- Collection Overview
- Collection Description & Creator Information
- Access & Use
- Collection History
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Collection Overview
- Creator:
- Furman, N. Howell (Nathaniel Howell), 1892-1965
- Title:
- N. Howell Furman Papers
- Repository:
- Manuscripts Division
- Permanent URL:
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/0c483j422
- Dates:
- 1903-1961
- Size:
- 21 boxes and 22.5 linear feet
- Storage Note:
- ReCAP (rcpxm): Box 1-21
- Language:
- English
Abstract
N. Howell Furman (Princeton Class of 1913) was a professor of analytical chemistry at Princeton. His collection consists of scholarly papers, correspondence, miscellaneous material relating to the teaching of chemistry at Princeton.
Collection Description & Creator Information
- Description:
The collection consists of scholarly papers, correspondence, miscellaneous material relating to the teaching of chemistry at Princeton, and printed matter of Furman (Princeton Class of 1913), professor of analytical chemistry. The collection contains his lecture notes, articles, papers, and notebooks, as well as his professional correspondence. There are files of student papers, laboratory work, notebooks, and undergraduate and Ph.D. general examinations. Also included are reports of chemical analyses, minutes of departmental meetings, records of supplies and equipment, notebooks of students' grades, files regarding the Atomic Energy Commission, and material relating to his interest in polarography. Furman's "Report of Travel," a typewritten manuscript illustrated with photographs, documents his fellowship-funded trip to European chemical plants and university laboratories in 1927 and 1928; it includes a large copy of Bartholomew's map of Europe (1925) with Furman's route shown in red ink. In addition, there is printed material including abstracts of papers and offprints of articles by Furman and others.
- Arrangement
This is an unprocessed collection and remains in its original arrangement.
- Collection Creator Biography:
Furman, N. Howell (Nathaniel Howell), 1892-1965
N. Howell Furman (Princeton Class of 1913) was a professor of analytical chemistry at Princeton.
Collection History
- Acquisition:
The papers were a gift of Mrs. Nathaniel Howell Furman. Furman's "Report of Travel" was a gift of Lisa Hawley in 2014.
- Appraisal
No appraisal information is available.
- Processing Information
This is an unprocessed collection. The contents list provided is a preliminary inventory.
The collection inventory was created by Michael Heist in August 2007.
Access & Use
- Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research use.
- 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:
N. Howell Furman Papers; Manuscripts Division, Department of Special Collections, Princeton University Library
- Permanent URL:
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/0c483j422
- Location:
-
Firestone LibraryOne Washington RoadPrinceton, NJ 08544, USA
- Storage Note:
- ReCAP (rcpxm): Box 1-21
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- Subject Terms:
- Chemistry, Analytic -- New Jersey -- Princeton -- 20th century.
Chemistry, Analytic -- Qualitative.
Chemistry, Analytic -- Quantitative.
Chemistry, Analytic -- Study and teaching -- New Jersey -- Princeton -- 20th century.
Chemists -- New Jersey -- Princeton.
Nuclear energy -- United States.
Polarograph and polarography.
Princeton University -- Faculty. - Genre Terms:
- Correspondence.
Examinations.
Lecture notes. - Names:
- U.S. Atomic Energy Commission.
