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Improvement in Cards for Hooks and Eyes
Family Ties Bring Together North Branford Industry
January 26, 2022
Norwich Free Academy, School Architecture: Pt. II. Plans for Graded Schools by Henry Barnard
Henry Barnard Advances State and National Education Initiatives
January 24, 2022
Trade card for Hill’s Archimedean Lawn Mower Co
Selling Connecticut Products Abroad
January 23, 2022
Pottery at Norwich, Norwich, ca. 1830.
From Kiln to Collection: Norwich Pottery and Its Makers
January 22, 2022
Ashbel Woodward house, Franklin
Franklin’s Ashbel Woodward was a Battlefield Surgeon and Historian
January 21, 2022
Souvenir Book of the Hippodrome to show the connection to theater world
Hartford’s Charles Dillingham Discovered Broadway Stars
January 20, 2022
Section of page from the Report of the Commissioner of Patents for the Year 1852
Rubber Vulcanization and the Myth of Nathaniel Hayward
January 19, 2022
The Surprising Prevalence of Earthquake Activity in Connecticut
January 18, 2022
Peddler E.H. Farrell with his cart, 1910
New Britain’s Yankee Peddlers Boost 18th-century Economy
January 17, 2022
Patents – Bozrah’s Inventive Minds
January 17, 2022
Obookiah’s gravesite, Cornwall
Hidden Nearby: Henry Obookiah’s Cornwall Grave
January 16, 2022
Andrus Field 1831–1911: Athletics and the Environment
January 15, 2022
Hazard's Electric Gunpowder, Hazard Powder Company
Colonel Augustus G. Hazard, Gunpowder Manufacturer – Who Knew?
January 14, 2022
Mambo for Cats by Jim Flora
Jim Flora Captures 20th-Century Pop Culture
January 13, 2022
Hazardville Powder Company
Powder Hollow in Hazardville – Who Knew?
January 12, 2022
Norwich Arms barrel room
Norwich’s “Volcanic” Past
January 11, 2022
Ethan Allen and the Green Mountain Boys
Ethan Allen Born – Today in History: January 10
January 10, 2022
Jewett City, Conn, bird’s-eye map by Lucien R. Burleigh
Map – Bird’s-eye View of Jewett City, 1889
January 9, 2022
The Smith Sisters and Their Cows Strike a Blow for Equal Rights – Today in History: January 8
January 8, 2022
Mohawk Ski Area
Mohawk Mountain Made Snow for Winter Sports Lovers – Who Knew?
January 7, 2022
Ida Tarbell: The Woman Who Took On Standard Oil
January 6, 2022
Can Opener, E. J. Warner, patented January 5, 1858
The First US Can Opener – Today in History: January 5
January 5, 2022
“Tom Thumb” Born – Today in History: January 4
January 4, 2022
Freedom to the Slave
From the State Historian: Connecticut’s Slow Steps Toward Emancipation
January 3, 2022
Aerial view of Black Rock Turnpike Bridge and Vicinity
Overland Travel in Connecticut, from Footpaths to Interstates
January 2, 2022
Elizabeth T. Bentley, 1948
Elizabeth Bentley Born – Today in History: January 1
January 1, 2022
Illumination of Old State House, Hartford, December 31, 1900
A Turn-of-the-Century New Year’s Eve
December 31, 2021
Soldiers with cannons, 1st Connecticut Heavy Artillery
The Complicated Realities of Connecticut and the Civil War
December 30, 2021
Receiving end of the first successful pipe-line built in 1865
William Hawkins Abbott Finds the Energy to Power the Northeast
December 29, 2021
Ice Skates, ca. 1965
Skating Through Winter
December 28, 2021
There’s No Place Like Home for the Designer of Dorothy’s Ruby Slippers – Who Knew?
December 27, 2021
A Godmother to Ravensbrück Survivors
December 26, 2021
Chief G’tinemong/Ralph W. Sturges
December 25, 2021
The Pratt & Whitney Aircraft Company in East Hartford
The Early Years of the Pratt & Whitney Aircraft Company
December 24, 2021
Ingersoll Mickey Mouse Wrist Watch, 1933
Waterbury Clock Company Saved by Mickey Mouse – Who Knew?
December 23, 2021
Courtyard at New-Gate Prison
First New-Gate Prisoner – Today in History: December 22
December 22, 2021
Photo of Jim Henson, creator, The Muppets (1979)
Jim Henson, the Muppets, and Greenwich
December 21, 2021
God admonishing his people of their duty, as parents and masters
A Most Unusual Criminal Execution in New London
December 20, 2021
Late 19th century Christmas postcards
Sending Season’s Greetings: Christmas Cards in Connecticut
December 19, 2021
Chick Austin as the magician, The Great Osram, in 1944
Chick Austin Modernizes a Connecticut Institution
December 18, 2021
Waterbury’s Holy Land
December 17, 2021
Detail from Map of the Farmington Canal
Farmington Canal Designed to Give Connecticut Commerce a Competitive Edge
December 16, 2021
Advertisement for Phillips' Milk of Magnesia in the Washington DC Evening Star, 1945
Phillips’ Milk of Magnesia Originated in Stamford
December 14, 2021
Dodd Gun Bill Becomes Law
Thomas J. Dodd and the Gun Control Act of 1968
December 13, 2021
Eighty-Five Hundred Souls: the 1918-1919 Flu Epidemic in Connecticut
December 12, 2021
Thomas Nason, The Leaning Silo
Thomas W. Nason, the Poet Engraver of New England
December 11, 2021
Horace Wells
Horace Wells Discovers Pain-free Dentistry
December 10, 2021
Billhead and bill from John Olmsted.
An Inconvenient Season: Charlotte Cowles’s Letters from December 1839
December 9, 2021
Elihu Burritt
Elihu Burritt Born – Today in History: December 8
December 8, 2021
Reporting News of Pearl Harbor – Today in History: December 7
December 7, 2021

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