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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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Hartford · Windsor
Waterbury
Groton
Windham
Mansfield
WinstedTHE COLLECTION CATALOG
Counties follow the historical geographic boundaries used in these records.
St. Mary’s Church · Catholic community context · 1900COLLECTION 002Cemeteries
New Haven
Burial references and surviving sources within the history of New Haven’s Catholic community.
Historical origins · 1851 / 1854
A directory entry for Mary E. Hart · 1872COLLECTION 003People & families
Evergreen Cemetery · New Haven
A life behind a local legend: the monument, burial-index evidence, historical pages and published grave photographs.
Monument life dates · 1824–1872
Center Church crypt · Marty Aligata · CC BY-SA 4.0COLLECTION 004Churches
New Haven & West Haven
Follow a name through church death lists, early burial entries and the pages of local histories.
Center Church organized · 1639
First home on Grove Street · engraving published in 1887COLLECTION 006Orphanages and Children’s Homes
New Haven & Hamden, Connecticut
Expansion of the existing New Haven Orphan Asylum collection to follow its 1916 Hamden plans, 1925 relocation and successor Children’s Center.
Opening / first recorded · First week of May 1833 in New Haven; Hamden campus in 1925
Factory panorama, dated 1920 · Original publication unidentified; rendering dated 1920 by Walk New HavenCOLLECTION 009Businesses
New Haven, Connecticut
Original advertisements, illustrated products and contemporary records trace the company’s work and changing identity.
Opening / first recorded · Jerome case works: 1844; movement works: 1845
Fine Light Carriages advertisement, 1887 · 1887COLLECTION 010Businesses
New Haven, Connecticut
Original advertisements, illustrated products and contemporary records trace the company’s work and changing identity.
Opening / first recorded · Operating at 5–19 Franklin Street by 1887
Campus and surrounding landscape — Fairfield Hills · 2006-04-05COLLECTION 014Hospitals & care
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
Chapel Street looking west, New Haven · Circa 1930–1945, catalog rangeCOLLECTION 019Transport
New Haven & West Haven, Connecticut · connecting towns
Follow trolley tracks from city streets to Savin Rock through five maps, historic postcards, a federal photograph and a 1904 passenger guide.
Opening / first recorded · 1861 — horsecar service · 1892 — electric service
1886 New Haven directory, classified business section · 1886COLLECTION 020Recreation & landscapes
New Haven & West Haven, Connecticut
Original directory entries and a WPA town history recover rink names, locations and the places of skating in local recreation.
Opening / first recorded · New Haven Roller Skating Rink documented in 1884
A Cruel Husband — Horan household newspaper notice · 1885-09-23 (date supplied by reproducing researcher)COLLECTION 021Cemeteries
New Haven, Connecticut
Blake Street and Woodin Street, the two documented New Haven municipal cemeteries often called paupers’ burial grounds.
Opening / first recorded · 1884 (Blake Street); 1927 (Woodin Street)
Evergreen Cemetery’s founding and first interment · 1887COLLECTION 022Cemeteries
New Haven, Connecticut
The 1848 cemetery association, early interments, enlargement and the craftspeople who made its monuments.
Opening / first recorded · Late 1848; consecrated June 29, 1849
Fair Haven Union Cemetery’s 1885 gateway · 2010-10COLLECTION 023Cemeteries
New Haven, Connecticut
The Grand Avenue burial ground, its maritime neighborhood, brownstone gateway and memorial chapel.
Opening / first recorded · Early nineteenth century; graves as early as 1803 reported
Bridgeport: Ringling Bros. Circus Headquarters postcard · 1911 reported postmark; view undatedCOLLECTION 024Entertainment and public life
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
West River Memorial Park toward West Rock · 2014-07-09COLLECTION 026Landscapes & defense
West Haven & New Haven, Connecticut
A former river-edge motor road in West Haven, its New Haven park setting, and the changing tidal landscape around it.
Opening / first recorded · Unknown; first paving documented in 1963
Strong School and U.S. Post Office · circa 1901–1907 (postcard format; photograph undated)COLLECTION 028Schools
New Haven, Connecticut
The Fair Haven school lineage and its successive buildings at 69 Grand Avenue, illustrated by pre-fire postcards and the surviving Tudor building.
Opening / first recorded · 1915 (replacement building; exact opening day not established)
Welch’s Congress Avenue facade in autumn · October 20, 2008COLLECTION 029Schools
New Haven, Connecticut
New Haven’s municipal teacher-training experiment and the Queen Anne school at 495 Congress Avenue.
Opening / first recorded · 1883; formally dedicated February 4, 1884
Hopkins before the hilltop move · Photograph undated; published 1910COLLECTION 030Schools
New Haven, Connecticut
A school founded in 1660, its downtown history, and the later development of its Forest Road hilltop campus.
Opening / first recorded · 1660 (school); 1926 (present campus)
Center Church, documented in 1967 · June 1967COLLECTION 031Churches
New Haven & West Haven, Connecticut
A sourced directory connecting congregations, buildings, dated photographs and period church publications in two towns.
Opening / first recorded · Multiple buildings; see institution profiles
Tract K shooting range: northeast exterior · Historic American Engineering Record, National Park Service; photographer not identified in source metadata / Public domainCOLLECTION 040Industrial sites
New Haven
Factories, testing facilities and surrounding streets reveal the scale of Winchester’s New Haven operations.
Opening / first recorded · 1870 site; major expansion 1914–1916
Eli Whitney Museum, Hamden · Magicpiano / CC BY-SA 4.0COLLECTION 041Industrial sites
Hamden · New Haven
Water power, manufacturing and the surviving landscape of an early American armory.
Opening / first recorded · 1798 federal musket contract
New Haven from East Rock cropped · Charles Barneby / Public domainCOLLECTION 051Historic lands
New Haven · Hamden
Designed parkland, monuments and city views reveal how New Haven made public space.
Opening / first recorded · Late nineteenth-century park development
LIGHTHOUSE POINT CAROUSEL BUILDING, NEW HAVEN, CT · JERRYE AND ROY KLOTZ MD / CC BY-SA 3.0COLLECTION 052Historic lands
New Haven
Maritime navigation and shoreline recreation share the same New Haven landmark.
Opening / first recorded · 1805 first light; 1847 stone tower
Farmington canal lock 12 · Staib (talk) / CC BY-SA 3.0COLLECTION 059Railways & transit
New Haven · Hamden · Cheshire
Locks, walls and a later rail route reveal successive solutions to moving people and goods.
Opening / first recorded · 1828–1847 canal service
New Haven Union Station, September 2018 · Pi.1415926535 / CC BY-SA 3.0COLLECTION 060Railways & transit
New Haven
A monumental passenger station connects New Haven’s railroad history with continuing public use.
Opening / first recorded · 1920 present station
Chapel Square Mall, New Haven, Conn. — interior postcard · Undated historical postcardCOLLECTION 076Shops & businesses
New Haven
Downtown shopping, redevelopment and the streets that preceded New Haven’s enclosed mall.
Opening / first recorded · Developed in the 1960s
Bruce Springsteen at the New Haven Coliseum · Circa 1977–1978COLLECTION 077Recreation & entertainment
New Haven
Architecture, concerts, public memory and the end of a major downtown arena.
Opening / first recorded · 1972–2002; demolition 2007
COLLECTION 078Shops & businesses
New Haven · West Haven · Branford
Advertisements and storefront photographs trace a retailer through downtown and later locations.
Opening / first recorded · Early 1920s origins reported
COLLECTION 079Shops & businesses
West Haven · New Haven
Allingtown’s furniture landmark, its earlier manufacturing life and the redevelopment that followed.
Opening / first recorded · Perfume business 1926; furniture from 1952
Yale New Haven Hospital 1911 · Published 1911; capture date unspecifiedCOLLECTION 080Hospitals & care
New Haven
Two hospital traditions, nursing, transport and institutional growth in New Haven.
Opening / first recorded · Founded 1826; first hospital building 1833
COLLECTION 081Hospitals & care
New Haven
A Catholic hospital’s beginnings, expansion and later place within Yale–New Haven.
Opening / first recorded · 1907
89. East Haven Tunnel, Sec. 4209, MP 77.00 · 1977COLLECTION 086Railways & transport
New Haven · East Haven · Hamden · Woodbridge
Evidence-based histories of East Haven Tunnel, Heroes Tunnel and documented urban connections.
Opening / first recorded · Rail, road and service connections
North toward West Rock along memorial canal · 2021-09-13COLLECTION 087Parks & historic lands
West Haven · New Haven
Excavation, recreation, drainage and restoration beside Marginal Drive.
Opening / first recorded · Twentieth-century park landscape
English Station in the neighborhood streetscape · 2011. Dougtone; CC BY-SA 2.0; Wikimedia CommonsCOLLECTION 088Industry & working life
New Haven
An island transformed by electricity: brick turbine halls, river channels and the power plant that served New Haven.
Opening / first recorded · 1929 — first generating units
Yale Bowl in 1936 · 1936. Carl Van Vechten; Public domain; Wikimedia CommonsCOLLECTION 089Schools, sports & community
New Haven · West Haven
From opening-season players to packed stands: a stadium built into the landscape and a century of Saturdays.
Opening / first recorded · November 21, 1914
UNH June 2011 · 2011-06-01. Zrosen88; CC BY-SA 3.0; Wikimedia CommonsCOLLECTION 090Schools, sports & community
West Haven · New Haven
From YMCA classrooms to a West Haven campus: students, buildings and the making of a university.
Opening / first recorded · 1920 — institution founded; 1960 — West Haven campus
New Haven Harbor from the depot tower · Circa 1865–1870. Whitney, Beckwith & Paradice -- Photographer; Public domain; Wikimedia CommonsCOLLECTION 092Transportation & waterfront
New Haven
Sailing vessels, rail connections and a changing shoreline: the people who built New Haven’s working harbor.
Opening / first recorded · 1663 — first wharf grant
New Haven Alcos at New Haven 1957 postcard · 1957. J.W. Swanberg; Public domain; Wikimedia CommonsCOLLECTION 093Transportation & waterfront
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
La Amistad off Long Island · 1839. Unknown author Unknown author; Public domain; Wikimedia CommonsCOLLECTION 094People, freedom & civic life
New Haven
Faces, a ship and a city: the Africans who fought enslavement and the New Haven places connected to their freedom struggle.
Opening / first recorded · September 1839 — New Haven imprisonment begins
A photograph of the facade of the New Haven Armory on Goffe Street in New Haven, CT, USA · 2021-06-13. Staib; CC BY-SA 4.0; Wikimedia CommonsCOLLECTION 095Military & civic buildings
New Haven
Drill halls and public gathering places: three armories and the civic life of Goffe Street.
Opening / first recorded · Goffe Street: 1930 · Orange Street: 1906 · Meadow Street: 1883
COLLECTION 099People, freedom & civic life
New Haven
Two jail sites and a deadly workshop fire: a history of confinement, work and loss.
Opening / first recorded · 1857 — Whalley Avenue jail occupied
Federal courthouse and post office: a period view · Undated historic postcard. General Services Administration; Public domain; Wikimedia CommonsCOLLECTION 100People, freedom & civic life
New Haven
Marble halls, courtrooms and the Green: the buildings in which New Haven’s public justice took shape.
Opening / first recorded · County courthouse: 1914 · Federal courthouse: 1919
COLLECTION 102Parks & historic lands
Wallingford · Durham · New Haven
Roads, taverns and bronze markers: following Washington’s journeys through Wallingford and Durham.
Opening / first recorded · 1932 — commemorative route markers
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