• Introduction
• Biographical Sketch
• Collection Description
• Box Listing

Introduction

Range of Collection Dates: 1834-1969

Size: 15.1 linear feet (21 archival boxes, 2 record center cartons, 2 oversize flat boxes)

Photocopying, literary rights, and citation: Single photocopies may be made for research purposes. No further photoduplication of copies of material in the collection can be made when Princeton University Library does not own the original. Permission to publish material from the collection must be requested from the Associate University Librarian for Rare Books and Special Collections. The library has no information on the status of literary rights in the collection and researchers are responsible for determining any questions of copyright. Citations should be as follows: D. Van Nostrand Company Collection of Edward M. Crane, Box #, Folder #, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library.

Biographical Sketch

Collection Description

Consists of records compiled by Edward M. Crane, Jr., relating to the D. Van Nostrand Company. Included are letters by family and friends to David Van Nostrand (1811-1866), the founder of the company (1848); correspondence and documents of the Crane family, mainly concerning investments in the Van Nostrand Company; letters of congratulations for Edward M. Crane, Jr., on becoming president of the company in 1964; financial statements and ledgers; budget records; profit and loss statements; departmental breakdowns; director's and general meeting minutes; stock and bond certificates; personal and business photographs; catalogs of Edward M. Crane's rare book collection; D. Van Nostrand book catalogs; miscellaneous printed matter; a large framed architect's drawing (1955) for the D. Van Nostrand Company office building in Princeton, N.J.; publication budget files (1957-1962); business transactions with Elsevier Publishing Company; financial statements; Committee to Defend America files (1940s); information about Edward M. Crane's book collection; information about the Princeton University Library fund in memory of Edward M. Crane; speeches by Edward M. Crane, Jr.; and miscellaneous materials.

Arrangement

The collection is currently unprocessed, but materials have been roughly sorted into boxes by form and genre.

Added Entries

The following added entries have been assigned to this collection to highlight significant sources (other than the main entry), subjects, and forms of the collection's materials. Where possible Library of Congress Subjects Headings have been used, and the forms of names reflect international cataloging standards. As a result, all of these entries may be searched in the Library's online catalog, the Department's database (MASC), and other bibliographic catalogs, to find related material.

    Subject Headings (in uppercase) / Form Headings (in upper and lower case):

    Book collectors--New York (State)--20th century--Catalogs
    D. VAN NOSTRAND COMPANY
    Princeton University--Alumni (Class of 1945)--Correspondence
    Publishers and publishing--New Jersey--Princeton--20th century--Records
    Publishers and publishing--New York (N.Y.)--19th century--Correspondence
    Publishers and publishing--New York (N.Y.)--19th century--Records
    Publishers and publishing--New York (N.Y.)--20th century--Correspondence
    Publishers and publishing--New York (N.Y.)--20th century--Records
    SCIENCE PUBLISHING--UNITED STATES--19TH CENTURY
    SCIENCE PUBLISHING--UNITED STATES--20TH CENTURY
    Stock certificates--United States--20th century
    TECHNICAL PUBLISHING--UNITED STATES--19TH CENTURY
    TECHNICAL PUBLISHING--UNITED STATES--20TH CENTURY
    Van Nostrand, David, 1811-1886--Photographs

Box Listing