The Shelby White and Leon Levy Archives Center of the Institute for Advanced Study

The Shelby White and Leon Levy Archives Center of the Institute for Advanced Study is located in the Historical Studies-Social Science Library.

The mailing address is:

The Shelby White and Leon Levy Archives Center
Institute for Advanced Study
Historical Studies-Social Science Library
Einstein Drive
Princeton, NJ 08540

Staff is available from Monday - Friday 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. by appointment only

Our reading room, in the Annex of the Historical Studies-Social Science Library, is open from 10 to 12 and 2-4 Monday through Friday, with additional hours available by appointment. This space features a display case and exhibits rotate regularly. We are currently featuring a selection of items from the Archives.

For further information, please call (609) 734-8375
FAX (609) 951-4515
e-mail:

Scope
The records in the 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. Papers of individuals for the most part have been placed elsewhere.

Finding aids for Institute records:

• 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 Schools of Economics and Politics / Humanistic Studies

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

• John Bahcall
• Ernst Kantorowicz (small number of lectures only)
• Otto Neugebauer
• The Archives Center has a small collection of items related to Hermann Weyl and will post a finding aid very soon. Please contact us if you would like to be notified.

Personal papers of Institute-affiliated individuals held elsewhere:

• Albert Einstein; Einstein Archives Online
• 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)
• 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)
• Benjamin Dean Meritt (American Philosophical Society)
• Marston Morse (Harvard University Archives)
• John von Neumann (Library of Congress)
• J. Robert Oppenheimer (Library of Congress)
• Abraham Pais (Rockefeller Archive Center)
• Erwin Panofsky (Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution)
• Homer A. Thompson (American School of Classical Studies at Athens)
• Oswald Veblen (Library of Congress)
• Hermann Weyl (ETH Zurich)
• Hassler Whitney (Harvard University Archives)

Digital Archives
The digital collection already includes several Electronic Computer Project reports and other documents.

Services
The Shelby White and Leon Levy Archives Center of the Institute for Advanced Study provides reference service with access to all non-restricted materials to all researchers.

Photocopying is available at twenty cents per copy, as long as the photocopying process will not harm the items being copied. Photocopying must be done by the archives staff, and thus an order of more than a few pages may mean a slight delay for the researcher in obtaining the copies. Duplication of photographs is available to the researcher, assuming no copyright restrictions apply.

Individuals are welcome to bring digital cameras into our reading room to make images for personal use.

Access
Holdings are available for research, subject to some restrictions placed by offices and donors. Researchers sign a registration form that includes an agreement to abide by rules governing use.

Visitors are advised that some form of photographic identification is required for access to the The Shelby White and Leon Levy Archives Center of the Institute for Advanced Study.

The Shelby White and Leon Levy Archives Center of the Institute for Advanced Study
(609) 734-8375
FAX (609) 951-4515
e-mail: