Princeton University Library Collection of Children's Publishers' and Retailers' Catalogs, circa 1913-2015
Advertising material, mostly catalogs, from publishers and sellers of children's books, toys and educational products.
Frederick Warne & Co., Inc., 1930-1951
For the Children, [1930]; Complete Catalogue of Publications, 1950-1951 (Juvenile Literature, pg. 8-20). 1930 issue includes a description and green-line illustration for nearly every title and a section of "Choice New Books," pg. 9-12; with a short manifesto on children's book illustration, pg. 2. Though the 1950-1951 issue is a general catalog, more than half of it is dedicated to juvenile books. The Beatrix Potter section includes a Peter Rabbit board game (pg. 17) and foreign language editions (pg. 18).
Harper Books for Boys and Girls, 1929-1962
1929-1930; 1930; 1936; Fall 1945; Fall 1946 (marked in blue crayon by DBF); 1947 (marked in pencil by Coker); 1948; 1949 (marked in pencil by Perkins); 1950 (marked in pencil by Perkins); 1951; 1952; 1953 (marked in pencil by D. Howley); 1954; 1955; Spring 1956; 1956; Spring 1957 (marked in pencil by DWB?); 1957; Spring 1958; 1958 (marked in pen and pencil by Dorothea Howley); Spring 1959 (some prices updated in black pen); 1959; photocopy of pg. 40-44 of Spring 1960 issue; photocopy of pg. 13-33 of Fall 1960 issue; Fall 1961; Spring 1962 (marked in pencil by Mr. Rose).
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Princeton University Library Collection of Circus Miscellany, 1837-1982
The Miscellaneous Circus Collection consists of subject files on all aspects of the circus: acts, organizations, and specific performers and circuses. Included are photographs, manuscripts, programs, broadsides, posters, scrapbooks, clippings, and other ephemera.
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Princeton University Library Collection of Dan Fellows Platt and Ethel Bliss Platt Materials, 1851-1968 (mostly 1915-1950)
Consists of personal papers of archaeologist and art critic Dan Fellows Platt, a member of the Princeton Class of 1895.
Series 3: Correspondence of Ethel Bliss Platt, 1881-1971
Consists of the correspondence of Ethel Bliss Platt, arranged in alphabetical order.
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Princeton University Library Collection of Early Photographs of Greece, circa 1852-1999
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The Early Photographs of Greece Collection is an open collection for general photographs of sites and subjects in Greece. Included are panoramic photographs of the Parthenon, Athens, and Smyrna, along with other photographs of Greece.
Aerial photograph of an island, 1900-1999
"Comite de culture institut national des monuments historiques" stamp on verso.
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Princeton University Library Collection of Historical Subject Files, Grounds and Buildings, 1802-2000
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The Princeton University Library Collection of Historical Subject Files, Grounds and Buildings contains information relating to the buildings, grounds, and architects of Princeton University. The collection also includes information on the development of the campus and the various chronologies of construction and land acquisition that have been gathered.
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Princeton University Library Collection of Julian Street Materials, 1904-1967
Consists of selected correspondence, manuscripts, photographs, printed material, and family papers belonging or related to the American author and playwright Julian Street .
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Princeton University Library Collection of Kōstas Zēmerēs Photographs, 1900-1999
Kostas Zēmerēs was born in 1886 in Katēchōri Pelion. He studied at the Commercial School of Volos, where he took his first lessons from the painter Iōannēs Poulakas. In 1904 he went to the United States where he worked in photo labs collaborating with painters and photographers. There he had the opportunity to study at the Art Institute of Saint Louis. He returned to Greece in 1912 where he was recruited during the Balkan Wars. Later, after the World War I, he remained in Athens working with great photographers, such as George Bouka and Nelly's. Finally he returned to Volos where he worked as a professional photographer and painter. He participated in many exhibitions in Greece and abroad, such as in Calais (France) in 1925 and Liverpoool (England) in 1926. He received the gold medal at the International Exhibition of Thessalonikē (Greece) in 1932 and 1936. Zēmerēs gave us the unique photographs of the painter Theophilos Chatzēmichaēl. He died at the age of 96. Consists of an open collection of silver prints depicting Greek landscapes by Kōstas Zēmerēs.
Aghios Iōannēs Baxedōn Anō Volou, 1900-1999
Consists of (1) photograph (silver print, 28.1 x 38.2 cm.); mounted; penciled title and photographer's signature on the matboard.
Archontiko stē Vyzitsa. Postcards, between 1901-1980
Consists of two black-and-white photographs (14.6 x 10.2 cm each) of a mansion (archontiko) in the village Vyzitsa in Pēlion, an example of local architecture. Printed captions both in Greek and in English and photographer's stamp in Greek on the reverse.
