Treasures of the Area Studies Collections: Reconsidering Primary Sources and Collections
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The books were brought from Saybrook on ox carts, shown fording a stream on the way to New Haven.
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Granting the charter, 1701. An imaginary scene in Miles Tavern, New Haven, with Governor Winthrop and his Council.
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Photograph of the Alma Mater mural above the old circulation desk in Sterling Memorial Library.
Alma Mater, the mural behind the old Circulation Desk, was painted by Yale Professor Eugene F. Savage, Yale B.F.A. 1924, and installed in 1932. In one hand she holds the sphere of learning and in the other an open book showing the Yale arms. Standing under the tree of knowledge, she is surrounded by symbols of the University’s spiritual and intellectual efforts. -
Sterling Memorial Library commemorative relief of "Demanding the books in Saybrook, 1718".
Demanding the books in Saybrook; wall panel from Sterling Memorial Library. -
Sterling Memorial Library commemorative relief of "Pledging the Books".
Meeting of the Ministers and pledging the books, 1701. In 1701 at a meeting in Branford, ministers pledged books to found a college .Relief is located in the nave of Sterling Memorial Library. -
High Street facade of Sterling Memorial library, looking northwest from Lampson Lyceum.
Designed by James Gamble Rogers, the library was completed in 1930. The building in the left center background was the University Gymnasium. -
Aerial view of the campus, looking southwest, 1925.
The future site of Sterling Memorial Library is visible in the upper right quadrant. -
Excavation for the future site of Sterling Memorial Library.
At the upper left, the University Gymnasium rises above the Carnegie Swimming Pool; both would be demolished in 1932 to make room for Trumbull College. Mory’s is just visible in the upper right, through the bare trees. -
Nave under construction, looking west across High Street, March 1930.
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Nave under construction, looking west across High Street, October 1929.
Looking west from Lampson Lyceum. Construction progress photograph number 99. The building in the left-center background was the University Gymnasium (1890/92-1932). -
Cornerstone-laying ceremony for Sterling Memorial Library
Edwin M. Herr, Chairman of the Yale Corporation -
A first-floor plan for Sterling Memorial Library, 1928.
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James Gamble Rogers, rendering of the High Street facade of Sterling Memorial Library.
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Andrew Keogh came to Yale as a graduate student in 1899, earning an M.A. in 1904. He served as Linonia & Brothers Librarian (1899
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Photograph of James Gamble Rogers, Yale B.A. 1889.
James Gamble Rogers, Yale B.A. 1889, assumed responsibility for the design of the library in 1924 after the death of Bertram G. Goodhue, the architect selected by the trustees of Sterling -
Photograph of John William Sterling, Yale B.A. 1864.
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First page of Strike Newspaper press release on final preparations for the May Day rally.
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Ed Grant and Mike Hill, I Was There: What Really Went On At Kent State (C.S.S. Publishing Company, 1974), image of front cover.
ACLU of Ohio Kent State Project Records -
Bullet casings and information card used as evidence in the trials that resulted from the Ohio National Guard shootings at Kent State University.
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I.F. Stone, The Killings at Kent State: How Murder Went Unpunished (New York Review, 1971), image of front cover.
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Wounded Kent State University student being evacuated by stretcher, photograph by Howard E. Ruffner.
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Kent State University student John Cleary, wounded by Ohio National Guard gunfire, attended by other students, photograph by John A. Darnell, Jr.
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Reporting on nationwide student demonstrations and the killings at Kent State University, Strike Newspaper, front cover.
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Mary Ann Vecchio kneeling over the body of Jeffrey Miller, one of the students killed by Ohio National Guard troops at Kent State University, photograph by Howard E. Ruffner.
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Ohio National Guard troops in gas masks with bayonettes fixed confronting protesters, photograph by Howard E. Ruffner.