Charles W. Yost Papers, circa 1790-2015 (mostly 1930-1980)
Charles W. Yost (1907-1981) led a varied career as a diplomat, United Nations representative, writer, and scholar. He was a member of the foreign service intermittently between 1930 and 1971, after which time he devoted himself full-time to writing and teaching. Yost's papers document his professional life in the Foreign Service, as well as his time in academia, and include his correspondence, writings, and photographs.
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Wordin, Helen "Nellie" Caroline, Diary, 1858-1893
Consists of a manuscript diary spanning forty-five years in the life of Helen "Nellie" Caroline Wordin (1842- ), an educated, single white woman living in Bridgeport, Connecticut, in the 19th century who attended school in Petersburg, Virginia, during the outbreak of the American Civil War.
Mary Woodruff Daily Diaries, 1869, 1871
Two diaries kept by a young woman, Mary Woodruff, recording her daily tasks and visitors. In her 1869 diary, she was living in Clarendon, Vermont. In her 1871 diary, she was living in Boston, Massachusetts.
Wilson, Jerome Nelson, Stereoview Photograph of Voters in Savannah, Georgia, 1868 November 3
Consists of a stereoview photograph by Jermone Nelson Wilson (1827-1897), depicting Black and white voters in Savannah, Georgia, on Election Day in 1868, which was the first presidential election in which formerly enslaved people in the American South were able to participate. This photograph shows a crowd of Savannah voters lined up around a large banner for the Ulysses S. Grant ticket and includes handwritten captions reading "First Colored Vote" and "Election Scene." Many of the voters in the far distance appear to be Black, and at least one of the dozen men perched on fence posts in the foreground appears to be white.
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Woodruff Family Collection, 1795-1896 (mostly 1803-1850)
Consists of selected papers of George Woodruff (Princeton Class of 1785), a lawyer, and various members of his family of Trenton, N.J.
Woodruff, Elias, 1789-1938
Receipt to General Anthony Wayne for Wayne's son in Princeton, signed by Woodruff; typescript of unpublished Woodruff notes, and Woodrufffamily tree
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Frank L. Wood Correspondence, 1861-1939
Consists of a letter album of Frank L. Wood, an American lawyer.
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Unidentified mine in Alpine County, California, circa 1865
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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 transcriptions 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."
AnPeTu ToKeCa (Other Day), Sioux Indian : rescued 62 persons from the Indian Massacre of 1862, 1862
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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 transcriptions 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."
Scalp of Little Crow, 1863
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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 transcriptions 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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Winans Collection of New Jersey Documents, 1703-1883
Consists of almost 200 eighteenth-century documents, mostly deeds to land, relating to several towns in Essex County, New Jersey, particularly Westfield, collected by Samuel Ross Winans (Princeton Class of 1874).
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Samuel J. Wilson Papers, 1856-1926 (mostly 1860-1886)
Consists of correspondence, diaries, memorabilia, and printed matter of Samuel J. Wilson, a ninteenth-century clergyman and teacher at the Western Theological Seminary, Allegheny, Pa.
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Course Examinations Collection, 1833-1998 (mostly 1871-1967)
The course examinations collection consists of examination questions administered to applicants, undergraduates, and graduate students at Princeton University.
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Bruce C. Willsie Collection of British Sigillography, 100-1900
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An open collection of examples of British sigillography (matrices, royal charters with seals, seal impressions, and related material), collected by Bruce C. Willsie, Class of 1986.
Victoria, 1852-1862
Great Seal on Royal Patent. For John Cooke, of Willington, 1852. County of Durham; accompanied by a certification, 1862. Housed in a 19th-century leather-covered Box with the gold-stamped inscription "E.P.H. Vaughan, Patent Agent, 54 Chancery Lane, London, W.C."
Charters With Seals, 1199 October 9-1965
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Bruce C. Willsie Collection of Ethiopic Magic Scrolls, 1700-1900
Consists of an open collection of Ethiopic magic scrolls, chiefly dating from the 18th to 20th centuries, collected by Bruce C. Willise (Princeton Class of 1986).
Prayer for the Binding of Demons and Devils (Ma'esärä Aganent Wäshäyt'anat). The Prayer of Susenyos, 19th century
[Incipit now totally illegible.]