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Yale
Repositories
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The Arts
of the Book Collection (AOB) is a research facility housed in the Sterling
Memorial Library. The collection contains both examples of and reference
materials about the arts related to the book covering topics such as binding,
book history, illustration, calligraphy, graphic design, paper making
and decorative papers, typography and more. Contemporary examples of artists'
books and fine printing are housed alongside more traditional publications.
Additionally, AOB is the home to several named collections relating to
persons who have significantly contributed to the book arts.
Hours: Monday-Thursday 10 a.m.-12
p.m. and 1 p.m.-4 p.m. with reduced hours (afternoons only) during recess
and holiday periods.
Location: Sterling Memorial Library, 120 High St., Room 177
Phone: 203 432-1712
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| Drama
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The Library holds
more than 30,000 volumes, including plays by American, British, and foreign
playwrights, books on the history of theatre, theatre architecture, dramatic
criticism, costume and stage design, stage lighting and production, biographies,
and related reference books. Periodicals collected range from the most
scholarly theatre journals to the weekly trade papers. In addition to
theatre, there are books on the other performing arts: film, dance, radio,
television, and opera.
Special items in the
collection include files of scene design, more than 80,000 theatrical
prints and photographs, and bound copies of master's theses and doctoral
dissertations from the Drama School. The library has been collecting production
books of Drama School productions and scripts from the Repertory Theatre
since 1966. There is also a significant collection of School and Repertory
Theatre programs and scrapbooks.
Hours: Monday-Friday, 8:30 a.m.-8:30
p.m.; Saturday, 1-5 p.m (during the academic year)
Location: 222 York Street
Phone: 203 432-1554
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| Faber
Birren Collection - Arts Library |
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The
Faber Birren Collection of Books on Color was presented to Yale University
in 1971 by Faber Birren (1900-1988), a leading color authority in the
United States. He began the collection early in the his career, maintained
an active involvement with it throughout his lifetime, and created an
endowment to ensure its continued future development. The collection's
major holdings are works on color theory, color techniques, and artists'
manuals and treatises, but it encompasses all aspects of color. Thus it
includes works about color in such fields as architecture, the decorative
arts, printing and the graphic arts, textiles, music, religion, vision,
psychology, the sciences, heraldry and the occult. The Birren Collection's
holdings of color systems, color standards and color nomenclature are
the most extensive to be found anywhere.
Hours:
Monday -Thursday 10a.m.-12p.m. and 1p.m. -4p.m. with reduced hours (afternoons
only) during recess and holiday periods.
Location: Sterling Memorial Library, 120 High St., Room 177
Phone: 203 432-1712
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Some 5000
years ago, writing developed in the lower valley of the Tigris and Euphrates
rivers, and spread from there to the rest of ancient Mesopotamia, approximately
present-day Iraq. The writing, called cuneiform ("wedge-shaped"), spread
from there over the entire Near East. The Babylonian Collection houses
the largest assemblage of cuneiform inscriptions in the United States,
and one of the five largest in the world. The bulk of the inscriptions
consists of clay tablets in all sizes and shapes. There are also a number
of inscribed monuments on stone and other materials, some of considerable
artistic interest, including a large collection of stamp and cylinder
seals. In addition, the Collection maintains a complete library in the
fields of Assyriology (the study of ancient Mesopotamia), Hittitology
(ancient Anatolia, roughly equivalent to modern Turkey), and Near Eastern
archaeology. It publishes several monograph series through the Yale University
Press. The Collection is primarily for the use of students and faculty
in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, but it
is also open to visiting scholars and to all interested members of the
Yale community and the general public.
Hours: Monday-Friday, 10 a.m.-5
p.m.
Location: Sterling Memorial Library, 120 High St., Rooms 318-327
Phone: 203 432-1837
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The Beinecke Rare
Book & Manuscript Library is Yale University's principal repository for
literary papers and for early manuscripts and rare books in the fields
of literature, theology, history, and the natural sciences. Beinecke includes
the following collections:
The Beinecke
collections afford opportunities for interdisciplinary research in such
fields as medieval, Renaissance, and eighteenth-century studies, art history,
photography, American studies, the history of printing, and modernism
in art and literature.
