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Truman Augustine Warner, Jr. was born and raised in Danbury, Connecticut. He was educated in the Danbury public schools, and was one of the first men admitted to Danbury State Teachers College. After graduation in June 1941, Warner had to put his education and teaching career on hold when the army called him to serve in World War II. His actions as a medic in the Italian campaign brought him a battlefield commission to Lieutenant and commendations for bravery.
Upon his return from the War, Warner began taking courses at Columbia for his Master's in history and doctorate in education and anthropology. During this time he also taught high school in Old Lyme, Connecticut, and in Briarcliff, New York. Warner returned to his alma mater in 1958 as Dean of Admissions, and after several years he began teaching in the Social Science Department. He served as Chairman of the joint Department of History and Social Sciences, introduced courses in non-western cultures, and taught his specialty, Japanese History and Culture.
Warner 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.
When he retired in 1995, after 37 years as a teacher and administrator, he received the University's first Presidential Service Medal. Also, a scholarship was created in his name that is given annually to an undergraduate student majoring in Social Science or History.
The Warner Collection consists of writings and research notes and papers reflecting Warner's career as an author, historian and historical researcher. The bulk of the collection contains an extensive series of newspaper clippings and printed materials relating to local and state history, and several boxes that contain information on Western's faculty, administration, and events concerning the school's history beginning in the 1940s and continuing through to the late 1990s. Warner's subject headings and filing system were retained wherever possible during processing the collection.
Warner's personal research notes and papers relate directly to his search for source materials in libraries, archives, and in private hands for his proposed book on the history of Danbury. The collection traces Danbury's social and anthropological history noting the patterns and catalysts of change beginning in pre-colonial times to the late 20th century. The main focus is on local and regional society and culture, religion, families, economic growth and development, and government.
His personal papers include correspondence with family members, personal friends, and colleagues, his education and historical writings, and World War II memorabilia that includes maps, war pamphlets, medical handbooks, and a scrapbook containing photographs of military friends and excursions while serving as a medic during the Italian campaign. This scrapboook was scanned in 2009 and links to the scans are listed in the inventory (Series III, subseries 9).
Warner's personal correspondence files include an extensive series of letters written to his parents during World War II that chronicle his basic training, ocean voyage to North Africa aboard a troop ship, through the Mediterranean to Italy, and then to France. Many of his letters contain detailed descriptions of the countryside and local inhabitants. According to Army regulations, letters from family and friends were destroyed after being read, but a few letters did survive and can be found in folders 2, 3 and 4. Additional information regarding Warner's wartime experiences can be found in an oral history interview conducted by a student for an historical research assignment. Warner discusses circumstances and events that were not included in his letters to his parents.
The Sources and Book series contain extensive personal research notes, copies of diaries and church records, indexes, newspaper clippings, and other source materials for his proposed book on the history of Danbury. The Book series is divided into several chapter and subject headings indicating it was a work in progress. Information in the Danbury History/Theory series is focused on scientific theories, paradigms, social science, and the scientific method.
Warner's Postcard Collection contains postcards from all over the United States as well as Europe that were sent to Warner and his family or bought as souvenirs while on vacation. The Sheet Music Collection consists of piano solos and songs of the early 20th century.
Below is a detailed summary of the scope and contents of Series I, Research Files
Articles feature the effects of industrial growth and urbanization on forests, agriculture, farming and the environment, pollution, and world population growth. Federal/state/global agricultural policies on land use, intensive chemical crop production, bioengineering, and the use of technology in the food chain and animal husbandry. Also refers to alternative organic farming techniques and better use of land, crop rotation and environmental friendly policy decisions.
A collection of articles, editorials, letters to the editor, pictures, and schedules. Several articles on the Danbury Airport development, problems, attempts by several companies to establish commuter service, and opposition to the entire project.
Research notes, clippings, pamphlets, and bibliographies. The main focus is on Danbury's role in the American Revolution. The material covers political attitudes, military campaigns, and effects of the Revolution on this area plus in depth coverage of the 1976 Bicentennial events and celebrations.
See also: American Revolution Box 2
Research notes, clippings, pamphlets, and bibliographies.
See also: American Revolution Box 1
Articles on authors who resided in Fairfield Country. Articles range in date from around 1950 to 1990. A series of articles from the Bridgeport Sunday Post from December 1961 to February 1962 contains an important overview of literary circles in Fairfield County.
A slightly misleading subject heading, the subseries contains information on sculptors, cartoonists, museums, galleries, organizations, art patrons, painters, illustrators, textile designers, dance companies, woodworkers, glassblowers, etc. Encompasses all the arts, really. A series of articles from the Bridgeport Sunday Post from December 1961 to February 1962 contains an important overview of the arts scene.
Research notes, programs, clippings, pamphlets, bulletins, and, 1935 Tercentenary celebrations, local participants, civic dignitaries, and costumes, dissertations on the following local religious organizations: St. Paul's Lutheran, Swedish Immanual Evangelical, Holy Trinity Russian orthodox, Presbyterian, Methodist, Universalist, history and doctrine of Sandemanianism and Theopolis Chamberlain, Jehovah's Witness, Baptist, Eastern Rites, Mormons, Assembly of God, and the Advent Christian Church. Research papers on the history of local/regional churches and chapels: Baptist, Chapels (Beaver Brook, Middle River, Great Plain), Roman Catholic Churches, Congregational Church, King Street Church, and the Episcopal Church/Church of England. Also included Church of Christ (Disciples) /Central Christian Church.
Research notes, clippings, and pamphlets covering the life and culture from the Civil War to WWII with the focus on the effects of these events on local life, attitudes, and American institutions in general.
Research notes, clippings on local area clubs and organizations concerning their evolution and development and reflect local community interests.
Development and effects of expansion of communications systems on the local area. Research notes on early New England mail routes (ca 1700) and a history (research notes) of the Danbury Post Office and the burgeoning receipts accrued in the 1970's with the influx of corporations into the area.
Research notes, clippings, pamphlets, magazine articles, and student papers. Problems of town planning, funding, rise of suburbs and associated problems, commuters, integration, family breakdown, influence of cities on small cities and towns, Fairfield County, agrarian control of urban areas, local/state/federal problems, residents involved internationally, middle class, and genealogy.
Articles covering history, events, and politics of general interest. The focus is on growth, expansion, and the resulting social, environmental, and economic effects. The towns are generally those from western (?) Fairfield County.
Original businesses in Danbury, changing business climate, the influx of new corporations and the effects on the local growth, economy, and demographics. The material also indicates the societal/cultural changes of the local labor force and examines wealth distribution from agricultural and manufacturing to managerial and technological workers.
Corporate growth, structure and development, relocation, downsizing, transferees, industrial pollution, and individual corporations such as Union Carbide and the GAF hostile take over, and Perkin Elmer and the problems of the Hubbell telescope. The three Union Carbide files are a composite view of the changes a multinational corporation can bring to an area and how global events/disasters can have a negative effect on local economies.
Local economic news, relocation, corporate structure, downsizing, Chamber of Commerce, change from manufacturing to service industries, corporate needs, and new work and job skills.
Downtown development of Danbury after the 1955 floods and projected growth into the 1980's with the West Side development. Re-development projects, federal and state assistance for urban renewal, and problems with it.
See also: Floods
Revival of downtown after deterioration, City Center, parking problems and redevelopment/restoration projects, local boards, City Planning and Zoning, Redevelopment Agency, Chamber of Commerce, Common Council, Parking Authority, and the parking garage controversies.
Research notes and papers, clippings, and pamphlets describe the cultural evolution of Fair from a purely agricultural event in 1869 to a more modern theme park atmosphere at the close in 1981. Ringling Barnum and Bailey Circus, circus performers, and P. T. Barnum's life.
Newspaper articles and obituaries of area residents.
Newspaper articles and obituaries of area residents.
Consists of Executive Board of Trustees minutes as well as regular and special meetings, newsletters, newspaper clippings, pamphlets, and flyers concerning gifts, events, and exhibits.
Waste management, recycling, attempts to establish an incinerator for area trash disposal, closing the Danbury landfill, legal battle of Waste Management, Inc., and the city of New Milford, Iroquois natural gas pipeline construction, Candlewood Lake, gypsy moth infestations, development of Tarrywile Park in Danbury, and establishment of public lands.
Energy, oil crisis, solar power and alternative sources of energy. Emphasis on change and the social effects of oil on global and regional infrastructures.
History of Connecticut farming from the early 17th century, loss of land, local farming, and animal husbandry, farm preservation, tobacco farming, nurseries, dairy farms, sheep, soil erosion, and humus industry.
A comprehensive photo study of the catastrophic floods which devastated the Connecticut and Merrimac Valleys in 1938; Housatonic flooding; Still River flood control project, Norwalk River flood control and impact on Route 7 in lower Fairfield County, 1955 area flooding, conservation, soil erosion, silting up of rivers, wetlands management and impact of urbanization on the local eco-systems and river flood plains, and environmental impact policies. Also, local and area social history describing the region's accelerated growth in the early part of the century through the 1980's.
Articles focus on the needs, evolution and growth of area health care, and ancillary services; also, an increase in special interest and self-help groups.
Newspaper clippings that focus on the need for safer highways versus the need for tighter control on preserving the environment and the necessity for sound planning at state and local and regional levels. Topics include impact studies, task forces, mass transportation, roads and highways, ecology, environmental pollution, effluent, dredging, channelization, blasting and filling.
Research notes, clippings, surveys, grants, local preservation movement and the founding of the Danbury Preservation Trust.
Newspaper clippings and research notes. General look at holiday celebrations which include First Night, Memorial Day, Fourth of July, Easter, Halloween, Veterans' Day, Thanksgiving and Christmas.
Articles, research notes, annual reports, and research papers. Founding of Danbury hospital, fund raising, long range planning, accelerated growth and approval for expansion, funding policies, corporate and individual philanthropy.
Newspaper clippings contain information on housing needs with emphasis on the continuing need for affordable housing rentals and the need for zoning changes in order to allow such building. Also public projects, public opinion concerning health violations in public projects; accusations made against housing authority and of applications for apartments, the need for single family houses, and shelter for an increasing number of homeless.
Clippings, programs, research notes, and genealogy on his life, music, interpretation and influence.
History of local as well as regional libraries; history of Danbury News Times, its buildings, equipment, editors, publishers, and staff. Also, varied information on area libraries, their histories, and problems.
The history and the development of the malls in the Danbury region include building of the downtown Danbury Plaza Mall, the attempts to initiate malls in Brookfield, New Milford, and Southeast, and the complete history of the development of the Danbury Fair Mall from its inception to its construction in the mid-1980s and opening in 1986. History of the Caldor chain, opening/closing of restaurants, food stores, and motels/hotels.
Research notes and clippings covering all aspects of music, performers, reviews, programs, composers, bands, and choruses.
Research notes and newspaper clippings focus on Connecticut's Native American tribes from the prehistoric Paleo Indian culture to the current casino industry.
Emphasis on recreational areas and open spaces of town in the Danbury region (Danbury, Bethel, Brookfield, Kent, New Fairfield, New Milford, Newtown, Redding, Ridgefield, Sherman). Special coverage of development of Candlewood Lake, Richter and Tarrywile Parks in Danbury. Coverage from 1960 to1995.
Clippings, pictures, research notes, and booklets. Major crimes and fires, history of fire departments, Danbury Police Department, crime, the Federal Correctional Institute, old and new Danbury Courthouses, Civil Defense, Danbury National Guard, and military museums.
Newspaper clippings, research notes, and theses concerning the growth of railways in this area, extension of rail lines beyond Danbury, new stations, safety inspections, railroad bridges, Railway Museum, fare hikes, commuter complaints of poor service, and mergers.
Clippings, maps, annual reports, and planning bulletin. Traces the politics and problems of regional growth, expansion of local towns, infusion of state and federal monies to support and share services.
Newspaper clippings, research notes, editorials, senior papers that cover all areas of school needs; construction, faculty, administration, problems, solutions and histories of schools both public and private in the Danbury area, and alternatives to "regular" schools. Budgets and funding extensively covered.
See also: Schools Box 2
Newspaper articles, pamphlets, literary magazines, and yearbooks. Test scores, racial and discrimination issues, editorials, Danbury High School, and teachers.
See also: Schools Box 1
An overview of social services in the area. Most of the articles refer to Danbury and the social and volunteer services offered.
See also: Hospital, Health Care, and Schools
History of the building of the Rocky River Hydro Electric Power Plant and the wide ranging effects on the economy, environment, and ecology of the region.
Newspaper photos, articles, and copied drawings of variety of Danbury streets, homes, and landmarks with feature articles on specific Danbury homes.
Newspaper clippings on local and regional theaters, actors, producers and writers of theater and television, theater workshops, summer stock, Bethel Cinema, Candlewood Playhouse, Palace theater, Chekhov Theatre, Danbury Actors Repertory Theater, Southbury Playhouse and the Starlight theater.
Research notes, clippings, pamphlets, bulletins, and survey maps on the growth of agriculture, industry and manufacturing, and the natural factors that have influenced the economic growth and development of the region.
See also: Farming, Still River, and Highways
Clippings, pamphlets, and research notes. Changes in transportation, truck problems, weigh stations, mass transit, commuters, buses, antique cars, old roads, and bridges/covered bridges. Research notes on Revolutionary routes, old road making, Washington's route through Danbury, stagecoach, post roads, turnpikes DOT, Federal Highway Administration.
See also: Highways and Air Travel
Folders are arranged alphabetically by subject.
The files are grouped into 4 series:
[The following section contains a detailed listing of the materials in the collection.]
Flora /fauna, tree disease, vanishing wilderness, endangered/preservation, natural habitats, ecosystems, fertilizers/pesticides.
Suburban development and colonial industrialization, Moses Mountain, Thomas Mountain, Oak and chestnut disease, forest depletion, terrestrial biomes, forest ecology, and conservation in Western Connecticut.
Wildlife, Old Quarry Center, Kingsmark Resource Conservation Project, wetlands, and maple forests/products.
Diseases, defoliation, scale/insect/virus damage, Arbor Day, forest conservation, education, Old Quarry Center.
Relationship between humans and the environment.
Bread, dairy farming, beef production, agro-business, organic movement, nutrition, Vegetarianism, additives, and labels.
Starvation, malnutrition, population, agricultural land use, drought, agro-business, federal food policies and USDA.
FDA, nutrition, health and diet, protein deficiency, anorexia, sugar diabetes.
Collection of various aspects of air travel which includes congestion of air traffic, motor traffic at NY airports, transportation to and from these airports, commuting by air, deregulation, effect of air strike, and airplane safety at Candlewood.
Relocation of the airport, noise control disputes with neighbors and neighboring towns, some discussion of new control tower, shutdown in Reagan years, air safety and the arrival of small jets. Business planes and the importance of the airport to the city economy as well as income to the city. Two articles on heroism of two local pilots. Increase in use by area businessmen, discussion of expansion and opposition to it, airport "issue," airport history, fees, and funding. Rebuilding of runways, Airport Commission personnel, erecting and opening airport tower, noise complaints, law suits against ConnAir and Bluebird. Security at Danbury Airport, New Milford airstrip controversy, and chronology of airport development.
History of Sikorsky's first flight (1940), demonstration of Doman Helicopter at airport, shuttle service to Danbury, Ridgefield's denial of helicopter landing, discussion of need for heliport, and heliport in New Milford.
