“One Night’s Catch”; Salmon Fish Wheel and Operators in The Dalles, Oregon, 1894 from D. C. Herrin “Columbia River Scenery” Photographs (C1512).

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D. C. Herrin “Columbia River Scenery” Photographs (C1512)

Consists of 13 mounted albumen card photographs from Oregon photographer D. C. Herrin’s “Columbia River Scenery” series that depict various scenes along the river, including views of waterfalls; sites such as The Dalles, the Columbia River Gorge, and Mount Hood; and steamships. Herrin took the photographs via The Dalles, Portland, & Astoria Navigation Company (DP&AN) steamers and via the Oregon Railroad and Navigation Company (OR&N) line.

Textual amulet in Latin and Occitan, circa 1375-1425 (Princeton MS. 235)

Textual amulet for the bearer’s personal protection and healing, written and illustrated in Southern France on a parchment sheet, which was folded and worn on the body, probably in a pouch or purse. It was later pasted down on cardboard. Three columns (55, 23, 55 lines respectively) with brief apotropaic texts and images: (1) Readings from the Four Gospels; (2) “Nomina domini Ihesu Christi. Quils portara ab devocio no morta…,” with text in Latin and Occitan, first offering promises of protection, then listing 66 divine names for Christ, which are interspersed with crosses in red and blue; (3) Heavenly Letter, a version of an apocryphal Christian letter, ostensibly written by Christ to King Abgar V of Edessa (4 BCE-50CE), in Asia Minor (“Beatus est Abgare quia credisti in me…”); (4) “Protestacio ultilis. Firmiter Ihesum christum nazarenum esse filium dei et omnes articulis simbolum apostolicis et fide catholice… In cuius testimonium porto mecum presens scriptum.”; (5) “Arma Christi,” illustration of the Instruments of the Passion, executed in ink and color wash, with a surrounding inscription.

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Elena Garro Papers (C0827)

A 2015 purchase includes 23 handwritten letters from Octavio Paz to Elena Garro dating from June to October 1935. These are the oldest letters that exist in the papers from the Paz-Garro correspondence, predating their marriage in 1937. The Elena Garro Papers consist of manuscripts, correspondence, notebooks, journals, photographs, and printed material of Mexican writer Elena Garro (1916-1998). Included in the papers is correspondence and personal documents of Garro’s daughter, Helena Paz Garro (1939-2014), a published poet.

Jean Labatut Papers (C0709)

A recent gift includes a 16mm lab copy of a film recorded by Jean Labatut as a passenger aboard the eastbound airship LZ 129 Hindenburg en route from Princeton University to the American School of Fine Arts at Fontainebleau, France, June 23-26, 1936, as it traveled between Lakehurst and Frankfurt am Main, by way of New York City, Saint John (New Brunswick), Prince Edward Island, Notre Dame Bay (Newfoundland), Isle of Man, Liverpool, Lincoln, Utrecht, Cologne, and the Rhine Valley (12 minutes, 44 seconds). The film was a gift of author John McPhee, Class of 1953, to whom Labatut lent it more than forty years ago when McPhee was researching his book The Deltoid Pumpkin Seed. A digital access copy of the film is available online through the finding aid.

Photograph of Elena Garro, Gabriela Mora, and Helena Paz Garro taken at Mora’s home in New York City, 1970. From the Gabriela Mora Collection of Elena Garro (C0994).

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Thomas Colchie ’64 Collection on Jorge Amado (C1450)

The collection consists of twenty-four audio cassette recorded interviews conducted by Thomas Colchie (Princeton University alumnus, Class of 1964) of or about Brazilian writer Jorge Amado. Recordings include interviews with Jorge Amado and other writers and artists speaking about Amado. Also includes photocopy documents about Amado’s political involvement as an elected representative in Brazil’s National Constituent Assembly from 1945-1947, and photocopy documents of Brazil’s National Intelligence Service (SNI) file on Amado.

Plural Editorial Files (C1479)

The Plural Editorial Files is comprised of the editorial correspondence of Plural (1971-1976), the Mexican journal of literature, politics, art, and cultural commentary. Files include correspondence with Plural editors and personnel Octavio Paz, Kazuya Sakai, Danubio Torres Fierro, José de la Colina, Sonia Levy-Spira, Julio Scherer García, Tomás Segovia, and others. Contributor correspondence include a wide range national and international of writers, publishers, and intellectuals from Latin America, United States, and Europe.

