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Series 1: Alumni and Students, 1913-2007

11 boxes
Restrictions may apply. See Access Note.

Collection Overview

Collection Description & Creator Information

Scope and Contents

Series 1: Alumni and Students includes files the geology department maintained on undergraduate and graduate students and alumni. The files include lists of students and their theses. Individual files may include correspondence with or about an alumnus; clippings; photographs; a curriculum vitae, and so on. Material created by undergraduates includes a 1979 guide to the department and a geology notebook from 1938.

Arrangement

Files are arranged physically in the order in which they were received from the department.

Collection History

Appraisal

Duplicates and published volumes available elsewhere have been separated from the records. Grades from summer field courses during the years 1955-1990 have been separated from the records.

Processing Information

This collection was processed by Lynn Durgin in October 2010. Finding aid written by Lynn Durgin in October 2010. After significant accessions, the finding aid was revised by Phoebe Nobles in 2018. Materials were added from Accession AR.2019.043 by Kimberly McCauley in July 2019.

Access & Use

Conditions Governing Access

Series 1 is open for research with some exceptions. Due to the presence of personal academic information, access to certain files is restricted at the folder level as noted.

Conditions Governing Use

Single copies may be made for research purposes. To cite or publish quotations that fall within Fair Use, as defined under U. S. Copyright Law, no permission is required. The Trustees of Princeton University hold copyright to all materials generated by Princeton University employees in the course of their work. For instances beyond Fair Use, if copyright is held by Princeton University, researchers do not need to obtain permission, complete any forms, or receive a letter to move forward with use of materials from the Princeton University Archives.

For instances beyond Fair Use where the copyright is not held by the University, while permission from the Library is not required, it is the responsibility of the researcher to determine whether any permissions related to copyright, privacy, publicity, or any other rights are necessary for their intended use of the Library's materials, and to obtain all required permissions from any existing rights holders, if they have not already done so. Princeton University Library's Special Collections does not charge any permission or use fees for the publication of images of materials from our collections, nor does it require researchers to obtain its permission for said use. The department does request that its collections be properly cited and images credited. More detailed information can be found on the Copyright, Credit and Citations Guidelines page on our website. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us through the Ask Us! form.

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

For preservation reasons, original analog and digital media may not be read or played back in the reading room. Users may visually inspect physical media but may not remove it from its enclosure. All analog audiovisual media must be digitized to preservation-quality standards prior to use. Audiovisual digitization requests are processed by an approved third-party vendor. Please note, the transfer time required can be as little as several weeks to as long as several months and there may be financial costs associated with the process. Requests should be directed through the Ask Us Form.

Credit this material:

Series 1: Alumni and Students; Department of Geosciences Records, AC139, Princeton University Archives, Department of Special Collections, Princeton University Library

Location:
Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library
Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library
65 Olden Street
Princeton, NJ 08540, USA
(609) 258-6345
Storage Note:
  • Mudd Manuscript Library (mudd): Boxes 15, 18, 2, 30, 32, 35, 44 to 45, 49

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Related Materials

Researchers interested in these materials may also wish to consult the Princeton Scientific Expeditions Collection (AC012), Series 2: Geological Expeditions. In addition, the Special Collections at Firestone Library holds the William Berryman Scott Papers (C0265); a collection of William Libbey Correspondence (C0872); the Charles Henry Smyth Journals (C0823); the Arnold Guyot Collection (C1095); and the Arthur Buddington Lantern Slides of Russia (C1448).

Other Finding Aids

Full text searching of this collection's archived website is available through the Archive-It interface.

Bibliography

In the composition of this finding aid's organizational history, the history section of the Department of Geosciences' website (http://www.princeton.edu/geosciences/about/history/) and Alexander Leitch's A Princeton Companion were consulted.

Names:
Princeton University. Dept. of Geological and Geophysical Sciences.
Princeton University. Dept. of Geology
Princeton University. Dept. of Geology.
Princeton University. Faculty.
Princeton University. Natural History Museum
Field, R. M. (Richard Montgomery), 1834-1902
Guyot, A. (Arnold), 1807-1884
Hess, Harry Hammond, 1906-1969
Jepsen, Glenn L. (Glenn Lowell), 1904-1974
Scott, William Berryman, 1858-1947
Smyth, Charles Henry, 1866-1937
Thom, W. T. (William Taylor), 1891-1979