Boarding passes and schedules for Danbury Airways. Tiburze Airways inaugurates helicopter service to NY airports, and initiation of air shuttle. Service by Northern International Air Service, problems associated with IA, and close in 1964. Shuttle service resumed by Connecticut Airways and then by Crown Air. Danbury Airways commuter flights and close of service.
Stewart Airport proposals, Senator Dodd pushes for Connecticut airport, early days of Bradley International and expansion, Westchester expansion, limo service from Danbury to Bradley, United airlines from Stewart to D.C. and Greenwich's objections to expanding the Westchester Airport.
Flying machines to balloons to space travel. Orville Wright, great air adventures that include Amundsen, Byrd, Ellsworth, Lindbergh, and Amelia Earhart. Discovery of antique planes in Connecticut, mid-air collision in Danbury, Lindberg at Danbury Airport, Danbury Flying Club, Danbury Aero Club, Ralph Barnaby, flight pioneer, women in aviation, blimps, and Robert Fulton.
Explosion of Hindenburg and ballooning in Newtown.
Gustave Whitehead, air pioneer, born in 1974 and died in 1927 in Bridgeport. Recorded having flown self-designed motor powered monoplane on August 14, 1901.
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Excerpts from John W. Tyler's book Connecticut
Research notes, clippings, and outline.
Research notes and 1974 transcript of informal interview of Dr. Warner by Richard Cunliffe, WLAD Radio.
Clippings and copies of correspondence regarding Washington's campaign. Education and
Research notes, clippings, and correspondence from Dutchess County Historical Society, Bicentennial material, Putnam County. Booklets: New York State See also: Truman Warner Papers, Student Research Papers: #30A:
Research notes and transcripts of Danbury and other area town meetings held in 1774-1775 concerning Continental Congress and the upcoming Revolution War Putnam Campaign, and Continental Commissary. See also: Student Research Paper #6:
Research notes, correspondence, transcripts, outlines, anecdotes on Loyalists, Tories, hospital, communications, supplies, troop movements, George III Statue, Putnam Campaign, and Continental Commissary. See also: Student Research, Edwards. 1964.
Articles and research notes on local military campaigns, redcoat, pensions, impressment, desertion in British Army, camp followers, diet, and analysis of battles.
Research notes and newspaper articles cover social welfare, families, courts, enlistment, army supplies, and the Continental Army. Pamphlets (Fishkill-
Research notes focus on jailing, xenophobia, mistrust, and threat of land forfeiture for Royal enlistment, recruiting or spying. Short report on Robert Thompson of Newtown, CT. See also: Student Research Papers:
Articles on historic ride and bronze sculpture by Anna Hyatt Huntington.
Research notes and clippings noting
Articles on Hudson freeze over, research notes on winter encampments of Gen. Poor and New Hampshire Brigade, 1779 Continental Troop statistics, notes on Alexander Scammel, David Livermore, and winter weather.
Research notes and clippings concerning local historical research in preparation for area reenactments.
Research notes, clippings, and extensive archival material and bibliography lists. Information covers Dr. Isaac Foster, Deputy Director of Hospitals for the Eastern complaint concerning neglect, lack of medical treatment for soldiers and criticism of Dr. Foster. Research on his defense against removal gives insight into local conditions and the political climate in this area in 1779. See also: Truman Warner Papers, Student Research Papers #317:
Research notes on craftsmen, wagons, supplies, oxen, tallow, pastures, and in 1777. and former park employees.
Research notes, clippings, copies of correspondence, brochures, and proposal on archaeological dig. Articles focus on reenactments of musters, the Colonial Museum, and the 1976 Bicentennial coverage, interviews with local historians,
One page of research notes and article on Keeler Tavern (Ridgefield).
Research notes and book reviews on Benedict Arnold, John Adams, Ridgefield and David Wooster, Wooster Monument, Tryon's Raid, and other revolutionary topics. Ridgefield, clippings, and Bicentennial news. Booklets:
Research notes on Benedict Arnold, David Bushnell, and the Battle of Ridgefield, clippings, and Bicentennial news. Booklets:
Articles cover local history, reenactment celebrations of Tryon's Raid, Putnam repair, and other local Bicentennial preparations. See also: Student Research Revolutionary War by Amy Lyons. 1989.
Local revolutionary history, anecdotes, artisans, and early crafts.
Articles on Connecticut's observance of the Bicentennial. OS Box 1 Facsimile of Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776.
Research and supplements on French Army, generals, and Rochambeau's route and information on social life in the Colonies. Issue of
Articles, research notes, book reviews, local events and celebrations, and bibliographies on the American Revolution.
Local newspaper supplement for the week of May 24, 1976.
Two pages of research notes. Reference Notes (4x6 cards)
Arnold Brackman taught at WestConn until his death in 1985. He was a historian and biographer. Agnes Brackman writes of her Indonesian world.
Resident of Bridgewater, Van Wyck Brooks was a historian/literary critic and his wife wrote biographical/autobiographical materials.
Redding resident, well known as economist, environmentalist, and author.
Sherman resident famed as editor and literary critic and environmentalist.
Newtown resident, lyricist and scriptwriter for Hollywood. Also, wife artist Stella Bloch and son David Eliscu (teacher). See also: Edward Eliscu Papers.
Series of articles from the Bridgeport Post of late 1961 and early 1962 completely summarizing the people of importance in literary circles who live in Fairfield County.
Prolific novelist who lived in Ridgefield, then Redding.
Famed American authoress who was inspired by a house in New Milford to write novel American Beauty. Articles about the house and Rogg family who owned it.
Brookfield Resident and postmaster, playwright and founder of Brookfield Playhouse. Wrote play that was first for Bette Davis in 1929. Wife was artist and founder of R.F.D. Gallery in Brookfield
Author and playwright, Brookfield resident. Famous for play
Both writers, and often collaborators, Matthew's fame was greater as a biographer. Lived in Sherman.
Danbury resident whose mother wrote the "Little House" books, though Rose is suspected of having been the real author.
Playwright who lives in Roxbury. Many interview articles.
Several articles on house in Ridgefield where the playwright lived for four years.
Ridgefield resident who wrote
The creator of Nero Wolfe, detective, lived in Danbury from 1930 to his death. Many articles on him and his wife, a gardener of renown. Also, references to Martha Foley (friend), wife Pola Stout (fashion designer), and Ruth Stout (sister, gardener, writer. Inventor of mulching process?)
Newtown resident, famed biographer of William Randolph Hearst and others.
Long time Danbury Resident. Theater and at-large critic for New York Times.
Humorist lived in Sandy Hook (Newtown) from 1931-1934 where his sole child was born. Articles on the man and the house.
Pulitzer-prize winning historian who lives in Danbury. Interviews and reviews.
Many articles about author and his Redding home.
Famed poet and editor lived in Newtown for thirty years.
Renata Adler, Leonie Adams, Robert Anderson, Hanson Baldwin, Allison Birch, David Brooks, Louisa Burns-Bisigno, Nancy Cardozo, Samuel Carter, Albert Clark, Hila Coleman, James Lincoln Collier, Kyle Critchton, Bill Davidson, Bill C. Davis, John H. Davis, Lavinia Riker Davis, Martha Davis, William DeAndrea, John Del Vecchio, Jeffrey Dinardo, Jack Douglas, Rea Lubar Duncan.
Ladislas Farago; Sarah Ny Ford, Mildred Gilman, Max Gunther, Alfred Harcourt, Robert Holzman, William Honan, Eric Hodgins. Clifford Irving, Marcella Jenkins, Erica Jong, Irene Kampen, Steven Kellogg, Tom and Judy Keneally, Adam Jack Kennedy, Jean Kinney, Virginia Kirkus, Richard and Phyllis Kluger, Clayton Knight; Lardner, Ring, Jr. and Ellis; Nora Leonard, Bob Leuci, Robert Loeb, Alan Lomsted, Mary Luke.
Peter Maas, Ruth McKenney, Wendy Matthews, Jane Hamilton Merriett, Merle Miller, Honor Moore, Hugh Mulligan, Sarah Nye, Brian O'Brien, Scott O'Dell, Walter O'Meara, Orania Papazoglou, Jonathan Perlowsky, Helen Powers.
Ellery Queen (Frederick Dannay and Manfred Lee), Bob Randall, Frederick Redefer, James Reid, Jerome Rothenberg, Bruce Rogers, Elizabeth-Ann Sachs, Mark Salzman, Tony Scaduto, Ellsworth Schave, John Scott, Mary-Anne Tirone Smith, John Chabot Smith, Johannes Steel, Jane and Michael Stern, Carla Stevens, Tim Sullivan, Dora Tompkins, Alvin Tresselt.
Alfred Vagts, Jean Webster, David Weingast, Thomas Whitney, Jay Williams, Max Wylie, Jerry Zeifman.
Opened November 1964. Articles from numerous papers identifying its beginnings and development and information on founder, Lawrence Aldrich
American realist painter who grew-up in Kent.
Newspaper clippings including obit of Sherman's Russian émigré painter.
Articles mainly on 1993 exhibit of the brothers who lived in Fairfield County and one of which (Gutzon) gained great fame for carving the presidents on Mount Rushmore.
Articles on the beginning of the Center and its development into a regional crafts center of significance. Articles on local crafts people.
Articles on the Weston painter. Reviews the long and often controversial career of Paul Cadmus, who was also the brother-in-law of Lincoln Kirsten.
Articles on the Roxbury sculptor. Includes obituaries and articles on the mounting of Calder sculptures in Waterbury.
Newtown sculptress who has several works at WCSU. (papers at Syracuse)
Materials cover the numerous cartoonists who lived in the Danbury region in the mainly articles from the News-Times. John Berrill (Brookfield -- "Gil Thorp" comic strip); Joseph Farris (Bethel); Hal Foster (Redding -- "Prince Valiant" comic strip); Dana Fradon (Newtown --
Newspaper articles on Sas Colby (Ridgefield); Chuck Priest (Brookfield); Oscar de la Renta (Kent); Ma-Lei Lo (Brookfield); Fernando Pereira (Danbury).
Articles about the opening of the Academy in the then new Danbury Shopping Center (now North Street Shopping Center.)
Major figure in the advance of modern art in this country in the 1920s and resident of West Redding. Sponsor of Duchamp and Man Ray. Many magazine articles, some notes by Warner, some local articles.
Copies of weekly articles from
Painter of the mural of fairy-tale characters in the "Old" Danbury Library, now the home of the Danbury Music Center. Articles about him and the mural including his 1966 obituary.
Several dozen News-Times articles on local galleries and art associations. See also: Danbury Academy of the Arts and Richter Association of the Arts
Three local glass blowers: Julie Pierot (Sherman); Stephen Fellerman (Kent); Robert Lichtman (Danbury).
Articles from Bridgeport Post, New York Times and News-Times on famed Redding sculptress including obituaries.
Articles on the many illustrators living in Danbury area. Lester Beall (Obit); Doron Ben-Ami; Christopher (son) and Paul (father) Calle (stamp designers); Robert Crofut; Janina Domanska; Robert Fischl; Charles and Dorothea Fox; Robert Giusti; Robert Hallock; Robin Hockaday; Bruce Rogers (obit.); Tim Tanner; Nelle Tresselt; Franz Wagner (designer of the NBC Peacock); Wilson Ware; Michael Whelan; Harrie Wood. See also: Maurice Sendak
Articles about New Milford/Roxbury artist who depicted scenes of New England.
New Fairfield sculptress of national fame.
New Milford artist, famed for his paintings of local bridges.
Sculptor Mike Nevelson of New Fairfield is the only son of Louise Nevelson. Articles include Louise's obit and the legal battle over her estate.
Photographer of Southbury and region, he helped develop the concept of antique furniture collection and also did reproductions.
Articles on many painters in the Danbury area: Sperry Andrews; Edd Ashe; George Bleich; Gladys Bowdy; Boris Chaliapin; Charles Cobelle; Robert Cottingham; Claude Croney; Victor DeMasi; Chris Durante; Sally Fox-Seibel; Bob Grace; Bogdan Grom; Norair Guezirgian; John Hermansader; Allen Hermes; Madeline Hewes; Gary Hissong; Edward von Jarochowski; Harvey Johnson; Daniela Kamiliotis; Joseph Links; Thomas Locker; Sheila Lougheed; John Mates; David Merrill; Baird Nichols; Plonia Nixon; Francis Pariette; Jonathan Perlowsky; Scotty Pitner; Jo Polseno; Frederick Remington; Alex Ross; Arpi Rosti; Bob Ross; Frank Russell and Gertrude Barrer; Richard Schmid; Joseph Smith; Michael St. Amand; Alexander Shundi; Don Troiani; Flora Viale; Peggy Westphal. See also: David Anderson, Peter Blume, Paul Cadmus, Charles Federer, Philip Kappel, Woldemar Neufeld, and Eric Sloan.
Articles of area photographers: Robert Capellaro; Tom Chiapel; Nell Dorr; Brian Gill; Ken Graff; Igor Kipnis; Gloria Laposka; George Lepp; Doris O'Neil; Arthur Rickerby; Brian Wittman. See also: Wallace Nutting, and Edward Steichen.
Two articles. New director (1987) and 25th anniversary (1996)
Articles (usually one on each person) of area sculptors: Juan Luis Andreu; Norman Aufrichtig; Angelo and Charlotte Camillo; Joseph and Edith Cauchi; Guy Carlotti; Dennis Elliott; Lillian Garber; David Hayes; Andrei Hudiakoff; Timothey Heireth; Don Klotz; Richard Koury; Marc Mellon; Warren Owens; Roger Prince; Patrick Purcell; Ira Reines; Francis Whitney; Susanne Winters. See also: Borglum Brothers, Gutzon and Solon; Alexander Calder, Anna Hyatt Huntington, Jean Mann, and Mike Nevelson.
Newspaper articles on the Ridgefield artist.
Articles on the artist well known for his depiction of American life and his 1985 obit.
World-famous photographer and resident of West Redding. Articles including obituaries.
On May 26, 1992, Weir Farm in Ridgefield/Wilton became Connecticut's first National Park, the Alden Weir National Park, honoring one of Connecticut's most famous Impressionist painters. Articles from 1978 to 1997 tracing the evolution of the Weir Farm from local committees seeking its preservation to the final acceptance as a National Park. Also, portions of two books:
Regional woodworkers, 1958-1984. Peter Bleiweiss; James Grashow; John Lacey; Luke and Seraphim; Frank Nichols; Christian Schwebler; Roland Wolff.
Articles on Dorothy Burdette and her Center that supplied dancers for the Danbury Music Center's annual production of
Photos and obituary of school's head/proprietor W.H. Newman (1935?). School was started by Newman in 1894 and persisted through at least 1951.
Articles about the unique dance group out of Litchfield County.
Articles identifying dance events/personages of the area during this time period. Of special interest are articles on belly dancers (1973, 1975); Vera Zorina (1982); Cynthia Gregory (1989); Russell Markert, founder/director of the Rockettes (1988). New Dance Collective (1995-96).
Student paper:
History of small chapels in the Danbury area. Beaver Brook Jubilee 1961, Merryall Chapel New Milford 1890. Dorcas Organization reconstruction of King Street Chapel after fire.
Information on ownership dispute and title chain. Copy of an official letter and local lawyer's comments to press.
St. Mary's Parish, St. Joseph's Parish, Blessed Marguerite's Parish
Articles on Roman Catholic Churches in area towns. A great deal of information on St. Peter's Church, Danbury, and the Irish American Congregation. Ethnic churches: Melkite, Maronite, Spanish; Regina Laudis Abbey, Bethlehem; St. Thomas Aquinas Seminary, Ridgefield; St. Peter's Convent, St. Gregory. Local articles on women in priesthood, priest celibacy, abortion, and excommunication.
