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100@100: Women Composers Interviewed by Mt. Holyoke College Students
Collection
Call Number: 100@100
Dates:
2020-2021
Found in:
Oral History of American Music
A. Nees & Co. decorative paper sample books
Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 1465
Abstract:
Nineteen volumes containing circa 44,000 undated samples of decorative papers manufactured by A. Nees & Co., circa 1865-circa 1930, most circa 1880-1914. Voumes contain small samples of marbled, embossed, coated, and other colored and printed papers affixed to pages within printed borders. Samples are identified by numbers in manuscript annotations or printed labels, some also citing paper names or manufacturing techniques. Volumes contain varying samples, with some overlapping...
Dates:
circa 1865-circa 1930, bulk circa 1880-circa 1914
A. P. Watt and Son records relating to Rudyard Kipling
Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 893
Abstract:
The records include writings, correspondence and printed materials by or relating to Rudyard Kipling. Writings consist of holograph manuscripts, corrected typescripts, and corrected proofs. The bulk of the correspondence consists of letters from Rudyard Kipling to A. P. Watt and Alec Watt written between 1889 and 1936 concerning both the publication of Kipling's writings and personal matters. Pamphlets by Kipling comprise the bulk of the printed material, which also includes clippings,...
Dates:
1889-1945
Aaron Copland Oral History
Collection
Call Number: OHVI
Scope and Contents:
The Aaron Copland Oral History comprises approximately 75 interviews with colleagues, friends, and family of Aaron Copland (note: for interviews with Copland himself, see the Major Figures in American Music collection). Oral History of American Music (OHAM) founder Vivian Perlis first became friends with Copland while working on the Charles Ives Oral History. Copland later wrote the preface for her book, Charles Ives Remembered. As the Ives project finished, Perlis focused on Copland as her...
Dates:
1948-1989, bulk 1980-1989
Found in:
Oral History of American Music
ABCFM Daguerreotypes Collection
Collection
Call Number: RG 324
Scope and Contents:
This collection contains daguerreotype images of missionaries who had been appointed for service by The American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. The daguerreotype process for creating photographs was used during the 1840s and 1850s. Series III contains two color miniature portraits that date from 1839. This collection was originally held at the Franklin Trask Library of Andover Newton Theological School and was transferred to the Yale Divinity Library in 2017.
Dates:
circa 1839-1860
Found in:
Yale Divinity Library
Annie Heloise Abel notebooks
Collection
Call Number: WA MSS S-3943
Abstract:
Twenty-seven autograph notebooks, some signed, belonging to Annie Heloise Abel, circa 1910-1925. Notebooks record research notes, reading lists, and queries concerning Native Americans and United States government policies during the 19th and early 20th centuries.Accompanied by a Bible presented to Abel by her husband, George Cockburn Henderson, in 1922; two metal boxes; two wooden boxes (one containing dried flowers); a piece of fabric; and an empty envelope from unknown...
Dates:
circa 1910-1925
Alexander B. Adams writings on the American West
Collection
Call Number: WA MSS S-2197
Abstract:
Typescripts with holograph annotations and corrections of Adams' books The Disputed Lands (Putnam, 1981); Geronimo: A Biography (Putnam, 1971); Sitting Bull: An Epic of the Plains (Putnam, 1973); and Sunlight and Storm: The Great American Plains (Putnam, 1977). A photocopy of Adams' TLS dated 1972 Jun 29, transmitting the typescript of Geronimo to Yale and commenting on the work, is filed in the first of the folders of that title. Bound galley proofs for Sitting Bull follow the...
Dates:
circa 1971-1981
Adele Shepard Collection of Edwards and Dwight Family Papers
Collection
Call Number: RG 329
Abstract:
This collection of Edwards and Dwight family papers was inherited and compiled by Adele Shepard, a descendant of the families. The papers focus primarily on the individuals in Shepard's line of descent, including Jonathan Edwards, his grandson Timothy Dwight (1752-1817), great-grandson William T. Dwight, great-great-grandson Henry E. Dwight and their spouses and children. The collection also includes other documents and photographs of historical interest with direct or tangential relation to...
Dates:
1685-1954, bulk 1720-1860
Found in:
Yale Divinity Library
African glass slides collection
Collection
Call Number: MS 1571
Abstract:
The collection consists of 112 glass slides which represent various aspects of African culture and scenery. The slides are identified only in broad subject areas and are undated, though most appear to date from the late nineteenth century or early twentieth century.
Dates:
1800-1999
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
Hamilton Aïdé papers
Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 207
Abstract:
The collection consists of correspondence to, from, and about Aïdé; his diary for a trip to Switzerland in the second half of 1870, a scrapbook of reviews of his work, and miscellaneous poetry and prose pieces. The correspondence is both personal and business oriented, including letters from publishers, editors and friends regarding the publicaton of novels and songs. Principal correspondents include Matthew Arnold, Frances Hodgson Burnett,James Anthony Froude, William Money Hardinge,...
Dates:
1824-1906
Neale Albert archive
Collection
Call Number: MSS 81
Scope and Contents:
The collection comprises correspondence and ephemera related to contemporary bookbinding, collected by Neale Albert. Includes material related to the binders Susan Allix, George Kirkpatrick, and Ann Muir. Also present is material related to exhibitions at the John Rylands Library (2012) and the Yale Center for British Art (2016).
Dates:
ca. 2000-ca. 2020
Alone Together: Musicians in the Time of Covid
Collection
Call Number: OHVIII
Scope and Contents:
A series of Zoom interviews with composers and musicians, focusing on their personal and creative lives while isolating during the COVID-19 outbreak.
Dates:
2020
Found in:
Oral History of American Music
American Fund for French Wounded Collection
Collection
Call Number: Ms Coll 56
Abstract:
The American Fund for French Wounded (AFFW), founded in 1915, by American women living abroad, was a women's relief agency to aid wounded soldiers in France in World War I. The materials in this collection originated from the Paris Depot of the organization and include correspondence, circulars, newsletters, and images.
Dates:
1915-1918
American Historical Financial Documents Collection
Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 1081
Abstract:
Correspondence, accounts, receipts, checks, printed currency, circular letters, printed forms filled out in manuscript, and other printed material related to American finance, currency and lotteries during and after the Revolutionary War. Series I, Currency and Public Debt Documents, includes letters by Jacques-Pierre Brissot de Warville; Albert Gallatin; John Gibson; Alexander Hamilton; Gouverneur Morris; Robert Morris, and Thomas Willing. There is a small group of letters between...
Dates:
1734-1874, bulk 1777-1790
American Musical Theater Collection
Collection — Folder: 39002133011255
Call Number: MSS 153
Scope and Contents:
This collection contains mostly sheet music and programs for musical theater in the first half of the twentieth century. Additional material will be described as it is added.
Dates:
bulk 1910-1950
Found in:
Gilmore Music Library
Thomas W. Amsden Archives
Collection
Call Number: IPAR.001050
Abstract:
The archives of Thomas W. Amsden including maps, field notes and photographs. These focus on his 1947 Yale dissertation, "Stratigraphy and paleontology of the Brownsport Silurian of western Tennessee."
Dates:
1942-1947
Found in:
Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History
The Leroy Anderson Papers
Collection
Call Number: MSS 61
Abstract:
Music, scrapbooks, and additional materials by and about the American composer Leroy Anderson (1908-1975)
Dates:
1933-1988 (inclusive)
Found in:
Gilmore Music Library
Andover Newton Oxyrhynchus Papyri Collection
Collection
Call Number: RG 305
Abstract:
The collection consists of sixteen Oxyrhynchus Papyri items. The most notable item (Oxy. P. 1230) relates to the New Testament text of Revelations 5,6. Other items include poetical and prose fragments, orders, contracts, receipts, letters, and a prayer.
Dates:
circa 1st - 6th century CE
Found in:
Yale Divinity Library
Andover Newton Theological Seminary collection of Jonathan Edwards
Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 1542
Content Description:
The papers consist of writings and correspondence of and about theologian Jonathan Edwards and his family that were held by the Andover Newton Theological Seminary from the mid-nineteenth century until 2017. The collection includes sermons and other writings by Edwards, his correspondence with contemporaries, family correspondence including letters among Edwards, his wife and their children, his sisters, and his parents, and other family papers, including sermons by his father-in-law James...
Dates:
circa 1650-2017
Angelo family papers
Collection
Call Number: LWL MSS 3
Scope and Contents:
The Angelo Family Papers contains letters, photographs, legal documents, and other papers related to the family of Domenico Angelo, who ran a fashionable fencing and riding academy in London from the 1750s to the 1780s. The materials were collected by a descendant, John Cecil Cortlandt Angelo, who had arranged them in a small annotated notebook along with letters he received from two of his Van Cortlandt cousins in America, and others interested in his Angelo ancestors. Among the...
Dates:
1762-1939, bulk 1762-1834
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library