Vuelta Editorial Files (C1480)

The Vuelta Editorial Files is comprised of the publishing files of Vuelta (1976-1998), the Mexican journal of literature, politics, art, and cultural commentary. Includes author files, correspondence between editors, writers, translators, scholars, and rights publishing companies, and administrative and project files. Includes original and photocopy typescript and handwritten manuscript submissions of articles, interviews, translations, narrative, and poetry. Related research materials such as press clippings and printed material are also found in the author files and correspondence. Included in the files are documents relating to Encuentro Vuelta – El Siglo XX: La Experiencia de la Libertad, a televised conference series program organized by Vuelta in 1990 about the rise of socialism in Eastern Europe. Series 6 includes various booklets and speech materials from the Nobel Prize ceremony in 1990, the year Octavio Paz was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Paul A. Volcker Papers (MC279)

Paul A. Volcker (1927-) is an economist who has served in several prominent positions in the federal government, most notably as undersecretary of the Treasury (1969-1974), chairman of the Federal Reserve (1979-1987), and chairman of President Obama’s Economic Recovery Advisory Board (2009-2011). The collection primarily consists of Volcker’s subject files, mostly created during his terms as president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York or as chairman of the Federal Reserve, and his correspondence with a variety of individuals. Much of Volcker’s Federal Reserve correspondence is in reply to private citizens, though letters to and from White House staff and members of Congress also constitute a large portion of the collection. To a lesser extent, the collection contains records from the meetings of the Federal Open Market Committee under Volcker’s chairmanship of the Federal Reserve, as well as Rockefeller Foundation publications and documents that address Volcker’s relationship to the Foundation as the Federal Reserve Bank of New York president. The collection also includes Volcker’s phone logs from his term as undersecretary of the Treasury.

Thomas John Dibdin “Twelve Songs” Manuscript (N-000065)

Dated 1832, this manuscript consists of twelve apparently unpublished songs by songwriter and theater manager, Thomas John Dibdin (1771-1841), composed in 1832, a year before he issued his collection of songs entitled “Last Lays of the Last of the Three Dibdins” (London, Harding and King, 1833). None of these songs appears to be in that collection; and a later hand has written “all unpublish’d 1851” above the title. The songs in this collection include “The Deserted Village” (ff. 3-4), “The Runaway” (12-13) and “Bacchus was a Gentleman” (16-17), among others.

Allen & Smith Company Account Book (Q-000021)

This account book, dating from 1860-1871, charts the rising fortunes of the Nevada City, California mining firm of Allen & Smith, formed by Henry Smith and Thomas Allen in April 1860. The ledger documents the company’s founding, the discovery of gold in May 1861, and the firm’s expansion with the opening of store in late 1862.

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Gabriela Mora Collection of Elena Garro (C0994)

The collection includes correspondence to and from Mexican author Elena Garro and Chilean American critic and scholar Gabriela Mora, a handwritten testament by Elena Garro and photographs of Gabriela Mora, Elena Garro, and Elena Garro’s daughter, Helena Paz Garro. Added to the existing collection are eight audio cassette tapes containing unpublished interviews and readings of Elena Garro, conducted by Gabriela Mora done in New York City in 1974 and in Spain in 1979.

American Civil Liberties Union Records: Subgroup 4 (MC001.04)

Series 6: September 2015 Accession, 1971-2004, includes records that represent a broad range of the ACLU’s activities in the late twentieth and early twenty-first century. In particular, this series documents the ACLU’s Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and AIDS Project; Racial Justice Program; Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project; Women’s Rights Project; and the office of the Legal Director. To a lesser extent, this series includes records from the Reproductive Freedom Project and National Prison Project.

Association on American Indian Affairs Records (MC147)

Series 16: 2015 Accession, 1975-2015, consists of three boxes of notes, reports, government documents, briefs and other legal materials, correspondence, memoranda, and instructional materials (produced by the American Indian Lawyer Training Program, Inc. and the Indian Law Support Center of the Native American Rights Fund, among others). These materials pertain to the protection of natural resources, religious freedom, the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA), the Native American Grave Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) and repatriation issues more broadly, and other issues of concern to the AAIA. The series also contains two boxes of packets from the AAIA’s board meetings and teleconferences.

Photograph by Marie Kempton Phillips, circa 1905, from the Phillips Family Papers.

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Rodolfo Alonso Correspondence and Photographs (C1439)

Rodolfo Alonso is an Argentine poet, translator, essayist, and editor. The collection includes Alonso’s correspondence with various Latin American writers including Carlos Drummond de Andrade, Raúl Gustavo Aguirre, Juan Gelman, Augusto Roa Bastos, Juan José Saer, Ernesto Sábato, Lêdo Ivo, Hector Tizón, Edgar Bayley, António Ramos Rosa, Milton de Lima Sousa, and Claudio Magris. In addition, the collection includes photographs of Alonso throughout his career with many Latin American figures as well as a personal collection of his family and travels.