(Also history of Mt. Pleasant A.M.E. Zion Church in Danbury, CT, 1969; and
Clippings on blood drives, first state blood donation, blood drives, volunteers, and Terrace Place.
Clippings on the Irish famine, parades, and social events.
Copy of
Articles on clubs, businesses, ceremonies, installation of new officers, photo journal Articles and copy of
Articles on 100-year celebration in 1993, Masonic graves in Wooster Cemetery.
Research notes and articles on area organizations, discriminatory practices, gender lawsuits, charitable business practices and Moose Lodge fire in 1989.
Clippings on Margaret T. Gordon Lawrence (great granddaughter of founder), Margaret G. Lawrence (first Girl Scout in U.S.), local members and events. Student paper (no title) written by Linda Hull analyzing Camp Francis.
Articles on locations and programs.
Articles on leadership scholarships and minority school education in Danbury.
Articles on membership,
Articles on charity events, new pool house and fire.
Clippings and booklets on Social Security, guardianship, information directories, senior nutrition and diet, nursing homes, adult day-care, Medicare and Seniority
Research notes and clippings on area women's clubs, gender lawsuits, discrimination, and Adele Fanton letter (1964).
Articles on community activities, Clapboard Ridge purchase, Ridgefield Y closure, Greenknoll purchase and groundbreaking of facility.
Articles on miscellaneous local and regional community service organizations.
Articles on the Internet, WWW, censorship, and software control.
Acronyms-English, cyberspace, spanning, digital divide, regional library,
Danbury Post Office Hugh Finley's Journal ca.1773, Pony Express, and regional post offices.
Electronic publishing, silicon chips, Danbury Printing & Lithography, and micro books.
WLAD, WPKN, WMNA, WSCT (WCSU), area newscasters, and disk jockeys.
Cable TV in area towns, satellite dishes, and antenna towers.
Research notes, Danbury West Street, Hoyt Buildings, and first area long distance dialing.
Newspaper articles.
Articles on the demise of Smith Corona, Stamford.
Neighborhoods: Balmforth Avenue, North End, Beaver Brook, Mill Plain, Long Ridge including information on two residents, Rachel Crothers, famed playwright, and R. Gordon Wasson, mushroom expert, Beaver Brook, and Mill Plain.
Clippings and research notes (bibliographic in nature) on specific individuals of traditional families and non-traditional. Some emphasis on the independent woman. See also: Genealogy.
Newspaper clippings, several general articles, copy of Warner's high school essay
Individuals who helped in areas of need, Danbury sister cities (Italy and Portugal), Soviet Union and satellites, and China, including accounts of Tiananmen Square. Also newspaper articles detailing issues of the murder of four nuns in El Salvador, including Jean Donovan, whose brother Mike Donovan of Danbury, led the fight to find the culprits.
Research notes and clipping of local towns fighting for control of their destinies by fighting both state and federal agencies for monies.
Tension between the "New Yorkers" moving to small towns and keeping the town's rural ways.
Research notes and newspaper articles with photos on Danbury Hospital Ball and the Danbury Club (a men's club). Research notes on the prominent families of Danbury.
Articles with various points of view, but many looking forward and recommendations of group Fairfield 2000.
Articles on the history of Bethel, factories, churches, schools, Centenary, P. T. Barnum, and Ebenezer Hickock.
Research notes and outlines. Population and housing information. Reproduction maps and plots. Copy of lease: Moses Wheeler to Ralph Booth, date?
Articles cover history of Brookfield churches including St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Brookfield Congregational and Methodist Episcopal, Prince of Peace Lutheran, St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church. Booklet:
Articles focus on old schoolhouses, school budgets, and financing, growth and expansion, and new school construction. School Papers:
Articles cover planning and growth, history, cemeteries, preservation, open space, ironworks, and Lake Candlewood.
Articles on history, Candlewood Shores division with Brookfield, schools, and library.
Magazine:
Articles cover history, Tories, small pox, underground slave route, Purdy Station, Route 25 development, planning and growth expansion problems, industrial history, Fabric Fire Hose Company, Mary Hawley, Fairfield Hills, and Sandy Hook.
Minutes of meetings, newspaper articles, application for grant and report
Policy Plan 1960, Annual Report 1983-84, and maps.
Articles on Redding Land Trust, Mark Twain, library history, social history of Georgetown and Redding, Sanford Reports, revolution, Putnam Park, churches, silver mines, coal, anti-slavery, and Baptist's Convention.
Student research paper #97: "The Waning of Redding's Democratic Party's Power, 1929-1934, A Case Study," by B. Tresselt. 1968. Written for research seminar, History, WCSC.
Articles on history and historical figures, Indian land and settlements, Georgetown, Keeler Tavern, land use and Master Development Plan, Casagmo mansion, Negro students, and Alabama segregation 1960, and Rochambeau/Revolution. Newspaper supplements. Research notes.
Effect of downsizing on individuals and local economy.
News articles dealing with growth and decline of local businesses, general economic overview of various area businesses including restaurants. Pamphlet dated 1971 outlines the growth of National Can Corporation.
Growth/decline of area businesses, consolidation of businesses, job losses, counseling, economy, super-sized supermarkets, traffic, new construction, video stores, and service industries.
Articles on rise and fall of several industries, opening of small restaurants, and the trend to large shopping malls. Some reference is made to employment trends, moving and finding employees, and the status of Connecticut income.
Newspaper articles concentrate on the accelerated growth of Danbury in the 1980s.
The construction/opening of the Mall in 1986, increases in office buildings, office parks, condominimum complexes, and housing developments.
Failure of local businesses, trends in other local businesses, openings and closings of restaurants and some industries, regional economic forecasts, and Connecticut's place in national income.
Articles cover local businesses, openings and closings of industries, and regional economic forecasts.
Navy contracts, office vacancies, headhunters, layoffs and closing of industries, new construction, retail, traffic, entrepreneurs, and local economic conditions.
Focus on business in greater Danbury, corporate, retail, people and banking.
Focus on retail, Route 6 merchants, New Milford recycling plant, Nestle, TRC robots for elderly, Costco, and new construction.
Articles contain change of personnel in Chamber of Commerce and accomplishments An objection to Sunday selling is noted in the Chamber of Commerce's Annual Report for 1971.
Personal research notes on political growth. Overview of the three part conference Danbury Corporate Influx. Also focus and analysis on corporate transferees, family relocation, and the attendant economic growth policies/problems/decisions confronting area school and local government. Research paper:
Local businesses sold to, merged, or taken over by large corporations, loss of local control of media via de-regulation.
Local business supplement.
Local business supplement.
Local business supplement.
Local business supplement.
Local business supplement.
Local business supplement.
Local business news.
Local business news.
Emphasis on growth of new industry, job training, and pension problems, capital gains avoidance schemes by corporations, and disparity between the rich and the poor. The growth of malls and loss of independent shops absorbed by larger malls and mergers.
Articles and research notes on local changes in business, immigration, and naturalization. Student research paper
Mergers and buy-outs of regional businesses.
Mergers and buy-outs of regional businesses.
Several articles review the failure of Kero-sun products after Toyotomi refused to supply products. Pilot Pen, a Japanese subsidiary, bought a plant in Trumbull, and Mitsubishi acquired Digital Recording Company in Brookfield.
Robert Hall stores, Ohrbach's, Jordan Marsh, Macy's, Bloomingdale's, Campeau Corporation, and Federated Department Stores.
Articles of local people who invented, discovered or developed/founded a variety of tools and services. Booklets:
Contains the general economic picture of Danbury and area towns.
Development of tourism in the Danbury area, a formation of tourist districts, and pros and cons and solutions of tourism.
Articles on Connecticut manufactured toys.
Newsletters, digests, business indicators, decline of hat industry and rise of new industries, labor shortages, labor unions, and Interstate 84 See also: Student Research Papers #319: A Study of Danbury's Industrial Transition by Raymond J. Trimpert (1969)
Local news on company growth and development, plant expansion, manufacture of sutures. Some articles on patent infringements and inventions.
Local news on company growth and development. Photo journal articles on the move into East Franklin Street plant vacated by Barden, and final closing and sale of company in 1986.
Brief news articles on history (1933), company downsizing and sale in 1976 to Aldrich Precision Manufacturing Company who manufacture surgical instruments.
Local news articles on company's activities such as new plant construction and plant sales. Good information on the development of the Norden WWII bombsight, ultra precision ball bearing assembling/manufacturing/aerospace and the partnership/friendship of Theodore Barth and Carl Norden, which produced the company name Barden. Information regarding the 1984 fraud case, 1988 economic difficulties, and involvement in a Norden investigation probe.
Relocation of Eagle Pencil from New York to Danbury in 1958. Ribbon cutting ceremony and the development and changes at Berol.
News and development of company from 1974 to 1997.
Brief local company news.
Articles report on the development, growth and financial crisis of the company.
One hundred eleven years of history. Original Lansden electric truck chassis developed in 1918. Moved to Bethel in 1985 by the Doran Brothers.
Company history, growth, development, downsizing, worker lay-off, and closure. Sold to management investment firm KKR for $1.8 Billion.
Relocation of company from New York to Danbury in 1970.
One article on Grand Manufacturing Company, Shalvoy Lane. Last area shirt manufacturer.
History and development of the company in Georgetown and move to Georgia in 1989. Later articles deal with development plans, problems for the vacated site as Georgetown is now on the National Register.
Company established in Danbury in 1970. Articles deal with the growth and development of electronic publishing (encyclopedias), fiscal policies, a and buyout by Hachette in 1988.
Very brief content.
News articles cover corporate culture, and editorials/photos cover the move to Danbury, Southbury and Ridgebury.
News articles.
Local growth, development, and closing of the company. Coverage of local ecological problems caused by the acid bath/etching process.
Pharmaceutical company in Ridgefield who produces industrial enzymes. News articles detail growth of company.
Articles on the growth of the company in Danbury from 1957.
News articles/editorials/opinions on the aftermath and effects on the local economy of the Hughes/Perkin Elmer defective telescope.
Brief information on corporate news events, downsizing, and marketing strategies.
Brief articles.
Corporate news events and manufacturing problems.
Local corporate events. Articles focus on manufacturing problems-pollution controls in manufacture of lipsticks/cosmetics.
Brief content.
Corporate news events.
Local corporate news and events. Booklet:
Bhopal Disaster from local and international global perspectives. The articles give an insight into local reactions and the effects on the local economy and company personnel.
This file deals with corporate events, mainly the attempted hostile takeover bid by GAF and the subsequent actions taken by Union Carbide to pay off the debt. This file is a source of information on how global corporate policies affect local economies and work force.
Relocation of Union Carbide to Danbury in the 1970's and the subsequent impact on the area. Issues covered are business/economic incentives, relocation problems, land use, highway, and plant construction.
Entrepreneur/inventor Joseph Engleberger and the growth and development of his robotic business from 1966 to 1987.
See also: Student Research Papers #320:
1982. Paper presented to: Tenth Annual Meeting of the New England Business and Economic Conference, November 1982, Springfield MA., by John L. Bernardi, Asst. Professor of Economics, WCSC.
Articles on economy, recession, and world trade.
Research notes and sources.
General overview of Danbury and the Fairfield County economy. Most of the articles refer to residential/industrial conflicts, planning and zoning problems, corporate restructuring, job security and planning for long term growth.
Articles focus on local businesses and editorials.
Articles cover the 1980 boom years and the growth of a service economy based on real estate, construction, corporate office parks, malls, and shopping plaza/centers.
Articles concern the end of the boom years, the State's 1990 deficit/downturn and job losses, downsizing, and corporate flight of companies from Connecticut.
Articles concern new employment trends, and the need to educate students at both high school and college level for a more technical, cyberspace/computer literate work force.
See also: Danbury Preservation Trust
Truman Warner Papers-Railways
Truman Warner Papers-Floods
Truman Warner Papers-Still River Watershed
See also: Danbury Preservation Trust
Truman Warner Papers-Railways
Truman Warner Papers-Floods
Truman Warner Papers-Still River Watershed
Articles on the establishment of a Redevelopment Agency under the Chairmanship of George F. O'Brien, flood controls, urban renewal for Liberty Street and environs plus the harnessing of the Still River. Lawrence Moore Technical Planning Associates estimated a projected area growth of 75% over 25 years and advised on parking, traffic patterns redevelopment and urban renewal projects.
Phase I of the redevelopment project includes highlights of the city plan under Mayor John Define, Jr., and Governor Ribicoff. Information on the city's application under Federal and State Grant programs. The key issues were flood control, redevelopment, consolidation and full time growth initiatives by city officials. Also, articles on Eagle Pencil, Hospital, Mill Ridge School, and St. Anthony's Maronite Church.
City acts on renewal and flood control projects. Redevelopment plans show White, Elm, Main, Rose, Crosby, and Liberty Streets. Also, articles regarding local landmarks demolition projects.
Research notes, articles/editorials on the redevelopment, relocation, and wrecking of defunct buildings. Phase II Urban Renewal Project, and plans for the redirection and relocation of the N.Y.N.H & H.R.R, Carney Street location. Blue Print for Danbury Future - Ten Point Plan: Articles/photos/editorials contain information and assessments of Danbury's future planning needs. Outlines of plans for land use, orderly development, establishment of a Planning Commission.
Published list of fourteen downtown properties to be demolished, the planned initial phase of the Still River flood control project, the projected parking and land acquisition under urban renewal, and demolition laws /statutes/ordinances.
Phase II Urban Renewal Project. South White Street, Hoyt and Crosby Streets. Continuation of work on Yankee Expressway connector (I-84). Danbury High School move from White Street to Clapboard Ridge. Capital investment in redevelopment zone east of Main Street encouraged by city agencies
Research notes and newspaper articles on Phase II of Urban Renewal Projects, relocation of the Still River, and establishment of the White Street bus terminal. Demolition projects on Elm, Rose, White, and Triangle Streets construction of Main Street Bridge.
Articles on the demolition projects at Beaver Street, plans for railroad relocation, and Crosby Street Bridge before demolition.
Still River project, river containment and photos of the new bridge construction on Crosby Street, contracts for Elm Street divider, and plans for Danbury Shopping Plaza.
Clippings on redevelopment and local economic problems affecting Danbury's struggle for downtown renewal. Editorial articles compare Danbury with the development projects of Torrington, Ansonia, and other neighboring towns.
Redevelopment of the south side of the Still River, new stores, new parking lot at White Street, and a new City Hall proposal. HUD funds released to city and the introduction of the General Neighborhood Renewal Plan project - GNRP. Articles discuss planned development and the establishment of more stringent
Projects at Main, White, Beaver and Crosby Streets, new Fire Department at New Street. Discussions on the need for a better cross town (east/west) route. Also included 1968
Article/photos on projected stages of development. Patriot Drive, public works projects and expansion of sewer and water mains to bordering towns of Newtown and Bethel. Editorials on controversial growth into these rural areas particularly Federal Road--The Miracle Mile, and expansion on West Side--Mill Plain Road.
Danbury's future growth and impact on neighboring towns. 1979 is the pivotal year and the focus moves from downtown to the expansion of Mill Plain Road with the building of Union Carbide Corp Headquarters, the Hilton Hotel, and Westside WSCU campus.
Information on the history of Danbury's redevelopment projects from the 1940's to 1980's. Copy of personal interview with Jerry Lombardi dated August 1, 1979, on the subject of Danbury redevelopment process.
