- Collection Overview
- Collection Description & Creator Information
- Access & Use
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Collection Overview
- Creator:
- Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955.
- Collector:
- Princeton University. Library. Special Collections
- Title:
- Princeton University Library Collection of Albert Einstein Materials
- Repository:
- Manuscripts Division
- Permanent URL:
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/9880vq98f
- Dates:
- 1913-1975 (mostly 1930-1955)
- Size:
- 5 boxes and 3.7 linear feet
- Storage Note:
- This is stored in multiple locations. Firestone Library (mss): Boxes 1-2; B-001347 Firestone Library (hsvm): Boxes 1; 3; 1 (Originals)
- Language:
- German English
Abstract
Consists of a wide range of miscellaneous material by or about the Nobel Prize-winner and world famous physicist Albert Einstein, including correspondence, manuscripts, photographs, drawings, ephemera, medical records, and printed material.
Collection Description & Creator Information
- Description:
Albert Einstein was born at Ulm, in Württemberg, Germany. He studied in Zurich, Switzerland, and in 1901, the year he gained his diploma, he acquired Swiss citizenship. He became a German citizen in 1914 and remained in Berlin until 1933 when he renounced his citizenship for political reasons and immigrated to America to take the position of Professor of Theoretical Physics at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J. He became a United States citizen in 1940 and retired from his post in 1945. He died on April 18, 1955, in Princeton.
This assembled collection consists of miscellaneous material by or about Einstein: correspondence, manuscripts and typescripts, photographs, drawings, articles and offprints, ephemera, newspaper clippings, and medical records. The material is chiefly in English, with a few items in German. Correspondents include Isaac Aschkenazy, Charles Bradford, Hermann Broch, Edward U. Condor, William Karraker, H. N. Russell, Lyman Spitzer, and William M. Whitney. Manuscripts include poems in German and in English, and an address delivered at Swarthmore College in June, 1938. There are photographs of Einstein with Mrs. Erich Von Kahler at the Kahler's house and of Einstein with Ghandi, Nehru, and others, and there are drawings of Einstein by Meinhard Jacoby, Arzell Thompson, Jr., and "J.C.T." There are also several photographs of Einstein taken by Roman Vishniac.
- Arrangement
Arranged in accession number order.
- Collection Creator Biography:
Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955.
Albert Einstein was engaged by Kaizosha, the Japanese publishing house, to present a series of scientific and popular lectures on relativity. From Nov. 17, 1922, to Dec. 29, 1922, Einstein toured Japan, giving these lectures and performing official engagements. His trip at the time was described as a "triumphal progress."
Collection History
- Acquisition:
The collection was formed as a result of a Departmental practice of combining into one collection material of various accessions relating to a particular person, family, or subject. Materials are the gift of multiple donors over the course of many years. Accession numbers include AM: 78-19, 78-20, 79-134, 80-5, 80-14, 80-17, 80-27, 82-45, 82-83, 84-91, 85-84, 1993-75, 1993-76, 1993-77, 1993-78, 1993-79, 1994-109, 1995-3, 1995-18, 2000-44, 2007-98, 11674, 15698, 16136, 16856, 17630, 20721, 21179, 21697; E 3755, 2017-25, 2017-111, 2019-28, 2022-024.
- Appraisal
No appraisal information is available.
- Processing Information
Finding aid written by James Flannery on January 24, 2006. Folder inventory added by Jenna Marrone 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:
Princeton University Library Collection of Albert Einstein Materials; Manuscripts Division, Department of Special Collections, Princeton University Library
- Permanent URL:
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/9880vq98f
- Location:
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Firestone LibraryOne Washington RoadPrinceton, NJ 08544, USA
- Storage Note:
- This is stored in multiple locations. Firestone Library (mss): Boxes 1-2; B-001347 Firestone Library (hsvm): Boxes 1; 3; 1 (Originals)
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- Subject Terms:
- Physicists
- Genre Terms:
- Correspondence.
Drawings.
Ephemera.
Manuscripts.
Photographs.