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The collection contains original and final artwork, sketches, correspondence, proofs, layouts, book dummies, illustrations, and galleys for twenty-three books illustrated by Loretta Krupinski.

The Loring Family Correspondence consists primarily of letters to and from Mary Pierce. The main correspondents are: Mary Pierce; Anna Pierce Brace, Mary's niece; Charles Greely Loring, Anna's husband; Jane Loring Gray and Susan Loring Jackson, daughters of Charles and Anna, grandnieces of Mary Pierce.

An American composer, Lou Harrison was born in 1917 and taught at Black Mountain College from 1951 until 1952.

Louise Gaffney Flannigan (1867-1949) of New Haven, Connecticut, was the sister and wife of railroad brakemen, and frequently wrote poems and other writings about railroad workers, particularly those who were members of the Brotherhood of Railroad Brakemen Elm City Lodge #201 in New Haven, in memorial to those who died while in service to the railroad, or in celebration of their good work and bravery. The Papers consist of poems and writings, including about train trips she took to Orlando, Florida in 1888, and to California in 1897.

The collection consists of a small number of materials documenting the career of Louise Teich Johnson (UConn Class of 1936) who taught in the School of Home Economics for 25 years.

The Louis P. and Carrie Miller Collection contains papers and objects from a prominent Georgetown family closely associated with the business and social life of the local community. Also included in the collection are items associated with Louis P. Miller's father, Major David H. Miller, Sr.

Gov. Weicker's constituent correspondence, legal office files, press files, official statements, invitations accepted and regretted, subject files, and photographs.

Working from her Woodbridge, CT, home, Lucille B. Ritvo has been active in the state's political arena for decades. She chaired the Caucus of Connecticut Democrats, representing the liberal wing of the party in the early 1980s. She has worked in many political campaigns and chaired Joe Duffy's 1970 senatorial campaign (CT, 3rd District).

The papers of Ludmil A. Chotkowski, a Polish American physician and vice-president of the Solidarity International Connecticut Chapter, a grass root organization supporting underground and dissident activities in Poland in the 1980s. He initiated a successful campaign to erect the Popieluszko Human Rights Monument in New Britain, Conn. He was involved in lobbying efforts and media campaigns on behalf of Polish opposition and participated in activities of other anti-communist and pro-democracy organizations based in the USA.

Magic lantern refers to a device for projecting still images on a surface popularized in the nineteenth century. Originally slides were hand painted but became photographic in the 1850s. This collection of magic lanterns and lantern slides was assembled by George H. White of Hobart, Indiana. The collection includes two magic lanterns and examples of hand painted and photographic lantern slides of varying styles, including stereo slides, circular and panorama children's slides, single and multiple slides, standard American slides, paper slides.