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William R. Scott, Inc. records, 1938-1997, bulk 1938-1960

7 Linear Feet
Contains original artwork, including drawings, color separations, and reproduction proofs, for children's books published by William R. Scott, Inc.
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Western film lobby card and poster collection, 1916-1981

5.37 Linear Feet
The collection consists primarily of lobby cards, posters, and promotional fliers, relating to western films made from 1916 to the 1980s. There are also some pressbooks and photographs in the collection. Represented within the collection are works by notable directors, such as John Ford, Howard Hawks, Allan Dwan, Henry King, Billy Wilder, Roman Polanski, William S. Hart, Sergio Leone, André de Toth, Nicholas Ray, Raoul Walsh, Anthony Mann, and Sam Peckinpah. Also represented are works featuring notable western stars, such as William S. Hart, William Boyd as Hopalong Cassidy, Gene Autry, Roy Rogers, Buck Jones, and Harry Carey, among others. Highlights include original posters for Stagecoach (1939), directed by John Ford, and the original poster for the Italian release of Per qualche dollaro in più (For a Few Dollars More) (1965).
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Connecticut State Library, State Archives

Department of Housing records, 1943-1994

The Department of Housing handled all matters relating to housing and community development, including policy, development, redevelopment, preservation, maintenance and improvement of housing and neighborhoods.
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Connecticut State Library, State Archives

War Council records, 1940-1945

After war broke out in Europe in 1939, the State created the State Defense Council, similar to the one during the First World War. It coordinated domestic mobilization through advisory committees of leading citizens, local councils and public officials, and agencies of the U.S. government. By 1943, this body was known as the War Council. It went out of business on October 1, 1945.
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Walter L. Pforzheimer papers, 1548-2001, bulk 1940-1995

133.09 Linear Feet
The Walter L. Pforzheimer Papers contain personal correspondence, diaries, writings, notes, and family papers; correspondence, reports, and other documents relating to the United States Army during World War II, the Central Intelligence Agency, the CIA's Historical Intelligence Collection, and the United States Defense Intelligence College; historical manuscripts and related materials collected by Pforzheimer concerning the history of military intelligence, including autograph documents, signed, by European heads of state and American presidents, seventeenth-twentieth centuries; prints, posters, and newspapers, including rare seventeenth-twentieth century items relating to Molie?re and other subjects; framed oil paintings and prints; book collecting notes, lists, vendor receipts, and card catalogs; rare postage stamps, including propaganda and forgeries; photographs, glass and film negatives, glass stereographs, and photograph albums; video and audio recordings, including interviews with Pforzheimer and presentations by him; microfilms; computer disks; and objects collected by Pforzheimer, including Molie?re medals, military decorations, and memorabilia relating to his intelligence career.
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Unidentified Acquisitions 0.29 Linear Feet

Contains historical manuscripts and related materials collected by Pforzheimer concerning the history of military intelligence. These materials are part of one or more of the acquisitions listed above, but were not included in preliminary processing.

    November 2000 Acquisition 46.46 Linear Feet

    Subseries reflect a partial sort conducted during preliminary processing; actual contents overlap between subseries. The Military Intelligence subseries contains materials relating to Pforzheimer's military service and CIA career. The Historical Manuscripts subseries contains manuscripts and related materials collected by Pforzheimer concerning the history of military intelligence, roughly subdivided by country or time period. The Military Intelligence and Personal Papers subseries contains materials similar to the first two subseries, as well as documentation of Pforzheimer's book and manuscript collecting; postage stamps collected by him; family papers; photographic materials, prints, and visual art; audio and video recordings; and objects.

      January 2005 Acquisition 0.63 Linear Feet

      Contains a small amount of materials similar to other acquisition groupings, including papers relating to Pforzheimer's intelligence career, and computer disks.

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        F. O. Matthiessen papers, 1900-1964

        23.76 Linear Feet
        The F. O. Matthiessen Papers document the work and life of historian, literary critic, and educator F. O. Matthiessen. The papers consist of personal and professional correspondence, drafts of writings, notebooks, agendas, teaching materials, photographs, printed materials, and personal papers, spanning the years 1900-1964. The bulk of the collection consists of Matthiessen's correspondence and writing drafts and original material collected by Louis Hyde in the process of researching and writing Rat & the Devil: Journal Letters of F. O. Matthiessen and Russell Cheney.
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        June 1995 Acquisition, 1924-1945, undated 6 Linear Feet

        This acquisition consists of correspondence, writings and a small amount of other papers, collected by Louis Hyde in the process of writing Rat and the Devil: Journal Letters of F. O. Matthiessen and Russell Cheney (1988). The bulk of the correspondence is original correspondence between Matthiessen and Cheney, with some photocopies. Hyde's notes and handwritten labels are on the folders.

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          William S. Reese Collection of Robert Graves, 1916-1987, bulk 1920-1980

          2.89 Linear Feet

          Papers relating to English author Robert Graves and his literary and social circle, collected by William S. Reese. The papers contain correspondence, 1916-1987 and undated, most autograph letters, signed, from Graves to correspondents including Desmond Flower, Dorothy and Ward Hutchinson, Violet and Walter McCormack, W. S. Merwin, Albert R. Mills, Frank Sanders, Siegfried Sassoon, Martin Secker, and other literary colleagues, friends, and family, with third-party correspondence about Graves, including letters from Beryl Graves, Siegfried Sassoon, and Laura (Riding) Jackson; autograph manuscript poems, 1920s-1960s; drafts, proofs, and correspondence relating to his novel An Ancient Castle, 1980-1981; a galley proof for Old Soldier Sahib, a memoir by Frank Richards, 1936; photographs of Graves, 1917-1934 and undated; a watercolor caricature of Graves by Sassoon, 1926; other correspondence and ephemera removed from books owned or inscribed by Graves, 1920s-1930s and undated; a storage box owned by a literary agent of Graves, undated; and exhibit labels for "Robert Graves: A Centennial Exhibition," curated by Reese at the Grolier Club, 1995.

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          Joseph W. and Kit Reed Papers, 1905-2015, bulk 1950-2008

          112.27 Linear Feet
          The Joseph W. and Kit Reed Papers contain correpondence, writings by Joseph and Kit Reed and others, notes and research papers, personal and professional papers, financial papers, photographs, artwork, printed material, audiocassettes and videocassettes, scrapbooks, and computer disks. The papers document their personal and professional lives and artistic endeavors.
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          September and December 1997 Acquisitions

          Files, papers and correspondence of Kit Reed relating to the Indo-U. S. Writer's Conference 6-9 January 1992 at Sahitya Akademi in New Delhi, India. Also includes Inscribed to the Beinecke Library by Paul Mellon and signed by John Basket.

          1. 1997 Acquisitions, 1992-1998
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          Barbara Hammer papers, 1920-2018

          110.50 Linear Feet
          The Barbara Hammer Papers, which span from 1920 to 2018, contain writings, research materials, and documentation related to Hammer's films and artwork including Nitrate Kisses, Resisting Paradise, and Lover Other. The papers also contain correspondence, clippings, ephemera, audiovisual materials, and electronic media related to her life and work.
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          Judy Blume papers, 1952-2017

          120.84 Linear Feet
          The Judy Blume papers consist of correspondence, manuscripts, printed material, audiovisual material, computer media, and personal and other papers documenting the life and work of American author Judy Blume.
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