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 Street Corner Stories, an iconic 1977 documentary produced by filmmaker Warrington Hudlin during the seventies in New Haven.
August 17, 2018
The Yale Film Study Center has been awarded a $24,000 matching grant from the National Film Preservation Foundation to preserve Street Corner Stories, an iconic 1977 documentary produced by filmmaker Warrington Hudlin ’74 in New Haven. In Hudlin’s film, convenience store employees, customers, Yale...
August 16, 2018
Join us for the fifth year of Treasures from the Yale Film Archive, which begins with five great films in 35mm this fall. TO CATCH A THIEF (Alfred Hitchcock, 1955) 2pm Sunday, September 9 MEDIUM COOL (Haskell Wexler, 1969) Co-presented with the Democracy in America series 7pm Saturday, September 29...
August 10, 2018
Two students who work in the library are among the first recipients of a new university award recognizing their contributions.  Jaster Francis ’20 is a work leader in collections maintenance at Sterling Memorial Library. Raffi Donatich ’19 is a student research assistant at the Beinecke Rare Book...
Two students from the New Haven Promise Internship Program
August 10, 2018
Yale University Library has been selected to receive the first annual Ivy Award from New Haven Promise, a program that provides scholarships and career development support to graduates of New Haven schools. The award, which will be presented at the group’s annual Scholar Celebration on Aug. 16,  ...
Catherine Basie, Hugues Panassie, Count Basie, Helen Oakley Dance, and Stanley Dance. Paris, 1956. MSS 62, Box 41.
August 6, 2018
The Stanley Dance and Helen Oakley Dance Papers (MSS 62) are now open for research. As the Dances were well-known jazz journalists and producers, their papers are an important resource for the study of jazz in the United States from 1920-1960. The Papers contain a large number of interviews with...
Vintage sheet music covers from World War 1 George M. Cohan’s Over There
July 23, 2018
In the Music Library's new exhibition entitled “They Sang and Took the Sword” – Music of World War I, opening August 6th 2018, the Music Library observes the 100th anniversary of the conclusion of World War I, as marked by the signing of the Armistice on November 11, 1918. The exhibition brings...
Over There sheet music front cover, with illustration by Norman Rockwell
July 18, 2018
In our new exhibition entitled “They Sang and Took the Sword” – Music of World War I, opening August 6th 2018, the Music Library observes the 100th anniversary of the conclusion of World War I, as marked by the signing of the Armistice on November 11, 1918. The exhibition brings together selected...

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