Collections

This collection contains bookplates by the Dutch artist Wim Zwiers. Many are signed proofs or numbered prints. Of particular note are drawings and proofs for a bookplate Zwiers designed for Irene D. Andrews Pace. In addition to bookplates, the collection contains several New Year's greeting cards also designed by Zwiers.

Series 1: Job Files, 1985-2004 - Organized chronologically by job number (Boxes 1-14, oversized 1 and 2). Series contains: Correspondence, plans, proposals, shop drawings, sketches, construction schedules, certificates for payments, clippings, inspections, bids, and reports.

A collection of twenty-five posters documenting Yiddish theater in Argentina and Poland during the years 1917-1958. Most posters feature the work of Yiddish poet, writer, editor and playwright Nechemia Zucker. The collection also contains a folder of newspaper clippings, advertisements, title pages, journals, and works written or edited by Nechemia Zucker.

The Norman Zolot Papers consist of legal case files, primarily concerning labor disputes in the state of Connecticut between the years 1947 and 1979. In addition to legal case files, the collection contains printed reference materials related to state and national labor unions and issues during the period. The collection was originally donated to the Connnecticut State Library in 1979, and was transfered to the University of Connecticut in 1991. There are no restrictions regarding the use of this collection. The papers are organized into five series.

The bulk of the Zion's Hill Cemetery Association Collection is made up of binders containing different versions of the cemetery index, along with plot maps. Additional records include maps of the cemetery and the adjacent church property, a map of veterans' graves, financial records, correspondence, burial and cremation procedures, and information on maintenance and preservation efforts.

The correspondence, writings and photographs in this collection document the translations, psychoanalytic practice and scholarship of Gregory Zilboorg, the relationship between Gregory and Margaret Zilboorg (neé Stone) and Gregory Zilboorg's photographic portraiture. Most of the papers date from the 1940s and early 1950s and document Zilboorg's personal life and writings (including translations and writings on the history of psychiatry). The papers illustrate the work of a prominent analyst at a time when psychoanalysis had a significant influence on the New York literary circle in which Zilboorg worked.

The James and Eugenia Zilboorg Papers document the experience of a middle class Jewish family in Kiev that emigrates to the United States, Mexico and Palestine. The papers consist of family correspondence, business correspondence, other personal papers, photographs and printed material documenting the life of James and Eugenia Zilboorg and their families. The two largest groups of letters are between James and Eugenia Zilboorg and between the Zilboorgs and the Gel'fman family.

Chiefly correspondence, also includes manuscripts submitted, and some publicity material.

The papers include correspondence, writings, and photographs relating to the life and career of Sophia Tierong Zhu. Autobiographical writings about Zhu and her husband, Zhang Ifan, who were both victims of anti-rightist movements in China, comprise a substantive part of the papers. The collection also documents Zhu's close relationship with many English Language Instructors from Yale University.

These records provide valuable documentation of an indigenous program of the church in China during the years 1939 to 1950. The correspondence and writings of Archie R. Crouch also provide interesting insight into the experiences of a Western missionary serving under Chinese leadership. Crouch was English-language secretary of the Department in China 1944-1946; he continued to promote the Department and correspond with its leaders after his return to the United States.

The collection documents Jerome Zerbe's work as a photographer and chronicler of mid-twentieth century celebrities and society events. Photograph albums assembled by Zerbe span his time as a student at Yale in the 1920s, his brief time as an artist in Hollywood in the 1930s, and his long career as a society photographer and paparazzo, notably as the house photographer at the El Morocco nightclub in New York. The albums also document his naval service in the Pacific theater as Admiral Chester W. Nimitz's personal photographer during the Second World War. In addition to albums, photographs include loose prints and film negatives, most black and white. Zerbe's diaries include sometimes daily records of his work and social life, and span from his time at Yale to a few years before his death. Papers include subject files, often related to publishing projects, writings for Zerbe's society columns, clippings, correspondence, passports, and materials relating to Zerbe's home "Windsong" in Essex, Connecticut. Papers also include correspondence and other materials generated by Frederick R. Koch while he owned the collection from 1989 to 2013. Audiovisual materials consist of a recording of an interview with Zerbe.

Largely reprints of papers by John Zeleny (1897-1945), together with a volume of laboratory notes kept during his attendance at the University of Berlin (1897), biographical information, photographs, and a testimonial book presented to Zeleny upon his retirement in 1940.

The collection contains posters assembled between 1986 and 1991 by Paul Zelanski, Professor of Art at the University of Connecticut. The collection represents the work of over 100 graphic designers, approximately half of which were working in Eastern Bloc countries.

The collection consists of 35mm film slides (color and black and white) relating to New Haven area buildings, sites, and people, 1950-1979, with an emphasis on urban redevelopment projects, construction, and political events. A group of slides relating to New England log homes is also included.

Collection consists of Ms. Zallinger's original artwork for more than 20 books. In addition to the original art, collection contains a number of book dummies, publisher's proofs, and print editions for a few of the titles.

The collection consists of approximately 250 postcards made from photographs taken by Casimir Zagourski in Africa between 1924 and 1941, which formed a part of his overall project, "L'Afrique Qui Disparait" (Disappearing Africa). The photos are set in what is now the Democratic Republic of Congo (formally known as Belgian Congo), Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Chad, Kenya, Central African Republic, Cameroon, and Congo Brazzaville. The postcards depict a variety of aspects of everyday life in these different settings, including housing styles and traditional grave sites of the Belgian Congo, Bakumu dancers, and Bongelima dignitaries. He also highlighted the beautification marks of the Gombe, the Bwaka, the Banza, and the Bapende of the Belgian Congo. Zagourski also focused on women at work, depicting them carrying goods home from market, collecting firewood, taking care of children, and preparing meals. Digital facsimiles of postcards in this collection, accompanied by more detailed descriptions, are available in the Manuscripts and Archives Digital Image Database (MADID) from the Manuscripts and Archives web site.

Letters and manuscripts to and from Yung Wing, the first Chinese student to graduate from Yale (1854). Also included are electrostatic copies of all the Yung Wing material from other collections in Manuscripts and Archives and Beinecke Rare Book Library, as well as three unfilmed additions of correspondence from Mary Kellogg Yung, wife of Yung Wing, with Jane Bartlett Kellogg, her sister, and Mary Bartlett Kellogg, her mother. Exhibit panels, printed material, and audiovisual items pertaining to Yung Wing complete the papers.

The papers consist of professional files; genealogical materials; photographs and memorabilia; and writings and translations documenting Yung Kwai's participation in the Chinese Educational Mission, his diplomatic career with the Chinese Legation, as well as his personal life.

The papers consist of correspondence and memorabilia of Arthur Yudkin.

The Records of the YWCA of Greater Bridgeport provide insight into the organization's history from1895 to 1995, when the last group of records were donated to the Bridgeport History Center.

The papers consist of correspondence, business files, autobiographical and other writings, photographs and other materials documenting the business career and personal life of Robert R. Young. The collection documents Young's efforts to take control of the Alleghany Corporation and the New York Central Railroad. The papers also include materials concerning the lives of his wife, Anita O'Keeffe Young, and his daughter, Eleanor Young.

This collection consists of primarily photocopied material. Detailed correspondence documents the life and work of Mason and Louise Young in Soochow, particularly the medical work of Mason, as well as the educational work of Lois Young in Suchowfu. The memoir of Lois Young documents the period when she was interned by the Japanese.

The Marguerite Young Papers document the work of writer Marguerite Young. The papers consist of personal and professional correspondence, drafts of writings, audiovisual material, notebooks, research files, printed material, photographs, artwork, realia, and financial papers spanning the years 1925 to 1999. The bulk of the collection consists of Young's drafts of writings, correspondence, and audiovisual material. Writings include autograph manuscript and typescript drafts, printed versions, notes, and notebooks of her writings, including Angel in the Forest: A Fairy Tale of Two Utopias; Miss Macintosh, My Darling; and Harp Song for a Radical: The Life and Times of Eugene Victor Debs. Correspondence includes letters from friends and colleagues regarding her professional and personal life. Audiovisual material consists of sound recordings and one unidentified film, including the 1974 to 1975 radio production of Miss Macintosh, My Darling read by various authors and actors for WBAI-FM Pacifica Radio. Other papers include photographs, clippings, financial papers, personal papers, personal effects, and realia.

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

The collection contains preliminary and original art created by Young and used in the publication of children's books. A few pieces of correspondence are included in the collection. Some of the pieces are framed or under Plexiglas.

Minutes of meetings, financial and legal records, and correspondence of the York Square Trustees, organized in 1834 to maintain a park between Broadway and Ashmun Street in New Haven, Connecticut. Many of the papers document the Trustees' losing battle to maintain the park against the city of New Haven, the Hebrew Ladies' Orphan Society, and other institutions wishing to build on the land.

It is obvious that a collection of this size cannot document in a complete way the activities of such a large and long lived organization as the Student Division of the YMCA. The documentation available in this collection is very thorough in selected areas and extremely valuable for the insight it provides on the changing character of YMCA concerns. The papers are also valuable for the way in which they complement other archival collections at the Divinity Library to provide a detailed picture of the development of religious work among college and university students in the United States.

This collection contains records of the Waterbury YMCA. Record types include: newsletters, photographs, newspaper clippings, pamphlets, scrapbooks and general administrative files. Topics covered include building renovations, recreation activities, 1955 flood recovery, and the centennial celebration. This collection highlights trending attitudes towards health and fitness, as well as specific challenges for Waterbury. Of special interest are the Industrial Recreation Association records and newspaper clippings, which shed light on Waterbury's part in WWII.

The collection primarily contains minutes, providing a fairly complete overview of operations with a few gaps. Of particular note are minutes from the 1930s, which help to document the actions of the YMCA and the Women's Auxiliary during the Great Depression.

The Robert M. Yerkes Papers provide a rich resource for anyone interested in the history of twentieth century psychology. They comprehensively document the life and career of Robert Mearns Yerkes, one of the foremost psychologists of the first half of the century. In addition, his extensive correspondence and broad research and professional interests make the papers an indispensable collection for those interested in the development of psychology in the United States. The major portion of the Yerkes Papers were deposited at the Yale Medical Library in 1962, were subsequently transferred to Manuscripts and Archives, and finally donated to Yale University by deed of gift in 1980.

The Yerkes papers document the work of the Presbyterian Church in the Shandong (Shantung) Province of China from 1869-1874 when Helen Yerkes' parents were stationed in Chefoo and from 1904-1950. Although they left China in 1925, Yerkes stayed in contact with his missionary and Chinese friends. Yerkes was involved with evangelical work as well as the administrative tasks of running the station. Among his duties, he served on the China Council and acted as treasurer of the station. From 1923 until his departure from China, he worked with the American Consulate, R.P. Tenney, to secure the release of foreign captives after the wreck of the "Blue Express" on May 6, 1923 and continued to supply information about the bandit situation in his area.

The collection consists of pencil and charcoal drawings depicting scenes of Yale and New Haven, Connecticut drawn by Loveday Yates in the 1940s and 1950s.

The Yates Family Papers consist of 2.5 inches of correspondence, and 30 inches of legal and financial papers and descriptions of land holdings of the Yates family of Schenectady and other New York families. Most of the collection has to do with land. There are a few copies of seventeenth-century documents, but the concentration of legal and financial papers falls between the 1760s and the 1820s. The bulk of the correspondence consists of letters from Yates family members to the land agent Charles Fuller (fl. 1845–1869) and others concerning land holdings and transactions and the collection of rents. Approximately fifty of the letters are from Ann Elizabeth (Delancy) Yates, widow of the New York State Governor Joseph Christopher Yates (1768–1837), written during the 1840s and 1850s. Other persons represented include Christopher Yates and his descendents from mid-eighteenth century to mid-nineteenth century, and James Duane (1733–1797) and his descendants, and members of the Delancy family.

