Collections

The records consist of student, subject, course, and seminar files documenting the activities and operations of the Yale Department of the History of Science and Medicine. Included are files of department chairmen Derek de Solla Price and Asger Aaboe.

The Richard Aaron Collection of Ira Cohen contains correspondence, writings, artwork, photographs, production files, and other papers by, to, or relating to Ira Cohen's life and work.

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

The Edwin Hale Abbot Family papers contain correspondence, letterpress copybooks, legal and financial documents, diaries, maps, blueprints, and photographs, the bulk of which documents the personal life, law and business careers of Edwin Hale Abbot.

Papers and photographs relating to the Ensign, Woodruff, Kenney, and Abbot families, including Jane Teressa Kenney Abbot, Abigail Ensign Woodruff Kenney, Caroline Elizabeth Meyers, William Michael Meyers, Carrie Jane Abbot Meyers, and Grace Langdon Meyers Erikson.

The George Jacob Abbot Papers consist mainly of correspondence, drafts of speeches, unfinished drafts of U.S. State Department papers, newspaper clippings and other materials related to Abbot's employment as secretary to Daniel Webster and to his diplomatic service. There are some Abbot family materials among the papers as well.

The almanacs in this collection were issued annually by American and a few Canadian companies to promote the sale of their proprietary remedies. The remedies were secret rather than actually patented, and exaggerated claims were made for what they could cure. Almanacs were distributed free to customers by drug stores. Typically the back cover of the almanac carried an advertisement for an individual pharmacy. Often the almanacs had a hole at the top left, through which a string was tied so that they could be hung on a nail on the wall. Two almanacs are in miniature format.

The materials consist of sound recordings and edited transcripts of oral history interviews conducted by Florence Minnis with women faculty, administrators, and staff affiliated with Yale University. The edited transcripts, produced for readability, do not closely match the audiorecordings. Dates were taken from the original interview date.

This collection documents the life and work of Bradford E. Ableson, distinguished Yale Divinity School alumnus and prominent U.S. military chaplain. First a Presbyterian minister and later an Episcopal priest, Ableson was decorated for his service during the Persian Gulf War and served as Command Chaplain aboard the USS George Washington aircraft carrier, one of the largest warships in the world. From 1996 to 1999 Ableson served as chaplain at Camp David during the Clinton administration, providing pastoral care to the President, his family, and support staff at the Maryland retreat. Correspondence, writings, sermons, and subject files provide detailed documentation of Ableson's thought, leadership skills, and dedication to his work. From early on in his career as a Navy chaplain, Ableson recognized the profound disconnect between Christians from the West and citizens in the Muslim world, and in the 1980s he emerged as an expert on preparing service members with knowledge and understanding that would make them respectful visitors in Muslim countries. Ableson's journal written during operation Desert Storm (1991) provides valuable documentation about the work of a chaplain in a combat setting.

The Argus Book Shop Correspondence consists of the shop's "author correspondence" files holding letters between Ben Abramson and his staff and more than four hundred writers, artists, printers, critics, and illustrators; the remainder of the shop's records were destroyed following instructions he had written into his will. While some of the folders hold single or just a few letters, Abramson had more extensive relationships with many writers and artists, including John Austen, Faith Baldwin, March Cost, Frederic Dannay, Norman Davey, Rhys Davies, August Derleth, Robin Douglas, Joan Marshall Grant, W.G. Hardy, Claude Houghton, William McFee, Henry Miller, Frank Cheyne Papé, Louis Paul, Frederic Prokosch, William Saroyan, Harold Sinclair, and John Steinbeck. Hundreds of Abramson's typed carbon replies are present in the files, and discuss business and literary concerns, along with his philosophies and opinions on a wide range of topics. To many of the writers with whom he became close, Abramson freely dispensed personal advice. On the business end, his letters show that he regularly recommended and shipped literature to Argus patrons, including Alfred Kinsey and other scholars and authors, as well as searched for and obtained from other vendors books specifically requested by patrons. Contracts in the folders for John Anthony Carr and Stanley Marks reveal the existence of the Argus Agency: A Service for Writers, wherein Abramson acted "as a personal representative for authors and as an agent for any and all literary, dramatic, motion picture or other such material produced by them." The largest group of letters present is those between Abramson and the writer Henry Miller (1900-1968), which cover in detail many aspects of Miller's career, finances, and travels between 1937 and 1955. Abramson published some of Miller's writings and sold most of his publications, as well as providing a mail-order service for sending Miller (and Miller's friends, on Miller's account) his own works and new titles by other authors. With the Miller correspondence is a folder holding Connecticut Anthroposophical Society membership lists and redacted letters from people across the country who were attempting to purchase Miller's Tropic of Cancer (1938). In addition to publishing and retailing books, Abramson handled the sale of literary manuscripts for authors such as W. Somerset Maugham, whose file contains a price list of works available for purchase at Argus.

The records consist of minutes of meetings, membership lists, correspondence, constitutions and bylaws, scrapbooks, library records, financial and business records, programs and invitations, certificates, articles and news clippings, reports, songbooks, notices, newsletters, and related materials documenting the organization, activities, and operations of various student, faculty, and staff organizations, and other Yale community groups.

Preliminary work and research materials of David Acheson, a staff member of the University Development Office until 1980. Includes draft of "Treatment of Yale's Previous Campaign and Development Activities," a history of Yale University's development efforts.

The Dean Acheson Papers are a rich source of information on the policies, thoughts, and accomplishments of the secretary of state who guided American foreign policy from 1948 to 1953. The papers, which span the period from 1898 to 1989, are especially full for the period after Acheson left public office in 1953 until his death in 1971. Included in the correspondence, speech and lecture files, manuscripts of books and articles, and memoranda, which compose the papers, are examinations of such major topics of U.S. foreign policy as Korea; NATO; post-war relations with the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, and Germany; tensions in the Middle East; the war in Vietnam; and the U.S. posture towards Rhodesia and South Africa. Evaluations of the Truman, Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon administrations figure prominently in the papers, and Acheson's role as a member of the Yale Corporation is thoroughly documented. Major correspondents include personal friends and professional colleagues.

The records consist of correspondence, transcripts, and other papers relating to the Dean Acheson Conference held at Yale on April 24, 1982 and the gant proposal, meeting agendas, notes, and minutes, correspondence, report drafts, and background materials assembled by the Independent Working Group on the Future of the United Nations, 1993-1995.

The Isidor Achron Papers document the careers of Achron and his wife, singer Lea Karina. The Papers hold sketches, manuscript music, and printed editions of Achron's musical compositions, as well as songs which other composers wrote specifically for Karina. The Papers also include correspondence, photographs, programs, clippings, biographical materials, and miscellaneous materials relating to both Jascha Heifetz and Achron's pupil, popular singer Hildegarde.

Autograph manuscript letters, signed, of Janet Achurch and Charles Charrington and their correspondents. Letters concern: casting of theatrical productions; investing in theatrical projects; Charrington's involvement in the Fabian Society; and other professional and domestic topics. Correspondents include George Henry Boughton, Stopford Augustus Brooke, Charles H. E. Brookfield, Harley Granville-Barker, St. John Emile Clavering Hankin, Henry Holiday, Gertrude Kingston, May Morris, Felix Moscheles, William Poel, Charles Rock, Kate Santley, Clement Scott, William Sharp, Arthur Streeton, Julian Sturgis, Fred Terry, John Todhunter, Hermann Vezin, Mrs. Humphry Ward, and Sir Frederick Wedmore, and unidentified. Also included is a booking sheet for the Vaudeville Theatre, London, circa 1880.

The Peter Ackroyd Papers primarily contain research files, manuscripts, drafts, and page proofs for many of his novels, biographies, and historical studies, as well as related correspondence and screenplays. Also present are his appointment books, some personal papers and photographs, and papers related to his partner Brian Michael Kuhn.

This collection comprises 53 items, including 42 letters from John Ruskin to John Henry Le Keux, 1 letter from John James Ruskin to John Henry Le Keux, 7 stand-alone sketches related to Le Keux's engraving work for Ruskin, annotated printed proofs made by Le Keux for Ruskin and 1 letter from Henry W. Acland to John Ruskin which pertains to Le Keux's work on the frontispiece for Acland and Ruskin's The Oxford Museum. While the majority of the items are undated, the letters appear to have been authored between 1854 and 1860, with dated items ranging from 1855 to 1860. The items primarily pertain to Le Keux's engraving work for illustrations for Volumes 3-4 of Modern Painters and for The Oxford Museum. The letters reflect a cordial professional relationship between Ruskin and Le Keux and a close collaboration between critic and engraver on a variety of works and subject matters. In one letter, Ruskin describes Le Keux's etchings as "superb." (John Ruskin letter to John Henry Le Keux, page 39.)

This collection consists of the records and publications of the Acorn Club. The collection includes general organization records including bylaws, constitutions, and histories of the club, as well as meeting minutes, correspondence, and the records of Judith Schiff, who was elected the first female president of the club in 2004. The collection also contains financial records, membership records including membership lists and biographies of members and banquet invitations and menus, and publication records including proofs and printing blocks. The final series of the collection consists of archival copies of Acorn Club publications, consisting of a complete run of every publication the club has published between 1899 and 2018.

Reports of Connecticut towns, gathered in the early 1800s. The originals are held by the Connecticut Historical Society. The HHC collection comprises a copy of the original query sent by the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences (1949); and the towns of East Windsor, Franklin, Goshen, Haddam, and Stratfield (1949); Union and Ridgefield (1954); Wallingford, Winchester-Winsted, Bethlem and Watertown, Preston and Lisbon (Hanover and Newent), and Windham, Tolland, Willington, and Pomfret (1961).

