Collections : [University of Hartford -Archives and Special Collections]

The collection consists of yearbooks for the University of Hartford, as well as its schools and colleges. Some of the yearbooks in the collection belong to Hillyer College, Hartt College of Music, and the Hartford College for Women before they were part of the University of Hartford. The collection also includes one yearbook from University High School, a magnet school located on the University's campus.

The collection contains the records of WWUH from 1967 to 2008. Included within this collection are program guides, meeting records, photographs, newspapers, scrapbooks, and clippings.

The majority of the collection pertains to the programs offered or funded by the Women's Advancement Initiative.

The Women+ For Change records include photographs, scrapbooks, calendars, posters, and other promotional materials from 2008-2024 related to the student organization and its efforts to promote feminism and positive self-image outside of class discussions.

The collection contains correspondence, reports, memorandums, printed ephemera, meeting minutes, photographs, and audio-visual recordings from the Ward College of Technology from 1948 until its merger with the College of Engineering in 2003.

This series contains a variety of material related to Coffin's term of office. Much of the material is published information. The collection also contains some more personal information such as correspondence between Coffin and his staff.

This collection contains every issue of the University of Hartford Studies in Literature (UHSL) from 1969 - 1991, as well as a few memorandums, press releases, clippings, and a photograph.

The University of Hartford Staff Council (UHSC) records consists primarily of general and executive board meeting records including agendas, minutes, and reports from 1997-2016. The records also include additional subject files from 2000-2015 including membership information, constitutions and bylaws, correspondence, pamphlets, and other matters related to staff and the council.

This collection documents the early history of the University of Hartford, beginning with the original talks held by the founders. The collection contains original legal documents, blueprints, correspondence, memos, receipts, and photographs. There are also several written and oral histories written about the founding from the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s.

The collection consists of the records of The Associates of the University of Hartford. The majority of the records are brochures and membership rosters, but the collection also contains event invitations, articles, press releases, and printed ephemera.

These folio size scrapbooks contain an extensive collection of newspaper clippings documenting how the university was treated by the press for three decades as well as advertising campaigns in newspapers and publications created by the University. Finally, the collection also contains University publications such as leaflets, pamphlets, brochures, and booklets.

This collection covers the musical compositions of Timothy Cheney from 1926 to 1999. The majority of this collection includes Cheney's compositions with a small portion dedicated to his poetry, correspondence, and other publicity materials.

The collection includes a number of student publications which were short-lived and/or no longer produced. Longer running or currently active student publications may have their own collections.

This collection consists of newspaper clippings, press releases, correspondence, memos, University publications and other material that were generated and/or collected by the University of Hartford regarding student unrest at the University of Hartford and other campuses in the United States during the 1960s and 1970s. Protests and student activism were directed at a range of issues like civil rights, the Vietnam War, and free speech, as well as more local issues impacting the student newspaper and student government. Much of the material was originally collected by Alan Wilson.

The collection contains digital Student Government Association (SGA) records including agendas, meeting minutes, resolutions, constitutions, and other SGA notes and resources from 2020-2022.

This collection houses the personal and professional papers of Stuart Saunders Smith from the beginning of his career in 1960 to the present (last additions to the collection were in 2018). The most extensive parts of this collection are Smith's compositions, recordings, and correspondence. Photographs, awards, programs, publicity materials, and writings are also included in the collection. All of which reveal the nature of Smith's professional career, family life as a father and son, and the various intersections therein.

The collection consists of recordings made by the University of Hartford Student Television Network Channel 2 (STN2) from 1992 to 2021. The majority of the collection consists of aircheck and show tapes of their newscasts from 1992-2014. These tapes are primarily UMatic tapes, but there are also DVCPro, VHS, and MiniDV tapes as well. The collection includes original digital news broadcasts starting in Fall 2012. The collection also includes recordings of sports and other special events.

The collection consists of newspaper clippings, press releases, programs, planning documents, photographs, and recordings pertaining to convocations, commencements, and other University hosted events (primarily speakers, lectures, conferences, and other ceremonies) from 1957 to the present. The collection is not exhaustive and information pertaining to events may be found in other collections.

This collection consists mostly of personal and family correspondence, including letters written by Moshe to Pauline while he was in the military during World War I and letters from Myra Hess to Pauline Paranov, among others. The collection also includes newspaper clippings, performance programs, and photographs pertaining to the Paranov family members and their involvement with the Julius Hartt Musical Foundation. The collection also includes some materials pertaining to the Julius Hartt family, of which Pauline was also a part, as well as audio recordings of a few children's operas performed by the Julius Hartt School of Music and an oral history recorded by Pauline Paranov.

This collection consists of memos, correspondence, and working files created by the Office of the President of the University of Hartford primarily during the administrations of Humphrey Tonkin and Walter Harrison. The collection also contains a smaller amount of material generated during the tenure of Stephen Trachtenberg.