Collections : [Connecticut State Library, State Archives]

Submissions for the Connecticut State Song competition. The records include letters of submission, lyrics, sheet music, and sound recordings collected in the 1970's during a competition that allowed composers to submit their version of a possible state song.

The records are arranged into two series: Administrative Files and Photographs.

These records consist of agendas, attendance sheets, bill books, bills, bulletin notices, hearing transcripts, Joint Favorable lists, membership lists, memorandum, minutes, notes, sign in sheets, subject files, and transcript sheets.

Includes memorandums, correspondence, notices of meetings, meeting minutes of both the full Commission and the subcommittees, reports, surveys, hearing transcripts, lists of mandates, lists of Commission members, text of legislation, notes, fiscal notes and impact statements, newspaper clippings, consultants reports, and research reference materials.

Executive and Legislative Nominations Committee meeting and nomination files.

These records contain primarily meeting files.

Meeting minutes, transcripts, and report related to Gloria Bogen, Republican Candidate for office of State Representative in the 73rd Assembly District, challenge of the results of the November 6, 1984 election and the recanvas thereof.

Includes reports, meeting notices and agendas, correspondence, questionnaires, testimony, and background and resource material.

These records contain public hearing transcripts, 1995-1997; and testimony, 1992.

Researchers need to be aware in studying these records that the spelling of surnames often varies. It could be Ames or Eames, Hide or Hyde, Lathrop or Lothrop, Maynor, Maynard, Minerd, or Mynard, Right or Wright, or Waterhouse, Waterus, or Watrous, to cite just a few examples.