Collections : [Connecticut State Library, State Archives]

Leila M. Church (1879-1932) was a writer, composer and director of plays and historical pageants primarily in Connecticut. The collection includes scripts, stories, essays, personal papers, scores and correspondence in reference to her professional artistic work.

Correspondence, genealogical notes, news clippings, and photographs.

On the morning of December 14, 2012, a lone gunman shot his way into the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, and then shot and killed 26 people, 20 of whom were children. The newspaper covered the story - in both print and web format - from the moment the first responders were called to the school. People from around the world responded to this coverage by writing to the paper. The collection contains letters, poetry, and artwork.

Includes genealogy notes, correspondence, documents, photographs, cuts, news clippings and a card index file.

Genealogies of George and John Norton, correspondence, and genealogical notes.

The Liquor Control Commission's purpose was to study modifications in governmental control of alcoholic beverages.

Files hold the most detailed information available on a particular case. Files usually contain a summons or writ, a document that contains a variety of other useful information, and often one or more additional documents, such as a debt by note, debt by bond, a list of book debts, depositions and/or testimony of witnesses, pleadings by lawyers, power of attorney, an accounting of court costs, and occasionally summonses for witnesses and a copy of the jury verdict.

Papers by Subject is an artificial collection consisting of materials removed from Litchfield County Court Files series by State Library staff after the records were received from the Litchfield court. Subjects include: Admissions to the Bar; Appointment of Officers; Confiscated Estates and Loyalists; Conservators and Guardians; Costs; Court Expenses; Executions; Indians; Inquests; Insolvents; Jurors; Licenses; Meeting House; Militia; Miscellaneous; Naturalization; Partition of Land; Travel: Taverns; Travel: Bridges; Travel: Turnpikes; Travel: Highways.

The Litchfield County Court Minorities Collection is an artificial collection consisting of photocopies of cases involving African Americans and Native Americans from the Files and Papers by Subject series of Litchfield County Court records. All originals have been retired and second copies have been inserted in the places where the originals were once located.

Record books, None; Probate files, 1743-1924; Wills, circa 1830-2010.