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Dressing Table. Probably made in 1783 by the shop of Eliphalet Chapin
Connecticut Valley Style: Eliphalet Chapin Inspires a Tradition of Craft
July 25, 2021
Herbert Abrams Self Portrait
Herbert Abrams Immortalizes the Nation’s Leaders
July 24, 2021
The Adventure of a Lifetime: John Ledyard and Captain Cook’s Last Voyage
July 23, 2021
Alexander Calder at Stegosaurus sculpture dedication
A World in Motion: Artist and Sculptor Alexander Calder
July 22, 2021
Dr. Sheffield's creme dentifrice box
Aristocratic Dental Cream Gets Squeezed
July 21, 2021
Entrance to Steeplechase Island, Bridgeport
A Unique Island Attraction in Bridgeport
July 20, 2021
Orville Platt Helps Define International Relations after the Spanish-American War
July 19, 2021
Testing the camping equipment on The Gunnery’s campus in Washington
Reading, Writing, and the Great Outdoors: Frederick Gunn’s School Transforms Victorian-era Education
July 18, 2021
Hiram Bingham IV
Hiram Bingham IV: A Humanitarian Honored for Saving Lives during WWII
July 17, 2021
The White Mountain Express, traveling 50 miles per hour went off the track in Greenwich
The White Mountain Express Derails in Greenwich
July 16, 2021
Candlewood Lake construction
Creating Candlewood Lake – Today in History: July 15
July 15, 2021
James Lukens McConaughy sworn in as Governor by Chief Justice William M. Maltbie
Did You Know a Connecticut Governor Was a US Spy?
July 14, 2021
Street sign for Gallows Lane
Gallows Lane and the Execution of Barnett Davenport
July 14, 2021
John Warner Barber, South Western view of Ashford, Conn
The Path to Ashford’s Progress
July 13, 2021
Deep River Drum Corps
The World’s Record for the Largest Muster – Who Knew?
July 13, 2021
Connecticut Votes for Women
Connecticut Suffragists Appeal to the President – Today in History: July 12
July 12, 2021
Bridgeport’s Catastrophic 1911 Train Wreck
July 11, 2021
Batman and the Outsiders #1, cover art by Jim Aparo
Drawn to Superheroes
July 10, 2021
Eight Mile River
Continuity and Change along the Eightmile River
July 9, 2021
Erector set
Erector Set Patented – Today in History: July 8
July 8, 2021
Burning of Fairfield
British Burn Fairfield – Today in History: July 7
July 7, 2021
Clown with bucket
The Hartford Circus Fire – Today in History: July 6
July 6, 2021
The Barnum & Bailey Greatest Show on Earth. Miss Rose Meers, the Greatest living lady rider
P. T. Barnum: An Entertaining Life
July 5, 2021
Advertisement for July 4th balloon flight
Silas Brooks, Balloonist
July 4, 2021
Fourth of July celebration, Woodstock, 1870
President Grant Celebrates Independence Day in Woodstock – Today in History: July 4
July 4, 2021
Margaret Rudkin
Pepperidge Farm Opens Bakery – Today in History: July 4
July 4, 2021
Mohegan Sacred Sites: Moshup’s Rock
July 2, 2021
Uncas Monument
Buffalo Bill Cody Visits the Monument of Uncas – Today in History: July 2
July 2, 2021
Winter: Connecticut Valley by Dwight William Tryon
An Artist’s Life in Hartford: The Early Career of Dwight Tryon
July 1, 2021
Connecticut Attorney General John H. Light and His Fight for Woman’s Suffrage
June 30, 2021
The Seth Wetmore House: A Storied Structure of 18th Century Middletown
June 29, 2021
Merritt Parkway, New York to Connecticut, 1941
Merritt Parkway Creates Scenic Gateway to New England
June 29, 2021
Greenwich Emergency Responders: On the Move Overtime
June 28, 2021
Stevan Dohanos
Stevan Dohanos Captures Connecticut Life
June 27, 2021
Sarah Pierce’s Litchfield Female Academy
June 26, 2021
Postcard of the Parking Area, Rocky Neck State Park, East Lyme
Abundant Wildlife Drives the History of Rocky Neck State Park
June 25, 2021
Detail from an 1863 broadside
Henry Ward Beecher, a Preacher with Political Clout
June 24, 2021
Postcard of Plant B, Pierson's Greenhouses, Cromwell
The Rose King of America Transformed Cromwell’s Landscape
June 23, 2021
Fort Trumbull neighborhood, New London
Private vs. Public Property – Today in History: June 23
June 23, 2021
Pins made by Howe Manufacturing Co., Birmingham
John Howe Makes a Better Pin – Today in History: June 22
June 22, 2021
J. P. Morgan’s Connecticut Roots
June 21, 2021
Jimmy Piersall’s Public Struggle with Mental Illness
June 20, 2021
North Haven: Fabricating Sculpture in the 1960s and 1970s
June 19, 2021
Automatic Gallows
The Automatic Gallows – Today in History: June 18
June 18, 2021
The Ivoryton Playhouse
Ivoryton Playhouse Opens – Today in History: June 17
June 17, 2021
Mead Memorial Park, New Canaan
Summer Crowds Flocked to New Canaan and Stayed
June 16, 2021
Machine for crushing stone, E.W. Blake
The Blake Rock Crusher – Today in History: June 15
June 15, 2021
Automobiles waiting to cross
East Haddam Swing Bridge – Today in History: June 14
June 14, 2021
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Harriet Beecher Stowe Born – Today in History: June 14
June 14, 2021
Connecticut, from the Best Authorities
Stamford’s Three-Gun Armada
June 13, 2021

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