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Gwen Reed, circa 1950's
Actress Gwen Reed Best Remembered for Dedication to Childhood Literacy
February 19, 2020
Postcard of Charles Island, Milford, CT
A Good Spot and a Healthy Place: A Short History of Charles Island
February 19, 2020
Park Central Hotel disaster
Park Central Hotel Boiler Explosion – Today in History: February 18
February 18, 2020
Karen Mission Compound at Maulmain
Baptist Missionaries at Work in 19th-Century Burma
February 17, 2020
A Successful Lawyer and Politician Who Never Went to College
February 16, 2020
Bronze Hall of Fame medal of Josiah Willard Gibbs
Josiah Willard Gibbs’s Impact on Modern Science
February 15, 2020
Meriden town hall during renovation, 1890
Meriden Town Hall Burns Down – Today in History: February 14
February 14, 2020
Detail of A Map of the Fortified Country of Man’s Heart
The Open and Fortified Country of the Human Heart: A Victorian Lady’s View of Love
February 14, 2020
Charles Ethan Porter, Fruit: Apples, Grapes, Peaches, and Pears
Charles Ethan Porter, Portrait of a 19th-Century African American Painter
February 13, 2020
Constitution Plaza Then and Now
February 13, 2020
Edward Alexander Bouchet: The First African American to Earn a PhD from an American University
February 12, 2020
The Interstate Highway System Comes to Hartford
February 11, 2020
Arthur Miller
Arthur Miller dies – Today in History: February 10
February 10, 2020
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Stratton
Charles Stratton and Lavinia Warren Wed – Today in History: February 10
February 10, 2020
Illustration of Hebron by John Warner Barber
Changing Sentiments on Slavery in Colonial Hebron
February 9, 2020
North and South: The Legacy of Eli Whitney
February 9, 2020
Plan of the City of New Haven
The Successes and Struggles of New Haven Entrepreneur William Lanson
February 8, 2020
The Blizzard of 1978
Blizzard Halts Mail Delivery – Today in History: February 7
February 7, 2020
Mary and Eliza Freeman Houses, Bridgeport, photograph ca. 1998
Mary and Eliza Freeman Houses
February 7, 2020
Detail from the bird's-eye map Bristol, Conn. Looking North-East, 1889
Joel T. Case and the Victorianization of Bristol’s Federal Hill
February 6, 2020
DN-1: The US Navy’s First Airship
February 5, 2020
Armory Fire
Colt Armory Burns – Today in History: February 4
February 4, 2020
A 1947 Movie Details the Unsolved Murder of a Bridgeport Priest
February 4, 2020
Reverend James Pennington: A Voice for Freedom
February 3, 2020
Racial Change Map displaying the Non-White Population in 1970
How Real Estate Practices Influenced the Hartford Region’s Demographic Makeup
February 3, 2020
February 2, 1902, a fire broke out at Reid & Hughes dry goods store in Waterbury
Six Cities Respond to 1902 Waterbury Fire – Who Knew?
February 2, 2020
Portrait of James Mars
1850s Equal Rights Activist James Mars
February 1, 2020
Hartford Times – Voices of Change
February 1, 2020
Ruins of the Upper Dam of the Kohanza Reservoir in Danbury
Frozen Reservoir Destroys Danbury – Today in History: January 31
January 31, 2020
Valley Forge, 1777
A Connecticut Slave in George Washington’s Army
January 30, 2020
A Journal of Captain Cook’s Last Voyage to the Pacific Ocean by John Ledyard
First General Copyright Law – Today in History: January 29
January 29, 2020
Fire at G. Fox & Co., Main Street, Hartford
G. Fox & Co. Destroyed by Fire – Today in History: January 29
January 29, 2020
The Boardman Building, New Haven
First Commercial Telephone Exchange – Today in History: January 28
January 28, 2020
HMS Resolution and Discovery in Tahiti
John Ledyard, Connecticut’s Most Famous Traveler
January 27, 2020
Hannah Bunce Watson: One of America’s First Female Publishers
January 26, 2020
Original waterwheels, Waterbury Brass Company
Birth of the Brass Valley
January 25, 2020
Ernest Borgnine: Breaking the Hollywood Mold
January 24, 2020
Total eclipse of the sun, Willimantic vicinity, January 24, 1925
A Total Eclipse of the Sun – Today in History: January 24
January 24, 2020
Total eclipse by Frederick E. Turner, Willimantic, January 24, 1925
The Astronomical Event of the Century
January 24, 2020
Umbrella Elms in Connecticut Meadow by Aaron Draper Shattuck
Connecticut Transforms Aaron Draper Shattuck
January 23, 2020
Artist’s rendering of the Connecticut Yankee Power Company Plant
Connecticut Yankee and Millstone: 48 Years of Nuclear Power
January 22, 2020
Advertisement for Isaac Doolittle's bell foundry
Early Church Bell Founders
January 22, 2020
Mamie Eisenhower launches the USS Nautilus
The Launch of the USS Nautilus – Today in History: January 21
January 21, 2020
Writing-arm chair attributed to Ebenezer Tracy
Ebenezer Tracy Made Some of the Finest 18th-Century Furniture
January 20, 2020
Attributed to Osbert Burr Loomis, Nancy Toney, oil on canvas
Nancy Toney’s Lifetime in Slavery
January 19, 2020
View of the Hartford Civic Center roof, which collapsed on January 18, 1978
Almost a Tragedy: The Collapse of the Hartford Civic Center
January 18, 2020
Dr. Emma Irene Boardman
Dr. E. Irene Boardman Never Stopped Serving the Public
January 17, 2020
Boot Blacks and the Struggle to Survive in Hartford
January 17, 2020
South view of the Hempstead House, New London
The Joshua Hempsted Diary: A Window into Colonial Connecticut
January 16, 2020
Oakwood Acres temporary housing
The Debate Over Who Could Occupy World War II Public Housing in West Hartford
January 15, 2020

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