Collection of 2,051 slides of painting, sculpture, architecture, and decorative arts, from Cambodia, Indonesia, India, Japan, Laos, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Thailand, and Vietnam requested by Professor Mimi Hall Yiengpruksawan ca. 2000-2005. Some basic identifying information given in English on slide mounts or guide cards.
The collection consists of sixteen Oxyrhynchus Papyri items. The most notable papyrus fragment (Oxy. P. 1230) relates to the New Testament text of Revelations 5,6. Other items include poetical and prose fragments, orders, contracts, receipts, letters, and a prayer. The items date from the 1st century to the 6th century. The Oxy. P. 1230 item is Papyrus 24 in the Gregory-Aland numbering system. It is a papyrus manuscript of the Book of Revelation, which contains only Revelation 5:5-8; 6:5-8. The manuscript paleographically has been assigned to the early 4th century.
(700-1) Paintings from Collections in the People's Republic of China: Compiled from the slide collections of members of the Chinese Painting Delegation to the People's Republic of China in 1977 (scholars included: Bush, Clapp, Fu, Cahill, Laing, and Wilson). Includes works viewed at exhibitions and special viewings at the Palace Museum, Beijing Historical Museum, and the Nanjing, Suzhou, Shanghai, Liaoning, and Zhejiang Museums. The collection originally comprised of 3,016 slides of 432 paintings. This set represents items not added to the circulating Yale slide collection. The individual slides are labeled with identification numbers that correspond to the identification numbers given in document entitled "Tabulation of Slides of Chinese Paintings" (dated January 15, 1978). This document, organized by museum and identification number, includes the title of work, artist (in Wade-Giles Romanization), and the name of photographer/s. Two letters written by James Cahill to fellow delegates about the Duplication Project are also enclosed. These documents are included in Container 1. Provenance: Purchase, ca. 1978, from China Slides Duplication Project (administered by University of California, Berkeley). Funded by Yale University Library and the East Asia Council. A smaller set of the collection was later distributed by Asian Art Photographic Distribution (AAPD, University of Michigan).
(701-1) Collection of slides of Japanese sculpture, painting, metalwork, lacquer ware, ceramics, and textiles. Slides are labeled only with identification numbers that correspond to plates in the exhibition catalog "Art Treasures from Japan. [Exhibition, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, September 29, 1965 - November 7, 1965, and other institutions. Tokyo, Kodansha International, 1965]" Provenance: Purchase.
The Cabié Collection consists of a number (380 vol.) of copies of manuscripts which were made at the turn of the century by E. Cabié and others. The copies are hand-written and usually clearly legible; the collection is in good state of repair; the paper is not brittle and the volumes are well bound.
Collection of 55 Chinese and Japanese facsimile scrolls (total of 37 works), full-size and miniature format handscrolls and hanging scrolls. Each scroll is identified and labeled in English, some have accompanying information leaflets. Each scroll has been assigned an identification number. From various sources including purchases, gifts, and transfers from Yale University Art Gallery Print Room. No further documentation found.
VRC 0702-1 Chinese Painting Photograph Collection (Research Files): A collection of photographs of Chinese painting from various museum and personal collections including, but not limited to, the National Palace Museum, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Freer Gallery, Princeton University Art Museum, Umezawa Gallery, and the Collection of John M. Crawford, Jr. Arranged alphabetically (Wade-Giles) by artist name, with further information (title, dynasty, medium, repository) in English (Wade-Giles) written or stamped on reverse of the photograph or on separate identification sheets in each folder. Physical Description: 2075 black-and-white, 8x10 inch photographs (unmounted) in 242 labeled folders. Provenance: Gifts and purchases from museums and the Asian Art Photograph Distribution (AAPD), University of Michigan.
The papers of the Panat family include correspondence, legal documents, and financial records dating from the 13th to the 19th century. The documents of trials, testaments, and genealogies concern the Panat family and families to which they were joined by marriage, including the families of de Brunet (later de Brunet de Castelpers), Toulouse-Lautrec, La Rochefoucauld, Saint Chamans, and Pujols.
A collection of approximately 400 manuscript items, including letters; letterbooks; copies of statutes, pleadings, opinions and precedents; King's Bench reports; abridgments and commonplace books of cases; and other papers, documenting the development and practice of English law and the evolution of the English legal system from the thirteenth into the twentieth century. Included are an early copy of Henry de Bracton's De legibus Anglie; a fourteenth-century pocket compilation of "Statuta vetera" that opens with a copy of the Magna Carta; case reports from the sixteenth through the nineteenth centuries; letters, opinions and notes by a range of English legal figures, including William Blackstone, Edward Coke, Edward Law, Lord Thurlow, and Francis Wedderburn; and guides to court proceedings and practice from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
The Osborn Manuscript Files contain single, unbound manuscripts and small groups of manuscripts acquired for the Osborn Collection which the Library has chosen to describe in finding-aid style lists rather than as discrete entries in Yale University Library's on-line public access catalog (ORBIS). The materials in the Osborn Manuscript Files include literary and historical manuscripts, individual and small groups of letters, and single documents, as well as some "Unprocessed" material such as engraved portraits and bibliographic information.
The papers in this collection have cross-reference slips in the manuscript catalog and fuller descriptions in the inventory catalog. However, these slips do not indicate where in the collection items may be found. It may be necessary for the reader to look in several containers in order to find an item. Unless the item is one of the few which this listing mentions individually, or is likely to be one of the autographs in box 15 or one of the large legal documents in folio 21 A+B, it is probably best to begin by checking under the proper date in boxes 1-9. Small legal documents will also be found here. If the item is not found, the reader should check folios 18 and 21 A+B (or box 12 if the date is 1848 or 1850). Items in these folios, as in boxes 1-9, are in chronological order and may be quickly found. It is possible, however, that an item, to which a date is assigned in the catalog, has been misfiled in the "undated" section at the end of boxes 9 and 10, folio 48, and folio 21 A+B.
Spinelli Archives. Over 100,000 documents dating from the fourteenth century to the eighteenth, from the palace archive of a Florentine family distinguished for their international banking and mercantile interests in the fifteenth century, their political activities in the city for several centuries, their patronage of religious institutions in Florence and Rome, and their association with the local silk guild. Included are the records of family members who served as papal bankers in the fifteenth century, ambassadors to the courts of Henry VIII and Charles V, churchmen, senators, and ducal employees. The collection documents social and family history, recording the day-to-day concerns of merchants, farmers, workmen, slaves, women, and children in thousands of wills, marriage contracts, personal diaries, family correspondence, grocery lists, household inventories, farm reports, tax statements, and business ledgers. In addition to the papers of the Spinelli family members, the Spinelli Archive also includes extensive documentation on the Baldocci, Guardi, Buonguglielmi and many other Florentine families.
The Walter L. Pforzheimer Collection of Historical Manuscripts contains approximately 500 manuscript documents, circa 1370s-1870s, consisting of letters, legal documents, and other manuscripts written or signed by European heads of state, government, diplomatic, military or church officials, or literary authors. Most materials are French, including documents signed by French royalty and nobility, 14th-18th centuries. Many French manuscripts date from the French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars, including printed Revolutionary government documents completed in manuscript. A small amount of similar documents from other European countries and the United States are present. Some documents contain evidence of previous ownership, such as annotations, collectors' bindings, or bookplates. Also present are materials relating to Pforzheimer's research and collecting, 1920s-circa 1960s, consisting of card files, biographical notes, engraved portraits, and vendor descriptions.
A collection of correspondence; government documents, including reports, commissions, decrees, and awards; church documents; and writings and poems from Spain on civil, military, economic, religious, and social topics.
The Saul Steinberg Papers consist of correspondence, artwork, professional papers, personal papers, photographs, published artwork, clippings, collected and source material, realia, financial papers, and audio-visual material documenting artist Saul Steinberg's professional and personal activities. The papers document Steinberg's development as an artist, his career as a fine artist and as an illustrator for the The New Yorker magazine, his travels, his personal life, and his personal and professional relationships, including his relationships with his wife artist Hedda Sterne and with his partner Sigrid Spaeth. Spaeth's papers, consisting of correspondence, photographs, personal papers, professional papers, and some audio-visual materials, are also included. The bulk of the papers date from 1931-1999, primarily from Steinberg's life after immigrating to the United States in 1942. Also included are ephemera, manuscripts, and other printed material from the 15th-19th centuries collected by Steinberg during his lifetime.
The Boswell Collection documents the lives, activities, and interests of more than ten generations of Boswell family members. The papers span the dates 1428-1936, but the bulk of the material dates from the eighteenth century. The collection is divided into two parts. Part I, the JamesBoswell Papers, contains the papers of Johnson's biographer James Boswell organized and catalogued by Marion S. Pottle. Part II, Boswell FamilyPapers, consists of all the previously unprocessed material relating to the Boswell family.
