Collections : [Connecticut College -Linda Lear Center for Special Collections and Archives]

This series encompasses information pertaining to the memorial service for Irwin and the dedication of the Irwin Collection at Connecticut College on November 12, 1999 as well as ephemera from Irwin's life.

This series contains film, photographs, negatives, slides, and reel-to reel tape documenting the arboretum, staff, faculty and students and other natural areas in Connecticut. Also documented well is the effects of the 1938 hurricane on the campus and New London. This series contains some digital material; please consult archivist for access. See also Campus Photograph Collection, Arboretum series.

This series contains notes, clippings, drafts, speeches, outlines, maps, correspondence, for writing and speeches regarding the Arboretum produced by Goodwin. This series primarily contains drafts of writing and speeches; and notes and research on the significant families who owned tracts of land that became part of the arboretum. Much of the notes are undated, but contain genealogical trees and lists of dates of ownership. Of particular interest, are maps which capture the development of the Arboretum. See Series II, Land records, for related material on arboretum land holdings; and Series IV Arboretum publications, sub series A for publications on the history of the Arboretum.

The collection includes ten boxes of scrapbooks containing clippings that date from 1908 to 1955. Preserved ephemera include newspaper articles, cards, postcards, programs, invitations, and announcements. The final box contains two binders containins church bulletins from Westminster Presbyterian Church, Bloomfield, N.J., from 1932 and 1933, as well as an autograph book given as a going away present from Holy Trinity Lutheran Churfach, Buffalo, N.Y. in 1952.