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Allied Mission to Observe Greek Elections Collection, 1945-1946

MC300
1 box
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.

Prieto and Maíz Family Business Records, 1760-1974 (mostly 1890-1945)

C0053
17 boxes
Consists of the records (1760-1974) of a large business conglomerate in northern Mexico founded by Pedro R. Prieto and owned by branches of the Prieto family, including Maíz family members, for three generations.

Princeton University Art Museum Teaching Materials, Spring 2023, January 2022

PUAM001
701 items
Consists of approximately 701 flat works from the collections of the Princeton University Art Museum, temporarily transferred to the Princeton University Library for use in Princeton University courses during the Spring 2023 semester.

French Press Photographs, 1930s-1990s

C1740
1 linear foot
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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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.

Kurt Gödel Papers, 1905-1980 (mostly 1930-1970)

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C0282
30.75 linear feet
The papers comprise documents relating to all periods of the life of Kurt Gödel, foremost mathematical logician of the twentieth century, including scientific correspondence, notebooks, drafts, unpublished manuscripts, academic, legal, and financial records, and all manner of loose notes and memoranda.

H. L. Mencken Letters to David Warren Ryder, 1922-1955

C1231
1 box
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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William Byler Papers, 1715-2000 (mostly 1975-1995)

MC201
23 boxes
William Byler was Executive Director of the Association on American Indian Affairs (AAIA) from 1962 to 1980. After leaving AAIA, Byler continued advocating for the Native American community, first at Gerard, Byler and Associates and later at William Byler Associates. Byler's papers document his work on behalf of the Native American community after leaving AAIA. The papers include legal memoranda, draft and final agreements between Native American communities and companies or government agencies, and court documents, as well as topical files of related legislation and reports on the issues.

Jacques Roumani Research Files on Libya, circa 1910-1990

C1708
5 linear feet
Consists of research files, primarily government records, of scholar and author Jacques Roumani (1944-2016) on Libya during the period of Italian colonization.
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Henry Martin Papers, 1949-2003 (mostly 1980-1999)

C1686
9 boxes
Consists of scrapbooks of tearsheets and clippings, original artwork in pencil and in pen and ink, correspondence, financial documents, periodicals, permission agreements, and contracts spanning Henry Martin's career as a cartoonist and illustrator.

James Ward Smith Correspondence, 1934-1946

AC492
4 boxes
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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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.

Chester Brooks Kerr Papers, 1936-1947

MC242
1 box
This collection contains Chester Kerr's early papers on book publishing. It documents his involvement with Atlantic Monthly Press and his employment at Reynal and Hitchcock. It also documents Kerr's work with the United States International Book Association, a short-lived non-profit organization founded in 1945 and dedicated to addressing the issues surrounding international book trade and exports.

Gillett G. Griffin Papers, 1928-2016

AC464
36 boxes
Gillett Good Griffin, a curator of Pre-Columbian collections at the Princeton University Art Museum from 1967 to 2005, spurred dynamic growth in the museum's collections of art of the ancient Americas. The Gillett G. Griffin Papers reflect Griffin's personal life and relationships as well as his professional work and his donation of objects to the Princeton University Art Museum.

H. Freeman Matthews Sr. Papers, 1773-1986 (mostly 1923-1972)

MC243
9 boxes
Harrison Freeman Matthews Sr. (1899-1986) was a U.S. diplomat and career ambassador. This collection consists of correspondence, a draft of his memoirs, photographs, clippings, films and miscellaneous papers. It includes correspondence with Elizabeth Luke Matthews and a diary she kept during a visit to her husband in Vichy, France in 1940-42.

Jacob Newton Beam Papers, 1914-1950 (mostly 1940-1950)

MC029
4 boxes
The collection contains correspondence pertaining to Princeton University and personal correspondence of Jacob Newton Beam (Princeton Class of 1896, professor of German, 1899-1927). Of particular note is a file of letters from his son, Jacob Dyneley Beam (Princeton Class of 1929), written while he was serving at the American embassies in London, Germany, the Soviet Union, and Indonesia. The collection also includes Jacob N. Beam's lectures notes and publications.

