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

Materials collected at the Third Annual Bookfair held in Amherst, MA.

The New England Archivists was formed in 1973. The organization is incorporated as a nonprofit organization under the laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Its purpose as defined by the Bylaws is as follows: "to foster the preservation and use of records of enduring value in New England, public and private, corporate and individual, and to improve the management and public awareness and understanding of such records, by providing pre-professional and continuing education in archival theory and practices; a forum for the exchange of information among individuals and institutions having responsibility for records of enduring value in the region; and appropriate means of communication and cooperation with other archival organizations and with individual and groups of allied professions."

Publications, flyers, and essays by the New England Committee for Nonviolent Action and the peace activist Bradford Lyttle. The NE CNVA was located in Voluntown, Connecticut.

The Technical Equipment Company (TEC) had its general headquarters in New York City and a manufacturing plant in Niantic, Connecticut, by 1913. In the spring of 1913, TEC took over the gauge department of Utica Steam Gauge Company and the Libby Valve and Packing Company. By 1914, the company had become the New England Steam Gauge Company and had its base in Niantic.

A historical association dedicated to preserving the history of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad, a major freight and passenger railroad in southern New England. Collection consists of records of the railroad, not the historical association.

Maps and track plans of property in Connecticut, Massachusetts, eastern New York, and Rhode Island belonging to the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad Company and its predecessors, including the Hartford & New Haven Railroad, the Housatonic Railroad, the Naugatuck Railroad, the New York & New England Railroad, and the New York & New Haven Railroad.

Floor plans, survey cards and photographs for stations, interlocking towers, and other structures that the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad abandoned, sold, or razed during the period between 1911 and 1964.

Two lists of details of bridges along the route of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad.

The New Haven Railroad was formed in 1872 through the merger of the Hartford and New Haven Railroad and the New York and New Haven Railroad. On January 1, 1969, it formally folded into the PennCentral Railroad system.

The focus of the collection is on electrification, or the installation of overhead wire or third rail power distribution facilities to enable operation of trains hauled by electric locomotives, of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad.