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Collection
Identifier: MS-021
Abstract
Prudence Crandall (1803-1890) was an educator and activist who fought for women's suffrage and the rights of African-Americans. Her attempt to run an integrated school for girls in Canterbury, Connecticut resulted in protests, arrest, and two criminal trials. Although she was acquitted of all charges in 1834, she closed the school and left the state. In 1995 she was named Connecticut's official state heroine. This collection contains manuscripts and research materials gathered by Helen Earle...
Dates:
1833 - 2002
Collection
Identifier: MS-058
Overview
This collection documents the life and travels of Mary Williams Crozier and her husband Brigadier General William Crozier in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It contains correspondence, photographs, journals, sketchbooks, memorabilia, and other items. Among the major correspondents are various members of the Williams and Crozier families and Alice Isaacs, Countess of Reading, whose husband Rufus was the Viceroy of India. Topics include social life, politics, and travel in Washington,...
Dates:
1874 - 1973; Majority of material found within 1874-1924
Collection
Identifier: MS-022
Abstract
Correspondence between Lt. Homer Curtis of the 2nd Connecticut Heavy Artillery and his family from 1859 to 1875
Dates:
1858 - 1875
Collection
Identifier: RB-003
Scope and Contents
Featured items in the collection include wartime publications, several inscribed volumes, and a complete run of Revue de la France libre. ...
Dates:
1944-2000
Collection
Identifier: ART-002
Scope and Contents
The Shinbach Collection fo Delft Pottery was donated to Connecticut College by Rose Lazarus Shinbach '39 in 1991. It consists of 37 pieces of Dutch pottery and six pewter plates. The pottery includes both blue and polychromatic examples and ranges from the mid-17th to the late 19th century. Most items are Dutch with a few examples from England and Germany.
Dates:
ca. 1655-1895
Collection
Identifier: MS-024
Abstract
Prints, proofs, sketches, broadsides and other documents donated by John DePol to Connecticut College between 1991 and 2003.
Dates:
1935 - 2000
Collection
Identifier: MS-056
Abstract
The collection consists of manuscripts, realia, and ephemera from the family of Elsie DeWitt.
Dates:
1789 - 1955
Collection
Identifier: RB-004
Scope and Contents
New London, Connecticut was one of the major publishing centers in colonial America. Printing in New London dates to before 1710 when Timothy Green migrated from Boston to open a business in the city. For the next century he and his descendents would dominate printing in New London and Connecticut, serving as the official printer of Yale University and of the colonial government in Hartford. With the rise of New Haven, printing gradually declined in New London and it no longer held...
Dates:
1710-1800
Record Group — Multiple Containers
Identifier: RG-05A-13
Content Description
The English department records contain material on faculty and department staffing, course syllabi, course schedules by year, course proposals, and major requirement files. There are also records of department meetings and hosted events. The material also includes files of correspondence between department members and the greater college (box 3), records of the Committee on Being and the Committee on the Status of Faculty Women, Wabash National Study summer working group files, and a...
Dates:
1965 - 2019
Record Group
Identifier: RG-02G-11
Abstract
Administrative records for the Environmental Model Committee, including meeting minutes; reports; policies; research on green building, green energy, emissions, and wind feasibility; media coverage of campus sustainability activities; and audits of utilities and campus sustainability efforts.
Dates:
1984-2017; Majority of material found within 1989-2011