Information on the challenge of area growth in the 1980s. The Danbury Renaissance discussed in a five-part lecture forum at WCSU in 1982 entitled
In depth articles/editorials/opinions on the plans for revitalizing downtown Danbury. Topics covered: Flood Control Project, mid-town east development project, downtown parking, Main Street parking, railway/train station, Danbury Preservation Trust, Ives Street/Firehouse, Patriot Drive, Liberty Street, 7 acre redevelopment parcel.
Articles on the attempts to revitalize downtown. Editorials/Opinions and in depth reporting on City Hall policy making and resignations. Problems on Main and North Main Streets, merchants, parking and meters, and free parking lots. Patriot Drive, Post Office Street, pedestrian mall, Errichetti Associates, Nolan Enterprises, Jackson Hanson Realty, Downtown Merchants Council, City Center Danbury, Tax District, and City vs Errichetti/Ice Rink.
Downtown restoration and renewal projects.
Downtown Danbury redevelopment, Patriot Drive Project, and the City's contract/litigation with Errichetti Associates.
General articles on Danbury and area towns' economic futures and resistance to the pressures of land development in the 1980's. The overlying issues concern change with the development of Route 7 and the commercial intensification in the Still River Valley. Questions considered in the editorials concern to what extent a town may determine the path of its future and legally oppose State and Government agencies.
Articles/editorials on individual construction companies and building contractors. Some in depth opinions on growth and development in downtown Danbury, West Side, East Side, and north on Federal Road, and the Brookfield/New Milford town borders. Editorial reports on opposition to multi-store complexes and apartment/condominium development.
Clippings on land use, growth problems in suburbs, and planning and zoning issues. Also, regions' response to the 1976 Supreme Court Rulings
Traffic and parking problems in Danbury and area towns. Most of the articles are editorials and opinions that focus on the utilization and management of Federal and State funds for roadway improvements such as interstate and downtown connectors, street widening, closing and condemnation, DOT projects on Route 7, and efforts by local town governments to control the rapid growth and expansion.
Doyle, Robert.
Articles and editorials on planning, proposed zoning regulations, housing, and building codes. Increase in suburban action committees, Commission on Human Rights, Citizen Action Committees (CAC). Booklet:
Clippings on land use, growth problems in suburbs, and Planning and Zoning issues. Disputes on restrictive discriminatory zoning practices, nine area/regional towns cited by State and Federal government. Booklet:
Clippings on land use, zoning changes, downtown housing, new zoning for Mill Plain Road and new construction.
Articles refer to the Danbury Grange, its history, activities, and celebrations. Some photos/articles of the Connecticut Grange Celebrations held at the University of Connecticut in 1960 and the history of the National Grange Order from the Civil War to current years. Also, some articles explore the shifting emphasis from farm to environmental issues with the development of Co-operative Extension Services and Agricultural Experiment Stations. New focus on suburban gardening. "Farm markets" and home economics, rather than farming, reflect Connecticut's urbanization. See also: Farming
Articles refer to Barnum's life, his gift of the fountain to Bethel, his mansions, and his religious views. There is some coverage of the various Barnum celebrations in Bridgeport and his philanthropy as well as references to new books on Barnum, the restoration of the Bridgeport Museum and the final demise of "Jumbo" the elephant in 1977 by the New York Museum of Natural History. In addition, articles and photos on Barnum's life, his museum, and Ivy Island in Bethel. Book reference
Research notes into three Barnum performers, Tom Thumb, Jumbo the Elephant, and the Fat Lady, that made him rich and famous, plus other background research
Series of articles/chapter installments with editorial comments on Barnum's autobiography
Minor articles on Old Roxbury Days Fair and the Bridgewater Agricultural Fair.
Seven original colored postcards: Fair Grounds (3); General View, Danbury Fair Grounds (1); Danbury Fair from Grandstand (1); Midway, Danbury Fair on Thursday (1); and, Horse Races (1).
Articles and research notes on the history, events and general development of the Danbury Fair from a purely agricultural event in 1869 to its more modern theme park atmosphere at the close in 1981. Information on harness racing, old time car and motor cycle races, agricultural events, and the "Great Fires" in 1922 and 1944. Some good photo journalism reflecting the cultural evolution and change in the Danbury area from agriculture light industrial manufacturing to current city/bedroom suburbia. These files also contain comparative statistical analysis on Fair attendance, and in depth articles on the 1982 auction and demolition of the Danbury Fair.
Articles on circuses and references to Somers, NY, home of the first organized American circus, and "Old Bet" the wonder elephant. Also, the town of Brewster and controversy on sales of Morningthorpe, the Seth Hayes home/estate to Delancy Drug Air Rehabilitation Assn. in the 1980's. Student Paper: Cronin, Lois E.
Personal notes and newspaper clippings. Articles on the Melody Fair opening at the Danbury Fairgrounds, opera star Ira Pettina performed in The Merry Widow 8/12/50.
Three original programs of the Ringling, Barnum and Bailey Circus. These programs give a good descriptive synopsis of circus history and an insight into the life, background, and work of the early circus. They performed at the Danbury Fairgrounds in 1935 and had wintered quarters in Florida. See also: Student Research Papers #321:
Articles on lives and careers of General Tom Thumb "The Midget" and the "Fat Lady" Jane Campbell.
Research notes on Aaron Turner and his house. A good photo/history of the devolution of the Old Turner House Hotel.
See also: Student Research Papers:
#64: Bahan, Madeline.
Research notes and clippings on the Civil War Peace Movements. Analysis/commentary on poem
Research notes and clippings. Military companies, Civil War Veterans at Gettysburg, all black Conn. Regiments, black history, Civil War/Scott-Fanton exhibition 1971, Baptist Church/West Street Memorial Window, Danbury Civil War Monument, and Local Call List 1964.
Research notes and clippings. Military companies, Civil War Veterans at Gettysburg, all black Conn. Regiments, black history, Civil War/Scott-Fanton exhibition 1971, Baptist Church/West Street Memorial Window, Danbury Civil War Monument, Local Call List 1964.
Research notes and clippings. Research notes focus on 1850-1914; industrialization and urbanization of local area; sewers, reservoir, garbage disposal, school construction and enrollment, ethnic changes, church and religious revivalism. See also: Book Box 2
See Student Research Paper #90: Scopino, David A.
Research notes and articles on the Wooster Monument, transportation, livery stables, and migration trends to cities. Edward Cunningham's notes on society in Danbury, book reviews on Victorian life, Temperance and social mores. Also,
Research notes, articles, and research papers on the urbanization of Danbury. Focus on manufacturing industries, boots, shoes, hats, sewing machines, depressions, political attitudes, and social life in the early 1900's. See also: Student Research Paper #76:
Victorian America, culture, art, sexual attitudes, dress, and customs. Notes/analysis from a Ridgebury workshop seminar focusing on area growth from the Revolution/CivilWar/WWI. Focus is on the changes brought about by industrialization, wars, and social problems. See also: Business, Transportation, Schools, Hospital, and Farming.
One article from the
Research notes. See also Student Research Papers: #74:
Original advertisement/bookmark for Bissels Sweepers, pamphlets on social life in 1900's Norwalk and area towns.
Research notes on State Legislature 1850-1960 candidates, voters, hatting unions. Harrison on the McKinley Bill.
Clippings on 1912 election and article by Ed Cunningham
Clippings, bibliographies, book reviews on electoral process. Research notes on 1913 elections.
One handwritten report by John Magnesi. Research notes on voting patterns between 1900 and 1910.
Danbury voting districts and map of Danbury districts.
Articles include
Eight Company Regiment reunion. Two original Commemorative Memorial Service Programs dated April 9, 1957.
Newspaper clippings. See also: Student Research Papers: #193:
Research notes and clipping on Rangers Tavern and Berkshire Gate Lodge. See also Student Research Paper #191:
Articles reflecting Danbury's cultural events, daylight savings time 1921, Palace Theater in 1929, and clipping on Danbury Police Log Book, 1924- 1928. See also: Student Research Paper #20: The Political Atmosphere in Danbury during the Roaring Twenties by Steven Nargiso.
Typed report on the above.
Draft for a proposed paper on the depression in Danbury by Herbert Janick. See also Student Research Paper #294:
Focus on Depression activities, effects on local area, and people. Five part series on the Depression published in 1974.
O'Hara's Floor Covering calendar (1931), and postcard ad for David Harum's radio show and handprint set for character analysis. n.d.
List of 1920's KKK members and article "Confronting the Klan."
Justice Harold Hickock Papers Bequest to Southbury Historical Society, clubs, Blue Laws, German Bund File.
Articles and research notes/outlines covered Danbury and area from early settlement in, Colonial era through to the present. Topics include frontiers, agriculture, beginnings of industrialization, 1773, Revolutionary War, revitalization, awakenings, modern regional planning, preservation and ecology.
Area growth, adaptation to change, and religious revivalism.
Articles and book reviews on religious revitalization, religion in politics, Fundamentalism, and religious cults. See also: Churches
Articles, research and personal notes on 1860-1880 census, and social statistics of cities, and "The City of Danbury."
Notes, research and analysis/comments on Marvin Harris and the Cultural Materialism--Science of Culture.
Research notes and comments on culture as an adaptation, and sociobiology, functionalism mode of production.
Personal research notes, clippings, and reviews on cultural materialism, and age of entitlement.
Excerpts from article.
Structuralism and different social topics.
Research notes on scientific theories, paradigms, social science, and the scientific method.
Culture, adaptation and environment, and examples of social ideologues.
See also: Danbury Mall/Fair and Housing
Excerpts from Chapters I, II, III, and IV.
Focus on modernization, science and technology, social problems, spiritual malaise, and religion. See also: Business, Business & Economy
Geohistory and a reformulation of social history.
Articles and research material focus on effects of population growth, environment, ecology, and religious factions. See also: Churches, Business, Social Issues, Farming
Articles relate to moral values, myths, awakenings, and a revitalization of culture. Exploration of stages of acculturation, i.e., religious cults, cargo cults, and glossolalia, altered states of consciousness, social change, and steady state stages. See also: Churches-Evangelicism, Grace and Vessals, Cults.
Articles focus on problems facing the modern American anthropologist.
Anthropology newsletters:
Research notes focus on material change and effects on moral values, Conservatism, Puritanism, and radical New England religious sects during 1783-1850. Booklet:
Articles and book reviews, research notes on the Progressive Era1890 through 1920. Suffrage, consolidation of schools, unions, Hatters, religion, camp meetings, and change in 19th century America. See also: Churches and Ives.
One articles, time line chart, and literature.
Minutes, Board members, Committee Reports covering activities of the Scott Fanton Museum & Historical Society. Topics include Ives house restoration, Proposal by Related Housing Companies of New York to purchase the Museum property, exhibits, renovation and maintenance of sites and properties such as the Ives and Ryder Houses.
Legislative Act effecting the merger of the Danbury Historical Museum and Arts Center, Inc. with the Scott-Fanton Museum Corporation, and Assistance Agreement with the State of Connecticut.
Programs, newsletters, flyers, and booklets regarding the Museum's activities. One 4x6 color postcard of the John and Mary Rider House filed with Truman Warner Papers, Postcard Collection.
Twenty-five 4 x 6 color photographs of
Information regarding Museum's activities
Newspaper articles contain information on the formation of the Scott-Fanton Museum, groundbreaking ceremony, past presidents, exhibits, events, personnel,
Policy Sheet covering personnel, Board responsibilities, agreement with D.A.R., and safety rules.
Articles on bears, coyotes, deer, raccoons, beaver, snakes.
Articles on eagles, Canadian geese, wild turkeys, and miscellany.
Regional mines and caves.
Articles on dams in Danbury; and few on other local dams.
Proposed usage of Fairfield Hills "campus."
Danbury landfill development in Beaver Brook area; illegal dumping; Automated Waste Disposal; possible racketeering; federal and state issues of landfills; closing and stench of mid-1990s. Several articles of 1927 when landfill moved to Beaver Brook. Booklet:
The gypsy moth infestations of the region.
Principal coverage of Vanderbilt Chemical site, Bethel.
The installation of the Iroquois natural gas pipeline through Western Connecticut. See also: Energy and Evolution of Danbury.
Quarries in Brookfield and New Milford.
History of recycling systems in various towns.
Attempts to establish an incinerator for trash disposal. Also, other aspects of disposal.
Housatonic River, Norwalk River, and Still River.
Local aspects with emphasis on the Route 7 change.
Interaction of Danbury with local towns for sewer connections.
Attempts by town of Brookfield to move from septic to sewers.
Diseases and pests of trees and maintenance of old trees.
History of the development of the landfill in New Milford, the struggle between Waste Management and the city for removal of illegally high trash heap in the 1990s.
Focus is on Danbury's water supply. See also Student Research Paper #12:
Maps and reports from the Housatonic Valley Council regarding aquifers, water resource management, and relationships of industrial growth to water quality.
Varied articles on regional weather plus some of Dr. Mel's Hartford Courant columns.
Aspects of regional wetland concerns and legalities.
Articles on public views and protests on pipeline.
Research notes on the coal industry; coal energy as alternative to nuclear and oil.
Connecticut Impact Studies, FLEC, PUC, PFEC, CCA, cables, rights of way, high power lines.
Clippings, research notes on energy source, gas crunch, gas lines, and social effects. No folder 1 (replaced with folder 6?)
Articles discuss possible use of earth's own heat as a source of energy.
Research notes on Rocky River Power Plant, Bulls Bridge, Shepaug & Stevenson Dams, Penstocks, DPA, HPS (Housatonic Pub Service), CL&P, CLDA (Candlewood Lake Defense Associates), FPA. See also: Truman Warner Papers: Still River
History of Iroquois Pipeline, protests, disputes with local towns.
Opposition to pipeline route along Still River watershed. OSHA EPA, FERC, local towns.
Personal notes, clippings, alternative energy use.
Personal notes on the North East and Alaska Pipelines. Energy and Evolution of Danbury (continued)
Newsletter:
Peat as fuel source.
Research notes on OPEC, oil dependency and economic effects of oil consumption, Alaska pipeline, Exxon Valdez, oil profits, and politics. See also: Gasoline folder.
Power grids, PUCA, microwave problems, power lines.
All aspects of solar heating as alternative energy source.
"Wind Energy for Human Needs" by Marshall F. Merriam in
Energy crisis, state firewood program, cutting permits, tree poaching, economics of wood fuel.
Articles on the changes in Connecticut's agricultural policies and farm economics. Decline in dairy but an in crease in chickens, sheep, mushroom, horticulture, nurseries, organic farming and the humus business. Statistics of farms closing n Fairfield County and Conn. Farm Preservation Program to ensure land stays agricultural use.
Local articles on vanishing open space, dairy industry, farm economy, and loss of dairy farms locally and in Connecticut. See also Student Research Paper #35:
Research notes and clippings on animal husbandry in local area farms.
Articles and research material concern the history and evolution of farming in Connecticut, which include energy sources, crop distribution and land use. Pamphlet:
Clippings, personal research notes, correspondence, bulletins on the general history of farming and farming practices in Connecticut from the 17th century to the present. Booklets:
This file is a composite study/history on farming and agriculture for a research/lecture project. The research material covers years 1600 to current day. The theme is change and the effects of industrialization on farming and agriculture in the Connecticut and Still River Valleys from railroads to machinery and equipment. Rural economy, farm machinery, animal husbandry, crop production, farmland tax relief, and Local PA 490.
Eroding agricultural base and changes in farmland use due to growth of suburbia. Decline in dairy farming, increase in horticulture, nurseries, Christmas trees, wineries. New Pont Farm, Redding Education Center. New emphasis on diversity in farm crops and farming. Growth of agribusinesses and the introduction of the State Farmland Preservation-purchase of development 1978. The Grange Centennial Celebration 1957. Federal Farm agencies, Agricultural Census, 1992. USDA.
Articles feature local and area farm families and their response to the high costs of farming in Connecticut and Fairfield County along Route 7/Still River corridor. (New Pond Farm-Redding, Burr Farm-Brookfield, Paproski and Sedor Farms-Newtown, Hurlbert Farm-Roxbury, Warrups Farm-Washington, Smyrski Farm-New Milford, Avrill Farm-Washington) Farm preservation, dairy farms, organic farming, compost, manure, flax farming.
Articles focus on shrinking Connecticut farmlands and growth in urban land use, Farm Preservation Bill, development rights, and Blue Jay Orchards. Pamphlets:
Articles on local orchards.
Clippings covering topics such as old Indian herbs and herbal remedies, wildflowers, endangered trees, birds, general flora and fauna, problems caused by suburban sprawl; organic and natural food movements. Catnip Acres Herb Farm, Blue Jay Orchards.
One clipping and several reports on soil conservation, erosion, and percolation tests for the Danbury Scott Fanton Museum & Historical Society.
Clippings on local tobacco economy and job market, modern economic growth of cigar industry, and migrant camps.
A comprehensive photo study of the catastrophic floods that devastated the Connecticut and Merrimac Valleys in 1938.
Booklets:
Articles on the 1955 flood damage in Danbury and area towns. Full photo coverage of the damage done by the Still, Housatonic, and Norwalk Rivers.
Articles/photos on area flooding. Request by city for government funds to control Still River.
Articles and photos of area flooding and editorials on the need for better flood control. Most articles criticize the lack of good planning and conservation policies. Development of the Flood Control and Erosion Board established in 1955 and its suggested demise in 1982.
The Travelers Insurance Companies.
Newspaper clippings and photos on regional and area flooding.
Articles on New Milford floods, Housatonic flooding on Route 7, dams failing, and hurricane damage.
Comprehensive articles and editorials on Phase I and II of the Still River flood control projects in Danbury. Most of the information deals with Danbury and the subsequent urban renewal of downtown. Many photos of the re-channeling of the Still River by the Army Corps of Engineers and editorials on the use of federal funds/grants policies. See also: Danbury Downtown Redevelopment
Articles on Norwalk River flood control and the impact on Route 7 in lower Fairfield County region.
Several newspaper articles, genealogies, family trees constructed by Truman Warner, which include Ebenezer Hickok, Trowbridge, Hoyt, and Short families.
Newspaper articles and obituaries on notable local and regional individuals and families, which include politicians, musicians, actors, singers, ministers, teachers, critics, politicians, lawyers, and historians. In addition, there are articles on national politicians including Elmo Roper, Alice Rowland, Philip Berrigan, Willie Wolfe, Ted Sorenson, and Mabel Smythe-Black.
Newspaper articles and obituaries.
Research notes and obirtuary of Mrs. John W. Bacon.
Clippings and research notes on Barlow commemoration in 1935. Excerpts from book review of
Genealogy. Challenger to Eliza Barnum will.
Research notes.
Clippings of obituaries, copies of wills and family history including the charges made in the Danbury Raid of 1777.
Research notes.
Research notes.
Newspaper articles and obituaries of local and regional individuals.
Clippings about Rev. John B. Coburn.
Clippings on Andrew Conniff, Representative to Hartford. AP telegrapher Frank Conniff, executive Hearst papers, and editor of the World Journal, 1966.
Research notes and the
Research notes.
Newspaper articles and obituaries of local and regional individuals
Research notes and articles on the descendants still living in Danbury.
Clippings from the Danbury News-Times. Obituaries of parents, autobiography, charges and trial in 1990.
Newspaper articles and obituaries of local and regional individuals
Research notes, family tree, and obituary of Junior L. Ely.
Newspaper articles and obituaries of local and regional individuals
Editorials, articles, church bulletins, and research notes.
Research notes and copy of family record from Bible.
Newspaper articles and obituaries of local and regional individuals
Research notes.
Newspaper articles and obituaries of local and regional individuals
Research notes, clippings, and obituaries.
Research notes and clippings on Lawrence Hoyt, founder of Walton Books.
Obituaries of John and Robert Hull.
Obituaries, articles, and letters to the editor, copy of Hull founders (source and date unknown).
Robert Jennings discovered Grandma Moses' paintings.
Research notes.
Douglas Kennedy, co-founder of National Lampoon, and Helen Keller, et al.
Research notes and several articles covering many generations of Knapps.
Newspaper articles and obituaries.
Newspaper and magazine articles.
Research notes, obituaries and articles.
Newspaper clippings, genealogy, John Brewster, Jr. found folk-painter of portraits. Suit over sale of paintings.
Newspaper articles and obituaries of local and regional individuals
Research notes, sources, genealogy, term paper, and obituaries.
Research notes, obituaries and articles.
Obituaries, research notes, and genealogy.
Newspaper clippings from the Danbury News-Times on Levi Penfield, tombstone in parking lot but no body. Dr. Sophie Penfield, first practicing women's physician in Connecticut.
Newspaper articles and obituaries of local and regional individuals.
Newspaper articles and obituaries of local and regional individuals.
Genealogy research notes.
Clippings and obituaries from the
Clippings on Mr. and Mrs. Tom Rounds, Bardens and "Behind Iron Curtain."
Newspaper and magazine clippings. Provost at Princeton; Dean of College, Princeton; Mellon Foundation, President of Harvard. Several articles on local doctors training.
Newspaper articles.
Newspaper articles and obituaries of local and regional individuals.
Newspaper articles and reprint of 90 year old letters of Julia Hawley Seeley. Donation of Bethel Public Library.
Genealogy, newspaper clippings/obituaries, and copies of family records.
Research notes and genealogy.
Research notes and genealogy.
Genealogy research notes, copies from D.A.R. scrapbook, and newspaper articles on Nathan Starr, John B. and Sarah M. Starr.
Copy of letter dated July 6, 1971, written by Harriet Howard White Starr to her grandchildren giving genealogy of the Starr family. Includes several newspaper articles.
Genealogy information and obituary of Elizabeth Lynes Stevens.
Newspaper articles and obituaries. Mayor of Danbury and architect.
Newspaper articles and obituaries.
Danbury News-Times articles and obituaries, and research notes on genealogies.
A few newspaper articles and a copy of forward in a book of Stanley Leach Taylor with genealogy dated, 1951.
Newspaper articles on 70th anniversary, obituary, copy of A Taylor Memoir by Beth Taylor with photos.
Danbury News Times clippings, research notes, and article on genealogy of George Trowbridge family.
Articles, obituaries, and research notes. Copy of John Tweedy and Descendants-1884, articles on family.
One editorial on the death of Louis Untermeyer of Newtown.
Newspaper articles and obituaries.
Newspaper articles and obituaries.
Newspaper articles and obituary.
Research notes and genealogy.
Newspaper articles and obituaries.
Research notes and genealogy of Whittlesey family.
Research notes and genealogy.
Copies of family letters.
Genealogy of Wildman family.
Genealogy notations.
Obituaries and newspaper articles.
Obituaries and newspaper articles.
Aids, public health issues, ARC, WSCU-health, self-help, Bread and Roses, Clinic, Aids Clinic/Danbury Hospital founder, Dr. Kenneth Evans.
Alcohol abuse, workplace, student binge drinking, teens, DUI, rehab, Safe Rides, MCCA, MADD, SADD, AA, RID, DARE, alcohol statistics. Clinics: Eagle Hill, Fairfield Hill, McDonough House, Dr. Henry Blansfield, Danbury Hospital Clinic, Dr. David F. Musto, and booklet
Volunteerism, EMS, growth in services, centralization, training, and disputes.
Focus on local individual clinics, DHS welfare clinics, means tests, and volunteerism by attending physicians/nurses and private clinics.
Rehabilitation, corporate benefactors, fund raising, community work programs, group homes, independent living.
Increase in illegal drug traffic, substance abuse in local schools, colleges, and work place. Treatment and rehabilitation costs. MCCA, RESCUE, WCSU, detoxification and Methadone Clinics, TNT, Fairfield Hills, and theft of Secobarbitol capsules at Pharmacol.
History of institution and political decision to close Fairfield Hills.
History of Hanahoe Clinic and its founder, Dr. Anne Hanahoe Hines.
Focus on local/regional planning for community health and welfare services. National Health Planning and Resources Dept. Act, 1974.
Hospice growth/funding, volunteerism, self-help groups, and home care
Symptoms, prevention, deer tick, vaccine research/development.
Health care, debate, HMOs, Medicare, Medicaid, eldercare issues, assisted living, corporate welfare, and private insurance plans.
Focus on growth of area health care industry; increase nursing home construction, staffing, disputes, violations, fraud, and regulatory controls.
Self help groups, litigation, smoking bans, and nicotine addiction
Problems and arguments for closing.
Local VNA, growth in services, well child, homecare, counseling hospices.
Overview of Connecticut highway system and a focus on projected regional growth from 1955 onwards. Tri-State Transportation Committee, Regional and Interstate Highways, Merrit Parkway, I-84, Route US #6, 7, 22, and 25.
Queen of Parkways by Charles Monagan,
Newtown, Monroe, Trumbull, environmental issues, construction ban, and Fairfield Hills Bypass. Route 7, Danbury-Norwalk, 1977 See Student Research Paper #325:
Folders 5 through 10 give a chronological account from 1957 when the then Connecticut Highway Department, now the DOT, proposed a 4-lane expressway to replace the old congested U. S. Route 7 from Norwalk to New Milford. In 1972 Citizens brought a lawsuit under The National Environment Act (NEPA) for a Better Environment & Transportation (EIS) should be prepared. The DOT responded that is Federal Funds were not involved there was no need for an EIS. The Courts ruled in DOT's favor. In July 1974, the Housatonic Valley (HVA) requested an injunction under the Connecticut Environmental Protection Act (CEPA). These newspaper articles report on the delays, injunctions, and budget problems resulting from the litigation.
Highway of I-84 (Yankee Expressway) and the impact on area towns as they become an integral part of the super highway system. Topics covered include Danbury/Westchester Corridor, Danbury Mall Interchange, Lake Avenue, Dept. of Public Works, tolls, thruways, turnpikes constructions, environmental impact statements, and ecology, and Danbury central area connector. Report:
Researchers should also search the Danbury Preservation Trust Records, and the Truman Warner Papers-Streets, Buildings, Structures for additional information on historic preservation.
Researchers should also search the Danbury Preservation Trust Records, and the Truman Warner Papers-Streets, Buildings, Structures for additional information on historic preservation.
Architectural styles, buildings, and walking tours in Danbury.
Minutes of meetings, correspondence, and bylaws of the Danbury Preservation Trust, and downtown survey of businesses and housing.
Research notes and original manuscript for Danbury Preservation Trust's newsletter,
Original manuscript and revisions on Main Street projects including threats and opportunities, and how to educate the public through a variety of venues.
Newsletters:
Booklet:
Articles focus on the founding of the Danbury Preservation Trust, movement to save the former jail, grants, public opinions, preservation of the Ives Street firehouse, and conversions of old buildings into apartments.
Notes and documents from Mayor's Conference on Historic Preservation, May 16, 1980. Paper:
Articles focus on the railroad station, renovation of firehouse and old houses, and a survey of population and real estate in the area.
Booklets:
Flyer: Historic Neighborhood Preservation Program: Explore Greyrock, Explore Hoytville, and Explore Algiers. Historic Neighborhood Preservation Program.
Connecticut Trust for Historic Preservation Main Street Conference, December 6-7, 1979. Additional local information.
Research notes and articles on vandalism, Danbury Cemetery Association, of stones. Area cemeteries, epitaphs, and mystery body on South Street.
Decorated streets, food-tree, Hanukkah, traditional ways of celebrating, Christmas, and Christmas stories supplements. Christmas, and Christmas stories supplements.
Greek Orthodox, rites of spring, St. Ann's Melkite, carrying cross on Jesus Way,
Introduction of First Night, celebration of New Year, schedule of events, participants, program, Bill Lombardo, Paul Winter, and Clark Eno.
Fireworks displays, fireworks--legal and illegal, Declaration of Independence, display of flag, and parades.
Costume parades, Orson Welles'
Danbury and area towns' parades, ceremonies, patriotism, local personalities involved in ceremonies and parades.
Invitations, map of Connecticut issued in commemoration of the State's Tercentenary; publicity map of Connecticut "It Happened in Connecticut," bulletin, and programs for 1935 Tercentennial celebration. Newspaper articles on celebrations, parades, entertainment, Centennial Run, and time capsule. bulletin, and programs for 1935 Tercentennial celebration. Newspaper articles on celebrations, parades, entertainment, Centennial Run, and time capsule.
Indian national day of mourning, Alice Rothschild, traditional foods/recipes, Thanksgiving for the needy, origin in Conn., Alternative High School meal for needy.
Lee Hartell, Congressional Medal of Honor, list of those lost in World War II, Korean War Monument. See also: Memorial Day
Research notes for years, articles focus on founding of Danbury Hospital, the School of Nursing, original and subsequent benefactors, builders, architects, presidents, and physicians. presidents, and physicians.
See also Student Research Papers:
#53:
Article on long-range fund raising program launched in 1957.
Editorials on expansion, growth, and funding. Danbury Hospital Development Fund, health and welfare grants, Danbury Hospital Health and Science Library, and audiovisual self-help aids. and audiovisual self-help aids.
Articles, Danbury Hospital newsletters, bulletins, and supplements on accelerated growth. City planning approval for expansion, grants, bequests, budget cuts, state funding packages, Commission on Hospitals and Health, Diagnostic and Treatment Center, Department of Health, Education and Welfare Grants, industrial health, Danbury Hospital Fund-Benjamin Stroock Bequests. Newsletter:
IPOS, HMOS, PHOS, DOPS, IPAS, cost containment, downsizing and early retirement, trust violations, monopolies, and price fixing. OSHA-workplace litigation, State investigation, and medical waste.
Articles focus on funding policies, expansion, and the need to remain on the cutting edge of medical technology. Fund raising, corporate and individual philanthropy, Marian Anderson, Bertram Strook, and hospital residents.
Articles on growth and consolidation of health care services.
Articles report on the behavioral/psychological problems of suburban living. Increase in volunteerism and community support groups, new medical problems such as deer ticks, viral outbreaks, microbes and mosquito encephalitis. News such as deer ticks, viral outbreaks, microbes and mosquito encephalitis. News coverage of trial of Elizabeth M. Ayres, Danbury Medical Inspector (1951).
1996
Articles focus on the consolidation of state mental health departments, the closing of state facilities and the introduction of community based programs for discharged patients. Connecticut Independent Living, Inc., DMR, DMH, Options, discharged patients. Connecticut Independent Living, Inc., DMR, DMH, Options, DHS Crisis Intervention Center, Danbury Regional Center, closure of Fairfield Hills. See also Truman Warner Personal Papers-Writings:
Articles focus on individual doctors and nurses that have served at Danbury Hospital. Some editorial and photojournalism on The School of Nursing and first lectures given at Danbury State College in 1959.
Articles on the latest therapeutic treatments offered in hospitals and the costs. Competitive funding issues and purchase of PET and CAT Scan machines, therapies, x-rays, Cobalt Therapy, expense of open heart surgery/units, HSA, and State Commission on Hospitals and Health Care. therapies, x-rays, Cobalt Therapy, expense of open heart surgery/units, HSA, and State Commission on Hospitals and Health Care.
