- Collection Overview
- Collection Description & Creator Information
- Access & Use
- Collection History
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Collection Overview
- Creator:
- Ordway, Smith, 1864-1927
- Title:
- Smith Ordway Collection
- Repository:
- Manuscripts Division
- Permanent URL:
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/ff365528z
- Dates:
- 1880-1927
- Size:
- 4 boxes
- Storage Note:
- ReCAP (rcpxm): Box 1-4
- Language:
- English
Abstract
Consists of diaries written by Smith Ordway while he was an undergraduate at Princeton (1880-1884), a seminarian (1885-1888) at Auburn Theological Seminary (N.Y.), a traveler to Europe and the Middle East (1907), and a Presbyterian minister to congregations mainly in New York State (1888-1923). The collection also contains an album of photographs of members of the Class of 1884, scenes of Princeton, and Ordway family members.
Collection Description & Creator Information
- Description:
The collection consists of thirty-three diaries of Ordway (Princeton Class of 1884) written while an undergraduate at Princeton (1880-1884), a seminarian (1885-1888) at Auburn Theological Seminary (N.Y.), a traveler to Europe and the Middle East (1907), and a Presbyterian minister to congregations mainly in New York State (1888-1923). The collection also contains an album of photographs of members of the Class of 1884, scenes of Princeton, and Ordway family members.
- Arrangement
This is an unprocessed collection and remains in its original arrangement.
- Collection Creator Biography:
Ordway, Smith, 1864-1927
American clergyman, Smith Ordway (1864-1927) was a member of the Princeton Class of 1884. After attending Princeton from 1880-1884, Ordway went to the Auburn Theological Seminary in New York and became a Presbyterian minister to congregations mainly in the New York area.
Collection History
- 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:
Smith Ordway Collection; Manuscripts Division, Department of Special Collections, Princeton University Library
- Permanent URL:
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/ff365528z
- Location:
-
Firestone LibraryOne Washington RoadPrinceton, NJ 08544, USA
- Storage Note:
- ReCAP (rcpxm): Box 1-4
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- Subject Terms:
- Clergy -- New York (State) -- Diaries.
College students -- New Jersey -- Princeton -- Diaries.
Religion -- Study and teaching -- New York -- Auburn -- 19th century.
Seminarians -- New York (State) -- Auburn -- Diaires.
Travelers -- Diaries. - Genre Terms:
- Diaries.
- Names:
- College of New Jersey (Princeton, N.J.). Class of 1884.
Auburn Theological Seminary (N.Y.). Class of 1888
Presbyterian church in the U.S.A.
Ordway family - Places:
- Europe -- Description and travel -- 20th century.
Middle East -- Description and travel -- 20th century.
