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Personal and business papers of Richard Welling, a Hartford, CT artist and train enthusiast. The collection includes his typescript autobiography, notebooks, samples of artwork, corporate commissions, correspondence, greeting cards, and press materials.

Manuscript of "Strolling Thru Memoryland" by Rip Blevins and contains recollections of ten early 20th century sports figures.

Collection of materials purchased by Robert Cooley relating generally to Litchfield and the surrounding area. The collection includes individual 18th and 19th century letters and documents; deeds and other legal papers related to Capt. Miles Beach, 1766-1800s; photographs, including cabinet cards, cartes-de-viste, ambrotypes, daguerreotypes, tintypes loose, in cases, and/or in albums; materials related to the Coley, Tice, and Lewis family lineages and genealogy; and 19th and 20th century publications and ephemera, including newspapers, magazines, journals, pamphlets and other printed items.

Photographs, papers, and ephemera relating to World War II service of Robert F. Reynolds of Litchfield, CT. Also includes his Vietnam War-era Selective Service card.

Robert Wakeman Hill (1828-1909) was a noted architect. He received his early education in the schools of Waterbury and attended the Young Men's Institute in New Haven. He studied architecture with Henry Austin of New Haven and A. C. Nash of Milwaukee, Wis. He returned to Connecticut in 1858 and practiced architecture for a short time in Naugatuck. In 1863, he moved to Waterbury and spent the remainder of his life there. Hill was architect for the state under Governors Bigelow, Waller, Harrison and Lounsbury. He built the state armories at Waterbury, New London, Bridgeport, Norwalk and New Britain, and furnished plans for the Waterbury City Hall, the New Britain Opera House, the Thomaston Opera House, and the Winchester Soldier's Memorial in Winsted, among many others. He designed a number of buildings in Litchfield, including the County Court House (1889), the fire house (1894), two hotels, and the house of Edgar van Winkle, Hill-home. Hill died in 1909.

Two deeds conveying land in South Windsor, CT, one from Hiram Rockwell to Roswell Rockwell, 1842, and a copy of one from from Frances Rockwell to Martin McGrath, 1900.

The Roderick King collection, covering 1833-1889, is an artificial collection comprised of two series: Personal Papers and Town Records. Their provenance and original order are unknown. The arrangement was constructed based on internal evidence.

The papers consist of an oral history typescript entitled, "Building the Democratic Party in California, 1954-1966," containing interviews with Roger Kent conducted by Anne H. Brower and Amelia R. Fry in 1976 and 1977. The volume was compiled and published by the Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, in 1981.

Genealogical chart and book of corresponding family sheets.

Two letters written by Fuller Jr. in Litchfield, CT to his father in Kent, CT, in which he discusses his study in the Litchfield Law School and the Macedonia furnace, among other topics.