Collections : [Connecticut State Library, State Archives]

Correspondence, accounts and miscellaneous business papers of Aaron Gaylord relating to his local accounts and shipments on various vessels.

Letters between various members of the Aaron Hand Family mostly regarding family matters. Writers include Bayard Epenetus Hand, Aaron Hicks Hand and his wife Elizabeth Coit Boswell Hand, Isaac Platt Hand, and Nancy Fanning Boswell, Elizabeth's stepmother. Elizabeth Coit Boswell Hand was originally from Norwich, Conn.

The records were arranged into eight series which document the Abele vs. Markle abortion court cases. The series include Legal Documents, Exhibits, Correspondence, Subject Files, Legislative Files, Press Files, Publications, and Duplicates.

Gov. Ribicoff's correspondence, subject files, flood of 1955 files, highway safety files, 1958 campaign files, appointment files, speeches, media articles, and press files.

Records include the Committee's report to the Governor, correspondence, workbooks, and subject files.

Genealogical record sheets and correspondence used in preparing Pitkin Family of America: A Genealogy of the Descendents of William Pitkin.

Correspondence, notes, genealogy manuscripts, periodicals and photographs related to the Beach family.

Index cards of ancestral registers compiled by Algot G. Stenberg. It appears that these index cards relate to the registers listed as Related Material, but the cards do not indicate which register they relate to.

Letters between various members of the Alonzo Baldwin Dewey Family mostly regarding family matters and news of local residents around Chaplin, Connecticut. Writers include Alonzo Baldwin Dewey, Emeline Washburn, W.H. Dewey (son of Alonzo and Emeline Dewey), Edwin A. Dewey (son of Alonzo and Emeline Dewey), Israel Dewey (Alonzo's father), Sally Goodell (Emeline's sister), Walter Goodell, Philo Washburn, Mary Washburn, Lucy Washburn and Andrew Washburn (Emeline's parents), Mary and Lucy Chadwick (Emeline's sisters), Betsy Lowell (Alonzo Dewey's half-sister), C.M. Goodell (cousin of Emeline's), George Washburn (Emeline's brother), Cornelia Washburn, Mary Dewey Seevers, and Isaac Goodell.

Contains information on Post meetings and activities compiled by Post historian Gilbert H. Miner.

Seven notebooks of genealogical material on the Howard family. Includes genealogical charts, correspondence, and photostat copies of genealogical notes.

Probate record books, 1849-1941. Contact the probate court to access original record books numbered greaster than 38. When the Andover district was created in 1851 from the Hebron district, the Hebron district record books numbered 1 through 21 remained in Andover where the court had been held. The newly created Andover district started the numbering of that court's record books with number 22. See Alternative Form Available note below.

These records contain primarily agency files, meeting files and other material related to block grants.

The collection consists of biographical sketches and obituaries, minutes of annual dinner meetings, membership lists, financial records, programs, secretary's reports, and correspondence.

Records include minutes of meetings, correspondence, reports of officers, the Club Constitution, and membership lists.

Probate record books, None. Contact the probate court to access original record books. See Alternative Form Available note below.

Probate record books, None. Contact the probate court to access original record books. See Alternative Form Available note below.

Probate record books, None. Contact the probate court to access original record books. See Alternative Form Available note below.

Includes a briefing book, meeting notices, minutes, report of the Commission, responses to request for information, tesimonies, and a transcript.

These records consist solely of meeting transcripts from 1972. Some transcripts are for the Subcommittee on Banks and for the Subcommittee on Public Utilities.

The records include meeting documents for most years. These consist of notices, agendas, minutes, roll call votes, and attendance. Session reports may consist of roll call attendance and vote records for a session, list of bills considered to be most important by the committee, lists of bills that received a Joint Favorable report by the committee, and vote sheets.

The collection consists of published annual meeting minutes and sunday school convention minutes of the Ashford Baptist Association, Danbury Baptist Association, Fairfield County Baptist Association, Hartford Baptist Association, Litchfield Baptist Association, New Haven Baptist Association, New London Baptist Association, Stonington Baptist Association, Stonington Union Baptist Association, Otsego Baptist Association (New York), Shaftsbury Baptist Association, and unidentified minutes. The published annual meeting minutes generally contain the associations constitution, articles of faith, rules of order, delegates, resolutions, sermon, and correspondence from member churches and other associations. The sunday school convention minutes generally contain convention notes and programs. The circulation of published meeting minutes was common between Baptist associations of Connecticut and out of state Baptist associations such as Otsego and Shaftsbury.

The collection is comprised of correspondence between Jean, his children and family members in France from about 1856 to around 1913; French military and identity records; three memorial books and newspaper obituary clippings for various members of the family; a small prayer book in French; and assorted photographs, along with a photo album documenting family vacations around 1913 which contains some loose items. It also includes correspondence between Jean and his close friend from France, George Marion, who was serving in the Volunteer 1st Connecticut Cavalry, Company A, during May 1862 from the Virginia battle front. The collection contains a compact disc with digital copies of many of the papers found in the collection, as well as some extra material about the family's genealogy written by the donor, Suzanne Barbier Scheele.

