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William Yarrell Collection, 1830-1961 (mostly 1833-1856)
C0603
1 box
1.25 linear feet
Princeton University. Library. Special Collections
Consists of letters and drawings of William Yarrell, a nineteenth-century British naturalist, and related printed matter.
William W. Lockwood Papers, 1919-1977
MC086
5 boxes
1 folder
Lockwood, William W. (William Wirt), 1906-1978
The William W. Lockwood Papers document the American Institute of Pacific Relations and Lockwood's activities within the organization during the McCarthy era. A significant amount of the collection concerns the investigation of the Institute of Pacific Relations by Senators Joseph McCarthy and Pat McCarran. The collection also documents U.S.-Far East relations, particularly U.S.-Japanese trade and the Japanese textile industry.
William Tipping Papers, 1688-2001
C1462
4 boxes
2.4 linear feet
Tipping, William
Conists of personal papers of William Tipping Esq, of Brasted Park, Sevenoaks, in Kent, and Avray near Paris. He was the son of the successful Liverpool merchant John Tipping, who in his twenties traveled extensively in Europe and the Middle East before turning to Tory politics and serving as director of the London and North Western Railway.
William Starr Myers Papers, 1877-1974 (mostly 1897-1956)
MC098
36 boxes
Myers, William Starr, 1877-1956
William Starr Myers (1877-1954) was a professor of history and politics at Princeton University and a noted historian of New Jersey and the Republican Party. The William Starr Myers Papers document the history of his teaching career and published works.
Box 98
Department: Chemistry; contains photo; date reflects year of degree or last year of enrollment.
William Seymour Family Papers, 1733-1967 (mostly 1870-1933)
TC011
89 boxes
42 linear feet
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Seymour, William, 1855-1933
Consists primarily of the professional papers of prominent late 19th- and early 20th-century American theatrical stage manager and director William Seymour (1855-1933). The majority of papers include correspondence as well as numerous production-related materials, such as playscripts, promptbooks, and sheet music. Family members, particularly other well-known theater figures, such as Seymour's sister-in-law Fanny Davenport (1850-1898), are also represented in the collection through correspondence, production materials, ephemera, and newspaper clippings.
Williams-Ellis, Amabel, 1939-1983
1 folder
Box 86, Folder 4
File for Learn to Love First (1939-1983)
Box 14, Folder 50
Several handwritten letters, a card with pen drawing, and a short biography with a photograph.
Rankin, William, 1863-1943.
William Rankin (Princeton Class of 1886) was an art historian, specializing in Italian art, and was co-author, with Alice Van Vechten Brown, of A Short History of Italian Painting (1914). Consists of correspondence of Rankin.
William Oliver Strunk Collection, 1937-1979
C1081
2 boxes
0.6 linear feet
Princeton University. Library. Special Collections
Consists of selected papers of W. Oliver Strunk, who was a professor of music at Princeton University (1937-1966).
William O. Baker Papers, 1912-2008
MC218
65 boxes
Baker, William O. (William Oliver) (1915-2005)
William O. Baker (1915-2005) was a prominent research chemist, head of Bell Laboratories, and a frequent advisor to the government on scientific affairs and technology. His government service spanned from the Truman administration through the Bush administration and focused on intelligence gathering and national security issues. Baker's papers document his government service beginning with President Eisenhower, as well as his career at Bell Labs, and include correspondence, writings, and reports.
William M. Sloane Papers, 1931-1979
C0236
7 boxes
3.50 linear feet
Sloane, William, 1906-1974
Consists primarily of correspondence of William M. Sloane during his publishing and editorial career, which is documented in several publishing files. These include papers of the Association of American University Presses when Sloane served as vice-president and president (1966, 1969-70); the Council on Books in Wartime; the Visiting Committee of American Book Publishers; and the publishing houses of Henry Holt and Company (1938-46) and William Sloane Associates (1946-52).
Leary, William M. (William Matthew) (1934-2006)
William M. Leary (1934-2006) was an aviation historian who wrote his doctoral thesis on the politician H. Alexander Smith. The collection contains materials that Leary consulted in the process of writing his thesis, along with a manuscript of the thesis.
