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Daniel Coit Gilman papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 582
Overview:
Correspondence, writings, lectures, and other papers of Daniel Coit Gilman, educator, university president, and author. Included are papers regarding Gilman's career at Yale, the University of California, and Johns Hopkins University. Important correspondents include Charles M. Andrews, James Dwight Dana, William Henry Brewer, Timothy Dwight, Benjamin Silliman, Theodore Dwight Woolsey, and Andrew Dickson White.
Dates:
1845-1910
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
Edward Claudius Herrick papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 691
Overview:
Correspondence, memoranda, notes, and drawings record Herrick's work in astonomy and entomology, particularly his observations on the Aurora Borealis and the Hessian fly. Prominent scientists among his correspondents include Louis Agassiz, James D. Dana, Thaddeus William Harris, Elias Loomis, Lambert Adolphe Jacques Quetelet, William C. Redfield, Samuel H. Scudder, Benjamin Silliman, Benjamin Silliman Jr., and William Tully. His career as librarian of Yale College (1843-1858) is reflected in...
Dates:
1797-1862
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
Charles D. Hubbard sketches of Yale-related buildings and grounds
Collection
Call Number: RU 648
Overview:
The collection consists of original pen and ink drawings by Charles D. Hubbard of Yale-related buildings in New Haven, Branford and Killingworth used in the publication Yale and Her Books. The following buildings are represented: House of Reverend Samuel Russel, Branford; Killingworth meeting-house; Saybrook Point; the first Yale College house; chapel and library (later Athenaeum); Lyceum; old chapel; old library; Chittenden Hall; Linsly Hall; and Sterling Memorial Library.
Dates:
circa 1926
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
Wesley Needham photographic slides of Yale University
Collection
Call Number: RU 1038
Overview:
The records consist of 35 mm color photographic slides documenting Yale University buildings, particularly Sterling Memorial Library. Includes interior views and architectural details.
Dates:
1978
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
Yale and New Haven greeting card collection
Collection
Call Number: RU 688
Overview:
The materials consist of greeting cards, largely printed for the Christmas holiday season, depicting Yale buildings and grounds, New Haven scenes, and collections from the Yale University Library and Yale Art Gallery.
Dates:
circa 1920-1994
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives