Showing Collections: 1–20 of 27
Filtered By
Filter Results
Additional filters
- Names
- Yale University 8
- Baldwin, Simeon E. (Simeon Eben), 1840-1927 5
- Whitney, Eli, 1765-1825 4
- Porter, Noah, 1811-1892 3
- Angell, James Rowland, 1869-1949 2
- Bacon, Leonard, 1802-1881 2
- Baldwin, Simeon, 1761-1851 2
- Blake, Eli W. (Eli Whitney), 1795-1886 2
- Burr family 2
- Burr, Aaron, 1756-1836 2
- Clifford, John H. (John Henry), 1809-1876 2
- Dana, James Dwight, 1813-1895 2
- Dwight, Timothy, 1828-1916 2
- Edwards, Pierpont, 1750-1826 2
- Eliot, Charles William, 1834-1926 2
- Gilman, Daniel C. (Daniel Coit), 1831-1908 2
- Hillhouse, James, 1754-1832 2
- Hillhouse, William, 1757-1833 2
- Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 2
- Johnson, William Samuel, 1795-1883 2 ∧ less
∨ more
Account books collection
Collection
Call Number: MS 29
Overview:
An artificial collection of account books and financial volumes, ca. 1680-1930, relating to such occupations as: farmers, merchants, traders, millers, blacksmiths, lawyers, manufacturers, laborers, physicians, shoemakers, carpenters, tailors, and cigar makers. Materials relating to private organizations and businesses are also included. The collection focuses on the Connecticut and New England region.
Dates:
1680-1925
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
Alsop family papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 34
Overview:
The papers consist of correspondence, legal papers, diaries, estate records, account books, notebooks, deeds, and miscellanea of the Alsop family of Middletown, Connecticut. Several generations of family members are represented in the papers including: Joseph Wright Alsop (1772-1844), Joseph Wright Alsop (1804-1878), Joseph Wright Alsop (1838-1891), Joseph Wright Alsop (1876-1953), Mary Alsop Oliver Alsop (1815-1893), Richard Alsop (1726-1776), Richard Alsop (1789-1842), Charles Richard Alsop...
Dates:
1734-1986
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
Baldwin family papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 55
Overview:
The papers detail the personal lives and professional careers of several generations and family lines of the Baldwin family. The legal, political, and business activities of family members in Connecticut, New York, and elsewhere are documented. Major topics include: family, women, law, education, Connecticut and New York politics and government, New Haven, Connecticut, and Yale University.
Dates:
1584-1977
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
Blake family papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 85
Overview:
The papers consist of correspondence, financial papers, printed material, photographs, and miscellanea of the Blake family of New Haven, Connecticut. Several generations of family members are represented in the papers, including Eli Whitney, Eli Whitney Blake (1795-1886), Eli Whitney Blake (1836-1895), Henry Taylor Blake (1828-1922), and William Phipps Blake (1826-). Additional family members represented in the papers include: Charles Thompson Blake, Edward Foster Blake, James Pierrepont Blake,...
Dates:
1773-1921
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
Bostwick Company records
Collection
Call Number: MS 625
Overview:
The records consist of correspondence from the business records of William Bostwick (1796-1863), merchant of Augusta, Georgia, and New Haven, Connecticut, who dealt primarily in cotton. While most of the letters are on business, there are personal letters (1854, 1856) from Benjamin Silliman, Noah Porter, James Browning Miles, and Willis Strong Colton. The records also include sixty-two account books.
Dates:
1819-1856
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
Aaron Columbus Burr papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 116
Overview:
The papers consist of correspondence and business papers of Aaron Columbus Burr, merchant of New York City and adopted son of Aaron Burr. The papers relate to an attempt by Burr and James Grant to establish a colony for freed American slaves in Honduras. There is also material relating to the American Honduras Company, a firm formed by Burr and Grant for the cutting and exporting of mahogany.
Dates:
1838-1871
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
Burr family papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 303
Overview:
Correspondence and other papers relating to members of the Burr family of Fairfield, Conn. Principal figures represented in the papers include Aaron Burr (1756-1836), soldier, politician and third vice-president of the United States; and his father, the Reverend Aaron Burr (1716-1757), scholar, clergyman, and second president of the College of New Jersey (later Princeton). These papers were formerly part of the Annie Burr Jennings Memorial Collection (MS 687). See also the Bidwell Family Papers...
Dates:
1750-1890
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
Canby family papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 126
Overview:
The papers consist of diaries (1779-1831) of Samuel Canby and 24 letters to James Canby from James Asheton Bayard, Outerbridge Horsey, Louis McLane and Samuel White. Also included is a copy of the agricultural almanac for 1819 annotated by Samuel Canby.
Dates:
1779-1831
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
Connecticut Miscellaneous Manuscripts Collection
Collection
Call Number: MS 149
Overview:
An artificial collection of material relating to the cities and towns of Connecticut, containing printed material, legal records, military papers, and miscellanea. Specific items include: deeds, indentures, leases, military commissions, enrollment lists, record books, and muster rolls.
