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Are you local? We have new stickers to give away at Mudd Library, including one of the original plans for this clock.

The real clock currently hangs above the circulation desk at Princeton University's Firestone Library. The clock, designed in 1948, was patterned after four common watermarks of Renaissance papermakers.

A heart in the palm and a star above is at 12 o'clock, signifying the motto “laborare est orare” or “to work is to pray.” At three o’clock, the unicorn symbolizes “purity and strength.” Six o’clock depicts the Bright and Morning Star, a reference to Jesus in the Book of Revelation. At nine o’clock, a greyhound is shown a bell around its neck. The dog represents the pursuit of knowledge, while the bell represents “acute preaching.”

The blueprint of this, as well as other “special” clocks, is from the Office of Physical Planning Records (AC154). This one is Drawing No. 205.

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Though unrecognizable to us now, this was one of the suggested plans for Princeton University's main campus library ca. 1945, found in Firestone Architectural Drawings Collection (AC411), Box 1. For reference, this is how the library actually turned out:

Firestone Library, ca. 1950s. Historical Photograph Collection, Grounds and Buildings Series (AC111), Box AD04, No 8323.

G. B. Moment, Class of 1928, had this to say on April 17, 1936 about the future campus library, after suggesting that Princeton avoid more Gothic architecture in favor of something more modern:

The library itself would then stand as a monument to the renunciation of sentimentality and sham and obscurantism and at the same time proclaim the spirit (rather than the letter) of the cathedral builders themselves who constructed to the highest that they knew, both conceptually and technically, rather than, with a debilitating combination of cowardice, indolence, and lack of vision, produce competent reproductions of the signatures of past ages.

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Throwback Thursday: Using the Princeton University Library catalog in Firestone Library, ca. 1975.

Photo from 1975 Bric-a-Brac

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Throwback Thursday: Princeton University’s Firestone Library on a snowy day, ca. 1950s. (You can’t park here anymore.)

Historical Photograph Collection, Grounds and Buildings Series (AC111), Box AD04, Image 8323

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Throwback Thursday: A Special Collections researcher in Princeton University’s Firestone Library.

Historical Photograph Collection, Grounds and Buildings Series (AC111), Box MP59, Image No. 2246

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Fencing, barricades, and gates of Princeton University, 1830s-1980s:

1. A white fence around the campus of the College of New Jersey (as Princeton University was then named), John H. Bufford lithograph, 1836. Nassau Hall Iconography Collection (AC177), Box 1.

2. The fence in front of Princeton’s Nassau Hall, 1860. Historical Photograph Collection, Grounds and Buildings Series (AC111), Box MP66, Image No. 2629.

3. Fencing in fields surrounding the campus of the College of New Jersey (as it was then named) in Princeton, 1868, with the “Dinky” going by and with students playing baseball in the background. Historical Photograph Collection, Grounds and Buildings Series (AC111), Box MP16, Image No. 383.

4. The Alligator Club (one of the ephemeral Princeton eating clubs that predated clubhouses) behind a fence, 1879. Historical Photograph Collection, Campus Life Series, Box LP66, Image No. 4100.

5. Postcard depicting the FitzRandolph Gateway and fence along Nassau Street at Princeton University, ca. 1905. Historical Postcard Collection (AC045), Box 4.

6. View of Blair Hall through the Dodge Memorial Gateway, ca. 1930s. Historical Photograph Collection, Grounds and Buildings Series (AC111), Box MP15, Image No. 370.

7. A couple on a fence at Princeton University, ca. 1958. This photo looks like it was probably taken near Princeton’s Lake Carnegie. Photo from 1959 Bric-a-Brac.

8. Barricades surrounding Princeton University’s Firestone Library during renovations, 1969. Historical Photograph Collection, Grounds and Buildings Series (AC111), Box SP04, Image No. 1072.

9. The sidewalk outside Princeton University’s FitzRandolph Gateway on Nassau Street, ca. 1970s. Historical Photograph Collection, Grounds and Buildings Series (AC111), Box SP03, Image No. 689.

10. “GO TIGERS” on a chain link fence at Princeton University, ca. 1984. Photo from 1984 Bric-a-Brac.

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Throwback Thursday: A student at Princeton University’s Firestone Library, ca. 1974.

Gwendolyn (Steele) Fortson Waring Third World Center and Black Collegiate Life Photographs (AC458)

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Firestone Library, ca. 1949. Historical Photograph Collection, Grounds and Buildings Series (AC111), Box AD04, Image No. 8349.

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