Collections

The records were created by the chairman of the Fellows of Helen Hadley Hall and include correspondence and memoranda, minutes, reports, directories, photographs of the fellows, notices, and other materials documenting the fellowship and the operation of Helen Hadley Hall. Included are records documenting the visit of Coretta Scott King to the campus in 1969 and Leona Baumgartner as fellow. Also included are records of Frances Blanshard concerning the Committee on the Status and Special Needs of Women at Yale, created by President Charles Seymour in 1945.

List of officers and fellows arranged by county.

The records consist of the administrative records, minutes, a charm, and a 1929 photograph of the Fence Club, a fraternity at Yale.

The papers document the professional work of ecologist F. Herbert Bormann. The bulk of the papers comprise research materials, speeches, and writings. Research materials include notes, photographs, and grant reports and proposals. Projects that are the most represented include smaller studies at Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest and the Sandbox project. Speeches and writings include articles for popular magazines and newspapers, book drafts, testimony for legislative bodies, and award acceptance speeches. There are also some non-academic writings. Correspondence included in the collection is mainly with colleagues, including some on specific topics such as tropical forestry and the Hubbard Brook Foundation. There is a small amount of personal correspondence as well. Teaching materials are limited and include some syllabi, course notes and materials for specific courses, and lectures on various topics. The papers cover his work from 1950 to 2009, with much of the collection dating from the mid 1980s to the mid 2000s.

The collection consists of clippings, printed and near-print materials, photographs and other papers concerning the Field family of Stockbridge, Massachusetts. Family members figuring prominently in this collection include Cyrus West Field (1819-1892) and David Dudley Field (1805-1894).

Writings, correspondence, artwork, publications and photographs of short story writer, novelist, poet, artist, and teacher Fielding Dawson. Dawson was known for his "stream-of-consciousness" style of writing and for his vivid memoirs of his time spent as a student at Black Mountain College. The papers contain some drawings and memorabilia, including posters, flyers, brochures, and bulletins, from Black Mountain College.

Susan Camp Nickerson, principal. Lists pupils, including Cornelia G. Ensign and Jane E. Patmore of Litchfield, CT, and has information about sessions and expenses.

The Filippo Tommaso Marinetti Papers consist of correspondence, writings, photographs, printed items, diaries and memorabilia documenting and relating to the work of Marinetti and to the Futurist art movement.

This is an artificial record group comprised of films and videos. Topics range from Connecticut Governors to various Connecticut history subjects.

The papers contain correspondence, notes and lectures, writings, research materials, publications of other scholars, photographs, journals, and miscellanea documenting the professional career of Filmer Stuart Cuckow Northrop, professor of philosophy and law at Yale University from 1923-1962. The papers primarily document the professional activities and research interests of Northrop, not his Yale teaching career and personal life. The correspondence reflects his professional and research interests, in particular such subjects as philosophy of science, philosophy of law, oriental philosophy, and international relations. The papers contain typescripts of three books, notes for courses taken and on conferences attended, research files, and a variety of other material documenting Northrop's professional career.