Collections

As the son of Ira DeVer Warner, one of the key players in the Warner Corset Company, Ira Follett Warner was granted no small amount of wealth and privilege in his lifetime. These family films, some of them from as early as the 1920s when owning a home film camera was unusual, show Ira's branch of the Warner family on various vacations around the world.

Reflecting the politics of the mid 2000s, this collection focusts on Connecticut public access television and the coverage of both national and local level politics. There is a particular emphasis on the war in Iraq and the Patriot Act, as well as local Bridgeport concerns.

Collection of mounted black and white photographs of European and American film stills, the majority from the early 20th century. Some material may overlap with or duplicate items in the VRC 35 mm slide collection. The majority of the material acquired from the Museum of Modern Art as part of their circulating film program. Accompanied by a small collection of brochures, catalogs, other publications, and a set of film strip negatives from the Museum of Modern Art, New York.

Collection consists of black and white glass lantern slides of early 20th century American and European film stills and photography from 1839 to the mid-twentieth century.

Collection consists of color and black and white 35 mm slides of international film stills and examples from the history of photography from 1839 to the present. Film stills largely from the Museum of Modern Art film still series.

The Financial Planning Committee (FPC), a faculty-student body created under faculty by-laws, was formed in about 1968. It was composed of 6 faculty members, 4 undergraduate students, and 4 ex-officio administrators. The role of the group was to evaluate administrative proposals related to budgets and allocations, and provide suggestions and recommendations.

A small group of family papers, including photographs of a horse and buggy and automobile; Litchfield High School commencement programs; and documents relating to James Finan's service in World War II, including his honorable discharge and photographs.

This collection of printed ephemera and subject files about fine presses has been accumulated by Olin Library throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

Photographs of the Finn family, Richard and Virginia, and their son, mostly on Bantam Lake. A few show their business, The Lamplighter.

Vietnam War veteran Basil T. Paquet founded First Casualty Press in September 1971 with fellow veterans Larry Rottmann and Jan Barry Crumb. Paquet both edited and contributed to Winning Hearts and Minds: War Poems by Vietnam Veterans and Free Fire Zone: Short Stories by Vietnam Veterans. Paquet won the Wallace Stevens Award for Poetry in 1969.