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WestConn Archives Research Miscellanea

Title: WestConn Archives Research Miscellanea
Description: Documents and photographs used by the WestConn Archives for exhibit research and other projects.

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1927 Candlewood Lake Clippings
4 clippings
A Century of Hat Making in Danbury
Full page dedicated to the Mallory Hat Company history.
Air Transport Association advertisement; "The Caissons Go Flying Along."
10" x 14"; black and white drawing
Alcoa Aluminum Corporation advertisement; "That's us you're giving the flag, mister."
10" x 14", Color drawing
American Gas Association advertisement; "Ladies, here's how you can help cook a tank!..."
10" x 14"
American Locomotive advertisement; "Ever face a firing squad?"
10" x 14" color drawing
American Locomotive advertisement; "Here are you!"
10" x 14"; Color drawing
American Locomotive Company advertisement; "A high honor for your daughter"
10" x 14". Color drawing
American Locomotive Company advertisement; "It's dinnertime in America"
American Locomotive Company advertisement; "Try This for Size."
10" x 14", Color drawing
American Meat Institute advertisement; "Meat Ashore!"
10" x 14"
Bausch & Lomb Optical Company advertisement; "With Flying Colors!"
10" x 14"
Beautyrest Matress advertisement; "The gentle art of relaxing in wartime"
10" x 14"
Bell Telephone System advertisement; "Please Mr. and Mrs. Public"
10" x 14"; Black and white cartoon drawing
Belmont Radio advertisement; "Marked for Destruction"
10" x 14"
Belmont Radio advertisement; "Thank God For Americans With Fighting Blood"
10" x 14"
Bendix Aviation Corporation (Bendix Products Division) advertisement; "The Invisible Crew of our Bullet Belching Monsters."
10" x 14"
Bendix Aviation Corporation advertisement; "Products of 35,000 Bendix craftsmen safeguard America by land, sea air!"
10" x 14"; 3-color separation
Bendix Corporation advertisement; "Doing the Wash in the Enemy's Water"
5" x 14"
Borden Company advertisement; " "I feel like the mother of the regiment.", giggled Elsie."
10" x 14" Color drawing
Brazilian Community Center, Danbury
Screen capture from Google Maps
Brewing Industry Foundation advertisement; "Morale is a lot of little things."
10" x 14" black and white drawing
Cannon Towels advertisement; "Army day - crocodiles keep out!"
10" x 14"
CAO 2026 Intro
~3mins, ~50 seconds
Castle Films advertisement - "Japs Bomb USA!"
5" x 14"; 2-color separation
Chesterfield Cigarettes advertisement; "All Clear. That's the smoker's signal for a mild, cool cigarette."
10" x 14"
Chevrolet advertisement; "Three awards to three plants in one day"
10" x 14"; three color separation
Chris-Craft Corporation advertisement; "Buy U. S. War Bonds Today - Tomorrow command your own Chris-Craft."
10" x 14",
Chris-Craft Corporation advertisement; "Three Navy "E's" for Excellence in Production
10" x 14" color drawing and text
Chrysler Corporation advertisement; "It wasn't just dark...it was black as Tojo's heart!"
10" x 14"
CL&P, annual reports, 1940 and 1942
Composite image
Clipping regarding the rebuilding of the University Library of Leuven (Louvain), Danbury Evening News, July 17, 1923 and images of DNS's inscription.
Composite of Plan 1 and Plan 2 for Rocky River basin, from Lynn Fernandez' "The History of Candlewood Lake"
Contemporary images of Rocky River
8 images
CT Legislation Special Amendments- Smart Art Arrows
Cup and Container Institute advertisement; "There is no dishwasher in a Bomber's crew."
10" x 14"
Curtiss Candy Company advertisement; "...and make it snappy!"
10" x 14" color drawing
Dr. Pepper advertisement; "Not January 1, but December 7, America's New Date for Resolutions"
10" x 14"
DuPont advertisement; "Container Industry finds way to save War materials"
10" x 14"; Color
Electric Boat Company advertisement; "Up from the sea in subs"
10" x 14"
Electric Companies under American Business Management advertisement (94 companies sponsored advertisement); "It's all yours - and no Jap or Nazi has anything like it!"
10" x 14"
Elgin Watch Company advertisement; "Hour By Hour She Stands Guard Above The Connecticut Coast."
10" x 14" and photograph
Epitome gradualis Romani, seu cantus missarum dominicalium et festivarum totius anni, juxta usum Romanum ; A Dom. de La Feillée, revisum, auctum et emendatum, pg 376-377
1 composite image
Ethyl Corporation advertisement; "Tokio Papers Please Copy"
10" x 14"; Color
Farnsworth Television & Radio Corporation advertisement; "Victory"
10" x 14" Color painting interpreting Beethoven's "Symphony No. 5"
Fisher (Division of General Motors) advertisement; "Straight steer by Fisher"
10" x 14"
Fisher (Division of General Motors) advertisement; "Finish Fight by Fisher"
10" x 14"
Fisher (Division of General Motors) advertisement; "Hands Across The Sky"
10" x 14"
Florida Citrus Commission advertisement; " Because bomber crews must have "Victory Vitamin C", maybe your canned Florida Grapefruit Juice ... is over Nazi rooftops tonight!"
pg. 52
General Electric advertisement; "The girl who shattered the dream of Corporal Clark."
10" x 14"
General Electric Company advertisements; "Wartime Lighting Suggestions"
10" x 14"; Black and white photograph
General Electric Corporation advertisement; "She Knows what Freedom really means."
10" x 14"; Black & White Drawing
General Electric Corporation advertisement; "Why can't we wash dishes by pushing a button?"
10" x 14"
General Motors advertisement; "New Life for Old Cars"
10" x 14"; Black and White
General Motors advertisement; "Outposts In The War Against Waste"
10" x 14"
General Motors, Pontiac Division advertisement; "Our 56-pound problem child has lost a lot of weight."
10" x 14"
Goodyear Rubber Company advertisement; "Lightning War, U. S. Style - Leaps Rivers on Rubber Bridges."
10" x 14"
Greyhound advertisement; "More than ever, "It's this amazing America!""
10" x 14" Color drawing
Greyhound advertisement; "Serve See America Now! - so you can see America later."
10" x 14"
Greyhound Bus Company advertisement; "I drove a Greyhound...I'll drive one again!"
Pg. 88
Gruen Watch Company advertisement; "Tell Steve you cashed your war bond."
10" x 14"
Gruen Watch Company advertisement; "The life saver that was waiting in Honolulu, December 7, 1941."
10" x 14" Color drawing
Gruen Watch Company advertisement; "Tonight I leaned across 10,000 miles and kissed you!"
10" x 14"
Heinz Soups advertisement; "Soups Streamlined for Victory!"
10" x 14"; Black and white photographs
Hi-res Images of Truman Warner's WWII Scrapbook
Hoover Corporation advertisement; "A quiet street , but a fighting street"
10" x 14"; watercolor drawing
Hoover Vacuum Cleaner advertisement; "The V-Home...Is your home one?"
10" x 14"s
Hoover Vacuum Company advertisement; "Can you find the 9 "War-Shorteners" in this picture?"
10" x 14"
Industry advertisement by the Council on Candy of the National Confectioners' Association; "The only thing that most soldiers and I have against candy is that we don't get enough of it."
10" x 14"
Ingersoll Watches (Waterbury Clock Company) advertisement; "Only two minutes to buy the best gift of all"
10" x 14"
International Harvester advertisement; "Invasion"
10" x 14"
International Sterling Company advertisement; "The wedding veil I'll never get to wear."
10" x 14" black and white photograph
Interwoven Socks advertisement; "Time for some good Socks"
10" x 14" and photograph
J. Henry Roraback related clippings
4 Clippings
J. Henry Roraback Retains Connecticut Grip: His Re-election to Both State and National Party Posts
1 clipping
J. Henry Roraback's Testimony in 1934 Federal Trade Commission Hearing
Newspaper Article- 1 page
John Anthony Craig materials
1 clipping from legacy.com, 1 composite from Ancestry.com - 1940 Federal Census
Kelvinator advertisement; "And we'll live happily ever after..."
10" x 14"
Land records from the Town of New Fairfield in that area around Candlewood Lake
LIFE Magazine Cover
10" x 14" Black & white photograph
Life Savers Candy advertisement;
10" x 14"
Life Savers Candy advertisement; It's no sale, lady!"
10" x 14"
Lifesaver Candy advertisement; "Dear Mom..."
10" x 14"
Listerine Antiseptic advertisement (Lambert Pharmaceutical Co.); "Do your best...and be at your best."
10" x 14"; Black and white drawing
Lockheed Aircraft advertisement; "End of Rehearsal"
10" x 14"; Color
Lockheed Aircraft advertisement. "Lightning Strikes."
10" x 14"
Lockheed Corporation advertisement; "...dish it out!'
10" x 14" Color drawing
Magazine Publishers of America public service advertisement; "By His Deeds...Measure Yours"
10" x 14"
Martin Aircraft advertisement; "They're Making Scrap...Are You Collecting It?"
10" x 14", Color drawing
Martin Aircraft advertisement; "Tomorrow the world is yours!"
Merritt and Goss from Connecticut History Makers
Minnesota Valley Canning Company (Green Giant) advertisement; "How to Eat Like a Patriot."