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Princeton University Library Collection of Lawrance Thompson Materials, 1894-1970 (mostly 1938-1964)
Consists of selected papers of Lawrance Thompson, including manuscripts for his books on Robert Frost and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, lecture typescripts, and a small amount of correspondence (1936-1942) from the time he was Princeton University Library's Curator of Manuscripts and editor of the Princeton University Library Chronicle.
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Princeton University Library Collection of Logan Pearsall Smith Materials, 1897-1953
Consists of selected papers, including manuscripts, research materials, and correspondence, of American-born British essayist and critic Logan Pearsall Smith.
Manuscripts, 1897-1953 February 5
Includes Smith's manuscripts, notes, and proofs for his last anthology, The Golden Shakespeare; manuscripts of "Saved from the Salvage," about his recollections of Venice during the winter of 1897 and 1898, which appeared in Horizons (March, 1943); and "Slices of Cake," an account of his meeting Henry James at Edith Wharton's shortly after the outbreak of World War I, published in The New Statesmen and Nation (June, 1943); as well as a few miscellaneous writings.
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Princeton University Library Collection of Maria Chrousakē Photographs, 1938-1950s?
Consists of an open collection for Maria Chrousakē photographs of several places in Greece and Cyprus mostly Byzantine churches and monasteries and archaeological sites.
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Princeton University Library Collection of Martha Gellhorn Materials, 1936-1974
Consists of an open collection of letters and memorabilia of American war correspondent, journalist, and novelist Martha Gellhorn (1908-1998), assembled from various sources. Contents include approximately fifty letters (1968-1974) to her adopted son George "Sandy" Gellhorn and fourteen letters (1941-1946) to George Brown, who was Gellhorn and Ernest Hemingway's personal trainer, tennis partner, and friend, as well as badges from Gellhorn's time as a war correspondent and a portrait drawing of her.
War Correspondent Dog Tags, Pins, and Badges, circa 1936-1967
Consists of a set of dog tags, fifteen pins, and a cloth badge from Gellhorn's career as a war correspondent, primarily from the Spanish Civil War and World War II, including dog tags from her time as a war correspondent for Collier's Magazine during World War II, which are embossed "Martha G. Hemingway / War Correspondent / Colliers Magazine;" her United States War Correspondent's badge; a "¡No pasarán!" pin from the Spanish Civil War; a United States Armed Forces Parachutist Badge with four stars affixed to it; along with other pins and military pips from Great Britain, the Middle East, and Russia.
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Princeton University Library Collection of Modern Greek Materials, 1677-1967
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Consists of an open collection containing miscellaneous source material related to Modern Greek studies, including letters, documents, artwork, and other unbound manuscript items.
Chapouthier, Fernand ALS to [Vourlakēs], [1929]-1948
Consists of (17) autograph letters in Greek signed by Fernand Chapouthier, archaeologist and Hellenist, to his friend and colleague Giōrgos [Vourlakēs] in Crete. The letters were sent from several places, Bordeaux (9), Dijon (1), "Anaskaphē Malliōn=excavations in Mallia (1), Athens (5), Milan (1) (eight postcards (14.4 x 9.1 cm.) with an autograph letter on the reverse) and one without a title. Included also are: (1) autograph letter from the archaeologist Pierre Demargne to an unidentified priest dated 1948 and (1) photograph depicting Giōrgos Vourlakēs in Mallia dated 1931.
Doxas Angelos collection, 1927-1948
Consists of (1) passport of Nikolaos Drakoulidēs (the real name of Doxas); (2) press passes for the journal "Acropolis" and the newspaper "Empros"; (1) certificate from the Greek-Southafrican League; (1) letter from the Greek-American Cultural Institute; (1) letter from the Philological Association "Parnassos"; and (1) certificate from the Society for the Protection of the Released.
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Princeton University Library Collection of Princeton University Materials, 1746-1983
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Consists of an assembled collection of correspondence, documents, and manuscripts related to Princeton University, its students, and its employees, some in an official capacity and others as personal or family records of those associated with Princeton University, or the College of New Jersey as it was known prior to the end of the 19th century. Materials span from the 1740s until the 1980s, though most pertain to the mid-18th through early 20th century.
Adams, Edwin Plimpton, 1878-1956
Princeton professor's correspondence about his Smithsonian publishings.
Finney, John M.T., 1911-1975
A select group of courses. Concerning John M. T. Finney and presidency of Princeton.
