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Series 3: Department Administration contains various files maintained by the geology department, including information on course planning and course offerings; department histories often written by members of the department; departmental reports to the university president; plans for and assessment of the department's structure and academic foci; budgets and allocated funds; and records of the Geological Engineering Program. The files include correspondence, clippings, newsletters (especially The Smilodon), pamphlets, and maps.
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This series consists primarily of reports, meeting minutes, campus surveys, and other records that document the decades of research and planning before the Office was created. Topics covered in depth include student life, residential life, and athletics. Many of the folders in the "Campus Life Files" potentially duplicate records found in Subseries 1A.
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Office of the Vice President for Campus Life Records, 1868-2015 (mostly 2006-2017)

AC427 8 boxes 72 items 7264 digital files 1 websites
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Princeton University. Office of the Vice President for Campus Life.
The Office of the Vice President for Campus Life is an administrative office at Princeton University responsible for enriching the student experience for the University's undergraduate and graduate students. The Office of the Vice President for Campus Life Records contain internal emails, reports, minutes, spreadsheets, and other office files that document the activities of the office from its inception in the early 21st century and through its first decade and a half of existence.
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Series 2: Regional Organizations, 1868-2016

19 boxes 1 folder
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Series 2: Regional Organizations, 1868-2010 contains the records of regional assocations of Princeton alumni throughout the United States. Most of the early records are directories, event inviations and similar printed materials. The Princeton Club of Washington D.C. has donated the largest amount of administrative material, while other associations have donated runs of directories and newsletters.
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George McAneny Papers, 1869-1953 (mostly 1910-1921)

MC091 190 boxes
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McAneny, George (1869-1953)
George McAneny served in numerous positions in the government of New York City, including president of the Borough of Manhattan (1910-1913), president of the Board of Aldermen (1914-1916), and chairman of the State Transit Commission (1921). This collection consists of lectures, reports, correspondence, committee and association files, clippings, scrapbooks, and photographs, all of which reflect his special interests in regional and city planning, zoning, city and state transit, and city financing.
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Finance Committee Records, 1869-1969, contains reports and minutes related to the work of the Finance Committee of the trustees, as well as its predecessor, the Business Committee, which operated from 1869 until 1876. Attached to the Finance Committee Records is a box with reports from 1920 and 1921 related to records on university organization.
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Series 1: Princeton University Athletics Statistics and Clippings, 1869-1960 consists mostly of binders of statistics and newspaper clippings compiled by C. Bernard Shea between approximately 1901 and 1960. A number of sports are represented; however, the bulk of the materials relate to football. Also included is a copy of Intercollegiate Football, A Complete Pictorial and Statistical Review 1869-1934 edited by Christy Walsh.
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Performing Arts Serials Collection, 1869-1980

TC110 28 boxes 15.4 linear feet
Princeton University. Library. Special Collections
The Performing Arts Serials Collection consists of serial printed material concerning the performing arts, including circus, dance, film, opera, radio, speech, television, theater, and vaudeville. For the most part, publications are represented by a sample or two issues.
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Office of Physical Planning Records, 1869-1994 (mostly 1946-1994)

AC154 124 boxes 3 folders 160 items
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Princeton University. Office of Physical Planning.
The Office of Physical Planning was the division of Princeton University's Department of Facilities charged with oversight of the construction of new buildings on campus and alterations to existing structures. The records consist of office files and architectural drawings in a variety of formats.
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This subseries includes government-issued documents, including marriage and birth certificates and passports as well as awards and certificates; newspaper clippings and a few periodicals; notes and writings; various types of ephemera, such as programs and souvenirs; and unidentified letters and empty envelopes. Most of the materials relate to Harry Maule Crookshank and Harry F.C. Crookshank with some relating to Emma Comfort Crookshank and Helen Elizabeth "Bessie" Crookshank, in particular, Bessie's involvement with the British Red Cross during World War II.
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This series contains harmful and offensive descriptions of people that may include racist, colonialist, ableist, and dehumanizing language. Some of the description is original to the donor and/or the creator, and in these instances of creator- and donor-supplied titles, description may be retained to convey contextual/historical information of the materials. Otherwise, descriptions derive from a typewritten inventory of the collection that may have been provided by the donor, or may have been created by an archivist.
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This series includes materials that relate primarily to Samuel Comfort's son-in-law, Harry Maule Crookshank, including his time in Sudan and Egypt, and his wife, Emma Comfort Crookshank. Their son, Harry F.C. Crookshank, is also represented, and a few items relate to their daughter, Helen Elizabeth Crookshank. Correspondence relating to Harry Maule Crookshank is both personal and professional in nature; Harry F.C. Crookshank's letters are largely personal. A few letters, primarily those written by family members as children, are in French.
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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.
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Holden, Alice Cort (1864-1935)
Consists primarily of correspondence and printed material, along with two diaries from 1926, a matted postcard, a photogravure plate, and a piece of hair jewelry. These family papers primarily center on Alice Holden (née Cort), as the correspondence are letters between members of the Cort family, or letters to her from her children. The collection largely documents the relationships of the Holden and Cort families in New York state between the 19th and 20th centuries.
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Series 2: Architectural Drawings (Microforms), 1870-1985