10" x 14"
Minnesota Valley Canning Company (Green Giant) advertisement; "How to Grow Your Own Peas"
8" x 11" color drawing and text
Missale Romanum ex decreto sacrosancti Concilii Tridentini restitutum, Pio 7. Pont. max. iussu editum, et Clementis 8. primum, nunc denuo Vrbani papae octaui auctoritate recognitum. In quo Missae propriae de Sanctis omnes ad longum positae sunt... pg 456
Composite image
Nash Kelvinator advertisement ; "I can see the hills of home"
10" x 14"
Nash Kelvinator advertisement; "When you come back to me..."
Pg. 39
Nash Kelvinator advertisement; "A Refrigerator and an Automobile Go to War!"
10" x 14"
Nash Kelvinator advertisement; "A wing, and a gun, and an engine by Nash!"
10" x 14"
Nash Kelvinator advertisement; "I looked into my brother's face."
10" x 14"
Nash Kelvinator advertisement; "I saw a miracle..."
10" x 14"
Nash Kelvinator advertisement; "Mom..."
10" x 14"
Nash Kelvinator Corporation advertisement; "Ice Cubes For Japan."
10" x 14"
Nash Motors advertisement; "My tomorrow..."
10" x 14"
Nash-Kelvinator advertisement; "For Joe and Pete and Jack and Harry..."
10" x 14"
Nash-Kelvinator advertisement; "I will come home again..."
10" x 14"
Nash-Kelvinator advertisement; "Reading between the lines of your blessed letter..."
10" x 14", Color drawing
National Carbon Co. (EverReady batteries) advertisement; "WHEN and HOW to Use Your Flashlight in a Blackout."
10" x 14"; Four color separation drawing
Nestlé's advertisement; "Chocolate is a fighting food."
10" x 14"
New Military Company
1 clipping
New students invade Western Connecticut Campus
1 clipping
New York Times, clippings of classified ads for Bronson and Pickett's Candlewood Lake properties.
Norge Appliances advertisement; "Night Watch"
10" x 14" Color drawing
Norge Household Appliances advertisement; "Keep your War Bonds in this Free Budget Portfolio."
10" x 14".
North American Aviation advertisement; "Mustangs raise Hell in Heavens"
10" x 14"
North American Aviation advertisement; "North American sets the pace!"
10" x 14"; black and white photograph and drawing
North American Aviation Company advertisement; "15-gun salute from American flyers"
10" x 14"
North American Aviation, Inc. advertisement; "What! An artist's model building a bomber?"
10" x 14", Black and white photographs
Oldsmobile (Division of General Motors) advertisement; "Tank-Eating Tiger!"
10" x 14"
Oldsmobile-Division of General Motors advertisement; "Keep 'Em Firing"
10" x 14"; Black & White drawing
Oldsmobile, Division of General Motors advertisement; "Fighting...Every Working Minute!"
10" x 14"; Black & white drawing
Oneida Limited advertisement; "These are the things we are fighting for, that our children may look to the skies in joy and confidence...and not in fear."
10" x 14"; Color drawing
Oneida Ltd. Silverware advertisement; "These are the things we are fighting for...the right to teach the truth...not propaganda."
10" x 14"
Oneida, Ltd. advertisement; "Back Home For Keeps"
Oneida, Ltd. advertisement; "These are the things we are fighting for. The right of a woman to marry for love and not at the State's command."
10" x 14"
Pacific Mill advertisement; "Speaking of postwar plans..."
10" x 14"
Pacific Sheets advertisement; "Please, God .. bring him back to me safely...."
10" x 14", two color drawing
Parker Pen Company advertisement; "Rationed in production to meet the needs of war"
10" x 14"
Parker Pen Company advertisement; "the Soldier whose letter Never Comes"
10:x 14" Black & white drawing and text
Pennsylvania Railroad advertisement; "Molly Pitcher, 1944"
10" x 14"
Pennsylvania Railroad advertisement; "On their way"
10" x 14"
Pennsylvania Railroad advertisement. "Helping the Navy Launch Victory!"
10" x 14" Color drawing
Pepperell Manufacturing Company advertisement; "Mud to You...Luxury to Them."
10" x 14"; Black & White drawing
Philco Corporation advertisement; "You said it, Uncle!"
Philco Corporation advertisement; "Axis Nightmare!"
10" x 14" Black & white cartoon and text
Philco Corporation advertisement; "Coming Events Cast Their Shadows."
10" x 14"
Philco Corporation advertisement; "Dig 'Em Out!"
10" x 14"; Black & White Drawing
Philco Corporation advertisement; "Don't Monkey with the Buzz Saw!"
10" x 14"
Philco Corporation advertisement; "He is our boy!"
Philco Corporation advertisement; "One way to handle vandals!"
10" x 14"; Black & white drawing
Philco Corporation advertisement; "Tanks, Guns, Men."
10" x 14"
Philco Corporation advertisement. "Don't look now, boys, but..."
