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Civil War manuscripts collection
Collection
Call Number: MS 619
Overview:
The Civil War Manuscripts Collection was created to give the researcher more direct access to small and fragmentary collections of material on the subject of the Civil War in the United States, 1861-1865. It is an intentionally assembled collection of diaries, correspondence, photographs, printed material, and ephemera primarily documenting military events and daily camp life, as well as family life on the home front and civilian activities. Many Connecticut regiments are represented throughout...
Dates:
1859-1900, bulk 1861-1865
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
Elisha Lord Cleaveland papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 139
Overview:
The papers deal chiefly with his ministry in the Third Congregational Church of New Haven and include diaries, account books, clippings, lecture notes, and sermons. The 1,300 sermons make up three-fourths of the papers. His diaries (1850-1864) are largely a record of his ministerial duties, but also contain an account of his brother's death (December 1863) and of his visits to a criminal condemned to be executed (July 1846). The lecture notes were apparently intended for use at the Andover...
Dates:
1834-1866
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
Connecticut Public Health Association records
Collection
Call Number: MS 1251
Overview:
The records document the history of the Connecticut Public Health Association (1974) and its predecessors. Most materials date from 1946-1993 and consist of correspondence, minutes, bylaws, constitutions, newsletters, officers' reports, and memoranda relating to the business of the organizations. These papers form part of the Contemporary Medical Care and Health Policy Collection.
Dates:
1916-1993, bulk 1946-1993
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
Peter B. Cooper papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 1649
Overview:
The papers consist of correspondence, notes, and background material which document Peter Cooper's legal work to preserve the quality of the environment in the New Haven area and on Long Island Sound. Cases involve issues of energy transmission, coastal area development, highway construction, pollution of public water supplies, air quality control, and nuclear power plant construction.
Dates:
1970-1979
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
Harry Croswell Papers
Collection
Call Number: RG 258
Overview:
Diaries, family records and history of the Parish of Trinity Church, New Haven (1740-1820) by Harry Croswell, journalist and later minister of Trinity Church from 1815 until his death. The diaries in 14 volumes (1821-1858), offer a daily record of his life in New Haven as well as accounts of his participation in the work of the church in the surrounding region and in the affairs of Trinity College, Hartford.Croswell also records the formation of the black congregation, St. Luke's, in 1844....
Dates:
1821–1858
Found in:
Yale Divinity Library
David Daggett papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 162
Overview:
Correspondence (primarily letters received) and other papers of David Daggett, Connecticut lawyer, jurist, politician, teacher, and author. The papers relate primarily to Daggett's legal and political activities and to Federalist Party politics. Important correspondents include Simeon Baldwin, Abraham Bishop, Isaac Bronson, John C. Calhoun, Henry Clay, Charles Denison, Elizur Goodrich, Gideon Granger, Roger Griswold, Rufus King, William Leffingwell, Josiah Meigs, Timothy Pickering, Benjamin...
Dates:
1781-1851
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
Robert Alan Dahl papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 1658
Overview:
The papers consist of interview notes, transcripts, and survey responses used in Robert A. Dahl's book Who Governs?, and background research material about New Haven.
Dates:
1910-1959, bulk 1957-1959
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
Dallaher family papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 1088
Overview:
The principal figure is Mary E. Dallaher, a school teacher, who wrote a series of letters to her family while studying music in various convents in France between 1875 and 1879. Additional family correspondence includes letters to Mary Dallaher from her brother Henry while he was mining in the Dakota Territory (1874-1886). Included also are financial and legal papers, among them deeds to property in New Haven, Connecticut, memorabilia, and printed matter from various Catholic institutions in...
Dates:
1848-1897
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
Joseph and Samuel Darling Account Books and Daybooks
Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 1877
Overview:
Manuscript daybooks and ledgers kept by Joseph Darling and Samuel Darling during their efforts as a pharmacist and physician, respectively, in New Haven, Connecticut, 1797-1850.
Dates:
1797-1850
Ethel Grace Davis papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 1687
Overview:
The papers consist of correspondence from Ethel Grace "Billie" Shutter Davis to her mother, G. W. Shutter, documenting Ethel Davis's trip to and life in New Haven and Woodmont, Connecticut, while her husband was an Alfred Sloan Fellow in traffic engineering at Yale University. Topics include daily life in New Haven and Woodmont, social life at Yale for the fellows and their wives, and trips the family took around Connecticut and New York, including observations of the 1939 World's Fair in New...
