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Presents an inventory on three volumes of the archives of Renaissance painter Giorgio Vasari at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut. Highlights of the archives; Document on the work of Vasari on the decoration of the cupola of Florence Cathedral in Italy; Insights on account books in the archives.

In 1977 a project was initiated at the Connecticut's Bridgeport Public Library (BPL) Historical Collections to collect labor and business records of local Bridgeport industries. Throughout the next year, local labor unions and companies were contacted, and labor and business records were requested. The resulting collection comprises manuscript materials on an area of Bridgeport history that had been lacking in the Historical Collections. Many labor historians have since used the collection, and have admired the foresight that BPL used in securing these records. BPL Historical Collections is probably the only institution in the U.S. to house both labor history collection and a circus collection. The project channeled a surge of 20th century material into the Historical Collections, and while the pace of accessioning these materials has slowed, the cataloguing of the collections will continue into the next decade. There are several runs of Bridgeport newspapers available, 1795 to date, many of which are on microfilm after 1861.

The article informs that former Duke students and colleagues of philosopher William Poteat, have been constantly donating to the Yale Divinity School Library their letters, audio recordings, and other papers for the William H. Poteat Archive, that will be celebrated at the Poteat Conference at Yale University in Connecticut from June 6-8, 2014.

We have constructed a short piece of fiction to begin this essay in the voice of Hezekiah Calvin, a Delaware boy who was destroyed by the experience in the 1760s of attending Eleazar Wheelock's Indian Charity School, a boarding school in Lebanon, Connecticut, intended to train Indigenous Christian missionaries. A theoretical framework underscores the need for our approach, given the limitations of the archive, and prompts suggested methods and guidelines. A historical study of the Delaware students at the school focuses on Hezekiah Calvin and includes other students to establish recognizable patterns within their experiences. The evidence is then read in the context of literature on sexual abuse. We conclude that the male students were very likely abused in their time at the school and discuss how scholars may make productive rather than hurtful use of this insight. We propose that fiction is an appropriate and useful method to acknowledge the pain that students endured and its long-term effects. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Connecticut Labor Archives at the University of Connecticut Library in Storrs, Connecticut, is the only state-wide program to preserve historically significant records of Connecticut labor unions and individuals. The collecting policy emphasizes local unions and labor leaders within the state. The history of the labor movement in Connecticut had received little scholarly attention prior to 1980. A major reason for this neglect was that few labor records had been collected, preserved, or made available in archival repositories. The preponderance of business records among its early accessions made collection of labor sources essential in order to present a balanced perspective on economic development and industrial relations in Connecticut. The consortium includes the Labor Education Center, the Center for Oral History, and the Historical Manuscripts and Archives Division, which cooperate in sharing information and resources in order to document the work and union organizing experiences of laboring men and women in Connecticut.

This section describes all the manuscripts present at the Hermann Broch Archive, Yale University Library, Connecticut, as of September 1, 1972. The Hermann Broch Archive came to Yale University in July, 1951, in accordance with Broch's wishes and through the executor of his estate, Henry Seidel Canby. The core collection consisted of all the papers that were in Broch's possession at the time of his death in 1951. The manuscripts listed here were catalogued for the library' several years ago by Hedwig S. Dejon; the present descriptions, though somewhat modified, are heavily dependent on Dejon's work.

Aims: To describe the professional life of Edward H. Hon, MD, and the course of his academic career for the development of electronic fetal heart rate (FHR) monitoring. Methods: Review of archives at the Loma Linda University related to Dr Hon's early education and medical school training, his postgraduate training at Yale University, his faculty appointments at Yale University, University of Southern California and his research accomplishment related to electronic FHR monitoring. Results: Primarily, Dr Hon advanced the clinical application of the electronic FHR monitoring, particularly during labor and delivery. Dr Hon also defined significance of FHR patterns based on years of clinical studies and astute observations. Conclusion: Currently, electronic FHR monitoring, during pregnancy and labor/delivery, has a universal application. Dr Hon's research contribution on FHR monitoring, and its impact for the welfare of mother and her unborn child, is well recognized. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]