Explore Collections

These Yale collections acquire and provide access to primary source materials. Click on the images below to learn about these collections. See the Find & Discover section of this website for tips on how to identify primary sources in these collections as well as in the general library collections. View a map showing collection locations.

Babylonian Collection, Babylonian clay tablet
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, illuminated manuscript in early Gothic bookhand
Classics Library, Loeb Classical Library editions
Cushing/Whitney Medical Library, poster of doctor examining patient
Divinity Library, photograph of farmers crossing a river on a wooden bridge
Fortunoff Video Archive, video stills of a man and two women
Music Library, 19th-century music manuscript
Historical Sound Recordings, photograph of vinyl Berliner recording
Humanities Collections, photograph of bust of Abraham Lincoln with volume of territorial papers
International Collections, Japanese illustrated manuscript with a boat at sea
Lewis Walpole Library, etching with hand coloring
Law Library, title page of Acts Passed at a Congress
Manuscripts and Archives, Ingalls Rink pencil sketch
Title page of report of the Kenya National Chamber of Commerce and Industry (1978)
Mathematics Library, Math books on shelves
Microform Reading Room, reel of microfilm on opened drawer
Oral History of American Music, analog reel-to-reel tape recorder and various digital recorders
Peabody Museum, Morpho anaxibia (Esper) butterfly
Robert B. Haas Family Arts Library, printed color wheel
Yale Center for British Art, oil painting of a ship in harbor
Yale Collection of Musical Instruments, stringed instrument in the shape of peacock
Film reels stacked on shelves
Yale University Art Gallery, painting of reclining young woman