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Fundamental Laws and Constitutions of New Jersey, 1664-1961
C0654
1 box
0.4 linear feet
Boyd, Julian P. (Julian Parks) (1903-1980)
Consists of copies of fundamental legal instruments of government (1664-1961) under which people have lived in New Jersey for the last 300 years, gathered by historian, Julian P. Boyd, for the book Fundamental Laws and Constitutions of New Jersey (1964), which he edited.
Kienbusch Angling Collection, 1651-1974 (mostly 1800-1950)
C0245
5 boxes
68 items
49 Volumes
12.68 linear feet
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Princeton University. Library. Special Collections
Consists of manuscripts and letters relating to the history and method of angling collected by Kienbusch (Princeton Class of 1906).
Elmer Adler Papers, 1651-1961 (mostly 1925-1955)
C0262
464 boxes
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Princeton University. Library. Special Collections
Elmer Adler was a printer, publisher, editor, and author. This collection consists of the personal papers of Adler as well as the business archives of the Pynson Printers and The Colophon.
Lehmann Family Papers, 1649-1990 (mostly 1930-1975)
C0746
173 boxes
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Lehmann, John (1907-1987)
John Lehmann was an English author, poet, journalist, editor, and publisher. His papers consist of letters from his literary friends, the correspondence of his family since the nineteenth century, manuscripts of his publications, financial and domestic files, and personal memorabilia.
Subseries 1B: Nonfiction, 1640-1979
2 boxes
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The Nonfiction subseries contains Oliver's typescript and autograph manuscripts and notes of nonfiction articles, book and film reviews, speeches, conference papers, and sections of her published memoirs. This subseries is divided in two sections, General (1), and Articles, Speeches, and Notes (2). Each section is arranged alphabetically by subject, and, if there are multiple items on the same subject, the items are arranged chronologically within each subject. The manuscripts in the first section consist of her autobiographical writings, some of which can be identified as drafts of her memoirs, and the material in the second section consists of Oliver's nonfiction writings, arranged by subject. The nonfiction articles are in Spanish and English, and were written for a variety of publications in Latin America, Italy, and the United States. The subjects of Oliver's articles include North American novelists, Cuba in the 1960s, Pablo Neruda, the peace organization World Council of Peace, and reports on her visits to China, India, Ceylon, and the Soviet Union in the 1950s and 1960s.
Blair and Lee Family Papers, 1640-1946 (mostly 1812-1920)
C0614
474 boxes
253 linear feet
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Blair family
The collection consists of the personal and family papers of five members of the Blair and Lee families of Maryland, Washington, D.C., and Virginia -- Francis Preston Blair (1791-1876); his daughter, Elizabeth Blair Lee (1818-1906); her husband, Samuel Phillips Lee (1812-1897); their son, Blair Lee (1857-1944, Princeton Class of 1880); and his cousin, Andrew Alexander Blair (1848-1932) -- reflecting their various political, journalistic, naval, family, business, legal, and domestic interests.
R. D. Blackmore Collection, 1630-1956 (mostly 1873-1899)
C0201
1 box
0.45 linear feet
Blackmore, R. D. (Richard Doddridge) (1825-1900)
The collection contains 120 letters, which is mostly personal correspondence, by English novelist and poet R. D. Blackmore.
Series 2: Other Material, 1625-1957
44 boxes
Consists of clippings, lectures, essays, addresses, and biographies written by Thomas Jefferson Wertenbaker.
Manufacturing and printing data for books published by the firm
Stewart M. Robinson Collection of Colonial Sermons, 1615-1960 (mostly 1745-1785)
C0513
42 boxes
16.2 linear feet
Robinson, Stewart M. (Stewart MacMaster) (1893-1965)
Consists of a collection compiled by American clergyman Stewart M. Robinson (Princeton Class of 1915), including photostats of sermons, letters, pamphlets, and communications to newspapers by clergymen in colonial America, which he used as research material for a proposed book entitled "The Political Thought of the Colonial Clergy."
New Jersey Documents Collection, 1601-1983 (mostly 1750-1890)
C0522
4 boxes
1.5 linear feet
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Princeton University. Library. Special Collections
Westfield, New Jersey, was part of Elizabethtown from the time it was settled in late 1664 until 1794, when the Township of Westfield was created. The New Jersey Documents Collections, 1601 to 1983, consists of New Jersey legal documents, the bulk of which are from the town of Westfield, Union County, and include land records, financial records, estate records, and court records, many of which were created by various members of the Baker, Downer, Hetfield, Johnson, Miller, Pierson, Ripley, Ross, and Woodruff families. The majority of the collection material dates from 1750 to 1890.
Organized by historical period, this sub-series contains prints and photographs of America's wars, states, life, and public personalities that were gathered for use in James Truslow Adam's five-volume illustrated chronicle, Album of American History, 1944-1949.
Series 1: Bound Manuscripts and Letters, 1600-1965
66 items
49 Volumes
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Consists of the bound manuscripts and letters of individuals such as Thomas Barker, Robert William Chambers, Theodore Gordon, and George Edward Mackenzie Skues, as well as others.
Series 1: Modern (Bound) Manuscripts, 1600-1958
4 boxes
201 items
13 Volumes
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Consists primarily of bound, autograph manuscripts (many of them oversized), together with additional letters, documents and drawings. A few oversize, unbound manuscripts and/or letters have been retained in their original cases.