Bartlett, Henrietta C. (Henrietta Collins), 1873-1963
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The Henrietta C. Bartlett Papers contain correspondence, research files and other materials related to Bartlett's research, publications and lectures on bibliography and collecting, generally concerned with Shakespeare and other writers of his time. The Papers are organized into four series. Series I, Correspondence, consists primarily of letters to Bartlett, and some third-party letters. Where copies or originals of letters from Bartlett are included, a note has been made in the box and folder list. Series II, Writings, contains typescripts and sample pages of writings by Bartlett, typescript lectures, notes, pages from early printed books, glass slides, and other materials related to her lectures. Series III, Research Files, contains newspaper clippings, notes and articles on authors, book collectors, and libraries, specimen pages from various printers, and miscellaneous printed items. Series IV, Hroswitha Club, consists of club minutes, membership lists, printed items and other material related to the Hroswitha Club, a group of women interested in book and manuscript collecting. Restricted Fragile Papers contains material from Series II and III. Oversize contains material from Series II.
The Pforzheimer Collection in Manuscripts and Archives comprises three series: Documents and Papers, Bowling Green Press Records, and Newspapers. Series I is composed of approximately seventy items relating primarily to the military history of France from the Middle Ages through the nineteenth century. Also of special interest is a group of Theodore Roosevelt letters (signed carbon copies) and speeches. Series II consists of correspondence, ledgers, account books, invoices, credit memoranda, and papers filed by the Bowling Green Press to achieve incorporation. The papers in this series cover the years 1927-1931, and appear to have been the property of Arthur Pforzheimer, treasurer of the company. Series III contains first and final issues of several American newspapers dating from the 1980s.
The Walter Wilson Greg Papers document the scholarly career of bibliographer and textual editor Walter Wilson Greg, particularly his work on the multi-volume A Bibliography of the English Printed Drama to the Restoration (4 volumes, 1939-1959). Materials relating to this work include working papers, photostats, prints, and the plate illustrations for Volume I as well as correspondence with other scholars and editors on bibliographical subjects and on the works of Shakespeare. The collection also contains copies of book reviews and scholarly articles by Greg, as well as offprints of articles by his colleagues, often inscribed to Greg, and manuscripts of several articles and lectures, including "The Elements of Textual Criticism in Shakespeare's Plays" and "What Is Bibliography?"
The collection contains bookplates of various religious orders in the Christian tradition. Dating from the 16th to the 18th century, many of the bookplates represent Catholic communities or organizations in Germany.
The collection comprises bindings removed from bound volumes when the Latin American Manuscripts Collection (MS 307) was reprocessed in 2000. These bindings cannot be connected to the documents that were inside the individual bound volumes.
The collection includes correspondence; government documents, including legal cases, decrees, reports and proclamations; church documents; published illustrated materials; and writings from the Caribbean islands (Cuba, Jamaica, Santo Domingo, Barbados, and the Virgin Islands). The collection is arranged by accession; the original accession is arranged by country, and by date within the country. The description of each item includes, when possible, its author, title, place of origin, and a summary of its contents. When an item is a copy of an original, it is arranged by the date of the original. The date field, however, contains the date of the copy itself, not the original. The date of the original is included in the summary description of the item.
A collection of European and American portrait and topographical prints that includes work by printmakers Samuel Arlent Edwards, George Edward Perine, Eugène Sadoux, and others.
This collection contains examples of historical and modern Spanish bookplates. These ex-libris are either by Spanish artists or commissioned by Spanish patrons.
A collection of correspondence; government documents, including reports, commissions, decrees, and awards; church documents; published illustrated materials; maps; and writings and poems from Mexico on civil, military, economic, religious, and social topics. Additions to the collection consist of photographs by Mario Bucovich, maps, and published illustrations, and trade union documents and publications.
This collection contains examples of graphic art, primarily before 1800. Many of these materials are not dated; an educated guess as to the age of the material was based on paper type and subject matter.
The collection consists of correspondence; government documents, including reports, commissions, decrees, legal proceedings, account books, treasury records, petitions, geographic relations and awards; church documents; writings and poems; and published illustrated materials from the Andean region of Latin America (Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela) on civil, military, economic, religious, and social topics.
The major strength of the Speck Collection is its documentation of Goethe's literary reception in England and America in the nineteenth century. The literary manuscript component of the Collection, listed in detail in this finding aid, includes correspondence, documents, playscripts, and other writings. Among the better-known items to be mentioned in this connection are the full draft of Bayard Taylor's translation of Faust (folder 716), translations by George Borrow (folders 225-227), and John Greenleaf Whittier's manuscript for his translation of the poem "Erlkoenig" (folder 249). Translations, criticism, and correspondence about theater productions and the publication of Goethe's works, especially in Great Britain, include letters and manuscripts by such figures as Sarah Austin, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Margaret Fuller, Richard Graves, Anna Jameson, Charles Kean, and Edward George Bulwer-Lytton.
The Walter L. Pforzheimer Papers contain personal correspondence, diaries, writings, notes, and family papers; correspondence, reports, and other documents relating to the United States Army during World War II, the Central Intelligence Agency, the CIA's Historical Intelligence Collection, and the United States Defense Intelligence College; historical manuscripts and related materials collected by Pforzheimer concerning the history of military intelligence, including autograph documents, signed, by European heads of state and American presidents, seventeenth-twentieth centuries; prints, posters, and newspapers, including rare seventeenth-twentieth century items relating to Molière and other subjects; framed oil paintings and prints; book collecting notes, lists, vendor receipts, and card catalogs; rare postage stamps, including propaganda and forgeries; photographs, glass and film negatives, glass stereographs, and photograph albums; video and audio recordings, including interviews with Pforzheimer and presentations by him; microfilms; computer disks; and objects collected by Pforzheimer, including Molière medals, military decorations, and memorabilia relating to his intelligence career.
Collection of approximately 50 tracts, almost entirely manuscript, concerning British politics and government. Many document relations between King Charles I and Parliament, including copies of speeches before Commons by Bagshaw, Grimston, Owens, and Pym and copies of petitions to the King by the Scottish Parliament and the Berkshire Grand Jury. Other topics include the royal succession, taxation, and court practices.
The Laurence Heyworth Collection of English Religious Manuscripts consists of 73 volumes, mostly in English, containing sermons, sermon-notes, prayers, religious reflections, tracts, commonplace books, Biblical commentaries, and other religious and theological texts, mostly from the later seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries.
This collection consists of 106 volumes, dating from c. 1550 to 1770 (with one volume containing items from as late as 1848). Five numbers in the sequence (10, 23, 59, 69, and 77) are missing, and two additional numbers (50a and 98a) have been added. Seven numbers are multi-volume sets. The collection totals 119 volumes in all. Most of the volumes are collections of short manuscripts and printed documents pertaining to a variety of topics. Over 2,000 items are present, about 1,550 in manuscript and roughly 500 in print. All of the documents are on paper and are bound in contemporary vellum. While most of the manuscript documents are written in an italic cursive, a few examples of broad humanist script are present in the collection. A fair number of engravings, woodcuts, ink drawings, and watercolors supplement the text documents.
The Luis Alberto Guajardo Collection of Músquiz, Mexico Records contains administrative records from the town of Músquiz, Coahuila, Mexico. The records were collected by Luis Alberto Guajardo, a general in the Mexican Army. Guajardo's military travels allowed him to visit local record offices in Coahuila to research the history of the region, collect documents, and make copies of original documents. This research led to the formulation of Guajardo's Apuntes Datos y Noticias Para la Historia de Coahuila, a history of the Coahuila region. Much of the material contained in this collection appears to have been used in the creation of the Apuntes Datos y Noticias.
The Bernhard Knollenberg Collection comprises original and copied manuscripts of American historical interest which were collected by the former Yale University Librarian in connection with his historical studies and presented to the Yale University Library in 31 accessions since 1939. Covering the entire span of American history, the collection is of major importance for the Colonial, Early National and Ante-Bellum Periods and is frequently consulted by the leading scholars of these periods. The typed and photostatic copies of manuscripts were obtained from many libraries and historical societies and from private collections.
Yale University. Mabel Brady Garvan Institute of American Arts and Crafts
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The records consist of material relating to the study of the Lee plantation conducted by the Mabel Brady Garvan Institute of American Arts and Crafts at Yale. Included are the Stratford survey report, financial records, background materials, correspondence, and subject and administrative files.
The Puebla Archives consist of legal manuscripts relating to the church and state affairs of the Mexican state of Puebla covering the years 1567-1904. The state capital, also called Puebla, is one of the oldest and most picturesque cities of Mexico. In 1537, the Jesuits founded the College of the Holy Ghost, which is now a university. Puebla is known as a city of churches and has an outstanding ancient cathedral constructed between 1552 and 1649. A theater, built in 1790, is claimed to be the oldest on the continent. The state of Puebla is largely mountainous (average altitude 7000 feet) and occupies part of the central portion of the Mexican plateau. Across the center extends the volcanic belt, which includes on Puebla's border three of the highest peaks in Mexico: Pico de Orizaba, Popocatepetl, and Ixtachihuatl. Primarily an agricultural area, there is some mining of gold, silver, and copper. The state contains many archaeological sites of pre-Columbian and pre-Aztec origin; the most famous is the Pyramid of Cholula.
The collection consists of a variety of documents from Jewish communities in Italy, mainly in the northern regions of Piedmont, Emilia-Romagna, Lombardy and Veneto. The documents include records of Jewish communal organizations, correspondence of rabbis and community leaders, legal decisions, and liturgy. There are also official notices and rulings from various Italian authorities pertaining to the Jewish community. A portion of the documents in this collection relate to the emancipation of the Jews of Italy following Napoleon's conquest. Most of the documents are entirely hand-written, but some are printed or written on printed forms or letter-heads.
Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
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The Pamphlet Collection contains a wide range of printed material which documents the cultural, economic, political, and social history of many nations and geographic regions. The vast majority of items are twentieth century publications. Earlier publications (pre-1900) for Latin American (and South American) nations are available in the Latin American Pamphlet Collection (MS 1350).
The collection contains letters to Ulysse Rouchon; documents and manuscripts related to the Department Haute-Loire in France, its capital Puy, and the natives of this region; miscellaneous pamphlets related to the same Department and consisting of decrees, public announcements, circular letters, pastoral letters, proclamations, petitions, court appeals, patriotic songs, and materials concerning the princes and counts of Polignac, other local aristocracy and gentry, clergy, industry, commerce, tariffs, roads, military conscriptions, and religious and public festivals. Also included are miscellaneous printed materials and notes referring to the same region, and arranged according to their respective subjects of anthropology, fine arts, folklore, linguistics, literature, philosophy, religion, and traditions.
The Pruden family papers are composed of three diverse parts. The first consists of fourteen letters written to Joseph S. Pruden during the years 1865-1866. The letters deal with financial problems and debts owed to Pruden by D. B. Thompson of Columbus, Georgia. Some personal and family news is included in Thompson's letters.
The collection contains correspondence; government documents, including reports and decrees; church documents; writings; and published illustrated material from Central America (Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panama.) The collection is arranged by country, and by date within country. The description of each item includes, when possible, its author, title, place of origin, and a summary of its contents. When an item is a copy of an original, it is arranged by the date of the original. The date field, however, contains the date of the copy itself, not the original. The date of the original is included in the summary description of the item.
Manuscripts in the Albi Rosenthal Collection of Monteverdi and the Birth of Opera consist of letters, writings, and music relating to Monteverdi and others involved in the creation of opera in seventeenth-century Italy. Letters of Monteverdi collaborators Claudio Achillini, Jacopo Peri, Ottavio Rinuccini, and other musicians and writers, addressed to third parties or unidentified recipients, concern Monteverdi's music and other music subjects. Other materials include a volume of holograph music by Alessandro Capece and two manuscripts by unidentified writers giving contempory accounts of music performed in seventeenth-century Urbino. Also present are letters of twentieth-century composers Paul Hindemith, Vincent d'Indy, and Gian Francesco Malipiero, concerning Monteverdi's music. Some items are accompanied by notes of former owners, vendor descriptions, transcriptions, or translations, some possibly by French musicologist Henry Prunières
The papers detail the personal lives and professional careers of several generations and family lines of the Baldwin family. The legal, political, and business activities of family members in Connecticut, New York, and elsewhere are documented. Major topics include: family, women, law, education, Connecticut and New York politics and government, New Haven, Connecticut, and Yale University.
This autograph collection consists of approximately eighty letters and documents signed primarily by European and American political, diplomatic, and military figures of the seventeenth through nineteenth centuries, including Giuseppe Garibaldi, William Gladstone, Andrew Jackson, Lajos Kossuth, and Napoléon I. The items are arranged in alphabetical order by author. The collection was given to Yale University in 1961 by Harold Lamport and Mrs. H. L. Friedman.
The Sir William Lee Family Papers document many aspects of the personal, family, and professional life of the prominent jurist and landowner Sir William Lee and his extended family. They include extensive personal and official correspondence; records of court cases; notes on legal and Parliamentary questions; personal, financial and legal memoranda; household accounts and financial papers; and other family and personal papers.
The approximately 2700 volumes of the Chile Collection reflect the history and politics of Chile from the 16th century through 1940 with particular strength in the period from 1810 to 1940. The nucleus of the holdings was formed by Chilean scholar Jose Promis of Santiago, Chile. Subjects include the boundary disputes of Chile, the Peru-Bolivian Confederation of 1836, and the War of the Pacific, 1879-1884. The collection includes rare books, reference monographs, periodicals, and pamphlets (source: State of Connecticut Preservation Grant Program Report Narrative, University of Connecticut Homer Babbidge Library Preservation Department, 1993.)
This collection of seventeenth and eighteenth century documents from the Tyrol can be divided into two groups. The first contains papers concerning the parsonage of Algund (also spelled Allgundt), a small village near Meran in the South Tyrol. Included are inventories set up after the death of the parson, a form for a declaration to be signed by each incoming parson concerning his duties and obligations, and a letter of application for the job as minister in Algund.
Collection of European topical prints and drawings by various artists and printers, some unidentified, created circa 1600 through 1904. The bulk of the collection consists of urban and rural scenes and cityscapes, primarily in Vienna, as well as other Austrian cities and towns and some cities in Germany, the Netherlands, and Switzerland. Subjects of prints and drawings include churches, buildings, public works, palaces and castles, public squares, parks and gardens, and train stations in Vienna. Also included are general Vienna city views and depictions of towns, suburbs, and districts in and around Vienna and throughout Austria. The collection also includes printed documents with manuscript signatures, illustrated narrative scenes, a few portraits, and some unidentified images. Identified artists include Rudolf von Alt, W. H. Bartlett, Robert Batty, Tranquillo Mollo, and Jos. Trentsensky. Many prints include hand coloring.
The collection consists of 77 tankas, chiefly Tibetan, but also Nepalese, Bhutanese, Indian and Chinese, which bear religious images, circa 1600-circa 1950. Some tankas also bear inscriptions on their versos.
This finding aid encompasses single manuscripts and small groups of manuscripts acquired by the Beinecke Library from various sources and at various times, which the Library has chosen to describe here rather than as separate entries in Yale University Library's on-line Public Access Catalog (Orbis). These materials include literary and historical manuscripts, individual or small groups of letters, and single documents. Materials are grouped under headings for author or other personal or corporate name to which they most closely relate. Items of unidentified authorship are grouped under the heading "Unidentified" under the letter "U". Group numbers were assigned to headings in an initial alphabetical sequence and thereafter in order of processing; within each group, folders (F-[#]) and volumes (V-[#]) are numbered in order of processing.
This finding aid encompasses single manuscripts and small groups of manuscripts relating to music, acquired by the Beinecke Library from various sources and at various times. Some individual music manuscripts representing complete works are also cataloged in Yale University Library's on-line Public Access Catalog (Orbis), in addition to being listed here.
This repository contains the following types of documents/records: Born digital, Video recordings, Audiocassettes, Architectural drawings, Scores, Maps, Municipal government records, Fliers, Photographs, Correspondence
Westport Museum for History Culture (Westport, Conn.)
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This collection contains Deeds that have been received at the Museum over the course of years. Other deeds can be found in collections of individual and family papers held by the Museum. More detailed inventories are available in the boxes of the collection.
The Hollon A. Farr Papers consist of personal materials related to Farr's teaching and administrative career at Yale and autograph letters, documents and other items collected by him.
The Herman W. Liebert Manuscript Collection includes many of the historical and literary manuscripts that Liebert acquired for his personal collection and gave singly or in groups to the library, as well as a small body of his personal correspondence with prominent individuals. (However, Mr. Liebert's many gifts of manuscripts and other material pertaining to the English poet and essayist, Austin Dobson, are housed and described separately as the Herman W. Liebert Collection of Austin Dobson.) The collection also incorporates a group of manuscripts purchased by the library in 1995 from the Liebert estate, and two works by Max Beerbohm (folders 8-9) believed to have been part of Mr. Liebert's collection, which were given to the library in 1995 by his children, Frederick P. Liebert and Lucy B. Liebert, in memory of their father. Other caches of Liebert gifts remain in previously cataloged collections.
The Edward Bliss Reed Carol Collection brings together the manuscript portion of items collected by Edward Bliss Reed. The Yale library system has various other printed items about carols given by Mr. Reed. These have been cataloged separately.
The Fishing Manuscripts Collection consists of manuscripts, typescripts, photographs, and other documents relating to fishing, flies for fishing, and fishing trips taken. Most of the items were formerly in the collection of David Wagstaff (1882-1951).
The Elihu Yale Collection is a compilation of printed materials and photographs — and a few original documents — concerning Elihu Yale (1649-1721), one of Yale College's early benefactors. The materials cover the dates 1610 (photostat)-1987. Only a small part of the collection could be considered as the papers of Elihu Yale or the Yale family; in almost every case the collection contains only the photostatic copy of a document housed elsewhere (particularly at the Public Record Office in London). The chief exceptions to this are an intriguing eighteenth-century manuscript volume of recipes, prepared for Yale's granddaughter, Lady Barbara North, and one volume of a rare printed catalogue of Yale's estate.
The Charlton Thomas Lewis Papers fall into two sections. The first consists of a collection of autographs of famous literary, intellectual, and political figures compiled by Lewis, and of letters addressed to him and his wife, Margaret P. (Sherrand) Lewis by notables of their acquaintence. Beginning with two documents signed by members of the British Privy Council in 1612 and 1615, the collection contains letters and other items from such prominent figures as Robert Browning, Washington Irving, William James, the first duke of Marlborough, John Stuart Mill, Louis Orléans (comte de Paris; an essay,"L'Esprit de conquête en 1870"), the due de Richelieu, Talleyrand, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Voltaire, John Wesley, and Walt Whitman. Also included are several menu cards signed by numerous individuals. These letters and documents have been arranged chronologically, however, an alphabetical list is provided in the register. Note that the folder numbers are listed non-sequentially as a result.
Collection consists of correspondence (personal and business), federal and state government papers, legal documents, financial papers, business papers (including his papers relating to the China trade, 1805-1814), speeches and essays, awards and appointments, notes on Wolcott family history, estate papers, and related print material. Notable correspondents include John Adams, John Quincy Adams, Fisher Ames, Joel Barlow, Theodore Dwight, Chauncey Goodrich, Alexander Hamilton, Rufus King, Timothy Pickering, Josiah Quincy, Benjamin Tallmadge, Noah Webster, George Washington, and Oliver Wolcott. Included in the collection are the notes of George Gibbs IV for his two volumes Memoirs of the Administrations of Washington and John Adams, Edited from the Papers of Oliver Wolcott, Secretary of the Treasury, 1846.
The Wilton Historical Society Map Collection provides snapshots of Wilton and its environs beginning in the early 1700s. There is a special emphasis throughout on property boundaries and borders with adjacent communities, roads and infrastructure, the locations of homes and names of residents, government and elections, school districts, places of business and industry, and the minutiae of local names and landmarks both permanent (such as Split Rock) and ephemeral (including chestnut stumps and stone piles). Major historical events, in contrast, are less well represented. The collection nevertheless contains important examples, notably a map of General Tryon's Raid during the Revolutionary War and another showing important sites associated with African American history and the Underground Railroad's passage through the area.
The Sir Charles Blagden Papers contain scientific and travel notes, correspondence, and printed material documenting aspects of the life and scientific work of Sir Charles Blagden. These include observations on travel in England and on the continent in the 1780s; memoranda on scientific experiments and observations, including notes by Lavoisier; letters to his brother, John Blagden Hale; and proof sheets of Philosophical Transactions for 1789.
Autograph manuscript material documenting chiefly eighteenth- and nineteenth-century American history. A small number of seventeenth-century items are present. The collection consists mainly of correspondence and documents from the colonial, revolutionary, Federal, and antebellum periods, but extends well into the post-Civil War era. The collection includes a substantial group of the papers of writer and politician Joel Barlow (1754-1812), covering the period 1775-1812.
The papers consist of correspondence, notebooks, scrapbooks, albums, genealogical material, and miscellanea relating to the personal lives and professional careers of several members of the Hooker family, including Edward Hooker (1822-1903), a naval commander for the Union forces during the Civil War.
The collection consists of register books of various Jewish communal organizations, mainly in Europe, with a few from the Middle East and the United States. The volumes include minute books of synagogues and social welfare committees, account books, school registers, and wills. They document the activities, concerns, and conditions of Jewish communities, as well as their relations with neighbors and governmental authorities. The registers include genealogical, sociological, and historical information.
The papers consist of photostatic copies of John Davenport letters collected by Isabel M. Calder and published in her Letters of John Davenport, Puritan Divine (1937).
Plimpton, Elizebeth B. (Elizebeth Bull), 1921-1994
Abstract Or Scope
This collection is comprised of a large variety of materials on many subjects about life in Lyme from pre-colonial times into the 20th century. The late 19th century and early 20th century are especially well represented. The types of materials are largely manuscript, news clippings and ephemera with a few photographs.
The largest part of this collection of printed matter is made up of censorship decrees issued by various government and ecclesiastical bodies between 1626 and 1789. Among those represented are: the Parlement of Paris; provincial Parlements; the king of France; the Conseil d'Etat du Roi; the Paris police (whose decrees were directed as much against the book trade as the individual author); the theological faculty at the Sorbonne; bishops, archbishops and the Pope (in decrees concerning France). Although most of the works falling under the ban are theological, there are also secular works of literature, history and philosophy in the list. Notable among them are the entire works of Voltaire (see the Arrest du Conseil d'Estat du Roy, 1785 Jun 3) and Helvetius' De l'Esprit, (banned in the papal decree of 1759 Jan 31).
The papers contain correspondence, bills and receipts, sermons, church papers, writings, and miscellanea documenting the personal life, religious career, and literary work of Benjamin Trumbull and his family. Sermons include material on a wide range of religious, historical, political, and social topics. Correspondence and other papers include material relating to Trumbull's family life, student years, religious responsibilities, and writings on Connecticut history, divorce, and land settlement. Information on the town of North Haven, Connecticut and the New England region is also included in the papers.
The collection consists primarily of records after 1909 ending with the administration preceding the most current, with each administration constituting a separate subgroup. Records prior as well as several dating after, appear as separate series. These include Executive Clerk, 1820-1985; Proclamations, 1630-1991; Correspondence, 1811-1933; Bond Registers, 1819-1899; Applications, 1848-1880; Miscellaneous Reports, 1850-1945; Commitment Papers, 1848-1948; Appointment Registers, 1871-1978; Commissioner of Deeds, 1879-1978; Office of the Lieutenant Governor, 1991-2018; and Requisitions and Waivers of Extradition, 1921-1982. Some of these series cross over several administrations.
Collection consists of correspondence to and from Roger Wolcott, financial papers, legal papers, diaries and literary papers with transcriptions. The correspondence also includes some early 17th century Wolcott family letters.
The papers consist of correspondence, papers, volumes, deeds, and other material documenting several generations of the Johnson family of Connecticut and New York. Samuel Johnson (1696-1772), William Samuel Johnson (1727-1819), William Samuel Johnson (1795-1883), and Samuel William Johnson (1828-1895) are prominent figures in the papers. The correspondence of William Livingston (1723-1790) and Noah Welles (1718-1776) is also arranged in the papers. In addition to extensive correspondence between Johnson family members, the papers contain material relating to Connecticut and New York politics in the colonial and Revolutionary War periods, and religion, land development, and Indian affairs in the nineteenth century. Additions to the papers include family correspondence, sketchbooks of Katharine Livingston Bayard Johnson, a diary and account books of Sarah Dwight Woolsey Johnson, photographs of New Haven, Yale University, and other Connecticut towns by Robert Bayard Severy; Livington family genealogy, by Margaret S. Rutgers; multi-generational account book, and photographs of eighteenth-century documents related to William Samuel Johnson. The originals of these documents, all of which are in the public domain, were donated to Columbia University.
This collection includes bookplates for the various residential colleges affiliated with the University of Oxford or the University of Cambridge, both of which are located in England.
The Boswell Collection Addition constitutes a small portion of the extensive body of papers in the Beinecke Library pertaining to the Boswell family and the estate of Auchinleck from the fifteenth to the twentieth centuries. The Addition primarily documents the complex administration of the debt-burdened estate of Auchinleck after the death of Sir Alexander Boswell in 1822. There are also papers relating to the careers and activities of members of the Douglas of Garallan branch of the family, along with some personal and family papers belonging to the Boswells of Auchinleck. The papers span the years 1634-1960, but the bulk of the material dates from between 1823 and 1857.
The Winthrop Family Papers are organized in two series: I. Correspondence and II. Other Papers. The papers span the dates 1635-1720, with the bulk of the material dating from between 1670 and 1710.
The F.C.C. Boyd Autograph Collection contains approximately three hundred letters and other documents ranging in date from 1635 to 1934, arranged in alphabetical order. Although most of the papers are American in origin, several are signed by Europeans, including one document issued by Pope Urban VIII. Major topics covered by the collection include numismatics, the theater, and the United States Navy. Two Navy Department letterbooks (1873-1876) are included with the autograph letters.
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