Juan Gelman Papers, 1927-2014

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C1511
72 boxes
Juan Gelman (1930-2014) was an Argentine poet, translator, journalist, and human rights activist. His papers contain handwritten, typewritten, and printouts of his writings, correspondence, notes, research files, awards and certificates, and personal photographs. A significant portion of the papers feature analog and born-digital investigative files relating to human rights investigations and campaigns Gelman conducted with his spouse, Mara La Madrid, on the forced kidnapping and death of his son and pregnant daughter-in-law, Marcelo Gelman and María Claudia García Irureta Goyena. Also included are files on his search to find his missing granddaughter, Macarena Gelman. Additional materials consist of original drafts and documents related to Juan Gelman's writing; letters; publishing contracts; documents about Juan Gelman's work as a translator; materials related to the campaign to lift the ban on Juan Gelman's entry into Argentina and his return to Buenos Aires; newspaper and magazine clippings related to the ban on Juan Gelman's entry into Argentina, as well as celebrating his return; materials related to Marcelo and Paulina, including photographs of Gelman and the family; works by other writers; and audio cassettes.
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George E. Hafstad Papers, 1942-1976

MC307
1 box
George Hafstad was a plant pathologist and a field technician with the U.S. Rubber Development Corporation in Brazil from 1943 to 1945. The George E. Hafstad Papers include a diary, several technician reports, and a folder of photographs from Hafstad's time as a field technician with the U.S. Rubber Development Corporation Amazon Division.
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George E. Hafstad Papers, 1942-1976

George Hafstad was a plant pathologist and a field technician with the U.S. Rubber Development Corporation in Brazil from 1943 to 1945. The George E. Hafstad Papers include a diary, several technician reports, and a folder of photographs from Hafstad's time as a field technician with the U.S. Rubber Development Corporation Amazon Division.

Leroy Lansing Janes Papers, 1874-1938

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C0565
24 boxes
Consists of works, letters, photographs, and printed matter of Leroy Lansing Janes, a teacher at the Kumamoto Yogakko (Kumamoto School for Western Learning) in Japan (1871-1876).

James Boyd Papers, 1915-1944

C0753
16 boxes
Consists of manuscripts of novels, articles, stories, and verse by the American historical writer James Boyd.

Walter Houk Collection of Ernest Hemingway, 1946-2010

C1390
5 boxes
Consists of manuscripts, correspondence, stenographer's notebooks, photographs, and nautical charts associated with Walter and Juanita Houk's years in Havana, Cuba, documenting their friendship with the Nobel prize-winning author Ernest Hemingway and his wife, Mary.
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With Ernest and Mary Hemingway, 1946-1970

3-ring binder. Consists of 5 parts: 1) Ernest Hemingway Letters (1949-1950), 2) Mary Hemingway Letters (1950-1970), 3) Juanita Jensen Houk Letters and Memorabilia (1946-1964, 1989), 4) Nine Hemingway Christmas Cards (1949-1970), 5) Memorabilia from Mid-Century Cuba (1933-1952). All of the items are introduced, commented on, and/or annotated by Houk. Among the memorabilia are a 1949 Floridita Bar folder with an in-house photograph of Mary Hemingway and Juanita Jensen, a 1933 Sloppy Joe's Bar manual and map, several 1950s Havana newspaper clippings of Hemingway marlin tournament activities, and a late-1940s Esso road map of Cuba.

Civil War Letters of Adam Badeau, 1862-1909

C0097
1 box
Consists of 79 autograph letters from Adam Badeau to Union general James Harrison Wilson, dated 1862 to 1865, most of which were written while Badeau was General Ulysses S. Grant's military secretary in the Civil War.
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Letters Not Addressed to James Harrison Wilson and Related Material, 1870-1965

This last series consists of material not written by Badeau but related to his life and Wilson's. A great newsletter from the Ulysses S. Grant Association that provides a short biography of Badeau. A letter from Badeau while he is serving as a diplomat in England after the war, a letter concerning his work on Grant's writing, a letter of Wilson's. There are also newspaper clippings about Wilson after the war.

