Guide to the Clipper Ship Card Collection 1858-1880, undated (Bulk 1850s-1860s) PR 116

Clipper ship cards were printed to inform prospective passengers and freight shippers of a vessel's impending departure.

Guide to the Oscar Fabres Collection 1940-1970(Bulk 1950-1963) PR 079

Printed material and ephemera designed by illustrator Oscar Fabres.

Guide to the Kitson Papers 1887-1934 (Bulk 1902-1909, 1920-1931) Kitson Papers

The Kitson Papers consist of materials of various forms related primarily to the work of Henry Hudson Kitson, a sculptor of public monuments. The collection also contains papers of Kitson's first wife, Theo Alice Ruggles Kitson, who was also a sculptor. The bulk of the correspondence consists of letters to Henry Kitson from individuals and organizations who commissioned work from him. Legal documents, especially signed and unsigned contracts, are in the collection. Photographs, mostly unidentified but also including studies for known sculpture subjects, comprise a sizable portion of the collection. The collection contains rough sketches of works and details of works, also mostly unidentified as to subject. Some blueprints are included. Financial records in the collection consist most notably of invoices and receipts from contractors providing materials and services for the Kitsons' projects.

Guide to the Bella C. Landauer Collection of Business and Advertising Ephemera ca. 1700-present PR 031

Collection of mainly 19th and 20th century advertising ephemera. Formats in the collection include American trade cards, lottery tickets, handbills, labels, broadsides, calendars, billheads, price lists, advertising fans, and other materials of history and popular culture.Media range from rough woodcuts to chromolithographs.

Guide to The Alfred Olcott Hudson River Steamboats Collection Ca. 1871-1951 (Bulk 1905-1930) PR 098

This collection contains photographs, ship plans and blueprints, ephemera, and clippings relating to Hudson River steamboats from the late-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century.

Guide to the Lockwood Sanford Wood Engraving Proof Books 1938-1913 (Bulk 1880-1904) PR 247

Wood engravings produced for business advertisements, mostly in and around New Haven, Connecticut.

Guide to the Portrait/Subject Collection ca. 1800-Present MSS 34

The Portrait/Subject Collection consists of portraits and photographs of American and British authors, as well as a smaller number depicting actors, from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.