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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Plainfield and Moosup: crossing the river, reading the town
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Hartford · WindsorThe Hartford Circus Fire: July 6, 1944
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WaterburyHoly Land USA: Waterbury’s Hilltop Landmark
10 images + 1 source link · Read the story →
GrotonGroton’s Submarine Escape Training Tank
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WindhamWillimantic: the river that powered a thread city
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WinstedWinsted: the Rockwell House, room by room
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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
Front · Photograph date not statedCOLLECTION 155Places & community
Litchfield: a small school, a far-reaching town
Litchfield
Step from the law school on South Street to a meetinghouse balcony and the doorways of village homes, through twelve federal survey photographs.
1760–1940
Exterior, general view, front of house from north east · Sept. 15, 1940COLLECTION 156Places & community
Winsted: the Rockwell House, room by room
Winsted
Twenty detailed views of the Solomon Rockwell House open a door into Winsted’s domestic architecture, with three additional photographs of its Main Street post office.
c. 1813–1990
General 'barrel shot' · 1984 — later survey photographCOLLECTION 157Industry & transport
Boardman Bridge: ironwork over the Housatonic
New Milford
Twelve engineering photographs follow a lenticular bridge from its ornamented entrance to the connections beneath its deck, as a replacement crossing rises nearby.
1887–1980s, with preservation context
Exterior, general view from south east · Sept. 15, 1940COLLECTION 158Places & community
Sharon: the green, the valley and the crossing
Sharon
A shop, two houses and thirteen bridge photographs connect Sharon’s village center with the industrial landscape of Webatuck Creek.
1739–1996
Exterior, general view from the south · Sept 13, 1940COLLECTION 159Places & community
Cornwall: meetinghouse, school and home
Cornwall
Five photographs preserve a meetinghouse interior, the Adelphi Institute and a locally distinctive porch roof in Cornwall and North Cornwall.
1739–1940, with later survey context
Exterior, general view from south east · Sept 16, 1940COLLECTION 160Places & community
Mallory Tavern: three views of an entrance
Barkhamsted
A compact photographic study moves from the tavern’s exterior to its doorway and the arch inside the entrance hall.
September 16, 1940
Northwest elevation · April 21, 1937COLLECTION 161Places & community
Woodbury: inside King Solomon’s Lodge
Woodbury
Everett H. Keeler’s three photographs pair two exterior views with the southeast wall of the lodge room.
April–May 1937
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