Thomas Colchie '64 Collection on Jorge Amado, 1946-1991

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C1450
2 boxes
The collection consists of twenty-four audiocassette recorded interviews conducted by Thomas Colchie (Princeton University alumnus, Class of 1964) of or about Brazilian writer Jorge Amado. Recordings include interviews with Jorge Amado and other writers and artists speaking about Amado. Also includes photocopy documents about Amado's political involvement as an elected representative in Brazil's National Constituent Assembly from 1945-1947, and photocopy documents of Brazil's National Intelligence Service (SNI) file on Amado.

Donald Ross Hamilton Papers, 1946-1970

C0370
13 boxes
Conists of selected papers of Princeton physicist Donald Ross Hamilton.
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Kostas and Linda S. Myrsiades Papers, 1942-2017

C1623
4.0 linear feet
This collection consists of personal papers of Kostas and Linda S. Myrsiades, including correspondence, autograph manuscripts and typescripts, photographs, printed and audio material.
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Research Material: Resistance Theater, 1942-1998

Consists of xerox copies of typescripts and printed material of several one-act plays and short stories or poems on Greek Resistance with penciled annotations. Includes also a xerox copy of a resignation letter by Aimilios Veakēs to the Board of the National Theater dated 1942 and a bibliography of primary texts and short stories about the "Literature of the Greek Resistance."

Broom Correspondence of Harold Loeb, 1920-1956 (mostly 1921-1924)

C0110
2 boxes
Consists of correspondence files of Harold Loeb (Princeton Class of 1913), one of the founding editors of Broom, An International Magazine of the Arts.
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Raymond Holden Papers, 1924-1973

C0046
9 boxes
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.
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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.

R. Ellsworth Larsson Papers, 1929-1964

C0320
2 boxes
Consists of poetry manuscripts, drawings, and correspondence of the American poet R. Ellsworth Larsson (1901- ).

Thomas Daniels' Collations of F. Scott Fitzgerald's Short Stories, 1920-1978

C0363
5 boxes
Consists of collations by Thomas Daniels of over forty of short stories in American and British magazines by American novelist and storywriter F. Scott Fitzgerald.
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Rudolph, the Tragedy of Mayerling by Karoly Lonyay, 1947

C0318
1 box
Consists of the typed manuscript, with holograph corrections, of historian Karoly Lonyay's biography Rudolph, the Tragedy of Mayerling (1949), which centered around the 1889 suicidal death of the heir to the Austrian crown.

Herbert Sidney Langfeld Papers, 1906-1958

C1501
2 boxes
Herbert Sidney Langfeld (1879-1958) was an American professor of psychology and prominent academic. This collection includes his diaries, professional correspondence, drafts of lectures and notes, photographs, and various printed material.

R. D. Blackmore Collection, 1630-1956 (mostly 1873-1899)

C0201
1 box
The collection contains 120 letters, which is mostly personal correspondence, by English novelist and poet R. D. Blackmore.
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Max Gordon Papers, 1908-1971 (mostly 1950-1965)

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TC024
37 boxes
Max Gordon (1892-1978) was an American theatrical producer. His collection contains personal correspondence with theater and film notables spanning the years 1942-1971. Also included are production materials, such as correspondence, contracts, summaries of earnings, financial sheets, and miscellaneous notes of plays Gordon produced, including Born Yesterday, The Solid Gold Cadillac, My Sister Eileen, and the film, Abe Lincoln in Illinois, as well as letters and script reports relating to Columbia Pictures.

William Irvine Letters from Jerusalem, 1911-1946

C1388
3 boxes
Consists of typescript copies of letters sent from Jerusalem by evangelist William Irvine to his followers.
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Sonja Karsen Papers, 1897-1993 (mostly 1950-1973)

C0813
4 boxes
Sonja Karsen, born in 1919, was a professor of Spanish at Skidmore College and intensively researched Jaime Torres Bodet and Guillermo Valencia, two Latin American politicians and poets. The Sonja Karsen papers contain much of her research on these two figures.

