Every few weeks the Prince­ton Alumni Weekly focuses one seg­ment of the mag­a­zine to high­light items from the Prince­ton Uni­ver­sity Archives enti­tled “From the Vault.”

The arti­cles are researched and writ­ten by alum­nus W. Barks­dale May­nard ’88 who has been con­tribut­ing the con­tent to the PAW for two years. Mr. May­nard has also writ­ten a few books, two focus­ing on Prince­ton, which you can see here. The con­cept of the arti­cles orig­i­nated with Edi­tor Mar­i­lyn H. Marks *86 who has an inter­est in the Uni­ver­sity Archives, which are housed at the See­ley G. Mudd Man­u­script Library. http://www.princeton.edu/mudd/

The most recent arti­cle focuses on a for­mer Prince­ton alumni who was aboard the Titanic when it sank. http://paw.princeton.edu/issues/2012/04/04/pages/7288/

Recently PAW pho­tog­ra­pher Ric­cardo Bar­ros and Art Direc­tor Mar­i­anne Gaffney Nel­son came to Mudd to pho­to­graph phys­i­cal items included in the col­lec­tions for upcom­ing issues of the PAW. Here you can see a behind the scene’s view of how those arti­cles come to life.