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American Social Science Association Records
Collection
Call Number: MS 1603
Overview:
The records include organizational papers, minutes, correspondence, financial records, and committee files which document the founding of the American Social Science Association in 1865 and its functioning over the next twenty-five years. The records highlight the work of Franklin Benjamin Sanborn as secretary of the association. The records also include files of the Conference of Charities and Corrections which met with the American Social Science Association.
Dates:
1863-1906, bulk 1865-1887
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
American Theological Library Association Library Development Program Records
Collection
Call Number: RG 81
Overview:
The records include correspondence, reports, and financial records related to the ATLA Library Development Program. The ATLA Library Development Program provided funds to strengthen the book collections of ninety North American theological libraries between 1961 and 1966. The program was directed by Raymond Morris, Librarian of the Yale Divinity School Library and funded by the Sealantic Fund.
Dates:
1960-1973
Found in:
Yale Divinity Library
American Theological Library Association Records
Collection
Call Number: RG 163
Overview:
This record group includes organizational and administrative records, board and committee records, materials from annual conferences, and ATLA publications. The American Theological Library Association was founded in 1947 to strengthen ties among theological libraries, to support theological and religious librarianship, to improve theological libraries, and to interpret the role of libraries in theological education.
Dates:
1945-1997
Found in:
Yale Divinity Library
American Theological Library Association Records - Addendum A
Collection
Call Number: RG 163A
Overview:
This record group represents the official archives of the American Theological Library Association. The archives include organizational and administrative records, board and committee records, materials from annual conferences, and ATLA publications from the period 1991 to the present. This is an addendum to the material found in Record Group 163.
Dates:
1985-2007, bulk 1991-2005
Found in:
Yale Divinity Library
Rudolph John Anderson papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 37
Overview:
Writings and memorabilia of Rudolph John Anderson, professor of chemistry at Yale University, 1927-1948. The papers contain autobiographical memoirs, essays on the history of chemistry by Anderson and drafts of his book, The Chemistry of Lipoids..., published in 1938.
Dates:
1917-1962
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
George Alfred Baitsell papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 902
Overview:
Correspondence, experimental records, and miscellaneous papers related to George Baitsell (1885-1971) and his professional activities. Nearly one third of the papers consists of research material including laboratory data, reports, and recommendations based on a study of poisonous gases conducted for the U.S. Army Chemical Warfare Service, 1917-1919. His research on tuberculosis, for which he received a grant in 1925 is also documented here.
Dates:
1917-1927
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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
Caesar R. Bannihr papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 830
Overview:
The papers are made up almost entirely of diaries and account books that record Bannihr's business career, both as the owner of a trimming business in New York, and as an engraver and die sinker. Bannihr's early diaries (1883-1891) describe his life as a young working man in Cheshire, Connecticut, where he was active in Democratic politics and the district school committee. Included in the diaries are descriptions of his mechanical inventions. His wife also kept a diary for a portion of this...
Dates:
1883-1942
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
Frederick Charles Barghoorn papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 1676
Overview:
The bulk of the material is from the 1960s and early 1970s, and includes correspondence, departmental and organizational files, research files, and publications. There is little mention of Barghoorn's arrest by the Soviet government in 1963, except for a brief summary of the incident in a letter to Pat Briggs dated November 10, 1965.
Dates:
1938-1988
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
Joseph Barrell papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 778
Overview:
Correspondence, the manuscript for "The Piedmont Terraces of the Northern Appalachians" in various stages; manuscripts and typescripts for "The Genesis of the Earth," "Relations of Pleistocene Warping to Strength of Crust," "Significance of the Equatorial Acceleration in the Sun's Rotation," and "The Strength of the Earth's Crust" Part IX; notes; and miscellaneous items on geology originating during Barrell's service as secretary of the geological faculty at Yale University. The correspondence...
Dates:
1909-1920
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
Alan Mara Bateman papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 641
Overview:
Correspondence, field reports, memoranda, and government documents chiefly relating to Bateman's service on various government commissions, among them the Metals and Minerals Division of the Foreign Economic Administration (1942-1946), the U.S. Missions to Mexico (1942), the President's Materials Policy Commission (1951-1953). The few items from his teaching career at Yale include gradebooks for the years 1907-1955 and reports on the Sheffield Scientific School.
Dates:
1907-1968
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
William Beebe papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 907
Overview:
The papers of William Beebe consist of three manuscripts: "Celestial Mechanics" (1901-1902), and two lectures given by Beebe in 1917. One is on John Milton and the other on the organization of Yale University
Dates:
1901-1917
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
Bingham Oceanographic Laboratory, Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale University, records
Collection
Call Number: RU 552
Overview:
The records consist of correspondence and subject files documenting the operations of the Bingham Oceanographic Laboratory at Yale University. Topics include faculty and personnel, environmental issues, national biological stations and institutions, and naval reports and research.
Dates:
1927-1965
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
Boardman family papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 89
Overview:
Correspondence, diaries, account books, daybooks, legal papers, deeds, and land books of the Boardman family of New Haven and New Milford, Conn., which had extensive real estate holdings in Connecticut and the Western Reserve. Family members include William Whiting Boardman, (1794-1871) lawyer and probate judge of New Haven, Conn.; his father Elijah Boardman, (1760-1823) U.S. Senator from Connecticut who had holdings in the Connecticut Land Company and the three Ohio townships of Palmyra,...
Dates:
1770-1917
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
Bertram Borden Boltwood papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 90
Overview:
Correspondence, laboratory notebooks, lectures, and other writings of B.B. Boltwood, scientist and professor of radiochemistry at Yale, best known for his early work in the study of radiation. Of particular note is Boltwood's extended correspondence with Lord Rutherford, the father of atomic physics.
Dates:
1890-1932
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
John Shaw Boyce papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 756
Overview:
The papers consist of correspondence, reports, and research material almost exclusively devoted to John Boyce's work on wood and wood diseases. About a third of the papers relate to Boyce's work on the use of wood in airplanes during World War I.
Dates:
1918-1964
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
Stephen Henry Bronson papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 1282
Overview:
The papers consist of the diaries and letters of Stephen Henry Bronson (with typescripts) and a diary of his father Henry Bronson (with typescript). The material documents the younger Bronson's three years of scientific and medical study in Paris, in addition to his European travels, 1867-1871. Henry Bronson's diary details his European voyage, 1839-1840.
Dates:
1827-1881
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
Robert Brown papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 934
Overview:
Correspondence and legal and financial papers relating to a controversy with Yale University over a house to be constructed for Robert Brown's use as secretary of the Observatory. Included are letters from Hubert Anson Newton, William Whitman Farnam and William Kneeland Townsend. Also in the papers is correspondence concerning the Yale secret society, Scroll and Key.
Dates:
1853-1908
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
Enoch Fitch Burr papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 689
Overview:
Letters to Enoch Fitch Burr of Lyme, Conn., Yale 1839, clergyman, author, and lecturer on religion and science. The Reverend Dr. Burr was a direct descendant of Nathaniel Burr of Fairfield, Conn., a brother of Jehue Burr from Aaron Burr, the vice-president, was descended. Correspondents include William Cullen Bryant, Horace Bushnell, James Dwight Dana, William Gladstone, Mark Hopkins, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Denison Olmsted, and Theodore Dwight Woolsey. The correspondence consists mostly of...
Dates:
1842-1888
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
Harold Saxton Burr papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 1283
Overview:
The papers consist of research materials of Harold Saxton Burr relating to the electrodynamic fields of trees.
Dates:
1940-1959
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives