[Nota bene: With permission of its author, Jenifer Van Vleck, Assistant Professor of History at Yale University, we’re happy to post the following comments from a presentation made by Professor Van Vleck at a meeting of the University Library Council in the Manuscripts and Archives reading room on...
Thursday, January 23, 2014 - Friday, May 2, 2014
Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library foyer 3
33 Cedar Street, New Haven, CT 06511
This exhibit celebrates a new collection of medically themed sheet music recently donated to the Medical Historical Library by William Helfand, retired...
Iconographie photographique de la Salpêtrière (1876-80), a landmark publication in medical photography, is on view in the Cushing/Whitney Medical Library through November 15th. This collection of texts and photographs represents the female patients of Dr. Jean-Martin Charcot at the...
We thank all thirteen Yale College seniors who submitted senior essays for prize consideration, and congratulate the following two students on their excellent prize-winning essays:
Outstanding Senior Essay on Yale:
John (Jack) Doyle, Berkeley College. Measuring “Problems of Human Behavior”: The...
The following information on recently acquired and processed collections was assembled by Alison Clemens, assistant head of arrangement and description.
Manuscripts and Archives has recently acquired and made available the following collections and additions to existing collections:
New...
A child survivor relates his vivid memories of Kraków, the German occupation, and moving to the ghetto and to Płaszów concentration camp. He tells of being smuggled out of the camp and surviving as a street child from age four to seven, with the aid of several Polish women. He reflects upon his...
Curated by John Cooper, Clare-Mellon Fellow in the History of Art, Yale University
In 1794 the dancing and Attitudes, or expressive postures, performed by Emma Hamilton (1761?-1815) were rendered in twelve neoclassical images engraved by Thomas Piroli after drawings by Frederick Rehberg....
