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Historic Maps

Sanborn maps of Princeton : clicking on each map now takes you to Wangyal's GIS software, for zooming, etc.:

http://libweb5.princeton.edu/visual_materials/maps/princeton/sanborn/sanborn-pr.html

The traveller's directory, or A pocket companion: showing the course of the main road from Philadelphia to New York , and from Philadelphia to Washington ... From actual survey. By S.S. Moore & T.W. Jones. Philadelphia : Printed for, and published by, Mathew Carey, 1802. Follow the strip maps (like AAA triptiks!)--they run through Princeton :

http://libweb5.princeton.edu/visual_materials/maps/carey1802/titlepage.html

Novus atlas Sinensis / à Martino Martinio Soc. Iesu descriptus ; et seren.mo archiduci Leopoldo Guilielmo Austriaco dedicatus. [ Amsterdam : Blaeu, 1655]. First Western atlas of China . See the maps:

http://libweb5.princeton.edu/visual_materials/maps/martini1655/contents.html

Nouvel atlas de la Chine, de la Tartarie chinoise et du Thibet . . . A La Haye : Chez Henri Scheurleer, 1737. D'Anville's atlas that follows upon ground broken by previous item. See the maps:

http://libweb5.princeton.edu/visual_materials/maps/danville1737/contents.html

Public Policy Papers

George Ball Papers. The Undersecretary of State during the Kennedy and Johnson administration who was an early and passionate opponent of the Vietnam War:

http://infoshare1.princeton.edu/libraries/firestone/rbsc/finding_aids/ball/index.html

William Bundy Papers. The State and Defense Department official during the Kennedy and Johnson administration, who later served as editor of the journal, Foreign Affairs.

http://infoshare1.princeton.edu/libraries/firestone/rbsc/finding_aids/bundy3.html

William E. Colby Papers. Director of Central Intelligence from 1973-1976.

http://infoshare1.princeton.edu/libraries/firestone/rbsc/finding_aids/colby.html

University Archives  

Princeton University Presidents' Records, 1746-1956. Documents the tenures of Princeton 's first 15 presidents, including John Witherspoon, James McCosh, Woodrow Wilson, and Harold Dodds.

http://infoshare1.princeton.edu/libraries/firestone/rbsc/finding_aids/PresRecs/Index.html

The Communications Office Records consist of subject files created by the University's various public information departments, some dating to the 1920s, when the first Director of Public Relations was appointed.

http://infoshare1.princeton.edu/libraries/firestone/rbsc/finding_aids/communic/

The Special Committee on the Structure of the University examined Princeton University 's governance and explored how it could be more inclusive of the university community in making decisions.  The Kelley Committee, as it came to be known, was responsible for the establishment of the Council of the Princeton University Community (CPUC).

http://infoshare1.princeton.edu/libraries/firestone/rbsc/finding_aids/kelleycomm.html

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