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Allison Delarue Collection, 1820-1990s

TC012 32 boxes 153 items
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Delarue, Allison
The Allison Delarue Collection consists of a draft of Delarue's unpublished autobiography, letters received by Delarue from various friends, associates, and people involved in dance and the theater, and prints, photographs, and objects collected by Delarue relating to ballet and its history.
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Lulu Glaser Papers, 1821-1966 (mostly 1895-1917)

TC033 95 boxes 56.6 linear feet
Glaser, Lulu (1874-1958)
The Lulu Glaser Papers contains various artifacts, letters, photographs, and other items belonging to Lulu Glaser, a popular singer and actress during the early 1900s. Glaser starred in a couple Broadway plays in the 1890s and later opened the Lulu Glaser Opera Company in 1900, where she produced a number of operas before retiring from performing in 1917. Collection includes materials relating to Glaser's many productions as well as offers insights into her personal life before and after retirement.
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Box 1, Folder 16
Includes correspondence between William Tipping and Edward Ford; one letter from Edward Ford to Isaac Taylor; one letter form William Tipping to Griffith; one letter from J. Holmes to John Tipping; one letter to John tipping fromn his cousin Th. Bewley (?); one letter from grandmother Fearon to Jane; two letters from unidentified senders (one in French); one letter from Anthony Titley to William Tipping (July 9, 1866); one letter from Henry Avaray Tipping to Joan (26.7.1921); a few letters sent to William Tipping from unidentified senders; one letter in Arabic.
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The Scratch Minutes subseries contains the surviving "scratch" minutes of faculty meetings, or the rough drafts from which the details, names, and figures of the final minutes are taken. These notebooks are incomplete and often difficult to read, but sometimes contain details omitted in the final minutes.
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James Creese Papers, 1822-1960

C0412 5 boxes 2.1 linear feet
Creese, James (1896-1966)
Consists of some undergraduate and graduate papers of James Creese (Princeton Class of 1918), as well as papers from his tenures as successive presidents of the Stevens and Drexel Institutues of Technology.
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Series 2: Personal Papers, 1822-1982

8 boxes
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The Personal Papers series includes correspondence, notes, diaries, photographs, and other materials relating to Hoskins travels, his time at Hill School and Princeton, and his service in both World Wars. Also included are correspondence, diaries, photographs, and scrapbooks that document several members of the Hoskins family, including his parents, Franklin Evans Hoskins and Harriet E. Hoskins, and their time as missionaries in Syria in the late 19th through early 20th century.
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Harold B. Hoskins Papers, 1822-1982

MC221 17 boxes
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Hoskins, Harold B.
Harold Boies Hoskins was a businessman, diplomat, and educator working in Middle Eastern affairs. This collection consists of correspondence, diaries, notes, photographs, publications, maps, and professional files that document Hoskins' personal and professional activities, as well as the Hoskins family.
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The Lake Carnegie Records series includes documents related to the construction and maintenance of Lake Carnegie. The bulk is correspondence between University administration and contractors and developers who worked on the project. Financial documents, including invoices, receipts, ledgers, and payroll information are also included. Items of note include a variety of maps, photographs, and blueprints from various stages of the lake's development.
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Series 9 contains duplicates of Princeton University publications. These publications include announcements, catalogues, official registers, phone books, reports, student publications and year books. These are incomplete runs to be used for digitization.
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The Photographs Subseries provides a visual documentation of the life and activities of Woodrow Wilson. It includes the prints and negatives used in the Papers of Woodrow Wilson, along with other photographs sorted by subject. While the bulk of the images are of people and places, there are also photographs and negatives of important correspondence and documents. Additionally, this subseries contains a run of United States Signal Corps photographs from Wilson's presidential era.
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J. Harlin O'Connell Collection on English Artists, 1825-1952 (mostly 1880-1939)

C0213 7 boxes 32 folios 9 items 2.5 linear feet
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O'Connell, J. Harlin (John Harlin) (1893-1955)
Consists of letters, short manuscripts, some artwork, and a few proofs of English poets, dramatists, novelists, critics, essayists, biographers, journalists, publishers, artists, and actors who were prominent primarily from the 1890s through the 1930s.
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Series 2: Syllabi Removed from the Princetoniana Collection, 1826-1947 (bulk 1850-1920) consists of printed syllabi and lecture notes that at some point were classified as part of the library's Princetoniana collection under call numbers starting with P435. Almost all of the items were printed specifically for use by students in classes at Princeton, and are based on lectures given by Princeton professors. They cover a broad range of subjects, including subjects no longer taught at Princeton, such as Law.
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Consists of the papers of other members of the Lehmann family, including Frederick Lehmann (grandfather), Nina Chambers Lehmann (grandmother), Rudolf Chambers Lehmann (father), Alice Marie Davis Lehmann (mother), Beatrix Lehmann (sister), Helen Lehmann (sister), and Rosamond Lehmann (sister), as well as some papers of the Chambers family.
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Alumni Association Records, 1826-2016

