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Student Autograph Books and Collegiate Friendships
by Thomas Balcerski | Antebellum (1820-1861), Civil War (1861-1865)
Antebellum autograph books reveal the intimate, cross-sectional friendships northern and southern Princeton students formed in the years before the Civil War.
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Dolley Madison
| Colonial & Early National (1746-1820)
A portrait of Dolley Madison, First Lady of the United States.

Cyrus McCormick
Unknown | Reconstruction to Present (1865-)
An engraving of Cyrus McCormick by George Smillie.

Jonathan Edwards Jr.
1842 | Colonial & Early National (1746-1820), Antebellum (1820-1861)
Engraving of Jonathan Edwards Jr. (class of 1765), Congregationalist minister and early antislavery advocate.

Robert F. Stockton
1840 | Antebellum (1820-1861)
Engraved portrait of Robert F. Stockton, an officer in the United States Navy who acquired the territory that would become Liberia on behalf of the American Colonization Society in 1821.

Robert Lenox
| Colonial & Early National (1746-1820)
Portrait of Robert Lenox (1759-1839), Princeton trustee and slaveholder
News

New Work by American Artist Titus Kaphar to Be Unveiled November 8th
Princeton University Art Museum Press Release, 10/12/2017
A new sculpture by leading American artist Titus Kaphar will be installed in front of Princeton University’s Maclean House.

Titus Kaphar Talks Art, University Connections to Slavery
The Daily Princetonian, 11/17/17
Titus Kaphar, an African-American painter and sculptor whose works are featured in the Museum of Modern Art, discussed the intersection between racism and Princeton University’s history in a lecture on campus.