11 boxes
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Series 2: Architectural Drawings (Microforms) consists of microform aperture cards containing blueprints, floor plans, and other architectural drawings of campus buildings. For the most part, each group of cards represents one building or landscape feature, a related group of buildings, or drawings of a similar type, e.g., "Planting, Parking and Plazas" or "Sanitary Sewerage System." The parenthetical notes next to each title are a shorthand system of identifi employed by the Office of Physical Planning. Though the number of images varies from building to building, there exists a basic floor plan and elevation for each structure. Notably absent from this set of plans is any depiction of Nassau Hall.
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General Manuscripts Collection, 1870-2003 (mostly 1900-1960)

MC230 17.83 linear feet (23 containers)
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Princeton University. Library. Department of Rare Books and Special Collections
The General Manuscripts Collection is largely composed of materials related to United States politics and government, including personal and business correspondence, manuscripts, memorabilia, pamphlets, and reports. The collection includes the papers of many individuals, including Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt and other United States presidents, government officials, authors and journalists, bankers and businessmen, and Princeton University alumni.
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Series 7: Photographs, 1870-2005

13 boxes
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Series 7: Photographs contains files which for the most part were grouped under the heading "Photographs" by the department. The files include photographs of faculty, staff, undergraduate and graduate students; of field trips and scenery; of events on campus; and of campus buildings. The files in Series 7 tend to contain photographs almost exclusively, while many folders throughout the rest of the Department of Geosciences Records contain photographs stored together with other materials. Note that both Series 5: Field Trips and Expeditions and Series 6: Natural History Museum also contain subgroups called "Photographs." Photographs of individual faculty and staff are often found in their files in Series 2.
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Graduate School Records, 1870-2015 (mostly 1890-1995)

AC127 77 boxes 6511 digital files 1 websites
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Princeton University. Graduate School
The Graduate School at Princeton offers masters and doctorate programs in the humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, and engineering. The Graduate School Records consist of minutes, correspondence, reports, writings, applications, surveys, and memoranda, as well as forms, course listings, and information on examinations and fees.
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Nicholson, George McHugh (1937-2015)
George Nicholson (1937-2015) was a literary agent for children's and young adult books at Sterling Lord Literistic from 1995 to 2015. The collection consists of his Sterling Lord Literistic office files on the authors and illustrators with whom he worked, such as Tony Abbott, Betsy Byars, Lois Duncan, Patricia Reilly Giff, Alice Provensen, Peter Lerangis, and Zilpha Keatley Snyder, and the literary estates he managed, including those of Don Freeman, Hardie Gramatky, and Lois Lenski. Author files include correspondence and email printouts, as well as copies of contracts and agreements, royalties statements, book jacket proofs, promotional materials, drafts and proofs of book manuscripts, and photocopies and mock-ups of books.
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Athletic Programs Collection, 1870-2017

AC042 22 boxes
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Princeton University. Library. Department of Rare Books and Special Collections
This collection contains printed athletic programs for football, baseball, basketball, and ice hockey and other sports, with football predominant. The programs, especially the earlier ones, provide a sweeping view of Princeton's athletic history, documenting not only team statistics and scores, but the players, the venues in which the teams competed, social aspects of advertising, and the evolution of the various games.
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Carl W. Jones Magic Collection, 1870s-1948

TC044 4 boxes 122 items 1.85 linear feet
Jones, Carl W. (Carl Waring) (1887-1957)
Consists of three scrapbooks of publicity photographs--compiled by C. A. George Newmann and collected by Carl W. Jones--of some 19th- but mainly 20th-century mentalists, magicians, ventriloquists, and illusionists.
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Subseries 14D: Acting President Edward D. Duffield Records, 1871-1955 [bulk: 1929-1939], is arranged topically and includes biographical and post-mortem information, a modest amount of correspondence, three folders of addresses, a scrapbook of news clippings and photographs, and a variety of other items. The inclusion of this material reflects the fact that Princeton University's Board of Trustees had not found a new president when Hibben retired in June 1932, leading to Duffield's appointment as acting president. He filled this position until June 1933, when Harold W. Dodds took office. Images of Duffield can be found at the end of the collection in boxes 242 and 245.