The collection consists of manuscript and typescript drafts of Harold Acton's translations of Chinese literary works and his writings; correspondence from Chinese, English, and American scholars and friends; material relating to Acton's lecture tour of Italy; and other papers. Highlights include the unpublished manuscript for Popular Chinese Plays, as well as correspondence concerning its projected publication by Henry Vetch. Also included is an annotated typescript and related correspondence for Acton's novel, Peonies and Ponies (1941). Material sheds light on the development of literary translation between Chinese and English, and the influence of China on British intellectual history and literary life during the period preceding the Second World War.

The Adair Family Papers date from 1850 to 1956 and include documentation primarily related to the women of the family – Ursula (Adair), Laura (Adair), Emily (Adair Vincent), Alice Viola (Vincent Burbridge), and Marguerite (Burbridge, known professionally as Mika Mingo). The collection includes correspondence, legal and financial documents, biographical documentation, and numerous photographs. Material related to activities of Mika Mingo includes documentation of the Cranberry Harvest Festival and Native American food and crafts.

The value in this collection is the depth of information on rural northeastern Connecticut that can be gleaned from the volumes. Not only is the iron industry documented, but the literacy rate, women's economic role in the community, skilled labor, accounting practices and the lives of free Black people are also part of this record.

This collection primarily contains business correspondence, accounts, and legal documents of John Adam, Samuel Forbes Adam, and Samuel Forbes on behalf of the iron manufacturing firm of Forbes Adam in Canaan, Connecticut. The correspondence relates to orders from and settling accounts with customers in Connecticut and New York for products such as forge hammers, anchors, nail rods, and guns; several orders contain sketches of items to be manufactured. Some letters relate to customer complaints about prices and quality of products. A few letters reference trade agreements, abolition, and temperance.

This collection contains letters to John Adam, a merchant and iron manufacturer living in Taunton, Massachusetts before his move to Canaan, Connecticut. It includes letters about planking a vessel and several regarding a customer service issue pertaining to an order of nails. There are accounts related to the Forbes and Adam partnership and their trade in anchors. The final document is an agreement related to the 1855 merger of two pig iron businesses.

The Georgii Adamovich Papers are contained in one box. The papers contain the correspondence from and to Georgii Viktorovich Adamovich, one book by I.A. Bunin, and poems by G.V. Ivanov.

Typescripts with holograph annotations and corrections of Adams' books The Disputed Lands (Putnam, 1981); Geronimo: A Biography (Putnam, 1971); Sitting Bull: An Epic of the Plains (Putnam, 1973); and Sunlight and Storm: The Great American Plains (Putnam, 1977). A photocopy of Adams' TLS dated 1972 Jun 29, transmitting the typescript of Geronimo to Yale and commenting on the work, is filed in the first of the folders of that title. Bound galley proofs for Sitting Bull follow the typescript.

This collection contains correspondence between several inter-married families in Connecticut, with many letters being from Sarah Winslow Deming of Boston to Amelia Dyer Trumbull Wyllys in Windham. Those offer a female perspective of the American Revolution, along with glimpses into 18th century daily life.

The personal papers of the Adams Family, including Joseph Adams (1767-1856); his son, Charles Adams (1805-1883); children of Charles Adams, including Julia Adams How Wessells (1842-1904), Mary Adams Wheelock (1838-1895), and Charles Adams Jr. (1845-1864); other family members; and friends and business associates. The collection consists primarily of correspondence.

18 deeds related to land bought and sold by Charles Adams, members of his family, and others in Litchfield, Conn.

Charles Adams power of attorney to Warren W. Bissell regarding bonds, stock, and scrip to be issued by the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company.

The personal papers of the Adams Family, including Joseph Adams (1767-1856); his son, Charles Adams (1805-1883); children of Charles Adams, including Julia Adams How Wessells (1842-1904), Mary Adams Wheelock (1838-1895), and Charles Adams Jr. (1845-1864); other family members; and friends and business associates. The collection consists primarily of correspondence.

The collection consists of material created and collected by Charles Adams in the course of his research and teaching activities as a scholar of Frank Waters and a professor of English at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Material includes correspondence; transcripts and sound recordings of interviews with Waters; sound recordings of various seminars, lectures, and talks about Waters; typescripts of writings by and about Waters; photocopies, reprints, and excerpts of published works by Waters; clippings and other printed material; teaching files; files relating to the Frank Waters Society; and other material. The collection documents Adams's academic career, which focused largely on Waters, and his role as a leading organizer of the scholarly and popular communities interested in Waters, particularly as founder of the Frank Waters Society and editor of Studies in Frank Waters. The collection also sheds light on the nature and organization of the community of interest that sprang up around Waters's work, and provides a great deal of information about Waters in the taped and transcribed interviews conducted by Adams and others.

Elijah Adams, Esq. in Fishkill, New York writes to Asa Bacon, Esq. in Litchfield about a meeting at Col. Benjamin Tallmadge's house. Provides recollections about a business arrangement involving Judge Reeve, Uriel Holmes, Frederick Wolcott, Benjamin Tallmadge Ezekiel Lewis, John Landon, Aaron Smith and Julius Deming. Gives an account of attempts to collect a debt from Aaron Smith.

The Emma L. Adams composition book (2011-41-0) contains handwritten compositions by Emma L. Adams between October 30, 1875 and November 25, 1876. The small bound notebook contains various compositions dealing with a variety of topics. One titled "A day at Irvington and Tarrytown" describes a day excursion by train of school girls from Brooklyn up the Hudson River. She discusses seeing Washington Irving's home and lunching on the veranda, as well as visiting his grave and the Old Dutch Church in Tarrytown, and seeing Sleepy Hollow. Several other compositions discuss music, and "Human Ingenuity" tackles the topics of advances in travel and communication.

The collection contains hundreds of copies of letters primarily composed by Sanford from 1894 through 1901, with the bulk concentrated in 1898 and 1899. Almost all are typewritten.

Papers relating to the Adams family of Litchfield, including Joseph Adams (1764-1856); one of his sons, Charles Adams (1805-1883); and others, consisting primarily of genealogical materials and obituaries.

This collection consists of one and a half boxes. Boxes I, Folders A-D hold deeds. In Folder A, Moses Knap's and John Crissy's deeds dates refer to Queen Anne's reign. Folder E contains legal papers; Folder F bills and bills receipted; Folder G financial papers, correspondence and maps; and Folder H through I account books. Of particular note in in Folder E is a contract for a negro boy. Box II, Folder A holds a genealogy book.

Papers relating to the Adams family of Litchfield, including Joseph Adams (1764-1856); one of his sons, Charles Adams (1805-1883); and others, consisting primarily of genealogical materials and obituaries.

This collection contains documents and a photograph pertaining to the Coit family, 1779-1844. Most of the collection consists of letters to Sarah Chester Coit and Thomas Coit of Canterbury, Connecticut from their adult children. There are several other types of documents, one photograph, and a poem by Lydia Howard Huntley Sigourney on the death of Sarah Chester Coit's niece, Charlotte Chester.

The bulk of the collection consists of the papers of Illinois State's Attorney Julius S. Grinnell, who led the prosecution in the Haymarket trial in 1886-1887. These include trial evidence, notes and drafts of legal briefs, personal papers, and printed ephemera. The collection also includes a few items that were added to Grinnell's papers in the 1950s-60s by collector Frederick B. Adams. Trial evidence is chiefly in German, and consists of manuscripts, correspondence, leaflets, and other items seized from the offices of the Arbeiter-Zeitung, a publication of the International Working People's Association, with which many of the defendants were involved. The manuscripts are chiefly holograph drafts of editorials by August Spies and Michael Schwab; much of the correspondence is to Spies, including several letters from Johann Most, editor of the New York paper Die Freiheit. The evidence also includes other socialist and anarchist newspapers, as well as fragments of the bomb that exploded in Haymarket Square. Papers of the State's Attorney's Office include Grinnell's notes and drafts of legal briefs prepared for the trial and for the defense's appeal to the Illinois Supreme Court in 1887. These include a draft letter from a police spy to Lucy Parsons, Albert Parsons's wife. Also present are personal papers of Grinnell: most relate directly to the trial while others document his later career. The collection also contains printed ephemera of the socialist and anarchist movements, including a number of items relating specifically to the Haymarket affair. Among these are cabinet card photographs of six of the eight convicted men.

The George Burton Adams Papers consists of approcimately 6,000 items. Includes correspondence concerning English history, the Yale History Department, the relationship of graduate to undergraduate education at Yale and in general, the American Historical Association, and the American Historical Review. Includes correspondence with British and American historians.

Photographic prints created and collected by Harry Adams, 1943-1985, that chiefly document events, activities, and individuals related to the African American community in the Los Angeles metropolitan area of California captured in his work for African American newspapers including the California Eagle and Los Angeles Sentinel.

The records consist of grade books maintained by Professor John C. Adams, professor in the Yale English Department.

An 11 page handwritten notebook with the first page "Record Amos Adams was born Sep. 1, 1728". It contains records of the Adams family to Thomas Adams born Oct. 13, 1814. The back page is inscribed Joseph Adams Book, Litchfield, Nov. 19, 1814.

The Léonie Adams and William Troy Papers contain correspondence, writings, photographs, printed materials, and other papers that document the professional and personal lives of the writers and educators Léonie Adams and William Troy. Correspondence comprises the bulk of the papers and primarily consists of correspondence with friends, colleagues, and various colleges and universities. Writings include poems, essays, literary and film reviews, drama, and other writings. Included among the writings are drafts of Adams's poetry collections and drafts of Troy's posthumous work, Selected Essays. The papers also contain professional and personal papers of Adams and Troy, including clippings by and about the authors, programs from readings, teaching notes, and other papers that record the lives of the couple. Photographs include snapshots of Adams and Troy, their friends and family, literary events, and travels. The papers span the years 1902 to 1980.