Hours: Reading Room: Monday-Thursday, 8:30
a.m. - 8 p.m.; Friday, 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m.; Exhibition area: Monday-Friday,
8:30 a.m.-5 p.m. & Saturdays (when Yale College is in session), 10 a.m.-5
p.m.
Location: Beinecke Plaza (corner of Wall and High Streets)
Phone: 203 432-2972
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Special
Collections at the Divinity Library include original and microform archival
and manuscript resources related to the following areas:
- Records
of Christian missionary activities overseas.
- Records
of Protestant Christian religious work among college and university
students.
- Personal
papers of American clergy, evangelists, and religious leaders, particularly
those involved in missions, ecumenical work, or student work, those
from the New England area, and those of Congregational background.
- Personal
papers of Yale Divinity School faculty, deans, and prominent alumni
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The
Special Collections department also oversees the library's rare book,
hymnal, Bible, and pamphlet collections.
Hours: Monday-Friday, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.
Location: 409 Prospect Street
Phone: 203 432-5301
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The
Franklin Collection is the most extensive collection of materials by, about,
and around Benjamin Franklin and his times to be found in a single collection
anywhere in the world. It was assembled during the first decades of the
twentieth century by William Smith Mason of the Yale class of 1888 Shef.
The rare books and pamphlets are outstanding and include many of Franklin's
own imprints, a few books from his personal library, and some unique or
almost unique items. In addition Mr. Mason gathered quantities of manuscript
materials, including a substantial collection of original letters by or
to Franklin and some of his contemporaries, with photocopies or typescript
copies of many others housed in other repositories. The main body of the
Collection is housed in Sterling Memorial Library (entrance through room
230). It is open to members of the Yale community and to visiting scholars
for research and study purposes Monday through Friday from 8:30 a.m. to
5 p.m. Readers are advised that all manuscripts, all pre-1763 imprints (with
the exception of periodicals), and individual printed items of exceptional
rarity have been transferred to the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
where they may be consulted during Beinecke's regular hours.
Hours: Monday-Friday 8:30-5:00
Location: Sterling Memorial Library, 120
High St, Rm. 230
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Walpole Library, a department of Yale University Library, has significant
holdings of eighteenth-century English books, manuscripts, prints, drawings,
watercolors and paintings. A leading non-circulating research library for
English eighteenth-century studies and the prime source for the study of
Horace Walpole, it was bequeathed to Yale by Wilmarth Sheldon Lewis (1895-1979),
who devoted his life to collecting the letters and works of Horace Walpole
(1717-1797) and to editing the Yale Edition of Horace Walpole's Correspondence,
whose 48 volumes opened windows as no other work on the life and culture
of Georgian Britain.
Almost
every aspect of the eighteenth century is covered by the library's holdings.
The centerpiece of the book collections is a considerable portion of Horace
Walpole's own library from his house at Strawberry Hill. The library's
collection of prints and drawings is particularly strong in caricatures,
portraits, and topographical views, including more than 13,000 personal
and political satirical prints and drawings from the eighteenth and early
nineteenth centuries.
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Hours:
Monday-Friday, 8.30 a.m.-5 p.m., by appointment.
Location: 154 Main Street, Farmington, CT
Phone: 860 677-2140
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One of the nation's
top collections of rare law books is housed in the Paskus-Danziger Rare Book
Room of the Lillian Goldman Library at the Yale Law School. The collection is
particularly strong in Anglo-American common law materials, including case reports,
digests, statutes, trials, treatises, and popular works on the law. Other strengths
include Roman and canon law, international law (especially the works of Hugo
Grotius and Samuel Pufendorf), and early law books from most European countries.
Of special interest ...
- The William
Blackstone Collection, the world's largest collection of the works of Sir
William Blackstone (1723-1780), author of Commentaries on the Laws of
England, the most influential book in the Anglo-American common law
tradition.
- The Founders
Collection, books once owned by the founders of the Yale Law School (Seth
Staples, Samuel Hitchcock, and David Daggett), which formed the original nucleus
of the school's law library.
- The 18th-century
law libraries of Lewis Morris, a signer of the Declaration of Independence,
and John Worthington, an attorney in Springfield, Mass.
- The Walter
Pforzeimer Collection of books and manuscripts on copyright.
- Legal manuscripts
from the 12th to the 20th centuries, including early treatises, English case
reports, early American lawyers' account books, and 19th-century student notebooks
from the law schools at Yale, Columbia, and Litchfield, Connecticut. [Note:
legal manuscript collections in Manuscripts and Archives, Sterling
Memorial Library.]
- The Roman-Canon
Law Collection of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, on deposit
since 2006, totaling over 1,600 volumes.
- Italian municipal
statutes from the 14th to the 19th centuries, from Amalfi to Zumelle, in 750
printed volumes and 55 manuscripts.
Hours:
Monday-Friday, 9 a.m.-4 p.m.
Location: Sterling Law Building, 127 Wall St., Level L2, Room 003
Phone: 203 432-4494
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Manuscripts
and Archives promotes and sustains the research and teaching missions
of Yale University by acquiring, preserving, and making available primary
source materials to the local, national, and international community.
It also serves as the documentary memory of Yale University.
Its collections
document a wide array of persons, organizations, and subject areas. Many
have a strong link to the university, either to the institution itself;
to the faculty, students, alumni, and other members of the Yale community;
or to areas in which Yale has had strong teaching and research interests.
Manuscripts and Archives also works closely with the University Library's
area curators to collect materials with an international focus.
Major highlights of the collections include holdings related to the United
States, Latin America, South Africa, East Asia, the former Soviet Union
and the Middle East. For the United States, especially well documented
are the fields of social commentary, diplomatic history, legal history,
health policy, environmental policy, architecture history, and the history
and culture of lesbians, gays, bisexuals, and transgenders. International
collections of note document the history of colonial Latin America, especially
Peru and Mexico and the history of southern Africa.
Hours:
Monday-Friday, 8:30 a.m.-4:45 p.m. (For extended hours during the academic
term, see http://www.library.yale.edu/hours/mssa.html)
Location: Sterling Memorial Library, 130 Wall St.
Phone: 203 432-1744
E-Mail: mssa.reference@yale.edu
Web site: http://www.library.yale.edu/mssa/
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| Fortunoff
Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies |
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This
collection of over 4,000 videotaped interviews with witnesses and survivors
of the Holocaust, the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
is part of Manuscripts and Archives, at Sterling Memorial Library.
Hours:
by appointment, Monday - Friday, 8:30 a.m.-4:45 p.m
Location: Sterling Memorial Library, Mss. & Archives, 130 Wall
St.
Phone: 203 432-1879
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The
Collection houses one of the largest university map collections
in the country. All types of maps are represented, covering the
world from the 15th century to the present. The historical collection
includes many landmarks in the history of cartography, and is especially
strong in early (pre-1850) maps of the United States.
Hours: Monday-Friday, 10 a.m.-12;
1-5 p.m.
Location: Sterling Memorial Library, 120 High St., seventh
floor.
Phone: 203-432-8269
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The
Library contains a large and unique collection of rare medical books,
medical journals to 1920, pamphlets, prints, and photographs, as
well as current works on the history of medicine. The library was
founded in 1940 by the donations of the extensive collections of
Harvey Cushing, John F. Fulton, and Arnold C. Klebs. Special strengths
are the works of Hippocrates, Galen, Vesalius, Boyle, Harvey, and
S. Weir Mitchell, and works on anesthesia, and smallpox inoculation
and vaccination. The Library owns over 300 medical incunabula. The
notable Clements C. Fry Print Collection has fine prints and drawings
from the 16th century to the present on medical subjects by artists
such as Gillray, the Cruikshanks, Hogarth, and Daumier. The Peter
Parker Collection contains manuscripts of the 19th century medical
missionary Peter Parker and paintings by the artist Lam-Qua of patients
at Canton Hospital with pronounced pathological conditions. The
Edward Clark Streeter Collection of Weights and Measures is one
of the most comprehensive and extensive collections of its kind
in the world. Parts of this collection are on permanent display
throughout the Library.
