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The majority of letters consist of those written by A. Guyot Cameron's father, Henry Clay Cameron, covering the years 1873-1906 as well as a significant number of letters from his mother, Mina Chollet Cameron. Letters from Cameron's wife, Anne Finley Cameron, were written while Cameron was in France with the YMCA during World War I (1918). Several other family members are also represented, including Cameron's children.
Princeton university, Department of English
The papers of Princeton University's English Department document the many varied aspects of one of Princeton's largest academic departments. With some writings that pre-date the Department's formal establishment in 1904, the collection includes faculty meeting and sub-committee minutes; faculty personnel papers and correspondence; the papers of many prominent faculty members, which include class lectures, syllabi, and original scholarship; records of departmental majors; student work; and scrapbooks of publicity and memorabilia about the Department, its faculty, staff, and students, both undergraduate and graduate.
The Programs and Press Releases series contains game-day programs and Athletic Communications press releases. Nearly every athletic team at Princeton University is represented in this series, though the number of programs and press releases for each sport varies. Football and Men's Basketball are the most heavily documented teams in this series. (Football programs are also known as Princeton Athletic News.) Notable also are the records related to the Sailing and Yacht Club, which contain a somewhat more diverse selection of materials than the other sports in this series.
Beach, Sylvia
This collection documents the life and activities of Sylvia Beach (1887-1962), the American author, publisher, and owner of the Paris bookshop Shakespeare & Company, the Paris bookshop that was a meeting-point for French, English, Irish and American writers during the 1920's and 1930's. The collection consists largely of files relating to Shakespeare & Company; Beach's writings and translations, in particular her memoir Shakespeare & Company ; and files relating to the circle of artists and writers surrounding her throughout her life. Included are family, personal, and business correspondence; business records of Shakespeare & Company; personal and family records; manuscripts and artwork by members of her circle; photographs; and memorabilia.
The Family Records series contains material relating to the Beach family but not directly involving Sylvia Beach. It includes correspondence between family members as well as files documenting certain family members' activities. The latter include correspondence with others, creative works, and documentation of their business activities. Also includes biographical reference material.
Consists of sheet music for "Always Take Mother's Advice," "Every Fellow Wants Someone to Love," and "My Darling Little Lulu,' as well as others.
Series 3: Scholarship, 1872-1954
29 boxes
The Scholarship series contains materials related to Lotka's writings, including articles, speeches, and lectures. The majority of the papers are composed of Lotka's notes and articles he collected about a variety of subjects. The papers also include drafts of articles and speeches, data tables, clippings, correspondence, and offprints of his articles. The series includes materials related to his publications Elements of Physical Biology and Theorie Analytique des Associations Biologiques. The series also includes Lotka's correspondence with Robert R. Kuczynski and Vito Volterra regarding their interpretation of Lotka's works in their writings.
Consists of the correspondence of Ridgely Torrence with individuals such as his family members, Conrad Bell, Djuna Barnes, John Peale Bishop, W. E. B. Du Bois, T. S. Eliot, Havelock Ellis, Robert Frost, Langston Hughes, Edith Sitwell, Allen Tate, and William Butler Yeats, as well as others.
Consists of the correspondence of Ridgely Torrence with individuals such as his family members, Conrad Bell, Djuna Barnes, John Peale Bishop, W. E. B. Du Bois, T. S. Eliot, Havelock Ellis, Robert Frost, Langston Hughes, Edith Sitwell, Allen Tate, and William Butler Yeats, as well as others.
Fern, Fanny, 1872-1945
1 folder
Box 54, Folder 21
Contains an obituary for Fern (1872) and a later article about her (1945).
This series contains various types of awards given at Princeton University, and has sub-categories for athletic awards and awards for alumni, as well as other types of ceremonial honors.
Series 2: Administrative, 1871-2009
13 boxes
The Administrative series contains records documenting the duties of the Office of the Registrar beyond the collection of student records. The series contains classroom assignments, examination and course schedules, course counts, admissions information packets, and alphabetical subject files.
Religion in Perú, 1871-2001
LAE079
262 items
Princeton University. Library
This microfilm consists primarily of pamphlets published in Peru relating to church and religion. Themes covered include history, indigenous peoples, internal church affairs, youth, social issues, politics, biographies and art. The bulk of the material was published during the 1990s.
