This leg is our 11th trip related to the Corps of Discovery Expedition led by Lewis & Clark. We had learned that the maps used and created on the expedition were housed at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library of the Yale University Library in New Haven, CT.
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| This tower is actually the entrance to the Payne Whitney Gymnasium (1932, by John Russell Pope in Gothic Revival style) |
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| Book and Snake Tomb (1901) is said to be the most perfect reproduction of a Greek Temple in the country, even having marble plates for its roof; the building is the clubhouse of a Yale University secret society |
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| World War I Memorial to Yale Men (1926-1927) |
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| The Noguchi Sculpture Garden (1963, by Isamu Noguchi and Gordon Bunshaft) is meant to resemble a Japanese Zen Garden, with balancing of the cosmic forces represented by a circle (sun and energy), a pyramid (earth and history), and the poised cube (chance) |
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| Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library (1963, by Gordon Bunshaft) |
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| "Poster" on the Beinecke Library |
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| The translucent exterior panels of the Beinecke Library |
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| A main feature of the Beinecke Library is the six-story glass tower of book stacks, including the first books from the original 1742 Yale Library |
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| The Special Exhibit was Art, Protest, and the Archives |
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| A copy of a countercultural/ underground newspaper |
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| Works by Audre Lord, a Black American writer, professor, philosopher, intersectional feminist, poet and civil rights activist |
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| On permanent display are two of the four volumes of Birds of America (1827-1838, by John James Audubon) |
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| The open page of the second volume of Birds of America (KSS) |
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| Also on permanent display is a one of two volumes of the Gutenberg Bible, the first Bible printed from movable type |
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| In January 2023, the world's earliest known printed text that can be reliably dated, joined the Gutenberg Bible in its case; the Japanese HyakumantÅ darani/woodblock print (c 764-770) of a Buddhist Sutra on a scroll that was kept in the miniature pagoda that is also displayed |
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| A poster (1968) protesting censorship on the French television channel ORTF shows the censored person wearing a Phrygian cap, which came to signify freedom and the pursuit of liberty during the American Revolution and the French Revolution |
At this time, we cannot put our photos of the maps in the blog, as that is considered publishing. I will have to check on copyrights.
10/4/2023 NB: Received email from the Beinecke Library indicating they do not hold the copyrights to the Lewis & Clark maps, and because of their dates, they are in the public domain.
The source for the following images of maps is cited as Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library. Yale University.
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| Lewis & Clark Expedition Maps/ Folder 10r: Draft of Big White's Map 1805 |
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| Lewis & Clark Expedition Maps/ Folder 10v: Big White's Map 1805 (based on information from Big White at Fort Mandan, by William Clark) |
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| Lewis & Clark Expedition Maps/Folder 3v: Clark's map of Big Tower (c 11/25/1803) |
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| Lewis & Clark Expedition Maps/Folder 32: Title: From the Jefferson River to the Forks of Kootenai |
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| Lewis & Clark Expedition Maps/Folder 32: From the Jefferson River to the Forks of Kootenai (c 9/2-9/1805) |
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| Lewis & Clark Expedition Maps/Folder 52: Lewis's Map of Vancouver Island, Nootka Sound, etc |
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| Lewis & Clark Expedition Maps/Folder 42: Route about 10/22-30/1805 |
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| Lewis & Clark Expedition Maps/Folder 51: Draft of the mouth of the Columbia River and Haleys Bay [and] Draft of the mouth of the Columbia River and Point William |
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| Lewis & Clark Expedition Maps/ Folder 62: Route about 7/18-24/1806 |
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| Lewis & Clark Expedition Maps/Folder 2: The Upper Mississippi River system, and the Missouri system as far as the Mandans |
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| Lewis & Clark Expedition Maps/Folder 66: Receipt for compensation of members of the Expedition |
Next: Wave Hill Public Garden.
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