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Alger Leroy Adams and Jessie M. Wells Adams papers

 Collection
Call Number: WA MSS S-4335
Abstract: Photographs and photograph albums, scrapbooks, personal papers, and other materials relating to Reverend Alger Leroy Adams, Jessie M. Wells Adams, and the Daniels family, circa 1860s-1997.Materials relating to Alger Adams include a caricature of Adams, scrapbook of Adams’s columns for the Amsterdam News, a photograph of Adams’s colleague and society editor for Ebony magazine Gerri Major, and a letter of congratulations upon Adams’s receiving of an honorary degree....
Dates: circa 1860s-1997

Lucien Aigner photographs and papers

 Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 1837
Abstract:

The collection contains contact sheets, negatives, transparencies, slides, photographic prints, scrapbooks, writings, professional and personal papers, correspondence, printed material, cameras and other recording equipment, and audiovisual and computer media created and collected by Hungarian photojournalist Lucien Aigner.

Dates: 1886–2011

Dorothy Alexander photographs

 Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 1750
Abstract:

The collection consists of black-and-white and color photographic prints, contact sheets, negatives, slides, indices and other papers, audiovisual media, and digital files related to the work of Canadian-American photographer Dorothy Alexander. Photographic materials encompass her professional freelance work and personal creative endeavors, particularly street photography.

Dates: 1967–2016

Gordon Auchincloss papers

 Collection
Call Number: MS 580
Abstract: The papers consist of correspondence, a diary, memoranda, and printed material largely relating to Gordon Auchincloss's position as assistant counselor in the State Department, 1917, and to his position as secretary to Colonel E. M. House at the armistice negotiations and the Paris Peace Conference, with some material on personal affairs. The diary lists his daily activities between 1914 and 1920, including many summaries of conversations, and with a retrospective entry on his first meeting...
Dates: 1914-1951

Baldwin and Company papers

 Collection
Call Number: MS 56
Abstract: A shipping firm based in New York trading with Europe, South America and various ports in the United States. The principal partner in the firm was Simeon Baldwin of New Haven. The records include account books, correspondence, papers dealing with the general business of the firm and papers dealing with the individual ships. The records for each of the 124 ships consist of bills of lading, manifests, freight lists, settlements of earnings, letters of instruction to captains, captain's...
Dates: 1818-1876

Michael Benedikt papers

 Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 589
Abstract: Collection contains correspondence, writings, and personal papers documenting the personal and professional life of author Michael Benedikt. Correspondence in the collection consists of letters to Benedikt from authors and artists, editors and publishers, literary agents and organizations, academic institutions, and others dating largely from the late 1950s to early 1980s. Correspondents include Duane Ackerson, Anna Balakian, Alan Brilliant, A. Poulin, Carolee Schneemann, and others....
Dates: 1951-2002

Bronson Family papers

 Collection
Call Number: MS 103
Abstract: Correspondence, legal and financial papers, a diary and miscellaneous items of the Bronson family of Washington, Connecticut. The largest part of the papers are those of Moseley Virgil Bronson (1806-1890), documenting his career as an officer of the Connecticut militia and as a teacher in New York and Connecticut. Of particular interest are the letters of Edna Moseley Todd, who moved to Virginia in 1821, and whose letters to various members of the family describe her life as a mother and...
Dates: 1753-1898

Gary C. Burget papers

 Collection
Call Number: MS Coll 63
Abstract: Gary C. Burget, M.D. (1941-2017) was a plastic surgeon specializing in facial and nasal reconstruction. Dr. Burget attended Yale University as an undergraduate and went on to graduate from Yale School of Medicine in 1967 before entering private practice first in Miami and then in Chicago. The collection mainly consists of patient records, which include patient charts, 35mm slides, photographs, x-rays, photographic negatives, illustrations, and consultation records. Also included in the...
Dates: 1962-2017

Trigant Burrow papers

 Collection
Call Number: MS 1370
Abstract: The papers contain correspondence, memoranda, manuscripts and other papers on the professional career and personal life of psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Trigant Burrow. The papers document Burrow's group laboratory research, the activities of The Lifwynn Foundation, the research of important colleagues like Hans C. Syz and Charles Baker Thompson, and such subjects as doctor-patient and interpersonal relations. The papers include extensive family and personal correspondence, a complete set...
Dates: 1875-1984

Paul Cadmus papers

 Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 1977
Abstract:

The Paul Cadmus papers, which span from 1812-2019, contain personal papers and files, correspondence, photographs, artwork, papers of others, artwork, address books, printed matter, and other materials that document the life and work of Paul Cadmus.

