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British Invasion panel, Yale's Sterling Library, New Haven, 1935

Subjects
LibrariesMonuments & MemorialsSchools & Universities
Card type
Printed photo
Date
c. 1935 (Linen)
Front of British Invasion panel, Yale's Sterling Library, New Haven, 1935, c. 1935 printed photo postcard
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Back of British Invasion panel, Yale's Sterling Library, New Haven, 1935, c. 1935 printed photo postcard
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About this postcard

A carved stone panel in the entrance hall of Yale University's Sterling Memorial Library shows soldiers in eighteenth-century uniforms. The relief commemorates the British invasion of New Haven in 1779, when British forces under Gen. William Tryon raided the city during the Revolutionary War. It is one of the historical carvings in the Collegiate Gothic library, completed in 1930.

Postcard Details

Message · English, in pen

Dear S. Thanks for letter. am going to get P. Post off this P.M. Thanks so much will write. Miss Mallon is down there now & I told her to look you up. She is awfully nice - do see her some time. Hope I see Leg before they go down & tell mom & send me some more pecans. love & T. Tiny.

10. THE BRITISH INVASION OF NEW HAVEN, 1779, PANEL IN THE ENTRANCE HALL. STERLING MEMORIAL LIBRARY, YALE UNIVERSITY, NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT
PostmarkedCT, August 20, 1935, 22:30
Stamp
Addressed to
Miss E. L. Godwin

Wedgewood Aiken, SC

Postcard record

Postmarked, CT
Series10
ConditionVery good
Place addressedMiss E. L. Godwin, Wedgewood, Aiken, SC
Place depictedSterling Memorial Library, New Haven, CT
Stamp1c Benjamin Franklin, green, issued 1930, perforated on all sides
NotesWhite border; printed halftone reproduction of a photograph. Postmark: [city illegible] CONN 10 30 PM 1935. Divided-back card with white border; plain (non-linen) surface, light edge wear, pencil dealer notation 'RMLJ 41-' at top right.

Cite this card

British Invasion panel, Yale's Sterling Library, New Haven, 1935, postcard, c. 1935. PostalPast Collection. https://postalpast.com/postcard/british-invasion-panel-yales-sterling-library-new-haven-1935. Accessed November 2, 2026.