The Chronicle

ctEphemera Guide to the Connecticut Historical Printed Ephemera Collection 1989-2005 (Bulk 1906-1936) MS 002 Processed by Lloyd Williams

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Ruth A. Haas Library Special Collections and Archives 181 White Street Danbury, CT 06810 Phone: 203-837-8992 Fax: 203-837-9108 E-mail: stevensb@wcsu.edu

Ruth A. Haas Library

Western Connecticut State University, Publisher Machine-readable finding aid derived from a MS Word document dated: 2003. Machine-readable finding aid created by Brian Stevens. Description is in English. Descriptive Summary Connecticut Historical Printed Ephemera Collection 1989-2005 , (Bulk 1906-1936) MS 002 The language of the materials is English 1 linear feet (3 boxes) Western Connecticut State University

Western Connecticut State University. Archives and Special Collections. Ruth A. Haas Library This collection contains historic printed ephemera of Connecticut with primary focus on Danbury. Commercial businesses, schools, municipal boards and commissions, and other clubs and organizations produced the material that is in this collection. Provenance

Unknown

Access Restrictions

Open for research without restrictions.

Use Restrictions

Permission to publish materials must be obtained in writing from the:

Ruth A. Haas Library Special Collections and Archives 181 White Street Danbury, CT 06810 Phone: 203-837-8992 Fax: 203-837-9108 E-mail: stevensb@wcsu.edu

Preferred Citation

Published citations should take the following form: Identification of item, date (if known); The Connecticut Historical Printed Ephemera Collection; MS 002; box number; folder number;

Western Connecticut State University Archives

Scope and Content Note

This collection contains historic printed ephemera of Connecticut with primary focus on Danbury. Printed ephemera produced for regional promotional purposes may be revealing about the people and the time in which they were produced. Commercial businesses, schools, municipal boards and commissions, and other clubs and organizations produced the material that is in this collection.

This collection is comprised of school periodicals, business pamphlets, programs, newspaper clippings, newsletters, a yearbook, and leaflets. There is also a fragment from the David Scott House in Ridgefield, CT, which is the home of the Ridgefield Historical Society. It should be noted that the school periodical, The Chronicle, has some gaps within the collection.

Included in this collection are also some issues of The American Hatter (1892-1935) which were originally cataloged separately but are included in this inventory.

Arrangement

Folders are arranged by subject

The files are grouped into 2 series.

Miscellaneous American Hatter Access Points Subject Names: Connecticut. Subject Organizations: Chronicle (Milford, Conn. : 1892). The American hatter. Subject Topics: Local history. Hats -- Periodicals. Steam locomotives -- United States -- Pictorial works. Subject Places: Danbury (Conn.) Milford (Conn.) -- Newspapers. Document Types: Clippings. Publications. Fliers. Sketchbooks. Ephemera. Related Material

Truman Warner Papers.

Container List

[The following section contains a detailed listing of the materials in the collection.]

Miscellaneous

1 1-3 The Chronicle, (Danbury High School), vol. V, no. 1-6, January 2-December 22, 1906 1906 1 4-5 The Chronicle, vol. VI, no. 2-5, February 28-October 25, 1907 1907 1 6-7 The Chronicle, vol. VII, no. 1, 3-5, December 20, 1907- October 30, 1908 (no.2 is missing) 1908 1 8-10 The Chronicle, vol. VIII, no. 1-5, December 18, 1908- October 29, 1909 1909 1 10-12 The Chronicle, vol. IX, no. 1-5, December 23, 1909 October 28, 1910 1910 1 13-15 The Chronicle, vol. X, no. 1-5, December 23, 1910- October 20, 1911 1911 1 15-17 The Chronicle, vol. XI, no. 1-5, December 21, 1911- October 25, 1912 1912 1 18-20 The Chronicle, vol. XII, no. 1-5, December 20, 1912- October 24, 1913 1913 1 20-22 The Chronicle, vol. XIII, no. 1-5, December 23, 1913- October 30, 1914 1914 1 23-25 The Chronicle, vol. XIV, no. 1-5, December 23, 1914- October 29, 1915 1915 1 25-27 The Chronicle, vol. XV, no. 1-5, December 22, 1915- October 27, 1916 1916 1 28-30 The Chronicle, vol. XVI, no. 1-5, December 22, 1916- October 26, 1917 1917 1 30-31 The Chronicle, vol. XVII, no. 1-3, February 28-May 10, 1918 1918 1 32 The Chronicle, vol. XIX, no. 2, April 29, 1919 1919 1 32-33 The Chronicle, vol. XX, no. 2, 4, May 7-October 29, 1920 (w/ gaps) 1920 1 33-34 The Chronicle, vol. XXI, no. 1-2, 5, March 4-December 22, 1921 (no. 2-3 are missing) 1921 1 35-37 The Chronicle, vol. XXII, no. 1-5, February 24-December 21, 1922 1922 1 37-39 The Chronicle, vol. XXIII, no. 1-3, 5, February 23- December 21, 1923 (no. 4 is missing) 1923 1 39-40 The Chronicle, vol. XXIV, no. 1-2, 4, February 29-October 31, 1924 (w/ gaps) 1924 1 41-43 The Chronicle, vol. XXV, no. 1-5, February 27-December 21, 1925 1925 1 43-45 The Chronicle, vol. XXVI, no. 1-4, February 26-November 24, 1926 1926 1 45 The Chronicle, vol. XXVII, no. 4, June 8, 1928 (w/ gaps) 1928 1 46 The Chronicle, vol. XXVIII, no. 1, 3, November 27, 1928- May 3, 1929 (w/ gaps) 1929 1 47 The Chronicle, vol. XXIX, no. 1, December 6, 1929 1929 1 48 The Chronicle, vol. XXX, no. 2-3, January-April, 1931 1931 1 49 The Chronicle, vol. XXXII, no. 1, May, 1934 1934 1 50 The Rostrum, vol. 2, no.3; vol. VII, no. 1 undated 1 51 1949 Danbury High School yearbook (Nugget) 1949 1 52 Danbury High School 1934-1936