Articles on dentistry, alternative care, drugs, vitamins, homeopathy, patients rights and privacy issues, informed decisions, and therapies.
Articles focus on funding and building of apartment complexes for the elderly, independent living, provisions for nutrition, and social attitudes toward elderly retirement.
Forms: Grievance Procedure, Notice to All Tenants, and Federal Project Lease. "Housing for America: A Ten-Year Program" by Chat Patterson.
Topics include land use, public opinion, pros and cons, rules for building, condo boom in 1985, and lagging sales by 1988.
Articles focus on publicly funded housing, need for more and varied housing in 1949, and the urgent need for low cost housing in 1950. Building growth in Fairfield Ridge, Laurel Gardens, Park Avenue Apartments, Fairview, Main Street high rise, Wooster Manor, and need for zoning changes.
Articles focus on need for more housing of all types and prices, NAACP becomes active in attacking racist attitudes, first African American appointed to housing post, Beaver Brook project approved after delays.
Beaver Brook low-income housing started after many delays, residents' approval and disapproval of other housing proposals. Urgency of need for low cost housing is emphasized. Student paper: Wood, Susan.
Articles continue regarding concern for housing the poor, costs of private homes, health violations in housing. Seminar held in Brookfield to face problems and changes in zoning. Strong public reaction to zoning changes and land/building use.
Needs for change in zoning, more housing for workers transferred from NYC, needs of Redding and Brookfield. Beaver Street project finally approved, Parks property sold, higher costs of housing. Rentals scarce, NAACP press for housing, and higher mortgage interest rates.
Shortage of both rentals and sales is ongoing, zoning blamed for shortage, rise in mortgage rates, single homes needed, and Obeda's removal from Wetlands Committee overturned.
Articles show slight increase in building permits but also increase in costs. Attick lawsuit, cases against Obeda, Jorman, Hovi, and DaSilva. Complaints over Tower Place property and subsequent move of tenants.
Emergency shelter for homeless, lack of heat in apartments, vandalism of summer homes at Lake Candlewood, DaSilva reply to complaints, and Vincent warehouse to become apartments.
Building conversions to housing, bribery chares leading to Akins arrest at Housing Authority, tenant neglect by DaSilva, and housing needs not being met.
Homeless shelter opened by St. James Church, burden of rising property taxes, lawsuits, inefficiency of Housing Authority, DaSilva properties attached for foreclosures.
Emphasis continues to be need for more affordable housing, but also zoning changes needed to curb growth in loss of land. New housing chief appointed, city buys a "home for homeless" while number of homeless increases.
Research notes, family tree, and newspaper articles.
Research notes, newspaper clippings,
Postcards,
Newspaper clippings.
Minutes of first meeting, October 8, 1973
Newspaper clippings and programs.
Correspondence, clippings, Scott-Fanton
Newspaper clippings.
Clippings of history and events at the Center.
Clippings cover the creation of the CICAM by Richard Moryl and
Issue features Charles Ives.
One newspaper review.
Newspaper articles.
Newspaper articles.
Programs and newspaper clippings on events held at the Ives
Programs and newspaper articles.
Original discharge paper from the U. S. Army dated September 1965, original Army pass to leave Fort Richardson, VA., to travel to Washington dated April 7, 1864, and copy of letter to Mrs. Mollie P. Ives dated April 27, 1894. Mollie P. Ives dated April 27, 1894. to Washington dated April 7, 1864, and copy of letter to Mrs. Mollie P. Ives dated April 27, 1894.
Research notes and clippings.
Copies of correspondence and research notes.
Research notes, and original school materials, and letter from Sister Amelia, possibly (1904)
Research materials, Ives family obituary notices.
Research notes, obituaries, clippings, copies of family
Original Yale notebook with crib notes dated Class of 1852.
See also: Student Research Papers:
#24:
Research notes, criticism of the press, first Sunday edition, old and new News Times News Times staff: George W. Oatis, George White, Frank Stevens, Eugene Brown, William Lauf, John Van Kleech, Thomas Purell, Forest Palmer, Edith Stevens. Demise of Hartford Tribune, Hamilton Press sold, Ottoway buys
Bibliographies, research notes,
Letters to the Editor and articles. Publisher's Notebook column, introduction of Educational Supplement, circulation at 35,000, editorial pages, and designs awards, Bnai- Brith award to DNT. Brewster paper folds, James H. Smith new managing editor, James Purcell, Wayne Shepherd, James Bailey, LeRoy Paltrowitz, Forest Palmer, Susan Guerro, and Valerie Roth.
Copies of Danbury's first newspaper
Facsimile of booklet published in the 19th century:
Bibliographic notes.
Bibliographic notes and chronology of Danbury newspapers from 1790 to 1875. Key to the institutions employed in the chronology of Danbury newspapers from 1790- 1875. Family tree showing newspapers before 1820, newspaper articles, research notes, and short paper on Edward B. Osborne (author unknown), notes on Granville W. Morris, Selleck-Osborn, and research notes on printing. and short paper on Edward B. Osborne (author unknown), notes on Granville W. Morris, Selleck-Osborn, and research notes on printing.
Articles and research notes on James M. Bailey known as the "Danbury News Man."
Appointment of Editorial Page Director. Retirement and death of Mary Horch Collins.
History and research notes on the Danbury Library, murals, funding, editorials, and exhibits.
Articles on library budgets, personnel, exhibits, and open house dedication of the
Articles on fire at Danbury Library, rebuilding, technology, card catalogs, and Mark Twain Library's 85th anniversary celebration.
Student papers:
Clippings regarding Caldor's history, selling formula, established stores, economic and Geographic growth, new president, possible buyout by Associated Dry Goods, struggles in Northeastern United States, and bankruptcy. Dry Goods, struggles in Northeastern United States, and bankruptcy.
Clippings, editorials, ads, pictures, inserts, mailings, flyers, bumper stickers, and letters to the editor. Articles concern arguments for and against mall, credential of contractors, concerning legal matters in construction, impact on social and economic sphere, progress of construction, I-84 ramp construction, vandalism and security, opening, holiday crowds, local stores defense against mall, construction workers, environmental impact, and land exchange with airport.
Articles, photos, research notes and documents. Openings, closings, warehouse grocery stores, supermarkets, gourmet food stores, mom and pop markets, financial history of food stores, retirement of important food store peoples, picture of historical stores, decline of mom and pops, prices, trends, shopping costs, fires, and price control. Also H. G. Warner Company Collection and E. M.Gilbert Collection inventory.
Articles and photos regarding retail and wholesale stores, openings and closings, local bakeries, tobacco, milk, candy stores, butchers, fish mongers, and liquor stores.
Research notes, articles, news photos, magazine articles, supplements, and ads. History of Danbury hotels and inns, pictures of former inns, buying and selling of hotels, construction of hotels, chain franchises moving into area, community involvement in preservation of old hotels, entrepreneur techniques, reference notes relating to local preservation of old hotels, entrepreneur techniques, reference notes relating to local hotels and inns. construction of hotels, chain franchises moving into area, community involvement in preservation of old hotels, entrepreneur techniques, reference notes relating to local hotels and inns.
Articles, pictures, fact sheets concerning plan, opposition, problems, sewer, traffic, police and fire, town planning
Articles and photos regarding mall plans, construction, store openings and closings, foreclosure, redesigned for factory use.
Articles, pictures, editorials, and opinion pieces. Opposition, pollution, traffic, downtown decay, economic impact, zoning change, town meetings, Ridgefield opposition, predictions for success/failure, approval of mall, and run-off water problems. opposition, predictions for success/failure, approval of mall, and run-off water problems.
Articles, photos, letters to editor, and ads. Shopping mall and plaza openings, site approval for mall successes and failures, and malls and city planning. Opposition, effect on environment, existing stores, parking lot problems, protests and publicity, road closings, state jurisdiction over malls, quality of developers. .
Articles and pictures concerning rezoning, voter opposition and support, and impact on area.
Articles, photos, obituaries, editorials, reviews, and brochures on restaurant openings, selling of restaurants, owners and chefs, health inspection scores, political and legal information (liquor proximity and topless dancing bills), and restaurant closings.
Articles, photos, ads, editorials, and business cards. Restaurant reviews, histories, openings, ads, entertainment, expansions, history of owners and chefs of local restaurants, surveys of areas best, improvements, and food trends.
Articles, newspaper photos, and reviews. Local crafts and craftsmen: blacksmiths, mechanics, pewter workers, cobblers, candle makers, watchmakers, tailors, appliance repairmen, barbers, furniture makers, metal workers, store workers, handymen, shoe repairmen, cast iron restoration, broom-makers, jewelers, pharmacists, plasterers, tiles, cabinet maker, stained glass, silver smith, glassblower, potter, woodworking, tea maker, hairdresser, confectioner. History of local crafts union, revitalizing local business by new corporations, decline of craft trades, and the Danbury Fair Mall.
Articles, photos, magazine articles, news inserts, commercial mailings, ads, columns, editorials, opinions, and cartoons. Legal debates on zoning laws, stores sold, opened, closed, renovated, reopening, anniversaries, history of store, owners, buildings, parking and traffic, shopping center, downtown restoration, property sold, blue laws, liquor laws, large discount chain stores, fires, impact of new technology, consumer advice, and factory outlets.
Newspaper and magazine articles regarding Wal-Mart's impact on small businesses, traffic, the consumer, taxes, urban sprawl, crusade for responsible growth, big chain discount stores, public hearings and reaction of New Milford Zoning Commission. discount stores, public hearings and reaction of New Milford Zoning Commission.
AMS existed from 1894-1979.
Articles, obituary, and comments on composer who lived in Woodbury.
Extensive collection of newspaper articles (1970-1997) about the Danbury resident. Also program and tickets of the "Official Danbury Bicentennial Concert of American Music," June 26, 1976, with Miss Anderson and Robert Goldstand. See also: Scott-Fanton Museum
Articles and photos on local bands/drum corps.
Program and editorial. Concert featured Marian Anderson and Robert Goldsand.
News-Times articles on nationally known local pianist.
Articles about jazz great who has performed in Danbury.
Articles of Danbury's own "rock 'n roller," original member of The Rascals.
Article on Christ Chorale and photos of older groups.
Local, not so well-known, composers: Robert Keys Clark, Ted Howes, David Katz (review of music), Marta Ptaszynska, Noel Regney, Ivana Themmen, Rob Volpintesta. See also: Leroy Anderson, Dave Brubeck, Hershey Kay, Stephen Schwarz. Volpintesta. See also: Leroy Anderson, Dave Brubeck, Hershey Kay, Stephen Schwarz.
Articles on orchestra conductors who lived/conducted in the area: Beatrice Brown, Paul Lavalle, Enoch Light, Murry Sidlin, Maxim Shostakovich, Leopold Stokowski, Richard Westenburg. See also: Skitch Henderson Paul Lavalle, Enoch Light, Murry Sidlin, Maxim Shostakovich, Leopold Stokowski, Richard Westenburg. See also: Skitch Henderson
Articles on blind administrator, teacher, hymn writer who lived in Brewster.
Articles and programs on Danbury Concert Association, which broke off from Danbury Music Centre in 1957. Also programs on The Community Concert Association.
Programs of presentations at the Danbury Music Centre.
Articles trace evolution of DMC and after its separation from Danbury Concert Association. Special information on Donald Tweedy, founder of DMC, John Burnett, James Humphreville, concerts celebrating 50th and 60th anniversary seasons.
Articles on regional folk song singers: Bill Crofut, Lui Collins, Group Together, the Ellises, Bill Lauf, Horace Williams, Barbara Truex. See also: Pete Seeger, Mary Travers.
Articles and obituary about famous opera star and Ridgefield resident.
Articles and obituary on internationally known pianist who lived in Danbury from 1953 to his death in 1991.
Metropolitan Opera character actor/singer. Articles including obituary and
One article about famed violinist's Redding home.
New Milford resident and orchestra conductor. Articles about his musical world from Johnny Carson to New York Pops and New Milford home.
Articles on sale of home, interview with wife Wanda Toscanini Horowitz, and obituary. New Milford resident.
Articles on local musicians, famous and not-so-famous: Ignatius Alexander, Julius Baker, Jeannine Battaaglia, Mutt Bland, Emile Buzaid, John Carvette, Linc Chamberland, Robert Christopher, Dallas Cline, Connecticut Brass, William Connors, Chris Farrell, Henry Fischer, Scott Fopiano, Mary Fox, Adelaide Grabert, Clifford Grummon, Daniel Harris, Doug Hartline, Ernestine Holmes, Harold Hunt, Ira (all-women band), Jose Iturbi, Liberace, Phil LoPresti, Ken Lovelett, John Ludorf, Michael Macelletti, Eric Madriguera, Warne Marsh, Mabel Mattson, Anthony Newman, Robert Andrew Parker, Piano Mary, Saints and Sinners Kazoo Band, Ravi Shankar, Eric Simon, Star Bagel Band, Isaac Stern, Clark Terry, Keith Toth, Benjamin Verdery, Chuck Vrtacek, Frederick Werle, Harry White, Verona Williamson, Paul Wooster. See also: Miahcel Boriskin, Robert Goldsand, Jascha Heifitz, Vladimir Horowitz, Igor Kipnis, Paul Winter Consort. Chamberland, Robert Christopher, Dallas Cline, Connecticut Brass, William Connors, Chris Farrell, Henry Fischer, Scott Fopiano, Mary Fox, Adelaide Grabert, Clifford Grummon, Daniel Harris, Doug Hartline, Ernestine Holmes, Harold Hunt, Ira (all-women band), Jose Iturbi, Liberace, Phil LoPresti, Ken Lovelett, John Ludorf, Michael Macelletti, Eric Madriguera, Warne Marsh, Mabel Mattson, Anthony Newman, Robert Andrew Parker, Piano Mary, Saints and Sinners Kazoo Band, Ravi Shankar, Eric Simon, Star Bagel Band, Isaac Stern, Clark Terry, Keith Toth, Benjamin Verdery, Chuck Vrtacek, Frederick Werle, Harry White, Verona Williamson, Paul Wooster. See also: Miahcel Boriskin, Robert Goldsand, Jascha Heifitz, Vladimir Horowitz, Igor Kipnis, Paul Winter Consort.
Several articles about Ives Center concerts. See also: Ives Family
Two articles and obituary on famed arranger/composer.
Articles on Redding Harpsichordist and son of famed opera singer Alexander Kipnis. Record Company of son Jeremy.
One lengthy article of singer in New Milford home.
Articles on the Danbury Madhatters.
Articles, copies of book chapters from Ives Memos, information concerning the Danbury band era of the 1800s/1900s. Warner notes referring to
Articles on West Redding musician and group environmentally active.
Three articles on Danbury residents and opera singers in Europe and U. S.
Articles on people who are musician agents and managers, music distributors, publishers, instrument sales, etc.
Articles on area singers: Lucy Belle Anderson, Alida Augen, Raymond Buckingham, Janice Cavalier, Virginia Copeland, William Fleck, Charles Kellis, Neville Landor, James and Joan Noland, William Ross, Vera Satulsky, Judith Cook Tucker, Leland Wade. See also: Marian Anderson, Geraldine Farrar, Donald Gramm, Price/Heather Thomson. Neville Landor, James and Joan Noland, William Ross, Vera Satulsky, Judith Cook Tucker, Leland Wade. See also: Marian Anderson, Geraldine Farrar, Donald Gramm, Price/Heather Thomson.
