Collections

Correspondence, administrative records, course materials, manuscripts, realia, photographs, sound recordings, video cassettes (commercial), slides pertaining to Dr. Birdman's research and teaching.

Correspondence, memoranda, writings, and printed materials primarily documenting the work of Jerome Medalie to effect legislation enabling the public financing of political campaigns in Massachusetts, and nationwide. An unpublished manuscript, "Private Financing of Political Campaigns: Time For a Change," is included in the papers.

Collection consists of correspondence, writings, and personal papers documenting the life and work of Jerome Mellquist. Correspondence includes letters between Mellquist and family, friends, writers, artists, musicians, and cultural critics in the United States and Europe from 1918 to 1962, with the bulk dating from the early 1930s to early 1960s. Correspondence dating from 1946 to 1948 relates chiefly to the journalist and music critic Paul Rosenfeld (1890-1946), for whom, along with Lucie Wiese, Mellquist compiled a memorial volume entitled Paul Rosenfeld: Voyager in the Arts (1948). Correspondence is chiefly in English, but letters can also be found in French, Spanish, and German. Writings include drafts of numerous short articles and essays, materials relating to published and unpublished book projects, and unsorted writings. Articles and essays relate chiefly to modern art and aesthetics. Book projects include research materials, plans, and drafts for the following: Mellquist's memorial volume to his friend Paul Rosenfeld; a book relating to French art dealer Paul Durand-Ruel; another relating to a 1962 colloquium; and one, entitled "World Art in War", on heroism in pictures. Unsorted writings and materials include short works, plays, and a novel. Personal Papers include address books, agenda books, diaries, journals, notebooks, photographs, printed ephemera, and scrapbooks.

The papers consist of correspondence, legal material (including opinions, decisions, calendars, memoranda, and other papers), writings, speeches, Yale course materials, and family and personal papers of Jerome N. Frank, lawyer, government official during the New Deal, author, legal philosopher, teacher, and federal judge. The papers reflect Frank's wide range of activities, interests, and associations, and include important correspondence with many well known government officials, lawyers, philosophers, educators, authors, and judges. The papers and correspondence reflecting Frank's interest in and advocacy of "legal realism," the papers dealing with the politics and programs of the New Deal, and the papers relating to "Learned Hand's Court," the U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals are arranged in this collection.

The records consist of a report titled, "Residential Lending in New Haven County."

Letters and other manuscript items representing a wide range of prominent figures in nineteenth century British literature, theater, and art, as well as nineteenth and early twentieth century socialism, reform politics, and medicine. About two thirds of the correspondence was received by Blanchard Jerrold and by Adolphe and Alice Smith; letters to other recipients include several to Mrs. and Miss de Fonblanque.

Publications, Sketches, Photographs, Works of Art documenting the work and career of Jerry Rojo.

The collection, contributed by Judge Jerry Wagner, consists of materials from the political campaigns of Emilio Daddario and Hubert Humphrey and aspects of the political career of Toby Moffet.

The J.E. Shepard collection contains photographs and documents related to the Shepard family of South Windsor, CT, and tobacco growing. This includes a scrapbook, news clippings, photographs of tobacco fields and tobacco processing. Also included are photographs of the South Windsor Cigar Festival from the early 1950s.