Ford, Ford Madox (1873-1939)
Ford Madox Ford, formerly "Ford Madox Hueffer", founded The English Review, a literary journal, in 1908 and published novels (such as The Good Soldier, 1915) and critical works. The collection consists jointly of letters and works of Ford and letters and works about Ford collected by Edward Naumburg (Princeton Class of 1924).
Emily Brown Reports and Memoranda for the War Relocation Authority and the Federal Security Agency, 1871-1988 (mostly 1944-1946)
C1736
1 box
0.2 linear feet
Brown, Emily (1914-1985)
Primarily consists of reports, memoranda, and drafts of speeches and press releases created in the course of Emily Brown's work for various government agencies during and following World War II, in particular, the War Relocation Authority, where she worked in the Reports Division, and the Federal Security Agency.
Consists of some correspondence and works of Ford Madox brown, Joseph Conrad, Henry James, William Michael Rossetti, and Julian Mitchell.
Woodhull, Victoria, 1871-1975
1 folder
Box 95, Folder 8
Contains several items: an original autograph letter written by Woodhull (undated); a transcript of another letter by Woodhull (1871); an article written by Tinnie Claflin entitled "What was her Crime?" (1876); an article about Woodhull's and Lockwood's attempts at Presidency (1956); book reviews for several books written about Woodhull (1957, 1961, 1967); and a flier for The Victoria Woodhull Reader (1975).
Consists of some correspondence and works of Ford Madox brown, Joseph Conrad, Henry James, and William Michael Rossetti.
Consists of the works, correspondence, documents, printed matter and genealogical materials of William Kelly Prentice.
Subseries 14D: Acting President Edward D. Duffield, 1871-1955
2 boxes
Restrictions may apply.
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.
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.
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.
George Nicholson Sterling Lord Literistic Author Files, 1870-2015 (mostly 1995-2015)
C1530
28 boxes
26 linear feet
Restrictions may apply.
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.
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.
The Campus Life Additions series consists of photographs that have been added to the collection since the time of its original processing in the mid-1990s.
Series 14. Employment, 1870-2015
8 boxes
The Employment series documents employment and the staffs at Princeton University. Major topics on which much material has been collected include affirmative action for staff hiring, staff benefits, reports, and unionization. There is also a small grouping of files on individual staff members.
The Grounds and Buildings Additions series consists of photographs that have been added to the collection since the time of its original processing in the mid-1990s.
Oppenheim, Joanne, 1870-2008 (mostly 2004-2006)
5 folders
Restrictions may apply.
Box 15, Folder 4-8
Includes a copy of the 1870 Federal Census but most dates are between 2004 and 2006.
Consists of photos related to Princeton University campus services.
Series 7. Calendars, 1870-2005
5 boxes
The Calendars series contains calendars produced and distributed by the University, including academic calendars and calendars featuring attractive views of campus.
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.
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.
To discover more academic related photographs please visit Historical Photograph Collection: Campus Life, Academics Series finding aid.
Consists of photographs related to Princeton University academic departments, schools, and programs.
Series 3, Housing and Real Estate (circa 1870-1988) contains information related to various real estate ventures and land acquisitions involving the University. Within these files, documents are separated into general sections.
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.
Alice Cort Holden Papers, 1870-1978 (mostly 1870-1919)
C1669
0.8 linear feet
2 boxes
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.
The series contains Princeton-themed tobacco smoking accessories, such as clay pipes from Class Day celebrations, lighters, ashtrays, cigarette packages, et cetera.
History Subject Files, 1870-1969
2 boxes
Consists of history files on Silverton, Policy Register of Norwich Union Fire Insurance Society, Ltd., Drake Family, and Silver Falls.
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.
Crookshank Family, 1870-1960
4 boxes
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.
Box 141, Folder 28
Contains correspondence, photographs and negatives, ephemera
Silverton History, 1870-1958
1 folder
Box 3, Folder 1
Includes TMS for "Romance of a Barefoot Boy" about Homer Davenport, by J.D. Drake
Non-McCaddon Couriers and Programs, 1870-1956 May 26
1 box
Restrictions may apply.
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.
Contains additional materials added to the collection pertaining to Harrison S. Morris, including correspondence, financial and business documents, estate documents, and personal papers.
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.
The 1880s series consists of class photos of Princeton Classes 1880-1889.