- Collection Overview
- Collection Description & Creator Information
- Access & Use
- Collection History
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Collection Overview
- Creator:
- Black, Floyd H. (Floyd Henson), 1888-1983
- Title:
- Floyd H. Black Collection of Diplomas
- Repository:
- Manuscripts Division
- Permanent URL:
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/zk51vg84n
- Dates:
- 1925-1942
- Size:
- 3 boxes
- Storage Note:
- ReCAP (rcpxm): Box 1-3
- Language:
- English
Abstract
Consists of copies of approximately seven hundred diplomas of graduates of the American College of Sofia, Bulgaria, collected by Black, the college president.
Collection Description & Creator Information
- Description:
The collection consists of copies of approximately seven hundred diplomas of graduates of the American College of Sofia, Bulgaria, collected by Black, the college president.
- Arrangement
Arranged as follows: diplomas for men from the classes of 1925 through 1941 (Box 1 and one folder in Box 2), then diplomas for women from the classes of 1926 through 1934 (1926 to 1937 in Box 2, the rest in Box 3.)
- Collection Creator Biography:
Black, Floyd H. (Floyd Henson), 1888-1983
Floyd H. Black taught at Robert College in Istanbul, Turkey (1911-1925), and eventually served as its president (1944-1955). Prior to World War II, Black was president of the American College of Sofia, Bulgaria (1926-1942), and during the war served as special assistant to the United States consul in Istanbul.
Collection History
- Acquisition:
This collection was the gift of Professor Floyd H. Black in 1978.
- Appraisal
No appraisal information is available.
- Processing Information
Folder inventory added by Feng Zhu '14 in 2013.
Access & Use
- Conditions Governing Access
The collection is open for research.
- Conditions Governing Use
Single photocopies may be made for research purposes. No further photoduplication of copies of material in the collection can be made when Princeton University Library does not own the original. Inquiries regarding publishing material from the collection should be directed to RBSC Public Services staff through the Ask Us! form. The library has no information on the status of literary rights in the collection and researchers are responsible for determining any questions of copyright.
- Credit this material:
Floyd H. Black Collection of Diplomas; Manuscripts Division, Department of Special Collections, Princeton University Library
- Permanent URL:
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/zk51vg84n
- Location:
-
Firestone LibraryOne Washington RoadPrinceton, NJ 08544, USA
- Storage Note:
- ReCAP (rcpxm): Box 1-3
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- Subject Terms:
- Degrees, Academic -- Bulgaria -- 20th century.
- Genre Terms:
- Diplomas -- Bulgaria -- 20th century.