Series 2: Artwork, 1600-1948
17 boxes
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Consists of a variety of items (many oversized, matted and/or framed) by William Blake, Max Beerbohm, Hablot Knight Browne, George Cruikshank, Edward Lear, John Everett Millais, William Makepeace Thackeray, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, J. M. W. Turner, members of the Brontë family, and others. Robert Taylor collected works by or relating to British authors, artists, and illustrators represented elsewhere in the Taylor Collection, both in manuscripts and printed books. Most of the artwork is individually matted and labeled in a series of 17 clamshell boxes, organized alphabetically by artist and size. An oil portrait of Alexander Pope, attributed to Jean-Baptiste Van Loo (1684-1745), is separately housed.
Box 5, Folder 4
Series 3: Modern Manuscripts (Unbound) and Correspondence, 1545-1969
32 boxes
4 items
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Consists of files for individual authors that contain correspondence, documents, and unbound manuscripts (including some smaller sized items of art) that were previously housed in file cabinet drawers in the Taylor Room Library. The folders in each box are filed alphabetically by author name.
General Manuscripts Miscellaneous Collection, 1502-2012
C0140
121 boxes
68.2 linear feet
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Princeton University. Library. Special Collections
Consists of a closed collection of miscellaneous single-item acquisitions that span multiple collecting areas, topics, genres, and time periods. Many materials relate to United States literary, historical, and political figures, including business and personal letters, manuscripts, drawings, photographs, and official documents due to the type of materials that were initially added to the collection.
Series 5: Experiments, 1500-1999
13 boxes
Consists of data, notes, graphs, photographs, and inventories related to the experiments of Walker Bleakney.
Series 18: Photograph Files, 1500-1995
65 boxes
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Photos of countries, people, subjects gathered for book use (such as Album of American History), and of company staff, offices, buildings, and selected authors
Series 1: Letters, 1415 November 20-1990 June 25
3 boxes
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Consists of the letters of individuals such as George Pierce Baker, Benjamin Harris Brewster, Andrew Carnegie, Samuel Langhorne Clemens, and Theodore Roosevelt, as well as others.
The Audiovisual series consists of videotapes and sound recordings documenting Baker's career in government and politics. The majority of tapes in the series are VHS videotapes of Baker's appearances on television news programs or recordings of television news stories that include mention of Baker. Some recordings of speeches and public appearances are also available. The videocassettes created between 1988 and 1992, during Baker's years at the State Department, often contain multiple programs or events on a single tape. In addition to the contents list, a more detailed index to the State Department "Master Tapes" is available in Box 262.
Delafield Family Papers, 1393-1985 (mostly 1800-1950)
C0391
164 boxes
1 oversize folder
70 linear feet
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Delafield family
The Delafields were avid collectors of family history and family-related memorabilia in the Hudson River Valley region of New York state. This collection consists of the papers of the Delafield family and related families, most prominently the Livingstons, containing both personal papers and papers collected for their genealogical and historical significance.
This series consists of a variety of materials of family members not represented elsewhere in the collection. Included are diaries, correspondence, documents, photographs, including photographs of White, Poole, Morris, and other related families, genealogical papers, various ephemera, and printed matter. Among the miscellaneous family material can be found papers of the Delafield Family Association, a review of John Ross Delafield's Delafied: The Family History (1945), book plates, information about the "triple funeral" of Joseph, Henry, and Edward Delafield, correspondence concerning the Delafield family in the U.S. Army, a pamphlet by John Ross Delafield about the family vault in Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York, photocopies of several pages of genealogy in the oldest known family Bible (1713), as well as other general material, and printed matter.
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.
The Administrative Files subseries documents D's management of the development projects in Iran. The majority of the files are composed of correspondence, and also include financial and personnel records, reference materials on Iran, and records pertaining to D's interaction with the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) and with the Khuzestan Water and Power Authority (KWPA). The subseries also includes the previous finding aid for the Khuzestan Development Program records, written by Thomas Mead of D, which contains descriptions of the content of most folders and information about D's history in Iran. Please note, however, that the records have been re-organized since this finding aid was written.
Series 3: Khuzestan Development Program (Iran), 1347-1980
474 boxes
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The Khuzestan Development Project (Iran) series contains the records pertaining to D's development work in the Khuzestan Region of Iran from 1956 to 1979, as well as a small number of projects that extended into the rest of the country. The records predominately document D's construction of the Dez Dam and related work with irrigation and agriculture, and also include correspondence files and other records pertaining to the management of the region's development. Please see the subseries descriptions in the contents list for additional information about individual subseries.
Series 7: Publications About or Relating to David E. Lilienthal includes magazine or professional journal articles about Lilienthal, the organizations he worked for, or subject matter related to his professional career (e.g., atomic energy).
Robert H. Taylor Collection of English and American Literature, 1280s-1958 (mostly 1800-1939)
RTC01
51 boxes
229 items
13 Volumes
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Princeton University. Library. Special Collections
The Robert H. Taylor Collection consists of over 4,000 3,300 manuscripts illustrating in their wide range the scope of English literature from the fourteenth century to the 1940s. This finding aid focuses on the modern manuscripts, both bound and unbound, in the collection, which is designated "RTC01" within the Manuscripts Division of the Special Collections Department of the Princeton University Library.
Series 15: Miscellaneous Papers and Genealogical Materials, 1275-1971
27 boxes
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This series consists of miscellaneous papers, ranging in date from the late-13th to the mid-20th century, amassed primarily by John Ross Delafield reflecting his interest in history, particularly his interest in collecting family history family-related memorabilia. Similar to a subject file, the series includes papers created by as well as research and genealogical materials about families related to the Delafields and various other persons (particularly political figures) as well as miscellaneous materials documenting various places and subjects. There are as little as one item or up to several folders associated with each name and topic represented; and while a good number of items are original, a significant amount are copies of original documents. Found throughout this series is the correspondence of John Ross Delafield relating to his research and collecting efforts.
