Collections and Finding Aids

The records in the Archives Center collection date from the 1930s and include official correspondence of the Director's Office, minutes of meetings of the Faculty and the Board of Trustees, correspondence concerning past Faculty and Members, records of the Electronic Computer Project, and the papers of select Faculty members. The archives also include the Institute's photograph collection and a growing oral history collection.

Institute records (links for finding aids are provided for some record groups):

• Records of the Board of Trustees
• Records of the Comptroller
• Records of the Office of the Director: Frank Aydelotte Files
  
• Records of the Office of the Director: General Files
• Records of the Electronic Computer Project
• Records of the Electronic Computer Project: West Building Storage
• Records of the Office of the Director: Special Projects: Electronic Computer Project (ECP) subseries
• Records of the Office of the Director: Files by School series
  
• Records of the Schools of Economics and Politics / Humanistic Studies
• Records of the School of Historical Studies
• Records of the School of Mathematics
• Records of the School of Natural Sciences
• Records of the School of Social Science

Personal papers of Institute-affiliated individuals in the The Shelby White and Leon Levy Archives Center:

• John N. Bahcall
• Harish-Chandra
• Ernst Kantorowicz - small number of lectures only
• Deane Montgomery
• Otto Neugebauer
• Oswald Veblen - small amount of personal and financial records only; most papers at the Library of Congress (see below)
• Hermann Weyl collection - small amount of personal and professional correspondence and memorabilia
• Small manuscript collections
  • James R. Blackwood collection related to Albert Einstein
  • Marianne Iceland collection related to Albert Einstein and Josef Scharl
  • Louise Morse collection related to Marston Morse, Abraham Flexner, and Anne Crawford Flexner
  • Gerda Soergel Panofsky collection related to Erwin Panofsky

While we now welcome Faculty paper collections, before the Archives was formalized in 2009, papers of Institute-affiliated individuals were usually placed elsewhere. Personal papers of Institute-affiliated individuals held elsewhere include:

• Albert Einstein; Einstein Archives Online
• Jule Charney (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
• P. A. M. Dirac (Florida State University)
• Edward Mead Earle (Princeton University)
• Abraham Flexner (Library of Congress) and Flexner Family archives at Vanderbilt
• Paul Frankl (Princeton University)
• Clifford Geertz (University of Chicago)
• Felix Gilbert (Hoover Institution) (note that according to the institution's website, the papers are closed until December 2018)
• Kurt Gödel (on deposit at Princeton University)
• Herman Goldstine (Hampshire College and American Philosophical Society)
• Ernst Herzfeld (Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives, Smithsonian Institution)
• Albert Hirschman (Princeton University)
• Ernst Kantorowicz (Leo Baeck Institute)
• Carl Kaysen (J.F.K. Presidential Library & Museum)
• George Kennan (Princeton University)
• Elias A. Lowe (Morgan Library)
  
• Benjamin Dean Meritt (American Philosophical Society)
• Marston Morse (Harvard University Archives)
• J. Robert Oppenheimer (Library of Congress)
• Abraham Pais (Rockefeller Archive Center)
• Erwin Panofsky (Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution)
• Marshall Rosenbluth (University of California, San Diego)
• Homer A. Thompson (American School of Classical Studies at Athens)
• Oswald Veblen (Library of Congress)
• John von Neumann (Library of Congress)
• André Weil (Institut de France Academie des Sciences)
• Kurt Weitzmann (Princeton University)
• Hermann Weyl (ETH Zurich)
• Morton White (Harvard University Archives)
• Hassler Whitney (Harvard University Archives)