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Alger Leroy Adams and Jessie M. Wells Adams papers
Collection
Call Number: WA MSS S-4335
Overview:
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
Harry Adams photographs
Collection
Call Number: WA Photos 589
Overview:
Photographs prints created and collected by Harry Adams, 1943-1985, that chiefly document events, activities, and individuals related to the African American community in the Los Angeles metropolitan area of California and his career as a professional photographer as well as his work for African American newspapers including the California Eagle and Los Angeles Sentinel.
Dates:
1943-1985, bulk 1951-1985
R. A. (Revels Alcorn) Adams papers
Collection
Call Number: JWJ MSS 48
Overview:
The collection consists of writings, sheet music, scrapbooks, photographs, and other papers, stemming from R. A. Adams's activities as an evangelistic minister of the African Methodist Episcopal Church and as a writer, lecturer, and publisher of pamphlets on topics relating to race, religion, contraception, interpersonal relations, and socioeconomics. The collection documents aspects of African American religion and culture, especially in the South, in the early 20th century, and in particular...
Dates:
1902-1945
African, Afro-, Native American, and Pacific Rim Arts Lantern Slide Collection
Collection
Call Number: VRC 2650
Overview:
Collection consists of black and white glass lantern slides of the arts of African, Native American, and Pacific Rim cultures, including Australia and New Zealand, as well as Afro-Brazilian, Afro-Cuban, Afro-Haitian, Afro-Mexican, Afro-Portuguese, Afro-Surinam, and Afro-American arts.
Dates:
ca. 1950
African, Afro-Caribbean, African-American Medium Photograph Collection
Collection
Call Number: VRC 77
Overview:
Collection of mounted color and black and white labeled photographs covering a broad range of teaching materials for sub-Saharan African, Afro-Caribbean and African American art and architecture. Many items in the collection donated by Professor Robert Thompson, or acquired at his request.
Dates:
1960-2000
African, Afro-Caribbean, African-American Photograph Collection
Collection
Call Number: VRC 76
Overview:
Collection of mounted color and black and white labeled photographs covering a broad range of teaching materials for sub-Saharan African, Afro-Caribbean and African American art and architecture. Many items in the collection donated by Professor Robert Thompson, or acquired at his request.
Dates:
1960-2000
African, Afro-Caribbean, and African American, Native American and Pacific Rim Arts Slide Collection
Collection
Call Number: VRC 1650
Overview:
Collection consists of color and black and white 35 mm slides of the arts of African, Native American, and Pacific Rim cultures, including Australia and New Zealand, as well as Afro-Brazilian, Afro-cuban, Afro-Haitian, Afro-Mexican, Afro-Portuguese, Afro-Surinam, and Afro-American arts.
Dates:
ca. 1960-2005
African American film collection
Collection
Call Number: JWJ MSS 238
Scope and Contents:
The African American Film Collection consists of scripts, photographs, and other materials related to the production and promotion of films and television shows created by, starring, or documenting the experience of African Americans.
Dates:
1929-1998
African Collection, Yale University Library, records of the curator
Collection
Call Number: RU 400
Overview:
The records consist of lists, bibliographies, correspondence, finances and expenses, and publications documenting the activities and operations of the curator of the African Collection at Yale University Library.
Dates:
circa 1963-2013
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
Immanuel Wallerstein collection of African liberation movement posters
Collection
Call Number: MS 1865
Overview:
The collection consists of posters acquired by Immanuel Wallerstein which document liberation movements in numerous African countries. Accession 2015-M-001 contains material from a 2008 exhibit on the posters.
Dates:
1960-1990, 2007-2008
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
African postcard collection
Collection
Call Number: MS 1575
Overview:
The collection consists of postcards depicting scenes from various countries on the African continent.
Dates:
circa 1900-2004
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
Afro-American Cultural Center at Yale records documenting its 25th anniversary commemoration
Collection
Call Number: RU 176
Overview:
The records consist of program material and memorabilia produced by the Afro-American Cultural Center at Yale for their 25th anniversary program titled 25 Years at Yale and Counting: The Continuing Presence of Blacks at Yale.
Dates:
1995
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
Paola Agosti photographs
Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 1759
Scope and Contents:
The collection consists of 667 black-and-white and color photographic prints by Italian photographer Paola Agosti documenting social change, political movements, and daily life in Italy, South America, Cuba, and the United States. Agosti’s photographs of Italy depict the feminist movement and women’s rights organizations Movimento di Liberazione della Donna and Unione Donne Italiane in the 1970s and 1980s, the gay rights collective Fronte Unitario Omosessuale Rivoluzionario Italiano...
Dates:
1970–2020
David Ernest Apter papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 1806
Overview:
The collection consists of photographs taken by David E. Apter from 1951 to 1960 in the African countries of Ghana (formerly known as the Gold Coast), Nigeria, Rwanda, Uganda, and Benin (formerly known as Dahomey), during the buildup of nationalism and the start of independence. The photographs portray scenes of everyday life in these countries. The collection also includes two photographs of David Apter, taken by Eleanor Apter in 1953 in Achimota, Gold Coast, and by Larissa Leclair in 2002...
Dates:
1920-2002, bulk 1951-1960
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
Paul Moody Atkins papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 41
Overview:
Correspondence, memoranda, reports, printed material, writings, clippings, diaries, photographs, and miscellanea relating to Paul Moody Atkins, a financial management consultant, international economic and banking expert, author, educator, and special liquidator of securities for the U.S. Comptroller of the Currency (1932-1937). Atkins' professional work in Peru (1931), French West Africa (1940-1941), Iran (1943-1945), Greece (1947-1948), and Japan (1948) are documented through correspondence,...
Dates:
1749-1976
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
Francis John Baker Boer War diary
Collection
Call Number: MS 1957
Overview:
The collection comprises a manuscript diary covering the years 1901-1902, written in 1912 from notes taken during that time period. Francis John Baker provides lengthy, detailed descriptions of his experiences in the Boer War and daily camp life. Military documents, family correspondence, and photographs are included.
Dates:
Circa 1885-1919
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
Josephine Baker Collection
Collection
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
Sir Joseph Banks papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 58
Overview:
The papers consist of correspondence, writings, notes, and other papers documenting the personal life and professional career of Sir Joseph Banks, a British naturalist and explorer. Correspondence with stewards and landowners in Lincolnshire and elsewhere detail Banks' interest in agriculture and farming. Other papers relate to family estates, to Banks' scientific investigations and to his interest in the exploration of Africa and other regions. A translation of Frederic Horneman's "Travels...
Dates:
1763-1830
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
"Correspondence"
Collection
Call Number: OSBORN FD10
Overview:
Autograph MS.
Collection of autograph drafts of letters to various recipients, including a few letter to Banks from various correspondents, concerning scientific matters, the Royal Society, etc.; includes portrait engraving.
Collection of autograph drafts of letters to various recipients, including a few letter to Banks from various correspondents, concerning scientific matters, the Royal Society, etc.; includes portrait engraving.
Dates:
1785-1809
Michel Bégon papers
Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 1756
Overview:
The collection contains correspondence, reports, journals, lists, pamphlets and broadsides, and other papers relating to Michel Bégon and French colonial administration in the Caribbean, French maritime commerce, foreign relations, domestic economic matters, and botany in the 17th century.
Dates:
circa 1651-1718