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The Zdenek Nemecek Papers contain Nemecek's correspondence, his numerous writings and a few by others, and personal papers. They document the life of a Czech literary, political, and social writer, who was able to express himself in a variety of genres. The papers span the dates 1925-84, but his "emigration" years in the United States from 1950 until his death in 1957, form the most valuable part of the collection.

The collection consists of correspondence, writings, professional papers, research files, personal papers, photographs, audiovisual materials, and electronic media documenting the lives and work of Kevin Killian and Dodie Bellamy. The correspondence documents their personal, professional, and family networks and includes writers, poets, and collaborators. Writings include published and unpublished works by both Killian and Bellamy. Professional papers include essays, talks, and other papers documenting their work and careers. Research files document Bellamy's research on Sam D'Allesandro for Real: The Letters of Mina Harker and Sam D'Allesandro (Hoboken, N.J. : Talisman House, 1994), and Killian's research on Jack Spicer for My Vocabulary Did This to Me: The Collected Poetry of Jack Spicer, which he co-edited with Peter Gizzi. Personal papers include juvenilia, schoolwork, reviews, flyers, teaching materials, memorabilia, papers relating to Poets Theater, and other papers. Photographs include 8 x 10 prints, in both color and black and white, which mostly consist of portraits of Bellamy, Killian, and many other individuals. Photographs also include a series of photographs taken by Kevin Killian titled "Tagged," as well as general photographs of events and performances. Audiovisual materials include interviews regarding Jack Spicer, additional interviews, music, and other recordings. Electronic media includes audio recordings, research materials, digital photographs, and commercially-produced media.

Poetry and personal papers of the American poet, art critic, teacher, editor and publisher Bill Berkson comprised of literary manuscripts, correspondence, drafts, notebooks, lecture notes, interviews, Big Sky Books and press records, photographs, audio recordings, broadsides, and rare publications.

The Barbara Guest Papers span 1923 to 2006 and document Guest's life as a prominent American poet, her personal and professional relationships with other writers, and her personal life as a wife, mother, and friend. The papers include drafts of writings, correspondence, personal and professional papers, photographs, artwork, printed material, audiovisual material, born digital material, artwork, and a typewriter.

The collection consists of writings, correspondence, research and teaching material, photographs, printed material, audiovisual material, computer disks, and other papers, documenting the literary and academic career of Gerald Robert Vizenor and relating to many of his published works on Native American literature, history, and culture.

The records consist of correspondence, transcripts, photographs, instructional materials, and administrative files documenting the Army Specialized Training Division at Yale, particularly the Army Specialized Training Program (ASTP) and the Civil Affairs Specialists Training School.

The records of the Southern New England Telephone Company (SNET) reflect the long history of a pioneering and innovative telephone company. The collection consists of material dating from the formation of the New Haven District Telephone Company and the invention of the switchboard in 1878 to the merger of the Southern New England Telecommunications Corporation and SBC Communications Inc. in 1998. However, the bulk of the material predates the 1983 Bell System divestiture.

The Hanson Weightman Baldwin Papers consists of materials relating to Baldwin's work and interests as journalist and author. They include correspondence, writings by Baldwin in draft and published form, and printed matter of various types on military and political topics collected by Baldwin.

The Francis D. Donovan Papers consist of Mr. Donovan's writings and research files about the railroads, particularly those of New England; photographic images of stations, engines, and railroad scenes; maps, scrapbooks, postcards and timetables.

The papers contain correspondence, writings, literary manuscripts, notes, subject files, scrapbooks, and printed material documenting Dorothy Norman's activities, writings, and publications, including the journal she founded and edited, Twice A Year: a Book of Literature, the Arts, and Civil Liberties. The papers also document Norman's relationships with the photographer Alfred Stieglitz and his circle of artists and writers, with her husband Edward A. Norman and their families, and with prominent Indians including Ananda K. Coomaraswamy and Indira Gandhi.

