Allied Mission to Observe Greek Elections Collection, 1945-1946
The Allied Mission to Observe Greek Elections was established when on September 19, 1945 the Governments of Britain, France, and the United States accepted the Greek Government's invitation to send observers for the general elections and plebiscite to be held in 1946. The collection consists of correspondence, circulars, memos, press extracts, and and maps, including one annotated map depicting the locations of headquarters among the country.
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Middle East and North Africa, 1939-1991
A49. Archive of 100 French press photos of Lebanese political life from 1974-1989. Most of the focus is on the civil war and particularly the period 1982-1984. Most captioned on reverse
Sub-Saharan Africa, 1934-1993
FA105. Collection of 5 French press photos of the official visit of French Interior Minister Charles Pasqua to Gabon. Meeting with Omar Bongo, visit to a medical research facility in Franceville. Also a photo of Bongo with Rene Journiac, who later died in a plane crash in Cameroun. Descriptions on reverse.
French Press Photographs, 1930s-1990s
Consists of several hundred print photographs (most are captioned) primarily from various French news outlets and agencies documenting people and events of numerous countries and geographic regions spanning the mid to late 20th century.
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H. L. Mencken Correspondence with Dent Smith, 1938-1945
Consists of 108 letters by Mencken to Dent Smith between the years 1938 and 1945, with Smith's side of the correspondence present in carbon copies.
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H. L. Mencken Letters to David Warren Ryder, 1922-1955
Consists of 110 letters by influential magazine editor and critic H. L. Mencken to David Warren Ryder, a San Francisco area journalist, written mainly from Baltimore and New York between the years 1922 and 1947.
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Various Files, circa 1910-1980
Topics and organizations documented include Libyan rebels, Italian settlers from Tunisia, Istituzione del Ministero delle Colonie, and La Riconquista Militare, among others.
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Robert J. Sommers 1928 Alaska Tour Album and Related Materials, 1921-1972 (mostly 1928)
Consists of a photograph album, loose photographs, and clippings belonging to Robert J. Sommers (1881-1972), primarily documenting his work as a highway engineer in Alaska in the late 1920s, as well as some materials related to his personal life and career as a civil engineer and businessman involved in construction. Of note is a photograph album documenting a tour of Alaska made in 1928 by Sommers with Governor George A. Parks and Major Malcolm Elliott.
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James Ward Smith Correspondence, 1934-1946
James Ward Smith enrolled at Princeton University in 1934, first graduating with the Class of 1938 before proceeding with graduate studies in Princeton's Department of Philosophy. Following his military service during WWII, Smith returned to Princeton to begin a long career as Professor of Philosophy. The collection is comprised of letters written by Smith to his parents from September, 1934, when Smith entered Princeton, to his discharge from the Navy in 1946.
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Series 1: Diaries, 1939-1945
Series 1: Diaries, 1939-1945, covers MacVeagh's tour of duties as Minister to Greece (with the omission of his tours in Iceland and The Union of South Africa), his term as Ambassador to the Greek and Yugoslav Governments-in-exile in Cairo and his return to Greece after liberation. These are photocopies of transcriptions as the original diaries remain the property of the MacVeagh family.
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Subseries 1: Family, 1938-2014
Personal photographs of the Gelman and Burichson families. Includes photographs of Gelman's two children, Marcelo and Nora Gelman, his daughter-in-law, María Claudia Irureta Goyena, and his grandchildren Macarena Gelman and Jorge Pedregosa.
Subseries 3: Juan Gelman, 1930-2011
Includes early photographs, portraits, and travel photographs of Juan Gelman.
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