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American Social Surveys, Inc. collection

 Collection
Call Number: MS 1151
Overview: Paper tapes containing propaganda messages transmitted by Axis powers to Latin American countries.
Dates: 1941

Kan'ichi Asakawa papers

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Call Number: MS 40
Overview: The papers consist of correspondence, diaries, writings, notes, photographs, and miscellanea documenting the personal life and professional career of Kan'ichi Asakawa, a professor of Japanese history at Yale University and author of several books on Japanese history.
Dates: 1894-1994, bulk 1894-1955

Josephine Baker Collection

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Call Number: JWJ MSS 108
Scope and Contents: The Josephine Baker Collection is comprised of correspondence, photographs, personal papers, and printed material documenting the life and career of Josephine Baker between 1929 and 1968. Evidence of Baker's career as a performer can be found in her correspondence with managers and producers, clippings from her performances, and pamphlets and brochures from concerts. There is correspondence and printed material regarding her appearances in Argentina in 1947 and 1952 and in Canada...
Dates: 1929-1968

Bettina Bergery papers

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Call Number: GEN MSS 844
Overview: The Bettina Bergery Papers consist of 122 volumes of diaries, 1940-1980; a small amount of other autobiographical writings and writings about fashion design; correspondence with family and friends; scrapbooks, clippings, and other printed material relating to her interests in fashion, art, and politics; photographs and photograph albums relating to the Shaw Jones family, Bergery's friendships, travel in French Equatorial Africa, and diplomatic travels with Gaston Bergery; biographical material,...
Dates: circa 1900-circa 1990, bulk 1940-1980

General Motors documents relating to World War II corporate activities in Europe

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Call Number: MS 1799
Overview: This collection focuses on World War II era activities of and relating to Adam Opel Aktiengesellschaft, a German firm in which the General Motors Corporation (GM) purchased a controlling interest in 1928. The collection materials were assembled as part of a 1999-2000 research project under the auspices of GM. The collection contains approximately 1,150 copies of GM and Opel records, including copies of relevant records from GM's subsidiaries in Britain (Vauxhall Motors Ltd.), Denmark (General...
Dates: Circa 1900-1982, bulk 1935-1949

Raymond Kennedy papers

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Call Number: MS 1046
Overview: Papers accumulated by Yale Sociology professor Raymond Kennedy and relating to his research in Southeast Asia. Collection primarily comprises writings, maps, photographs, field trip notes, and other research materials documenting Kennedy's work in Southeast Asia, particularly in Indonesia. Among the writings, some of which are in Dutch and Indonesian, are articles and speeches by Kennedy, memoranda written for the U.S. State Department, and writings by others about Southeast Asia. The...
Dates: 1935-1950

Ezio Levi papers

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Call Number: GEN MSS 1138
Scope and Contents: The Ezio Levi Papers consist of autograph manuscript and typescript writings and notes about Italian and Spanish literature and art, with related correspondence, printed articles, and photographs, 1910s-1940s and undated; biographical information about Levi and Flora Aghib Levi D’Ancona, undated; legal documents and correspondence relating to their immigration to the United States, 1930s-1940s; other correspondence, 1910s-1949, most relating to Levi's academic career in the United States; and...
Dates: 1863-1949, bulk 1910-1941

Libya collection

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Call Number: MS 1526
Overview: The collection consists of printed material relating to the history and current political and economic conditions in Libya.
Dates: 1943-1988

Charles Augustus Lindbergh papers

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Call Number: MS 325
Overview: The papers consist of correspondence; diaries; writings; childhood, school and college materials; financial, legal, and housekeeping records; reports; memoranda; drawings; maps; publications; artifacts; and memorabilia documenting the life and interests of Charles Augustus Lindbergh. The papers form the largest and most extensive collection of his personal, professional, and family papers. They document his work as a pilot, developer of commercial aviation and rocketry, bio-engineer, air force...
Dates: 1780-1999, bulk 1911-1974

Madagascar collection

 Collection
Call Number: MS 1527
Overview: The collection consists of an essay, printed material, and photographs relating to the history of Madagascar and political and social conditions.
Dates: 1930-2000s, bulk 1973-1983

Baruch Nadel papers

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Call Number: MS 1393
Overview: The papers consist of Baruch Nadel's research materials for a proposed book on Abraham Stern, the founder of Lohamei Herut Israel ("Lehi"), an armed underground organization in British Palestine. The papers include more than 150 transcribed interviews conducted by Nadel, interviews by others with members of Lehi, memoirs by Lehi members and Stern aides, and poems and letters by Stern. Also included in the papers are Nadel's research materials concerning the emigration of Jews from Iraq between...
Dates: 1847-1992, bulk 1971-1985

David J. Piel papers

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Call Number: MS 1892
Overview: The papers include sketchbooks of watercolor drawings and captions by David J. Piel depicting military and civilian life during World War II in the South Pacific; and related correspondence, memorabilia, and photographs.
Dates: Circa 1930s-1949

Sergei Germanovich Pushkarev papers

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Call Number: MS 1418
Overview: The papers include manuscripts, writings, memoirs, correspondence, and other papers documenting the literary and academic career, as well as the personal life, of Sergei G. Pushkarev.
Dates: 1925-1984

Bogdan Radica papers

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Call Number: MS 1588
Overview: The papers consist of official reports, correspondence, subject files, extensive clippings, writings, and printed matter which document Bogdan Radica's work as a press officer in the Yugoslav Legation in Washington, D.C. and the Yugoslav Information Center in New York during World War II. The papers highlight Radica's efforts to inform his government of American press (including the emigre press) coverage of affairs in Yugoslavia and the Balkans, his propagandistic work in support of...
Dates: 1939-1986

Kurt Seligmann papers

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Call Number: YCAL MSS 827
Overview: The Kurt Seligmann Papers consist of correspondence, personal papers, photographs, and artwork documenting his personal life and artwork. The papers provide insight into Seligmann's work as a surrealist painter and engraver and his circle of friends, many of whom were artists and writers. Correspondents include Nicolas Calas, Alexander Calder, Pierre Courthion, Enrico Donati, Jean Dubuffet, Charles Duits, Georges Duthuit, George W. Federoff, Fernand Léger, Pierre Mabille, Robert Motherwell,...
Dates: 1883-1991

War poster collection

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Call Number: MS 671
Overview: The collection consists of posters published in nations involved in World War I, 1914-1918, the Spanish Civil War, and World War II, 1939-1945. Great Britain, the United States, France, Germany, Italy, Russia, Canada, Australia, Ireland and other nations are represented through posters depicting such diverse topics as recruitment, enlistment, conservation, war loans, civilian service, home relief, foreign relief and propaganda messages. Posters issued by government agencies, social...
Dates: 1914-1946, bulk 1914-1918

World War II collection

 Collection
Call Number: MS 688
Overview: An artificial collection of publications, including propaganda, leaflets, posters, underground material, newspapers, correspondence, and memorabilia written in approximately fifteen languages from fifty nations which relate to World War II.
Dates: 1937-2008, bulk 1937-1946