Catalog of Manuscript Collections
MSS 13: Whitney Armory Survey Records, 1971-1979
Creator: Whitney Armory Survey
Extent: 3.5 ft (1500 items)
Description: Field notebooks, reports, maps, drawings, and photos, of a project cosponsored by the Historic American Engineering Record and New Haven Colony Historical Society which studied the history, archeology, and architecture of Eli Whitney's gun factory at Whitneyville, CT. Addition includes correspondence of New Haven Colony Historical Society relating to a project it cosponsored with the Historic American Engineering Record on the history, archeology, and architecture of Eli Whitney's gun factory at Whitneyville, CT; papers (1972) from a seminar on the project, conducted by Robert R. MacDonald at Berkeley College, Yale University; and blueprints, drawings, and maps.
Research Topics: History, archaeology, and architecture of the Whitney Armory site; historic images of the site (paintings, prints, photographs, etc.) ; College seminars at Yale; archaeological surveys in New Haven