Collections : [New Haven Museum, Whitney Library]

The Susan Neale Papers Related to Planned Parenthood document the work of Susan W. Neale and the Planned Parenthood League of Connecticut (PPLC) between 1965 and 1975. The collection includes newsletters, pamphlets, training materials, organizational forms, news clippings, and personal papers that reflect both Neale's role as the first director of the New Haven clinic and the broader activities of the League during a formative period in reproductive health education.

The collection documents the history, administration, and activities of The Fortnightly Club of New Haven from its founding in 1886 through 2024. The bulk of the collection consists of member-authored papers presented at club meetings, reflecting the club's longstanding tradition of original literary, historical, cultural, and personal presentations. Topics include literature, history, art, music, travel, biography, local history, science, politics, and current events, illustrating the intellectual interests of the club's members across more than a century.

The collection documents the history, administration, and activities of The Fortnightly Club of New Haven from its founding in 1886 through 2024. The bulk of the collection consists of member-authored papers presented at club meetings, reflecting the club's longstanding tradition of original literary, historical, cultural, and personal presentations. Topics include literature, history, art, music, travel, biography, local history, science, politics, and current events, illustrating the intellectual interests of the club's members across more than a century.

This collection includes news articles covering police activity, photographs, a scanned copy of an 1892 book titled History of the Police Department of New Haven, records of the Board of Police Commissioners, and personnel records of officers. There are two files that total ~500 pp of blank ledger pages that are not included in the finding aid.

The Priscilla Searles Papers Related to Fort Nathan Hale Restoration Projects, Inc. document the administrative, financial, preservation, and public engagement activities of Fort Nathan Hale Restoration Projects, Inc. as reflected in records maintained by Searles during her tenure as Executive Director. The collection spans the nineteenth through early twenty-first centuries, with the bulk of materials dating from the 1970s through the 1990s.

The Priscilla Searles Papers Related to Fort Nathan Hale Restoration Projects, Inc. document the administrative, financial, preservation, and public engagement activities of Fort Nathan Hale Restoration Projects, Inc. as reflected in records maintained by Searles during her tenure as Executive Director. The collection spans the nineteenth through early twenty-first centuries, with the bulk of materials dating from the 1970s through the 1990s.

The New Haven City Burial Ground Records document the founding, development, and administration of a historically important graveyard in New Haven, Connecticut, known as the Grove Street Cemetery. The records cover the activities of both the Standing Committee of Proprietors—the cemetery's governing board—and the various clerks and superintendents who have administered the institution's daily business since its founding in 1796, as well as in the years leading up to its incorporation. Predominantly financial in nature, the records reveal the challenges inherent in operating a public/private burying ground that was the first in the country to be incorporated and the first designed with avenues for funeral processions and fenced lots sold for family burials, both entirely original concepts in the eighteenth century.

The collection consists of correspondence from and between family and other acquaintances, personal papers, and materials related to the regicides, including copies of the Death Warrant of Charles I and Charles II's proclamations for the surrender of the regicides. Filed with the collection are correspondence in 1920 and 1928-29 between Dr. John Dixwell of Boston and his attornies and the Historical Society and other groups in New Haven regarding the erection and maintenance of the monument to Dixwell on the New Haven Green.

This repository contains the following types of documents/records: Correspondence, Photographs, Fliers, Maps, Municipal government records, Scores, Architectural drawings, Audiocassettes