Collections : [Yale University -Robert B. Haas Family Arts Library]

Collection consists of black and white glass lantern slides of South Asian art and architecture. Includes architecture, painting, sculpture, numismatics, metalwork, rugs, and textiles.

Collection consists of mounted black and white and color reproductions of modern African, Australian, European, and Asian architecture. Content varies from original photographic prints to reproductions from magazines and other published sources. Some sections have accompanying clippings folders.

Collection consists of mounted black and white and color reproductions of modern Canadian and U.S. architecture. Content varies from original photographic prints to reproductions from magazines and other published sources. Some sections have accompanying clippings folders.

Collection consists of photographs of Mexican Colonial art and architecture, with architecture the predominant subject. Most of the material are likely dated from the 1920s and 1930s and were purchased by George Kubler for Yale University from the Instituto Nacional de Antropologia y Historia, Mexico City. Some materials were purchased from the photographer, Joseph A. Baird, Jr. Deposited in the Visual Resources Department in 1983.

The collection contains numerous designs of unknown origin depicting scenes from the traditional Japanese stage. The scenes displayed are derived from Noh (or Nō) dramas, a performance tradition which draws on Buddhist scripture and Japanese mythology and combines music, dance, and poetry in a highly formalized staging.

Collection consists of photographs and slides taken by R. D. Butterfield from 1952-1983, and donated to the Visual Resources Collection at the encouragement of Abbott Lowell Cummings. Most are architectural studies, with particular emphasis on Venice's Grand Canal, Palladio and his influence, New England churches, and churches by Christopher Wren. Mr. Butterfield was a practicing architect, M.Arch. Yale, based in Farmington, CT. He died in 1986. Mr. Butterfield was interested in comparisons between British and European architecture and New England architecture, and had an exhibit at the New Britain Museum of American Art in 1983, "Towers From-The-Ground-Up," on that subject. The exhibit is thoroughly documented in this collection. Palladio's influence on American architecture is also explored, as is Wren's. All slides have been carefully labeled according to Mr. Butterfield's numbering system, and his slide index is enclosed with the collection in Box 26. Many of them are also briefly identified on the slide mounts. The photos are of very high quality, although some of the film has faded. The index details the year the photo was taken, the subject, the camera and film, and sometimes even the time of day.

The collection was created by Tom Morin in the process of writing the book Threads of Influence: The Visual History of a Life in Graphic Design.

The collection comprises sample books from primarily American commercial paper manufacturers.

The collection consists of bookplates commissioned by Norwegian individuals and institutions.

The collection comprises a portion of the professional library of George Kubler, former Robert Lehman Professor (1965-1975) and Sterling Professor of the History of Art (1975-1983) at Yale University.