Emigration and immigration
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Here are entered works on migration across national borders in modern times. Works on the movement of population within the borders of a single country are entered under Migration, Internal. Works on the spread of population, largely in prehistoric times, are entered under Human beings--Migrations. Works on the mass migrations of peoples are entered under Migrations of nations.
Found in 24 Collections and/or Records:
American Immigration Conference Board Records
Collection
Call Number: MS 614
Overview:
Correspondence, writings, printed materials, clippings, and other papers of the American Immigration Conference Board, an anti-communist organization devoted primarily to severely limiting immigration. The papers also contain materials relating to various immigration legislation during the 1930s.
Dates:
1929-1939
Bacon-Schneeloch family papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 707
Overview:
The papers consist of family correspondence, autograph albums, diaries, notebooks, financial records, photographs and memorabilia, principally of Leonard Woolsey Bacon, a physician, and of his first wife, Emma Waleska Schneeloch. The largest part of the papers is made up of Bacon's prescription books (1892-1937) containing diagnosis, prescriptions, and name, age and occupation for each patient. Also in the papers are the financial records of his practice (1907-1919) which, together with the...
Dates:
1875-1935
Beer family papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 73
Overview:
The papers consist of correspondence, writings, photographs, printed material, and other papers documenting the personal lives and professional careers of the Beer family. Extensive files of correspondence and papers for family members from the 1850s through the 1980s detail the lives and activities of such family members as William Collins Beer, a lobbyist for J.P. Morgan and Company, International Harvester Company, and the government of Italy, and a close friend of Mark Hanna; Thomas Beer, a...
Dates:
1740-1981, bulk 1827-1981
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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Beer family papers
Adolph Burnett Benson papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 76
Overview:
University professor and writer, Correspondence, writings, photographs, clippings and teaching materials largely related to Benson's career at Yale University and his work in connection with the American-Swedish community. Included in the papers is the unfinished draft of a book, Americans from Sweden, as well as articles on literary subjects.
Dates:
1920-1961
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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Adolph Burnett Benson papers
Joseph Brodsky papers
Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 613
Overview:
The Joseph Brodsky Papers document the life and work of Russian-born poet, essayist and Nobel Laureate Joseph Brodsky, with a particular emphasis on the time period of his residence in the United States (1972-1996). The papers consist of correspondence, writings, personal papers (including legal, medical and financial records), audiovisual material, teaching material, student papers, newspaper clippings and printed ephemera, spanning the years 1890-2004, with the bulk of the material dating...
Dates:
circa 1890-2004, bulk 1972-1996
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
Connecticut Miscellaneous Manuscripts Collection
Collection
Call Number: MS 149
Overview:
An artificial collection of material relating to the cities and towns of Connecticut, containing printed material, legal records, military papers, and miscellanea. Specific items include: deeds, indentures, leases, military commissions, enrollment lists, record books, and muster rolls.
Dates:
1655-1950
Maurice Rea Davie Papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 1359
Overview:
The papers consist of correspondence of Maurice Rea Davie, primarily with Albert G. Keller, writings, subject files, and photographs.
Dates:
1914-1975
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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Maurice Rea Davie Papers
Dutton Family Papers
Collection
Call Number: RG 63
Overview:
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
Flürscheim family papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 1582
Overview:
The papers consist of correspondence, diaries, financial and business records, genealogical tables, marriage and birth certificates, and photographs.
Dates:
1743-1913
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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Flürscheim family papers
Thomas Gilyard papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 241
Overview:
Diaries, a farm ledger, poems, hymns and correspondence. The diary entries cover the years 1828-1853 and are interspersed with copies of Gilyard family letters from England (1808-1818) together with fifty-five pages of recipes for dyes. Many of the diary entries concern the Methodist Church of which Gilyard was a trustee for some thirty years. The farm ledger (1835-1845) records farm activities and the sale of farm produce.