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Princeton University Library Collection of Raymond Mortimer Materials, 1905-1990 (mostly 1925-1970)
Consists of correspondence, notebooks, drafts and proofs of articles and reviews, photographs, documents, printed ephemera, and other papers of the English literary critic and editor Raymond Mortimer (1895-1980).
Bedford, Sybille (b. 1911), 1933 November 6-1978 September 9
Includes 1 ALS, Old [?], 1978 September 9 (2 pp.) and 1 ACS, Toledo, Spain, 1933 November 6 (2 pp.)
Bell, Clive (1881-1964), 1920-1960
Includes 28 ALsS, 1928-1960 (78 pp.); 8 ALsS, undated (19 pp.); 27 ACsS, 1920-1940s; and 1 ACS to Edward Sackville-West, 1934.
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Princeton University Library Collection of Robert Frost Materials, 1924-1977
Consists of selected correspondence, poetry, photographs, and printed material of and relating to 20th-century American poet Robert Frost.
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Princeton University Library Collection of Robert Garrett Materials, 1901-1992 (mostly 1920-1945)
The Robert Garrett Papers consists of correspondence and documents primarily concerning the Robert Garrett Collection and other collecting interests of Garrett, Princeton Class of 1897.
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Princeton University Library Collection of Simos Menardos Materials, 1884-1965
Consists of autograph manuscript notes, notebooks, correspondence, and a copy of a legal document.
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Princeton University Library Collection of Spyros Meletzēs Photographs, 1900-1999
Consists of an open collections of Spyros Meletzēs photographs.
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Princeton University Library Collection of Theater Miscellaneous Manuscripts, 1726-1978
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Consists of an assembled collection of correspondence of playwrights, authors, actors and actresses, and theater managers, and other manuscript materials relating to American and English theater from the 1720s through the 1970s.
Bowman, Brooks (1913-1937), 1930-1973
Several typed letters by Bowman, a 1973 article on his song "East of the Sun (and West of the Moon)," and his music sheets.
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Princeton University Library Collection of Triantaphyllos Pittas Materials, 1936-1984
Consists of personal papers of Triantaphyllos Pittas, one of the most important writers of short stories in Greece.
Notebooks, 1937-1960
This file group consists of notebooks containing handwritten short stories by Pittas, personal thoughts, essays, literary reviews, notes on physiology, on Delphi, the atmosphere, athletics, and kinesiology.
Notebooks, 1942-1951
Consists of five notebooks containing handwritten notes of several readings, as well as letters to modern Greek poets and ancient Greek politicians.
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Princeton University Library Collection of Western Americana Photographs, 1840-1998 (mostly 1870-1915)
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Consists of a closed collection of more than 5,000 Western Americana photographs, consisting mostly of documentary photographs of the Trans-Mississippi West from the late 1860s to early 1900s, largely from the perspective of white photographers and settlers. Subjects include American Indians (especially studio portraits), natural wonders, cities, towns, buildings, and economic activities (mining, railroads, logging, and agriculture). Some photographs relate to the Indigenous populations of Mexico and Central America. The dimensions, physical formats, and photographic processes of the photographs vary widely.
Group portrait by the trees, 1943-1963
Dehumanizing and harmful descriptions using racist, colonialist, and sexist language were used to describe many of the items in this collection. In some cases, descriptions were creator-supplied or generated from transcriptons of captions on the photographs. In other cases in which photographs lacked any identifying information, descriptions were created by an archivist. These items are identified in the description with the note, "Cataloger supplied title."
Older woman, 1943-1963
Dehumanizing and harmful descriptions using racist, colonialist, and sexist language were used to describe many of the items in this collection. In some cases, descriptions were creator-supplied or generated from transcriptons of captions on the photographs. In other cases in which photographs lacked any identifying information, descriptions were created by an archivist. These items are identified in the description with the note, "Cataloger supplied title."
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Princeton University Library Records, 1734-2017 (mostly 1952-1995)
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The Princeton University Library is one of the foremost university libraries in the world. With collections totaling over 12 million volumes, manuscripts, and nonprint items spread across fifteen buildings, the Princeton University Library system serves not only the Princeton University community but the world at large. The Princeton University Library Records consist of the files of the University Librarian and other Library administrators and departments, as well as of the Friends of the Princeton University Library. Materials in the record group include correspondence, reports, publications, clippings, minutes, press releases, proposals, statistics, photographs and other audiovisual materials, and microfilm. The records document the Library's day-to-day operations as well as its involvement with other departments on campus, other college and university libraries, and library users.
