Collections

Slides of Litchfield's 250th anniversary parade.

The collection contains black & white photographs, negatives and slides (some in color) of shrubs, evergreens, bulbs, vines, annuals and perennials printed and collected by the publisher to illustrate books, catalogs and guides for professional and amateur gardeners. The A. T. De La Mare Printing and Publishing Company and collected materials in this collection date from the early to mid-twentieth century.

Sidney Van Zandt is a founding member of the Groton Open Space Association (GOSA) and Groton's Environmental Education Committee (EEC). Through her work with both organizations, she has spearheaded numerous environmental conservation projects and land preservation efforts including campaigns to establish CT state parks at Haley Farm and Bluff Point. Her papers are organized into 11 binders containing newspaper clippings, photographs, maps, correspondence, organizational records and historical information regarding the Trumbull Airport, EEC, Haley Farm, Bluff Point and GOSA.

Collection includes primary and secondary material collected by town historian Jim Streeter related to the history of Groton. Material documents families, structures, neighborhoods, businesses, industries and transport through public records, business and personal papers, photographs, maps and three-dimensional artifacts.

Financial, genealogical, business and personal papers of a Derby and Oxford, Connecticut family. Also includes Derby and Oxford town records.

Collection consists of his correspondence, diaries, papers and essays, papers of his family and transcriptions of some of his papers.

This collection consists of letters to John J. Casale and his personal desk diaries/day journals.