The materials consist of meeting minutes documenting the activities of the Yale Women's Coordinating Council.

The records consist of clippings, reports, and correspondence documenting the Yale Women's Action Committee study of sexual and gender harassment at Yale. Also includes a report and newsclipping concerning sexual harassment at Harvard.

To a large degree the William Yale Papers consist ofcopies of miscellaneous documents (official, semi-official and private; American as well as French, British and Middle Eastern in provenance) pertaining to the break-up and reorganization of certain segments of the old Ottoman Empire during the years 1917-1919. The bulk of the material deals with Syrian, Palestinian, Arab and Zionist affairs.* As Yale himself explained (in a letter sent to Charles Seymour in 1928, when Yale made the gift of his papers to the Yale University Library): "Some of these documents are [also to be found] in the Hoover Collection at Stanford, some are at Princeton, and most of them [are] in the files of the Department of State or the War Department. However, some of them are not in any collection." A few additional items were incorporated at a more recent date: these include Yale's report on Henry Morgenthau's secret mission to Constantinople in 1917; a letter from Jamal Husseini (written in 1962) describing a meeting organized in 1921 between Weizmann and a group of prominent Arabs to discuss Zionist demands in Palestine; and a letter addressed to Yale by the legendary T. E. Lawrence, describing in vivid detail the Arab occupation of Damascus.

The Women's Center, Yale University, records consists of administrative files, event records, publications, staffer journals and subject files from 1969 to 2014.

The records consist of a constitution, tickets, agreements, a dinner menu, program records, correspondence and memorabilia documenting the Yale Union. Included is material concerning the 1892 debate against the Harvard Union.

The records consist of correspondence, published materials, minutes, press releases, membership lists, memorabilia, and videotapes documenting the activities and operations of the Yale Political Union.

The records consist of minutes, including minutes of the Newcomer's Club, newsletters, annual reports, program records, correspondence, and printed materials documenting the activities of the Yale University Women's Organization.

The materials consist of audiotapes, a videotape, transcripts, and project and background files relating to "One Story, Many Voices: An Oral History of the Yale University Women's Organization."

The materials consist of posters created during a campus-wide poster session "Scholarship by Women/Research on Gender," hosted by the Yale Women Faculty Forum, November 7-9, 2006.

The records consist of committee reports, drafts, and research materials documenting the activities and operations of the Vassar-Yale Joint Study Group, which was formed to study the possible merger between Vassar College and Yale University.

The records consist of materials concerning the Master of Arts in Teaching (M.A.T.) degree, teacher placement, pre-medical students, fellowship applications, scholarships, reports on Yale Conferences on the Teaching of Social Studies and English, and the National Science Foundation Summer Institute. Also included are registration cards, minutes, correspondence, memoranda, reports, budgets, and administrative files of Undergraduate Career Services (formerly) Yale University Career Services.

The records consist of memoranda, subject files, publications, minutes, and related objects documenting the activities and operations of the Yale United States Bicentennial Committee.

The records consist of student records and financial aid materials of the Yale University Undergraduate Financial Aid Office.

The records consist of staff meeting minutes of the Yale Financial Aid Office.

The records consist of one bound volume of meeting minutes and supporting materials of the Undergraduate Athletic Association documenting athletics at Yale.

The massive sub-record group of Finance and Administration known as the Treasurer's Records (RU 151) contains the largest continuous set of records in the Yale Archives. Records from 1701 - 1971 document every facet of Yale's financial history. Included in the sub-group are the general summaries of receipts and expenditures and the minute details of charges to a student for breakage in the chemistry lab or the cost of a bath-tub fixture in Jonathan Edwards College.

The records consist of financial and construction records maintained by the treasurer of Yale concerning Helen Hadley Hall, a graduate women's residence erected on the Yale campus in 1958.