The collection consists of writings, sheet music, scrapbooks, photographs, and other papers, stemming from R. A. Adams's activities as an evangelistic minister of the African Methodist Episcopal Church and as a writer, lecturer, and publisher of pamphlets on topics relating to race, religion, contraception, interpersonal relations, and socioeconomics. The collection documents aspects of African American religion and culture, especially in the South, in the early 20th century, and in particular the evangelistic, educational, and literary activities of one African American Methodist minister.

This collection consists of the business records including inventories, sales records, and bills of the Hartford Woolen Manufactory. The collection includes accounts of Daniel Hinsdale and Peter Colt. The papers regarding the Hartford Woolen Manufactory Lottery were originally part of the Andrew Kingsbury Papers. The company is best known for having produced the suit worn by President George Washington at his first inauguration. Bound volumes include a ledger, and a daybook kept by Peter Cook, an invoice book of goods made by the company, and a book of sales made by Daniel Hinsdale.

The papers, relating almost exclusively to matters of taxation, consist of material collected and written for a survey for the American Gas Association; material for a survey of the cement industry in the case U. S. vs. Atlas Portland Cement Company, et al.; material concerning the Committee on Double Taxation of the International Chamber of Commerce and of the League of Nations; papers relating to the Wisconsin Tax Commission; papers relating to the President's Conference on Home Building and Home Ownership; and papers on state and federal tax problems. The papers contain no personal correspondence and are of interest mainly for specific subjects.

The material in this collection consists of documents related to Mr. Raczkowski's participation in World War I with the American Army in France. Collection includes related clippings, photographs and biographical notes from his wife Anna Raczkowski.

The records consist of administrative files, correspondence, and survivor testimonies from the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies.

The Archiv des Vereins zum Schutz deutscher Einwanderer in Texas contains substantial bodies of correspondence by the principals of the Verein, including Prince Carl of Solms-Braunfels, and of its successors, as well as by the Adelsverein's agents in Washington, New Orleans, Houston, and Galveston. The largest portion of the archives documents the organization and administration of the Adelsverein's business. The records contain contracts of appointment, minutes of meetings, reports, and "instructions" from and to the Adelsverein's representatives in Texas and elsewhere, documentation of legal and financial transactions, and papers relating to promoting the Adelsverein, securing prospective emigrants, and providing for their transport to Texas. The archives also contain a major collection of printed material relating to the Adelsverein in particular and European colonization in the Americas in general. They are supplemented by scores of contemporary newspapers and periodicals which contain articles about or advertisements for the Adelsverein. The material spans the years 1840 to 1957, with the bulk falling between 1845 and 1855.

Deeds relating to the former Tallmadge Store property on North Street later owned in the twentieth century by the Adenaws. Also two wills.

The Hamilton Aïdé papers have been divided into four series:

The collection consists of material documenting aspects of the life and work of the Jungian analysts Gerhard Adler and Hella Adler. Material includes drawings, sketchbooks, diagnostic and other notes, handwriting samples, correspondence, and other material. Included are numerous oil, gouache, watercolor, chalk, and pencil "dream drawings," and drawings and sketches in books, on loose sheets, oil boards, and card scrolls.

The Ady Papers housed at the Yale Divinity School Library represent the personal side of a rather substantial official record of their missionary career. Consisting primarily of family letters, these documents reveal much about the daily life of a missionary family, including references to the larger purposes of their mission as well as descriptions of life on a day to day basis amidst political unrest. For details of Merrill's work under the Presbyterian Board, his position with the Church of Christ in China, or later work with the Kwangtung International Relief Committee, the researcher is referred to documents on file with the Presbyterian Board of Missions in Philadelphia.

The collection consists operational and administrative records of the Aetna Insurance Company, specifically of periodicals, newspaper clippings, circular letters, directories, indexes, research files, management training manuals, records, reports, and press releases.

Contains 11 issues: March 1924, August 1924, October 1924, December 1924, January 1925, March 1925, May 1925, June 1925, July 1925, June 1944, May/June 1958.

Contains material published by Aetna Life and Casualty during the 20th century. Includes annual reports and supplements, Aetna Bulletin, Aetnaizer, and related material. The material is sorted by year within each topic.

The collection contains 133 transcripts of oral history interviews conducted in South Africa between 2000 and 2006. The bulk of the transcripts are in English, but the collection also includes interviews conducted in isiXhosa and Bisho.

From 1982-1983, Bridgeport's Afro-American Educators' Association conducted interviews with black residents of Bridgeport as part of a project funded by the Connecticut Humanities Council. The interviews with black Bridgeporters attempt to investigate the social and economic effects of the First and Second World Wars and the "Civil Rights Era" on Black Bridgeporters. The interviewees discuss how their families, friends, and neighbors were affected during those turbulent times. Prominent topics are jobs and employement, family relationships, education, housing, and church, as well as participation in community organization and activities. Some interviews include more than one interviewee.

The records consist of photocopies of newspaper articles from the period of July to September 1983, focusing on a strike by workers at the Milford Mental Health Clinic, a non-profit mental health clinic located in Milford, Connecticut. The strike represented the first time a union had gone on strike at a non-profit mental health facility in the state, with the union having their demands met. The articles are organized chronologically and provide viewpoints of the strike from multiple press outlets.

The Giorgio Agamben papers contain writings, correspondence, and other papers by or relating to the life and works of Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben.

The Agenda Records, 1914-2001, consist of materials from the production files of volume 7, number 3 (1969) through volume 37, number 4 (2000) of Agenda magazine, related financial and other records, and additional materials from editor William Cookson's files.

The collection contains assorted lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) comic publications dealing with issues such as coming out, romantic and sexual relationships, depression, and gay and lesbian liberation. Some magazines appear to be self published while others are commercially published.

The Olivia Rossetti Agresti Papers document Agresti's relationship with the poet after World War II and her own political and economic beliefs during that period. The papers span the dates 1947-1963 and have been organized into two series: I. Correspondence and II. Writings.

Approximately 500 pieces of correspondence and other documents from the archives of Agudat Ahvah.

The records comprise over 300 pieces of correspondence and other documents from the archives of Agudat Israel from the time of the establishment of the State of Israel.

These papers document in a very thorough way Ahlstrom's professional career, his writings, lectures, courses taught at Yale, his extensive participation in scholarly and church-related organizations. Conditions at Yale and in New Haven during the turbulent years of the late 1960s and early 1970s are well documented. A sampling of material has been preserved to document Ahlstrom's renowned personality, his sense of humor, curiosity, and wide-ranging interests.

The Records of the A.H. Nilson Machine Company contains no corporate documents from the manufacturer. Instead, it is primarily focused on the products produced, including patents, blueprints, and photographs of machines the company produced. There is also some marketing material gear towards the industry, as well as employee and factory photographs.

The materials consist of organizational background material, meeting agendas, and program documentation.

The papers of William Appleton Aiken consist of manuscripts, transcripts and photostatic copies of papers in British and American repositories, notes, correspondence, photographs, and other papers relating to Daniel Finch, second Earl of Nottingham, and his period. The bulk of the collection is research materials for Aiken's Yale doctoral thesis, The Conduct of the Rt. Hon. Daniel Earl of Nottingham, By Himself (1939; published in 1941 under the title, The Conduct of the Earl of Nottingham, and for other writings on related topics. The research materials have been left in Aiken's order.

The collection comprises 15 letters from Thomas Woolner to John Frederick Lewis, written between 1874 and 1876. It also includes five letters from Woolner to Lewis's wife, Marian Harper, one letter from Lewis to dealer William Vokins, two letters from Woolner's wife to Lewis, two letters from Amy Woolner—Thomas's daughter—concerning the recovery of the letters, and two letters from Charles Aitken of the National Gallery regarding Lewis's paintings. Woolner's letters to Lewis reveal the former's thoughts on his own work, his personal relationships with Lewis and the Royal Academy, his esteem for Lewis's painting, and his thoughts on contemporary art more broadly.

The Mary Jobe Akeley collection chiefly contains materials concerning the establishment and activities of the Akeley Trust and the Peace Sanctuary in Mystic, Connecticut, following her death in 1966.

The Galeazzi Collection consists primarily of copyists' manuscripts of 19th-century Italian opera excerpts. These excerpts appear as full scores, as vocal scores with piano, or as chamber music arrangements for various combinations of instruments. The Collection also holds copyists' scores of 19th-century chamber music. Composers include Alard, Baldoni, Beethoven, Bellini, Bizet, Boccherini, Borroni, Bottesini, Comandini, Coppola, Donizetti, Federici, Flotow, Galeazzi, Giorgetti, Giuliozzi, Gounod, Haydn, Krommer, Kuhlau, Lipinski, Lombardi, Masseau, Massenet, Mayr, Mayseder, Mercadante, Morlacchi, Mosca, Mozart, Nicolini, Onslow, Pacini, Paër, Paganini, Paoletti, Peri, Perosi, Persiani, Petrella, Petrini-Zamboni, Pleyel, Ponchielli, Ricci, Ronzi, Rossini, Rutini, Schall, Schubert, Sessa, Vaccai, Verdi, and Zingarelli.

The collection is made up of student and faculty art as well as materials purchased by or donated to WCSU. The Collection includes: Etchings and engravings obtained from Westport antique dealer Charles Zimmerman, pieces of art collected by Professor Robert Alberetti, original art work by students and Robert Alberetti, and pieces by Allen Hermes that Alberetti had aquired. In addition, the Art Department accepted a collection of drawings (cartoons) from a local stained glass artist, Lawrence Y. Leopold. These materials were transferred to the Archives with the other materials from White Hall. Many of the stained glass drawings are in poor condition and remain lightly processed.

The Josef Albers Papers consist of correspondence, subject files, printed material, and family memorabilia, which document the personal life and professional career of Josef Albers. The earliest material in the papers reflects Albers family history and his work at the Bauhaus in Germany. The bulk of the material, however, dates from Albers arrival in the United States to teach at Black Mountain College. The largest part of the papers is composed of books, magazines, clippings, and exhibition catalogues, which are either about Albers or which contain his writings or reproductions of his works.

The papers consist of correspondence, writings, personal files, and photographs documenting Ralph Albertson's professional career. The most substantive portion of the collection is comprised of published and unpublished writings on various topics, including religion and the cooperative movement. The writings include novels, plays, articles, and books. There are also noteworthy photographs of Russia and the Siberian front, 1917-1918.

This collection consists of over ninety-five original bound copies of the Albertus Magnus College yearbook. It has been arranged in chronological order.

This collection consists of three boxes and is organized chronologically. Box 1 contains loose print copies of the newspaper, correspondence, questionnaires, and four rolls of microfilm that contains copies of the newspaper from 1947 to 1983. Box 2 is an oversized box that contains two bound volumes of The Silver Horn. Box 2A is an oversized box that contains unbound print copies from 1959 to 1988. Box 3 is an oversized box that contains certificates and plaques awarded to The Silver Horn from 1951 to 1961.

This collection consists of 16 boxes. It includes approximately 1,000 pieces of correspondence, a handwritten and illustrated Zoology textbook, photographs, ephemera, various publications and articles written about Boveri and her scientific research, and books that Boveri owned. Two oversized boxes contain a microscope and a microtome, both used by Boveri while at Albertus Magnus College.

This collection is arranged chronologically and consists of invitations, programs, speeches, correspondence, press releases, media, physical artifacts, and other ephemera related to Commencement, from the first Class of 1928 to the current year.

This collection consists of four boxes and includes correspondence, legal manuscripts, College catalogs, and historical overviews of Albertus Magnus College.

This collection consists of three boxes and four oversized items: three binders and one set of original architectural drawings. The collection is organized alphabetically by series. Materials in the collection include research notes, original manuscripts, photographs, biographical information on original owners and building namesakes, and print copies of a virtual exhibit created by Catie White during the summer of 2022.

This collection consists of correspondence, grant applications, biographical information, speeches, publications by Dr. Dorothea Rudnick, her colleagues, and her friends, and personal papers of Dr. Rudnick.

This repository contains the following types of documents/records: Correspondence, Photographs, Fliers, Architectural drawings, Audiocassettes, Video recordings, Born digital

The materials consist of photographs and negatives taken by Charles Alburtus, primarily of Yale buildings, grounds, and individuals. Includes a few photographs of New Haven, Connecticut.

The collection holds the non-print component of the Betsy Beinecke Shirley Collection of American Children's Literature, and contains original illustrations and manuscript material acquired by Betsy Shirley to complement and enhance her extensive collection of printed books and serials. It consists of drawings, paintings, literary manuscripts, printing blocks, correspondence, and documents related to children's literature, and the education and amusement of children. In accordance with her views as a collector, the material was divided between that created for literary purposes by both professionals and amateurs (in Series I) and that of a more historical nature and related to education (in Series II). Series III holds three small collections of papers that were acquired as discrete archival groups: the papers of J. Austin Sperry, Leon M. Tyrrell, and Edward Stratemeyer.

The collection includes correspondence, business and legal papers, personal papers, printed ephemera, genealogical research materials, photographs, and a scrapbook documenting the lives of the Carrillo de Albornoz and Aldama families including Isaac Carrillo de Albornoz, Rene Carrillo de Albornoz, Miguel de Aldama, and other family members who lived in Cuba and the United States in the late 19th and 20th centuries.

The Daisy Aldan Papers document the professional and personal life of poet, editor, educator, translator, and filmmaker Daisy Aldan. The papers consist of personal and professional correspondence, drafts of writings, writings of others, notebooks, diaries, teaching material, artwork, audiovisual material, photographs, printed material, and personal papers spanning the years 1919 to 2000.

Views of the Pacific Northwest consists of photographic prints, drawings, and watercolors chiefly depicting sights on the Northwest Coast, particularly around Vancouver Island (a few European and South American scenes and landmarks also are included). The images originally were housed in a scrapbook kept by an unidentified individual; based on the contents of the scrapbook it is presumed that the person was a member of the joint U.S./British Northwest Boundary Commission.

This finding aid encompasses accessions of single manuscripts and small groups of manuscripts and other papers, by or pertaining to Richard Aldington, acquired by the library from a variety of sources. Materials incorporated into the collection prior to September 1997 have been organized into two series, Correspondence and Writings.

