Collections : [Ivoryton Library Association]

The Crawford Cheney Collection, 1919-1938, contains correspondence, clippings, photographs, sketches and realia related to the life and work of Crawford Cheney and his family.

The collection primarily consists of records and photographs of the Ivoryton Congregational Church, 1844-2017.

An artificial collection that documents the history of the village of Ivoryton, a village within the town of Essex, CT. Ivoryton was a factory town built around Comstock, Cheney & Co., an ivory processing plant and the primary employer until the 1980's.

This collection contains documentation of the ivory industry, processing and trade in Ivoryton, CT during the years of operation of Comstock, Cheney & Co. and Pratt, Read & Co., successive names for the ivory factory which was the main employer in the village from the 1860's to the 1980's.