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Princeton University Press Records, 1905-2014 (mostly 1940-1999)
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The Princeton University Press Records document the business acitivities of Princeton University Press. They include extensive files on works published by the press, as well as staff files, review files, editorial board and board of trustees files, financial information, production files, and publications.
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Princeton University Publications Collection, circa 1748-2016
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The Princeton University Publications collection contains issues of nearly 150 different periodicals published by the university and related organizations, as well as a few items published by others about the university, that have not been cataloged individually.
Bric-A-Brac, 1875-2013
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Bric-A-Bracs for the following years could not be located: 1887, 1945, 1947.
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Princeton University Rowing Collection, 1874-2003
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Princeton has participated in intercollegiate rowing contests since 1874. The collection consists of photographs, memorabilia, scrapbooks, programs, correspondence and posters documenting the history of the Princeton University rowing program.
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Princeton University Student Christian Association Records, 1855-1967
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.
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Program in Hellenic Studies Collection of Modern Greek Theater Playbills, Second Series, 1933-1981
This collection contains playbills mostly from Greece and a few from other countries.
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Program in Latin American Studies Records, 1947-2017
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Princeton University's Program in Latin American Studies was founded in 1966 as an interdisciplinary course of study to supplement the regular undergraduate or graduate curriculum. Consists of publications, event information, videos of conferences, and other informational materials about the Program in Latin American Studies.
Series 1: Program in Latin American Studies Records, 1947-2011
Series 1: Program in Latin American Studies Records, 1947-2009 consists of publications, event promotional materials, and other information about the Program in Latin American Studies (PLAS) and the Helen Doherty Lassen Fellowship.
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Protestant Churches in Cuba II, 1941-2000
This microfilm contains materials published or distributed by Protestant Christian organizations in Cuba. Many are published or printed by independent evangelical groups and distributed by various denominations or churches.
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Protestant Churches in Cuba III, 1947-2002
This microfilm contains materials published or distributed by Protestant organizations in Cuba. Many are published or printed by independent evangelical groups but distributed by various Protestant denominations or individual churches.
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Protestant Churches in Cuba, IV, 1929-2003
This collection contains church materials published or distributed by Protestant organizations in various Cuban cities and provinces.
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Protestant Churches in Cuba, VI, 1944-2007
This collection contains religious publications from Protestant churches and organizations in Cuba.
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Publishers' Lunch Club Collection, 1915-1959
Consists of miscellaneous business records of the Publishers' Lunch Club of New York City.
Business records (1), 1943-1957
Contains admissions records, bank statements/deposit slips, general correspondence, and paid bills grouped by fiscal year. Some years also contain form letters, remittance slips, and current files. There is a file from 1946-1949 of general corresondence and miscellaneous documents with a notation "Things I would like to discard. Efd" which appears to be written by the secretary of Storer B. Lunt, who served as both Secretary-Treasuer and Vice-President.
Business records (2), 1915-1959
Contains admissions records, bank statements/deposit slips, general correspondence, and paid bills grouped by fiscal year. Some years also contain form letters, remittance slips, and records of elections and reinstatements. There is a file of completed business from 1956-1958, and for the year of 1958-1959 there are folders of files not included in other years. In addition, there are also miscellaneous items including constitutions and memebership lists from 1941-1958, menus from the 1957 Christmas party, 4 account books, an attendance ledger, 4 checkbooks, blank and returned checks, meeting minutes from 1941-1947, and 4 rubber stamps with the address of the club's bank and the name of the secretary-treasurer.
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P.U.L.C. Jewish American Writers Issue Collection, 1913-2002
Consists of original poems, stories, and essays that were printed in the special Autumn 2001/Winter 2002 issue of the Princeton University Library Chronicle on Jewish American writers.
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Pyne-Henry Collection, 1747-1947
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The Pyne-Henry Collection is a diverse group of documents, letters and writings relating to Princeton University, covering an array of topics primarily concerning student life and administrative activities. The collection consists of letters, essays and orations, reports, memoranda, minutes, proclamations, accounts and class lists, and other documents written by students, faculty and administrators which, along with other administrative records and Trustee Minutes, constitute the earliest records and documentary history of the University. Most of these papers and records were amassed by Princeton alumni Moses Taylor Pyne (Class of 1877) and Bayard Henry (Class of 1876) during the latter half of the nineteenth century.
Observations of balloon ascent, 1947
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Series 2: General Files, 1749-1947
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Series 2: General Files, 1749-1947, consists of a broad group of materials touching on issues relating to Princeton life and history. Researchers should consult the container listing for the best accounting of this series. Interesting items include a letter with the earliest-known account of the College of New Jersey, circa 1749-1750 (see Princeton Alumni Weekly, 3/11/1905); a group of letters to and from Joseph Shippen, Class of 1756, describing military actions in the French and Indian War and mentioning Wolfe, Amherst, Ticonderoga and Fort Duquesne (1756-1758); a pencil sketch of three Princeton students being escorted to the depot after having been suspended for "pumping" a secessionist (1861); a letter by P. Glennon from Washington D.C., dated July 10, 1861, discussing activities of the Union Army prior to the First Battle of Bull Run; a letter from Ralph Vaughn Williams turning down an invitation to compose a work for the Princeton Chapel (1937). There is also a small general file at the conclusion of this series containing unidentified materials.
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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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Qāsim Ghanī Papers, 1922-1959 (mostly 1947-1952)
Consists of correspondence, drafts, journals, and notebooks of Iranian literary scholar, diplomat, and physician, Qāsim Ghanī.
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Quarterly Review of Literature (QRL) Records, 1943-2000
Consists primarily of the issue and correspondence files of the independent literary journal of the same name that was founded in 1943 by Warren Carrier, and co-edited and published from 1944-1999 by the husband and wife team of poet and former Princeton professor Theodore (Ted) and editor and author Renée Weiss. Also present in the collection are manuscripts of, and associated material from, eleven of Theodore Weiss's thirteen published books of poetry.
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R. A. Cecil Correspondence, 1946-1993
Consists of letters to English curator R. A. Cecil primarily concerning the writing and publication of books about the Trollopes.
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Radio Broadcasting Collection, 1938-1959
The Radio Broadcasting Collection consists of typescripts of scripts for "The Cavalcade of America" and "The Bookman" as well as promotional material for the major radio networks, such as ABC, CBS, NBC, the Mutual Broadcasting System, and the Municipal Broadcasting System (WNYC). Included is material regarding the coverage of news during the latter years of World War II and copies of clippings about the Orson Welles broadcast of "The War of the Worlds" in 1938.
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Radio Scripts Collection, 1938-1947
The Radio Scripts Collection consists of typescripts of scripts for various radio programs such as "The Cavalcade of America" (represented by the most scripts), "The Eternal Light," "Books and Authors," "What's New in Books," "Pepper Young's Family," "The Goldbergs," and others.
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Rafael Fuentes Papers, 1928-1966 (mostly 1936-1956)
Consists of personal and working papers of Mexican diplomat Rafael Fuentes.
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Ragnar Nurkse Papers, 1930-1960 (mostly 1945-1959)
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Ragnar Nurkse (1907-1959) was a leading scholar of international economics, international finance and economic development. He served in the League of Nations from 1934 to 1945 and taught at Columbia University from 1945 to 1958. Nurse's papers document his scholarly work at both the League of Nations and Columbia, and includes his research notes, drafts of articles and books, research materials and a small amount of correspondence.
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Ralph Freedman Correspondence, 1947-2013 (mostly 1980-2010)
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Consists primarily of professional correspondence of literary scholar, author, and novelist Ralph Freedman (1920-2016).
Other Writings, circa 1947-2010
Includes correspondence and some manuscript materials relating to "The Lyrical Novel" (1961), "Divided" (1947), Rue the Day (2009), The Discovery of Slowness (1987), and "Paul Valéry: Protean Critic," from Modern French Criticism (1972).
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Raymond Blaine Fosdick Papers, 1898-1971 (mostly 1917-1952)
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Raymond Blaine Fosdick (1883-1972) served as Under Secretary General for the League of Nations (1919-1920) and as President of the Rockefeller Foundation (1936-1948). The bulk of the collection consists of correspondence related to military life during World War I, the formation and activities of the League of Nations, and the administration of the Rockefeller Foundation in the 1920s through 1940s. The collection also contains various writings and personal memorabilia.
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Raymond Holden Papers, 1924-1973
Raymond Holden was a noted author and publisher, who worked for a variety of publications, including the New Yorker, Fortune, Newsweek, and Reader's Digest. His papers include various copies and notes from his own works, correspondence with friends, some work of other people, and assorted documents.
Series 6: Additions, 1932-1968
Consists largely of manuscripts, correspondence, and notes regarding "Sexual Autobiography" and "Animal, Vegetable, Mineral."
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Raymond Mortimer Letters to Edward Sackville-West, 1925-1963
Consists of 73 letters (1925-1961) by English author and literary critic Raymond Mortimer to his life-long friend Edward Sackville-West, both members of the "Bloomsbury Group."
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R. D. Blackmore Collection, 1630-1956 (mostly 1873-1899)
The collection contains 120 letters, which is mostly personal correspondence, by English novelist and poet R. D. Blackmore.