority of the collection material dates from 1750 to 1890.
Scudder Family (Abner, Amos, Edward W., Jasper S., John, Richard Betts, and Wallace M.): Estate Inventories, Indentures, Invitation, Military Appointment, School Notes, Print of Members of the Supreme Court of New Jersey, and Receipt for Slave, 1711-1983
This group of material relates to five generations of the Trenton branch of the Scudder family. The first generation is represented by Richard Betts Scudder (1670-1754) with an appointment as lieutenant in a British company of foot soldiers in Burlington County from 1711 and two inventories relating to his Trenton estate, both dating 1754. For Richard Betts Scudder's grandsons Daniel Scudder (1736-1811) and Amos Scudder (1739-1824), there is an indenture dating 1770. Daniel Scudder's grandsons, John Scudder (1796-1840), Jasper Smith Scudder (1797-1877), and Abner Scudder (1800-1878), are represented by two indentures as well as a receipt for a slave named Samuel Conover, all dated 1825. Edward Wallace Scudder (1822-1893), son of Jasper Smith Scudder, is represented in two documents: a print of the members of the Supreme Court of the State of New Jersey in 1886 and an invitation to a World's Columbian Exposition event in 1892. Finally, the class notebooks of Wallace M. Scudder (1853-1931), son of Edward Wallace Scudder, are present in the collection and provide information regarding his training as an engineer at Lehigh University, circa 1869 to 1873, and his training as a lawyer at Harvard University from 1879 to 1881. The last items in this group of materials are a draft and final version of an article for the newsletter titled "The Scudder Association, Inc.," dating 1983. This newsletter and the drafts contain biographical information on Edward Wallace Scudder (1822-1893), Wallace McIlvaine Scudder (1853-1931), and Edward Wallace Scudder, II (1882-1953).
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New Jersey Miscellaneous Collection, 1671-1956
Consists of a collection of miscellaneous legal and financial documents, correspondence, and other manuscript materials, assembled from various sources, that relate to New Jersey history or inhabitants of New Jersey from the late 17th century through the mid 20th century.
Royal Leicestershire Regiment, Letters and Printed Material on the Battle of Princeton, 1949
Includes: Letter to Edmund S. Delong, undated; Letter to "The Principal of Princeton University," June 20, 1949; and printed material referring to the Battle of Princeton and the Leicestershire Regiment, 1777.
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New Jersey Works Progress Administration Records, 1896-1946 (mostly 1936-1943)
The Works Progress Administration (WPA) was created by Executive Order on May 6, 1935. The goal of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) was to establish and maintain projects benefiting the public good in order to create work for citizens who were unemployed and on relief. The New Jersey Works Progress Administration Records document the history of the New Jersey Historical Records Survey, the Agricultural Administration Act, and the Indian Site Survey of New Jersey through forms, reports, photographs, and correspondence.
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Newton Lacy Pierce Papers, 1937-1950
Consists of articles, correspondence, and related materials on astronomy of Newton Lacy Pierce, a professor of astronomy at Princeton University.
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New York City Theater Playbills Collection, 1880-1987
Consists of playbills of New York City theaters from the late 19th century to the present day.
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New York Urban League Correspondence, 1922-1979 (mostly 1922-1933)
The New York Urban League was founded circa 1913. Its stated goals were to "promote sympathetic understanding between white and colored people" and to improve the economic status of African-Americans through health, housing, and recreation programs as well as an effort to increase the number and the quality of jobs for minorities. The League's motto: "Not alms, but opportunity." This collection is comprised mainly of the correspondence of Arthur C. Holden, president of the N.Y. Urban League from 1922-1931, and a member of the executive board until 1943. It contains general files of the organization's correspondence predominantly spanning the years 1922-1933, with a few items from the years 1968-1979.
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N. Howell Furman Papers, 1903-1961
N. Howell Furman (Princeton Class of 1913) was a professor of analytical chemistry at Princeton. His collection consists of scholarly papers, correspondence, miscellaneous material relating to the teaching of chemistry at Princeton.
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Nikos Kavvadias Papers, 1949-1972
Consists of papers of Nikos Kavvadias, a Greek poet who spent most of his life traveling the world as a wireless operator on ocean freighters.
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Nikos Pappas and Rita Boumē Papa Papers, 1932-1988
Consists of personal papers of the Greek poets and writers, Nikos Pappas and his wife, Rita Boumē Papa, including correspondence, autograph manuscripts and typescripts of published and unpublished poetry, articles, talks, clippings, and other printed material.
Articles, Talks, 1934-1981
The folder contains autograph manuscript drafts of articles and talks by Nikos Pappas, including: "Hē periptōsē tou kritikou Antrea Karantōnē," "Gia ton Kritōna Athanasoulē" [1979], "Mia poiētria ki hena vivlio" (May 1979), "Logotechnikes tautotētes," "Apo pneumatikē skopia: Giati hypegrapsa tēn ekklēsē tēs Stokcholmēs," "Aphierōma gia ton poiētē tou eikostou prōtou aiōnos" (1934-1935), "Ho Nikos Pappas homilei gia tis ekloges sto Rizospastē" (9 Oct. 1981), "Sergei Alexandrovitch Giessenin," talk on I.N. Gryparēs, talk on the celebration of 25th March, 1821, talk on Boulgarian literature, and a text on Thessaly (Greece). There is also an autograph text regarding the gold medal award that Nikos Pappas received from the municipality of Trikala and a manuscript draft of a talk probably given in [Vraza] of Bulgaria in 2-6-76, according to Pappa's handwritten note on the top of the first page.
Clippings of papers, 1935-1983
The folder contains photocopies mostly of Greek newspapers including reviews about Nikos Pappas's works as well as published poems and articles. At the end there are some published poems of Rita Boumē Papa.
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Noël Riley Fitch Papers, 1858-2018 (mostly 1965-1995)
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Consists of the writings, correspondence, interviews, printed works, and other additional papers of the American educator and author Noël Riley Fitch (1937- ). Also included are a selection of Sylvia Beach papers that Fitch consulted for her book Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation: A History of Literary Paris in the Twenties and Thirties (1983).
Correspondence of various Beach family members and friends, 1858-1954
12 ALsS, 7 ACsS by J. H. Orbison, John Newton, Elisabeth Morris, Holly Beach, Sylvester Beach, Adrienne [Monnier], and others