The Hermann Broch Archive contains correspondence; manuscripts of books, plays, poems, articles and essays, book reviews, short stories; writings of others; personal papers; photographs; and videocassettes which document aspects of the life and career of Hermann Broch, Austrian author. The material spans the years 1872 to 1990s, with the bulk falling between 1930 and 1951.

The materials consist of the Yale University Library name/title catalog cards, which were retrospectively converted to electronic format.

The collection includes information about and examples of the work of male amateur and commercial photographers, studio assistants, photographic processors, colorists, and photojournalists collected by Peter Palmquist from 1971 until his death in 2003. The collection, which documents the practice and occupation of photography in the American West, consists of biographical files for more than nine thousand men and businesses, as well as photographs and ancillary materials that represent the work of more than two thousand individuals and firms. A database [http://palmquist-mpaw.beinecke.library.yale.edu/] provides name access to biographical files, as well as information regarding their aliases, working locations, life dates, and work dates. Individual photographers represented by significant quantities of material in the collection include Frank C. Aston, Walter T. Fitch, Louis Herman Heller, Thomas Houseworth, Benjamin Franklin Howland, Charles Wallace Jacob Johnson, George Daniels Morse, John Pitcher Spooner, Isaiah West Taber, Robert H. Vance, Carleton E. Watkins, and Chester L. Weed. Firms with substantial groups of material in the collection include Bradley Rulofson, the Bushnell Photo Company, and The Imperial Studio.

The records consist of administrative files documenting the operations of the Department of Manuscripts and Archives at Yale University Library.

The Albrecht Goetze Papers consist of twenty-two boxes of correspondence extending eight linear feet and containing more than ten thousand items. The letters were written between 1923, the year after Goetze received his first academic appointment, and the spring of 1971, shortly before his final return to Germany. The vast majority were exchanged with fellow students of cuneiform texts and civilizations. Virtually all of Goetze's outstanding contemporaries and scores of lesser scholars are represented. Among his most frequent correspondents were these: William F. Albright (1936-1965), Kurt Bittel (1933-1970), Hans Ehelolf (1924-1938), Jacob J. Finkelstein (1953-1965), Johannes Friedrich (1924-1968), Hans G. Güterbock (1931-1970), Thorkild Jacobsen (1936-1970), Carl H. Kraeling (1947-1963), Samuel N. Kramer (1945-1963), Benno Landsberger (1923-1965), Julius Levy (1925-1963), Otto Neugebauer (1929-1970), Edith Porada (1943-1971), James B. Pritchard (1944-1969), Abraham Sachs (1936-1969), Edmond Sollberger (1949-1969), and Ephraim A. Speiser (1935-1964). There is also correspondence with collectors of antiquities and with scholars in related fields of specialization. Goetze's own letters are in German (mainly before 1939 and after 1965) and English; the incoming letters are in English, German, and occasionally Turkish or French. The incoming letters and postcards outnumber the outgoing, but beginning in 1929 Goetze kept carbon copies of most of his letters except those written abroad.

The Papers consist of correspondence, writings, and other papers that document the life and work of Keith Botsford from the beginning of his career to 1969. Correspondence is both professional and personal, and documents Botsford's writing and editing activities, as well as his involvement in International PEN and the Congress for Cultural Freedom. Writings include corrected typescript and autograph manuscript drafts, proofs and other related material, dating from 1940 to 1967. Other papers include a small quantity of personal documents and photographs.

Included here are records from the Deputy Commissioner, 1972-2004; Planning and Standards, 1970-1973; Bureau of Water Management, 1920-1979 that includes records from the Permitting, Enforcement, and Remediation Division; Bureau of Air Management, 1975-2007; and Inland Water Resources, 1939-2013 that includes records from the New England River Basins Commission, 1966-1975, the Connecticut Soil Advisory Committee, 1948-1974, 8 volumes of survey notes of Connecticut waterways, 1939-1941, and 3 dvds of the Municipal Inland Wetland Commissioners Training Program, 2007-2013.

Congressional records of Sam Gejdenson, U.S. Representative from Connecticut's 2nd Congressional district. The papers are organized in archival boxes containing records spanning Gejdenson's twenty years in office. The papers include newspaper clippings on subjects ranging from veterans issues and the Groton submarine base, to Six Flags and tourism in Connecticut as well as files concerning the recognition of Connecticut's Native Americans. Gejdenson's papers also include press releases concerning the environment, Electric Boat, and the Soviet Union's treatment of Jews.

The John Franklin Enders Papers consist of correspondence and topical files, writings, photographs, and laboratory notebooks which document Enders's research and teaching in the field of bacteriology and virology. The papers were donated by Mrs. Enders in 1988 and 1990. The 56 linear feet of material are arranged in three series: I. Correspondence and Topical Files, II. Writings, III. Laboratory Notebooks.

The collection contains oral history transcripts recorded on reel to reel or cassette tapes. The media recordings, for the majority of the collection, are not available for research. The interviews were conducted by various individuals from the center, including Mortin Tenzer, Bruce Stave (Directors of the Center), Katya Williamson, Allice Hoffman, Jane Allison, Michael Chaney, and Leslie Frank.

This collection contains of materials related to Krynski's work as a scholar, author, and educator including manuscripts, printed copies of his articles, drafts of translations, conference papers, research notes, notes from trips to Poland, outgoing/incoming correspondence with Polish writers, scholars, and editors (both in Poland and in the US). Furthermore, it includes memos, letters, and notes related to Duke University's Slavic Department and documents of Krynski's political activities such as correspondence, memos, fliers, position papers, news clippings, interviews, and speeches. Also included is a set of transcripts from Jozef Wittlin's Radio Free Europe literary program broadcasted between 1955 and 1966 from New York.

The papers consist of personal and professional correspondence, writings, notes, teaching materials, subject files, audio tapes and other papers of Leonard J. Savage (1917-1971), mathematician, statistician, author, teacher, and professor at Yale from 1964-1971. The papers relate primarily to Savage's work in the field of statistics, especially Bayesian statistics, and includes extensive correspondence with many of his professional colleagues from around the world. Also included is a large collection of the writings of the Italian mathematician, Bruno de Finetti, material relating to an exhibit on "Animal Odorants" done for the Peabody Museum of Natural History, and the papers of I. Richard Savage and the Savage family.

The Frank Donner papers document the history and use of political surveillance in the United States, primarily from the late 1940s through the early 1990s. The collection also generally serves as a resource for researchers studying the history of the twentieth century American left, civil liberties struggles and the lawyers who fought them, and the American political intelligence establishment. The papers reflect Donner's political and intellectual work and interests in civil liberties, progressive political movements, and the government's use of surveillance and informers. The collection includes extensive documentation on every major political informer from the anti-Communist wave of the 1950s to the social protest movements of the 1960s and 1970s. The informer files include biographical information, court documents and testimonies, and interview transcripts with and about individual informers. The collection also holds files on a significant cross-section of the social and political protest groups of the 1960s through the 1980s. Finally, the collection includes manuscripts of Donner's writings, including many unpublished articles and two unpublished books. The papers hold relatively little biographical or personal information about Frank Donner.

The Betsy Jolas Papers include music, correspondence, writings, teaching materials, programs, clippings, journals, calendars, photographs, sound recordings, awards and other materials by and about the composer Betsy Jolas. The first series in the collection contains manuscript and printed scores by Jolas and by other composers (1958-2006). Some of Jolas' scores are accompanied by production notes, scenarios, and libretti, and many of the scores she collected contain annotations. The second series contains correspondence (1937-2010), both personal and institutional. Jolas corresponded with notable figures from the American and French Avant-Garde, such as Pierre Boulez, Elliott Carter, Henri Dutilleux, and Darius Milhaud, all of whom are represented in this series. The third series contains teaching materials that Jolas used in her lengthy career as a university instructor. The fourth series, Writings (1963-2009), contains similar material, and also includes a "lesson in poetics" given to a young Jolas in 1940 by James Joyce. Series five (1943-2010) consists of programs for concerts, festivals, and award ceremonies, and Series six (1949-2009) contains related publicity materials and press releases. Series seven contains pocket calendars and personal journals; the latter are restricted until the death of Betsy Jolas. Series eight (1926-2006) includes both professional and personal photos of Jolas and others. Series nine is comprised of degrees earned by Jolas, and awards given to her, including the Legion d'Honneur (1996), and the Ordre National du Mérite (2001). The final series includes sound recordings and media in a variety of formats: test pressings, reel-to-reel tapes, cassettes, CDs, and DVDs. The recordings include a number of performances of Jolas' compositions, as well as interviews and lectures. Note that this series is organized by format.

