A won­der­ful end of the year gift came to the Prince­ton Uni­ver­sity Archives through the gen­eros­ity of four alumni who serve on the Prince­to­ni­ana Com­mit­tee. The item, a photo album from a Class of 1904 grad­u­ate, was for sale on eBay. Don­ald Far­ren ’58 noted its avail­abil­ity and joined by Dave Cleaves ’78, Scott Clemons ’90, and Sev Onyshkevych ’83, saw that it made its way to the Archives.

The seller had adver­tised the Woodrow Wil­son image (right) but had made no men­tion of the image of Samuel Clemens aka Mark Twain whose pho­to­graph was on the same page (below). The images were taken dur­ing Wilson’s inau­gu­ra­tion as Prince­ton pres­i­dent in Octo­ber 1902, and another image of Wil­son taken that day is also found within the book.

The vol­ume, com­piled by William Alsop Bours, also con­tains numer­ous can­did shots of under­grad­u­ate stu­dent life, includ­ing Prince­ton build­ings, snow scenes, stu­dents, dor­mi­to­ries, sport­ing and social events, as well as a set of pic­tures from a trip to Rome. The vol­ume has been added to the His­tor­i­cal Phot­graph Col­lec­tion, Stu­dent Album series.