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My best bird photos of January 2026*

Allen's Hummingbird, Brewer's Blackbird, Greater Pewee, Brown Pelican, Swinhoe's White-eye

*sort of

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me divertindo muito usando o tumblr

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Brewer’s Blackbird: King of the tufa

South Tufas, Mono Lake

Lee Vining, CA

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Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library Collections

The Beinecke Library is a rich special collection with materials ranging from ancient Egyptian and Greek documents written on papyrus to emails and websites of reknowned authors. Among the collecting areas of interest to students of U.S. history are the Yale Collection of American Literature and the Yale Collection of Western Americana. A

The Yale Finding Aid Database contains collection guides for the Beinecke Library’s archival collections, and you can keyword search through these guides. Alternatively, the list below includes select collections containing significant materials that would serve as great primary sources for a paper on some aspect of the United States during the New Deal era - the list is not comprehensive of what is in the Beinecke’s collections that is topically related to the New Deal era. The bolded title of each collection listed serves as a link to its online finding aid. The overview section of each finding aid provides biographical information on individuals that will help you situate them in the New Deal era.

Note that while you can use Beinecke Library collections for your paper for this class, we cannot bring Beinecke collections to the in-class workshop.

Stanley Yale Beach Papers:  American inventor, descended from a prominent family of noted inventors, engineers, and publishers in New York and Connecticut, interested in Spiritualism.

Dorothy Eisner Papers: American painter who was involved with the Federal Writers Project, the American Committee in Defense of Leon Trotsky, and other liberal and communist causes.

Langston Hughes Papers: African American author and playwright, see especially materials relating to the Works Progress Administration and the Federal Theatre Project.

James Jones Papers: American author who came of age during the New Deal era and served in World War II, including at Pearl Harbor in December 1941.

Matthew Josephson Papers: American expatriate writer living in Paris after 1920, who was  a regular contributor to the New Republic, The Nation, The New Yorker, and the Saturday Evening Post.

Stephen Longstreet Papers: Artist, novelist, and screenwriter born in New York City in 1907 and an observer of jazz culture and African Americans.

Claude McKay Collection: Jamaican-born American writer who contributed to many liberal and socialist journals, see especially material relating to the Federal Writers Project.

Eugene O’Neill Papers and Eugene O’Neill Papers Addition: American playwright and Nobel Prize winner, especially correspondence and other materials relating to the Federal Theatre Project.

Max Shachtman Correspondence with Leon Trotsky: Trotsky correspondence with a  prominent American Marxist and labor activist concerning, among other topics, U.S. politics in the 1930s.

Donald Ogden Stewart and Ella Winters Papers: American writers and journalists who engaged in political activism, especially involving the arts. Stewart was eventually blacklisted during the McCarthy era.

Clifford N. Taylor Papers:  Business records and printed material from the mid-1920s documenting the Ku Klux Klan in North Dakota and the American Krusaders, containing publications by the Klan.

Theatre Guild Archive: Independent theatrical production company established in New York City in 1919, see especially materials relating to the Federal Theatre Project.

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[July] 18th Monday [1867]: Left Shergol [Ladakh] at 5 a.m.; when we got to Moolbekh, 3 miles up the valley, I scrambled up & visited the monastery I had seen the day before in the distance....We found two Lamas in the place, an old one & a young one, draped in thick woolen robes of a dark dingy red: they showed us their books, images, ornaments &c., & among other things a small map of the countries bordering on the Mediterranean, printed at Lhasa & really very well executed...

Marsham-Townsend GEN MSS 482, Box 4. Diary.

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I have received the favor of your letter of the 28th Sept. and  have now in command from the Lord Justices to acquaint you that the New East India Company going (?) by the Act of Parliament passed the last session to nominate to his Majesty a person to go ambassador to India.

Robert Yard to William Blathwayt, October 1698

Blathwayt OSB MSS 2, I Correspondence, Box 10, Folder 207.

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Tibetan flag, “With the Compliments of the Office of Tibet, 801-2nd Avenue, New York, New York 10017″  

BRBL Needham papers, Tibet MSS 64. Box 50.