Collections

Letters by James Edgar Cady to family and friends in Dodge City, Steele County, Minnesota, August 1862 to July 1865, during his military service with 8th Minnesota Infantry Regiment, Company G, as well as a tintype portrait of Cady in August 1862. Letters describe his service chiefly based at Fort Abercrombie, Dakota Territory, during the Dakota War in 1862 through an expedition led by Alfred Sully against the Dakota in 1864 as well as Cady's movement through Tennessee and North Carolina during the United States Civil War in 1864-1865. Most of the letters are addressed generally to his family and friends with a significant quantity explicitly directed to his parents and siblings. Floyd E. Risvold collected the letters and tintype as well as related material he used to exhibit the letters and accompanying illustrated envelopes at philatelic shows around 1960. The collection includes copies of an article by Risvold based on the letters: Floyd E. Risvold, "Indians and Rebels," Stamps (September 7, 1963).

The papers consist of correspondence, diaries, financial and business records, genealogical tables, marriage and birth certificates, and photographs.

Two photographs, one exterior view and one interior view, of the school in Fluteville, Litchfield, CT, showing students and the teacher, identified as D. Hough (Stratton).

Zines, comic books, ephemera and textiles by punk artist, illustrator, and music and spoken-word performer Fly, as well as titles from her personal collection.

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.

The Wesleyan football team has been in existence since 1883.

The Foote Collection contains correspondence, miscellaneous written and printed material, photographs, and works of art produced by multiple generations of the families of Eli Foote (1747-1792) and Samuel Edmund Foote (1787-1858) and their friends and associates. The Foote Family is important in the history of Connecticut because its members were among the founders of Wethersfield, New Haven and Guilford. The family is connected by marriage to the Beechers.

The papers consist of materials pertaining to three generations of members of the Foote family of Marlborough, principally Asa Foote (1728-1806), his son Joel Foote (1763-1846), the children of Joel Foote and their spouses, and other relatives. Asa, a farmer by trade, and Joel Foote, a clothier and merchant, were both well to do and prominent political figures in Marlborough Society in Colchester and in the town of Marlborough.

The materials consist of photographs of Yale and New Haven, Connecticut taken by Fordham W. R. Petersen, Yale School of Art and Architecture, Class of 1957 (non-graduate).

The records consist of a biographical sketchbook, a constitution, and by-laws documenting the operations of the Yale Foreign Missionary Band (also known as the United Band of Foreign Missionaries).