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Records of the American Revolution Bicentennial Commission of Litchfield are in two series. Series 1. Thomas Babbitt, chairman: Correspondence, minutes, subject files, decals, ephemera, drawings, and other materials. Series 2. Barbara MacDonald, commission member: Correspondence, minutes, subject files, decals, ephemera, a photograph, drawings, publications, and other materials. Also included are objects, such as a key chain, a bumper sticker, and playing cards.

This carefully organized collection includes the histories of deaf education, religion, Hartford, and the United States. It also links ASD's heritage and regional impact with its contributions to the Deaf Community as a whole. Among the thousands of items in ASD's collection are: Over 3,000 letters, including correspondence from the School's founders; ASD's Act of Incorporation, 1816; ASD Board of Directors Reports, beginning 1816; Documents relating to the first state and federal aid to special education in the history of the U.S.; The oldest book on sign language; Letters and essays by the school's earliest students; Over 35,000 photographs. The school's archival inventory was first organized in 1967. In 2008, the archives were relocated to the former Principal's house. Since then, ASD's archives have been significantly enriched by donations from friends and alumni. Collaboration with other historical societies, research, and new discoveries have also broadened the collection.

American Standard was created from the 1929 merger of the American Radiator Company and the Standard Sanitary Manufacturing Company. The Company was then known as American Radiator & Standard Sanitary Corporation. It changed its name to "American Standard" in 1967 to reflect the Company's familiar plumbing products brand name. American Standard is the world's largest producer of bathroom and kitchen fixtures and fittings and one of the world's largest producers of air conditioning and heating systems. This collection documents the plant in Wauregan, Connecticut.

Collection consists of black and white and color reproductions of ancient architecture. Content varies from original photographic prints to reproductions from magazines and other published sources. Some sections have accompanying clippings folders.

Collection consists of color and black and white reproductions of ancient painting (Classical and Ancient Near Eastern). Content varies from original photographic prints to reproductions from magazines and other published sources. Some sections have accompanying clippings folders.

Andre Schenker was born in 1897 and received his education at the Connecticut Agricultural College (UConn) and Yale University. He was a professor of history at UConn from 1928 - 1965.

Anita Riggio has illustrated a number of children's books and has also worked as a cartoonist and a commercial illustrator. The collection consists of original artwork and manuscripts for 25 children's books and two magazine articles, in addition to a selection of Ms. Riggio's production materials for her commercial work.

Scholar, author, photographer, and life-long editor and chronicler of Jack Kerouac and other writers of the Beat Generation, Ann Charters was born in November 1936 in Bridgeport, CT, the daughter of Nathan (a contractor) and Kate (Schultz) Danberg. She attended the University of California, Berkeley (B.A., 1957) and Columbia University (M.A., 1959, Ph.D., 1965). Her papers include literary manuscripts, letters, notebooks, photographs, periodicals, broadsides, interviews, audio and video recordings, works of art, and first, fine, and small press editions of works by and about Beat writers.

Photographs accumulated by Ann Beck, class of 1955, while a student at Connecticut College.