Graduation Exercises for the Class of 1936 program, January 24, 1936 Varsity Minstrel program, March 22-23, 1934

1 53 Main Street School 1931

The Echo, vol. 5 & 6, nos. 1-2, 1931

1 54 Locust Avenue School The Reporter, October 1, 1951, October 31- December 23, 1952, March December, 1953, December 23, 1954, February 14, 1957 1951-1957 1 55-58 Directory of Public Schools (Danbury, CT) 1953-54, 1970-71, 1971-72, 1972-73, 1973-1974, 1975-76, 1976-77, 1977-78, 1978-79 1953-1979 1 59 Educational Directory of Connecticut, 1953-54; 1957-58 1953-1958 3 7 Announcement of Vacancy, Danbury, Connecticut Initiates Search for Superintendent of Schools 1974 1 60 Danbury Hatting 1927-1951

Mallory Hat Co., small notebook Hat Makers and Hat Finishers, Locals 10 and 11, Danbury Connecticut, One Hundredth Anniversary Celebration Hat Makers, 1951 Danbury Hat Trade Agreements, n.d. A Century of Hats and The Hats of the Century by Edward Mott Wooley, 1927 Rediscovering Connecticut by Wayne R. Dickerson, 1948. (copy) Work, Health & Community; Danbury, Connecticut's Struggle with an Industrial Disease in Labor's Heritage, Quarterly of the George Meany Center for Labor Studies, 1990. Clippings

1 61 Danbury Banking 1849-1954

City National Bank & Trust Company, flyer "Confidence in Danbury," (n.d.) Savings Bank of Danbury, brochure, "One Century, 1849-1949," 1949 Danbury Chamber of Commerce City National Bank Building, flyer History, Vital Statistics and Points of Interest in Danbury, Connecticut, 1954

1 62 Danbury Culture 1923-1985

Danbury Music Centre, flyer, "1939-1940 Season," December 11, 1939 Cultural Handbook for Danbury and Vicinity, 1985 Danbury, Connecticut, and its Attractions, 1923 W.F. Tomlinson Co., magazine, Nuggets, August 1930-May 1931

1 63 W.F. Tomlinson Co., magazine, Nuggets, August 1930’-May 1931 1930-1931 1 64 Danbury Restaurants 1936

Hotel Green, Christmas menu, 1936 Shanley's, menu

1 65 Bethel: 1831-1959

History of a Yankee Church, 1959 History of the Bethel Volunteer Fire Department, 1831-1978, 1928 Bethel, Connecticut, Centennial 1855-1955, 1955

1 66 Brookfield: 1957

The Venerable House: The Congregational Church of Brookfield, Connecticut, 1957

1 67-69 Danbury: 1880-1955

Danbury Tercentenary Pageant: Pageant Participant, 1935," nametag 60 Years in Danbury, Hamilton Press Co., 1938. (2 copies) "People of the Book," program, staged by John B. Rogers Producing Company. A Pictorial Review of the Danbury and Northern Fairfield County Flood of Oct. 15-16, 1955. CT Tercentenary Celebration: Danbury-Bethel, September 15-21, 1935, 1935 Souvenir of Danbury, CT (ca.1880s) Danbury; The Story of the early Days as told to Edward A. Leary by Old Jake Purdy, 1935 Motor Vehicle Traffic Survey, City of Danbury, 1935

3 8 Saint Joseph Church, 100th Anniversary Celebration, 2005." 2005 Oversized Box 1 * Henry L. Pike, Jr. Locomotive Sketchbook [Jan. 3rd 1866]. 1866

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Pencil Sketches of steam locomotives from various railroads in the northeast U.S.. Sketches are presumably a catalog to sell reproductions (framed and unframed) of these drawings.