Dates:
1808-1853
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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Thomas Gilyard papers
Arthur Bliss Lane papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 5
Overview:
The papers consist of official, personal, and business correspondence, articles, speeches, clippings, recordings, photographs, and other papers of Arthur Bliss Lane, career diplomat, public servant, and lecturer. The papers reflect Lane's diplomatic career from the time he entered the service in Rome (1916), until his resignation as Ambassador to Poland (1947), and contain correspondence from international political figures. Also included are materials relating to his work on behalf of Poland,...
Dates:
1904-1957
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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Arthur Bliss Lane papers
Charles Herman Liebert papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 324
Overview:
The papers consist of ten pocket account books recording Liebert's personal accounts during his long residence in New York City, where he worked for the Singer Manufacturing Company.
Dates:
1886-1927
Charles Augustus Lindbergh papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 325
Overview:
The papers consist of correspondence; diaries; writings; childhood, school and college materials; financial, legal, and housekeeping records; reports; memoranda; drawings; maps; publications; artifacts; and memorabilia documenting the life and interests of Charles Augustus Lindbergh. The papers form the largest and most extensive collection of his personal, professional, and family papers. They document his work as a pilot, developer of commercial aviation and rocketry, bio-engineer, air force...
Dates:
1780-1999, bulk 1911-1974
Czesław Miłosz papers
Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 661
Overview:
The Czesław Miłosz Papers document the life and work of the poet, essayist and Nobel Laureate Czesław Miłosz. The papers consist of writings, correspondence, photographs, personal papers, audio material, and printed material (including newspaper clippings, printed ephemera and clandestine samizdat publications), spanning the years 1880-2000, with the bulk of the material dating from 1940 to 1989. While some writings, photographs and personal documents pre-date the Second World War, the earliest...
Dates:
1880-2000, bulk 1940-1989
Aleksis Rannit papers
Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 715
Overview:
The papers consist chiefly of subject files maintained by Rannit, dating roughly from the 1950s to the 1980s. The subject files include correspondence, writings, photographs, and printed material that document Aleksis Rannit's life and work as an art and literary critic and Curator of the Slavic and East European Collections for the Yale University Library.
Dates:
1937-1985
John Christopher Schwab family papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 434
Overview:
The papers include correspondence, diaries, notebooks, writings, wills, scrapbooks, albums, genealogical records and memorabilia of several generations of the Schwab family. Principal figures are Gustav Friedrich Schwab; his wife, Eliza Catherine Von Post Schwab; and their son, John Christopher Schwab. The papers of Gustav Friedrich Schwab include business correspondence during his presidency of the firm of Oelrichs & Co. in New York and travel diaries (1843-1846). An additional diary...
Dates:
1767-1925
The Inquiry Papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 8
Overview:
Correspondence, organizational records, reports containing historical and statistical material, maps, and other papers of The Inquiry, a group of experts assembled at the request of President Wilson to collect and collate data in preparation for a peace conference following World War I. Members of The Inquiry included Edward House, Sidney Mezes, Isaiah Bowman, Charles Seymour, David H. Miller, Walter Lippmann, James T. Shotwell, and Clive Day.
Dates:
1915-1921
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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The Inquiry Papers
United States War Relocation Authority. Poston, Arizona Relocation Center collection
Collection
Call Number: MS 803
Overview:
Scrapbooks, record books, and memorabilia chiefly relating to the educational and library activities at the Poston Relocation Center, an American concentration camp. Nine scrapbooks made and bound by the students cover topics of academic study as well as their memoirs documenting their accounts of being incarcerated. A printed yearbook is also included.
Dates:
1942-1945
Tomas Venclova papers
Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 714
Overview:
The Tomas Venclova Papers document the life and work of Lithuanian poet, scholar and professor Tomas Venclova. Correspondence documents Venclova's relationships with Lithuanian and Soviet literary figures and political dissidents, including letters from Joseph Brodsky and Czes?aw Mi?osz. Venclova's personal life and family relationships are also documented in the correspondence. Venclova's work as a poet, scholar, and translator is documented in drafts of writings that include holograph drafts...
Dates:
1909-2018, bulk 1959-2010