SILENT GROUNDS COLLECTIVE · THE CONNECTICUT ARCHIVE
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Windham County · September 1998
A nineteenth-century iron bridge, a church, an academy and historic houses connect transportation with the everyday landscape of Plainfield.
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![Mark Twain’s Hartford house, c.1900–1910 — [between 1900 and 1910]](/county-images/e2b0a9568f38e01933103c3512736a0a3e25c70b47e4ad792d8736b3205f6065.jpg)
Hartford County · [between 1900 and 1910]
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Hartford · Windsor
Waterbury
Groton
Windham
Mansfield
WinstedTHE COLLECTION CATALOG
Counties follow the historical geographic boundaries used in these records.
Hart–Jarvis House, October 2017 · 2017-10-15COLLECTION 016Hospitals & historic homes
Portland, Connecticut · related Colt sites in Hartford
Trace the homes that preceded Elmcrest and the documented connection between the Hart–Jarvis House and Elizabeth Jarvis Colt.
Opening / first recorded · Hospital founding: 1938 in preservation nomination
Spectators escaping the burning circus tent · July 6, 1944COLLECTION 111Disasters & remembrance
Hartford · Windsor
The fire, rescue work, compensation and Northwood burials: explore the 1944 disaster through photographs, first-person records and a carefully dated source trail.
1944–2019, with later remembrance
![Colt’s Armory in the early twentieth century · [between 1900 and 1906]](/county-images/86c1048ec1d98d9b1ae53fe058591087f5113e4355c6d34114efab4195d6bc5b.jpg)
Colt’s Armory in the early twentieth century · [between 1900 and 1906]COLLECTION 112Industry & labor
Hartford
The armory’s famous dome belonged to a much larger landscape of manufacturing, worker housing, family wealth and memorial architecture.
1855–1907
Bushnell Park panorama, 1905 · 1905.COLLECTION 113Parks & civic life
Hartford
Public landscape, Civil War remembrance and state government reshaped the center of Hartford over nearly a century and a half.
1854–1995
Mark Twain’s Hartford house, c.1900–1910 · [between 1900 and 1910]COLLECTION 114Homes & cultural life
Hartford
A celebrated writer’s house also preserves the history of family life, domestic work and the long effort to conserve an intricate Victorian building.
1874–1995
Hartford during the March 1936 flood, aerial view · March 22, 1936COLLECTION 115Disasters & waterways
Hartford · East Hartford
Street-level photographs and aerial surveys reveal the flood’s reach and the engineering works that changed the city’s relationship with its rivers.
1936–1981
Workers leaving the East Hartford aircraft plant · 1941 May.COLLECTION 118Industry & labor
East Hartford · Hartford
Pratt & Whitney’s expansion appears in photographs of precision production, shift changes and the everyday movement of a wartime workforce.
1925–1944
1. Historic American Buildings Survey Everett H. Keeler, Photographer March 1, 1937 EAST ELEVATION - Old State House, Main Street & Central Row, Hartford, Hartford County, CT · March 1, 1937COLLECTION 108Places & community
Hartford
The same Hartford building served state and city government. HABS photographs preserve its elevations, stairs and public rooms during the 1930s and in 1967.
1796–20th century
1. WEST PORTAL, VIEW EAST - Walnut Street Railroad Bridge, Walnut Street over AMTRAK, Hartford, Hartford County, CT · May 1991COLLECTION 110Railways, roads & rivers
Hartford
An engineering photo essay records a Hartford road crossing over the railway. Portals, trusses and connections reveal the structure behind an everyday journey.
1907–20th century
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