By the numbers

A set of notes transcribed from lectures on moral philosophy delivered by President John Witherspoon in Nassau Hall in 1772. (photo: Courtesy of Princeton University Archives)

Established in 1959, the Princeton University Archives holds faculty and student files, administrative records, photographs, publications, correspondence, recordings, films and other materials that document the history of Princeton University from its establishment as the College of New Jersey in 1746. First housed in Firestone Library, the University Archives has been located in the Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library since 1976.

• The University Archives consists of more 15,000 linear feet of records. It has more than 348 collections. A project to create an online catalog and finding aids for all of the University Archives’ collections was completed in August 2007.
• More than 5,000 researchers utilize the University Archives’ services each year, including more than 1,200 who visit Mudd Library in person annually.
• The holdings include more than 100,000 photographs, dating from 1852 to the present.
• The oldest record in the collections is Volume 1 of the minutes of the Board of Trustees (dates from 1748).
• The University Archives holds 58,330 senior theses from 1926 to the present, with some 1,100 added to the collections each year. More than 1,000 senior theses were viewed in the last academic year.
• In the 2007-08 academic year, the University Archives circulated 4,515 items and filled 459 photocopy orders totaling 65,673 pages.

To see the University Archives’ online catalog, visit www.princeton.edu/mudd.

See the related article in this edition of the PWB.