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Date:1972-1974
Creator:Connecticut. Division of Special Revenue
Abstract:The Division of Special Revenue ensures the highest degree of integrity in the conduct of all forms of legalized gambling within the State of Connecticut and the federally recognized Tribal Nations within the State. The Division of Special Revenues accomplishes this by licensing or permitting all individuals and entities that are involved with legalized gambling and by monitoring and educating to ensure compliance with the gaming laws and the Tribal-State agreements.
Type:text
Type:archives or manuscripts
Type:collection
Extent:0.25 cubic feet
Subject:
Lotteries -- Connecticut
Subject:
Lottery Tickets
Publisher:Connecticut State Library
Date:circa 1908-1940
Creator:Connecticut. Forestry Dept
Abstract:In 1921 the General Assembly reorganized the state forest administration. The State Park Commission became the State Park and Forest Commission and had authority to appoint the state forester, separating that office from the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station.
Type:text
Type:archives or manuscripts
Type:collection
Extent:1.25 cubic feet
Subject:
Connecticut. Forestry Dept
Subject:
Forests and forestry -- Connecticut
Subject:
Photographs
Publisher:Connecticut State Library
Date:1925-1955
Creator:League of Women Voters of Connecticut
Abstract:The League of Women Voters is an outgrowth of the suffragist movement. The organization was founded in 1920 only six months before the 19th amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified, giving women the right to vote.
Type:text
Type:archives or manuscripts
Type:collection
Extent:3 cubic feet
Subject:
Women in politics -- Connecticut
Subject:
Financial records
Subject:
Reports
Subject:
Clippings
Subject:
Correspondence
Publisher:Connecticut State Library
Date:1912-1951
Creator:Ex Libris Club (Hartford, Conn.)
Abstract:Formed in 1912, the Ex Libris Club was a social organization of employees of the State Library and the Supreme Court. The Club held parties and picnics, sent cards and flowers, attended weddings and christenings, published an internal newsletter entitled the State Library Echo, and kept scrapbooks of members and activities. In 1951 employees disbanded the club and formed the State Library and Supreme Court Club, 1951-1986.
Type:text
Type:archives or manuscripts
Type:collection
Extent:3.5 cubic feet
Subject:
Ex Libris Club (Hartford, Conn.)
Subject:
Bylaws (administrative records)
Subject:
Constitutions
Subject:
Correspondence
Subject:
Financial records
Subject:
Scrapbooks
Subject:
Reports
Subject:
Minutes
Publisher:Connecticut State Library
Date:1691-1855
Creator:Connecticut. County Court (New London County)
Abstract:Files hold the most detailed information available on a particular case. Files usually contain a summons or writ, a document that contains a variety of other useful information, and often one or more additional documents, such as a debt by note, debt by bond, a list of book debts, depositions and/or testimony of witnesses, pleadings by lawyers, power of attorney, an accounting of court costs, and occasionally summonses for witnesses and a copy of the jury verdict.
Type:text
Type:archives or manuscripts
Type:collection
Extent:217.25 cubic feet
Subject:
Connecticut -- History -- Sources
Subject:
Civil court records
Subject:
Criminal Court records
Subject:
Judicial records
Publisher:Connecticut State Library
Date:1810-1980
Creator:Colt's Patent Fire Arms Manufacturing Company
Abstract:The records of Colt’s Patent Fire Arms Manufacturing Company document gun manufacturing at the armory and the company’s subsidiaries, together with outside contracting activities.
Type:text
Type:archives or manuscripts
Type:collection
Extent:98.25 cubic feet
Subject:
Colt, Samuel, 1814-1862
Subject:
Colt firearms
Subject:
Account books
Subject:
Advertisements
Subject:
Agreements
Subject:
Application forms
Subject:
Broadsides
Subject:
Brochures
Subject:
Cashbooks
Subject:
Catalogs
Subject:
Charters
Subject:
Clippings
Subject:
Contracts
Subject:
Correspondence
Subject:
Daybooks
Subject:
Design drawings
Subject:
Diaries
Subject:
Financial statements
Subject:
Inventories
Subject:
Ledgers (account books)
Subject:
Legal documents
Subject:
Licenses
Subject:
Logs (records)
Subject:
Manuals (instructional materials)
Subject:
Patents
Subject:
Photographs
Subject:
Price lists
Subject:
Powers of attorney
Subject:
Prints (visual works)
Subject:
Purchase orders
Subject:
Receipts (financial records)
Subject:
Reports
Subject:
Scrapbooks
Place Name:
Hartford (Conn.)
Publisher:Connecticut State Library
Date:1701-1854
Creator:Connecticut. County Court (New London County)
Abstract:The New London County Court African Americans and People of Color Collection is an artificial grouping of records consisting of photocopies of cases involving people of color from the Files and Papers by Subject series of the records of New London County Court for the period between 1701 and 1854. All original documents have been retired and second copies have been inserted in the places where the originals were once located.
Type:text
Type:archives or manuscripts
Type:collection
Extent:6.5 cubic feet
Subject:
Connecticut -- History -- Sources
Subject:
Civil court records
Subject:
Criminal Court records
Subject:
Judicial records
Publisher:Connecticut State Library
Date:1685-1856
Creator:Connecticut. County Court (New London County)
Abstract:Papers by Subject is an artificial collection consisting of materials removed from New London County Court Files series by State Library staff after the records were received from the New London court. Subjects include: Admissions to the Bar; Appointment of Officers; Confiscated Estates and Loyalists; Conservators and Guardians; Costs; Court Expenses; Executions; Inquests; Insolvents; Jurors; Licenses; Meeting House; Militia; Miscellaneous; Partition of Lands; Pensions, Revolutionary War; Summons for Evidence; Travel.
Type:text
Type:archives or manuscripts
Type:collection
Extent:52 cubic feet
Subject:
Connecticut -- History -- Sources
Subject:
Civil court records
Subject:
Criminal Court records
Subject:
Judicial records
Publisher:Connecticut State Library
Date:1751-1855
Creator:Connecticut. County Court (Litchfield County)
Abstract:Files hold the most detailed information available on a particular case. Files usually contain a summons or writ, a document that contains a variety of other useful information, and often one or more additional documents, such as a debt by note, debt by bond, a list of book debts, depositions and/or testimony of witnesses, pleadings by lawyers, power of attorney, an accounting of court costs, and occasionally summonses for witnesses and a copy of the jury verdict.
Type:text
Type:archives or manuscripts
Type:collection
Extent:173.25 cubic feet
Subject:
Connecticut -- History -- Sources
Subject:
Civil court records
Subject:
Criminal Court records
Subject:
Judicial records
Publisher:Connecticut State Library
Date:1821-1962
Creator:
Abstract:This record group includes materials deposited at various times by persons who served as Connecticut's agents on the bi-state commissions which established and maintained the boundary lines between Connecticut and her neighbor states.
Type:text
Type:archives or manuscripts
Type:collection
Extent:21 cubic feet
Subject:
Buck, Henry R
Subject:
Buck, Henry W
Subject:
Buck, W. Robinson
Subject:
Connecticut -- Boundaries
Subject:
Boundaries, State
Subject:
Agreements
Subject:
Field notes
Subject:
Land surveys
Subject:
Maps
Subject:
Photographs
Subject:
Reports
Subject:
Sketches
Publisher:Connecticut State Library
Date:1855-1995
Creator:Connecticut School for Boys (Meriden, Conn.)
Abstract:The State Reform School opened in 1854 in Meriden Connecticut. The name was changed in 1893 to the Connecticut School for Boys. In January of 1970 the school came under the administrative control of the Department of Children and Youth Services. In 1972 the school merged with Long Lane School, the state reform school for girls, after experiencing internal troubles with staff and student discipline. Economic costs to the state were also an issue. All boys staying at the school were transferred to Long Lane School between 1972 and 1973. Items in this collection include student and staff records and photographs
Type:text
Type:archives or manuscripts
Type:collection
Extent:51 cubic feet
Subject:
State Reform School
Subject:
Reformatories -- Connecticut
Subject:
Juvenile corrections -- Connecticut
Subject:
Clippings
Subject:
Correspondence
Subject:
Journals (accounts)
Subject:
Maps
Subject:
Minutes
Subject:
Newsletters
Subject:
Photographs
Subject:
Sound recordings
Place Name:
Meriden (Conn)
Publisher:Connecticut State Library
Date:1762-1896
Creator:East Haddam (Conn.)
Abstract:Administrative, poor relief, land, court, military, vital, school, election and tax records.
Type:text
Type:archives or manuscripts
Type:collection
Extent:15 cubic feet
Subject:
Town clerks
Subject:
Justices of the Peace
Subject:
Administrative records
Subject:
Church records
Subject:
Election returns
Subject:
Land surveys
Subject:
Military records
Subject:
School records
Subject:
Tax records
Subject:
Vital records
Publisher:Connecticut State Library
Date:1753-1904
Creator:Pomfret (Conn.)
Abstract:Administrative, poor relief, land, court, military, vital, school, church, election and tax records for the Town of Pomfret.
Type:text
Type:archives or manuscripts
Type:collection
Extent:20 cubic feet
Subject:
Writs -- Connecticut -- Pomfret
Subject:
Soldiers -- Connecticut -- Pomfret
Place Name:
Pomfret (Conn.) -- Records and correspondence
Place Name:
Pomfret (Conn.) -- Statistics, Vital
Place Name:
Abington (Conn.)
Publisher:Connecticut State Library
Date:1776-1987
Creator:Connecticut Historical Commission
Abstract:The Connecticut Historical Commission performed a variety of functions having to do with the preservation of historic sites and structures and other historical resources.
Type:text
Type:archives or manuscripts
Type:collection
Extent:12.75 cubic feet
Subject:
Connecticut Historical Commission
Subject:
Henry Whitfield State Museum (Conn.)
Subject:
Historic buildings -- Connecticut
Subject:
Historic preservation -- Connecticut
Subject:
Historic sites -- Connecticut
Subject:
Broadsides
Subject:
Clippings
Subject:
Correspondence
Subject:
Deeds
Subject:
Drawings
Subject:
Lists
Subject:
Memorabilia
Subject:
Microfiche
Subject:
Pamphlets
Subject:
Photographs
Subject:
Reports
Publisher:Connecticut State Library
Date:1939-1940
Creator:Connecticut. Commission on the Treatment and Care of People Afflicted with Physical or Mental Disabilities
Abstract:In 1939, the General Assembly enacted House Bill 1650 that established a five-member commission appointed by the Governor to study the problems associated with physical and mental diseases in Connecticut, delivery of services by state facilities and expenditures made by them and those that the state should make. Originally called the Commission on the Treatment and Care of People Afflicted with Physical or Mental Disabilities and sometimes known as the Barker Commission, the group was better known as the Commission on the Prevention and Care of Sickness.
Type:text
Type:archives or manuscripts
Type:collection
Extent:1 cubic foot
Subject:
Barker, Creighton
Subject:
Connecticut. Commission on the Prevention and Care of Sickness -- Records and correspondence
Subject:
Mentally ill -- Care -- Connecticut
Subject:
Correspondence
Subject:
Minutes
Subject:
Reports
Subject:
Testimonies
Publisher:Connecticut State Library
Date:1735-1899
Creator:Grant, Roswell
Abstract:Roswell Grant was a Justice of the Peace and school district treasurer of Windsor, Conn. Also represented are his father, Ebenezer Grant (1706-1797), a merchant, and other family members.
Type:text
Type:archives or manuscripts
Type:collection
Extent:6.5 cubic feet
Subject:
Grant, Roswell
Subject:
Grant, Ebenezer
Subject:
Grant, Frederick W
Subject:
Grant, P. Winthrop
Subject:
Merchants
Subject:
Account books
Subject:
Correspondence
Subject:
Daybooks
Subject:
Minutes
Subject:
Promissory notes
Subject:
Orders to pay
Subject:
Receipts (financial records)
Subject:
Writs
Place Name:
East Windsor (Conn.)
Publisher:Connecticut State Library
Date:1908-1967
Creator:Connecticut. State Park and Forest Commission
Abstract:In 1913 the Assembly created a permanent State Park Commission charged with "supervision of all lands acquired by the state, as public reservations, for the purpose of public recreation or the preservation of natural beauty or historic association. In 1921 the name changed to the State Park and Forest Commission. The Commission now had oversight of state forests as well as parks with the authority to appoint the State Forester.
Type:text
Type:archives or manuscripts
Type:collection
Extent:11 cubic feet
Subject:
Wilkins, Edward H
Subject:
Turner, Albert M
Subject:
Roberts, Harley F
Subject:
Parks -- Connecticut
Subject:
Forests and forestry -- Connecticut
Subject:
Correspondence
Subject:
Minutes
Subject:
Reports
Publisher:Connecticut State Library
Date:1903-1972
Creator:Connecticut. Dept. of Motor Vehicles
Abstract:The Motor Vehicle Department was established by legislative act in 1917 to protect life and property by the administration of motor vehicle laws, to regulate, discipline, and educate motor vehicle operators, and to provide revenue through licensing for the construction and maintenance of state highways.
Type:text
Type:archives or manuscripts
Type:collection
Extent:6.25 cubic feet
Subject:
Connecticut. Dept. of Motor Vehicles
Subject:
Traffic safety -- Connecticut
Subject:
Account books
Subject:
Correspondence
Subject:
Registers (lists)
Subject:
Reports
Subject:
Scrapbooks
Publisher:Connecticut State Library
Date:1896-1910, undated
Creator:Connecticut Magazine Co.
Abstract:The Connecticut Magazine, described itself as "Incorporated under the laws of Connecticut for the purpose of collecting in permanent form the various phases of history, literature, art, science, genius, industry and all that pertains to the maintenance of the honorable record which this state has attained," in its company letterhead. The Connecticut Magazine was the successor to Connecticut Quarterly (1895-1898). Both magazines included photographs, drawings, poems, reminiscences, stories, and historical articles. The Connecticut Magazine appears to have ceased publication after volume 12, number 3 in 1908.
Type:text
Type:archives or manuscripts
Type:collection
Extent:5.75 cubic feet
Subject:
Connecticut Magazine Co.
Subject:
Miller, Francis Trevelyan, 1877-1959
Subject:
Articles
Subject:
Cliches-verre (negatives )
Subject:
Correspondence
Subject:
Photographs
Subject:
Poems
Subject:
Short stories
Publisher:Connecticut State Library
Date:1809-1960
Creator:Connecticut. Dept. of Social Services
Abstract:The Department of Social Services provides a broad range of services to the elderly, persons with disabilities, families, and individuals who need assistance in maintaining or achieving their full potential for self-direction, self-reliance and independent living.
Type:text
Type:archives or manuscripts
Type:collection
Extent:9.5 cubic feet
Subject:
Connecticut. Board of Charities
Subject:
Connecticut. Public Welfare Council
Subject:
Connecticut. State Welfare Dept.
Subject:
Charities -- Connecticut
Subject:
Public welfare -- Connecticut
Subject:
Account books
Subject:
Correspondence
Subject:
Minutes
Subject:
Reports
Publisher:Connecticut State Library
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