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Ruth Wilhelmina Kohlstedt Benson and Eloise Jeanette Benson Nicholl photographs and photograph albums of California life

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Call Number: WA Photos 1296
Abstract: Photographs and photograph albums compiled by Ruth Wilhelmina Kohlstedt Benson and Eloise Jeanette Benson Nicholl documenting the Benson family in California, circa 1908-1947. Images are primarily formal and informal group and individual portraits of mostly identified men, women, and children chiefly in Big Bear City, La Crescenta, Los Angeles, and San Diego, California, but also in Indiana and other identified locations. Multiple photographs show the Benson family in Guadalajara, Mexico....
Dates: circa 1908-2003, bulk circa 1914-1946

Berliner Gramophone Disc Collection

 Collection
Call Number: MSS 142
Scope and Contents: The earliest commercial sound recordings used Thomas Edison's phonograph technology - wax cylinders. In the late 19th Century, Emil Berliner (1851-1929) developed the gramophone, which employed flat discs instead of cylinders. Cylinders and discs co-existed for a few years, but eventually Berliner's discs won out and became the dominant technology. The discs in this collection represent some of the earliest published disc recordings, and offer a unique insight into the earliest years of...
Dates: 1892-1912

Bessborough papers

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Call Number: OSB MSS 55
Abstract:

The papers include letters written to Lady Bessborough; poetry in the hands of Lady Devonshire and of Lamb; and music, two silhouettes, and one drawing. Some of the letters contain eyewitness descriptions of the Napoleonic Wars.

Dates: 1774-1827

Hiram Bingham III Archives

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Call Number: ANTAR.000010
Abstract:

The archives of Hiram Bingham III, accumulated during his time at Yale.

Dates: 1906-1915

Bingham Oceanographic Collection Archives

 Collection
Call Number: IZAR.001780
Abstract:

Archives of the Bingham Oceanographic Collection.

Dates: 1925-1959

Birth control and women's health ephemera

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Call Number: Ms Coll 89
Abstract:

The collection contains material circa 1930-2010 related to birth control and women's health. Materials include pamphlets produced by manufacturers and vendors of contraceptive products circa 1930-1967; a 1948 fertility calculator; and materials related to safe sex campaigns, abortion rights activism, abstinence-only sex education, and the morning after pill (mifepristone) circa 1989-2010.

Dates: circa 1930-2010

Sir Charles Blagden papers

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Call Number: OSB MSS 51
Abstract:

The Sir Charles Blagden Papers contain scientific and travel notes, correspondence, and printed material documenting aspects of the life and scientific work of Sir Charles Blagden. These include observations on travel in England and on the continent in the 1780s; memoranda on scientific experiments and observations, including notes by Lavoisier; letters to his brother, John Blagden Hale; and proof sheets of Philosophical Transactions for 1789.

Dates: 1616-1861, bulk 1770-1800

William Blathwayt papers

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Call Number: OSB MSS 2
Abstract:

The papers contain correspondence, newsletters, diplomatic papers, and reports documenting Blathwayt's career and English foreign policy and history in the late 17th and early 18th centuries.

Dates: 1646-1796, bulk 1668-1703

George Alder Blumer correspondence

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Call Number: Ms Coll 50
Abstract:

These letters to George Alder Blumer are mainly about the American Medico-Psychological Association and the American Journal of Insanity, edited by Blumer. Several of the writers were, like Blumer, administrators of psychiatric hospitals in the United States and abroad.

Dates: 1886-1951, bulk 1886-1896

Marion W. Boesel Archives

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Call Number: ENTAR.001861
Abstract:

Archives of Marion W. Boesel

Dates: 1936-1986

Robert Bogdan Disability Collection

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Call Number: Ms Coll 61
Abstract:

The collection contains real photo postcards, commercial postcards, photographs, pamphlets and ephemera related to people with disabilities, mostly from the United States, collected by Professor Robert Bogdan, a pioneer in the teaching of disability studies.

