Temperance
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 10 Collections and/or Records:
Gerald H. Beard Papers
Collection
Call Number: RG 65
Abstract:
Gerald Hamilton Beard was born in Hammersmith, England in 1862. He received the B.A., B.D. and Ph.D. degrees from Yale. He was a Congregational clergyman with pastorates in Norwalk and Bridgeport, Connecticut and Burlington, Vermont during the years 1892-1921. He was an Alumni Lecturer at Yale Divinity School in 1910. He died in 1921. Of particular interest in the collection is the fairly complete file of sermons and addresses delivered during the period 1888-1921. These sermons, in...
Dates:
1866-1938
Found in:
Yale Divinity Library
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Gerald H. Beard Papers
Milton Conover papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 807
Abstract:
Correspondence, writings, teaching materials, clippings, photographs and memorabilia reflecting Conover's activities as a political science professor, an author, a temperance and prohibition advocate and a 1932 candidate for United States Senator as an Independent Republican in Connecticut.His correspondents include close family members and colleagues at the Brookings Institution in Washington, Yale University and Dickinson College, as well as political scientists on other campuses. The...
Dates:
1898-1936
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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Milton Conover papers
Harry Croswell Papers
Collection
Call Number: RG 258
Abstract:
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
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Harry Croswell Papers
Dutton Family Papers
Collection
Call Number: RG 63
Abstract:
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
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Dutton Family Papers
Gove family papers
Collection
Call Number: WA MSS S-1302
Abstract:
The papers contain correspondence and other papers documenting Gove family life and the experiences of Josiah E. Gove in gold rush California.
Dates:
1788-1870, 1842-1859, bulk 1842-1859
Selden Huntington family papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 1064
Abstract:
Correspondence, diaries, and financial and legal papers of three generations of the Selden Huntington family of Old Lyme and Middlesex County, Connecticut. The papers document Selden Huntington's business fortunes in East Coast shipping and land speculation in Maine, his relationship with his son Joseph Selden, breaking up of his marriage to his second wife Jeanette Stewart, and social and religious activities in the community. Joseph Selden Huntington's letters record his years at school in...
Dates:
1762-1914
Ernst Jäckh papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 467
Abstract:
The papers consist of correspondence, reports, and other material relating to political and diplomatic affairs in Turkey and the Middle East from 1908 to 1921, particularly in relation to interests of the German Foreign Office in that area. Papers of the naval attache Hans Humann form the bulk of the material. Included are his correspondence with Ernst Jäckh (1911-1918) and reports from Constantinople (1914-1916), many in the form of telegrams and extracts of official correspondence, to the...
Dates:
1908-1921
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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Ernst Jäckh papers
Letter to Eva Whyte, 1891 October 2
Item — 1: Series 1 [Barcode: 39002100397224], Folder: 67
Call Number: MSS 19 , Series I
Scope and Contents:
Letter from May McCormick addressed from St. Matthews Vicarage. Thanks Eva for sending her an illustrated book for her birthday. Tells her that the Protestant Congress will be held in Brighton on October 14th and that several of the speakers will stay at their home. Ends the letter because she is going to a Temperance lecture by Mr. (Richard?) Coad.
Dates:
1891 October 2
Whyte Family Correspondence
Collection
Call Number: MSS 19
Abstract:
The collection comprises correspondence sent to Eva, Lizzie Hester, and Sylvie Whyte by family and friends in the 1880s and 1890s, and provides insight into the lives of adolescent girls growing up in Victorian England in the fashionable Midlands town of Malvern, and their travels abroad.
Dates:
1880-1892
James Lockwood Wright papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 1078
Abstract:
The papers consist of eleven volumes of a journal kept by Wright from his first years at Yale College in 1828. While there he reports on a lecture by Elias Boudinot on behalf of the Cherokee nation and various temperance and abolition activities. The journals are chiefly devoted to religious meditations and describe the various revival movements of his era and his evangelical work with black residents of New Haven. He also records various aspects of his personal life including five mental...
Dates:
1828-1858
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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James Lockwood Wright papers