The Lidiia Alekseeva Papers contain 232 incoming letters written by seven correspondents between 1949-55. They are alphabetically arranged by author in twelve folders, and then chronologically. All the letters are in Russian. There is also one letter from Ekaterina Tauber to Grigorii Borisovich Zabezhinskii.

Connecticut covers (1967-1971); postcards, (circa 1903-1969); envelopes, unknown to Ransom (circa 1883), Pratt Thompson to Ebenezer Wooster (1886), Flynn Doyle to George R. Bailey (1913); photographs, including Litchfield High School students (circa 1880s), cabinet cards; publications and ephemera (1910s-1930s); Swamp-Root Almanacs, imprinted with Litchfield Pharmacy and Crutch McDonald; deeds, F. Nelson B. Smith (1846), Edwin E. Pretiss (1858), and Charles Munson (1867); correspondence, including H. W. Wessells to Perry (undated), Alexander Lamb to James Morris (1797), Mary B. Hannah to relatives (1853-1860), Joseph Conway to Charles Beaman (1914); two Morris Woodruff warrants (1807-1808); Philena Sutliff v. Jospeh Sutliff (1802); order of the Litchfield selectmen signed by Oliver Wolcott, Jr. (1782); receipt, James Morris signed by Jedediah Huntington, Treasurer of the State of Connecticut (1789) with notations of interest paid 1790-1792; inquests into the suicides of John Meigs Morgan (1799), Hepsibah Marsh Catlin (1800), Sylvester Vorsburgh (1816), and Lucy Parmalee (1859).

The papers document the personal and professional life of Michael Alexander, who focused on Ezra Pound's works and influence on other writers during his career. The collection includes submission drafts for Alexander's book, The Sons of Ezra: British Poets and Ezra Pound; correspondence with writers and other colleagues including Ezra Pound, Peter Whigham, and Peter Russell; and publication information for The Sons of Ezra. Also included are papers pertaining to Alexander's role as associate editor at Agenda; Alexander's research files on Pound and his influences; typescripts of Peter Whigham's poetry; and an outline for an English translation by Whigham of Catullus's Epithalamium pelei et Thetidos.

The documents are organized into four series.

The album was compiled by Henry Sanford Bicknell. It includes letters to David Roberts from William Allan, Samuel Austin, Edward Hodges Baily, William Boxall, John Britton, John Burnet, Robert William Buss, Augustus Wall Callcott, George Cattermole, Alfred Edward Chalon, Henry Barnard Chalon, William Collins, Edward William Cooke, George Cooke, Charles West Cope, John Doyle, Thomas Duncan, Charles Lock Eastlake, James Elmes, William Etty, Myles Birket Foster, Andrew Geddes, Frederick Goodall, Francis Grant, Thomas Grieve, Joseph Gwilt, James Duffield Harding, Philip Hardwick, George Hayter, Solomon Alexander Hart, George Harvey, John Henning, John Rogers Herbert, Henry Howard, William John Huggins, Alexander Johnston, Samuel Joseph, William Kidd, John Prescott Knight, George Lance, Richard James Lane, John Leech, Charles Lees, Charles Robert Leslie, John Frederick Lewis, William Linton, Henry Liverseege, Samuel Lover, Horatio Macculloch, Patrick MacDowell, Robert McInnes, Daniel Maclise, Daniel Macnee, William Calder Marshall, John Martin, William Mulready, Frederick Newenham, William John Newton, John Buonarotti Papworth, Thomas Phillips, Henry William Pickersgill, William Henry Playfair, Samuel Prout, Richard Redgrave, Ramsay Richard Reinagle, Edward Villiers Rippingille, Richard Rothwell, John Christian Schetky, George Gilbert Scott, Martin Arthur Shee, William Simpson, Clarkson Stanfield, Robert Thorburn, William Tite, Charles Turner, J.M.W. Turner, Thomas Uwins, Edward Matthew Ward, Henry Weekes, Richard Westmacott, David Wilkie, James Francis Williams, Chares Heath Wilson, and William Wyon.

A photographic scrapbook documenting the life of Lawrence Allderdice (1896-1937), Sheffield Scientific School, 1918. Included are photographs of Allderdice's family, his hometown of McKeesport, Pennsylvania, and surrounding areas, travels throughout the United States and abroad, and some photographs of Yale area buildings, including the Book and Snake Tomb and the Cloister Club House. The scrapbook also features a group portrait of the Sheffield Scientific School class of 1918.

The Peter Palmquist Cased Photographs Collection consists of daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, tintypes, and wet collodion processes mounted primarily in contemporary decorative cases, collected by Peter Palmquist of Arcata, California, during the last quarter of the twentieth century. Items in the collection document photographic processes and presentation techniques in the United States, especially in California, and in Great Britain, circa 1844-1873.