Collections

The papers consist of letters written by Clarence Day, many with ink drawings, to family and friends on personal matters and on business relating to the Class of 1896 of Yale University, of which Day was secretary. Also included is the record book of the Raleigh Pipe Club (1894-1907) and miscellaneous newspaper clippings.

Translations and notes on the texts of Latin and Greek classics; essays on classical authors, and a few pieces of correspondence and poetry. Included are some poems and letters in connection with Mikhail Rostovtsev's sixtieth birthday.

Correspondence, photographs, printed material and other papers relating to Rowley and his relationships with Buffalo Bill and John L. Sullivan. Rowley's correspondence includes letters and telegrams concerning the development of property in Arizona, the dissolution of the Dyer-Cody Arizona Mining and Milling Company following a financial scandal in 1911, and the subsequent incorporation of the High Jinks Gold Mining Company to recoup losses. Correspondence between Cody and Rowley details their friendship and investment partnership. Also includes a small set of letters written to William B. Gale of the Boston law firm Gale & Gale, dated 1878 to 1882, from various legal figures; correspondence related to John L. Sullivan's death in 1918; and correspondence concerning Buffalo Bill's posthumous reputation, including letters between Rowley and General Charles King, who served with Cody in the Indian Wars, recollecting Buffalo Bill's campaign experiences. In a letter dated 1930 Jan 3, Gordon "Pawnee Bill" Lillie tells Rowley about the establishment of Pawnee, Oklahoma, his western entertainment venture. There is also a letter to Rowley from John L. Sullivan shortly before Sullivan's death in 1917.
Photographs include formal portraits of Clarence Rowley, as well as photographs of Rowley mining, traveling, at home and with friends. Hundreds of photographs relate to Rowley's trips West and to Buffalo Bill and his Wild West show. Candid and staged photographs, several captioned and autographed in Buffalo Bill's own hand, include portraits with his wife Louisa, photos of the TE Ranch, and snapshots of a tour of Camp Bliss with General Hugh L. Scott in 1914. Photographs relating to John L. Sullivan date from 1882 to 1910. Most are publicity shots picturing Sullivan in boxing poses, in the ring, or with other famous athletes. Includes a series of photos taken in 1910 at the James Jeffries vs. Jack Johnson fight in Reno, Nevada. Many of the other photographs picture Sullivan as an older man on his farm in Massachusetts. There is also a set of photographs documenting a meeting between Buffalo Bill and Sullivan in 1908.
Clarence Rowley's personal papers include eleven diaries from 1909 to 1919. The diaries contain brief daily notes on business and personal matters such as court dates, social functions, the births of Rowley's children, and Rowley's travels, including a 1911 trip with Cody. Rowley's business papers include incorporation documents, by-laws, minutes and other papers of the High Jinks Gold Mining Company; stock certificates, shareholder resolutions, and reports of the Montezuma Silver Mine Company; and a description of the John L. Sullivan Motion Picture Company.
Remaining Buffalo Bill and John L. Sullivan material is arranged in subject files, and includes printed material, clippings, speeches, and writings related to the two men. Buffalo Bill material includes a folio of six chromolithograph prints titled The Indian: Buffalo Bill's Art Studies with Portraits of Himself. Other papers include a Henry Ward Beecher autograph, a report on the Campo Bonito and Southern Belle Mining and Milling Company by F.E. Fielding, and a printed prospectus for the Cripple Creek Consolidated Mining and Milling Company.

The collection consists of correspondence, manuscripts, papers, articles, reviews, notes, publications, background materials, photographs, photocopies, photostats, negatives, and order forms related to Clare Talbot's writings, as well as her business activities.

Scrapbook containing correspondence, legal and financial records, genealogies and newspaper clippings of the Clark family of Saybrook, Connecticut and Darien, New York. The principal figure in the scrapbook is Orlando E. Clark, lawyer, politician and University Regent of Wisconsin, among whose correspondents is Robert M. La Follette. Of special interest among the Connecticut papers is an order from Governor Gurdon Saltonstall to Major John Clark (1718) to suppress the disturbances at Saybrook protesting the removal of Yale College to New Haven.

The records consist of abstracts of title, atlases, maps, indices, index card locator files, probate extracts, and ownership files from the Clark, Hall, and Peck and White Brothers, and its predecessors, the most active New Haven law firms in real property law between the 1860s and 1982.

The papers consist of manuscripts, research and laboratory notes, and class outlines by Clark Hull on behaviorism, hypnosis, childhood, reasoning and other topics in psychology. Of special interest are a series of twenty-eight notebooks (1915-1951) containing "original ideas on things in general." Also included are papers and theses by his students (1921-1940). Among the personal papers are two diaries (1902 and 1929, respectively) and a day-by-day record of his daughter's first two years, 1916-1917.

The collection contains the University of Hartford class banners for the Class of 2002 to the Class of 2019.

Class Day was an annual celebration related to the commmencement exercises at Wesleyan University, and usually occurred in June. Programs often included speeches, musical performances, poetry, and the awarding of prizes. The programs were arranged by members of the graduating class and featured their fellow senior students.

The material consists of class lists for the Yale College Class of 1802.