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Series 1: Records of Men, 1944-1950
72 boxes
Series 1: Records of Men consist of records of individual Princeton University students who served in the military from the Class of 1943 through the Class of 1949. There are single cards for each individual on which is noted biographical information, military rank, home address, service address, and other related information. There are also folders for individuals which include correspondence between Princeton University faculty and staff of the War Service Bureau office, as well as other materials relating to that student's class. For the Class of 1943 there are only cards, but for the Class of 1944 through 1949 there are individual folders for most men. The records are arranged chronologically by class, and alphabetically within each class. In general, the cards appear at the beginning of the chronological run.
Box 76, Box 77
Series 3: Questionnaires (1944-1949) are arranged chronologically by class, and alphabetically within each class. The questionnaires consisted of a series of questions and categories for academic and personal information.
Box 1, Folder 5
(Correspondence between Thomas H. English, Class of 1918 and English Professor Morris H. Croll, as well as papers regarding the posthumous printing of Croll's work.)
Folder oversize folder 2
Robert Wagner Photographs, 1940s-1950s
2 folders
Box 3
The 2022 donation includes 1950s slides of buildings on campus, two prints of Professor Pascu, and a photograph of a science lab.
Photographs collected by Albert Elsasser, circa 1901-1956
1 folder
HAS ONLINE CONTENT
Box 4
Folder includes one campus photograph with Marquand Chapel, Whig Hall and Clio Hall visible; a photograph of Dinky railroad tracks with Little Hall and Blair Arch visible; an April, 1949 photograph of Harold Stassen and Albert Elsasser at the dedication of the Princeton University Library; three photographs of the 1947 Bicentennial Procession; and one photograph by Elizabeth Menzies of the West Stairway of Nassau Hall stairwell, accompanied by a note from Menzies to Elsasser (1956). Albert Elsasser taught in the English Department at Princeton University between 1924 and 1962.
Box s-000622
This group of snapshots primarily consists of photographs of Ralph B. Yardley '1940 and Yardley Beers *1941 at Princeton commencement ceremonies from 1937 to 1941. Two photos are of the "apparatus" constructed for Yardely Beers' thesis. One, larger photograph was taken at the Princeton Symposium for Physics Professor Rudolf Ladenburg's retirement in 1950. The 1950 photograph includes MacPhail, Yardley Beers, George Wachtell, Daniel Bershader, Luke Yuan, Hans Kopfermann, Curtis Lampson: Fritz Reiche, Lyman Spitzer, Henry Herman Barschall, Rudolf Ladenburg, Hedwig Kohn, Mark Zemansky, and Walker Bleakney. Also included are a few family photographs, circa 1940-1941.
Series 1: General Eating Club Material, 1892-1988, is composed of material that reflects all of the Eating Clubs as a whole. It includes general correspondence, minutes and constitutions from the Joint Committee of Trustees and the Graduate Interclub Council, scholarship material, a report on co-education, and miscellaneous materials. It also contains reports about Eating Club histories, club processes, their social outlook, and club economic problems. Included here is the Rockefeller Plan, a criticism on the club system.
Charter Club, 1901-2001
1 box
Box 47
Includes a copy of the Charter Club Certificate of Incorporation (1902); a copy of the contract with the builder of the clubhouse (1912); a 1939 history of the club; and a 100th anniversary campaign brochure.
Box 49, Folder 11
Box 49, Folder 16
Colonial Club, 1891-2002
2 boxes
This sub-series contains two boxes of material received from the Colonial Club in 2015. It contains correspondence related to undergraduate, graduate and associate membership, methods of admitting sophomores, correspondence related to buildings, operations, and fundraising, administrative and financial documents, and the minutes from club meetings, annual meetings, and Board of Governors meetings. The material reflects the history and operations of the club, both social and financial. It includes lists of undergraduates eligible for election to upperclass clubs, insights into club leadership, personal and general correspondence with members, documents showing income and expenses, changes in rules, by-laws, and the club constitution, and interactions with the Prospect Foundation and Graduate Inter-Club Council, among others. Subjects discussed in both meeting minutes and correspondence are additions to, furnishing and decorations of the club building, fees for membership and board, wedding gifts for members, holiday gifts for staff, bicker procedures, the cooperative buying plan of the 1920s, colors, hatbands and memorabilia, and so on.
Prospect Club - Alumni Correspondence and Newspaper Clippings, Rodman Wilson '43, 1941-2003
1 folder
Box 6, Folder 17
Quadrangle Club -- Financial Records, Minutes, and Similar Administrative Materials, 1920-1997
1 box
HAS ONLINE CONTENT
Box 45
Series 2: Individual Eating Club Material, 1892-2003
8 boxes
SOME ONLINE CONTENT
Series 2: Individual Eating Club Material, 1895-1990, includes correspondence, minutes, reports, financial records, and respective constitutions and amendments. It is also made up of the additions to the collection since its processing in 1993. Many clubs are represented, including the Bachelor's Club, Cannon Club, Colonial Club, Court Club, Dial Lodge, The Monastery, the Princeton Terrace Club, the Quadrangle Club, Stevenson Hall (a non-bicker University-managed dining facility) and the Tower Club. Among the types of materials in the series are anniversary publications, newsletters, scrapbooks, program files, photographs, meeting minutes and fundraising campaign materials. An accession of Colonial Club materials was received in 2015 and added to this finding aid in 2016.
This sub-series contains articles concerning Eating Clubs in general that appeared in the Daily Princetonian, The Princeton Alumni Weekly, The Star Ledger, and various other newspapers and magazines from 1907 to 1993. They cover such events as Bicker problems, club closings, the Sally Frank Civil Rights case, and a number of articles on the existence of drinking problems in the clubs.
