Collections

The following finding aid is a complete inventory of the contents of Osborn c357. This list was reformatted from previously existing cataloging.

16th (Sixteenth) Regiment Orderly Book (2011-88-0) is a collection of orders for the 16th Regiment of the Connecticut State Infantry. Three items are inserted in the front of the volume. The first is a Regimental Order from Col. Joseph Birge Jr. and William E. Dickinson (Birge's Adjutant) to Ezra H. Churchill. Folded with this order is a slip of the enrolled men of the regiment from October 10th, 1843. The thirditem is a second Regimental Order from Dickinson. The volume contains orders for the regiment to assemble for inspection, exercises, and drills. There are also charts for organizing the number of men or there supplies. Some charts list the names of everyone in the regiment on one axis and one the other list supplies such as swords, muskets, bayonet, cartridges, fife, etc and note how many of each item each person was assigned and a total at the bottom of the page.

The 17th (Seventeenth) Regiment Orderly Book (2011-89-0) was maintained from May 1, 1816 to Sept 3, 1827. The book contains general rolls which start May 1, 1816 and end May 7, 1827. The rolls list every member of the regiment that year, when they joined, and reason for removals from the regiment. There are a few orders at the end of the book.

The records consist of material from the Corporation Search Committee for the Selection of a Successor to President A. Whitney Griswold.

The collection contains programs, announcements, photographs, scrapbooks, minutes, by-laws, biographies, history booklets, publications of the Connecticut Chapter of the national education organization.

The collection contains administrative records, correspondence, notes, publications, media contacts, student and faculty activity information, biographical files, departmental communications, news releases, published/distributed campus-wide communications such as UConn Chronicle, UConn Advance, Announce-L, and Daily Digest, from 1979 to present.

Collection consists of mounted black and white and color reproductions of modern African, Australian, European, and Asian architecture. Content varies from original photographic prints to reproductions from magazines and other published sources. Some sections have accompanying clippings folders.

Collection consists of black and white glass lantern slides of Canadian and U.S. architecture to the mid-twentieth century.

Collection consists of mounted black and white and color reproductions of modern Canadian and U.S. architecture. Content varies from original photographic prints to reproductions from magazines and other published sources. Some sections have accompanying clippings folders.

Collection consists of black and white glass lantern slides of modern architecture, predominantly European.

: Collection consists of 25 mounted black and white and color reproductions of 20th century Japanese paintings. Content varies from original photographic prints to reproductions from magazines and other published sources. Some sections have accompanying clippings folders.

The records consist of correspondence, news releases, publications, a press book, and letters congratulating Yale on its 250th anniversary.

Yale University celebrated its 275th anniversary on 15 October 1976. The records primarily consist of background materials, drafts and transcripts of ceremonial remarks, and writings by invited speakers, including a commemorative poem by Archibald Macleish.

The following finding aid is a complete inventory of the contents of Osborn fb152. This list was reformatted from previously existing cataloging.

The 4-H Clubs of Connecticut originated in 1913 with the establishment of the first club in Mansfield, Connecticut. A part of the United States Department of Agriculture's Cooperative Extension System, 4-H clubs have aimed to educate Connecticut's youth in agriculture, home economics, and new technologies. The 4-H Clubs of Connecticut also strives to imbue its members with important life skills, building character through the teaching of a variety of practical skills. The records consist of the papers of Connecticut 4-H club leader Augustus Jackson Brundage, who helped expand the clubs in the state following World War I, as well as numerous club publications, photographs, scrapbooks, slides, film, and administrative records.

The Aaron Baker Clark and Sarah Booth Clark Papers consist of biographical sketches, diaries, photographs, correspondence, and clippings that pertain to the missionary efforts of Episcopal minister Aaron Baker Clark and his wife, Sarah Booth Clark, relating to the Lakota people of the Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota. Also present are printed dictionaries and hymns in the Lakota dialect, 1889-1901, and other printed books on topics such as religion, history, geography and poetry, 1671-1971. Materials in the collection span the dates 1671 to 1971, with the bulk falling between 1876 and 1925.

Letter from Aaron Burr in New York dated 17 May 1820 to George Marsh in Albany regarding business arrangements and George Marsh's good fortune in Albany.

Poems written in response to the war and collected by Aaron.

The Aaron Columbus Burr (circa 1808-1882) Papers, 1838-1871, consist of correspondence and business relating to an attempt by Aaron Columbus Burr and James Grant to purchase a tract of land known as Stand Creek in British Honduras. After purchasing this land they planned to sell it to the United States in the hope that it would be used for colonizing freed American blacks. When this scheme failed, the American Honduras Company was formed to cut and export mahogany.

The Aaron Copland Oral History comprises approximately 75 interviews with colleagues, friends, and family of Aaron Copland (note: for interviews with Copland himself, see the Major Figures in American Music collection). Oral History of American Music (OHAM) founder Vivian Perlis first became friends with Copland while working on the Charles Ives Oral History. Copland later wrote the preface for her book, Charles Ives Remembered. As the Ives project finished, Perlis focused on Copland as her new subject. From 1975 to 1976, she conducted many hours of interviews with Copland and those closest to him. Finally, in 1984 and 1989, their efforts culminated in the autobiographies, Copland: 1900 through 1942 and Copland: Since 1943, co-authored by Perlis.