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Bidwell family papers

 Collection
Call Number: MS 79
Abstract:

The papers consist of correspondence, writings, legal and financial documents, and other papers of six generations of Bidwell family members. Principal figures include Barnabas Bidwell (1763-1833), lawyer and politician in Massachusetts and Kingston, Ontario; and his son, Marshall Spring Bidwell (1799-1872), lawyer and politician in Kingston and New York City.

Dates: 1750-1952, bulk 1782-1915

Mary Loughlin Bierman papers

 Collection
Call Number: MS 1628
Abstract:

The papers consist of printed material and photographs relating to a trip made by Mary Loughlin (later Bierman) to Germany in 1946 in her capacity as a staff member of the Office of the Quartermaster General, U.S. Loughlin gathered data on civilian supply problems, such as displaced persons' requirements, German import requirements, rationing systems, caloric evaluations, price controls, distribution and stock control procedures, population statistics, fiscal budgets, and related topics.

Dates: 1946-1947

Bingham family papers

 Collection
Call Number: MS 81
Abstract: The papers consist of correspondence, diaries, journals, manuscripts, notebooks, sermons, writings, two books with manuscript notes, legal and financial records, photographs, printed material and miscellanea documenting the personal lives and professional careers of four generations of the Bingham family. The papers include material documenting Hiram Bingham (1789-1869) and his missionary work in Hawaii; Hiram Bingham (1831-1908) and his missionary work in the Gilbert Islands, his literary...
Dates: 1811-1974

Bingham Oceanographic Laboratory, Yale University, photographs

 Collection
Call Number: RU 626
Abstract:

The materials consist of photographs documenting the construction of Bingham Oceanographic Laboratory at Yale, which forms the west wing of the Peabody Museum of Natural History.

Dates: 1958-1959

Bishop family papers

 Collection
Call Number: MS 839
Abstract:

Financial and legal papers of the Bishop family of Connecticut. The largest part of the papers consists of deeds for properties in New Haven, East Haven, Fair Haven, Branford, Hamden and Guilford, Connecticut. Also included are manifests for slaves shipped from New Haven to Savannah, Charleston and Norfolk (1822-1824). The major figures are Elias Bradley Bishop of New Haven and Jonathan Bishop Sr. and Jr. of Guilford.

Dates: 1793-1883

Blake family papers

 Collection
Call Number: MS 85
Abstract: The papers consist of correspondence, financial papers, printed material, photographs, and miscellanea of the Blake family of New Haven, Connecticut. Several generations of family members are represented in the papers, including Eli Whitney, Eli Whitney Blake (1795-1886), Eli Whitney Blake (1836-1895), Henry Taylor Blake (1828-1922), and William Phipps Blake (1826-). Additional family members represented in the papers include: Charles Thompson Blake, Edward Foster Blake, James Pierrepont...
Dates: 1773-1921

Chester Ittner Bliss papers

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Call Number: MS 1165
Abstract:

The Chester Ittner Bliss Papers comprise writings and research materials, primarily in the field of biometry. The papers also include lecture notes, committee files, and printed matter.

Dates: 1885-1998, bulk 1918-1976

Board of Permanent Officers, Yale College, records

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Call Number: RU 542
Abstract:

The records consist of minutes, reports, and memoranda documenting the activities and operations of the Yale College Board of Permanent Officers. Also included are materials on faculty appointments for Yale College and the graduate schools.

Dates: 1871-1972

Bostwick Company records

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Call Number: MS 625
Abstract:

The records consist of correspondence from the business records of William Bostwick (1796-1863), merchant of Augusta, Georgia, and New Haven, Connecticut, who dealt primarily in cotton. While most of the letters are on business, there are personal letters (1854, 1856) from Benjamin Silliman, Noah Porter, James Browning Miles, and Willis Strong Colton. The records also include sixty-two account books.

