Guide to Topics
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TARKINGTON, BOOTH (1869-1946)
Booth Tarkington (1869–1946), native of Indianapolis and student at Purdue and Princeton universities (Princeton Class of 1893), was perhaps Indiana's most famous author, both as a playwright and as novelist. His best-known works were written in the first decades of the twentieth century: The Gentleman from Indiana (1899), Penrod (1910), Seventeen (1917), The Magnificent Ambersons (1918), and Alice Adams (1921). The last two won Pulitzer Prizes.
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THE SCHEIDE LIBRARY
See Collections > Scheide Library
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Theater/Film
Use to retrieve collections related to actors/performers of the stage and screen, dramatists, screenwriters, and Princeton University-sponsored performance organizations. Subjects include ballet, circus, dance, drama, film, opera, radio, television, and vaudeville, There are large collections of theater playbills and playscripts, radio scripts, and Hollywood screenplays and film stills.
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Travel
Use to retrieve collections documenting journeys taken by 19th and 20th-century travelers in diaries, correspondence, photographs, and scrapbooks. Princeton University-sponsored 19th-century scientific expeditions and overland trips to California before and during the Gold Rush period are some of the types of travel represented. [Use a photograph from Richard Halliburton Papers, C0247.]
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Trollope, Anthony (1815-1882)
See Morris L. Parrish Collection of Victorian Novelists