Collections : [Connecticut State Library, State Archives]

The papers were arranged into four series which reflect the political connections and interests of Billie Hill.

Includes transcripts of meetings, sound recordings of public hearings, the final report, public comments, background information and administrative files.

Includes meeting material such as agendas, minutes, transcripts and handouts; procedures; correspondence and responses; and resolutions.

Includes minutes, correspondence, proceedings, contracts, proposals, specifications, estimates, plans and drawings, time books, materials lists and receipts, account books, vouchers, bank books and cancelled checks.

Records include meeting minutes, cashbook, and a ledger listing individuals from whom licenses fees were collected.

Case files contain warden's case reports and complaint forms, as well as notification to towns regarding prohibitions on licenses, correspondence, and prohibition appeals. Correspondence includes press releases, public relations schedules, memos, statistical information and reports on various subject. Warden's files contain personnel files for for Ray M. Brittingham, Walter S. Watson, Charles R. Disbrow, and Edith A. Stoehr, the first female game warden in the United States. These records are restricted. Minutes contain files only from 1956. Photographs are primarily black and white and include warden activities such as predator control, game breeding, conservation activities, warden training and state lands. Many are mounted on acidic cardboard. A small number of photographs were added from the Law Enforcement Unit of the Dept. of Environmental Protection which assumed many of the Board's responsibilities in 1971.

This group consists of one book kept by the Board's clerk containing minutes and notes.

This record group contains minutes of meetings, public information release logs, and "A Report to the Legislature of the State of Connecticut on Capital Punishment and the Administration of Homicide Laws".

Series 1. Record Books, 1854-1911, are largely transcriptions of documents and constitute the official record of the Board. Many, but not all, of the original documents can be found in Series 3 and 5.

Ancestral chart of Mary Haskell Wyman Goold.