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.
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 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.
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. 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.
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.
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.
Richard Abel Musgrave (1910-2007) was a leading 20th-century economist whose work transformed the field of public finance. Consists of the professional files of Richard A. Musgrave.
Princeton University. Library. Special Collections
The Eating Club Records consist of manuscript and printed material from almost all the clubs. The records of individual eating clubs have been combined with material on Eating Clubs in general. This material includes correspondence, reports, minutes, financial statements, constitutions, and miscellaneous records. Printed material in the records consist of newspaper and magazine clippings, club membership books, and club histories.
Consists of 46 postcard-size, black and white photographs of 33 people, including two self-portraits, taken and printed by Van Vechten primarily during the 1930s to 1940s. His subjects in this collection cover a wide range of celebrities in the theatrical and literary world, including ballet dancers, actors and actresses of stage and screen (some in costume), singers, musicians, authors, and poets--for example, Marian Anderson, Pearl Bailey, Sir John Gielgud, Hugh Laing, Sinclair Lewis, Norman Mailer, Clifford Odets, Jerome Robbins, Artur Rubinstein, Gertrude Stein, Alice B. Toklas, and Lin Yutang. Also present are two photographs (1923, 1930) of Van Vechten taken by the New York photographer Nickolas Muray.
This series contains banners, pennants, and flags related to various University events and organizations. It includes several flags that went to the moon in 1969 with Charles Conrad.
The Track Field and Cross Country Materials series contains rosters, meet schedules, programs, score cards, results, clippings and press releases related to Princeton Men's and Women's Track Field and Cross Country.
Murray S. Peyton ('57) was on the track and football teams while at Princeton and has collected material related to Princeton and Ivy League Track & Field for over 50 years. The collection consists largely of track meet rosters, results, and program magazines.
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6 websites
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Daily Princetonian
The Daily Princetonian is the newspaper of Princeton University. The records consist of subject files from the editorial offices of The Prince covering topics such as awards, events, journalism seminars, and by-laws of the paper, as well as booklets published by the Daily Princetonian corporation.
Princeton University. Library. Special Collections
The dissertations represent doctoral work in over forty graduate departments. They date from 1877 to the present and they are arranged chronologically.
Subseries 8F consists of materials related to recruitment of minorities and women, funds established to support minority students, the National Consortium for Graduate Degrees for Minorities in Engineering and Science (GEM) consortium and its fellowships; the series also includes titles of Princeton University dissertations from the periods 1878-1944 and 1969-1996. The records were kept by Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, David Redman. Also included are additional reports on diversity of the Graduate School faculty and students.
The clothing group includes handkerchiefs, hats and hatbands, neckties, patches, T-shirts, jackets, socks, some swatches of fabric and other small fabric items.
Subseries 21A, Nancy Malkiel Files, documents such topics and initiatives as the Roadmap for Standards, Faculty Working Group on Undergraduate Academic and Residential Life, the Committee on the Course of Study, admissions, curriculum development, the Committee on Admission and Financial Aid, the Priorities Committee, grading and several more related issues.
The Post-2000 Accessions series documents the function of the Princeton University Graduate School, predominantly during the tenures of Dean Thomas Ziolkowski and Dean William B. Russel. The materials include reports, surveys, correspondence, financial statements, and statistics.
Series 9, Photographic Material contains contains photographs of Triangle Club members both on and off stage, in a variety of formats including glass plate negatives, cartes de viste, 35mm slides, and modern color prints, and digital images.
The Library Offices and Departments series documents the work and operations of some of the major offices and departments within the Library. Materials include correspondence, reports and statistics, meeting records, policy and procedure manuals, and budgets. Owing to various administrative shifts over time as well as to the nature of the tasks overseen by some of the offices and departments, the records in this series occasionally overlap with those found elsewhere in the Library Records. Please see individual subseries descriptions for further information.
The Department of Psychology dates from 1893, but was not officially established as an independent department until 1920. This collection includes group portraits and portraits of deparment faculty as well as some photos of individuals and locations that may not be Princeton-related.
Princeton university. Department of art and archaeology
The Art and Archaeology Department is one of the University's most distinguished academic departments, responsible for the education of students on the graduate and undergraduate level as well as the administration of the Princeton Art Museum. This collection consists of the records of the Department of Art and Archaeology, which include advisory council minutes; faculty files; gift records; correspondence; recommendations; project files; course lists; historical documents; and lists of images used in classes.
Subseries 1A, Production Files was originally processed between 1994 and 1996. During the initial processing photographs from the folders were removed and replaced with a photocopied version. These photographs are now in subseries 1B. Production files contain a combination of but not limited to playbills, scripts, scores, set designs, clippings, and photographs.
Series 1, Production Files contains material related to shows produced by the Triangle Club including but not limited to playbills, scripts, scores, set designs, clippings, and photographs. The specific content of each folder varies.
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3 folders
4 items
93681 digital files
1 websites
345.58 linear feet
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SOME ONLINE CONTENT
Princeton University. Triangle Club
The Triangle Club Records consists of records of the Club and its predecessor, the Princeton College Drama Association, for productions performed by these organizations from 1883 to the present. Materials include correspondence, playbills, scripts, scores, newspaper clippings, posters, scrapbooks, and photographs as well as audio-visual recordings.
Princeton University. School of Engineering and Applied Science
Princeton University's School of Engineering and Applied Science is an academic unit which since 1921 has overseen the curriculum and administration of the University's academic departments in the engineering sciences. The records document the activities of the School of Engineering and its subordinate departments and programs from its origins in the late 19th century until the present, and consist of correspondence, subject files, research reports, photographs, and other audiovisual materials.
The Office of Development is the centralized administrative unit which oversees Princeton University's many fundraising programs. Consists exclusively of closed donor files created and maintained by Princeton University's Office of Development. No other administrative records are included.
Consists of personal photographs, ephemera, and correspondence with family and friends. Some materials in this series relate to McElderry's publishing career such as awards acceptance speeches and photographs from publishing events. Also includes some correspondence and photographs related to the McElderry family of Northern Ireland and Bronte family.
The collection consists of the editorial files and personal papers of Margaret K. McElderry. Publisher files include editorial correspondence, legal documents, and production files related to specific authors and publications.
This series contains files relating to the health and mental and physical well-being of members of the University community. A large part of this series consists of files on McCosh Infirmary, the health center, and counseling services. Other files contain information on diseases, afflictions, conditions, and other health-related issues, such as AIDS, alcohol, the Fitness Center, sex, and sexuality. For material on the 2004-2005 Task Force on Health and Well-being, see Series 10 (Committees).