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The records consist of reports, committee records, correspondence, regulations, and chronological files of Martin Griffin as dean of undergraduate studies of Yale College. Included are records on the Executive Committee, the Yale College Council, the residential deanships, discipline, the Buckley Amendment, athletics, and prizes.

William R. Cotter, Democratic Member of Congress for the First District of Connecticut, was born in Hartford, Connecticut on 18 July 1926. In 1953, Cotter was elected to the Hartford Court of Common Council, and served as an aide to United States Senator Abraham Ribicoff, 1955-1957, as Deputy Insurance Commissioner, 1957-1964, and as Insurance Commissioner of Connecticut from 1964-1970. He developed and introduced laws to regulate rates and solvency of insurance companies in Connecticut, and developed a comprehensive automobile liability insurance reform program. Cotter was elected to the ninety-second Congress on November 3, 1970 and was reelected five times. He represented the First District in Connecticut from 1971 until his death.

The records consist of the constitution, newsletters, membership lists, bank statements, and correspondence documenting Women Affiliated with Yale (formerly the Yale Dames).

The records consist of graduate student records maintained by the Yale Department of Religious Studies.

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 collection contains publications, proposals, petitions, photographs and plans for the "new community" and documentation of the Greater Hartford Process, Inc.

The papers document Faber Birren's career as an authority on color, particularly during the years 1968-1989. They focus on his scholarship and his endowment of the Birren Collection.

The State Library and Supreme Court Club formed in 1951 as a successor to the Ex Libris Club. It disbanded in 1986.

The papers consist of materials relating to the coup d'état in the Soviet Union and the democracy movement in the Baltic States. The material was gathered by Tanja Lorkovic during the International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA) conference in Moscow in 1991 and during trips to Baltic libraries. Also included are correspondence and related materials pertaining to the Slavic and East European Collection at Yale University Library, the Slavic and East European Section (SEES) of the Association of College and Research Libraries (ARL) of which Lorkovic is a past chairperson, as well as subject files of the Russian library assessment projects organized by her and sponsored by the International Research and Exchanges Board (IREX). Correspondence with literary and political figures is included, as well as an interview with Lorkovic.

Richard F. Schneller was a State Senator for the 20th District from 1975-1984. He worked on the 1986 O'Neill gubernatorial campaign as well as the 1984 Mondale presidential campaign and was the chairperson of the Governor's Building Construction Advisory Committee from 1987-1988.