Houghton Mifflin Co. Children's Trade Book Dept., a division of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, publishes books for young readers and has published such luminaries as H. A. and Margret Rey, Virginia Lee Burton, Bill Peet, Holling C. Holling, Scott O'Dell, and James Marshall; its contemporary authors and illustrators include Chris Van Allsburg, Lois Lowry, Steve Jenkins, Joyce Sidman, Brian Lies, Sy Montgomery, and Allen Say. Houghton Mifflin is also home to some of the best-loved children's book characters: Curious George, Lyle the Crocodile, George and Martha, Martha of Martha Speaks, and Tacky the Penguin. This collection of company records includes boooks, manuscripts, artwork, posters, tapes, and a variety of other materials related to its published children's literature.
The Hound & Horn records contain correspondence, drafts of writings, financial records, and ephemera relating to the literary quarterly. The records feature original letters from well-known Modernist era authors during the tenure of the journal from the late 1920s through mid 1930s, including Bryher, Jean Cocteau, E. E. Cummings, René Daumal, T. S. Eliot, Ernest Hemingway, François Mauriac, Marianne Moore, Ezra Pound, Stephen Spender, Gertrude Stein, Robert Penn Warren, William Carlos Williams, and Louis Zukosfky, among others. There are also letters from publishers and editors, copies of outgoing letters, third-party letters, financial and legal records, and scattered drafts. There are drafts, some corrected, of work by Cummings, Daumal, Bernard Faÿ, Varian Fry, James Hanley, Pound, Spender, and Williams. The Pound files contain corrected typescript drafts for Cantos XXVIII, XXIX, XXX.
This collection contains documents and volumes relative to the accreditation of Housatonic Community College by the New England Association of Schools and Colleges (NEASC), Commission on Institutions of Higher Education from 1970 â€" 2018. As of July 31, 2018, that body became the New England Commission of Higher Education (NECHE) which accredits those institutions in New England that award Bachelor, Master, Doctoral and Associate degrees including programs offered via distance education.
This collection contains programs, press clips, name lists, trophies, and photos pertaining to Housatonic Community College athletic activities including cheerleading from 1967 – 1997.
This collection contains meeting agendas, meeting minutes, press clippings, memos, slates of officers and other documents relative to the college government at Housatonic Community College.
Connecticut's Archives Online