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The records consist of administrative files, correspondence, catalogs, minutes, graduate student files, curricula, and printed material documenting the activities and operations of the Yale Department of Education, which no longer exists as a separate academic unit. Included are materials concerning the Summer Seminar in Education (formerly called the Education Conference), and the Yale-Fairfield Study of Elementary Teaching.

Music and other papers by and about the American pianist, composer, and educator Bruce Simonds (1895-1989)

The papers consist of the diaries of Donald Crossley Vining for the years 1932-1958 and for 1971-1985, as well as typed transcripts from his diaries for 1926-1927. The diaries provide a detailed account of the life of an intellectual, homosexual man in the 1940s and 1950s. Vining, who spent most of his adult life in New York, took a great interest in the arts, and his diaries contain descriptions of operas and plays which he attended; outlines of his current writing projects and theater activities; and details of his daily life and personal relationships. Typescripts of several one and two act plays are included in the papers.

This collection documents the work of architect and Yale School of Architecture graduate Hyman I. Feldman. It includes student work, photographs, writings, awards, and scrapbooks pertaining to his life and work, and ledgers, photographs, correspondence, and specifications documenting many of his architectural projects, especially his work at Yeshiva University.

The Committee built, furnished, and operated a Connecticut building for the Philadelphia Sesqui-Centennial International Exposition. The building was modeled after the old state capitol, and equipped it with exhibits of Connecticut life and industry.

Documents and other college materials of Kathleen Garrity, class of 1926

The collection contains papers given on various topics associated with the Institute in 1927.

The papers consist of correspondence, writings, and teaching materials of Ralph Henry Gabriel. The papers relate primarily to Gabriel's duties as editor of the Pageant of America Series and the Library of Congress Series in American Civilization, as author of history texts, as chairman of the American Historical Association's 1930 program committee, as author of several texts, and as faculty member at Yale University and at the United States School of Military Government. Also included are records kept by Sydney K. Mitchell as chairman of the Yale History Department, miscellaneous papers of Paul Demund Evans, and papers of Samuel Flagg Bemis, Christopher B. Coleman, and William K. Boyd as chairmen of the American Historical Association program committee (1927-1929).

The papers consist of correspondence, writings, notes, clippings and photographs of Alvin Saunders Johnson. Although records relating to his career are relatively scanty, two manuscript drafts of his autobiography, Pioneer Progress, are among the writings. The correspondence of some 1,700 letters includes: Max Ascoli, Jacob Billikopf, Gerhard Colm, Agnes DeLima, Thomas E. Dewey, Eduard Heinmann, Edith Johnson, Corliss Lamont, Adolphe Lowe, Thomas Mann, Harry Scherman.

The papers consist of correspondence, business records, maps and records of various forest conservation organizations in Connecticut and North Carolina, where James Goodwin carried on his lumbering operations. His activities in the conservation associations and as field secretary of the Connecticut State Park Forest Commission is documented in correspondence, reports, minutes of meetings and records of plantings carried on by the organizations. The maps show Goodwin's holdings in various parts of Connecticut and Carthage, North Carolina.