Collections : [Yale University -Manuscripts and Archives]

The records consist of correspondence, letter books, financial papers, reports, and recommendations documenting the period of planning and construction of the Astronomical Observatory, also known as the Yale University Observatory. Notable contributors to the records include Leonard Waldo, astronomer in charge of the Horological Bureau of the Observatory; Robert Brown, secretary of the Board of Managers; and Hubert A. Newton, director of the observatory.

The records consist of bound volumes of minutes, memoranda, reports, and correspondence of the Yale Athletic Governing Board, formerly the Athletic Association Board of Athletic Control.

The collection consists of autographed correspondence, printed material, and photographs of government figures such as Woodrow Wilson, Harry S. Truman, Dwight D. Eisenhower, and their colleagues. Printed material and ephemera pertaining to the United Nations Conference on International Organization, San Francisco, 1945, is included in the collection.

The materials consist of photographs of various Audit Department offices, buildings, and record-keeping systems.

The records consist of reports, subject files, and memoranda of the Yale Auditing Office. The records document salaries, investments, fellowships, building and maintenance funds, insurance, payroll and benefits, and research expenses.

Chiefly student papers of Augustus H. Strong during his attendance at Yale College (1855-1857), and at the Rochester Theological Seminary (1857-1859). Also included are fifteen sermons and other addresses, and the typescript for his book, American Poets and their Theology, published in 1916.

Correspondence, engineering notebooks, lectures, and manuscripts on engineering, poems, plays, newspaper clippings, and other printed matter. The correspondence is chiefly on engineering, but also contains three notes from Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. discussing science and religion. All of DuBois' poems and plays also deal with the topics of science and religion. Also included is his unpublished manuscript: Mechanics of Engineering.

The records consist of eight scrapbooks documenting the Yale Aurelian Honor Society. The scrapbooks include correspondence and an accounting ledger.

The papers consist of correspondence, diaries, manuscripts, photographs, and newspaper clippings, which document Austin Hawes's student life, his career as state forester of Connecticut, his controversial retirement from that position, and his travels in Central and South America. Also included are papers concerning his European travels, his job as state forester of Vermont, and as professor of history at the University of Vermont. Correspondents include Henry Graves and Gifford Pinchot.

An artificial collection of poetry, containing published or privately printed poems of an experimental nature, ca.1950-.