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  • J. P. Droz, French Place made: France Napoleon, 1809 Bronze diam. 6.8 cm. (2 11/16 in.) Gift of Mrs. Robert L. Stuart  at PUAM y1944-77 o
  • John Nash Undergraduate Photo, Princeton University Library

    Nash, John (1928-2015)

    Noted mathematician John Nash, Jr. (1928-2015) received his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1950. The impact of his 27 page dissertation on the fields of mathematics and economics was tremendous. In 1951 he joined the faculty of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge. His battle with schizophrenia began around 1958, and the struggle with this illness would continue for much of his life. Nash eventually returned to the community of Princeton. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1994. The 2001 film A Beautiful Mind, staring Russell Crowe, was loosely based on the life of Nash.

  • Native American History

    Native American History

    Collections include the papers of individuals, records of organizations that have historically influenced policy toward American Indians, photographs of American Indians, and the records of American Indian groups.

  • Image of Victoria from Abraham Ortelius's map “Maris Pacifici . . .” (Antwerp, 1595). [Historic Maps Collection]
  • “The Library of Grand Vizier Ragib Pasha,”  engraving in the  Tableau général de l’empire othoman  by Ignatius Mouradgea d’Ohsson  published in Paris, 1787-1790.
  • New Jerseyana

    Use to retrieve collections of and about the state of New Jersey, the town of Princeton, and New Jerseyans, from the 17th through the 21st centuries. Politicians and statesmen, including several governors, and prominent local families are represented. Original deeds and legal documents as well as subject files about aspects of state history are available. [Use photograph of dress of NJ Governor Jonathan Belcher’s wife, C1007.]

  • Frontispiece to: [Masen, Jakob] Wolverdientes Capitel welches neulich die beyden  weitbeschrienen Jesuiten. 1644. [(Ex) AP1 .F64q, item 303]
  • Non-western Manuscripts

    Non-western Manuscripts

    See https://library.princeton.edu/special-collections/divisions/manuscripts-division for Islamic and Ethiopic.

    See also SKEMER, DON C. “THE GARRETT COLLECTION REVISITED.” Princeton University Library Chronicle, vol. 56, no. 3, 1995, pp. 420–428. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/26509251

     

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