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The papers consist of letters, college records, military records, financial records, photographs, artifacts primarily from Pierre S. Starr, an Assistant Surgeon during the Civil War and medical Doctor afterwards, and materials from his great grandson, Robert Starr III, that he used in presentations about Pierre and to promote the book release of "For my Grandchildren" The Civil War Journey of Pierre Starr.

The Plainfield Historical Society was established in a meeting held January 8, 1916 in the Town Clerk's Office, Central Village. Judge John E. Prior was chosen chairman. The date of its last meeting was November 10, 1917.

Records documenting the Pleasant Valley Estates Residents Association, an association of South Windsor residents who contested the development of an Allied Plywood Corporation warehouse near the Barbara Road col-se-sac.

The collection contains the administrative files of the Simsbury, Connecticut-based organization, Plowshares Institute, which focuses on peace building, education, and global conflict transformation. Records from the institute include records of travel seminars, annual reports, board meeting minutes, and other documentation. This collection is currently closed for research until June 2012.

The collection contains memorabilia and ephemera associated with retired Professor, former Dean of the School of Allied Health and self-employed nutrition consultant, Polly Fitz.

The Pope-Riddle family papers collection includes letters, diaries, genealogical information, family Bibles, and other documents and material generated by, or pertaining primarily to, Theodate Pope Riddle, her parents, Alfred Pope and Ada Brooks Pope, and Theodate's husband, John Wallace Riddle.

The Post-War Planning Board, authorized by an Act of the General Assembly of June 2, 1943, was established to study problems of post-war readjustment and reconversion in the state and formulate plans to deal with them.

The Pratt & Whitney Company Records includes instruction books, product information, machine reports and proposals, advertising circulars, catalogs, reference books, journal excerpts, publications, scrapbooks of images of machines and trade paper advertisements, transparencies, photographs, photographic negatives and a film of the Pratt & Whitney Company from 1901 to 1989.

Prescott S. Bush was born on 15 May 1895 to Samuel Prescott Bush and Flora Sheldon Bush and was raised in Columbus, Ohio. He received a B.A. from Yale University in 1917 and completed his Army career in 1919. Bush joined the firm of Brown Brothers and Company became a partner in 1930. In 1921 he married Dorothy Walker. The couple had five children. A resident of Greenwich, CT, Bush was elected as a member of its representative town meeting. In 1933 he was elected as moderator, a post to which he was re-elected until his election to the United States Senate in 1952. Bush announced his intention not to run for re-election in 1961. He died in 1972.