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19th century color print of boat full of men being tossed by waves with whale with horns and open mouth alongside and floating barrel in waters

"Whaling Logbooks": The 2024 Senior Fellowship Exhibit opens April 29

April 23, 2024

For nearly two centuries, the coast of New England was home to the “Yankee” whaling industry. In Connecticut, the industry operated from ports in New London, Mystic, and New Haven. This exhibit—curated by AJ Laird ’24, this year’s senior exhibit fellow—features logbooks from the Sterling Library’s Manuscripts and Archives Whaling Logs Collection. Laird, who has firsthand experience as a deckhand on sailing vessels, also conducted research at the New Bedford Whaling Museum in Massachusetts and at the Portsmouth Athenaeum in New Hampshire. The Whaling Logs Collection During the early 19th and

Young woman with short curly brown hair wearing pink sweater and white shirt stands with hand on hip next to display with photo of Elsa Wasserman and copies of documents

Student curator Molly Smith ’25 honors champion of Yale College women

April 18, 2024

Elga Ruth Wasserman, JD ’76, was a passionate advocate for the first classes of women enrolled in Yale College in the 1960’s and ’70s. A portrait of Wasserman, installed last year, hangs on the north wall in Bass Library. This spring, American Studies major Molly Smith ’25 has created a banner exhibit about the life and legacy of Wasserman, currently on view in Sterling Memorial Library. “In addition to her work on behalf of coeducation at Yale, Wasserman was also a chemist, attorney, feminist, and scholar,” Smith explained. “She is not well known by many students, and my goal with this