Dates:
1655-1950
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
Chauncey Mitchell Depew papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 180
Overview:
Newspaper clippings documenting his personal life, his business affairs as president of the New York Central Railroad and his political career as senator from New York (1899-1905), as delegate-at-large to nine Republican National Conventions (1888-1924) and as a prominent figure in Republican national politics.
Dates:
1879-1928
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
Diaries (Miscellaneous) collection
Collection
Call Number: MS 181
Overview:
An artificial collection of diaries relating to Connecticut and other states and regions in the United States. Topics including farming, religion, military life, student life, travel, and the weather are documented.
Dates:
1681-1945
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
Edwards family papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 191
Overview:
Correspondence and scrapbooks of the fourth and fifth generations of the family of Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758) chiefly relating to their health and welfare. Includes the correspondence of Jonathan Edwards (1789-1875), a politician from upper New York State; his brother-in-law, George Champion, a missionary to the Zulus in 1838; and his son, Jonathan Edwards, Jr. (1841-1886), who studied medicine but did not practice and who edited Yale's catalogue of Greek and Roman coins. Subjects covered in...
Dates:
1805-1874
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
Lewis W. Fairchild papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 921
Overview:
A large part of the papers consist of letters from Alvin J. Johnson, publisher in New York of bibles, atlases and encyclopedias, to Lewis W. Fairchild concerning the sale of books in Fairchild's territory. The remainder of the papers consists of letters and weekly reports on sales to Fairchild and Johnson from their agents and canvassers in Connecticut, Massachusetts and New York. Also included are Fairchild's personal bills (1884-1888). These papers were formerly known as the Alvin J. Johnson...
Dates:
1867-1888
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
Hillhouse family papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 282
Overview:
The papers consist of correspondence, deeds, account books, estate records, architectural drawings, legal papers, notebooks, commonplace books, letterbooks, scrapbooks, daybooks, and miscellaneous papers documenting the personal lives and professional careers of three generations of the Hillhouse family of New Haven, Connecticut and New York. Major figures represented in the papers include: James Hillhouse (1754-1832), Mary Lucas Hillhouse (1785-1871), James Abraham Hillhouse (1789-1841),...
Dates:
1707-1943
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
Holmes family papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 1000
Overview:
The principal figure in these papers is Charles Edward Latimer Holmes, of Waterbury and Bridgeport, Connecticut, manufacturer of brass and silver, and the son of Israel Holmes. Included are correspondence, business papers, a diary, and family scrapbooks. Holmes' letters to his second wife, Annie E. Slade Holmes, and his daughter, Lydia Holmes Bliss, were chiefly written while he was traveling on business to France and England in 1879 and to England in 1883. His business papers consist of letter...
Dates:
1823-1896, bulk 1856-1896
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
Johnson family papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 305
Overview:
The papers consist of correspondence, papers, volumes, deeds, and other material documenting several generations of the Johnson family of Connecticut and New York. Samuel Johnson (1696-1772), William Samuel Johnson (1727-1819), William Samuel Johnson (1795-1883), and Samuel William Johnson (1828-1895) are prominent figures in the papers. The correspondence of William Livingston (1723-1790) and Noah Welles (1718-1776) is also arranged in the papers. In addition to extensive correspondence...
Dates:
1631-2017, bulk 1631-1918
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
Sylvanus Dyer Locke papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 327
Overview:
The papers consist of correspondence, letterbooks, patents, and printed material which relate to Sylvanus Dyer Locke's patented self-binding harvester and other inventions. Correspondents include attorneys, patent solicitors, and other manufacturers of farm equipment and heavy machinery. Some materials also relate to Sylvanus D. Locke, Jr. and the Locke Steel Chain Company of Bridgeport, Connecticut. The additions to the papers contains family correspondence, photographs, and academic reports...
Dates:
1859-1957
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
Makepeace family papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 977
Overview:
Account books and autograph albums kept by various members of the Makepeace family of Connecticut. One, kept by Orlando Porter, relates to the clock manufacturing company of Samuel Harrison and Company. Another, kept by Ward Peck betweeen 1818 and 1842, records his farming activities in Waterbury. The four autograph albums (1827-1885) contain the signatures of such notables as John Burroughs, Leonard Bacon, Timothy Dwight, James A. Garfield, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Wendell Phillips, Henry Ward...
Dates:
1773-1925
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
Massachusetts railroads collection
Collection
Call Number: MS 971
Overview:
Correspondence, financial and legal documents, maps, schedules, and newspaper clippings from the records of various Massachusetts railroads eventually incorporated by lease or merger into the Boston and Maine Railroad or the New York Central Railroad.
Dates:
1822-1909
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
Albert McClellan Mathewson papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 990
Overview:
The Albert Mathewson Papers consist of correspondence, financial, business and legal records and genealogical material of the Lanman, Trumbull and Huntington families, ancestors of Mathewson. His own personal papers (1888-1941) are largely related to his professional activities, with the Connecticut State Shellfish Commission, among others.
Dates:
1735-1941
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives