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The collection documents the photographic work of Mary Lou Estabrook in her capacity as Associate Editor and Chief Photographer of the Lakeville Journal for the period 1971-1986. Also included is photographic work made from 1986-2004 for personal use and for publication in the Lakeville Journal. Contains contact sheets, negatives, proofs and digital prints predominantly black and white with some color. Towns in Northwest Connecticut are covered including landscapes, events and activities, landmarks and architecture. Photographs documenting national and international trips are also included and may have appeared in the newspaper.

Land record indexes for the town of Stamford.

Collection of 476 lantern slides, 534 negatives and 519 prints of traditional Chinese architecture and construction methods from the personal collection of Liang Sicheng (1901-1972), visiting professor at the Yale School of Architecture ca. 1947. The lantern slides were made in June 1947 for the use of Liang Sicheng, and are labeled and cataloged in English (Wade-Giles Romanization). Note: Lantern slides shot from negative numbers 25180 and 25182 are destroyed. In response to the research interests of Wu King-lui and Wilma Fairbank, prints were shot from the lantern slide negatives in 1978-1979 (one set for Yale, one set for the Harvard-Yenching Institute, and one set for Tsinghua University where Liang Sicheng had established a School of Architecture in 1946.) Note: The total number of prints shot is written on the front of each print envelope. Accompanying materials include: 1) Photocopy of an inventory of the lantern slide collection, compiled by Wilma Fairbank and dated November 1, 1978; 2) Photocopies of the lantern slides from 1978; 3) Photocopies of architectural drawing illustrations from a Chinese-language manuscript by Liang Sicheng.

The collection comprises bindings removed from bound volumes when the Latin American Manuscripts Collection (MS 307) was reprocessed in 2000. These bindings cannot be connected to the documents that were inside the individual bound volumes.

The collection consists of posters from Argentina, Brazil, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Peru and Venezuela, regarding political, economic, cultural, and educational affairs.

Short letter regarding financial matters.

A photographic scrapbook documenting the life of Lawrence Allderdice (1896-1937), Sheffield Scientific School, 1918. Included are photographs of Allderdice's family, his hometown of McKeesport, Pennsylvania, and surrounding areas, travels throughout the United States and abroad, and some photographs of Yale area buildings, including the Book and Snake Tomb and the Cloister Club House. The scrapbook also features a group portrait of the Sheffield Scientific School class of 1918.

The collection is comprised of thirteen scrapbooks compiled by Lawrence Gordon of Durban, South Africa, an engineer and collector of Africana. The scrapbooks are filled with clippings primarily of political cartoons from South African and English newspapers and journals. The clippings are arranged in loose chronological order and they cover a variety of subjects.

Lawrence Tenney Stevens (1896-1972) was a sculptor. For the 1939 New York World's Fair, he selected an elm located in South Windsor, CT, and created a 60-foot object believed to be the world's largest wooden carving. The collection consists of photographs and articles relating to the carving and a biographical article.

This is a collection of 30 items and documents pertaining to the Lebanon Creamery between 1887 and 1934.