Maps

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The island of Labuan was taken possession by the British in 1846, and proposed as a British base against piracy in the South China Sea. It became a crown colony in 1848. Porcher indicates that the island’s most important product was coal, and describes at length the island’s position, crops, cultivation and harbor (diary 20-28). He also includes a detailed map of Labuan.

Scope and Contents: The collection comprises thirteen manuscript volumes, each of which contains numerous illustrations as well as transcriptions of letters originally composed while Forbes was in India, with a particular concentration on the natural history of India. The manuscript was finished in 1800, although most of the drawings are those done at the time of the voyage, circa 1765-1776. Volume 1 includes a presentation page, dated 11 April 1800, in which Forbes gives the set to his daughter, Elizabeth...

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The archives of Thomas W. Amsden including maps, field notes and photographs. These focus on his 1947 Yale dissertation, "Stratigraphy and paleontology of the Brownsport Silurian of western Tennessee."

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Archives of the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History.

Abstract: Published articles and manuscript maps created by John Neilson Barry, circa 1912-1944. Articles have been handbound by Barry and include his manuscript and typescript annotations as well as his illustrated maps of Oregon, Washington, and Idaho. Materials pertain to the histories of Oregon and Washington with a focus on expeditions through the Pacific Northwest and along the Columbia River, specifically the Astor Expedition (1810-1813), Lewis and Clark Expedition (1804-1806), and John...

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The papers document the late nineteenth and early twentieth-century historiography of General George Armstrong Custer and the Little Big Horn Battle. The collection contains research material consisting of correspondence, notes, writings, photoprints and maps. There is some original nineteenth centry material related to Custer, in particular the correspondence of Edward Settle Godfrey, but most of the papers are reproductions of original primary material.

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The archives of Charles Emerson Beecher including illustrations, catalogs, notes and locality information encompassing his career at Yale, and focusing on his work with fossil invertebrates.

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The archives of Wendell Clark Bennett, accumulated through his time at Yale.

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The archives of Hiram Bingham III, accumulated during his time at Yale.

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The archives of Frederick A. Braun including personal collection notes, his original catalog, and information regarding the contents and sale of his collection to Yale.

Scope and Contents: The archive comprises original manuscript material concerning the travels of James Bruce of Kinnaird in North Africa and Ethiopia, from 1762 to 1774. Bruce (1730-1794) was originally posted as British consul-general at Algiers, though his diplomatic service concluded in 1765. Over the next 10 years, Bruce traveled in North Africa to document the antiquities, flora, and fauna of the region. Bruce then traveled to Ethiopia to document the source of the Nile. The bulk of material concerns...

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The archives of Michael D. Coe, accumulated during his time at Yale.

Scope and Contents: Holograph diary, labelled: “E.A. Porcher. Notes on Ports Visited in H.M.S. CLEOPATRA, September 1851 – circa 1853”. Includes the following small pen and ink drawings: “purchase for hauling vessels up at Jardine’s slip” (page 7), chart (18), map of Labuan (20), diagram (25), 2 sketches (26), sketch of a lighthouse (45) and a map of Amoy (55).Porcher provides general descriptions of the ports visited by the Cleopatra, including hydrographical information, natural resources, natural...

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The miscellaneous archives of the Division of Anthropology.

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The archives of the Division of Botany, icluding those of the Connecticut Botanical Society.

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These are the miscellaneous archives associated with the Division of the Invertebrate Zoology.