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Connecticut Room
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Publications and rare books relating to the State of Connecticut.
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"Days of old" remembered : a historical discourse, delivered in the Congregational Church, Brookfield, Conn., July 16th, 1876
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Pierce A. C. (Asa Clinton), 1819-1888.
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24 p. ; 22 cm.
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1876
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Brookfield (Conn.) -- Church history.
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f104 .b85 c64 1876
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Bridgeport : Gould & Stiles
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<a href="https://archives.library.wcsu.edu/relatedObjects/CTRoom/f104_b85_c64_1876/#page/1/mode/2up" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Page turner version</a>
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WCSU Centennial Interview Segments
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30, ~30sec - 2min second interviews and the University song
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Over the last 30 years, interviews and oral histories have been recorded with persons who figure prominently in this institution's and Danbury's history. Portions of these interviews were assembled into these short segments for the centennial commemoration. These segments were transfered from a CD created in 2002, but interview date from the late 1970s through 2002. Also included are various recordings of the school song: "Dear Western"
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2003
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<a href="http://archives.library.wcsu.edu/findingaids/wcsuMiscellanea.xml" target="_blank">Link to finding aid</a>
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Oral History
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"Dear Western" - Choral
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Isaacs, Kevin Jay, 1959-
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1993
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WCSU Centennial Interview Segments
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30, ~30sec - 2min second interviews and the University song
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Over the last 30 years, interviews and oral histories have been recorded with persons who figure prominently in this institution's and Danbury's history. Portions of these interviews were assembled into these short segments for the centennial commemoration. These segments were transfered from a CD created in 2002, but interview date from the late 1970s through 2002. Also included are various recordings of the school song: "Dear Western"
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2003
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<a href="http://archives.library.wcsu.edu/findingaids/wcsuMiscellanea.xml" target="_blank">Link to finding aid</a>
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Two guitars performed by Amphion Busky.
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"Dear Western" - Guitar
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Isaacs, Kevin Jay, 1959-
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2008
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WCSU Centennial Interview Segments
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30, ~30sec - 2min second interviews and the University song
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Over the last 30 years, interviews and oral histories have been recorded with persons who figure prominently in this institution's and Danbury's history. Portions of these interviews were assembled into these short segments for the centennial commemoration. These segments were transfered from a CD created in 2002, but interview date from the late 1970s through 2002. Also included are various recordings of the school song: "Dear Western"
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2003
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<a href="http://archives.library.wcsu.edu/findingaids/wcsuMiscellanea.xml" target="_blank">Link to finding aid</a>
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"Dear Western" - male vocal
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Isaacs, Kevin Jay, 1959-
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1993
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https://archives.library.wcsu.edu/omeka/files/original/WCSU_Centennial_Interview_Segments/1499/Track01.mp3
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WCSU Centennial Interview Segments
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30, ~30sec - 2min second interviews and the University song
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Over the last 30 years, interviews and oral histories have been recorded with persons who figure prominently in this institution's and Danbury's history. Portions of these interviews were assembled into these short segments for the centennial commemoration. These segments were transfered from a CD created in 2002, but interview date from the late 1970s through 2002. Also included are various recordings of the school song: "Dear Western"
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2003
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<a href="http://archives.library.wcsu.edu/findingaids/wcsuMiscellanea.xml" target="_blank">Link to finding aid</a>
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"Dear Western" female solo
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Isaacs, Kevin Jay, 1959-
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1993
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4a0df53f-dbb0-433c-a9e2-a6360e3a3ef9
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John Mihelic Collection, MS015
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John Mihelic was from Kansas City, Missouri and was a member of the Socialist Party. He was also involved with the Communist Party of America. The collection includes some correspondence and leftist/socialist publications from the early 20th century.
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Mihelic, John
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"Don't Let the Raiders Ride Again!" Political Cartoon
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Socialism
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This political cartoon urges people to vote neither Republican or Democrat by portraying the two sides as their animal counterparts, singing songs of broken promises. It encourages the reader to vote socialist.
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Smedley Collection
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1920s
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MS015
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Excellent Good Songs of Mr. Jones [Ultimum Vale (1608); 2nd Book of Songs and Airs (1601)]
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15 Songs by Robert M. Jones
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<a href="http://archives.library.wcsu.edu/findingaids/steinkraus.xml" target="_blank">Link to finding aid</a>
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"Excellent Good Songs of Mr. Jones" ; Transcribed from the original editions of 1601 and 1608
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22 pages of manuscript bound (Eclipse staff paper book)
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Robert Jones (c. 1577 – 1617) was an English lutenist and composer, the most prolific of the English lute song composers (along with Thomas Campion).
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Jones, Robert, active 1597-1615
Heseltine, Philip Arnold (1894-1930) -- transcriber
Warlock, Peter, 1894-1930-- transcriber
Wilson Philip
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[1920s]
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"Good by, Dolly, I must leave you. Send me Cartoons Magazine"Our Soldier Boys are off to France
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World War, 1914-1918--Propaganda
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An advertisement for Cartoon Magazine
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1917
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Truman A. Warner Papers, MS026
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An account of the resource
Warner spent 37 years as a teacher and administrator and was also a board member and former president of the Scott-Fanton Museum, now known as the Danbury Museum and Historical Society. During his tenure, he supervised and contributed to numerous museum exhibits. The Warner Collection consists of writings, photographs, miscellanea, research notes and papers documenting Warner’s life as a World War II medic, author, historian and historical researcher. The bulk of the collection contains an extensive series of newspaper clippings and printed materials relating to local and state history, several boxes of personal papers, and several boxes that contain information on Western’s faculty, administration, and events concerning the school’s history beginning in the 1940s and continuing through to the late 1990s.
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"Granville" Letter from Sarah
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Sarah, circa 1717
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1 letter, bi-fold; pen and ink
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The letter, dated October 18, 1717, from Sarah, describes evangelical activity, Cyrus French, Mary, and the recipient's son, David, lives with Sarah. An enslaved person is mentioned. The letter was found in a house on Montgomery Street in Danbury as it was being razed. (Situated where the parking lot of the Central Christian is now located). The properties in the general area were owned in the 1880s by a Mrs. Moore and a Mrs. Benedict.<br /><br /><a href="https://archives.library.wcsu.edu/omeka/files/original/Rare_Books/4200/hopkins_danbury_atlas_2.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Link to Hopkins map showing the properties.</a>
Transcription:
[Page 1]
Granville Oct[ober] the 18, 1717
My near and dear connections[,] I take this
opportunity to inform you that we are in a
tolerable state of health [-] hoping these lines
will find you and yours familys [families] enjoying
the same blessing[.] Oh that we mit? [might] be more
Sensible of the mercyes [mercies] and blessing that we
ar[e] receving [receiving] from the hand of god[.] ? We seke [seek]
to god in the way he has pointed out in
the scriptures[.] We may rest a shurred [assured] that
we shall obtain? [attain?][.] God has seen fit to arrest
the atenshion [attention] of a great number in this
place and still seemes [seems] to be a carrying? on
his work[.] I verily believe that it is none
less than the power of god do such wonder[-]
full things for poor lost sinners[.] I shall
not be able to give you but a short accoun[t]
at present but thare [there] has been a considerable
atenshion [attention] payd [paid] to religion this summer past
and seemes [seems] to be increasing[.] Thare [there] is twenty
that has entertained a comfortable hope
[Page 2]
And a great number in quiening? [inquiring?] I will
jest [just] mention one sircumstance [circumstance][- ]Mr.
Harris our minister be gun [began] to visit his
people last spring[.] each family on ?runpos? [on purpose?]
for religios [religious] conversation? and in his visets [visits]
he went to one house[.] The woman of the house
was so much a posed [opposed] to religas [religious] conversation
that she left the roome [room] untill [until] he was
gone and she has ?cinse?[since] confest [confessed] that she felt
condemned ?nesier? [never?] found peace untill [until] she
found that peace that the world can
nether [neither] give nor take away and to a peani
nce [penance?] seemes [seem] to bee? Rejoysing [rejoicing] in god and the
Savior but but? this ?ronfe? [work?] has ben [been] ?mos?
tly a [mostly?] a mong? [among] the yong [young] people thay? mele?
all most every night in difrent [in different] pa
rts [parts?] of the town and a pon [upon] the sabath [sabbath][.] the
Meting [meeting] house is very mutch [much] crouded [crowded][.] I
presume that the congregation is twice [twice]
as large as it was be fore [before] the revival? begun [began.]
[Page 3]
I want to hear from you all I have nece?
we? ondly? one letter from you cince [since] I have
been hear [here] that was dated January last [.]
I have rote [wrote] twice cince [since] the last by
Cyrus French[.] Doe [do?] rite [write] as son [soon] as you necerie? [receive?]
this[.] I want torite [to write] a great deal
and give me all the infor mation [information] you can
about hulday? [Hulday?][.] I have note [not] to her? [hear] cence [since] I
came hear [here] but received [received] nos anser [answer] and to
cunill? [Camill?] anumber [a number] of times but have not
heard from her own children continues
to talk mutch [much] a bout [about] you and some time
S [times] jump for joy one mentions what you rote [wrote]
about coming hear [here][.] One sayes [says] I hope
that aunt Mary will come and fetch
her little boys and little slave? tries
to talk to [too?][.] he can call your naimes [names] and all the the
childrens naims [names][.] I have oieund? [owned] him but a few
weaks [weeks] and he goes to bed with the rest of the chi
ldren [children] [.] awaik [awake?] he is a brte [bright] little rogue as ever
you saw[.] David is often a folding paper to send
[Page 4]
I made him some cloes [cloths] the other day and
he says that I will kepe [keep] my trousers clean
til? aunt Ann comes[.] she will come next
summer I love ant [aunt?] and I shall kiss aunt when
she comes[.] the girls remembers [remember] granama [grandma]
and talk mutch [much] of her[.] I want to hear? from
her I wish you would rite [write] in per tick
ler [in particular] how she does and a bout [about] your childre
n [children][.] I have not herd [heard] from Squire? since
I wrote to you last[.] I flattered myself
last summer that I shout [should] go and see him
But our children are too youn
g [young] to be left[.] I have ben [been] to Berkshier [Berkshire]
twenty 5 miles from hear [here][.] Mr. J*l*mes?
and Joseph l? and his wife and sone [son] has
viset [visited] us this fall and Mr. David Ballnum?
and his wife and her sister Clavyery? Wheeler[.]
he married Luvina[?] Wheeler[.] thay [they] live 50
milds [miles] from hear [here][.] Mr. Sturges sends his
love to youall [you all][.] he often says that he
wishes that me? it? under? son [Mr. Anderson?] was hear [here]
to take his sasom?
I remain your loving Sarah
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1717
Subject
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North America--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
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ms026_26_30
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https://granvillehistory.omeka.net/items/show/1144; Instead of Granville, the author may have been referring to Grantville (part of Norfolk, CT). There was a Sarah (Cook) Grant married to a Josiah Grant (Grant, Arthur Hastings. The Grant family : a genealogical history of the descendants of Matthew Grant, of Windsor, Conn.1601-1898).
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"How Fires have helped Danbury" from the New York Herald
Subject
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Danbury (Conn.)--History
Description
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Article regarding fires in Danbury after the "fire bug" from the New York Herald
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HOW FIRES HAVE HELPED DANBURY.
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They Have Resulted in a Superior Class of Buildings in Prominent Sections.
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AIDED REAL ESTATE VALUE.
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Insurance Companies Changing in Their Opinion of Risks in That City.
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EFFICIENT FIRE DEPARTMENT.
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{BY TELEGRAPH TO THE HERALD.}
Danbury, Conn., March 7, 1896
Danbury has had another conflagration. According to insurance men there is no other city in the State which has had more disastrous fires during the last decade than Danbury. In fact, this city has been placed on the black list of several insurance companies.
Danbury does not quite deserve this treatment, however, and it is slowly but surely living it down.
The city first acquired this reputation during the "reign of the firebug," as it is called, nearly seven years ago. Hardly a night passed for two months without an alarm of fire being sounded, and thousand dollars' worth of property went up in smoke. The firebug was never captured, but stopped his work suddenly, and has never again taken up the torch.
Fires did not cease with his so-called "reign," however, for many of Danbury's big fires have occurred since then. The fires during "the reign" were confined mostly to factories and barns, and were scattered all over the city. The large fires since then have all been in the mercantile section, and not a year has passed without several business blocks being reduced to ashes. The nature of the buildings destroyed, however, has been such that tends to make the losses seem out of proportion to the vast amount of valuable property covered by the different fires.
IMPROVEMENTS FOLLOW.
With one exception the fires within the last five years have been in buildings. In every instance where a wooden building has been destroyed a substantial brick structure has risen in its place. In this way the hazardous localities have been gradually reduced, and as a consequence the general risk has been lessened.
More improvements in real estate in the business section of the city have been made as the result of fires than in any other way. The majority of the most substantial business blocks are now standing on the sites of burned buildings. Real estate values have also been greatly enhanced.
When viewed in this light it can be seen that the extensive fire which destroyed $100,000 worth of property recently will be as advantageous to the city in the long run. Nine frail wooden structures where entirely destroyed, and in their places nine substantial brick buildings will be erected. The fire took place in the most dangerous locality in the city, where buildings of light and inflammable construction were crowded together. In the rear of the nine buildings which fronted the street where old factory buildings, barns, tenements and sheds, all of wood. This entire section was thoroughly cleaned out, and not so much as one timber was left standing.
The most deplorable thing about the fire was that it swept across the street and made a wreck of a substantial brick structure. This building, however, will be entirely restored.
HAS CHANGED HIS MIND.
An insurance inspector who recently made an examination of the city said White street was the most risky mercantile section of any in this part of the State. He was here recently, and after looking over the ruins caused by the latest fire, said he had altered his opinion, as the fire had brought about ther very improvement which he and many other insurance men had been hoping for.
A noticeable thing in summing up the losses and insurance was that few of the tenants had any insurance on their effects. The reason they gave for this was that the rates were so hight that it was too expensive an investment. Those who owned the property in the rear were unable to get any company to take risks on their buildings.
The Consolidaated Railroad is soon to erect a large and handsome union station a short distance from where the fire occurred, and will abandon the old station in Main street. This change will be another great improvement to this street.
Danbury's fires have resulted beneficially in another way. They have been the means of developing one of the best and most efficient fire departments in the State. And Danbury's firemen never did better work than they did at Tuesday's fire, and the city is justly proud of them
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fultonhistory.org
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New York Herald
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1896-03
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Danbury Fire Bug