Collection consists of black and white glass lantern slides of Romanesque architecture.

Collection contains: Correspondence spanning 1938-1973, mostly with people from "Endecja," (Narodowa Demokracja) circles in America and Western Europe (N. Siemaszko, T. Bielecki, J. Giertych, A. Syski, Jan K. Tarnowski and others); Roman Dmowski's letter to R. Galinski (which he later published under the title "Testament Romana Dmowskiego dla Polaka Amerykanina"); copies and manuscripts of his articles from Przewodnik Katolicki and other periodicals; anti-Pilsudski articles and pamphlets by other authors and 16 pamphlets and books about the "Jewish question." Some pamphlets were photocopied without source information.

Correspondence spanning 1938-1973, mostly with people from "Endecja", (Narodowa Demokracja) circles in America and Western Europe (N. Siemaszko, T. Bielecki, J. Giertych, A. Syski, Jan K. Tarnowski and others) ; Roman Dmowski letter to R. Galinski (which he later published under the title "Testament Romana Dmowskiego dla Polaka Amerykanina"), copies and manuscripts of his articles from Przewodnik Katolicki and other periodicals, anti-Pilsudski articles and pamphlets by other authors, 16 pamphlets and books about "Jewish question." Some pamphlets were photocopied without source information.

The Chiron Review Records contain submissions to the Chiron Review from poets, other writers, and artists, with related correspondence and subjects files; drafts, proofs, and paper and negative film mechanical layouts for Chiron Review issues, 1989-2011, some with related correspondence, photographs, and notes; similar materials for Chiron Review chapbooks; printed issues of The Kindred Spirit, Chiron Review, and chapbooks; papers relating to Poetry Rendevous events; accounts, mailing lists, and other administrative records; correspondence of Michael Hathaway relating to Chiron Review, his writing, literary colleagues, and friendships; diaries, poetry, and other writings of Hathaway; scrapbooks about poets and the history of Chiron Review; photographs of poets; manuscripts and ephemera removed from books owned by Hathaway; memorabilia and other objects associated with Chiron Review; audiocassettes and videocassettes of poetry events, including some interviews with Hathaway; vinyl sound disks, audiocassettes, and CDs of music performances, most sent by musicians to Hathaway; and digital media, most 3.5 inch computer disks and CDs, containing submissions for Chiron Review, drafts of issues, email correspondence, administrative files, and writings by Hathaway.

Included are papers and projects on art and architecture prepared by students at Yale University. The bulk of the papers date from 1915 to 1977, a period when the various sponsoring schools and departments formed and reformed under various names. The School of Fine Arts was opened in 1866 and a full professional course in architecture, was added in 1913. In 1958 the name of the school was changed to the School of Art and Architecture. In 1972 it was divided in to two parts: the School of Art and the School of Architecture, granting degrees of Master of Fine Arts, Master of Architecture and Master of Environmental Design. The Department of the History of Art in the Graduate School offers a program of courses leading to a Doctor of Philosophy.

The William F. Buckley, Jr. Papers consist of more than five hundred linear feet of material. Papers relating to the publication of God and Man at Yale, files from Buckley's 1965 campaign for mayor of New York City, and his 1950 "Alumni Day Address" are open for research. All other material is closed to research.

