Collections : [Connecticut Museum of Culture and History]

Records of the Acorn Club including meeting minutes, correspondence, financial records, membership records, records relating to their publications, and archival copies of publications by the Acorn Club from 1899 to 2018.

This collection contains the papers from the Adams, Trumbull, and Wyllys families from 1732 to 1836.

This collection consists of Albert F. Sharp's correspondence to family and friends while serving in the 10th Regiment of the Connecticut Volunteers during the Civil War.

This collection consists primarily of the diaries of Albert Walker, a multi-faceted person with many interests and hobbies including magician and ventriloquist, from Glastonbury. The diaries range from 1856 to 1895.

Primarily class attendance records, 1907-1930, and curriculum materials from post-World War II, used at a Hartford, Connecticut, elementary school. Also includes financial records and principal M. Delott Garber's files as an instructor at the University of Connecticut.

Collection consists of records of the Council of Safety, whose function it was to handle the day to day affairs of Connecticut's wartime government; records of the Commissary department which was responsible for providing food and equipment for the soldiers; records of the Committee of Paytable which paid for supplies and services; payroll records of Col. Sheldon's Light Dragoons; the commissary and paymaster records of the Third Regiment, Connecticut Line; orderly books, journals and correspondence describing activities of Connecticut persons during the Revolution.

The bulk of the collection, which is organized chronologically and also by author, consists of letters written and received by Arthur S. Winchester

Correspondence between and diaries of members of two New Haven, Connecticut families. Includes letters and a logbook written by Captain Daniel Augur, the latter recorded while he was aboard the Revenue Cutter Dexter in 1833, letters from Frank Hitchcock while he was serving in the Civil War, and from Horace Augur in Peru, a religious diary kept by Mary Ann Augur and a diary by Sheldon Hitchcock, 1840, written in Wilmington, North Carolina.

The majority of this collection is family correspondence with the bulk of the material comprising letters, practically written daily, between Augustine and Ella Harlow.

The Babcock papers include business and family correspondence covering the years 1788-1859 from several members of the family who lived in Hartford and New Haven, Connecticut. The Babcocks were printers, publishers and booksellers. The bulk of the collection consists of the mercantile business papers of publisher Elisha Babcock, his brother John Babcock, and John's son, Sidney Babcock.