Dates: 1819-1856

John Boswell papers

 Collection
Call Number: MS 1974
Abstract: The papers primarily consist of correspondence, lectures, research notes, writings (academic and fiction), biographical records, subject files, and memorabilia (including awards and popular press writings about Boswell). The papers document Boswell's personal life, from childhood to adulthood, as well as his professional life as an openly gay professor of history at Yale and pioneering author of two revisionist histories documenting the relationship between gay people and Christianity in the...
Dates: 1947-2004

Botswana collection

 Collection
Call Number: MS 1504
Abstract:

The collection consists of printed material relating to political and social conditions, and development in Botswana.

Dates: 1898, 1937-2009

Josephine and Antonio Bouzas papers

 Collection
Call Number: MS 2112
Abstract:

The Josephine and Antonio Bouzas papers contain photographs, legal documents, and correspondence documenting the history of the Josephine and Antonio Bouzas family and their experiences during the Spanish Civil War.

Dates: 1919-2019

Chester Bowles papers

 Collection
Call Number: MS 628
Abstract:

The papers consist of correspondence, speeches, writings, photographs, clippings, oral history interviews, and other material documenting the personal life and professional career of Chester Bowles. Bowles' political career in Connecticut and his service as ambassador to India are detailed, as is his work as a foreign policy advisor, chairman of the Democratic Platform Committee at the 1960 national convention, and author and speaker on political affairs.

Dates: 1924-1982

Dan Beach and Cornelius Beach Bradley papers

 Collection
Call Number: MS 97
Abstract: Professional papers of Dan Beach Bradley and his son, Cornelius Beach Bradley, both missionaries to Thailand (then Siam) in the nineteenth century. The papers of Dan Beach Bradley consist of four manuscript volumes of a Siamo-English dictionary, articles and notes on the history and culture of Siam, including a list (copy) by the king of Siam of his 61 children in 1852, as well as copies of essays on the Siamese language in both English and Siamese by the king. A number of unidentified...
Dates: 1801-1921

Brazil and Portugal collection

 Collection
Call Number: MS 1781
Abstract:

A collection of correspondence; writings; and published illustrated materials from and about Brazil related to Imperial Brazil, religious, economic, and geographic concerns. There is one item under the heading Portugal: a letter of condolence upon the death of a distant relative of Vasco de Gama.

Dates: 1639-1907

Gregory Breit papers

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Call Number: MS 1465
Abstract:

The papers consist of personal and professional correspondence, diaries, reports, data files, writings, printed material, and topical files relating to Gregory Breit's research and teaching career. There are also photographs, biographical information, and files related to his father's design of an anti-submarine attack device in the late 1910s.

Dates: 1917-1991

William Henry Brewer papers

 Collection
Call Number: MS 100
Abstract: Correspondence, diaries, notebooks, lectures, articles, essays, genealogical materials, photographs and other papers of William Henry Brewer, scientist, teacher, and writer.The collection spans Brewer's entire career including his student days at the Yale Analytical Laboratory, his work with the California State Geological Survey, his various teaching positions in California, New York and at Yale and all his other many and varied activities. Of special and specific interest are Brewer's...
Dates: 1830-1927

Dorothy Wildes Bridgwater papers

 Collection
Call Number: MS 1414
Abstract:

The papers consist of correspondence and research materials compiled by Dorothy Bridgwater, who investigated the family history of Charles Lindbergh.

Dates: 1955-1969

British East India Company records

 Collection
Call Number: MS 925
Abstract:

Reports of agents of the East India Company in Mahi Kantha in Gujarat (western India) and dispatches from East India officials in Bombay sent to London. The reports provide a history of the Mahi Kantha before 1821 and describe political events there through 1839. The documents are all copies.

Dates: 1821-1853, bulk 1821-1839

Thomas S. Bronson, Class of 1886, Sheffield Scientific School, photograph collection documenting life at Yale

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Call Number: RU 649
Abstract:

The materials consist of photographs of Yale and New Haven. Included in the collection are building, sports, circus, and beach scenes. Many of these photographs were used in This Was Connecticut: Images of a Vanished World (1977).

Dates: Circa 1900