- Collection Overview
- Collection Description & Creator Information
- Access & Use
- Collection History
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Collection Overview
- Creator:
- Gibson, James, 1837-1912
- Title:
- James Gibson Papers
- Repository:
- Manuscripts Division
- Permanent URL:
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/sn009x82f
- Dates:
- 1858-1932 (mostly 1858-1859)
- Size:
- 2 boxes and 0.6 linear feet
- Storage Note:
- Firestone Library (scamss): Box 1-2
- Language:
- English
Abstract
Consists of scrapbook pages and a diary kept by James Gibson from May, 1858, to May, 1859, while traveling in the United States and Canada and attending Princeton Theological Seminary.
Collection Description & Creator Information
- Description:
The collection consists of scrapbook pages and a diary kept by Gibson from May, 1858, to May, 1859, while traveling in the United States and Canada and attending Princeton Theological Seminary. Both the scrapbook, containing newspaper clippings and photographs (mostly of Princeton), and the diary document his travels. Also present is a brief sketch (7 pp.) of the life of James Gibson written by his son, Thomas, in 1932.
- Arrangement
Arranged as follows: scrapbook, pages 1-443; diary, pages 1-226; miscellaneous papers.
- Collection Creator Biography:
Gibson, James, 1837-1912
James Gibson, the son of an Irish Presbyterian minister, attended Belfast Theological Seminary and was a student at the Princeton Theological Seminary.
Collection History
- Acquisition:
Transferred from P.U. Archives in Mudd Library.
- Appraisal
No appraisal information is available.
- Processing Information
Folder inventory added by Feng Zhu '2014 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:
James Gibson Papers; Manuscripts Division, Department of Special Collections, Princeton University Library
- Permanent URL:
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/sn009x82f
- Location:
-
Firestone LibraryOne Washington RoadPrinceton, NJ 08544, USA
- Storage Note:
- Firestone Library (scamss): Box 1-2
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- Subject Terms:
- Clergy -- New Jersey -- Princeton -- 19th century.
Ocean travel -- 19th century.
Railroad travel -- Middle Atlantic States -- 19th century. - Genre Terms:
- Diaries -- 19th century
Photographs -- 19th century.
Scrapbooks -- 19th century - Names:
- Princeton Theological Seminary
Princeton University - Places:
- Canada -- Description and travel -- 19th century.
United States -- Description and travel -- 19th century.