The Czesław Miłosz Papers document the life and work of the poet, essayist and Nobel Laureate Czesław Miłosz. The papers consist of writings, correspondence, photographs, personal papers, audio material, and printed material (including newspaper clippings, printed ephemera and clandestine samizdat publications), spanning the years 1880-2000, with the bulk of the material dating from 1940 to 1989. While some writings, photographs and personal documents pre-date the Second World War, the earliest correspondence dates from 1946.

The records consist of the central administrative files of the Yale University Library, correspondence, memoranda, reports dealing with all aspects of library business and historical photographs from library events. Records for the earlier years appear to be part of a central filing system for the library, while those in later years primarily reflect the activities of the university librarian's office.

Collection of black and white and color commercial postcards from the 19th and 20th centuries largely of buildings and architectural views worldwide.

The Fedor A. Stepun Papers consist of the correspondence, manuscripts, photographs and personal papers in Stepun's possession at the time of his death in 1965. Due to the destruction of his Dresden home in 1945, there is only a small amount of material from the years prior to that. Presumably those early papers which survive were either in Stepun's possession in Rottach-am-Tegernsee when his Dresden home was bombed, or were in the possession of third parties who subsequently returned them to him.

The papers consist of correspondence, writings, and research files documenting Raymond Fuoss's professional career.

The collection consists of correspondence, writings, printed material and other papers that document the life and work of the poet Leonard Bacon. Correspondence is both professional and personal, and documents Bacon's writing and publishing activities as well as his personal and family relationships. Writings include drafts and proofs for many of his published works including Ulug Beg (1923), Lost Buffalo, and Other Poems (1930), The Furioso (1932), Dream and Action (1934), and Semi-Centennial (1939), as well as works translated by Bacon, such as Luis de Camões's The Lusiads (1950). Printed material includes several boxes of printed versions of Bacon's poetry and other writings, as well as pamphlets, reprints, newspaper clippings, and ephemera collected by Bacon. Other papers include three scrapbooks documenting Bacon's career from 1923 to 1946, as well as a small quantity of personal documents and photographs.

The Hanover Royal Music Archive consists of printed and manuscript music, printed books about music, and related materials assembled by Ernest Augustus, King of Hanover, and his successors. A significant component originated in England and concerns musical activity of several children of George III, circa 1770-1837, particularly Ernest Augustus, then Duke of Cumberland, and Princess Augusta, as well as Prince George of Cumberland, son of Ernest Augustus and later Georg V, King of Hanover. These materials moved to Hanover, apparently circa 1837 when Ernest Augustus succeeded William IV as King of Hanover. In Hanover, the collection was expanded by Ernest Augustus and Georg V, and much of the present content relates to music in the Hanoverian court through the mid-nineteenth century. While most materials date circa 1770-1870, a few items extend this span from the seventeenth through the mid-twentieth century.

The Paul Hindemith Collection brings together primary and secondary source materials which document the life and career of Paul Hindemith, particularly his years in the United States (1940-1953). The Collection holds holographs of 14 compositions by Hindemith, including the Lilacs Requiem and the concertos for clarinet, horn, and trumpet and bassoon. The Collection also holds secondary materials (programs, notes, and reviews) for nearly all of Hindemith's compositions, as well as extensive material relating to Hindemith's classroom teaching and the Yale Collegium Musicum. Additional materials include correspondence between Paul and Gertrud Hindemith and colleagues, friends, and music publishers; photographs and drawings; articles about Hindemith; and miscellaneous materials.

This finding aid encompasses single manuscripts and small groups of manuscripts acquired by the Beinecke Library from various sources and at various times, which the Library has chosen to describe here rather than as separate entries in Yale University Library's on-line Public Access Catalog (Orbis). These materials include literary manuscripts, individual or small groups of letters, and single documents. Materials are grouped under headings for author or other personal or corporate name to which they most closely relate. Items of unidentified authorship are grouped separately under "Unidentified" at the end of the finding aid. Group numbers were assigned to headings in an initial alphabetical sequence and thereafter in order of processing; within each group, folders (F-[#]) and volumes (V-[#]) are numbered in order of processing.

