Welcome to the Yale Finding Aid Database
This database consists of finding aids for archival and manuscript materials at Yale University. Their purpose is to provide information about the creation, historical context, arrangement, and content of archival and manuscript collections as well as the information necessary for users to identify and request the portions relevant to their research. These finding aids vary in style, depth of detail, and amount of materials covered, but their common purpose is to describe and enable access to archival and manuscript collections.
Finding aids represent holdings from:
For more information on conducting research with archival and manuscript materials at Yale, see Primary Sources at Yale.
Pre-1600 Manuscripts at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library are now searchable in a separate database.