Collections

This collection contains material related to the Waterbury Spirit Minor League Baseball Team (1997-2000), including programs, schedules, team rosters, and ephemera.

The Waterbury Town and City Records contains documents from Connecticut's early colonization and Waterbury's incorporation as a city. Some of the documents include documentation of town debts and minutes from town meetings. There are various records collected by the Selectmen of Waterbury, as well as court rulings between Waterbury and other cities regarding landownership. Interesting to note are documents containing information on the architecture of Fulton Park.

The Waterbury Women's Civic League Records document the activities of the League from the late 1940s through the mid 1990s. The Civic League was founded on April 27, 1942 by Corinne Thomas as a club for African American women who were interested in affecting change in their community. The club raised funding to provide scholarships for black youth to attend college and created programming celebrating black arts and culture. The collection is largely newspaper clippings detailing events and scholarship recipients, although there are also photographs, correspondence, and broadsides.

This collection contains records of the Waterbury YMCA from 1889-2000. The collection includes newsletters, newspaper clippings, and various photographs. This collection documents the YMCA's activities and community involvement.

Genealogical notes, correspondence, patriotic society memberships and photographs.

Watercolors and pencil drawings created by Henry Sommer related to the United States Army Utah Expedition, including sites, persons, and other activities chiefly in the Kansas Territory and Utah Territory, 1858-1860. An identified site in the Kansas Territory consists of a view of a camp, probably near Fort Leavenworth. Identified sites in the Utah Territory include military camps at Camp Crosman, Camp Floyd (later known as Fort Crittenden), and Fort Bridger. Activities include views of American bison hunting and hare hunting as well as views of soldiers in camps. Includes an interior view of the quarters of Lewis Henry Little as well as an interior view of a Mormon family at their home.

The papers represent four generations of the Nehemiah Waterman family of Norwich, Connecticut. The principal figures are Elijah Waterman and his son Thomas Tileston Waterman, both Congregational ministers. The papers of Elijah Waterman consist of correspondence with other ministers, approximately 125 sermons, and histories of Woodstock, Pomfret, Lebanon and Hampton, Connecticut. The papers of Thomas Tileston Waterman also contain professional correspondence, sermons and religious publications. His wife, Delia Storrs Waterman's journals for the years ca.1848-1880, as well as essays, poetry and financial papers are included. There is also a series a scrapbooks kept by their son, Thomas Storrs Waterman with clippings and notes on politics, religion and history. General family correspondence, chiefly for the period 1795-1876, genealogical papers, photographs, financial documents, printed matter and memorabilia complete the collection.

The State Water Commission was created in 1925 to reduce, control or eliminate water pollution. It merged into the Water Resources Commission in 1957 that was formed to study the water resources of the State.

Record books, 1834-1938; Probate files, None.

The Watson family collection consists of a photographic scrapbook, artwork, documents about the Watson homestead on Main Street, and other materials related to artist Amelia M. Watson (1856-1934), her sister photographer Edith S. Watson (1861-1943) and their family, all of South Windsor, CT.