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Group of legal documents issued by the descendants of Anna Sewell concerning royalties from the first movie version of her classic animal novel made by Vitagraph Company in 1921, correspondence between solicitors (January 20-September 13, 1921), copy of the will from the author's brother Phillip Sewell.

The collection contains administrative records, correspondence, financial records, legal documents, maps, notes, publications, preliminary sketches, blueprints, and microfilm from the Seymour Manufacturing Company and the Seymour Specialty Wire Company. The Seymour Manufacturing Company, later renamed the Seymour Specialty Wire Company, produced brass products at several mills along the Naugatuck River for over one hundred years, before closing in 1991.

The Sherwood Waldron collection (1995.04) relates to the tobacco industry in South Windsor, CT, and elsewhere and includes histories, account books, articles, personal letters and photographs, and objects and artifacts.

A collection of various papers by Silas and Barnabas Deane.

The W. Todd Furniss papers consist of two autobiographical volumes which describe the life of the Furniss family from 1927-1942.

The ARC collection represents small archival collections, single items, and other material held by the Bridgeport History Center that does not have enough volume to constitute an entire archival collection.

The Society of Colonial Wars in the State of Connecticut was organized in 1893 to "perpetuate the memory of the events of American Colonial History, and of the men who assisted in the establishment, defense and preservation of the American Colonies." Membership is composed of male descendants of men who rendered military or civil service to the colonies from the settlement of Jamestown, May 13, 1607 to the battle of Lexington, April 19, 1775. The collection consists of supplemental and original applications for membership in the state organization. Click here to see the scanned paper finding aid and container list (pdf).

Typed manuscript (mimeograph) "Soil, Forest, and Water Conservation in China, Israel, Africa, and the United States," oral history interview (703 pages in two volumes) conducted by Malca Chall for the Regional Oral History Office at the University of California at Berkeley, illustrated, 1969, Berkeley, California. Also included is a typed manuscript (mimeograph) "The Heavens Cooperate," by Inez M. Lowdermilk.

The research materials related to Dr. Solyman Brown compiled by Dr. Leonard Elkins, who was working on an uncompleted biography of Dr. Brown.

Includes the legend, "A century of commitment to our nation's heritage — 1889-1989."