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David Hale Clement papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 1816
Overview:
The collection includes Nazi memorabilia brought back from the Dachau concentration camp by David Clement, as well as printed matter and copies of correspondence that relate Clement's experiences treating typhus in Dachau.
Dates:
1943-1995, bulk 1943-1945
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
Harry William Cofrances papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 818
Overview:
Correspondence, diary and memorabilia. Most of the correspondence relates to Cofrances' efforts in 1926 to win a scholarship offered by the Italy America Society. Also in the correspondence are two notes from Rudy Vallée. His army service in San Francisco (1942-1945) is documented by a diary and memorabilia.
Dates:
1913-1969
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies (Hartford and Connecticut Chapters) papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 66
Overview:
Correspondence, speeches, writings, subject files, printed matter, and clippings of the Hartford and Connecticut chapters of the CDAAA, an anti-isolationist organization formed for the purpose of influencing public opinion and lobbying in favor of U.S. assistance to the Allied powers. The principal figures of this organization represented in the collection are Walter E. Batterson, Eleanor Taft Tilton, and H. M. Dadourian. There is also material relating to John Danaher and the Danaher-McMahon...
Dates:
1939-1944
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
Albert Godfrey Conrad papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 1306
Overview:
The papers consist of office files from the first quarter-century of Albert G. Conrad's career as an instructor of electrical engineering at Yale and an autobiographical memoir. Materials include correspondence, writings, printed matter, photographs, and memorabilia, the latter including drawings, blueprints, charts, and a record of a speech by Conrad. The collection is especially rich in materials concerning life at Yale during World War II. The bulk of the papers concerns the Department of...
Dates:
1916-1993
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
Julien Cornell papers relating to Ezra Pound
Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 176
Overview:
The collection contains correspondence and professional files relating to Cornell's representation of Ezra Pound in the initial stages of the U.S. government's case against him for treason. In addition to Ezra and Dorothy Pound, correspondents include T. S. Eliot, Ernest Hemingway, James Laughlin, Arthur Moore, Omar Pound, Mary de Rachewiltz, and Olga Rudge. Topics include Pound's physical and mental condition in 1945-46; the treason charge against him; the efforts to have him declared mentally...
Dates:
1945-1965
Correspondence of World War II servicemen from Silliman College, Yale University
Collection
Call Number: RU 85
Overview:
The records consist of correspondence from World War II servicemen from Silliman College (Yale) to the master of the college, F. S. C. Northrop, and his wife. Also included are an address book and miscellaneous printed materials documenting wartime activities of Yale servicemen.
Dates:
1942-1946
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
Sumner McKnight Crosby papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 1144
Overview:
Correspondence, minutes of meetings, and reports documenting Crosby's Yale-related work, and his service on various commissions on the arts outside of Yale. The papers record his activities as chairman of the History of Art Department (1947-1953, 1962-1965), as advisor to the Audio-Visual Center, and as curator of Medieval Art at the Yale Art Gallery. His membership on commissions to preserve works of art damaged in World War II, and to foster international exchange programs in the arts is...
Dates:
1937-1977
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
Mina Curtiss Collection
Collection
Call Number: MS 1206
Overview:
The original accession consists of original and typed copies of letters sent home by American servicemen from various training camps in the United States and from overseas campaigns during World War II, many of which Mina Curtiss used for her 1944 book, Letters Home. The addition consists of Henry T. Curtiss papers and photographs. There are a diary and book relating to Curtiss's 1910 trip to Europe on the S.S. Arabic, which...
Dates:
1910-1945
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
Reuben L. and Marcionella V. Curtiss papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 853
Overview:
Correspondence between Reuben L. and Marcionella V. Curtiss during World War II when each was serving in the United States Army make up the bulk of the papers. Reuben L. Curtiss's letters are sent from various parts of the United States, Africa, India, and China. Marcionella V. Curtiss's letters reflect her service in Australia, New Guinea and the Philippine Islands. There is also a diary kept by Reuben L. Curtiss (1944-1945), and a biographical sketch written by Marcionella V. Curtiss in 1979.
Dates:
1942-1979
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
Richard W. Cutler papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 1881
Overview:
The Richard W. Cutler papers, spanning the years 1944-2005, document Cutler's employment with the Office of Strategic Services (forerunner of the Central Intelligence Agency) during the Second World War and the immediate postwar period. They include correspondence, photographs, and other papers related to Cutler's espionage career, as well as his published memoirs, Counterspy: Memoirs of Counterintelligence Officer in World War II and the Cold War (2004).
Dates:
1944-2005
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
John Anthony Danaher papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 165
Overview:
The papers consist primarily of John A. Danaher's senatorial files and include political and constituent correspondence, speeches, background material, and copies of legislation. The files document Danaher's service on the Judiciary, Finance, and Banking and Currency Committees during the 76th-78th Congresses, and highlight his efforts to prevent American involvement in World War II, his study of post-war foreign policy aims, and his concerns over domestic liberties during wartime. The papers...
Dates:
1900-1982, bulk 1938-1953
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
Davenport family papers
Collection
Call Number: WA MSS S-3644
Overview:
The collection documents, primarily through correspondence, the Evita and Levi B. Davenport family. It includes 420 autograph and typescript letters, signed, addressed to members of the Davenport family, 1907-1964, undated. Many of the letters are between Evita Davenport and her husband, Levi B. Davenport, her mother, Eva M. Rait, and her son, Lee Davenport, Jr. Matters discussed primarily focus on Evita Davenport's family and social life in Minneapolis, Minnesota; Goldfield, Nevada; and San...
Dates:
1848-1975, bulk 1907-1953
William Adams Delano papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 178
Overview:
The papers consist almost entirely of social and professional correspondence. They also include an unpublished autobiography, The Reminiscences of William Adams Delano; printed matter; and a drawing made for the 46th anniversary of The Record. Much of the personal correspondence concerns Delano's membership in various New York clubs and his classmates in the Yale College class of 1895. His professional correspondence relates in part to important commissions, among them his work on the White...
Dates:
1902-1960, bulk 1939-1960
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
Department of Health, Division of Student Mental Hygiene, Yale University, records
Collection
Call Number: RU 109
Overview:
The records consist of administrative records, correspondence, conference and committee proceedings, drafts of articles, financial records, personnel records, research files, reports, subject files, and statistical files documenting the activities and projects of the Division of Student Mental Hygiene, Department of University Health, Yale University. Among the projects documented are the "Survey of Mental Health Services in Colleges" by psychiatrist Alice F. Raymond, which studied the state of...
Dates:
1926-1969
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
Lawrence M. DiFilippo, Class of 1938, Yale College, letters concerning his experiences in World War II
Collection
Call Number: RU 334
Overview:
The materials consists of the letters of Lawrence M. DiFilippo (Yale 1938) to Ellsworth Mason, his roommate in Saybrook College at Yale. The letters document DiFilippo's experiences of the Japanese invasion of the Philippines during World War II.
Dates:
1941
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
Leonard W. Doob papers relating to "Ezra Pound Speaking"
Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 1506
Scope and Contents:
The collection contains background materials, research notes, drafts, and galleys relating to psychologist Leonard W. Doob's work as editor of "Ezra Pound Speaking": Radio Speeches of World War II. The subject of the book is American poet Ezra Pound's collaboration with Rome Radio in Italy from 1940 to 1943, in which Pound created and broadcast fascist propaganda expressing anti-Semitism and criticism of the United States and the United Kingdom. His...
Dates:
1969-1978
Donald Chase Downes Papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 1453
Overview:
The papers consist of correspondence, topical files, personal papers, and manuscripts which document the life of Donald Chase Downes during the early war years and after World War II. The papers highlight Downes's literary work and his research on the case of German General Anton Dostler. Also included in the papers is a copy of Peter Tompkins's journal of his life as a spy in Rome between 1942 and 1944.
Dates:
1909-1979, bulk 1945-1979
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
Exiles Film Project records
Collection
Call Number: MS 1734
Overview:
The records consist of interviews, interview transcripts, editing and production records, and film footage created during the making of the film, The Exiles. The film, written by Richard Kaplan and Lou Potter, and produced by Richard Kaplan Productions, was released in 1989. Its focus is the European artists, scholars, and intellectuals, mostly Jewish, who escaped totalitarianism and emigrated to America before and during World War II. The film...
Dates:
1984-1989
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
Faculty Committee on Receiving Oxford and Cambridge Children, Yale University, records
Collection
Call Number: RU 197
Overview:
The records consist of correspondence, reports, financial papers, memoranda, sponsor forms, and case files on individual guests documenting the activities and operations of the Faculty Committee on Receiving Oxford and Cambridge Children.
Dates:
1971-1976
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
Isidore Sydney Falk papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 1039
Overview:
The papers consist of correspondence, professional files, research materials, writings, personal papers, and printed matter documenting Isidore Falk's career as an advocate of national health insurance and other programs related to public health. Of particular significance are the materials from his years with the Social Security Board (1936-1954), which document the campaign for government supported health insurance in the United States. Falk conducted public health and medical care surveys...
Dates:
1918-1984
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives