The collection consists of 35mm film slides (color and black and white) relating to New Haven area buildings, sites, and people, 1950-1979, with an emphasis on urban redevelopment projects, construction, and political events. A group of slides relating to New England log homes is also included.
Jean Day Zallinger was born in February 1918, in Boston, Mass. She attended the Massachusetts College of Art and received a B.F.A. from the Yale School of Fine Arts in 1942. Mrs. Zallinger has illustrated numerous children's books, mainly non-fictional works about animals and plants, including such titles as Biography of a Leaf, Discovering What Earthworms Do, The Earliest Americans, and Sea Creatures Do Amazing Things.