Dates: 1812-2019

Civil War manuscripts collection

 Collection
Call Number: MS 619
Abstract: The Civil War Manuscripts Collection was created to give the researcher more direct access to small and fragmentary collections of material on the subject of the Civil War in the United States, 1861-1865. It is an intentionally assembled collection of diaries, correspondence, photographs, printed material, and ephemera primarily documenting military events and daily camp life, as well as family life on the home front and civilian activities. Many Connecticut regiments are represented...
Dates: 1859-1900, bulk 1861-1865

Mason Fitch Cogswell papers

 Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 920
Abstract: The papers primarily consist of correspondence received by Mason Fitch Cogswell from family, friends, and professional colleagues. Prominent among the correspondents are Cogswell's brother Samuel Cogswell, his nephew James Lloyd Cogswell of Long Island, New York, his friend Theodore Dwight, the Caribbean planter Charles Joseph Sibert, Vicomte de Cornillon, and deaf education pioneers Laurent Clerc and T. H. Gallaudet. Other colleagues in the papers are the Reverend Ebenezer Fitch,...
Dates: 1772-1853, bulk 1790-1830

Colgate Family papers

 Collection
Call Number: MS 144
Abstract: Letters, diaries, account books, financial and legal papers and memorabilia of the Davies, Brasher, Craig and related families, based in New York City. The business documents relate to the Atlantic trade (1788-1814) and comprise, among other records, receipts for the purchase of slaves in Jamaica in 1801. The diaries and account books in the collection include the family expense book (1739-1819) of Helen Kortright Brasher, a diary kept by Judith Brasher in 1766, extracts from a journal of a...
Dates: 1752-1875

Seward Collins papers

 Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 12
Abstract:

The Seward Collins Papers contain correspondence, subject files, business papers, and other papers documenting Collins's editorship of The Bookman and The American Review.

Dates: 1918-1952, bulk 1927-1937

Christopher Cox papers

 Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 264
Abstract:

The Christopher Cox Papers consists of the writings, correspondence files, and personal papers of the editor, author, actor, director, and producer Christopher Cox, and of his partner, the art historian William Olander.

Dates: 1927-1990, bulk 1966-1990

Bruce Cratsley papers

 Collection
Call Number: MS 1836
Abstract:

The papers consist of photographic prints by and topical files of Bruce Cratsley. Also included is White Light, Silent Shadows, a book of Cratsley's photography.

Dates: 1975-1998, bulk 1980-1995

Jack Randall Crawford Modern Drama Collection

 Collection
Call Number: DRA 10
Abstract:

Photographic prints and clippings relating to English and American Drama as collected by Jack Randall Crawford, the staff of the Drama Library, and others.

Dates: 1850-1979

Harry Croswell Papers

 Collection
Call Number: RG 258
Abstract: Diaries, family records and history of the Parish of Trinity Church, New Haven (1740-1820) by Harry Croswell, journalist and later minister of Trinity Church from 1815 until his death. The diaries in 14 volumes (1821-1858), offer a daily record of his life in New Haven as well as accounts of his participation in the work of the church in the surrounding region and in the affairs of Trinity College, Hartford.Croswell also records the formation of the black congregation, St. Luke's, in 1844....
Dates: 1821–1858

Lewis Perry Curtis family papers

 Collection
Call Number: MS 587
Abstract: The papers consist of four series of professional and family material. Series I (1912-1976) contains professional correspondence and research materials of Lewis Perry Curtis. Series II contains Curtis family correspondence (1912-1976). Series III holds the correspondence of the Sullivan family (1916-1980). Material in Series IV consists of correspondence (1797-1914) and personal papers of several generations of family members, and business papers (1793-1914). The addition, Accession...
Dates: 1739-1980

Cushman family papers

 Collection
Call Number: MS 161
Abstract: Letters, diaries, writings, sermons, letter books, business papers, and memorabilia of David Cushman (1795-) of West Exeter, Otsego County, New York and members of his family. The papers relate primarily to personal, family, and business matters, although there is some material on the anti-slavery movement and some Civil War papers of George C. Cushman. Other material of interest includes some papers relating to the Poughkeepsie Collegiate School and a series of business letters written from...
Dates: 1832-1868