Probate record books, volumes 1-20, 1825-1977. Contact the probate court to access record books after Volume 20. See Alternative Form Available note below.

The papers include appointment letters, discharge from service paper, correspondence, and a printout of photographs.

Probate record books, Volumes 1-10, 1854-1958. Contact the probate court to access record books after Volume 10.

Probate record books, 1859-1976. Contact the probate court to access record books after Volume 37. See Alternative Form Available note below.

The papers were arranged into eight series which reflect the legislative and political career, civic and community activism, and personal views of Betty Hudson.

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.

The records include bi-state agreements, field notes, commission reports, and maps, photographs, plans and sketches showing the location of boundary markers. Much of the material has been published.

The letters and sermons were arranged into seven series which reflect the Bouton families role in religion, civic leadership, family life, and service during the Civil War. The series include Correspondence, Sermons, Diary, Archibald Bouton, Publications, Miscellaneous, and Photographs.

Probate record books, None. Record books are at the Norwich Probate Court.

This collection of 217 black and white photographs is a representative survey of the aspects of military life and training on the base from 1942 to 1945. All the photos are numbered, identified, and stamped "Official U.S. Army Air Corps photo" on back. Activities represented include, among others, the Sixth War Loan drive, an open house for the public, redeployment, multiple training exercises, the training of Chinese fighter pilots, day-to-day life, and medal presentations to servicemen or the families of those missing in action.

Probate record books, 1840-1955. Contact the probate court for access to record books after Volume 193. See Alternative Form Available note below.

Probate record books, 1830-1927. Contact the probate court to access record books after Volume 48. See Alternative Form Available note below.

Probate record books, 1857-1947. Contact the probate court to access record books after Volume 13. See Alternative Form Available note below.

Probate record books, None. Contact the probate court to access original record books. See Alternative Form Available note below.

Probate record books, None. Contact the probate court to access original record books. See Alternative Form Available note below.

Probate record books, Volumes 1-16, 1847-1927. Contact the probate court to access record books after Volume 16.

Probate record books, None. Contact the probate court to access original record books. See Alternative Form Available note below.

Probate record books, Volumes 1-20, 1841-1940. Contact the probate court to access original record books after Volume 20. See Alternative Form Available note below.

Probate record books, 1850-1929; Wills and Distributions, 1857-1950; Bonds, 1881-1927. Contact the probate court to access record books after Volume E.

The papers consist of the enlistment record and honorable discharge paper for Corporal Charles F. Watrous, photographs, two small pocket diaries, Connecticut State Guard identity card, Social Security cards, buttons, and medals. The bulk of the photographs are from the World War I period, although two others date from 1941-42.

Includes thirty four notebooks of genealogical notes, including one the Bull family; preliminary papers for a digest of probate records; Windsor, CT vital statistics; newspaper clippings; correspondence; a personal ledger; photographs; and some genealogical notes collected by Mary E. Manwaring.

Probate record books, Volumes 1-63, 1829-2007, bulk 1829-1972. See Alternative Form Available note below.

Gov. Chester Bowles' subject files related to state agencies, commissions, legislative bills, and appointments among other topics.

Meeting transcript and sign-up sheet for October 3, 1984 meeting.

Contains minutes, records of expenditure, reports, correspondence, lists of applicants and appointees, sample examinations, and files on hospital attendants and nurses.

The record group contains administrative files, minutes of meetings, general correspondence, correspondence with towns and other states, newsletters, drafts of unpublished works, publications and related materials of the Commission, and publications from other state Centennial organizations.

Includes drawings, photostats, and paintings.

Includes a scrapbook of a European trip, 1861; Memoir of Joshua Coit (1800-1881), 1913; and a letter from Joshua Coit to an unnamed niece, 1877.

Probate record books, Volumes, 1-37, 1741-1976. Volumes 1-9 and part of Volume 10 contain records for the East Haddam Probate District which held the court in Colchester. When the Colchester Probate District was established in 1832, recordkeeping continued in the same Volume 10 and subsequent volumes continued the numbering sequence. See Alternative Form Available note below.

The materials consist of meeting minutes, annual reports, financial records, and materials relating to the Club's activities at Mitchell House and during World War I. Also included are revisions to by-laws published in 1996 and copies of annual programs.

The collection consistes primarily of photographs depicting company administrators and employees, the Colt armory in Hartford and other Colt-related properties, events, promotional material, and firearms.

