When: Monday, June 20, 2016 - Friday, August 26, 2016 (All day)
Where:
Sterling Memorial Library (SML), Memorabilia Room
120 High St., New Haven, CT 06511
inside the 128 Wall Street entrance
Tags: Exhibit, humanities, social_science
Description: The Manuscripts and Archives Department in the Yale University Library is a treasure trove of resources documenting the history of Yale, from the 1701 minutes of a meeting of seven of the ten founding ministers of the Collegiate School (renamed Yale College in 1718), to images, email files, and other born-digital material created within the past year by the University’s offices and groups. This exhibit showcases items from the University Archives, Yale publications, and manuscript collections, organized around the themes of Yale People, Student Life, Yale and the World, and Places and Programs. It explores people such as Henry Roe Cloud (B.A. 1910, M.A. 1914), Yale’s first full-blood Native American graduate; Louise Whitman Farnam (Ph.D. 1916, M.D. 1920), the first woman to graduate from the Yale School of Medicine; and Sylvia Ardyn Boone (M.A. 1974, Ph.D. 1979), the first African American woman to receive tenure at Yale. It also features the Chinese Students’ Christian Association in North America, which counts Chengting Wang (B.A. 1910) among its founders, and the anti-apartheid protests on campus in the late 1980s. The collection materials on exhibit are just the tip of the iceberg of primary sources available throughout the Yale University Library for exploring the people, places, and events that have contributed to over 300 years of Yale University history.
Open To: General Public
Admission: Free
Contact Information:
Yale University Library
203-432-1810
http://www.library.yale.edu/