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Signed, Sealed, Delivered letters donated to University Archives
by: Dan Linke With the rise of email more than 20 years ago, many have lamented the decline of the handwritten letter, but with her new book, Signed, Sealed, Delivered: Celebrating the Joys of Letter Writing (Simon & Schuster, 2014), Nina Sankovitch has done much more than that. Drawing on letters from across the ages, she…
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Records Management and University Archives: Perfect Together
The job of the Princeton University Archives is to keep in perpetuity the University records that should be kept, and the University Records Manager, Anne Marie Phillips, helps to identify them. She also helps offices determine how long non-permanent records must be kept before they can be destroyed. With the University’s first financial records retention schedule coming online,…
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Keen New Addition: Photo Album Purchase Contains Rare Images of Woodrow Wilson
by Dan Linke With more than 600 books on Woodrow Wilson, including Scott Berg’s recent autobiography, is there anything new about Woodrow Wilson? With the acquisition of the photo album of Paul Edward Keen *15, the answer is yes. His photo album contains a dozen images of Wilson’s 1913 inauguration and his 1915 return to…
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John F. Kennedy’s Princeton University undergraduate alumni file
Today marks the 50th anniversary of President John F. Kennedy’s assassination. The Mudd Manuscript Library celebrated the 50th anniversary of Kennedy’s election in 2010 with an exhibition and more than 30 Public Policy collections contain material related to Kennedy. Within the University Archives, his undergraduate alumni file contains his application to the University, details his…
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USS Princeton
On October 24th, 1944 the U.S.S. Princeton (CVL-23) sank during battle. The University Archives here at Mudd Library holds the U.S.S. Princeton [C.V.L.-23] Collection which contains research materials for the book, Carrier Down, by Marcia Clark in which the history of the U.S.S. Princeton is chronicled. We have begun the digitization process of this collection to mark the…
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Mudd in Print
Have you ever wondered what our researchers are up to in the reading room? Many of them are working fervently towards producing highly esteemed, ground-breaking, and sometimes award-winning books. This entry features a sample of recent publications, each developed through extensive research at the Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library. Drawing from material found in the…
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Digitzed: Robert Lansing Papers & John Foster Dulles State Department Records
In our ongoing efforts to provide digital access to our records, we are happy to announce two additional collections have been digitized with the help of our students. The Robert Lansing Papers and the John Foster Dulles State Department Records are viewable via their finding aids. The Robert Lansing Papers document the later years of…
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“Building the House of Knowledge:” The Graduate College Centennial
A new exhibition that opens at the Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library on Sept. 16, 2013, chronicles the events and decisions framing the development of America’s first graduate residential college. Marking the 100th anniversary of the opening of Princeton’s Graduate College, “Building the House of Knowledge:” The Graduate College Centennial is filled with letters, documents…
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Political Cartoons now available online
Over 2,000 cartoons from three collections of politically related cartoons are now available online. Images can be viewed by search or browsing finding aids of the three collections: the Political Cartoon Collection (MC180); the Carey Cartoon Collection (MC158); the William H. Walker Cartoon Collection (MC068) The Political Cartoon collection consists of one thousand original drawings,…
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1993 Baccalaureate Speaker Garry B. Trudeau
On Sunday June 6th,1993 at 2pm students were seated in the University Chapel to hear the remarks of Baccalaureate speaker Garry B. Trudeau, cartoonist and creator of Doonesbury. Trudeau was also the first person to receive a Pulitzer for a comic strip. This film shows some of the only documentation of the 1993 Baccalaureate ceremony…
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