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This Week in Princeton History for September 22-28
For last week’s installment in our ongoing series bringing you the history of Princeton University and its students and alumni, click here. George Washington attends Commencement, Dr. Patch Adams speaks in McCosh 50, and more. September 23, 1946—A record-breaking 2,350 people attend the University’s bicentennial Convocation in the Chapel, with a sermon by the Archbishop of Canterbury.…
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This Week in Princeton History for September 15-21
For last week’s installment in our ongoing series bringing you the history of Princeton University and its students and alumni, click here. For the week of September 15-21: Woodrow Wilson makes a move into politics, a new Pablo Picasso sculpture is under construction, and more. September 15, 1910—The New Jersey Democratic Convention nominates Princeton University President Woodrow…
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WWI European Pamphlet Collection Now Available Online
Written by Elizabeth Bennett 1914: War Breaks Out in Europe! We are pleased to announce the availability of a large digital collection of pamphlets documenting World War I in Europe. These pamphlets were collected by the Princeton University Library starting from the outbreak of the war, as part of a larger European War Collection, and…
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This Week in Princeton History for September 8-14
For last week’s installment in our ongoing series bringing you the history of Princeton University and its students and alumni, click here. For the week of September 8-14: The College goes coed, a NASCAR champion talks with engineering students, the first African American joins the faculty, and more. September 8, 1969—The College goes coed, as 171 women join the…
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This Week in Princeton History for September 1-7
For last week’s installment in our ongoing series bringing you the history of Princeton University and its students and alumni, click here. For the week of September 1-7: The Princeton Bulletin marvels at the novelty of getting Labor Day off, a student competes in the Miss America pageant, and more. September 1, 2010—The Carl A. Fields Papers are…
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This Week in Princeton History for August 25-31
Here at the Princeton University Archives we love to bring the history of the school, students and alumni to life by sharing what happened “This Week in Princeton History,” which will be an ongoing series here on our blog. For the week of August 25-31: Nassau Hall hosts the first legislature of New Jersey, an…
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Archival Description Group Wins National Award
The University Library’s Archival Description Working Group has won another award for its efforts in finding new ways to deliver information about our collections to our users. The Society of American Archivists will present the C.F.W Coker Award to the group in August for findingaids.princeton.edu, the University Library’s interface for descriptions of Princeton archives and…
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American Civil Liberties Union Records Processing Project Update
The Mudd Library has reached an important mile stone in the ACLU Records Processing Project: completing the collection inventories. We now have a list of what is in each of the 2,500 boxes in the collection. These boxes remain closed to research until July 1, 2012 pending a review for restricted materials. However, researchers wishing…
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New Public Policy Accessions: May – June 2011
There’s a scene in a documentary about the French philosopher Jacques Derrida where Derrida visits UC Irvine (where he had donated his personal papers). The philosopher, going through the rows of newly-processed collections, comments that the gray archival boxes on the shelves look like little gravestones. For someone whose best-known axiom was that "there is…
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The ACLU Records: Tips for processing 2400 feet in two years
The following entry relates to our ongoing American Civil Liberties Union processing project previously described here and here. Processing, regardless of the size of the collection, has many common features: In almost all cases, you survey the boxes to see what is there, decide what to keep and how it will be organized, arrange the…
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