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New Haven (Conn.)

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 95 Collections and/or Records:

Ira Vaughan Hiscock papers

 Collection
Call Number: MS 1284
Abstract:

Correspondence, office files, research materials, and writings documenting Ira Vaughan Hiscock's role as a public health educator, author, consultant, and volunteer, primarily from 1925-1939. Papers illustrate efforts of local, state, and national social welfare agencies in dealing with social problems during the Depression. These papers are part of the Contemporary Medical Care and Health Policy Collection.

Dates: 1918-1979, bulk 1925-1939

Samuel J. Hitchcock Papers

 Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 1878
Abstract:

Papers of Samuel J. Hitchcock, 1810-1845. Includes personal papers and business papers for matters primarily taking place in New Haven, Connecticut. Personal papers document Hitchcock's private and family correspondence and finances. Business papers document Hitchcock's work with Seth Perkins Staples in the operation of their law firm Staples and Hitchcock, as well his work with the Farmington Canal Company and Hartford and New Haven Rail Road Company.

Dates: 1810-1845

James William Hook papers

 Collection
Call Number: MS 288
Abstract: Eighty-four letter books covering the professional career of James William Hook, who was president and treasurer of Geometric Tool Company of New Haven, 1923-1944; member of President Hoover's National Organization on Unemployment Relief, 1931-1933; president of the New England Council; and president and director of United Illuminating Company, 1939-1942. There are letterbooks labeled general, Geometric Tool Company, National Association of Manufacturers, New England Council, unemployment...
Dates: 1919-1953

Daniel Hubbard family papers

 Collection
Call Number: MS 970
Abstract:

Family and business letters of Daniel Hubbard, a New York City merchant, and of Bela Hubbard, a New Haven minister and his daughter Elizabeth Hubbard Pitkin, wife of Timothy Pitkin.

Dates: 1779-1846

Improved Housing Association of New Haven records

 Collection
Call Number: MS 1310
Abstract: The records, which include correspondence, financial and legal papers, checks, and printed matter, are incomplete; they begin in 1911, when the association was incorporated, and end in 1920. They consist of two separate files, one kept by the secretary and one by the treasurer, as well as some general and miscellaneous papers. The collection does not contain Schwab's records, nor De Forest's, nor the minutes of the directors' meetings. The general papers include prospectuses describing the...
Dates: 1911-1920

International Festival of Arts and Ideas records

 Collection
Call Number: MS 2021
Abstract: This collection consists of the records of the International Festival of Arts and Ideas, a New Haven, Connecticut festival, devoted to theater, dance, music, visual arts, other performance arts, and scholarly discussions. The records document the runnning and planning of the festival, and include minutes, agendas, correspondence, financial records, programs and other festival ephemera, and video recordings of festival events and training protocols. Administrative files and fundraising files...
Dates: 1988-2013

Charles Ives papers

 Collection
Call Number: MS 932
Abstract:

Correspondence, poems, orations and other writings, and miscellaneous legal papers that relate to Charles Ives and his immediate family. Some of his poems appear in Chips from the Workshop (1843). The orations and addresses concern political activities and also include notes and fragments of Isles of Summer, (1880).

Dates: 1838-1897

Richard Doughty Johnson slide collection

 Collection
Call Number: MS 1803
Abstract:

Approximately 280 slides, taken by Richard D. Johnson in 1964-1965, of various housing projects, schools, parks, streets, and buildings in New Haven, Connecticut. Includes some Yale University buildings.

Dates: 1964-1965

Albert Lemuel Judd family papers

 Collection
Call Number: MS 827
Abstract:

Diaries of Albert Lemuel Judd, Katharine Wells Judd, Ethel Gardiner Judd and notes from the diaries of Albert Dunham Judd, members of a New Britain, Connecticut family involved in manufacturing and active in community affairs. The papers also include five memo books and three miscellaneous documents.