Hours: Monday-Friday, 9 a.m.-4:30
p.m.
Location: 333 Cedar St.
Phone: 203 785-4354
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| Music
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In
addition to its regular collections of books, scores, periodicals,
and recordings, the Irving S. Gilmore Music Library possesses a remarkable
array of special collections, including approximately 4,000 linear
feet of archival materials, 500 individual music manuscripts, 45,000
pieces of sheet music, and 50,000 photographs. The Library owns a
large number of rare books and scores printed before 1850; its holdings
are particularly strong in historical treatises on music theory, as
well as early publications of opera scores, chamber music, and works
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Music Library's archival collections emphasize American music (including
classical, jazz, and musical theater) and German music between the
two World Wars, and feature the papers of Charles Ives, Benny Goodman,
Vladimir Horowitz, Kurt Weill and Lotte Lenya, and Virgil Thomson.
The Paul Hindemith Collection focuses on the composer's American
years, while the Plaut and Dance Archives contain thousands of photographs
of classical and jazz musicians. Individual manuscript holdings
include autograph manuscripts by J.S. Bach, Frederic Chopin, Johannes
Brahms, Robert Schumann, and Franz Liszt.
Hours: By appointment, Monday-Friday,
8:30 a.m-5 p.m.
Location: Sterling Memorial Library, 120 High St.
Phone: 203 432-0497
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| Historical
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The
Yale Collection of Historical Sound Recordings seeks to collect,
preserve, and make available for study historical recordings of
performers important in Western classical music, jazz, American
musical theater, drama, literature, history, and oratory. HSR holds
more than 200,000 recordings in a variety of formats, from the beginning
of the recording era to the present. It also contains a library
of printed materials and microforms offering information about composers,
performers, and the recording industry. HSR administers the American
Musical Theatre Collection, which incorporates the Cole Porter and
E.Y. Harburg Collections as well as other scores, sheet music, manuscripts,
books, memorabilia, and recordings.
Hours: By appointment, Monday-Friday,
1-4:30 p.m.
Location: Irving S. Gilmore Music Library, 120 High St.
Phone: 203 432-1795
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Oral History, American Music (OHAM) was founded in 1972, following
an oral history project with those who knew and worked with composer
Charles Ives. This project originated as an adjunct to the Yale
Music Library's Ives Collection of papers and manuscripts. After
the success of the Ives project, OHAM was created to obtain memoirs
from American composers and those who knew them. It is the only
ongoing project in the field of music dedicated to the collection
and preservation of oral and video memoirs directly in the voices
of those who make our musical history. In addition to creating these
invaluable primary source materials, OHAM functions as an archive
where the tapes and transcripts are preserved and made available
to a wide range of users.
Hours:
By Appointment, 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM
Location: 310 Prospect Street
Telephone: 203 432-1988
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The Peabody
Museum's archives document the history of the Museum and its collections.
Maintained principally in the curatorial divisions and mostly postdating
the founding of the Museum in 1866 are materials such as field notebooks,
maps, correspondence, catalogs, photographs, and publications associated
with the specimens amassed by the Museum's first curators--O. C.
Marsh, A. E. Verrill, and G. J. Brush--and their successors. (Documentation
of earlier accessions as well as the papers of some members of the
curatorial staff can be found at Manuscripts and Archives, Sterling
Memorial Library.) Other materials document the Museum's administration,
personnel, activities of the public education department, and past
exhibits and events; they include correspondence, photographs, clippings,
and publications.
