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Bingham family papers

Title: Bingham family papers

The papers consist of correspondence, diaries, journals, manuscripts, notebooks, sermons, writings, two books with manuscript notes, legal and financial records, photographs, printed material and miscellanea documenting the personal lives and professional careers of four generations of the Bingham family. The papers include material documenting Hiram Bingham (1789-1869) and his missionary work in Hawaii; Hiram Bingham (1831-1908) and his missionary work in the Gilbert Islands, his literary efforts, and family matters; and Hiram Bingham (1875-1956) and his academic career, his South American explorations, including the discovery of the ruins of Machu Picchu in 1911, and his political career as lieutenant governor, governor, and United States senator from Connecticut. Papers relating to several other family members are also included in the papers.

ArchivalResource: 75.94 Linear Feet (140 boxes)

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Yale Peruvian Expedition (1911). Yale Peruvian Expedition offprints collection.

Title: Yale Peruvian Expedition offprints collection. 1912-1916.

The collection contains the following offprints: Hiram Bingham, "Along the uncharted pampacinas" (August 1914), "The Discovery of Machu Picchu" (April 1913), "In the wonderland of Peru" (April 1913), "Investigation of the prehistoric human remains found near Cuzco, Peru, in 1911" (July 1913). Hiram Bingham, "Ruins of Espiritu Pampa, Peru" (April-June 1914), "A search for the last Inca capital" (October 1912), "The story of Machu Picchu: the National Geographic Society--Yale University explorations in Peru" (February 1915), "Types of Machu Picchu pottery" (April-June 1915). Lawrence Bruner, "Results of the Yale Peruvian Expedition of 1911: orthoptera (acridiidae--short-horned locusts)" (February 11, 1913); A.N. Caudell, "Results of the Yale Peruvian Expedition of 1911: orthoptera (exclusive of acrididae)" (February 11, 1913). George F. Eaton, "Vertebrate remains in the Cuzco gravels" (July 1913); H.B. Ferris, "The Indians of Cuzco and the Apurimac" (1916); H.W. Foote and W.H. Buell, "The composition, structure, and hardness of some Peruvian bronze axes" (August 1912); Herbert E. Gregory, "The gravels at Cuzco, Peru" (July 1913). Osgood Hardy, "Cuzco and Apurimac" (July 1914); C.H. Mathewson, "Metallographic description of some ancient Peruvian bronzes from Machu Picchu" (December 1915); S.A. Rohwer, "Results of the Yale Peruvian Expedition of 1911: hymenoptera, superfamilies vespoidea and sphecoidea" (February 20, 1913); H.L. Viereck, "Results of the Yale Peruvian Expedition of 1911: hymenoptera--ichneumonoidea" (February 20, 1913).

ArchivalResource: 16 items.

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Sparks, Jared, 1789-1866. Jared Sparks collection of American manuscripts, 1582-1843

Title: Jared Sparks collection of American manuscripts, 1582-1843.

The Sparks collection consists of original and transcribed historical documents and correspondence, chiefly concerning the American colonies and the original thirteen states, collected or transcribed beginning in 1819 by Jared Sparks. The collection includes the papers of Sir Francis Bernard and George Chalmers, letters of Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, the Marquis de Lafayette, and George Washington, the journals of Thomas Ainslie, the Board of Trade, the New York Provincial Congress and Conventions, as well as the papers and records from state public offices, among many others. The Sparks collection also contains his own historical essays and compositions, published articles, letter books, diaries, account books related to his college days, professional research, and material documenting his tenure as College president.

ArchivalResource: 252 volumes, 10 env., 2 folders, 3 cases, 57 boxes (31.6 linear ft.)

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Yale Peruvian Expedition (1911). Yale Peruvian Expedition papers, 1908-1948 (inclusive).

Title: Yale Peruvian Expedition papers, 1908-1948 (inclusive).

Correspondence, administrative records, scientific reports, writings, and illustrative material on the three expeditions to Peru sponsored by Yale University between 1911-1915. The most celebrated discoveries, the finding of Machu Picchu and of Vitcos, the last capital of the Incas, were studied during the expeditions by scientific specialists who were drawn principally from the Yale faculty. The papers include their diaries, manuscripts, and published reports of their work, as well as the writings of Hiram Bingham III, professor of Latin American history at Yale, and leader of the expeditions.

ArchivalResource: 19.27 linear ft. (44 boxes)

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Bingham family papers

Title: Bingham family papers

The papers consist of correspondence, diaries, journals, manuscripts, notebooks, sermons, writings, two books with manuscript notes, legal and financial records, photographs, printed material and miscellanea documenting the personal lives and professional careers of four generations of the Bingham family. The papers include material documenting Hiram Bingham (1789-1869) and his missionary work in Hawaii; Hiram Bingham (1831-1908) and his missionary work in the Gilbert Islands, his literary efforts, and family matters; and Hiram Bingham (1875-1956) and his academic career, his South American explorations, including the discovery of the ruins of Machu Picchu in 1911, and his political career as lieutenant governor, governor, and United States senator from Connecticut. Papers relating to several other family members are also included in the papers.

ArchivalResource: 75.94 Linear Feet (140 boxes)

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Yale Peruvian Expedition papers, 1908-1948

Title: Yale Peruvian Expedition papers 1908-1948

Correspondence, administrative records, scientific reports, writings, and illustrative material on the three expeditions to Peru sponsored by Yale University between 1911-1915. The most celebrated discoveries, the finding of Machu Picchu and of Vitcos, the last capital of the Incas, were studied during the expeditions by scientific specialists who were drawn principally from the Yale faculty. The papers include their diaries, manuscripts, and published reports of their work, as well as the writings of Hiram Bingham III, professor of Latin American history at Yale, and leader of the expeditions.Among Bingham's papers are the official reports of the expedition, and essays and manuscripts of his books. A collection of glass slides showing views of Peru and other parts of South America makes up a part of the visual documentation. Other illustrative materials are maps, clippings, scrapbooks, and photographs of the sites, of Quechua Indians, and of Peruvian artifacts. Among the prominent members of the expeditions were: Isaiah Bowman, Orator F. Cook, George F. Eaton, William G. Erving, H. W. Foote, Herbert E. Gregory, Edmund Heller and Philip Ainsworth Means. Correspondents included scientists and government officials both in South America and the United States. Among these are: Sir Clements Markham, Alberto A. Giesecke, Edward C. Pickering, Thomas Barbour, Pliny E. Goddard, A. B. Leguia (President of Peru), F. A. Prezet, and Edwardo Higginson.

ArchivalResource: 19.27 linear feet (44 boxes)

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