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Photographs, papers, and ephemera relating to World War II service of Robert F. Reynolds of Litchfield, CT. Also includes his Vietnam War-era Selective Service card.

Robert Wakeman Hill (1828-1909) was a noted architect. He received his early education in the schools of Waterbury and attended the Young Men's Institute in New Haven. He studied architecture with Henry Austin of New Haven and A. C. Nash of Milwaukee, Wis. He returned to Connecticut in 1858 and practiced architecture for a short time in Naugatuck. In 1863, he moved to Waterbury and spent the remainder of his life there. Hill was architect for the state under Governors Bigelow, Waller, Harrison and Lounsbury. He built the state armories at Waterbury, New London, Bridgeport, Norwalk and New Britain, and furnished plans for the Waterbury City Hall, the New Britain Opera House, the Thomaston Opera House, and the Winchester Soldier's Memorial in Winsted, among many others. He designed a number of buildings in Litchfield, including the County Court House (1889), the fire house (1894), two hotels, and the house of Edgar van Winkle, Hill-home. Hill died in 1909.

Two deeds conveying land in South Windsor, CT, one from Hiram Rockwell to Roswell Rockwell, 1842, and a copy of one from from Frances Rockwell to Martin McGrath, 1900.

The Roderick King collection, covering 1833-1889, is an artificial collection comprised of two series: Personal Papers and Town Records. Their provenance and original order are unknown. The arrangement was constructed based on internal evidence.

The papers consist of an oral history typescript entitled, "Building the Democratic Party in California, 1954-1966," containing interviews with Roger Kent conducted by Anne H. Brower and Amelia R. Fry in 1976 and 1977. The volume was compiled and published by the Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, in 1981.

Genealogical chart and book of corresponding family sheets.

Two letters written by Fuller Jr. in Litchfield, CT to his father in Kent, CT, in which he discusses his study in the Litchfield Law School and the Macedonia furnace, among other topics.

Rules of the Litchfield Female Academy recorded by Sarah Kingsbury Brown.

Research files and other materials related to Samuel Fisher's 1946 book, Litchfield Law School, 1774-1833: Biographical Catalogue, containing information about its students. There are also papers related to other aspects of Litchfield's history.

Samuel Hinkley Robbins letter written from Baton Rouge about New Orleans to William Holt Averell.