Manuscripts and Archives Reading Room, pre-1963

Now the Manuscripts and Archives Reading Room, this was once Yale's Rare Book Room.
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Now the Manuscripts and Archives Reading Room, this was once Yale's Rare Book Room.
An image from an 1883 edition of Hāzā kitāb-i Shīrūyah nāmdār, ʻalayhi al-raḥmah, which was recently digitized as part of the Old Yale Persian project, funded by the Arcadia Foundation. You can read more about the project, along with a complete list of the titles that were digitized on the Yale Library South Asia Persian Guide.
Potato print cloths, Mozambique. Photo by Dorothy Woodson.
Iacobo de Maiolo. Portolan Chart of the Mediterranean Sea and Europe (Genoa, 1553). Detail Scanned from the original in the Yale University Map Collection
Jae Rossman teaching in the Arts Library Special Collections classroom.
The Haas Arts library contains approximately 125,000 volumes on-site, including current issues to Art and Architecture journals, plus related rare and unique materials. Off-site, approximately 300,000 books and periodicals are stored in the Library Shelving Facility for delivery to any Yale Library.
A study space in the The Robert B. Haas Family Arts Library, located at 180 York Street.
The Loeb Classical Library at Yale Classics Library
Arabic primer of calligraphy, 1852 or 1853. From the collections of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.