Five new and nine expanded collections now available for researchers
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A. Bartlett Giamatti and Benno C. Schmidt Jr.
Beinecke Library reports that from July to September, staff processed 5 new collections and added new materials to 9 existing collections—including the Louise Glück papers. All the collections are discoverable in Archives at Yale.
These new collections—which include the papers of Yale President Benno C. Schmidt Jr. and cultural critic Camille Paglia, M. Phil ’71, Ph.D. ’74—are now open to researchers, thanks to the efforts of staff members in the Archival Description Unit and in the Accessioning, Acquisitions, and Collections Control Unit (AACCU).
Adelbert F. Whitcomb correspondence and photographs
Correspondence and photographic prints sent to Palmyra E. Whitcomb by family members—predominantly those from her son, Adelbert Finney Whitcomb. Materials detail his life in the late 19th through early 20th centuries as a railway civil engineer for the Montana Central Railway and chief engineer of the Western Division of the Great Northern headquarters in Spokane, Washington. During this time, Adelbert was treated at several prominent wellness sanitariums throughout the United States, including the Battle Creek Sanitarium run by Dr. John Harvey Kellogg in Battle Creek, Michigan, and The Jackson Sanitarium in Dansville, New York.
Benno C. Schmidt Jr. personal papers
The Benno Schmidt Jr. personal papers consist of correspondence, writings, personal papers, photographs, and other documentation related to Benno Schmidt Jr.’s career and personal life. Schmidt ’63, ’66 J.D., was a constitutional law scholar and the 20th president of Yale University, serving from 1986 to 1992.
The collection contains the professional papers of social critic and author Camille Paglia, including business correspondence and fan mail, recordings of her media interviews, written interviews, her articles and columns, press material about her and her work, and posters promoting her books and speaking events. The collection does not include her book manuscripts.
This collection contains 30 letters to lawyer, writer, and political science professor Daniel Pinello, ’91 Ph.D., from his former senior honors thesis advisor, Frederick Rudolph, professor of History at Williams College. Frederick Rudolph.
The Robert Ashe papers consist of correspondence, reports, photographs, press clippings, publications, and maps that document the involvement of British humanitarian worker Robert Ashe in international relief efforts to aid Cambodian refugees in the late 1970s and early 1980s. The collection provides a window into Ashe’s experience directing a refugee camp amidst a complex political situation and in coordination with several international humanitarian organizations. Much of the material documents the experiences of Cambodians fleeing political violence, famine, and economic devastation in the aftermath of the Cambodian genocide (1975–79) and subsequent Vietnamese occupation of Cambodia.
New materials were added to these nine library collections:
Black Panther Party collection
Fitz-Greene Halleck collection
Frederick Russell Burnham papers
—Deborah Cannarella
This article is adapted from the quarterly report issued by Mary Caldera, associate director for Archival Description, on the newly processed archival collections at Beinecke Library. These staff members in the AACCU and in the Archival Description Unit were responsible for the processing of these materials: Mary Caldera, Quin DeLaRosa, Daniel Duncan, Tina Evans, Alison Fulmer, Michaela Gibbons, Janet Lopes, and Elise Riley. Staff members in the AACCU and in Preservation and Conservation helped to make these materials available for research.
Image: Yale University’s 19th president A. Bartlett Giametti in conversation with Benno C. Schmidt Jr., the university’s 20th president