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| Visual
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The Visual Resources Collection is housed in Street Hall, where
it is accessible to its main patrons, the departments of History
of Art and American Studies, and the schools of Art, Architecture
and Drama. The VR Collection is open to any user of the Libraries
for study and research purposes. Material is generally only circulated
for classroom use. The VR Collection consists of 320,000 slides
(including 35 mm and historic 3 x 4 glass lantern slides) and 187,000
photographs. The collection was started over 60 years ago and has
been formed by requests for the images needed for classroom instruction
at Yale. There are many special groups of photographs which cover
specific areas in depth, among them, Chinese painting, Romanesque
and Gothic architecture, and Spanish painting. A significant number
of the images date to the 19th century and have become valuable
in documenting buildings, paintings and sculpture before present-day
alteration, damage, cleaning, or restoration. Part of this 19th
century collection of photographs includes views of Yale buildings
and classrooms. The new digital initiatives will continue to shape
the collection by providing the images needed for pedagogical and
research requests at Yale.
Hours: Monday-Friday 8:30 a.m.-5
p.m. (during academic year); 1-5 p.m. (during summer)
Location: Street Hall, High Street.
Phone: 203 432-2443
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Yale Center for British Art houses the most comprehensive collection
of English paintings, prints, drawings, rare books, and sculpture
outside Great Britain. Given to Yale University by Paul Mellon, Class
of 1929, the Center's resources illustrate British life and culture
from the 16th century to the present. The Photo Archive, located within
the Reference Library of the Center, consists of over 200,000 black
and white photographs of British art worldwide, with a special focus
on holdings in United States, Canadian, and Australian collections.
The Center's Department of Rare Books and Archives houses a rare book
collection of approximately 27,000 volumes. The emphasis is on printed
and manuscript material relating to the visual arts and cultural life
in the United Kingdom and former British Empire from the 17th through
the end of the 19th century, although the collection also includes
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Center's Department of Prints and Drawings houses over 20,000 drawings
and watercolors and over 30,000 prints. The collection offers a comprehensive
view of the development of British graphic art, with an emphasis on
the flowering of the British watercolor school in the late eighteenth
and early nineteenth centuries. Other areas of interest include architectural
drawings, topographical prints, caricatures, mezzotint portraits,
and Shakespearean subjects.
The Center
provides a wide range of free public programs which include films,
concerts, gallery talks, tours, lectures and symposia.
Hours: Reference Library and Photo
Archive are open Tuesday-Friday 10 a.m.-4:30 p.m. and Saturdays
1-4:30 p.m. when Yale College is in session; Rare Books/Prints and
Drawings Study Room is open Tuesday-Friday, 10 a.m.-4:30 p.m
Location: 1080 Chapel Street (the corner of Chapel and High
Streets)
Phone numbers: 203 432-2818 (Reference Library/Photo Archive);
203 432-2841 (Rare Books/Prints & Drawings Study Room)
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John
Trumbull, The Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776, Trumbull
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The
Yale University Art Gallery is the oldest college art museum in the
United States. Founded in 1832 with the gift by Colonel John Trumbull
of his paintings of the American Revolution, the Gallery has grown
to include more than 100,000 works of art from virtually every culture
from ancient times to the present. Known worldwide for its collections
of American art, the Jarves Collection of early Italian paintings,
the finds excavated at the ancient Roman city of Dura-Europos, and
the Société Anonyme Collection of early twentieth-century
European and American art formed by Katherine Dreier and Marcel Duchamp,
the Gallery and its collections continue to grow through the generosity
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Individual
curatorial departments provide access to collections in the following
fields: African Art, American Decorative Arts, American Paintings
and Sculpture, Ancient Art (including the Mediterranean and the
ancient Americas), Asian Art, Coins and Medals, Early European Art,
Modern and Contemporary Art, and Prints, Drawings, and Photographs.
The museum archives are available by appointment with the archivist.
Hours:
Tuesday through Saturday, 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.; Thursday 10:00
a.m. - 8:00 p.m. (closes at 5:00 p.m. in July and August); Sunday
1:00 - 6:00 p.m.. closed Mondays and major holidays.
Location: Chapel at High Street
Phone: 203 432-0600
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