William McElwee Miller Papers, 1931-1979
C0385
4 boxes
1.2 linear feet
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Miller, William McElwee
Consists of articles, correspondence, notes, miscellaneous material, and printed matter of William McElwee Miller, a Presbyterian clergyman and a missionary in Iran from 1919 to 1962.
William M. Armstrong Collection on E.L. Godkin, 1833-1978
C0560
14 boxes
6.5 linear feet
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Armstrong, William M. (William Martin), 1919-
This collection consists of American historian William M. Armstrong's works and research material on Edwin Lawrence Godkin (1831-1902), a founder and editor of The Nation (1865-1881) and editor of the New York Evening Post (1883-1900). The collection contains typed manuscripts of Armstrong's biography on Godkin along with other writings, as well as photocopies, microfilms, and typescripts of correspondence.
William K. Selden Collection on the History of Health Services at Princeton University, 1880-1991
AC006
3 boxes
Selden, William K. (Class of 1934)
The William K. Selden Collection on the History of Health Services at Princeton University contains research materials gathered by Selden for the publication, The Heritage of Isabella McCosh (Princeton University Press, 1991). The collections contains drafts, comments on the drafts, photographs, manuscript notes and photocopies of documents made by Selden for the book.
William K. Selden Collection on Eating Clubs, 1906-1994
AC030
2 boxes
Selden, William K. (Class of 1934)
The William K. Selden Collection on Eating Clubs contains research materials collected by Selden for the publication, Club Life at Princeton; An Historical Account of the Upper-Class Eating Clubs at Princeton University. Selden donated the material to the Archives in 1994.
Prentice, William Kelly, 1871-1964
Consists of works, correspondence, and documents of William Kelly Prentice, a Greek scholar and authority on classical inscriptions, as well as selected papers of his father and various other family members.
William Jovanovich Papers, 1815-2006 (mostly 1950-1996)
C1505
61 boxes
32.8 linear feet
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Jovanovich, William.
William Jovanovich (1920-2001) was an American publisher, author, and businessman, who led the publishing firm Harcourt Brace Jovanovich from 1954 to 1991, as president and later as chief executive officer. The collection consists of Jovanovich's author and publisher files, including an extensive file on Charles A. Lindbergh, along with correspondence, writings, personal and family papers, memorabilia, and other files documenting his career as a major American publisher in the 20th century, his creative pursuits in fiction and nonfiction, and his interest in Yugoslav literature and textbook publishing.
William Irvine Letters from Jerusalem, 1911-1946
C1388
3 boxes
Irvine, William, 1863-1947
Consists of typescript copies of letters sent from Jerusalem by evangelist William Irvine to his followers.
William H. Tower Philatelic Collection, 1380-1950 (mostly 1700-1949)
C0911
20 boxes
15.4 linear feet
Princeton University. Library. Special Collections
Consists of envelopes both used and unused (also known as covers), letters, postcards, documents, postage stamps, and a variety of other philatelic material from around the world as collected and annotated by the Reverend William Hogarth Tower (1871-1950). The collection spans the topics of English Postal History, United States Postal History, War Covers, Philatelic Miscellany, and Franking.
Gibrán, Kahlil, 1883-1931
Consists of manuscripts, photographs, and ephemera by and about the Lebanese-American philosophical essayist, novelist, mystical poet, and artist Kahlil Gibran, who, by fusing elements of Eastern and Western mysticism, achieved lasting fame with such poetic works as The Prophet (1923) and Jesus, the Son of Man (1928). This material was collected by William H. Shehadi.
William F. Shellman Papers, 1930s-1980s
C0906
20 boxes
Shellman, William F. (William Feay), 1916-1987
William F. Shellman was a member of the Dept. of Architecture faculty at Princeton University faculty forty years (1946-1986). He taught introductory courses in architecture and the visual arts and courses designed to heighten architectural students' visual sensitivity. His collection consists of his papers, primarily lectures and notes for his classes, but including matted illustrations and photographs of sample forms of architecture, cassette tapes of lectures, slides, architectural drawings, and watercolors.