Phillips Family Papers (C1387)

Consists of photographs, manuscripts, diaries, and ephemera relating to Edward H. Phillips (1868-1944), his wife Marie Kempton Phillips (1881-1946), and their daughter Jean Sarah Phillips (1908–1985) that document ranch life in and around Montana around the turn of the 20th century as well as Ed Phillips’ involvement in Wild West shows, including Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show, and his career as a Hollywood actor. Notably, there are over 550 negatives taken by Marie Kempton Phillips with a hand-held camera dating from circa 1904 to 1938, many of which depict life on a Montana ranch, novelty steer riding and rodeo scenes, horse races and other performances, branding, cattle, wagon trains, horse-breaking, and more.

“The Adventures of Dido Queen of Carthage” Manuscript (C0938 no. 686q)

The author of this manuscript, dated 1804, was likely Rebecca Ricardo Keyser (1778-1838), mother of British financier Charles Keyser (1814-1892). A fictional retelling of the story of Dido of Carthage, it counters Virgil’s depiction of the character in his Aeneid. The narrative is essentially the one told by Pompeius Trogus, which was superseded by Virgil’s portrayal of Dido as the hapless lover of Aeneas. In her preface, the author warns the reader: “The lover of Virgil, accustomed to view Dido only as the bride of Aeneas, may avert his eye with disdain from beholding this illustrious fair one under any other form; and while his mind is impressed with the glowing picture of the mantuan bard delineating the sorrows of a being deserted by the man she loved … he must remember that Aeneas, not Dido, was the hero of this poem.” Explaining her intentions, the author also states “I have endeavoured to prove that a refined love is not incompatible with the higher duties of life; I have endeavoured to free my heroine from those puerile feelings the attendant of little minds, and have shewn that a virtuous passion can be exalted to an intellectual sentiment.”

H. Freeman Matthews, Jr. Papers (MC277)

H. Freeman Matthews, Jr. (1927-2006) was a career Foreign Service officer, serving with the State Department from 1952 to 1991. The collection consists of materials documenting Matthews Jr.’s service with the State Department, in particular, his time as Deputy Chief of Mission in Cairo from 1976 to 1980.

R. W. Apple Papers (MC278)

R. W. Apple, Jr. (1934-2006) was a journalist, correspondent and editor at the New York Times. Apple covered a variety of topics including war, revolution, politics and government, and food and drink. The collection is composed of Apple’s research for his travel writings on various cities, countries, and chefs. The research is comprised of reporter’s notebooks, annotated menus, maps, and news clippings. The accession includes correspondence, personal documents such as baptismal records, marriage licenses, and family photographs.

William Jovanovich Papers (C1505)

William Jovanovich (1920-2001) was an American publisher, author, and businessman, who led the publishing firm Harcourt Brace Jovanovich from 1954 to 1991, as president and later as chief executive officer. The collection consists of Jovanovich’s author and publisher files, including an extensive file on Charles A. Lindbergh, along with correspondence, writings, personal and family papers, memorabilia, and other files documenting his career as a major American publisher in the 20th century, his creative pursuits in fiction and nonfiction, and his interest in Yugoslav literature and textbook publishing. Notable figures represented in the author files include Svetlana Alliluyeva, Hannah Arendt, Matija Bećković, Sylvia Beach, Arthur C. Clarke, Edward Dahlberg, Milovan Djilas, e. e. cummings, T. S. Eliot, E. M. Forster, Hiram Haydn, Helen Hayes, Irving Howe, Jerzy Kosiński, Anita Loos, Marshall McLuhan, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Lewis Mumford, V. S. Pritchett, Erich Maria Remarque, Richard Rovere, Carl Sandburg, William Saroyan, Vasilēs Vasilikos, Andy Warhol, and Leonard Woolf.

German Devotional Miscellany, circa 1510-1540 (Princeton MS. 234)

One-volume collection of devotional texts and prayers in German and Latin, which were copied over a period of 30 years by various German scribes on different paper stock. The manuscript, organized into twelve booklets, was probably compiled for Euphemia Pirckheimer (1486-1557), abbess of the Benedictine convent of the Holy Cross at Bergen, in Neuburg an der Donau, Bavaria. She was the sister of the German humanists Caritas Pirckheimer (1467-1532) and Willibald Pirckheimer (1470-1530).