Warner, Truman A. 1920-1997
Person
biographical statement
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Danbury Preservation Trust Records
Collection
Identifier: MS 039
Abstract
The Danbury Preservation Trust had its beginnings in 1978 during a faculty developed summer course entitled Living History, Reading the Connecticut Landscape, taught by Dr. Herbert F. Janick, Professor of History at Western Connecticut State College. After formal incorporation in January 1979, he became the Trust’s first president. The records of the Danbury Preservation Trust span the years 1978-1997. The collection includes surveys to identify structures...
Dates:
1959-2001
Truman A. Warner Papers
Collection
Identifier: MS 026
Abstract
Warner spent 37 years as a teacher and administrator and was also a board member and former president of the Scott-Fanton Museum, now known as the Danbury Museum and Historical Society. During his tenure, he supervised and contributed to numerous museum exhibits. The Warner Collection consists of writings, photographs, miscellanea, research notes and papers documenting Warner’s life as a World War II medic, author, historian and historical researcher. The bulk of the collection contains an...
Dates:
1725-1997, (Bulk 1940-1997); Majority of material found within 1940 - 1997
Truman Warner Anthropological Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS 048
Abstract
This is a small collection of objects from Asia, Africa, the Americas and New Guinea collected presumably from the 1960s and 1980s by Truman Warner to be used in class and for his personal collection. The collection is predominantly made up of musical instruments and masks.
Dates:
1960-1980
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Audiotapes. 2
- Clippings. 2
- Correspondence. 2
- Danbury (Conn.) -- History. 2
- Photographs. 2
- Agendas 1
- Arpeggiones. 1
- Ceremonial masks. 1
- Danbury (Conn.) -- City Planning 1
- Danbury (Conn.) -- Genealogy 1
- Danbury (Conn.) -- Hearthstone 1
- Danbury (Conn.) -- Historic Preservation Surveys 1
- Danbury (Conn.) -- Ives Street 1
- Danbury (Conn.) -- Liberty Street 1
- Danbury (Conn.) -- Main Street 1
- Danbury (Conn.) -- Patriot Garage 1
- Danbury (Conn.) -- Railroad Station 1
- Danbury (Conn.) -- Railway Museum 1
- Danbury (Conn.) -- Redevelopment Agency 1
- Danbury (Conn.) -- Still River 1
- Danbury (Conn.) -- Still River -- Conservation 1
- Danbury (Conn.) -- Superior Court Building 1
- Danbury (Conn.) -- Tercentennial Committee 1
- Danbury Mall 1
- Danbury, The Castle 1
- Drums (membranophones). 1
- Ephemera. 1
- Figurines. 1
- Flood control -- Connecticut -- Danbury. 1
- Flutes (aerophones). 1
- Genealogies. 1
- Harp lutes. 1
- Headdresses. 1
- Historic Buildings -- Connecticut -- Fairfield County. 1
- Historic buildings -- Connecticut -- Danbury. 1
- Land use -- Connecticut -- Danbury -- Planning. 1
- Lutes (chordophones). 1
- Maps. 1
- Masks (costume). 1
- Minutes. 1
- Music -- Africa. 1
- Music -- Asia. 1
- Musical instruments -- Africa. 1
- Musical instruments -- Asia. 1
- Oral histories (document genres). 1
- Pamphlets 1
- Research notes. 1
- Scrapbooks. 1
- United States -- History -- World War, 1939-1945. 1
- Universities and colleges -- Faculty. 1
- Xerographic copies. 1 + ∧ less
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