Ginevra King Collection Relating to F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1913-1949

C0950
1 box
Consists of material relating to Ginerva King's romantic relationship with American author F. Scott Fitzgerald.
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Kenneth McKenzie Fable Collection, 1898-1949

C0494
2 boxes
Consists of papers of Kenneth McKenzie (1870-1949), a former professor of Romance languages at Princeton, relating to fables.
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T. S. Eliot Collection, 1929-1962

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C0896
1 box
Consists of selected material of Nobel prize-winning poet T. S. Eliot, primarily of correspondence but including several photographs, typescripts of poems, and corrected proofs.
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James Green Correspondence, 1837-1871

C0965
1 box
The James Green Correspondence consists of letters received from various correspondents by the 19th-century English poet James Green (of Bath).
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José Martínez Sotomayor Papers, 1929-1960 (mostly 1930-1932)

C0830
3 boxes
José Martínez Sotomayor was a Mexican lawyer, judge, and writer who published novels, short stories, and nonfiction. His personal papers includes correspondence and autograph and typescript manuscripts of three of Martínez Sotomayor's books.
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The Life and Writings of James Wilson (1742-1798), by Burton Alva Konkle, 1946

C0317
2 boxes
Consists of an unpublished manuscript by history professor Burton Alva Konkle on the American Revolutionary activist and Supreme Court Justice, James Wilson.

Ruth E. and Edward M. Brecher Collection on William F. Mannix, 1950-1965

C0675
4 boxes
Consists of papers gathered and generated by Ruth E. and Edward M. Brecher while researching the life of William Francis Mannix (1870?-1920), a journalist, soldier of fortune, grafter, and literary forger, for a proposed biography that was never completed. Included are manuscript drafts, correspondence and documents relating to Mannix's background, psychopathic personalities, and literary forgeries.

Arturo Lagorio Correspondence, 1932-1984

C0864
1 box
This collection consists of letters to Arturo Lagorio, Argentine poet and author, by various Latin American and Spanish writers, including Samuel Eichelbaum, Maria Granata, Nicolas Olivari, and Cesar Tiempo.
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Donald L. Derrom Papers, 1941-1952

C0418
2 boxes
Consists of selected papers of American engineer, Donald L. Derrom; the bulk of which deals with the building of a rock crushing plant for the Rock Products Corp., Ltd., of Tel Aviv, Israel.
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Eliseo Diego Papers, 1940-1990

C0863
1 box
This collection consists of papers of Diego, Cuban poet, author, and translator. Included are correspondence between Diego, his wife, various friends and other writers.
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Paul Frankl Papers, 1900-1974

C0779
12 boxes
The Paul Frankl Papers consists of correspondence, writings, notebooks, photographs, and printed matter of the Czech art historian, architect, author, and educator Paul Frankl (1878-1962). A native of Prague, Frankl came to the United States in 1938, and shortly afterwards settled in Princeton, New Jersey, where he was associated with the Institute for Advanced Study.
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Liu Binyan Papers, 1988-2006

C1116
8 boxes
Consists of papers of Chinese journalist and political dissident Liu Binyan, including manuscripts, notes, drafts of speeches, reviews, correspondence, audiocassettes of interviews, and other material.

Heath Bowman Papers, 1923-1989

C0762
5 boxes
Heath Bowman was a member of the Princeton University Class of 1931. After graduating, Bowman traveled extensively and later became a public affairs officer involved in Chile, Italy, France, and Yugoslavia. The papers consist of Bowman's 68 diaries from 1923 to 1989 and some of his photographs from the West Indies and South America.

Selected Papers of William B. Bamford, 1900-1947

C0597
1 box
Consists of selected papers of civil engineer William B. Bamford, a member of the Princeton University Class of 1900.
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Albert Mathias Friend Papers, 1913-1955

C0924
12 boxes
Albert Mathias Friend, Jr. (Princeton Class of 1915), was an officer and a scholar. Friend served in World War I and then did his graduate studies in art and architecture in Europe, studying and salvaging the great works of art and architecture that may have been damaged by the fighting. He then worked with Harvard's Dumbarton Oaks Research Library before becoming a professor at Princeton University. The collection contains notes and course materials from Friend's time as a student and as a professor, correspondence, and some of his research materials, photographs, and negatives, focusing on medieval art and architecture in Greece, Rome, and other Mediterranean cultures.
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Notebooks, notes, papers, course materials, photographs, 1934-1951

Includes binders containing research notes on iconography, along with small drawings of border ornaments, notes on "Stuttgart Psalter", Friend's 1946 contribution to the Dumbarton Oaks Symposium on "Mosaics of Basil I in Hagia Sophia," along with a program and summaries of papers for various symposia from 1948 to 1951, teaching and lecture notes and a syllabus for a course on Modern Painting (Spring 1943 ART 312), lectures in Modern Painting February-May 1934 Vol. III, Dumbarton Oaks Lectures, Rabula Gospels and the Church of Sion, Mosaics of Basil I in Hagia Sophia I and II (1945 April 2-4 and 1946 May 3), along with files of writings on "Basis on Style," "Ancient Ornament (Archit. 509)," "Northern Renaissance," "Dürer and Hercules Borghese," "Rubens and the Antique," "Baroque," "Romantic and Realistic Spirit in Art," "Fact and Interpretation (Short form) D.P.H. 1944 (Aug 9, 1944)," "Art - [?] and meaning, Sept 1 1943," "Style," "Ancient Portraiture," and "Lecture (Bryn Mawr College Feb 21, 1950, 8:30 pm) The Holy Apostles Church, Restoration of Mosaics."
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Notebooks and notecards, PULC, 1916-1950

Includes various notes, writings, drawings, and lectures, including files labeled, "Holy Apostles Church Restoration of the Mosaics, A. M. Friend, Jr., Bryn Mawr Lecture, Feb. 21, 1950 (Feast of Orthodoxy, Feb. 26, 1950), St. Tarasius," a brown notebook labeled "Notes, Greek, MSS Paris, GR 70," notecards on various topics, mostly greek philosophers and writers, and notebooks labeled "Evangelists, Standing Type, Alexandria, Greek, Syriac, Antioch, Armenian, Slavonic, Russian," "Evangelists, Seated, Type, Greek, Ephesus," Greek, Ephesus", "Evangelists, Old Latin, Irish", "Evangelists, Cassiodorus, Alcuin," "Ancient, PTG., 1917," and "Ital. Paint., A M Friend Jr, 3A Campbell."
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Notes, photographs, correspondence, 1915-1954

Includes a report from Friend to Professor Paul J. Sachs, Chairman of the Administrative Committee, Dumbarton Oaks, November 2, 1946, along with files on materials on "Byzantine Studies at Dumbarton Oaks, A.M. Friend Jr., Saturday, April 26, 1947," "Iconography: Anastasis," "The Iconography of the Crucifixion, Part I., Evolution of the Byzantine Type, April 1916, A.M. Friend Jr., Princeton University," "Iconography: Metamorphosis (Sinai)," "Pskov – Mirozhsky Ch of Transfiguration," "Sion Church, Apse," "Constant Rhodes," "Mesarites," "Dumbarton Oaks Symposium of Iconoclasm (1951 April 26-28)," "Symposium 1946, Dumbarton Oaks," "Summaries of Symposium Papers for 1951 Symposium on Iconoclasm," which primarily contain handwritten notes along with some photographs.

Vodrey Collection of Arthur Machen Papers, 1915-1972

C0240
4 boxes
Consists of manuscripts and correspondence of Welsh writer Arthur Machen collected by Joseph Kelly Vodrey. It also contains an equal amount of manuscripts and correspondence of Machen admirers and collectors, particularly the members of the Machen Society, founded in 1948 after Machen's death.
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