AC048 47 boxes 1 folder
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Princeton University. Alumni Association.
The Alumni Association of Nassau Hall, Princeton's first official organization of alumni, was founded on commencement day 1826. The collection consists primarily of administrative materials such as correspondence, meeting minutes, notebooks and reports belonging to both national and regional associations and their committees, most from the first half of the 20th century. Also contains newsletters, alumni directories, scrapbooks, reunion-related ephemera, photographs, and materials documenting reunions and alumni organization activities from the late 19th century forward.
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Box 87, Box 88, Box 89
Unsorted oversize and mounted black-and-white prints, 14x18" and smaller, showing temples, sculptures, and artwork. Most are undated, though some contain detailed captions on the back. Includes photographs of temples and artwork at Sanchi, Agra, Java, Ellora, Mount Abu, Pattadakal and more.
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This subseries consists primarily of photographs of Indic temples and religious artwork, sculptures, figures, drawings, textiles, jewelry, inscriptions, coins, patterns, dancers, theater actors, and people, primarily from India, and also from Ceylon (Sri Lanka), Cambodia, Java, Siam (Thailand), China, Bali, Afghanistan, Burma, Assyria, Greece, Nepal, Persia (Iran), Tibet, Sumatra, Japan, Korea, Laos, Egypt, Turkey, Bhutan, Korea, Malaysia, Vietnam, Morocco, and Nigeria. Photographs show temples and artwork dating from the 3rd century B.C. until the 19th century. Though some photographs were taken by Coomaraswamy, most were collected from miscellaneous photographers, museums, and archaeological institutions, and many are unattributed.
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Photographs, Illustrations, 1827-1969 (mostly 1906-1948)

33 boxes
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Consists primarily of photographs of Indic temples, artwork, and dance, collected by Coomaraswamy as part of his ongoing research on Indian art and religion, and during his long career as a curator at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. Some photographs of Ananda K. Coomaraswamy and glass slides are also included. There is also a collection of negatives documenting his travels.
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Series 1: National Organizations, 1826-2008 contains records of the Alumni Association of Nassau Hall, the Committee of Fifty, the Graduate Council and the Alumni Council, as well as the current Alumni Association of Princeton University and its many committees. This series also includes a significant amount of material about reunions.
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Contains family correspondence with Gwinn's mother, Matilda Bowie Gwinn, her husband's parents, Mahalia Riley and Alfred James Hodder, and other relatives, as well as correspondence with friends and acquaintances, especially M. Cary Thomas, with whom she corresponded writing under many different pet names, Katharine Fullerton and Gordon Hall Gerould, and including correspondence with Gwinn's special Baltimore friends, Bessie King, Mary E. Garrett, Julia Rogers, and Nancy Howard. The correspondence is full of references to Jessie Donaldson Hodder's presence in the lives of the Hodders, as well as references to M. Carey Thomas' reaction to the Gwinn and Hodder relationship.
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Blair family
Consists of a group of family papers and genealogical research collected by members of the Blair family, a prominent political family in the United States in the 19th century. Materials relate to Francis Preston Blair Sr. (1791-1876) and his descendents, including Frank P. (Francis Preston) Blair Jr., Apolline Alexander Blair, Francis Preston Blair III, Andrew A. Blair, James L. Blair, Gist Blair, Emily Blair Henrotin, and others. Included are correspondence, documents, genealogical research, photographs, printed materials, and writings related to politics, military service, family history, and domestic life.
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Atteberry, Julia Burt (1915-1986)
Julia Burt Atteberry was the daughter of Maxwell Struthers Burt (Princeton Class of 1904) and Katharine Newlin Burt, who were both writers and established one of the first "dude" ranches in the West. This collection consists of correspondence between various members of the Burt family and some of their manuscripts, miscellaneous correspondence, documents, and journals.
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The Organizational Files Subseries documents Pendray's involvement with the American Interplanetary Society (later renamed American Rocket Society), the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), and the Guggenheim Foundation. The material pertaining to the American Interplanetary Society consists of financial documents, internal correspondence, meeting minutes, annual reports, published journals, photographs and sketches related to rocket tests, pamphlets, and newspaper clippings. The history of early rocket technology and some of the first experimental rockets are well-documented here. The bulk of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics related material consists of correspondence. Additional American Rocket Society material and a history of the AIAA's G. Edward Pendray Award are included also. The Guggenheim Foundation documents pertain to Pendray's involvement in establishing several aviation research centers. The bulk of the NASA related documents are printed materials that document NASA's developmental years.
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The Subject Files Series includes documents compiled and maintained by Pendray during the course of his involvement with several aeronautics and astronautics groups and his career in the public relations field. Also included are files on various scientists and related science disciplines, the bulk of which were compiled during Pendray's tenures as the science editor at the Herald Tribune and Literary Digest.
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G. Edward Pendray papers, 1829-1981 (mostly 1923-1971)

MC105 106 boxes 2 items
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Pendray, G. Edward (George Edward) (1901)
G. Edward Pendray was an early proponent of rocket power and space flight and co-founder Pendray and Company, a prominent public relations firm. The G. Edward Pendray Papers consist of correspondence, notes, memoranda, drafts, reports, photographs, and printed material related to Pendray's career in public relations and his life-long interest and involvement in aeronautics and astronautics.
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Carlos Fuentes Papers, 1830s-2012 (mostly 1950-2012)

C0790 381 boxes 60 items
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Fuentes, Carlos
The Carlos Fuentes Papers consists of personal and working papers of Fuentes (1928-2012), Mexican author, editor, and diplomat, including notebooks, manuscripts of novels and novellas, short stories, plays, screenplays, nonfiction writings, speeches and interviews, translations of fiction and nonfiction, correspondence, juvenilia, drawings, documents, photographs, audiocassettes, videocassettes, papers of others, scrapbooks, clippings, and printed material.
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The Records By Others About or Relating to Arthur Krock series includes biographical materials and tributes, reference materials, reviews of his writings, verses of poetry on current events and culture, and meeting minutes of the council of the New York World. The biographical materials include articles and editorials from newspapers and magazines about Krock's career and opinions expressed in his writings, as well as photocopies of materials about Krock from other research institutions. Reference materials includes articles about topics of interest to Krock, including politics, foreign aid, the International Monetary Fund, and New Deal organizations.