Dates: 1820s-1990s, 1900-1940

Robert Bogdan international collection on disability, healthcare, and body modification

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Call Number: Ms Coll 84
Abstract: The collection consists of five binders of materials related to people with disabilities, healthcare practices, and body modification collected by Robert Bogdan, a professor and author whose work focuses on disability studies. Materials include photographic postcards, picture postcards, photographs, pamphlets, and ephemera primarily documenting peoples in Africa, Asia, and Europe. The collection also includes materials documenting peoples in South America, the Caribbean, Pacific islands,...
Dates: circa 1890-1969

Marshall Bond papers

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Call Number: WA MSS S-2358
Abstract: The papers document the life, work, and adventures of Marshall Bond between 1897 and 1935, and also include a few papers of his father, Hiram G. Bond, and his son, Marshall Bond, Jr. Bond's Klondike experience is well documented by his diary from 1897-98, letters to his family, draft chapters of a memoir about his experiences, and photographs. The photographs include one of the dog who inspired Jack London's novel The Call of the Wild; several of the Bond family's California home, on which...
Dates: 1869-1976

Arna Bontemps Collection

 Collection
Call Number: JWJ MSS 6
Abstract:

The Arna Bontemps Collections contains writings and correspondence presented to the James Weldon Johnson Collection by Mr. Bontemps.

Dates: 1934-1957

Book trade collection

 Collection
Call Number: OSB MSS 33
Abstract:

Receipts and short notes concerning the book trade in London in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Booksellers include Thomas Caddell, Thomas Longman, Thomas Lowndes, George Nicol, John Nourse, Paul Vaillant, Thomas Vernor, John Whiston, and John Wilkie. There is one long letter from Andrew Millar to David Mallet about the sales of Mallet's edition of the works of Henry St. John, Lord Viscount Bolingbroke.

Dates: 1729-1812

Boswell collection supplement

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Call Number: GEN MSS 153
Abstract:

The collection consists mainly of letters and writings by or pertaining to various members of the Boswell of Auchinleck family. Series III includes seventeen journals of weather conditions and work assignments on the Auchinleck estate.

Dates: [ca. 1750-1900]

Botanical collages from the circle of Booth Grey

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Call Number: MSS 65
Abstract:

The collection comprises 139 hand-cut paper collages on paper prepared with watercolor, created by Booth Grey (1740-1802) or those in his circle of acquaintances, in the manner of the well-known "paper mosaics" made by Mrs. Delany.

Dates: 1790s

Henry de Bourbel papers

 Collection
Call Number: OSB MSS 102
Abstract: Correspondence, legal papers, and financial papers documenting Henry de Bourbel's business affairs while he was an émigré in England, in particular his finances relating to Senecé & Roumare. Correspondents include Bernard de Senecé, Bourbel's partner in Senecé & Roumare, Charles Des Essars, who purchased his share in the firm, and Richard Watts, an attorney who helped negotiate the settlement of a debt owed to Jean François. Legal papers include articles of association and...
Dates: 1791-1814

Francis William Bourdillon collection

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Call Number: OSB MSS 165
Abstract:

The collection consists almost entirely of printed copies of works by Francis William Bourdillon, especially his narrative poems and occasional verse, along with several versions of his translation of Aucassin et Nicolette. In addition, there are sketchbooks, etchings, and a photograph album containing views of the Swiss Alps.

Dates: 1874-1921, bulk 1880-1900

John Bowring collection

 Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 223
Abstract: Chiefly letters from Bowring, many regarding unidentified works by his friends. Some letters are responses to invitations. Includes letter to Marc-Antoine Jullien about the Peace Society; letter to John Bowyer Nichols (editor of "Gentleman's Magazine") that includes a statement for publication about the destruction of the public library in Abo, Finland. Collection also includes manuscript regarding commercial relations between France and England, written for publication in "The Examiner",...
Dates: 1821-1871