Collections : [Yale University -Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library]

The papers consist of 56 dossiers containing over 3600 documents relating to government of Martinique, Guadeloupe, and other French colonies in the West Indies, most dating from Rochambeau's term as gouverneur général des Isles du Vent, 1792-1794. Also present are small amounts of papers created by earlier colonial administrators, 1762-1791, or relating to Rochambeau's surrender to the British, parole, and return to Saint-Domingue, 1794-1802. Twenty-one maps, most in ink and watercolor, document topographical features, colonial settlements, and fortification in Martinique, Guadeloupe, Sainte-Lucie, Tabago, and other islands, 1758-1802. A small amount of letterheads, forms, and other printed items may include materials printed in the French West Indies.

The Larissa Leclair Collection of Indie Photobook Library Ephemera, which spans from 2008-2015, contains correspondence, business papers, ephemera, and electronic media related to Larissa Leclair and the Indie photobook library.

Correspondence and financial records of the Hawks family's business ventues in the American West. Correspondence among William E. Hawks, senior, Samuel B. Hawks, William E. Hawks, junior, William S. Hawks, and George M. Hawks documents the family's management of its companies. Also present is extensive correspondence with the family's business partners and financial organizations.