Articles on local singers and groups. See also: Felix Cavaliere and Eartha Kitt.
Two articles on Ridgefield resident, composer of "Godspell" and "Pippin."
Articles and programs of Danbury concerts, Bridgewater concert, obituary on Seeger's father and
Articles on group that performed from 1978 to 1987 composed of Richard Brooks, Guy Dedell, and Andy LaFreniere.
Articles describing activities of Redding resident, Mary Travers, of Peter, Paul, and Mary.
Two articles on short-lived orchestra. Skitch Henderson directed orchestra of 1981
See also Student Research Papers #44:
Focus on history, support and eventual death in Senate of Bridgeport Casino Bill on November 18, 1995. Gov. John Rowland, Mirage Resorts, Joseph Gamin, Pequots, U. S. Senator Daniel Inouye (D) Hawaii.
Articles illustrate the growing concern about the loss of Paleo-Indian Burial Sites, artifacts and relics due to the growth of construction, e.g., I-84 and Route 7, growing Indian sensitivity to excavation of burial sites, Indian Affairs Council, litigation and injunctions by Five Tribes under the Federal Non-Intercourse Act 1972, casinos, Native American Advisory Council, and Golden Hill Tribe membership. Local interest: Quarry Center, Danbury Airport.
Folders 5, 6, and 7 focus on the history of aboriginal Indian population in Southwestern Connecticut and Long Island Sound.
Pamphlets from the Institute for American Studies, formerly AIAI, on culture/anthropological research. Also, notes and chapters from books on anthropology, history, and culture.
Excerpts from books on anthropology, history, culture, ethnography, division of labor, and migration to Americas.
Research notes and writings, bibliographies, clippings on Uncas, Pequots, and Navahos. Bulletins/pamphlets on Native American culture, fish fertilizer, natural herb products, legends, land use, patterns and subsistence agriculture/techniques. Indian Heritage day at Rogers Park, Scott Fanton Museum Indian exhibit, Society for the Preservation of Indian Culture.
Research notes from Nichols Diary at Scott Fanton Museum. Research Paper:
Includes research notes, clippings, AIAI bulletins, bulletins from seminars, newsletters from ASCH, and maps. Booklet:
Articles on land issues, political campaign contributions, Foxwoods, Mohegan Sun, Uncasville, Indian gaming and land issues, and recipes from E. Barrie Kavatsch.
Clippings on local/national issues. See also: Pequots, Paugussetts, and Mohegans.
Folders 16, and 17 focus on history of the Pequots land claims in Ledyard, tribal recognition (under President Reagan) to restitution of ancestral lands and sovereign nation status. Ratification of gaming compacts and slot machine operations by Gov. Lowell P. Weicker in 1993. Eastern Pequot Tribes claims in North Stonington Tribal courts, Office of Tribal Justice, Janet Reno on criminal jurisdiction for reservations, Indians Bureau Probe, Indian Child Welfare Act, blood requirements for bona fide recognition to Pequot tribe, and Foxwoods Casino expansion.
Research notes and clippings. Articles cover Nathan Gold, John Underwood, David Newham, Chief Tantaquidgeon, Fort Shantock State Park and the Mohegan Congregational Church 1831. The American Graves Protection and Repatriation Action 1990 provided recovery of burial and sacred artifacts. Federal recognition and 240 acre reservation granted in 1994 by Bureau of Indian Affairs.
Articles on reclamation of reservations under Indian Trade and Intercourse Act 1790, history of Golden Hill Reservation in Trumbull, renewed land claims in Monroe, Shelton, Kent, Bridgeport, liens on Southbury, retaliatory litigation, Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA), burden of proof for tribal recognition, Indian Gaming Regulation Action 1988, in depth refutation of Paugusset claims by James P. Lynch, ethno historian and anthropologist.
Research notes, correspondence, chapters from books, flyers, and bulletins. Tribe renamed Schaghticoke. Black and white photograph (2½ x 3 ½) of Princess Eunice Mauee grave. Booklet:
Articles describe history, destruction of burial grounds, need for Indians Affairs Commission, American Indian culture, tribal recognition requirements, litigation, court settlements, leadership problems, casinos, burial sites.
Articles cover history of Shepaug Valley Historical Society and the AIAI. Late in the 1960s there became a need to preserve Paleo Indian sites and Indian artifacts in the Housatonic and Shepaug Valleys. Titus Field Project and other archaeological digs were set up to preserve/rescue the heritage of prehistoric Indian culture from growing development and construction. 1974 saw the groundbreaking for AIAI Museum, which is now an active educational research facility supervising digs in the Still River and Housatonic Valleys.
Attempts to re-route Appalachian Trail in Connecticut.
Bear Mountain Reservation and its transformation into a Park.
Aspects of the Lake: Boating, docks, pollution, weeds, housing. Four issues of
The purchase of land south of Candlewood Lake to develop Hatters Park.
Maps and descriptions of hiking trails in the Danbury region, and
The gift of Archer and Anna Hyatt Huntington and its development.
Development of the small triangular park in downtown Danbury in 1966.
Parkland use for school becomes political issue.
Urban spread. Maps by Technical Planning Associates of New Haven describing Danbury Land Use in 1950s; and,
Bethel Land Trust and Terra Haute land purchase.
Brookfield Conservation Commission open space purchases.
Open space and federal monies; Swampfield Land Trust, Old Quarry Nature Center.
Articles about value of land trusts in Litchfield County - Audubon Society, White Conservancy. Booklet:
Stanley Works land grant; Appalachian Trail through Kent and changes.
Vaughn's Neck; Squantz Pond State Park; Hidden Valley Nature Center.
Zalesky Wildlife Management Area; Candlewood Lake recreation areas, Weantinoge Heritage lands, and Sunny Valley Preserve.
Ram's Pasture; Catherine McCarthy donation to Nature Conservancy.
Steichen Memorial Wildlife Preserve; legal tussle of open spaces vs. housing policies; Redding Land Trust; Great Ledge; death of Samuel Ervin Hill, Redding open space advocate. Student paper:
Conservation Commission activities.
Wesleyan University land in Sherman; Boy Scout camp sale; Appalachian Trail reroute; Naromi Land Trust; Carlson Farm.
Development of parklands and politics of recreation throughout the 45 years.
Lake Zoar (Newtown); Lake Kenosia (Danbury); Lake Mauweehoo (Sherman); Lake Putnam (Redding); Lake Mamanasco (Ridgefield); Lake Waramaug (Washington); Lake Lillinonah; Lake Waubeeka (Danbury). (Washington); Lake Lillinonah; Lake Waubeeka (Danbury). Booklet:
Donation of 80 acres by Irene Myers Richter in 1968; arguments for golf course; Richter Memorial Park Authority; referendum on use of land for golf course; development of golf course; and other aspects of Park.
Further development of Danbury's first major park; rose garden.
Plans for a linear park along Route 7 from New Milford to Norwalk; leadership of Arthur Harris of Brookfield.
Extensive coverage of purchase of C. D. Parks property by Danbury for 500 acre nature park; rejection of plan by voters in 1973; approval by voters in 1985; development of Tarrywile Park. Student paper:
Coverage of concerns of city in development of 253 acre-tract owned by Stephen Weil; legal issues.
Planning room at City Hall, Peter Winter, Director of C.D.
Pictures and copies of articles concerning construction and opening of new Court House on White Street, Juvenile Court moves to old Court House.
Articles, newspaper photos, and editorials. Fear in Laurel Gardens, murder of Christopher Hollins, Clinton money for crime war to Danbury, Geoff Ferguson and Redding murders, identification of Romula Sare remains in Bethel.
Research notes, editorials, undated pictures and columns. Reorganization of the 963rd (Commander Albert Tarrant), phasing out of unit, recruiting after Vietnam, local people in military, Marine Corps League, nation's oldest artillery, call to Bosnia. See also: Student Research Papers #57:
Articles, editorials, research notes, and letters to the editor. Pictures of old jail, research notes for talk on program for rededication, property for old jail, closing and renovation of old jail, old jail becomes senior center, and Newgate Prison
Paper:
Research notes and newspaper clippings on history back to 1874, and copy of
Newspaper photos of old vehicles, parades, Humane Hose Company, Marshall Sanford, Bethel Department history, and the Ives Street Fire House.
Articles, letters to editor, newspaper photos on various local volunteer fire departments: Germantown, Mill Plain, Independent Hose, Beckerle Company, Beaver Brook, Citizens Hose, Independent Hose #4, Padanaram Water Witch Hose Company, Brookfield, Dodgingtown, Redding, Bethel Fire Fighter Museum. Booklet: Bethel Volunteer Fire Department, Company, Beaver Brook, Citizens Hose, Independent Hose #4, Padanaram Water Witch Hose Company, Brookfield, Dodgingtown, Redding, Bethel Fire Fighter Museum. Booklet: Bethel Volunteer Fire Department, 1831-1978.
Articles cover fires, arson/homicide, and death of fire fighters in Danbury. See also: Manuscript Collection, Pinkerton Detective Agency. .
Student research paper:
Articles, pictures, letters to editor concerning arrival of Yugoslav tank, Danbury and Ridgefield Museums
Clippings, editorials, and flyer. Newtown fights (and loses) against prison at Fairfield Hills.
Bombing of police station and Union Savings Bank, and murder of Frank Gallagher.
Articles, editorials, and photos on Blue Laws - pros and cons, Danbury city/town problem, need for State police, State police and Ridgefield, new State police barracks, opening of new city police station, police headquarters from City Hall to Main Street School, claims of police brutality, lock-up surveillance, union grievances against police, conflict between city and police union, union fight for drug unit, contract dispute, private detectives, and arson in Danbury.
Newspaper articles on domestic and sensitivity training, Brookfield Police Dept., criticism of Danbury Force, special officers, SWAT Team, Police Union, Street Crime Unit, New Fairfield Police, constables, foot and bicycle patrols, residency requirement, new police, underwater team, police and minorities, and racial problems.
The Postcard Collection is organized by state. As might be expected, many postcards depict travel related images, including historic landmarks, scenic wonders, amusements, hotels, and inns. A small portion of the collection is devoted to silent screen actors, birthdays, Valentines Day, and Christmas, as well as leather postcards. The following is a list of states, as well as foreign countries, that are represented in the collection: Alabama, Arizona, Bermuda, California, Canada, Connecticut, D.C., Washington, Europe, Florida, Georgia, Guatemala, Haiti, Illinois, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Mexico, Michigan, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Panama Canal, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia, Washington, Wisconsin, Wyoming.
Clippings from the
Research notes concerning early railroad ideas from the 19th century, newspaper articles on railroad workers' strike, financial troubles of Conrail, and demolition of a wooden trestle bridge in Brookfield.
Research notes concerning various proposals for adding destinations in Connecticut and New York State to the existing lines. Also a map of the route of NY and Boston line as it existed in 1899. NY and Boston line as it existed in 1899.
Clippings from the
Printed and hand drawn maps outlining the railroad lines which at one time existed in this area. Includes lines that were abandoned and those that continue
Research notes and newspaper clippings tracing changes and proposed changes on the old Danbury-Norwalk line. Includes proposal to replace railroad bridges, new stations, refurbishing Conrail's cars, and attempts to restore the Danbury- Pittsfield line, which was denied, the destruction of roundhouse, and proposed cut in rail service. Newspaper photos of railroad yards, interior of trains, railroad stations of West Redding and Danbury, and old locomotives.
Fate of the Harlem line, new station and access road in North Brewster, old freight depot destroyed and freight shifted to Danbury. Debates about service to some local stations and the end of all service north of Dover Plains. Folder includes a June 16, 1946, New York Central Harlem Division timetable.
Research notes and clippings on the railroad that connected Canaan, Conn., with Bridgeport, Conn. in the late 19th century. Criticism of safety by early passengers, attempts to upgrade the line, including restoring some railroad stations in disrepair. However, the line failed to make money to satisfy stockholders and was placed in receivership in 1892. stations in disrepair.
Research notes on the idea of building a railroad through Danbury as early as 1850-1879. In the late 19th century the railroad failed to pay operating expenses and was placed in receivership.
Clippings describe founding of the railroad that carried freight between New Haven and Maybrook, NY.
History of the railroad and discontinuance of service due to insufficient use by passengers.
Newspaper clippings describing the history of the line, which carried freight, lumber, and passengers, that ran from Danbury to Washington Depot following old Route 6
Newspaper clippings describing attempts to have Congress approve a bill to repair the bridge and its demise.
Clippings concerning dissatisfaction with service, fare hike, loss of freight runs, ConRail's financial troubles, $5 million given to electrify, improve rail stations in New Milford and Danbury, and takeover by MTA in 1982.
Clippings on commuters' continuous complaints about poor service, not enough trains, dislike of buses, deterioration of ConRail equipment, and plan to electrify moves too slowly. New Milford buys railroad station.
Clippings on testing radio equipment on trains between Danbury and New Haven, talk of selling real estate (stations) by New Haven Railroad, complaints of commuters over poor service, threats to end service north of Danbury, merging between NY Central and Pennsylvania Railroads for freight use, suggestions made to have MTA and Connecticut Transportation Authority to lease New Haven lines to NY for 99 years.
New Haven Railroad threatens to end passenger service, the Berkshire Freight Route abandoned by Penn Central, service to Pittsfield ended, and ConRail abandons small lines and suggestion of a new railroad station on Ives Street.
Clippings and research notes cover complaints about rail service, sanitation, unattractive platforms (Redding), Berkshire line lost, Torrington vies for ConRail service, end of Penn Central after proposals for new consolidation of railroad lines, improved crossings and signals for safety, and Bethel railroad station vandalized. See also Student Research Papers: #30:
Historical Society, 1989 Excerpts from above publication.
Railroad map of region.
Articles that rate Danbury as a desirable place to live.
Several newspaper articles. Publication:
Articles on weekend visitors, changing area, especially towns of Litchfield, Newtown, Roxbury, Ridgefield, Southeast, Stony Hill, Kent.
Local and state political issues, ethics, campaign financing and funding.
Clippings, editorials, and Opinions focus on the problems of area growth, anticipated in 1957, with the industrialization of the Still River Valley, and construction of Route 7 and Interstate 84. It was apparent there was a need for cost sharing and inter-town cooperation through a regional planning agency. Issues for consideration were transportation, traffic, water, sewer, land fill services, technical schools, nursing/retirement homes, open space, land use, recreation, and Candlewood Lake, Danbury State Teachers College growth, and expansion to better serve the community. construction of Route 7 and Interstate 84. It was apparent there was a need for cost sharing and inter-town cooperation through a regional planning agency. Issues for consideration were transportation, traffic, water, sewer, land fill services, technical schools, nursing/retirement homes, open space, land use, recreation, and Candlewood Lake, Danbury State Teachers College growth, and expansion to better serve the community.
Articles plus maps which show Danbury as hub for transportation, employment, recreation, waste disposal, banking services. Indicates rapidity of change.
Study of metropolitan area, discussions of council meetings, pros and cons on growth of New York City into the suburbs and booklets:
Newspaper clippings and booklets:
Articles highlight customer objection to rate hikes, change in area codes, and restructuring.
Research notes and newspaper articles. Regionalism suggested and debated whereby town might share taxes, protect open space, revive downtown areas, and in the end rejected.
Articles plus maps show Danbury as hub for transportation, employment, recreation, waste disposal, banking services. Indicates rapidity of change.
Articles on Connecticut public education, lack of equal education for inner city students. In depth coverage of Sheff vs O'Neill, and PA 93-263, An Act to Improve Quality and Diversity in Education. Most clippings explore the effects and ramifications of these legislative opinions on area schools. Improve Quality and Diversity in Education. Most clippings explore the effects and ramifications of these legislative opinions on area schools. See also: Truman Warner Papers, Schools.
Articles include discussions of definition "basic TV," cable regulations throughout the area, costs and conflicts.
Research notes and newspaper articles that focus on whether CT should remain part of the agency that gives advisory assistance on housing, commerce, transportation, water, and air quality. Desire to pull out not resolved.
Day Care Center (Osborne Street), childcare program, magnet schools, night school, Free School Press, Alternative High School (Locust Avenue), Danbury Reading Academy, RESCUE (Regional Educational Services Concept through United Effort) Street Academy, illiteracy programs, ABC (Ridgefield), charter schools, Sheff vs. O'Neill, Reach School, Down-on-the-Farm, and Second Chance.
Research notes, articles, obituary of former principal, and demolition of school.
Research notes, cornerstone ceremonies, retirement of Mary Carlucci, and closing of Beaver Brooks.
Articles on English as a second language, controversy.
Articles, booklet, fact sheet, Committee of 1000 Booklet, budget requests (1939) with salaries per pupil costs, enrolment increases, Horton vs. Meskill Supreme Court decision, comparison of area school costs, opposition, state funding, redistricting, state aid, and student walkout, and 1965-1966 School Budget.
Articles on routes, roads, vandalism, drivers, Laidlaw, overcrowding, lawsuits, and complaints.
Research notes, magazine and book articles, CT Common School Journal, notes on records from 1902-1904. Student research paper:
Research notes, articles from
Articles, copies of maps, research notes, article on old math.
Research notes, School Committee, Town of Bethel 1897, Annual Report from Secretary of School Committee, and newspaper articles. Booklet (3x5):
Minority Education -
Discord at DHS, new high school, sale of White Street building to State, closed circuit TV at DHS, over crowding in junior and senior high schools, Human Relations Program, yearbook crisis (audio record in book), racial problems, graduation, new principal, drop-out rate, elimination of house master system, parent volunteers, discipline code.
Danbury High School's
Packing for move, rifts, requested funds, Broadview site, ROTC, reunions: 1929, 1934B, 1939, 1942 and 1948. Elimination of housemaster, black elementary school study, redistricting, racial problems and sports bias, smoking, negative report, graduation requirement, repair to schools, fatal stabbing, Danbury HS band, culinary service, and health center. Student research papers:
Articles on plans to establish junior high, double sessions at Danbury High School, site at Rogers Park, Board hearings, referendum, Main Street School, racism, denial of tenure, discipline, gang prevention, principals Spielberg and Caterson.
Transfer of students, gifted students, public school/WCSU exchange, June Goodman.
Response to task force report, autonomy, schools and libraries, new courses, contracts, recruitment, need for more teachers, evaluation, teacher contracts, pay raises, and starting salaries. Increased staff, 12-month schools, reductions in staff from 1993 on, open education, and maternity leaves policy. Transition program, in-house training for staff, Park Avenue School opening, teacher contracts, sick leave money, health plan, British exchange teacher, full day kindergarten, homework, minority teachers and "divisiveness," Dyer vs. schools, in-house suspension, pregnant teens, video classes, binding arbitration, police in middle schools, drop-outs, discipline policy, "no teaching" effect, remedial work, and early retirement.
Articles on dropouts, special education, and second chance programs.
Articles and editorials on year round school year; parent involvement with schools, Citizens for Higher Education, State role in education, school goals, and Pete Seeger controversy
Clippings on proposed sites, additions to existing schools, bond issues, increased enrollment, magnet schools, school capacities and projected enrollments.
Opening of school and newspaper photo of class of 1956.
Articles cover beginnings of program in 1965, Lynn Beardsley, Director.
Articles on Main Street site, crowding, graduates; new HATS (Henry Abbott Technical School), addition to HATS, fire at Main Street site, athletics, individual teachers and administrators, teachers' strike and a variety of programs. Program:
Seventh Annual Production "Her Song" presented by The Danbury State Trade School Athletic Association. 1934.
Articles on Henry Curtis, new school design, moving in, old school moved to Rogers Park.
One articles on the history of the two room school and two newspaper photos.
Articles, photos, editorials, and principal Wilfred Gamble. Student paper:
Opening of school, primary school flag, Kathy Dzuback.
Research notes and newspaper articles.
Copy of report card 1890, Park Avenue School, Stadley Rough, Danbury High, Great Plain, Gilbert & Bennett (Georgetown), Morris Street, Grassy Plain, Center School (Bethel), Umpawaug (Redding), Newtown High, and Glen Road (Newtown).
Demolition (1979), renovation, and cultural diversity.
One newspaper article "School Without Walls." See also Student Research Papers #49 and 49a:
Newspaper photos of students and demolition.
St. Joseph's, St Peter's, Immaculate, Melrose, Sacred Heart, buses, financial problems, enrollment, and Colonial Hill Baptist.
Merger with King Street, option on school site, bond issues.
Research notes and articles on Gunnery/Wykham Rise, Canterbury, Faith Christian, Curtis School for Boys, Montessori, and Maimonides. Schools (continued)
Newspaper articles.
One newspaper article. See also Student Research Papers #68:
Articles on overcrowding and portable classrooms
Danbury School Board: Singe, Feser, Lobor, Ryan, Wolfkeil, Da Silva, Kabach, Nordmore, Baker, Nappe, Flanagan (Bethel), Tirozzi (State Commissioner of Education), Murnane, Matusiak, Langdon, Kilcourse, Parker, Eriquez, Fenster, Quish (St. Joseph's), Gerie (Immaculate), Simonelli, Roseto.
School board size, student membership, June Goodman, appointment of principals, NAACP, superintendents Nelson, Jacobsen, Sweet, Sillari, Weingast, Nappe, Singe, Loker, Connors; four longtime chairmen: McKinny, Martin, DaSilva, Bonacci.
Research notes, articles, program for dedication, and student paper:
Clippings regarding low test scores, solutions, discrepancies, and mastery tests.
Additions, anniversaries, dedications, new gym, library, student body, headmasters Verdery, Cadigan, Eynon, Cadigan, O'Neill, and Cheeseman.
Few articles on the above subject.
Articles on area help to the underprivileged, Fresh Air Fund, and soup kitchens.
Few articles on people acquiring new job skills under the Comprehensive Employment Training Act.
Articles on infant mortality, neglect, youth suicide, and incest. See also: Hospitals and Health Care.
Articles on anti-poverty programs in the Danbury community, NAACP, Head Start, The Spanish Learning Center Bi-Lingual Education, appointments and resignation of action leaders, and misuse of funds.
Articles on thrift shops, volunteer bureau services, caregivers, and literacy help.
Articles on the Orphan Train, Children's Aid Society, interviews with local people who were relocated to this area in the early part of the century. Danbury Home for Destitute Children and Homeless Children (1875) and founder Mary Bull. Group home for teenagers established at Ellsworth Avenue and Broadview Farm. and Broadview Farm.
Day care problems, corporate family leave, government grants. Student research paper:
Articles on the life story of Dorothy Day, clothing bank, soup kitchen, food pantry, and thrift shop.
Newspaper articles and minutes of Still Valley Food Co-Op, and CACD.
Articles focus on the increase in gangs and peer pressure to join.
Articles/editorials on the increase in area homeless, Amos House, Salvation Army Shelter and closure in 1990, City Task Force to investigate problems of homeless and to establish a new permanent shelter, and efforts made to reduce motel use for homeless families.
Articles and editorials on low income and affordable housing in the area, condominium buy out programs, HUD, Habitat for Humanity, Senior Affordable Housing Programs, Beaver Street Co-op, Gas Light Village, Danbury Public Housing Authority and Laurel Gardens, DaSilva estate property, Sullivan Farm, Hat City, Chestnut Grove, Newtown Gretsch Property and the Bridgeport Dioceses.
Newspaper articles and in-depth personal research notes on the welfare system, recipients, and effects. See also: Hospitals and Health Care
Staff changes, activities, articles (photojournalism), and general history of the group in Danbury
Student research paper
Articles on teen sex, abortion, contraception education, family planning, and student pregnancies in the Danbury School System. See also: Hospital and Health Care.
Research paper on juvenile delinquency, troubled teens, safe houses, and Liberty House
Articles focus on the problems of recognizing and counseling of students under stress.
Articles on personnel, work, and recipients of United Way grants. Booklet:
Articles on battered and abused women, history of the Center in Danbury, conflicts with the City over personnel appointments and funding use and discrepancies. See also: Hospitals and Health Care. .
Records for Fairfield County, Bethel, Bridgeport, Bridgewater, Brookfield, Danbury, Darien, New Milford, Newtown, New Fairfield, New Hartford, Redding, Ridgefield, Rocky Hill, Roxbury, Sherman, Southbury, Woodbury, Woodstock. Rocky Hill, Roxbury, Sherman, Southbury, Woodbury, Woodstock.
Dissertations of American History 1492-1789, genealogy sources, Rockefeller Archives. historical geography, and research notes.
Doc. 9-No. 1-
Court Records 1636-1944;
1798 tax list, 1813 list of taxes payable on lands, lots, dwellings, houses and slaves within city of Hartford; 1815 list of duties - 4th Collection District, Farmington, household furniture, and gold and silver watches. Jan. 9, 1815 list of taxes on land lots dwellings, houses and slaves - 4th Collection District. household furniture, and gold and silver watches. Jan. 9, 1815 list of taxes on land lots dwellings, houses and slaves - 4th Collection District.
Probate Records (1641-1941) June 7, 1976; Records of the Judicial Department (1636-1945) November 1977; List of Church Records (1640-1953), June 15, 1976; alphabetical by town.
Programs of church services and newspaper clippings.
Schedule 5, Products of Industry in Danbury and New Fairfield during the year ending 6/1/1850; Danbury during the year-ending 6/1/1860, and 6/1/1870.
This publication is designed to inform and educate new residents, investors and others interested in Greater Danbury about the reasons for locating and investing in the region. Published by the Greater Danbury Chamber of Commerce, Third Edition. in the region. Published by the Greater Danbury Chamber of Commerce, Third Edition.
Newspaper clippings discussing the urban cluster between Boston/NYC/DC, area growth and challenges facing Danbury, changes in family and household, job hunting, politics, and commentaries, bibliographies and resources.
Booklets:
Clippings concerning the increase in population, crowding in classrooms, expansion of the Broadview site, town meetings, new high school on Clapboard Ridge, racial tensions in 1975, teacher/student safety issues, outline of curricula 1960-1961, and the 1923 class reunion. Programs: Commencement Exercises Class of '98 (1898), and 1954. See also: Schools and Truman Warner Personal Papers.
Newspaper articles, research notes, sources, a list of local historical publications. Broad subjects are discussed such as teaching skills and activities, Newtown census/expenditures, Danbury/historical sketch, energy substitutes in New England, research notes, antiques, and auctions.
Summary based on readings of the
Research notes, one 8x10 b/w photograph of Mill Plain Road flooding (n.d.), and maps (copies) of Danbury, Fairfield County, Connecticut, and rivers in western Connecticut. Proof copy of
Typed minutes of town meetings from Oct 1, 1777--Dec 15, 1783.
General Index of Danbury Town records.
Articles and research notes concerning Danbury's history includes Hat Town Crier columns from the
Two newspaper clippings, H. Fanton research notes, historical references to Lake Waubeka, Hiram J. Kellogg, Penobscot tribe, Moses, Spruce, and Town Mountains, William Duncan and Blake property, and old hermit Clifford Durgy. Student research papers:
Clippings of a weekly column in the
Original letter dated Granville Oct the 18, 1717, found in house on Montgomery Street as it was being razed. (Situated where parking lot of Central Christian is now located) as it was being razed. (Situated where parking lot of Central Christian is now located)
Research notes and newspaper article discuss recorded history, cultural history, Puritanism, cycles of American history, history as myth and ideology. Also, outline of the Danbury History Project 1986-1989. the Danbury History Project 1986-1989.
Four original copies: July 15, August 1, 15, and, September 1, 1932.
Clippings from
Written by J. Moss Ives and published in
Transcript of article in the
Copies of miscellaneous pages from Stuart's book. Sources-Danbury and Connecticut History (continued)
Bookkeeping register includes miscellaneous pages for 1821-22, 1838-39, 1840-41.
Booklet:
Bridgeport Public Library Newsletter, ASCH Newsletter, Pequot Library, and research notes.
Research notes, pamphlets, and bibliographies
Research notes, personal correspondence, genealogy, newspaper clippings, and bibliographies. Studies in family, kinship, and demography, genealogy, DAR manuscripts dated January 1972, Scott-Fanton. Newsletter/exhibit, personal manuscripts dated January 1972, Scott-Fanton. Newsletter/exhibit, personal letters/donation of books to Library.
Research notes.
Speech given by Dr. Herbert Janick at Estelle Feinstein's retirement, nd.
Preliminary grant proposal:
Clippings from the Redding
Newspaper clippings and
Letter to Joshua Spencer, Esq. Occasioned by His Thoughts On An Union, by A Barrister printed for John Archer, 80 Dames Street, ?, dated 1798.
Research notes on shops/industries in early Danbury.
Copy of miscellaneous pages from
PL 89-329, Title I; Community Services and Continuing Education Programs:
Copy of original (160 pages). Contains Minutes of meetings and Annual Reports from 1826 to 1842. Combining religious, educational, and social functions, the Society met minor charitable needs in the community. The group was composed of unmarried women who gathered at private homes to make clothing, sing hymns, and socialize with the bachelors of the town in a respectable, Christian atmosphere. See also: Women in History Project, William L. Clements Library, The University of Michigan.
Pvt.Bailey was in Company C, 17th Connecticut Volunteers from August 28, 1864 to August 5, 1865. Typescript of original diary from Douglas S. Smyth. See also: Truman Warner Papers: American Civil War.
Ebenezer Baldwin was a young minister of the First Congregational Church in Danbury in 1775. Baldwin had a library of imported books that enabled him to draw up terms for Danbury's first Public Library "that should be free to all denominations." As a result Danbury was said to have one of the best town libraries in the State at the time of the Revolution. This file contains copies of personal correspondence, "Article of Agreement for Library" dated December 8.
Newspaper article entitled
Research notes and excerpts from the following articles/books by Percy Wells Bidwell: "The Agricultural Revolution in New England" in
Handwritten transcripts of Bible records/account books/letters/notes that contain marriages/births/deaths/interments. See family names below.
Bible Records, 1770-1858. Marriages/births/deaths of Hurd/Wilson and allied families. (Bible owned by Mrs. Alice Edward Pulling). (p.1-5).
Births and deaths of Fancher and allied families (p.6-10). (Owned by Wm. H. Francher)
Record of the family of Samuel Dibble as put down in his family Bible, 1742-1878 Births/marriages of Dibble and allied families (p.11-13). (From Sadie Camp Hawley)
Marriages/births/deaths of Anderson and allied families (p.14-20).
Marriages/births/deaths of White and allied families (p.21-23). (Bible records loaned by Walter Morgan)
Births of Starr/Chase children (p.24-25). (Bible loaned by Miss Virginia Morgan)
January 8, 1870 - Ninety Years. Letter dated at Poughkeepsie August 21, 1872. (p.38). (Now owned by Mayor Morgan)
Marriages/births/deaths of Dibble and allied families (Loaned by H. B. Betts) (p.42-47)
Loaned by Homer Clark of ??. (p.48-50)