- Collection Overview
- Collection Description & Creator Information
- Access & Use
- Collection History
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Collection Overview
- Creator:
- Hamilton, Sinclair
- Title:
- Sinclair Hamilton Papers
- Repository:
- Manuscripts Division
- Permanent URL:
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/tb09j570f
- Dates:
- 1942-1970
- Size:
- 7 boxes and 6.65 linear feet
- Storage Note:
- ReCAP (scarcpxm): Box 1-7
- Language:
- English
Abstract
Consists of a manuscript and correspondence of Sinclair Hamilton (Princeton Class of 1906).
Collection Description & Creator Information
- Description:
The collection consists of a manuscript and correspondence of Hamilton (Princeton Class of 1906). The collection contains the typescript, notes, and proofs of his Early American Book Illustrators and Wood Engravers, 1670-1870 (1950), a catalog of the Sinclair Hamilton Collection of American Illustrated Books, illustrated, for the most part, with woodcuts and engravings, which is housed in the Princeton University Library. There is also correspondence with libraries, museums, bookshops, and dealers concerning the acquisition of books for his collection and its transfer to the library.
- Collection Creator Biography:
Hamilton, Sinclair
Sinclair Hamilton (Princeton Class of 1906) established the Sinclair Hamilton Collection of American Illustrated Books which is housed in the Princeton University Library.
Collection History
- Acquisition:
Gift of Sinclair Hamilton in 1959 (AM 16436, AM 16461). Additions were a gift of Sinclair Hitchings in 2014 (AM 2015-5).
- Appraisal
No appraisal information is available.
- Processing Information
This contents list was created by Jerome Jackson in June 2010.
Access & Use
- Conditions Governing Access
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:
Sinclair Hamilton Papers; Manuscripts Division, Department of Special Collections, Princeton University Library
- Permanent URL:
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/tb09j570f
- Location:
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Firestone LibraryOne Washington RoadPrinceton, NJ 08544, USA
- Storage Note:
- ReCAP (scarcpxm): Box 1-7
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- Existence and Location of Copies
Published under same title (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Library, 1950)
- Subject Terms:
- Booksellers and bookselling -- United States -- 20th century.
Illustrated books -- United States -- Bibliography -- Catalogs.
Illustrators -- United States.
Wood engravers -- United States.
Wood engraving -- United States -- Bibliography -- Catalogs. - Genre Terms:
- Book collectors -- United States -- 20th century.
Correspondence -- 20th century
Manuscripts -- 20th century. - Names:
- Princeton University. Library. Hamilton collection.
