Collections : [University of Connecticut -Archives and Special Collections at the Thomas J. Dodd Center]

The collection contains administrative records and publications produced by the Laboratory.

Contains correspondence, photographs, CDs, posters, flyers, promotional postcards, press releases that document the life of Magdalena Gómez as a poet, writer, spoken word performer, and social activist for such issues as homeless, arts in K-12 education, teenage bullying, teenage empowerment through the arts, women's rights, Latino/a and other minorities rights, etc… In addition there are materials such as flyers, posters, correspondence, and DVDs that document Magdalena Gómez involvement with Teatro V!DA, an intergenerational professional community theater that she co-founded.

Magic lantern refers to a device for projecting still images on a surface popularized in the nineteenth century. Originally slides were hand painted but became photographic in the 1850s. This collection of magic lanterns and lantern slides was assembled by George H. White of Hobart, Indiana. The collection includes two magic lanterns and examples of hand painted and photographic lantern slides of varying styles, including stereo slides, circular and panorama children's slides, single and multiple slides, standard American slides, paper slides.

The collection contains musical scores arranged and drills designed for the University of Connecticut Marching Band by David Maker.

Malcolm D. Rudd was born 3 April 1877 in Lakeville, CT, the son of General William Bearfslee (1838-1901) and Maria Coffing (Holley) Rudd (1842-1914). He was treasurer and general manager of the Holley Manufacturing Company from 1901 until his death in 1942.

Branford, Connecticut, metal foundry, founded by Joseph Nason in 1841 as the Joseph Nason Company. Name changed to Walworth and Nason Company of Boston, Massachusetts, to manufacture equipment and install steam heating, and then to Malleable Iron Fittings Company in 1864, which produced malleable iron castings. Collection consists of administrative records, including production ledgers, melting reports, inventory and shipment books, order books, salesbooks, correspondence, and payroll books.

The materials that compose the records of the Mansfield League of Women Voters in this collection begin with minutes documenting a meeting that took place on 5 February, 1942. As the League gained strength in membership and purpose the records of its activities have included: organizational documents such as histories of the League, by-laws, Board policies, Board rosters and membership directories; minutes of Board meetings, annual meetings, and sporadic general membership meetings; financial reports relating to budgetary matters; newsletters; study reports based on intensive study of mostly local issues.

The Mansfield Organ Pipe Works remained the sole manufacturer of metal-toed organ pipe feet in the world until around 1979. The company traces its origins to Erastus McCollum and his sons Julian and Henry.

The collection contains the original manuscript, first draft, and final draft of The New Haven Railroad in the McGinnis Era, by Marc F. Frattasio. The book was published by White River Productions of Hart, Missouri in 2003. Also included are writings by Catherine Quinlan, who served as a grill car girl for the New Haven Railroad, with related photographs and newspaper clippings, and an unpublished manuscript by Quinlan, "3,400,000 Miles Walking the Rails," by Quinland and Marc Frattasio, 2003.

An illustrator and author of picture books for children, Marc Simont illustrated books for numerous authors in addition to his own, among the most notable being James Thurber and Marjorie Weinman Sharmat. His illustrations for Janice May Udry's A Tree is Nice won the Caldecott Award in 1957, and he received Caldecott Honors for Ruth Krauss's The Happy Day and his own The Stray Dog. Simont was also been recognized by the Child Study Association, Society of Illustrators, New York Academy of Sciences, New Jersey Institute of Technology, American Institute of Graphic Arts and the Today Show.