Yale Law at 200 - Bicentennial Exhibits

Drawing of stained glass window

"Modern printing press." From a collection of construction drawings for stained glass in the Sterling Law Buildings. New York: Henderson Brothers, ca. 1930. YL 17 H383 flat 

~Arthur Corbin playing baseball in the annual Law Journal - Faculty game

~Presidential nominee Bill Clinton describing his first meeting with Hillary Rodham

~Thurgood Marshall praising his mentor, Warner Thornton McGuinn, Yale Law graduate and civil rights advocate 

~Alice Rufie Jordan, first woman graduate of Yale, referenced in a 1956 story on Ellen Ash Peters, first woman faculty member

These and other highlights of the Yale Law Library's historical collections can be found this Fall in two exhibitions celebrating the Yale Law School bicentennial anniversary.  Visit "One Sound, Tested Method" in the Rare Book exhibition gallery in the Library's Reference Room, adjacent to the reading room.  "Catalogue of My books &c.: Yale Law Library before Yale Law School" can be found in the Rare Book exhibit area on Library Lower Level 2.

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