Articles about archives in the Yale Collection of American Literature and the James Weldon Johnson Memorial Collection from the Yale University Library Gazette. (please find additional collection histories below).
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James Weldon Johnson Collection: From the Yale Library Gazette Archive | Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Gertrude Stein Collection: From the Yale Library Gazette Archive | Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library
William Carlos Williams Collection: From the Yale Library Gazette Archives | Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Dial/Scofield Thayer Papers: From the Yale Library Gazette Archives | Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Alfred Stieglitz/Georgia O’Keeffe Archive: From the Yale Library Gazette Archives | Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library
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Additional Collection Histories
Exercises Marking the Opening of the James Weldon Johnson Memorial Collection of Negro Arts and Letters : founded by Carl Van Vechten, Sprague Memorial Hall (full document)
Selected Photographs of guests at the opening of the James Weldon Johnson Memorial Collection of Negro Arts and Letters at the Yale University Library, New Haven, Connecticut, January 7, 1959. From the Carl Van Vechten Papers (JWJ MSS 1050)
Emily Bernard on Carl Van Vechten, remarks delivered at Beinecke Library on January 23, 2017 (full text)
Alison Fraser, “Creating the Twentieth-Century Literary Archives: A Short History of the Poetry Collection at the University at Buffalo.” Information & Culture 55.3 (Fall 2020): 252-270 (Project Muse)
Donald C. Gallup, Pigeons on the Granite: Memories of a Yale Librarian, Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale University, c1988 (Orbis Record)
Donald C. Gallup, What Mad Pursuits!: More Memories of a Yale Librarian, Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale University, c1998 (Orbis Record)
Phillip Lopate, “Selling My Papers: A Life’s Work out the Door” in American Scholar, August 19, 2016 (full text)
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Image: Carl Van Vechten, Gift list, James Weldon Johnson Memorial Collection, undated
