Collections : [Connecticut State Library, State Archives]

The Board of Railroad Commissioners came into existence on July 1, 1853. On September 9, 1911 it was succeeded by the Public Utilities Commission.

The letters and sermons consist of materials pertaining to Nathaniel Bouton, John Benedict Bouton, Harriet A. Bouton, and other Bouton family members. Nathaniel Bouton was pastor of the First Congregational Church in Concord, New Hampshire; a historian; and a member of numerous organizations. John Benedict Bouton was a hatter and volunteer soldier in Company H of the 8th Regiment Connecticut Volunteer Infantry during the Civil War. Included in the letters and sermons are correspondence, sermons, a diary entry, and photographs.

Includes thirty four notebooks of genealogical notes, including one the Bull family; preliminary papers for a digest of probate records; Windsor, CT vital statistics; newspaper clippings; correspondence; a personal ledger; photographs; and some genealogical notes collected by Mary E. Manwaring.

The Civil Service Commission made rules, created classified job titles and tests, administered the tests and perepared eligibility lists, answered correspondence, and sought information about exempted or unclassified employees in State departments.

In 1959, the General Assembly created the Civil War Centennial Commission to promote and publicize the history of Connecticut's participation in the Civil War. The Commission consisted of twenty-five appointed members and had an office in the State Library.

Includes a scrapbook of a European trip, 1861; Memoir of Joshua Coit (1800-1881), 1913; and a letter from Joshua Coit to an unnamed niece, 1877.

The club was organized at a "mass meeting and rally of college women," in Hartford on February 11, 1905, with its object "mainly social, philanthropic, or literary." Among its activities, the Club took a leading role in the establishment of the Spruce Street Settlement, later known as Mitchell House.

The records of Colt's Patent Fire Arms Manufacturing Company document gun manufacturing at the armory and the company's subsidiaries, together with outside contracting activities.

The Commerce Committee has cognizance of all matters relating to the Department of Economic and Community Development, the Connecticut Development Authority and Connecticut Innovations, Incorporated. Consists of meeting documents including notices, agendas, minutes, attendance, and roll calls; bill books, and correspondence.

The Jamestown Tercentennial Exposition was held in Hampton Roads, Virginia, April 29 to November 30, 1907, to celebrate the three hundredth anniversary of the first English-speaking colony.