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Meet Mudd’s Jarrett M. Drake
Name/Title: Jarrett M. Drake, Digital Archivist Responsibilities: As the digital archivist at Mudd, I’m responsible for the development, implementation, and execution of processes that facilitate the effective acquisition, description, preservation, and access of born-digital archival collections acquired by the University Archives. The emphasis on ‘born-digital’ is to distinguish my work from that of digitization, which…
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Lost and Found: Segregation and the South
By Dan Linke and Brenda Tindal A recently donated film long thought lost has been digitized and is now viewable online. “Segregation and the South,” a film produced in 1957 by the Fund for the Republic, reported on race issues in the South since the 1954 Supreme Court decision in the Brown v. Board of…
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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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When did people start referring to the College of New Jersey as Princeton?
Dear Mr. Mudd: Q: From your FAQ website: “In 1896, when expanded program offerings brought the College university status, the College of New Jersey was officially renamed Princeton University in honor of its host community of Princeton.” I am currently editing a novel that includes both Nassau Hall and Princeton; would the use of “Princeton”…
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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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Allen Dulles and the Warren Commission
The 50th anniversary of John F. Kennedy’s death on Friday, November 22, has brought renewed attention to the Warren Commission and its conclusions on the assassination. Then-retired CIA Director Allen Dulles served on the commission and the Mudd Manuscript Library recently digitized five boxes of Dulles’ personal files documenting his work on the commission as…
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Kennan on Kennedy: “Dismal Foreboding for the Future of this Country”
George Kennan, like so many others, remembered exactly where he was and what he did upon hearing the news of John F. Kennedy’s death: “I had been at a luncheon when I heard he had been shot, but on returning to the office shortly afterward I received confirmation of his death. My reaction, in addition…
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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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