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Originally chartered in 1892 as Local 155 of the Journeymen Bakers and Confectioners International Union located in Waterbury Connecticut. In 1904, the name was changed to Bakery and Confectionery Workers International Union. In 1978, the union merged with Tobacco Workers Union to create the present union. Each time the international name changed the local received a new charter. The Local history can be found in Series IV.

The James Weldon Johnson and Grace Nail Johnson Papers provide evidence of the personal and professional lives of James Weldon Johnson, Grace Nail Johnson, and to a lesser degree, the Johnson and Nail families, spanning the years 1850 to 2005, with the bulk of material dating between 1900 and 1976. The papers chronicle Johnson's writing career and involvement in education, politics, and cultural affairs and consist of a variety of documents, including correspondence, writings, personal papers, scrapbooks, photographs, artwork, objects, and audiovisual materials. Johnson was involved in a number of significant movements and organizations during his lifetime, and, as a result, the Papers also provide insight into broader topics in American and African-American history during the twentieth century.

Corrrespondence, writings, notes, printed materials, clippings, photographs, financial papers, and memorabilia of Byron R. Newton, journalist and official in the Democratic Party. The papers relate largely to Democratic Party politics from 1910-1933, though there is also material relating to the early history of aviation in this country. Correspondents of note include Newton D. Baker, Charles W. Fairbanks, William G. McAdoo, William F. McCombs, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, and Wilbur and Orville Wright.

The Whittemore collection of photocopied letters at Hill-Stead Museum numbers 1562 items, a mere fraction of the material held by the Whittemore family at the Harris Whittemore, Jr. Trust offices in Naugatuck, CT, and not accessible to the public. Judicious selection of documents worthy of photocopying, given resources at Hill-Stead, winnowed the selection to selected items pertaining to Alfred Pope's Malleable Iron business in Cleveland, Ohio, and elsewhere in the mid-west, the Pope family's activities, Alfred Pope's art collecting, and the construction of the Pope's Euclid Avenue house in Cleveland [mid 1880's], Hill-Stead in Farmington [1898-1901], Westover School [1908-9] and the Halle Bros. department store building in Cleveland [1911-13], a joint real estate venture by Alfred Pope and J. H. Whittemore. All letters written by Alfred's wife, Ada, or daughter, Theodate, are also included. Alfred Pope is best known at Hill-Stead as the collector of French Impressionist masterpieces that are the hallmark of the museum's holdings. However, an understanding of Pope's business life is important to understanding him, therefore, archivists selected letters that marked important moments in the growth of his companies or that summarized activity, problems, or plans, yielding insight into Alfred Pope's general thought process, and personality. Business matters and art-related topics are intertwined within various correspondences. Lengthy business letters include brief asides about art and vice versa. Business-related correspondence outnumbers art-related correspondence, yet combined the letters reveal much about the patriarch of the Pope family, and without whose collection Hill-Stead Museum would not exist.

The Monday Club was founded in 1892 as a social and intellectual group for women in the Wesleyan University community. Members continued to meet for presentations and performances until the mid-1990s.

The papers consist of correspondence, diaries, memoirs, writings, photographs, memorabilia, and other papers documenting Edward M. House's personal life and political career. The diary details his childhood experiences and also notes political observations (1912-1924). Materials relating to the Paris Peace Conference include minutes of meetings of the Supreme Council and memoranda from various countries presenting claims. Writings include essays, reviews, novels, and other works. Correspondence includes letters to and from Woodrow Wilson, Charles Seymour, American and foreign politicians, and newspaper and political journalists. Also includes DVDs of Godfrey Hodgson's lectures and an interview regarding his biography of House.

Payroll vouchers, correspondence, timetables, photographs, reports, maps and plans, photocopies, newspaper clippings, and other research material related to the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad, the Central New England Railway, and its predecessor railroad lines. Please note that selected photographs from this collection are available in the UConn Library digital repository at http://archives.lib.uconn.edu/

The collection consists of scrapbooks, photographs, newspaper clippings and ephemera of Charles Wayne Chase primarily documenting the Yale Crew Team, rowing and regattas.

Belding Brothers and Company were silk manufacturers in Rockville, Connecticut, with additional mills in Northampton, Massachusetts, Belding, Michigan, San Francisco, California, and Montreal, Canada.

The papers consist of correspondence, memoranda, reports, notes, and writings which document the professional career of George B. Darling. The papers highlight Darling's role as head of the Division of Medicine at Yale University, 1946-1953, and as director of the Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission, 1957-1972. The papers also include files from Darling's participation in Operation Crossroads as a civilian observer of the atomic testing at Bikini Atoll. There are also photographs from personal travel around the world and papers of various members of the Darling, Smith, and Shaw families. These papers form part of the Contemporary Medical Care and Health Policy Collection.