10" x 14" Black & white drawing
Plymouth Motors (Chrysler Corporation) advertisement; "The mightiest weapon of war"
10" x 14"
Polk Miller Products Corp (veterinary medicine producer) advertisement; "I can wait."
10" x 14" color drawing
Pontiac Motor Division (General Motors) advertisement; "He's the United Sates Army..."
10" x 14"
Pullman Company advertisement; "Dear Bill - The Navy doesn't cry."
10" x 14"
Pullman Rail Co. advertisement; "After you...Soldier!"
10" x 14"; Black & White
Pumps Start Filling the Basin
Article regarding the filling of the Rocky River basin most of which was pumped from water in the Housatonic River
Quaker State Motor Oil advertisement; "Here's one great advantage the Axis can't match..."
10" x 14"; color drawing
Radio Corporation of America (RCA) advertisement; "Your war bonds will buy the secret weapons we need to lick the enemy; Your savings will buy the greatest radios and phonographs in RCA's history."
10" x 14"
Revolutionary War era images from WCSU Special Collections
6 images
Rocky River Hydroelectric Station- A National Historic Mechanical Engineering Landmark
11 pages
Roraback Suicide Press Coverage
Safe-T-Cones (ice cream cones) advertisement; "Attention! All you men in Uniform: Here's the best to the best."
10" x 14"; Color.
Scotch-Tape (Division of 3M Products) advertisement; "If war gas falls from the sky...he'll be ready!"
10" x 14"; Two-color drawing
Shell Oil Company advertisement; "Damn the Torpedoes! - we'll grow our own palm trees."
10" x 14"
Socony-Vacuum Oil Company, Inc. (Mobilgas); "Yes, your job is waiting for you, soldier!"
10" x 14"
Special Acts and Resolutions, Connecticut, 1919, pg 107
1 clipping
Special Acts of the State of Connecticut with Appendixes, 1923
Stromberg-Carlson advertisement; "His pal, the Tank Driver, was dead...!"
10" x 14"
Studebaker advertisement; "Studebaker craftsmen again give "more than they promise".
10" x 14"
Studebaker advertisement; "Tens of thousands of big Studebaker Trucks move the men and supplies of war."
10" x 14"; color drawing
Texaco advertisement; "Heil..."
10" x 14"
Texaco Company advertisement; "Just eleven hours on earth...with Hitler!"
10" x 14"
Texaco Company advertisement; "Report to the Emperor"
10" x 14"; color drawing
Texaco Company advertisement; "Your battles, too!"
10" x 14"
Texaco Corporation advertisement; "Fighting for the right to boo the Dodgers"
10" x 14"
Texaco Corporation advertisement; "Smoke means trouble. Do your gas coupons go up in smoke?"
10" x 14"
Texaco Corporation advertisement; "This might have been a scalpel!"
10" x 14"
Texaco Corporation advertisement; "When?"
10" x 14"; Color drawing
The Texaco Company advertisement; "...wonder what a "goose-stepper" thinks about?"
10" x 14".
The Yankee Boss: J. Henry Roraback
Time Newspaper Article- Text only - 1 page
Tubize Chatillon Corporation advertisement; "Will it take a bomb to break up the afternoon bridge game?"
10" x 14"
U.S. Electric Companies advertisement; "Uncle Sam has far more POWER for War production, than all these three together!"
10" x 14"; Black and White
United Airlines advertisement. "Cargoliner In the Age Of Flight"
10" x 14"
United States Army Recruiting and Induction Service advertisement; "One for All and All for One."
10" x 14" Black and white drawing
Unites States Steel advertisement; "The gun that sprang from nowhere"
10" x 14"
USO (United Service Organizations) advertisement; "Casualty - 1,000 miles from the enemy"
10" x 14"; Black and White
Vassar College, Special Collections Library
War Production Board advertisement; "Quiz on Junk"
10" x 14", Black & white text and drawing
Warner Hall snapshots
3, 3 x 5", color prints
Weco Products Company advertisement; "Guard your health for the job ahead!"
10" x 14", Color drawing and black and white photograph
Western Cartridge Company advertisement; "Now...he shoots for freedom"
10" x 14"
Western Electric advertisement; "Field Headquarters"
10" x 14"
Western Electric advertisement; "Fighting Words - From Our Fighting Men
10" x 14" Black and white photographs
Whitman's Chocolates advertisement; "A woman never forgets the man who remembers."
10" x 14"
Will Have Miles of Shore
1 Clipping
Willys Motor Cars advertisement; "ZAMECHATELNO!" (Russian for " terrific")
10" x 14"
Wilson Sporting Goods advertisement; "No nation can be successful in war while its functions are frustrated by a people not physically fit to man capably all arms of the service...at home and on the fighting fronts." Pg. 112
5" x 14"; two color separation text
Winchester Guns advertisement; "Here's where my Hunting Pays Off."
10" x 14"