Dates:
1939-1994, bulk 1939-1940
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
Horace Day papers
Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 950
Overview:
The papers contain letters, writings, and records of the Day family. Series I holds letters sent to Horace Day from his parents Gad and Roxanna Day, his brother George Edward Day (Yale 1833), his cousin Lucinda Day, and his friends, Yale classmates, and colleagues including Edward E. Atwater, Erasmus Darwin Hudson, Charles Backus McLean, and Noah Porter. Also present are letters of recommendation written on Day's behalf by Jeremiah Day, Eleazar T. Fitch, Anthony D. Stanley, and Nathaniel W....
Dates:
1728-1915, bulk 1833-1874
Letters to Jeremiah Day
Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 1959
Overview:
Circa 1,600 autograph letters, mostly signed, addressed to Jeremiah Day, 1797-1863. Letters pertain chiefly to Day's role as President of Yale College (1817-1846).
Dates:
1797-1863
De Silva Photographers photographs of Yale and New Haven
Collection
Call Number: RU 650
Overview:
The materials consist of photographs of Yale and New Haven, Connecticut taken by De Silva Photographers.
Dates:
circa 1880-1889
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
Dutton Family Papers
Collection
Call Number: RG 63
Overview:
The collection is valuable for the documentation it provides concerning a New Haven area clergy family during the period 1800 to 1880. Daily events and family relationships are revealed in substantive family correspondence. Of particular interest are Samuel Dutton's notebooks from his student days at Yale. The bulk of the collection is comprised of manuscript sermons written by Aaron and Samuel Dutton during their pastorates in Guilford and New Haven. These sermons touch on topics such as...
Dates:
1800-1880
Found in:
Yale Divinity Library
Edward Grant Oral History Project records
Collection
Call Number: MS 1805
Overview:
Thirteen hours of interviews, done in 2001-2002 by Justin Ruben, with Edward Grant, New Haven African-American activist; photocopies of Ruben's interview notes; and "The Sometimes Angry Not So Young Black Man of New Haven," a paper written by Ruben for History 454a (graduate course in American history), based on the Grant interviews.
Dates:
2001-2002
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
Pierpont Edwards papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 1357
Overview:
These papers contain legal and financial documents relating to Edwards's business activities and his legal career, most of which was carried on in New Haven. Also included are drafts of his political writings and speeches on the Federalist Party, Connecticut's charter government, and other topics. Most of Edwards's correspondence concerns his land speculation in Vermont, Pennsylvania, South Carolina and especially Connecticut's Western Reserve in Ohio. Major correspondents are William Neilson,...
Dates:
1764-1826
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
Harry H. Ensign autograph collection
Collection
Call Number: MS 1228
Overview:
Miscellaneous autographs and letters of American political and cultural figures, among them John and John Quincy Adams, Daniel Webster, Jefferson Davis, Horace Greeley, and Lydia Sigourney. Also included are eleven letters to James F. Babcock, editor of the New Haven Weekly Palladium, on politics (1840-1866) and seven letters (1866-1872) to R. P. Cowles in New Haven from prospective lecturers.
Dates:
1818-1880
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
Family Counseling of Greater New Haven, Inc. records
Collection
Call Number: MS 1808
Overview:
The Family Counseling of Greater New Haven, Inc. records document the administrative history of a local social welfare agency from 1881 to 2000. The records consist largely of annual reports and minute records of the board of directors, other sub-committee minute records and reports, financial, fund raising records, correspondence, case files, newsletters, New Haven Register column "What's Your Problem?," scrapbooks, photographs and slides.
Dates:
1881-2000
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
Farnam family papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 203
Overview:
Correspondence, diaries, letterbooks, financial papers, writings, scrapbooks, and memorabilia of the Farnam family of New Haven, Connecticut, 1721-1929. The papers of Henry Farnam (1803-1883), and two of his sons, Henry Walcott Farnam (1853-1933) and William Whitman Farnam (1844-1929) form this collection. The papers of Henry Farnam include personal and professional correspondence concerning his family, life in New Haven, and the building of several canals and railroads in Connecticut and the...
Dates:
1721-1941
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
Hollon A. Farr, Class of 1896, Yale College, photograph collection documenting life at Yale and in New England
Collection
Call Number: RU 671
Overview:
The collection is comprised of photographs of Yale and Andover, Massachusettes, and their surrounding areas. Included are photographs of the White Mountains. The photographs were collected by Hollon A. Farr (Yale 1896).
Dates:
circa 1892-1896
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives