Tolland County · 1890
Storrs: classrooms, farm fields and early college life
Twenty photographs from 1890–1909 follow the agricultural college through lessons, farm work, student gatherings and a growing campus.
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Campus and surrounding landscape — Fairfield Hills · 2006-04-05COLLECTION 014Hospitals & care
Historic Mental Health Institutions
New Haven & Fairfield counties, Connecticut
Explore six documented institutions, their changing names and uses, and the archives that preserve their histories.
Opening / first recorded · Westport Sanitarium: 1891
Hospital exterior from above the fence · 2006-04-30COLLECTION 018Hospitals & care
Fairfield Hills Hospital
Newtown, Connecticut
Licensed campus photographs and a guide to the hospital’s planning papers, historic albums and preservation records.
Opening / first recorded · First admissions reported: June 1, 1933
Bridgeport: Ringling Bros. Circus Headquarters postcard · 1911 reported postmark; view undatedCOLLECTION 024Entertainment and public life
Barnum & Bailey Circus: Bridgeport and New Haven
Bridgeport & New Haven, Connecticut
Bridgeport winter quarters and a documented New Haven circus day, told through nineteenth-century engravings, a touring poster, a postcard, and local newspaper evidence from June 1908.
Opening / first recorded · Local winter-quarters opening date not established
Remington Arms Bridgeport, Ct. (5560513976) · 826 PARANORMAL / CC BY 2.0COLLECTION 043Industrial sites
Remington & Union Metallic Cartridge, Bridgeport
Bridgeport
Historic factory views and later photographs trace a major Bridgeport manufacturing landscape.
Opening / first recorded · Late 1860s site development
National Hat Factory, Danbury: 1912 postcard · Unknown photographer / Public domainCOLLECTION 045Industrial sites
Danbury’s Hat & Fur Industry
Danbury
Factory postcards and preservation research connect finished hats to the businesses that supplied their materials.
Opening / first recorded · Nineteenth-century industrial growth
Gilbert and Bennett factory 004 · Pedro Xing / CC0COLLECTION 046Industrial sites
Gilbert & Bennett Wire Mill, Georgetown
Redding
A Norwalk River mill tells the story of a craft business becoming mechanized industry.
Opening / first recorded · 1818 origins; rebuilding from 1874
Aerial view of the Vought-Sikorsky Aircraft factory at Stratford, Connecticut (USA), in 1947 · U.S. Navy / Public domainCOLLECTION 048Industrial sites
Stratford Aircraft & Army Engine Plant
Stratford
Aircraft manufacturing photographs preserve Stratford’s place in aviation and industrial history.
Opening / first recorded · Twentieth-century aviation production
West Beach, Sherwood Island State Park, Westport, 2007 · DimiTalen / CC0COLLECTION 053Historic lands
Sherwood Island & Public Shoreline Access
Westport
A long campaign for public shore access and a later place of remembrance.
Opening / first recorded · 1914 first state land purchase
Putnam Memorial State Park - Memorial Monument · Jllm06 / CC BY-SA 4.0COLLECTION 055Historic lands
Putnam Memorial: Encampment & Remembrance
Redding
Surviving camp remains and later memorials tell two connected stories of the American Revolution.
Opening / first recorded · 1778–1779 encampment
Weir Farm National Historic Site - front of the house · Ser Amantio di Nicolao / CC BY-SA 3.0COLLECTION 056Historic lands
Weir Farm: Art & a Working Landscape
Wilton · Ridgefield
Artists’ studios, farm buildings and ordinary work shaped an influential Connecticut landscape.
Opening / first recorded · 1882 Weir acquisition
Housatonic rail trail head 073 · Pedro Xing / CC0COLLECTION 057Railways & transit
Pequonnock Valley & the Former Rail Corridor
Bridgeport · Trumbull · Monroe · Newtown
The level path through the Pequonnock valley preserves the shape of a transportation route.
Opening / first recorded · Historic railroad bed; later trail conversion
Stevenson station site 152 · Pedro Xing / CC0COLLECTION 063Railways & transit
Stevenson Passenger Station Site
Monroe
A photographic postcard and a later view of foundations record the loss of a small station.
Opening / first recorded · Historic station; remains photographed in 2012
Indian well at sunset · TheDemonChicken at English Wikipedia / CC BY 3.0COLLECTION 064Historic lands
Indian Well & the Housatonic Landscape
Shelton
A waterfall and riverfront offer a starting point for reading Shelton’s changing landscape.
Opening / first recorded · Waterfall, river and later state park
LillinonahTrail PondBrookInlet · H. Morrow Long / CC BY-SA 3.0COLLECTION 065Historic lands
Paugussett State Forest
Newtown
Woodland and river views invite questions about land use, conservation and what forests conceal.
Opening / first recorded · Twentieth-century state forest
COLLECTION 067Hospitals & institutions
Laurel Heights Sanatorium, Shelton
Shelton
A patient booklet and archival finding aid open a path into Shelton’s institutional health history.
Opening / first recorded · Twentieth-century tuberculosis institution
Historical illustration · Factory of Yale & Towne Mfg. Co., Stamford, Connecticut, 1873 · Unknown illustrator / Rodney Horace Yale, Yale Genealogy (1908) / Public domainCOLLECTION 068Industrial sites
Yale & Towne Works, Stamford
Stamford
Locks, hoists and a changing factory complex connect invention with the industrial growth of Stamford’s South End.
Opening / first recorded · 1869–1928 factory development
Cos Cob Power Plant, Cos Cob, (Fairfield County, Connecticut) · Jack Boucher / Public domainCOLLECTION 070Industrial sites
Cos Cob Power Station
Greenwich
Engineering photographs preserve a lost power station central to railroad electrification.
Opening / first recorded · 1907–1986/87 operation; 2001 demolition
VIEW OF MIANUS RIVER RAILROAD BRIDGE LOOKING NORTHEAST FROM THE REMAINS OF THE COS COB POWER PLANT COALING DOCK. THE BRIDGE IS A ROLLING LIFT BASCULE TYPE BUILT IN 1894-1895. HAER CONN,1-GREWI,15A-21 · Jet Lowe / Historic American Engineering Record / Public domainCOLLECTION 071Railways & transit
Mianus River Railroad Bridge
Greenwich
A movable bridge shows how rail traffic and navigation shared a constrained river crossing.
Opening / first recorded · 1904 railroad bridge
NorwalkCTLockwoodMansionSoSide09032007 · Noroton at English Wikipedia / CC BY-SA 3.0COLLECTION 072Historic lands
Lockwood-Mathews Mansion & Elm Park
Norwalk
A mansion and its grounds connect railroad wealth, domestic labor and a successful preservation campaign.
Opening / first recorded · 1864 construction began; 1868 family occupancy
Ghost Town - Pleasure Beach · Bill / CC BY 2.0COLLECTION 073Historic lands
Pleasure Beach & the Lost Amusement Landscape
Bridgeport · Stratford
Photographs of recreation and abandonment trace a shoreline landscape with several distinct lives.
Opening / first recorded · 1892 amusement park origins; 1996 bridge fire
Bennett's Pond Park · Brianegge / CC0COLLECTION 074Historic lands
Bennett’s Pond & Outpost Farm
Ridgefield
Woodland, water and estate remnants connect industrial wealth with horticulture and conservation.
Opening / first recorded · 1914 Conley estate; 2002 state park
Norwalk Harbor, Norwalk, Connecticut LCCN2012631498 · Carol M. Highsmith / The George F. Landegger Collection of Connecticut Photographs, Library of Congress / Public domainCOLLECTION 075Industrial sites
Norwalk Harbor & the Oyster Economy
Norwalk
Harbor photographs and waterfront records broaden industrial history beyond the factory wall.
Opening / first recorded · Nineteenth-century oyster industry
COLLECTION 082Hospitals & care
Bridgeport Hospital & St. Vincent’s Image Records
Bridgeport
A hospital’s civic origins, its nursing school and a second institutional presence in the city’s postcard record.
Opening / first recorded · Bridgeport Hospital incorporated 1878; opened 1884
PostcardTheHospitalNorwalkCT · Early twentieth century; catalog c. 1910–1920COLLECTION 083Hospitals & care
Norwalk Hospital
Norwalk
A small rented house, a supporting women’s board and the growth of a local hospital.
Opening / first recorded · Organized 1892; care from 1893
Andrew Mellon Library · 2008-10-24. Daderot; Public domain; Wikimedia CommonsCOLLECTION 091Schools, sports & community
Choate Rosemary Hall
Wallingford · Greenwich
Two schools, two towns and one evolving campus: the buildings and daily spaces of Choate Rosemary Hall.
Opening / first recorded · Rosemary Hall: 1890 · Choate School: 1896
New Haven Alcos at New Haven 1957 postcard · 1957. J.W. Swanberg; Public domain; Wikimedia CommonsCOLLECTION 093Transportation & waterfront
The New Haven Railroad
New Haven · North Haven · Bridgeport · Waterbury · Greenwich
Beyond the station: locomotives, shops, freight yards and the people who kept southern New England moving.
Opening / first recorded · 1872 — New York, New Haven & Hartford formed
Destruction after Hurricane Diane · August 1955. NOAA; Public domain; Wikimedia CommonsCOLLECTION 101Disasters & community memory
Connecticut’s Floods of 1955
Waterbury · Winsted · New Hartford · Norwalk · Derby · Naugatuck
Streets became rivers, bridges failed and communities rebuilt: a photographic record of Connecticut’s devastating flood year.
Opening / first recorded · August 18–19, 1955 · October 15–17, 1955
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