New Accessions: April-June 2010

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The Mudd Man­u­script Library received 12 pub­lic pol­icy acces­sions and 30 Uni­ver­sity Archives acces­sions between April and June 2010.

The pub­lic pol­icy col­lec­tions received sig­nif­i­cant addi­tions to the Amer­i­can Civil Lib­er­ties Union Records and the Coun­cil on For­eign Rela­tions Records. In addi­tion, a won­der­ful sur­prise was the receipt of Woodrow Wilson’s and Edith Bolling Galt’s mar­riage license, 1915. The item was donated by Mr. Barry C. Keenan of Granville, OH, who also con­fessed to hav­ing caused the green ink stain on the doc­u­ment as a ten-year-old.

Wilson marriage license

On the Uni­ver­sity Archives side, the Library received the papers of two impor­tant Prince­ton fig­ures– Dr. Carl. A. Fields and Dean Mathey.
Edu­ca­tor and advo­cate of minor­ity edu­ca­tion, Dr. Carl A. Fields was assis­tant dean of stu­dent aid at Prince­ton Uni­ver­sity and later served in var­i­ous other lead­er­ship posi­tions out­side the Uni­ver­sity. The Carl A. Fields Papers con­sist of cor­re­spon­dence, reports, research mate­r­ial on race rela­tions and minor­ity edu­ca­tion, hand­writ­ten notes, project pro­pos­als, and other papers that doc­u­ment his life and active career. An online find­ing aid for this col­lec­tion is avail­able at: http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/5138jd936.
Dean Mathey, Class of 1912, was a mem­ber of the Board of Trustees and an ardent sup­porter of the Uni­ver­sity. The col­lec­tion doc­u­ments Mathey’s famil­ial rela­tion­ships, his ser­vice to Prince­ton, his ten­nis career and other activ­i­ties from his under­grad­u­ate days to the end of his life. A find­ing aid is for this col­lec­tion is in process.
The fol­low­ing is a com­plete list of mate­ri­als that were acces­sioned between April and June of 2010. As always, if you would like addi­tional infor­ma­tion about these mate­ri­als, please con­tact us through our gen­eral email account at .

Pub­lic Pol­icy Papers
John Van Antwerp Mac­Mur­ray Films, 1928–1942, ML.2010.009
H. Free­man Matthews Papers, 1924–1970, ML.2010.010
James Dou­glas Brown Accrual, 1917–1919, ML.2010.011
James A. Baker III Oral His­tory Record­ings Accrual, 1994, ML.2010.012
James A. Baker III Oral His­tory Accrual, 2010 April 30, ML.2010.013
James A. Baker III Papers Accrual, 2010, ML.2010.014
James A. Baker, III Papers Accrual, 2010, ML.2010.015
William Hard Papers Accrual, 1931, ML.2010.016
Gen­eral Man­u­scripts Accrual, 2010, ML.2010.017
Amer­i­can Civil Lib­er­ties Union Accrual, 1900–1995, ML.2010.018
Coun­cil on For­eign Rela­tions Accrual, 1997–2000, ML.2010.019
Project on Eth­nic Rela­tions Records, 1990–2008, ML.2010.020
Prince­ton Uni­ver­sity Archives
Scrap­book of John E. Packard Jr. ‘1928, 1925–1928, AR.2010.032
Office of the Provost Records, Jere­miah Ostriker Jour­nals, 1995–2001, AR.2010.033
Bogle Hall Ded­i­ca­tion Mate­ri­als, 2010, AR.2010.034
Old Nas­sau Book and Music and Tri­an­gle Club Pro­grams, 1905–1919, AR.2010.035
Carl A. Fields Papers, circa 1959–1992, AR.2010.036
The­atre Intime, Tri­an­gle Club and Mis­cel­la­neous Mate­ri­als, 1864–1919, AR.2010.037
Tom Reed Art­work for APGA Reunions, 2010, AR.2010.038
Arti­cles on Mason Lowance, Jr. ’60 and Lec­ture Notes, 1966–2006, AR.2010.039
Class of 1985 25th Reunion Book, 2010, AR.2010.040
Dis­ser­ta­tions by Cony­ers Her­ring *1937 and Gilbert Plass *1947, AR.2010.041
Pho­to­graph Album of William Miller, Jr. ‘1880, circa 1876–1880, AR.2010.042
ReCAP Plan­ning Doc­u­ments, circa 2000, AR.2010.043
Prince­ton Club of North­ern Cal­i­for­nia His­tor­i­cal Research, 2010, AR.2010.044
Reports of the Uni­ver­sity Expe­di­tions to Patag­o­nia 1896–1899, 1901–1906, AR.2010.045
Princeton-Related Books, 1905–1995, AR.2010.046
Class of 1974 Poem, 1974, AR.2010.047
Cer­tifi­cate of Appre­ci­a­tion to the Bureau of Alumni Records from Pres­i­dent Dodds, 1956, AR.2010.048
25 Years On, the Class of 1944 and Class of 1955 Direc­tory, 1969–2010, AR.2010.049
School of Archi­tec­ture Senior The­ses, 2004–2006, AR.2010.050
Prince­ton Class of 1960 50th Reunion Year­book, 2010, AR.2010.051
Draw­ing of Fire­stone Library Weath­er­vane, circa 1940, AR.2010.052
Print of Mor­ven by Dud­ley Mor­ris, circa 1959, AR.2010.053
Early Mem­oirs of a Coun­try Gen­tle­man: Thar­ratt Gilbert Best 1892–1969, 1976, AR.2010.054
Direc­to­ries for Class of 1950 and 1952, 2010, AR.2010.055
Prince­ton Ath­letic News Issues, 1973–1976, AR.2010.056
Prince­ton Cam­pus Plan, 2008, AR.2010.057
Woodrow Wil­son School Junior Papers (Pol­icy Task Force/Conference Papers), 2010, AR.2010.058
Bac­calau­re­ate Pro­gram, 2010, AR.2010.059
The­atre Intime Posters, Pro­grams and DVDs, 2009–2010, AR.2010.060
Dean Mathey Papers, circa 1900–1960, AR.2010.061