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Contains photographs that accompany the news stories Barber wrote while on location in developing countries during his time as a foreign correspondent. Includes photos from Afghanistan, Egypt, Haiti, Mexico City, Mozambique, Greece, and Turkey that document the way of life in these developing countries. There are pictures of Barber with Secretary of State Colin Powell’s press corp. in 2000, slides from Finland, and assorted negatives. Also included are personal photos.

Scope and Contents From the Series: Series II, Papers Presented by Members, contains autograph manuscript, typescript, and printed essays presented since 1869 by more than sixty members of the club. The papers consider local, national, and international aspects of diverse topics in politics, fine art and artists, religion, medicine, literature, history, cuisine, sports, commerce and industry, ranging from the broad (war and peace) to the specific (the history of the corkscrew). A favorite theme is life in Hartford and...

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Contains materials from journalism workshops that Barber taught in Africa from 1992 to 1995, as well as at the United States Information Agency in Washington, D.C. in 1994. Barber taught a course at Georgetown University in the fall of 1999 on Foreign Reporting and Foreign Policy and a course on International News and Foreign Policy at George Mason University in the spring of 2002.

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"African American Connecticut, An Overview" in Preservation Connecticut News, March/April 1992, vol. xv, no.2. p9-11. Includes map of significant African American sites in Connecticut.

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This series consists of newsclipping files related to specific subjects spanning the 20th century. Subjects range from activists, city politics to health, religion, and school desegregation in Hartford, Connecticut.

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Keith Hook, who served on the Hartford Board of Education during a period of desegregation in the 1960s, collected a series of speeches related to WWII, campaign materials, and materials from the Connecticut Mutual Urban Education Conference from 1967. Materials include correspondence, clippings, and other files and newsletters covering the 1965 local elections, as well as those related to inter-faith conferences by Christains and Jews, and Hartford politics spanning the 1960s-1980s.

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Carbon typescripts of Cheney's papers, apparently made by or for his wife Mary Bushnell Cheney (1840-1917), are together in one bound volume. The volume also includes a carbon typescript letter from Charles Hopkins Clark to Mary Cheney (dated July 12, 1909) and four lists: papers Cheney delivered, meetings Cheney attended, meetings Cheney hosted, and club members past and present, dated January 1910.

Scope and Contents From the Series: Series II, Papers Presented by Members, contains autograph manuscript, typescript, and printed essays presented since 1869 by more than sixty members of the club. The papers consider local, national, and international aspects of diverse topics in politics, fine art and artists, religion, medicine, literature, history, cuisine, sports, commerce and industry, ranging from the broad (war and peace) to the specific (the history of the corkscrew). A favorite theme is life in Hartford and...