Manuscript Collection Subject Guide
The Whitney Library has particularly strong collections in the following areas. A full description of each collection is available on the Manuscript Collections page.
Carriage Industry
MSS-59 Pardee Family
MSS-B06 W.C. Dickerman & Co.
MSS-B14 Dann Brothers & Co.
MSS-B38 Blake-Mix Family
MSS-B56 New Haven Business and Civic Organizations, A-Z
MSS-B59 C. Cowles & Co.
MSS-245 Carriages and Early Automobiles
Education
MSS-17 New Haven Schools
MSS-46 West End Institute
MSS-78 Neighborhood Music School
MSS-137 Leila Day Nursery
MSS 272 Tamara L. Compton [Mary Hunter Wolf] (arts education)
MSS-278 Goffe Street Special School
MSS-294 English Speaking Union, New Haven and Southern CT Branch
MSS-300 Ralph J. Welter (school notebooks)
MSS-B16 Hillhouse High School
MSS-B23 Charles Henry Keller
MSS-B25 Stirling School
MSS-B26 New Haven Board of Education
MSS-B34 George H. Post (school notebooks and ledgers)
MSS-B45-1-through-Box-33 MSS-B45-2-Boxes-34-through-61 MSS-B45-3-Boxes-62-to-end Marion Campbell Sheridan
Immigrant Groups
MSS-71 Ukrainian National Woman’s League of America, Branch 108
MSS-72 Ukrainian National Association, “Lubov,” Branch 370
MSS-B7 William C. Celentano (Italian)
MSS-B43 Stanley Joseph Palaski Papers (Polish)
Lawyers
MSS-18 Morris Family Papers
MSS-24 Henry Taylor Blake
MSS-35 Samuel Andrew Law
MSS-59A William Scranton Pardee
MSS-60 Boardman Family
MSS-62 White Collection
MSS-68 Ingersoll Family Papers
MSS-90 Ralph Dunning Smyth Papers
MSS-B13 Livingston Warner Cleaveland
MSS-274 John Q. Tilson Papers
MSS-298 Harrison Hewitt Papers
Maritime History
MSS-11 Woman’s Seamen’s Friends Society
MSS-20-1-through-Box-IV MSS-20-2-Box-V-to-end New Haven Insurance Company (1797-1893)
MSS-22 Maritime Collection, 1721-1906
MSS-25 Leffingwell Family
MSS-37 Records of the New Haven Towing Company & Gulf of Mexico Tow Boat Association
MSS-57 New Haven Harbor Collection
Music
MSS-27 Daniel Read Papers
MSS-53 Woman’s Choral Society of New Haven
MSS-78 (1) Neighborhood Music School
MSS-99 New Haven Music Collection
MSS-100 New Haven Symphony Orchestra
MSS-B64 St. Ambrose Music Club
MSS-B66 Joseph Burns Moore
MSS 247 Greater New Haven Federation of Musicians
Personal Diaries
MSS-6 Wallace Dwight Humiston (1908-38)
MSS-16 George Henry Durrie (1845-46)
MSS-58 Women’s Collection
MSS-130 Jennie Gilbert Jerome (1888-1979)
MSS-B47 Benjamine Augustus Cooke (Joseph Cooke’s travel diary)
MSS-B72 Frederick Saunders (1878-1911)
MSS-252 Mix-Munson Family
MSS-256 Samuel Rogers (1849-1855)
Printers and Engravers
MSS-15 Durrie & Peck (book publishing/printing)
MSS-45 Joseph Parker & Son (blotting paper)
MSS-107 John Warner Barber (Engraving)
MSS-134 New Haven Printers and Engravers, A-Z
MSS-134A Tuttle Morehouse & Taylor Company (Printing)
MSS-134B Augustus Ezra Lines (Engraving)
MSS-134C Richard Paine
Religious Institutions
MSS-6 (1) Wallace Dwight Humiston (newspaper articles on churches)
MSS-9 United Church on the Green
MSS-84 Religious Organization Collections
MSS-105 Ithiel Town Papers (architect, Trinity Church)
MSS-115 New Haven and Area Church Records
MSS-B17 New Haven Council of Churches
MSS B28 Edmund Sinnott Papers
MSS B54 Congregation Mishkan Israel
MSS B79 Rabbi Elliot B. Gertel
MSS B85 Trinity Church on the Green
AD 1 Frederick Davis papers (architect)
Women’s History
MSS 10 Thursday Club of New Haven
MSS 11 Woman’s Seamen’s Friend Society
MSS 17 New Haven Schools (Box 3: Girl’s Boarding Schools)
MSS 17A Lydia Bowles Newcomb
MSS 19 Daughters of ’53 (Ahavas Achus)
MSS 21 United Order of True Sisters. New Haven No. 4, Jochebed Lodge
MSS 30 Fortnightly Club, New Haven, CT
MSS 31 Carmalt, Ethel, (1865-1959.) (Saturday Morning Club)
MSS 33 Lowell House Mothers’ Club, New Haven, CT
MSS 39 New Haven Study Club
MSS 44 North End Club
MSS 46 West End Institute (New Haven, CT)
MSS 50 Hattie Pierpont Fuller (daughter’s letters from Smith College)
MSS 53 Woman’s Choral Society of New Haven
MSS 58 Women’s Collection
MSS 71 Ukrainian National Women’s League of America. Branch 108
MSS 95 Daughters of the American Revolution. Connecticut. Mary Clap Wooster Chapter
MSS 110 Ruth McIntosh Cogswell
MSS 111 Our Society
MSS 130 Jennie Gilbert Jerome
MSS B45 Marion Campbell Sheridan
MSS B50 The Literary Box
MSS B64 St. Ambrose Music Club, Inc.
MSS B66 New Haven Women’s Philatelic Society
MSS B80 League of Women Voters of New Haven
MSS B82 Saturday Morning Club
MSS 260 New Haven Colony, National Society of New England Women
MSS 286 New Haven Woman’s Club
MSS 299 Greater New Haven Business and Professional Women’s Club
Visual Culture and Ephemera
MSS 65 Advertisement Cards, Letterheads, Receipts, and Miscellany
MSS B27 Scrapbooks Collection
MSS 110 Ruth McIntosh Cogswell
MSS B63 John O.C. McCrillis
MSS 282 Thompson Family Scrapbooks
