College buildings
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 38 Collections and/or Records:
Astronomical Observatory, Yale University, records
Collection
Call Number: RU 416
Overview:
The records consist of correspondence, letter books, financial papers, reports, and recommendations documenting the period of planning and construction of the Astronomical Observatory, also known as the Yale University Observatory. Notable contributors to the records include Leonard Waldo, astronomer in charge of the Horological Bureau of the Observatory; Robert Brown, secretary of the Board of Managers; and Hubert A. Newton, director of the observatory.
Dates:
1874-1890
Buildings constructed for Yale University's bicentennial photographs
Collection
Call Number: RU 697
Overview:
The materials consist of photographs of buildings constructed for the Yale bicentennial. The bulk of the collection documents the University Dining Hall and Woolsey Hall. One photograph documents construction in 1901.
Dates:
circa 1901-1963
Committee on the Architectural Plan, Yale University Corporation, records
Collection
Call Number: RU 30
Overview:
The records consist of correspondence, blueprints and tables, clippings, and publications maintained by John V. Farwell as chairman of the Committee on the Architectural Plan.
Dates:
1913-1931
Connecticut Hall, Yale University, photographs
Collection
Call Number: RU 700
Overview:
The materials contain photographs, slides, and pictures of Connecticut Hall at Yale, which was known as South Middle College from 1882 to 1905. Included are photographs of the renovation work completed in 1953.
Dates:
1753-2000
De Silva Photographers photographs of Yale and New Haven
Collection
Call Number: RU 650
Overview:
The materials consist of photographs of Yale and New Haven, Connecticut taken by De Silva Photographers.
Dates:
circa 1880-1889
Department of Physics, Yale University, records
Collection
Call Number: RU 417
Overview:
The records consist of reports and administrative files of the Yale Department of Physics documenting the Wright Nuclear Structure Laboratory and the construction of the Sloane Physics Laboratory. Also included is a library circulation book. Accession 2014-A-0074 contains the records of David Allan Bromley, who was Associate Director of the Heavy Ion Accelerator Lab from 1960 to 1963. He was the founder, and from 1963 to 1989, the Director, of Yale's A. W. Wright Nuclear Structure Lab. From...
Dates:
circa 1910-2005
Development Office, School of Medicine, Yale University, records
Collection
Call Number: RU 452
Overview:
The records consist of subject files, records on building dedications, printed material, and policies and procedures documenting the Development Office of the Yale School of Medicine. Also included are correspondence, vita, and an obituary of George Thomas Pack instructor of pharmacology and toxicology (1921-1923) and assistant professor of surgery (1933-1940).
Dates:
1968-1991
Yale University long-range building plan
Collection
Call Number: RU 556
Overview:
The materials consist of notes, maps, letters, studies, and samples documenting the buildings and grounds of the Yale campus with regard to long range planning.
Dates:
1954-1957
Charles A. Gulliver photographs of Yale and New Haven
Collection
Call Number: RU 642
Overview:
The materials consist of photographs of Yale and New Haven, Connecticut in the late nineteenth-century. Included are views of various student rooms, academic buildings, and well-known university and New Haven scenes. Some photographs are of other institutions, including Princeton, Dartmouth, Harvard, and Vassar. Also inclued is a photograph of Charles A. Gulliver's college book store on Chapel Street.
Dates:
1870-1890
Henry Hunn, Class of 1914, Sheffield Scientific School, Yale University, photograph collection documenting life at Yale and in New Haven
Collection
Call Number: RU 634
Overview:
The materials consist of photographs of various scenes of Yale and New Haven buildings and grounds. Subjects include interior views of classrooms, the gymnasium, and the library; exterior views of fraternities; and photographs of Grove Street Cemetery, as well as other prominent Yale and New Haven, Connecticut landmarks.
Dates:
circa 1874
Kingsley-Blake House, Yale University, records documenting its removal
Collection
Call Number: RU 873
Overview:
The records consist of an indexed videorecording and photographs of the Kingsley-Blake House (88 Trumbull Street) at Yale prior to its removal. Included are records concerning its removal from the Yale campus to the Briarcliff Manor-Scarborough Historical Society of New York.
Dates:
1997-2001
Wesley Needham photographic slides of Yale University
Collection
Call Number: RU 1038
Overview:
The records consist of 35 mm color photographic slides documenting Yale University buildings, particularly Sterling Memorial Library. Includes interior views and architectural details.
Dates:
1978
Office of Facilities, Yale University, survey of buildings
Collection
Call Number: RU 357
Overview:
The records consist of textual and photographic documentation from the Yale Facilities Office concerning a 1968 survey of Yale campus buildings.
Dates:
1968
Pach Brothers photographs of Yale and New Haven
Collection
Call Number: RU 644
Overview:
The collection is comprised of photographs of various Yale University academic buildings and New Haven, Connecticut scenes. The photographs were taken by Pach Brothers, the official university photographers for many of the late nineteenth-century Yale class albums.
Dates:
circa 1885
Karl Parrish, Class of 1934, School of Engineering, Yale University, scrapbooks
Collection
Call Number: RU 338
Overview:
The material consists of scrapbooks of Karl Parrish, Class of 1934, School of Engineering, Yale University, documenting the Yale campus and downtown New Haven, Connecticut. The scapbooks contain photographs, newsclippings, and a critique advocating the "greening" of Yale campus with the conversion of streets to walkways.
Dates:
1989-1994
Fordham W. R. Petersen Jr., Class of 1957, School of Art and Architecture, Yale University, photographs documenting Yale
Collection
Call Number: RU 641
Overview:
The materials consist of photographs of Yale and New Haven, Connecticut taken by Fordham W. R. Petersen, Yale School of Art and Architecture, Class of 1957 (non-graduate).
Dates:
circa 1957
M. Paul Roche lithographs of Yale University
Collection
Call Number: RU 643
Overview:
The collection consists of six M. Paul Roche lithographs, from a series of eight, of Yale buildings and two advertisements for them. Included are the following lithographs: [No. 1] The High Street entrance to the Sterling Memorial Library; [No. 2] Harkness Memorial Gateway from Branford Court; [No. 3] Vanderbilt Gateway from the college campus; [No. 4] The Great Hall of Sterling Memorial Library; [No. 6] Harkness Tower; and [No. 7] Wrexham Tower. Also in the collection are thirteen original...
Dates:
1932
Sterling Memorial Library, motion pictures
Collection
Call Number: RU 376
Overview:
The motion pictures document the construction of Sterling Memorial Library, Yale University, and the procession of books and move of the library from the Old Library (now Dwight Hall) to Sterling Memorial Library.
Dates:
1928-1932
Sterling Memorial Library, Yale University, photographs
Collection
Call Number: RU 696
Overview:
The materials consist of photographs and pictures of Sterling Memorial Library at Yale. Includes views of interiors, exteriors, decoration, and construction.
Dates:
1927-2018
Sterling Memorial Library, Yale University, photographs of windows
Collection
Call Number: RU 392
Overview:
The materials consist of photographs documenting the decorative windows in the Sterling Memorial Library at Yale, with an emphasis on the main reading room and the stack tower.
Dates:
1995-1998