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The National Society, United States Daughters of 1812, was organized January 8, 1892. To become eligible for membership, a prospective member was required to trace her genealogy directly to an ancestor who had served in the United States military or civil service between 1784 and 1815. Chief among the Society's purposes was the dissemination of knowledge of American history. The Connecticut Society was organized March 2, 1906.

The New England Archivists was formed in 1973. The organization is incorporated as a nonprofit organization under the laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Its purpose as defined by the Bylaws is as follows: "to foster the preservation and use of records of enduring value in New England, public and private, corporate and individual, and to improve the management and public awareness and understanding of such records, by providing pre-professional and continuing education in archival theory and practices; a forum for the exchange of information among individuals and institutions having responsibility for records of enduring value in the region; and appropriate means of communication and cooperation with other archival organizations and with individual and groups of allied professions."

The Technical Equipment Company (TEC) had its general headquarters in New York City and a manufacturing plant in Niantic, Connecticut, by 1913. In the spring of 1913, TEC took over the gauge department of Utica Steam Gauge Company and the Libby Valve and Packing Company. By 1914, the company had become the New England Steam Gauge Company and had its base in Niantic.

On the morning of December 14, 2012, a lone gunman shot his way into the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, and then shot and killed 26 people, 20 of whom were children. The collection documents material sent to the community of Newtown in the nine and a half months following the Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings. The collection includes poems, letters, sympathy cards, mass cards, newspaper clippings, and miscellaneous material.

The focus of the collection is on electrification, or the installation of overhead wire or third rail power distribution facilities to enable operation of trains hauled by electric locomotives, of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad.

The collection holds documents related to early southern New England railroads, particularly those that were predecessor lines of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad, including the Boston, Hartford and Erie Railroad; the Boston and New York Airline Railroad; the Central New England Railway; the Charles River Railroad; the Chicago and Evanston Railroad; the Connecticut River Railroad; the Hartford and New Haven Railroad; the Hartford, Providence and Fishkill Railroad; the Housatonic Railroad; the Housantonic and Naugatuck Railroad; the Meriden and Cromwell Railroad; the Meriden, Waterbury, and Connecticut River Railroad; the Naugatuck Railroad; the New Haven and Derby Railroad; the New Haven and Northern Railroad; the New Haven and Northampton Company; the New York and New England Railroad; the New York and New Haven Railroad; the New York, Providence and Boston Railroad; the Newburgh, Dutchess and Connecticut Railroad; the Norfolk County Railroad; the Philadelphia, Reading, and New England Railroad; and the Poughkeepsie and Eastern Railway. The collection also includes correspondence Julius Wadsworth, who operated a New York based bond brokerage that heavily invested in railroads and Charles F. Pond, president of the Hartford and New Haven Railroad.

The Niagara Frontier Review was a small magazine of poetry and prose published in Buffalo, New York, from 1964-1966. The editorial staff included Charles Olson, Harvey Brown, Charles Boer and others.