Dates: 1861-1944

Florence Ledyard Cross Kitchelt papers

 Collection
Call Number: MS 315
Abstract: The papers consist of correspondence, memoranda, printed material, and miscellanea relating to Florence Kitchelt's work on behalf of international peace, through the Connecticut League of Nations Association and the Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies, 1924-1945. Among the topics covered in the papers are Kitchelt's peace efforts in Connecticut, and related organizational goals, struggles, and activities. These papers document only Kitchelt's work in the peace movement and do...
Dates: 1920-1947

Jonathan Knight account books and daybooks

 Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 1855
Abstract:

Manuscript account books and daybooks of Jonathan Knight listing patients of his medical practice in New Haven, Connecticut, 1813-1864.

Dates: 1813-1864

Frank Trumbull Lee papers

 Collection
Call Number: WA MSS S-4349
Abstract: 746 letters, bank deposit books, checkbooks, cash account books, a stock ledger book, receipts, circulars, brochures, prospectuses, documents, and ephemera by or relating to Colonel Frank Trumbull Lee, 1887-1901. Materials document Lee's business ventures in New Haven, Connecticut; his family life; and his time serving in the Connecticut National Guard. Included is correspondence relating to Lee's mining and real estate ventures in Tallapoosa, Georgia; Kansas City, Missouri; and Kearney,...
Dates: 1887-1901

Edward Joseph Logue papers

 Collection
Call Number: MS 959
Abstract: The papers consist of correspondence, memoranda, reports, designs, photographs, audiovisual materials, clippings, printed material, and miscellanea documenting the personal life and professional career of Edward J. Logue, lawyer, politician, and urban planner and administrator. Urban planning materials detail his activity in New Haven, Boston, and New York state. Student papers document Logue's life as a Yale University undergraduate and law student (1939-1942; 1945-1947). Copies of...
Dates: 1908-2005

Frank Logue papers

 Collection
Call Number: MS 1178
Abstract:

The papers consists of subject files, which include correspondence, maintained by Logue and his staff during his tenure as mayor of New Haven, Connecticut.

Dates: 1974-1979

Letters to Elias Loomis

 Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 2110
Abstract:

Circa 800 autograph letters, mostly signed, addressed to Elias Loomis, 1828-1889. Letters pertain chiefly to Loomis's teaching and research in astronomy and meteorology. Correspondents are primarily scientists and other scholars.

Dates: circa 1828-1889

A. Sidney Lovett papers

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Call Number: MS 1089
Abstract: Correspondence, sermons, writings, photographs, printed material and miscellanea detailing the professional career and personal life of Sidney Lovett, a clergyman and chaplain at Yale University. Lovett's activities as a minister in Boston (1919-1932), chaplain at Yale (1932-1958), member of many university organizations and committees, including the Yale Faculty Committee for Receiving Oxford and Cambridge Children and Yale-in-China, pastor of the Church of Christ in Yale, master of Pierson...
Dates: 1889-1979

Lyon Family Business Papers

 Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 1960
Abstract: Account books, journals, and waste books kept by multiple members of the Lyon family and relating to personal and professional financial or business matters in New Haven, Connecticut, 1714-1830. Among those identified as using the volumes are William Lyon (1716-1767), William Lyon (1748-1830) and business partner Jeremiah Atwater, Nathaniel Lyon (1762-1836), and William Lyon (1772-1841). Volumes dating between 1788 and 1795 document William Lyon (1748-1830) and Jeremiah Atwater's woolen...
Dates: 1714-1830

William Lyon Papers

 Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 79
Abstract:

The papers contain correspondence and personal papers documenting the family life, business activities, and travels of William Lyon. Also included is a twentieth-century biographical sketch of Lyon.

Dates: 1745-1926, bulk 1791-1833

Bayard Martin, Class of 1910, Sheffield Scientific School, photograph collection documenting life at Yale

 Collection
Call Number: RU 1128
Abstract:

A photograph album and loose photographs taken by Bayard Martin, graduate of Sheffield Scientific School, Class of 1910, documenting Yale athletics, social life, buildings, classmates, and New Haven.

Dates: 1906-1910

Maurice Emile Henri Rotival papers

 Collection
Call Number: MS 1380
Abstract:

The papers consist of reports, drawings, correspondence, photographs, and printed materials documenting the professional work, particularly city renewal planning, of Maurice Emile Henri Rotival during the years 1944-1963.

Dates: 1944-1963