The papers document the life and writings of Aleksander Wat, from his early poetry in the 1910s to the posthumous publication of his work by his wife Paulina (Ola Watowa) and by Czesław Miłosz. Early material (prior to the end of the Second World War) is sparse and consists chiefly of correspondence, personal documents and photographs. Among the early material is documentation of the Wat family's exile in Kazakhstan. Later material includes numerous notebooks that contain drafts of poetry and prose writings, and the audio recordings that formed the basis for Mój wiek. Two folders of lists and notes document the contents and organization of the material as it was received by the Beinecke Library are filed at the beginning of the collection.

The Thornton Wilder Papers consist of correspondence, manuscripts, personal and business papers, printed material, photographs, memorabilia and audio tapes documenting the life and work of American author Thornton Wilder. The papers span the years 1900-1983, with the bulk of the material dating from the period 1935-1975.

The Witold Gombrowicz Archive documents Gombrowicz's life and literary output chiefly during the last two decades of his life (1949-69), as well as the reception of his works after his death. Due to his unexpected exile from Poland following the onset of World War II, and the difficulties he faced during his first few years in Argentina, the collection contains relatively little material from the time of his birth in 1904 through 1949.

The major strength of the Speck Collection is its documentation of Goethe's literary reception in England and America in the nineteenth century. The literary manuscript component of the Collection, listed in detail in this finding aid, includes correspondence, documents, playscripts, and other writings. Among the better-known items to be mentioned in this connection are the full draft of Bayard Taylor's translation of Faust (folder 716), translations by George Borrow (folders 225-227), and John Greenleaf Whittier's manuscript for his translation of the poem "Erlkoenig" (folder 249). Translations, criticism, and correspondence about theater productions and the publication of Goethe's works, especially in Great Britain, include letters and manuscripts by such figures as Sarah Austin, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Margaret Fuller, Richard Graves, Anna Jameson, Charles Kean, and Edward George Bulwer-Lytton.

The collection contains the records of Ratchford's congressional career and includes correspondence, reports, studies, press releases, speeches, photographs, scrapbooks and multimedia. Specific issues of interest to Mr. Ratchford are detailed in the descriptions of each series.

This collection primarily documents Gerald H. Anderson's work as missionary educator in the Philippines, author, editor, and participant in many ecumenical mission conferences and groups. While Anderson was Associate Director and then Executive Director of the Overseas Ministries Study Center from 1974-2000, this collection does not document his work with OMSC except through some Director's reports and some correspondence in the 2019 Appendix. The collection was substantially augmented and re-ordered in 2013 as records from throughout Anderson's career were added to the existing collection that primarily documented his work on the Biographical Dictionary of Christian Missions, a work which includes extensive and comprehensive coverage of Christian missions with 2,400 original signed biographies by 350 authors from 45 countries.

These records document many facets of Bainton's long and full life. Though most renowned as a leader in the field of Reformation church history, Bainton's interests and expertise ranged over a broad spectrum - from Congregationalism and his Non-conformist heritage to issues of war and peace, from concerns of the pastoral ministry to chronicles of Yale history. Extensive correspondence, writings, notes, and illustrations in the Bainton Papers document his roles as scintillating lecturer, persistent researcher, perceptive artist, world traveler, friend to the oppressed, ardent pacifist, teacher and mentor to many.

Collection consists of black and white and color reproductions of Renaissance architecture. Section II includes France and Germany. Content varies from original photographic prints to reproductions from magazines and other published sources. Some sections have accompanying clippings folders.

The University of Connecticut Library's (UCL) collection contains library office files from 1940-to the present, including accession records dating back to 1882. The collection includes the files of university librarians, staff members, and several directors of the university library, as well as meeting minutes, staff and personnel records, and records concerning the construction of Homer Babbidge Library.

The Tal Luther Collection of Frank Waters Printed Materials and Papers contains extensive writings and printed material written by or referring to Frank Waters and the American Southwest. Also included are personal and business papers, programs, ephemera, periodicals, and audiovisual materials related to Waters' life and work.

Collection consists of black and white glass lantern slides of Renaissance architecture worldwide.