Oversized Box 1 * Don't "Walk on By"…creating a sculpture trail so we won't miss notable outdoor sculpture in our midst by the Woman's Club of Danbury/ New Fairfield, Inc. 2002-2004 1 69 Guilford: undated

Historical Papers Relating to the Henry Whitfield House Guilford, CT.

1 70 Hartford: 1906

Hartford: A City a Tour with Heritage Trails, 1996 Souvenir of Hartford, 1906

1 71 Litchfield: 1954

The Lure of Litchfield, June 1954

2 72 New Milford: 1907

200th Anniversary of the Settlement of the Town of New Milford, June 17, 1907

2 73 Norwalk: 1894

New Canaan Paper, "Burning of Norwalk," July 21, 1894

3 6 Where Do We Go From Here? by Dr. Harry A. Becker. Address at the Fourth Commencement Exercises, Norwalk Community College 1966 2 74 Redding: 1967

Program, Redding Bicentennial Ridgefield:

3 1 Festival 2000, Ridgefield Enters the 21st Century Dec 1999 3 2 An Historical Sketch of Ridgefield by Allan Nevins. undated 3 3 Ridgefield Connecticut, A Charming Old New England Town, 1708-1935. May 1935 1935 Oversized Box 1 * The Ridgefield Press, Diamond Jubilee Issue, 1875-1950 1950 Oversized Box 1 * "Ridgefield Today, 275 Years of History and Tradition" The News-Times, Thursday, September 22, 1983. 1983 3 4 This is Ridgefield, compiled by the League of Women Voters of Ridgefield, CT. 1964 2 75 Sherman: 1940-1953

Giddings, Allie H. Our Sherman School-Its Heritage and Progress" (ca. 1940) Giddings, Town of Sherman, 1802: 150 Years of Sherman Life, 1952 Giddings, A History of the Sherman Church, August 1953

2 76 Southbury: 1962

Southbury, Connecticut: Our Town, January 1962

2 77 Wethersfield: 1932

Washington Bicentennial Celebration, June 7, 1932

2 78 Wilton: 1900

Wilton Parish, 1726-1800, 1900

2 79 Woodbury: 1959

Ancient Woodbury Tercentenary, July 4-5, 1959

2 80-81 Connecticut Military; Newsletters, Military Museum of Southern New England (Danbury, CT), 1992-1999 2 82 Connecticut Military; Second Regiment: CT Volunteer Heavy Artillery, 1862-1865 1889 2 83 Connecticut Military; Fifteenth Regiment: CT Volunteers, 1862-1865, 1889 2 84 Connecticut Military; Sixteenth Regiment: CT Volunteers, 1862-1865 1889 2 85 Connecticut Military; Seventeenth Regiment: CT Volunteers, 1862- 1865, 1889 2 86 Connecticut Military; Danbury and Our Boys in the World War by Anna Hornik. (2 copies) 1923 2 87 Connecticut Military; State of Connecticut Adjutant General's Office, "Errata Record of Connecticut Men in the war of Rebellion (1861-1865); Spanish-American War, Philippine Insurrection, and China Relief Expedition (1898-1904)," January 1, 1936 1936 2 88 Danbury Municipal 1946-1950

Introduction to Danbury, Connecticut, Danbury Aviation Commission, minutes, October 16, 1946-April 13, 1949 Meserve, Albert W., "A Solution to Danbury's Traffic and Parking Problems," April 1950

2 89 Ridgefield Historical Society undated

David Scott House keepsake fragment (ca 1713)

2 90 Propaganda 1982

Ku Klux Klan rally (Danbury, CT), 1982

2 91 Danbury Miscellaneous 1912-2000

Exchange Club, Sixth Book of Golden Deeds Awards, May 16, 1974 Potter, Lydia V.H., Joe's Hill and the Road to Danbury," 1935 Legends of Danbury, May 11, 1902 Danbury News, "Just For Fun," 1912 Danbury Evening News, January 29, 1900-2000

3 5 Old Time Blue Laws by J. R. Randal 1903 Oversized Box 1 * City of Danbury, "Mayor's Proclamation: National Drunk and Drugged Driving (3D) Prevention Month," December 8, 1993 1993 Oversized Box 1 * Calendar from Terry Lumber Company, Bethel, CT 1950 American Hatter 4-5 American Hatter 1892-1935

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In Consuls at: http://www.consuls.org/search/t?SEARCH=american+hatter&sortdropdown=-&searchscope=16#Contains: v. 37 (#2, 11, 12); v.38 (#3, 4, 10, 11); v. 39 (#2-4); v. 40 (#2); v. 41 (#6, 7, 9)