East Rock Park & Civic Memory
A selected, source-based research collection for New Haven and Fairfield counties. Includes credited photographs where reusable images were located, historical interpretation and links to supporting records. It is a growing inventory, not an exhaustive survey. Photographs retain their individual dates and reuse terms; images do not establish present access conditions.

id: CT051-S01
title: National Register nomination: East Rock Park
kind: Sources & research leads
date: Source reviewed September 2026
institution: East Rock Park & Civic Memory
summary: Supporting source for the collection’s history, chronology and research notes. Designed parkland, monuments and city views reveal how New Haven made public space.
url: https://npgallery.nps.gov/NRHP/GetAsset/NRHP/97000299_text
credit: National Register nomination
notes: External source; the full publication remains with its publisher. The archive provides an original educational summary and a link. See the collection history for the claims supported by this record.
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id: CT051-S02
title: East Rock Park: overview and bibliography
kind: Sources & research leads
date: Source reviewed September 2026
institution: East Rock Park & Civic Memory
summary: Supporting source for the collection’s history, chronology and research notes. Designed parkland, monuments and city views reveal how New Haven made public space.
url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Rock_Park
credit: East Rock Park
notes: External source; the full publication remains with its publisher. The archive provides an original educational summary and a link. See the collection history for the claims supported by this record.
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id: CT051-P01
title: New Haven from East Rock cropped
kind: Photographs
date: 2006-12-08
institution: East Rock Park & Civic Memory
summary: New Haven, Connecticut skyline from East Rock Cropped version of File:New_Haven_from_East_Rock.jpg
url: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:New_Haven_from_East_Rock_cropped.jpg
credit: Charles Barneby / Public domain
notes: Public domain in the United States (source file license). Image supplied at web resolution; no editorial changes to the source image.
file: images/east_rock-48247329.jpg
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external_image_url: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b8/New_Haven_from_East_Rock_cropped.jpg
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id: CT051-P02
title: East Rock New Haven
kind: Photographs
date: 2011-12-10 12:04:20
institution: East Rock Park & Civic Memory
summary: New Haven East Rock
url: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:East_Rock_New_Haven.jpg
credit: Emilie Foyer / CC BY-SA 3.0
notes: Reuse permitted under CC BY-SA 3.0; credit the creator, link the license, and identify changes. Adapted images must be shared under the same license. Image supplied at web resolution; no editorial changes to the source image.
file: images/east_rock-31125756.jpg
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license_url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0
external_image_url: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/16/East_Rock_New_Haven.jpg
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id: ED-C-image-pass-012
title: East Rock from SSS Hall, October 17, 2008
kind: Photographs
date: 2008-10-17
institution: East Rock Park & Civic Memory
summary: East Rock cliff and Soldiers and Sailors Monument. East Rock and its Soldiers and Sailors Monument viewed from Sheffield-Sterling-Strathcona Hall at Yale.
url: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:East_Rock_from_SSS_Hall,_October_17,_2008.jpg
credit: Sage Ross / Wikimedia Commons; creator's original upload or named collection
notes: Closer distant view from Yale; matches metadata. Display copy optimized for the web with proportional resizing and compression. The linked repository identifies the original image. Reuse: CC BY-SA 3.0
file: images/ED-C-image-pass-012.webp
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license_url: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
external_image_url: https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/16/East_Rock_from_SSS_Hall%2C_October_17%2C_2008.jpg/1280px-East_Rock_from_SSS_Hall%2C_October_17%2C_2008.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail
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id: ED-C-image-pass-013
title: East Rock
kind: Photographs
date: 2011-12-10
institution: East Rock Park & Civic Memory
summary: Aerial view of East Rock and the surrounding New Haven neighborhood. East Rock in New Haven, photographed in 2011.
url: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:East_Rock.jpg
credit: Emilie Foyer / Wikimedia Commons; creator's original upload or named collection
notes: Distinct from the other new East Rock frame; do not call a ground-level park view. Display copy optimized for the web with proportional resizing and compression. The linked repository identifies the original image. Reuse: CC BY-SA 3.0
file: images/ED-C-image-pass-013.webp
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license_url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0
external_image_url: https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3f/East_Rock.jpg/1280px-East_Rock.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail
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