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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

Harry Adams photographs

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Call Number: WA Photos 589
Abstract:

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

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Call Number: JWJ MSS 48
Abstract: 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...
Dates: 1902-1945

African, Afro-Caribbean, African-American Medium Photograph Collection

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Call Number: VRC 77
Abstract:

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

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Call Number: VRC 76
Abstract:

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

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Call Number: VRC 1650
Abstract:

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, Afro-, Native American, and Pacific Rim Arts Lantern Slide Collection

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Call Number: VRC 2650
Abstract:

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 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

Afro-American Cultural Center at Yale records documenting its 25th anniversary commemoration

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Call Number: RU 176
Abstract:

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

Paola Agosti photographs

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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...
Dates: 1970–2020

Lucien Aigner photographs and papers

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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

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...
Dates: 1929-1968

Amiri Baraka papers

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Call Number: JWJ MSS 198
Scope and Contents:

The Amiri Baraka Papers contains poetry, pamphlet publications, scripts, interviews, photographs, correspondence, and posters of work written or edited by Amiri Baraka, both under the name Amiri Baraka as well as LeRoi Jones. This material mostly documents his professional work between 1965 and 1982, and reflects mostly his work as a playright and poet.

Dates: 1953-1982

Boris I. Bittker papers

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Call Number: MS 1869
Abstract: The papers consist of correspondence, legal pleadings, memoranda, newspaper clippings, reports, subject files, and writings that document Boris I. Bittker's career as a professor at Yale Law School from 1946 to 2006. In addition to voluminous materials relating to taxation, the papers also include correspondence and subject files relating to Bittker's book, Case for Black Reparations (1973), and a small amount of materials relating to his role in the...
Dates: 1938-2006, bulk 1959-1986

Black Student Alliance at Yale records

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Call Number: RU 82
Abstract:

The records consist of position papers, minutes, a newsletter, and clippings documenting the Black Student Alliance at Yale.

Dates: 1971

Black Tie Society, Yale University, records

 Collection
Call Number: RU 1039
Abstract:

The materials consist of a directory, newsletter, and correspondence.

Dates: 1984

Ed Bland papers

 Collection
Call Number: JWJ MSS 310
Abstract:

The collection includes manuscript music, notes and writings, correspondence, professional papers, printed material, and audiovisual and computer media documenting the career of African American composer and musician Ed Bland.

Dates: 1914-2019

John Wesley Blassingame Papers

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Call Number: MS 737
Abstract:

The John Wesley Blassingame Papers consist of note cards and research materials (electrostatic copies) used in the preparation of his dissertation, A Social and Economic History of the Negro in New Orleans (Yale University, 1971). Included are copies of reports of Louisiana state agencies, minutes and other papers of organizations like the White League of New Orleans, and legal documents deposited in the Orleans Parish courthouse.

Dates: 1857-1904

Board of Research Associates in American Economic History papers

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Call Number: MS 88
Abstract: Correspondence, reports, studies, minutes of meetings, circular letters, financial reports, outlines of proposed surveys, annual reports, departmental reports, and monographs relative to the established purpose of the Board, which was sponsored by the Carnegie Institution of Washington, Department of Economics and Sociology. Included are interviews (ca. 1906-1907) with Southern farmers, professionals, government officials, and merchants on the economics of agriculture in the South. Also a...
Dates: 1902-1933

Margaret Bonds papers

 Collection
Call Number: JWJ MSS 151
Abstract: Vocal music, most 1960s or undated, consisting of autograph manuscript drafts and arrangements, transparencies, and diazo reproductions, some accompanied by copies of published music; and a small amount of other papers. Autograph manuscript music includes spirituals arranged for solo voice or chorus; The Negro Speaks of Rivers, Songs of the Seasons, Three Dream Portraits, and other songs on texts by Langston Hughes; songs on texts by Edna St. Vincent Millay and other poets; and musicals and...
Dates: 1928-1983, bulk 1960-1969