This far-from-comprehensive list appeared as an undated, unattributed typed bibliography once kept in the reference desk drawer in Manuscripts and Archives. It may be added to by staff members over time.

History of Yale

• Russell Henry Chittenden. History of the Sheffield Scientific School of Yale University, 1846-1922. 
• Reuben A. Holden. Yale: A Pictorial History.
• Brooks Mather Kelley. Yale: A History.
• William Lathrop Kingsley, editor Yale College, A Sketch of Its History, with Notices of Its Several Departments, Instructors, and Benefactors, Together with Some Account of Student Life and Amusements. 2 vols. 
• George Wilson Pierson. Yale: A Short History.
• George Wilson Pierson. Yale College: An Educational History, 1871-1921.
• George Wilson Pierson. Yale: The University College, 1921-1937.

Campus

• Arnold G. Dana, compiler. Yale Old and New, a 100-volume scrapbook on the history of Yale. The originals (call number RU 867) are restricted and researchers must use the microfilm (call number: HM 41), but the online finding aid for the original scrapbooks contains the concordance that provides detail on what is on each of the 19 reels of microfilm.
• Richard C. Carroll, editor. Buildings and Grounds of Yale University. Also available digitally through EliScholar.
• Bruce Rogers, editor. The Arms of Yale University and Its Colleges at New Haven. 
• Richard C. Carroll, editor. The Residential Colleges of Yale University.
• Office of the Secretary. Yale Memorials.
• Christopher Gray. Blueprints: Twenty-six Extraordinary Structures. Includes a blueprint for Harkness Memorial Tower at Yale.

Student Life

• Lyman Hotchkiss Bagg. Four Years at Yale, By a Graduate of [18]'69. Also available digitally through HathiTrust.
• Loomis Havemeyer. Sheff Days and Ways: Undergraduate Activities at the Sheffield Scientific School Yale University, 1847-1945. 
• Loomis Havemeyer. The Story of Undergraduate Yale in the Second World War.
• Owen M. Johnson. Stover at Yale. Also available digitally through HathiTrust.
• Richard Warch. School of the Prophets: Yale College, 1701-1740.

Yale and New Haven

• Elizabeth Mills Brown. New Haven: A Guide to Architecture and Urban Design.
• Rollin G. Osterweis. Three Centuries of New Haven, 1638-1938.
• Rollin G. Osterweis. The New Haven Green and the American Bicentennial.
• Ellen Strong Bartlett. Historical Sketches of New Haven.
• Anson Phelps Stokes. What Yale Does for New Haven: A Study of the Influence of an Endowed University on the Financial Well-Being of Its Home City.
• Historical New Haven Digital Collection: This collection, no longer actively maintained, contains over 500 digital images created in Summer 2003 as an online resource in support of the Yale course "New Haven and the Problem of Change in the American City." It contains many images of the Yale campus in addition to images of New Haven more generally.