The Connecticut State Library received the Colt Factory Firearms Collection and a large manuscript collection from Colt's in 1957. While there is much information regarding the operation of the company contained in the manuscript collection, it does not contain the sources needed to trace the history of a specific firearm. Such information can only be found in the company's shipping records, which were not part of the 1957 donation, and which Colt's has retained. For a fee, the of the Colt's Manufacturing Company Inc. can provide an Archive Letter detailing the history of a specific firearm.

Contains a list of Committee members, 1991-1992; minutes, April-May, 1991 and February, 1992; and 1991 Joint Favorable List.

Consists of meeting documents including notices, agendas, minutes, attendance, and roll calls; bill books, and correspondence.

Consists of one publication, Connecticut Shipping Terminal at New London (1915) from the time of the Rivers, Harbors and Bridges Commission and seven photographs showing the progress of hydraulic work from August to October 1915.

The records consist of correspondence, shipping costs, scrapbooks, and the register of visitors from the Exposition Hall.

Records documenting the commission's activities are not included. This collection only contains visitor registers from both the Connecticut Headquarters at the Exposition and the Connecticut Farm Products Exhibit and a sketch of the Connecticut Building.

Series 1. Minutes of Meetings include records of meetings, quarterly reports, reports about prison visits, press releases, newspaper clippings, transcript of hearing on P.A. 354. Series 2. Sound Recordings consist of five inch diameter discs, most of which are marked with names and dates of petitioners. The cover about half the number of petitions. They may be dictaphone recordings of hearings. However, equipment to hear recordings is not available. Series 3. Petitioners Case Files contain files of applicants whose petitions were approved. Files contain affidavit from petitioner, two letters of character references, hearing transcripts, correspondence relating to hearings, final decisions. Series 4. is Administrative Subject Files.

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.

Includes meeting material such as agenda and reference material, a general file arranged by unit that includes correspondence, working papers, studies and reports, Material on government organization, Staff Director's files, Questionnaires for legislators, press clippings and recordings of radio interviews.

"300 Years of Connecticut Architecture" Exhibit materials, 1968-1974, were collected as part of a town by town state survey of architectural records made in 1968. It resulted in an exhibit that traced the development of Connecticut architecture from 1639 to 1974 and constitute a photographic history of Connecticut. The exhibit opened at the Wadsworth Athenaeum in 1971, and toured the state through 1974.

This subgroup consists of the commission's agendas and minutes, reports and study files for each agency, consultants special reports, draft chapters for its report to the General Assembly as outlined in its authorizing legislation, press releases, correspondence, records relating to proposed legislation, and subject files consisting of working papers including correspondence and reference materials.

The record group documents the commission's study of State agencies and institutions and their services and contains minutes of commission meetings, supplementary studies, public hearings, correspondence, draft findings and recommendations, and the final report. Of particular note is a paper analyzing the growth of cases of cancer. Also included are records of the commission's deliberations, studies, and investigation of Norwich State Hospital. Half of the files consist of transcripts of testimony taken under oath.

Includes meeting files for the full Commission as well as task forces, administrative files, and final report.

The record group contains minutes of meetings, reports and bills from the legislature, printed reports of state agencies and administration codes of other states, working papers and drafts, organizational charts, drafts of the final report, and the report itself.

This subgroup consists of data and correspondence that the Commission used to compile the information for its report to the General Assembly as outlined in its authorizing legislation.

Records include correspondence, meeting minutes, arbitration agreements and contracts, financial records, and photographs documenting the construction of the new State Library and Supreme Court Building

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

Includes minutes, bulletins, reports and correspondence.

Includes agency program reviews and consultants' reports.

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.

These records contain meeting material that include notices, agendas, attendance sheets, minutes, and transcripts.

The records include correspondence, meeting minutes, notes, newspaper clippings, and reference materials pertaining to the work of the committee and the preparation of its report.

Includes reoprts, meeting records, inventory of state agencies and commissions, correspondence, press clippings, public ocmment, research office files, report drafts, an implementation file, hearing and conference tapes, legislation material, and reference files.

Contains organizational histories, minutes of meetings, newspaper clippings, speeches, programs, scrapbooks and photographs.

The records are arranged into four series: Administrative Files, Activities and Events, Removable Media, and Artifacts.

Includes membership list, correspondence and press releases, event listing and announcements, minutes and publications.

Papers and correspondence of the General Assembly, the Governor and Council, and other colony or state officials.

Contains meeting summaries of the Council and its subcommittees. Meeting summaries include agendas, minutes, and supplemental material such as reports and presentations.

Early deeds, land records, turnpike records.

Contains minutes, treasurer's records, convention records, printed materials, reports and statistics of the Connecticut Federation of Churches, Connecticut Sunday School Union, Connecticut Sunday School Teachers Association, Connecticut Sunday School Association, Connecticut Council of Religious Education, Highland Auxiliary of the Connecticut Sunday School Association, North Tolland Sunday School Association, Professional Religious Education Association, and Connecticut Council of Churches.