Collections

Records of the American Revolution Bicentennial Commission of Litchfield are in two series. Series 1. Thomas Babbitt, chairman: Correspondence, minutes, subject files, decals, ephemera, drawings, and other materials. Series 2. Barbara MacDonald, commission member: Correspondence, minutes, subject files, decals, ephemera, a photograph, drawings, publications, and other materials. Also included are objects, such as a key chain, a bumper sticker, and playing cards.

Collection consists of records of the Council of Safety, whose function it was to handle the day to day affairs of Connecticut's wartime government; records of the Commissary department which was responsible for providing food and equipment for the soldiers; records of the Committee of Paytable which paid for supplies and services; payroll records of Col. Sheldon's Light Dragoons; the commissary and paymaster records of the Third Regiment, Connecticut Line; orderly books, journals and correspondence describing activities of Connecticut persons during the Revolution.

This carefully organized collection includes the histories of deaf education, religion, Hartford, and the United States. It also links ASD's heritage and regional impact with its contributions to the Deaf Community as a whole. Among the thousands of items in ASD's collection are: Over 3,000 letters, including correspondence from the School's founders; ASD's Act of Incorporation, 1816; ASD Board of Directors Reports, beginning 1816; Documents relating to the first state and federal aid to special education in the history of the U.S.; The oldest book on sign language; Letters and essays by the school's earliest students; Over 35,000 photographs. The school's archival inventory was first organized in 1967. In 2008, the archives were relocated to the former Principal's house. Since then, ASD's archives have been significantly enriched by donations from friends and alumni. Collaboration with other historical societies, research, and new discoveries have also broadened the collection.

This collection contains correspondence of individuals associated with the American School for the Deaf.

Photographs in this collection document the development and operations of the American School for the Deaf.

Reports, correspondence, photographs, and collected material document the history of the American School Kikungshan and its graduates. The American School Kikungshan was a school for missionary children established by the Lutheran missions in China. The American School Kikungshan Association is the alumni/ae association of the school.

The records include organizational papers, minutes, correspondence, financial records, and committee files which document the founding of the American Social Science Association in 1865 and its functioning over the next twenty-five years. The records highlight the work of Franklin Benjamin Sanborn as secretary of the association. The records also include files of the Conference of Charities and Corrections which met with the American Social Science Association.

Paper tapes containing propaganda messages transmitted by Axis powers to Latin American countries.