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Samuel Rogers Andrew, secretary of Yale College, correspondence

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Call Number: RU 1027
Overview: The records consist of correspondence maintained by Samuel Rogers Andrew, Yale Secretary, regarding honorary degree candidates and a request for admittance.
Dates: 1847-1854

Architectural drawings and maps of Yale University buildings and grounds

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Call Number: RU 1
Overview: The materials consist of design, preliminary, working, shop, and "as built" architectural drawings and maps of buildings and grounds owned or used by Yale University. The drawings range from original concepts to full scale details of equipment and ornamentation. The media vary from water colors, pen and ink sketches, pencil on tracing paper drawings to blueprints and photostats.
Dates: circa 1728-2002

Charles Astor Bristed notebooks and other material

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Call Number: YCAL MSS 462
Overview: The collection contains seventeen notebooks from Bristed's undergraduate and graduate studies at Yale and Cambridge universities from the late 1830s to mid 1840s, chiefly on classical authors and texts, including translations, and mathematics, as well as a catalog of his books, several letters, a diary, a receipt, and two printed books, including Bristed's Anacreontics, published under the pseudonym Carl Benson.
Dates: 1838-1888

Calliopean Society, Yale College, records

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Call Number: RU 857
Overview: The records consist of correspondence, constitution, meeting minutes, library records, reports, income and expense reports, orations, and exhibition records documenting the activities and operations of the Calliopean Society.
Dates: 1819-1855

Chi Delta Theta, Yale College, records

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Call Number: RU 566
Overview: The materials consist of the 1821 constitution of the Chi Delta Theta fraternity of Yale College.
Dates: 1821

Thomas Clap, president of Yale College, records

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Call Number: RU 130
Overview: The records consist of correspondence, memoirs, notes, observations, and other writings of Thomas Clap concerning Yale College.
Dates: circa 1720-1765

Class of 1802, Yale College, class lists

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Call Number: RU 498
Overview: The material consists of class lists for the Yale College Class of 1802.
Dates: 1801

Class of 1861, Yale College, record

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Call Number: RU 395
Overview: The records consist of class songs of the Yale College Class of 1861.
Dates: 1861

Class of 1880, Yale College, Records

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Call Number: RU 352
Overview: The materials consist of a register documenting reunions of alumni from the Yale College Class of 1880 and signed petitions to the Yale Corporation to grant George W. Butts the degree of bachelor of arts.
Dates: 1883-1930

Clubs, societies, and organizations at Yale records

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Call Number: RU 56
Overview: The records consist of minutes of meetings, membership lists, correspondence, constitutions and bylaws, scrapbooks, library records, financial and business records, programs and invitations, articles and news clippings, reports, songbooks, notices, newsletters, and related materials documenting the organization, activities, and operations of various student, faculty, and staff organizations, and other Yale community groups.
Dates: circa 1768-2022

Committee on Commemorating the Service of Yale Men in the Civil War, Yale College, records

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Call Number: RU 528
Overview: The records consist of meeting minutes and subscription lists of the Committee on Commemorating the Service of Yale Men in the Civil War.
Dates: 1865

Correspondence of U.S. Civil War soldiers from Yale College

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Call Number: RU 84
Overview: The records consist of correspondence written by Civil War soldiers from Yale College.
Dates: 1855-1865

Letters to Jeremiah Day

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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

Early Yale documents collection

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Call Number: RU 1154
Summary: Correspondence, minutes, financial records, charters and official acts, inventories of books and other property, and other papers documenting the founding and early history of Yale College. Documents include the original charter of the Collegiate School; letters by and to the first trustees of the school; and the 1718 inventory of books donated to the school by Elihu Yale.
Dates: 1700-1902

Faculty of Yale College records

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Call Number: RU 541
Overview: The records consist of memoranda and reports documenting the activities and operations of the Faculty of Yale College. Included are minutes from meetings of the faculty and executive committee, committee reports, attendance books, committee membership lists, and financial papers.
Dates: 1751-1994

Alexander Metcalf Fisher Papers

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Call Number: GEN MSS 1473
Overview: The Alexander Metcalf Fisher papers consist of correspondence, scientific and personal writings, school notes, eulogies, and other material by or about the Yale College student (Class of 1813) and Yale professor. Drafts and calculations for articles on mathematics, physics, astronomy, and other subjects published between 1817 and 1822, as well as scripts for forty lectures in natural philosophy, illustrate Fisher’s academic career in the context of contemporary scientific learning. Documenting...
Dates: 1803-1898, bulk 1809-1822, 1803-1898, bulk 1809-1822

Ravi D. Goel collection on Yale

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Call Number: RU 1081
Overview: The collection consist of letters, postcards, photograph albums, and various printed ephemera documenting Yale affiliated individuals and organizations collected by Ravi D. Goel.
Dates: 1714-2020

Elizur Goodrich, Secretary of the Yale Corporation, correspondence

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Call Number: RU 1026
Overview: The records consist of correspondence maintained by Elizur Goodrich, Yale Secretary, regarding honorary degree candidates.
Dates: 1825-1846

James Abraham Hillhouse papers

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Call Number: YCAL MSS 444
Overview: The James Abraham Hillhouse Papers contain writings and personal papers documenting the literary activities of a member of the prominent New Haven Hillhouse family during the early-to-mid nineteenth century. Writings consist of drafts of plays, essays, poems, and other genres, including notebooks dating from Hillhouse's days as a student at Yale College, covering subjects such as the sermons of Yale President Timothy Dwight and the philosophical lectures of professor Jeremiah Day, who succeeded...
Dates: 1804-1844

Images of Yale individuals

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Call Number: RU 684
Overview: The materials consists of pictures of individuals associated with Yale, including students, faculty, officers, and visitors. Includes portrait photographs, and prints of drawings and paintings.
Dates: circa 1750-2001