- Collection Overview
- Collection Description & Creator Information
- Access & Use
- Collection History
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Collection Overview
- Creator:
- Stewart, George Black, 1884-1964
- Title:
- George Black Stewart Papers
- Repository:
- Manuscripts Division
- Permanent URL:
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/xp68kg25q
- Dates:
- 1896-1950 (mostly 1896-1917)
- Size:
- 3 boxes and 0.8 linear feet
- Storage Note:
- Firestone Library (mss): Boxes 1; 3; B-000052
- Language:
- English
Abstract
Consists of photograph albums, diaries, engagement calendars, and documents of George Black Stewart (Princeton Class of 1906) who was treasurer (1906-1950) of the American University of Beirut.
Collection Description & Creator Information
- Description:
The collection consists of photograph albums, diaries, engagement calendars, and documents of Stewart (Princeton Class of 1906) who was treasurer (1906-1950) of the American University of Beirut, formerly known as the Syrian Protestant College. Included are photographs of his father, George Black Stewart (1854-1932), Woodrow Wilson and his daughters, Princeton University (1906) and the 5-year reunion (1911) of the Class of 1906, his travels in Europe, the faculty of the American University of Beirut, and various sites in Palestine, Syria, and Turkey. There are diaries from 1906 to 1917, engagement calendars with brief entries (1920-1945), speeches on his retirement in 1950, his certificate the "Merit Medallion of Honor" from the Republic of Lebanon (1939), and clippings.
- Arrangement
Arranged chronologically, with photograph albums followed by diaries and engagement calendars.
- Collection Creator Biography:
Stewart, George Black, 1884-1964
George Black Stewart (Princeton Class of 1906) served as treasurer (1906-1950) of the American University of Beirut, formerly known as the Syrian Protestant College.
Collection History
- Acquisition:
Gift of Frank Stewart '39 (AM 80-46).
- Appraisal
No appraisal information is available.
- Processing Information
Folder inventory prepared by Lisa Yankowitz ('13) in 2012.
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:
George Black Stewart Papers; Manuscripts Division, Department of Special Collections, Princeton University Library
- Permanent URL:
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/xp68kg25q
- Location:
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Firestone LibraryOne Washington RoadPrinceton, NJ 08544, USA
- Storage Note:
- Firestone Library (mss): Boxes 1; 3; B-000052
Find More
- Subject Terms:
- College administrators -- Lebanon -- Beirut -- 20th century.
- Genre Terms:
- Calendars -- 20th century.
Correspondence -- 20th century
Diaries -- 20th century.
Photograph albums -- 20th century - Names:
- American university of Beirut
Princeton University. Class of 1906. - Places:
- Middle East -- Description and travel -- 20th century.
Palestine -- Description and travel -- 20th century.
Syria -- Description and travel -- 20th century.
Turkey -- Description and travel -- 20th century.
