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Ashendene Press Collection
Collection
Identifier: Ashendene Press Collection
Scope and Contents
The Ashendene Press Collection consists of correspondence between Charles Harry St. John Hornby and Allerton Cushman Hickmott pertaining to the latter's collecting of Ashendene Press books, as well as ephemera, announcements, book lists, individual poems, prospectuses, and a type specimen.
Dates:
circa 1915-1977
Found in:
Watkinson Library - Archival Collections
Automobile Travel Collection
Collection
Identifier: Automobile Travel Collection
Scope and Contents
This composite collection contains four scrapbooks and one photographic album. The scrapbooks contain various ephemera such as travel books, and pamphlets, as well as photographs, postcards, newspaper clippings, and typed manuscripts. They include material depicting landscapes in the United States such as cities, gas stations, factories, outdoor festivals and special events, as well as general travel brochures and information on travel in the Northeast and California, as well as portions of...
Dates:
1922 - 1940
Found in:
Watkinson Library - Archival Collections
John W. Bacon papers
Collection
Identifier: WLM-1946-001
Abstract
The John W. Bacon papers is a collection of nine folders of manuscript letters and miscellany written or received by Bacon (though some pieces pertain to his mother and other family members), spanning the dates 1842 to 1886. Two folders contain documents related to Bacon's time as a student at Trinity (then Washington) College in Hartford, Connecticut. One folder contains letters to Bacon's mother, Sarah Watson Bacon (prior to her marriage), with dates ranging from 1812 to 1826. Miscellany...
Dates:
1812-1886, undated
Found in:
Watkinson Library - Archival Collections
Ben Barber papers
Collection
Identifier: WLM-2017-002
Abstract
Writings, notebooks, correspondence, and photographs document Barber’s work as an international journalist from the late 1970s to 2014. Contains materials from Trinity College as well as the notebooks of poetry he wrote after graduation (1965-1979). Materials from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), where Barber was a senior writer and editorial director of FrontLines (2002-2010), are included as well.
Dates:
1962 - 2016
Found in:
Watkinson Library - Archival Collections
Henry Barnard collection
Collection
Identifier: WLM-YYYY-007
Abstract
Henry Barnard (1811-1900) was an educational reformer who created the Connecticut state school board in 1839. He became the first commissioner on education in Rhode Island, and the state superintendent of education in Connecticut. Barnard was heavily involved in educational reform, improving wages and working conditions for teachers, and conditions for students. This collection reflects his mission of reform with a large amount of correspondence dedicated to education in the mid-19th...
Dates:
1777 - 1901
Found in:
Watkinson Library - Archival Collections
Alice Brady Beckmann Collection
Collection
Identifier: Alice Brady Beckmann-collection of Civil War material
Scope and Contents
Alice Brady Beckmann’s Collection consists primarily of poems and songs of the period surrounding the American Civil War, mostly between the 1840 and 1890. The material was transcribed by Ms. Beckmann from period magazines, newspapers and other public sources as well as from scrapbooks, account books and other personal sources. Although the authors are often noted, much of the material is unattributed. Ms. Beckmann’s collection also reflects her keen interest in the origin of the...
Dates:
Prior to 1984
Found in:
Watkinson Library - Archival Collections
William Bird collection
Collection
Identifier: WLM-1965-001
Overview
The William Bird Collection consists of an audiotape of a talk given by William Bird at Trinity College (Hartford, CT) in June 1962; various newspaper articles written by Bird as New York Times correspondent on the S. S. Chantier polar expedition and as the New York Sun's Paris correspondent during World War II. Additionally, the collection contains miscellaneous newspaper clippings and ephemera relating to Bird and his Three...
Dates:
1889-1963
Found in:
Watkinson Library - Archival Collections
William Blake Collection
Collection
Identifier: William Blake Collection
Scope and Contents
This collection contains two letters of correspondence from William Blake, three documents relating to his trial in 1804, correspondence of Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909), the famous lyric poet, to Seymour Stocker Kirkup (1788-1880) commenting on Blake, spiritualism, and his engravings, mostly from the 1860s. Later correspondence, newspaper clippings, and invoices mostly from the 1940s regarding Blake’s engravings, especially those in printed books such as those of Poetical Works of...
Dates:
1800 - 1976
Found in:
Watkinson Library - Archival Collections
Maxine Tull Boatner papers
Collection
Identifier: WLM-1956-001
Abstract
The Maxine Tull Boatner papers comprises two folders of Boatner's correspondence with Connecticut-appointed Foreign Service workers (for a proposed series of articles Boatner was to write for the Hartford Times); one Connecticut Circle magazine issue featuring a piece by Boatner, "Connecticut Representatives in Our Foreign Service"; and a branch approval certificate for the National League of American Pen Women, of...
Dates:
1936-1954
Found in:
Watkinson Library - Archival Collections
Harry C. Boyd papers
Collection
Identifier: TCA-2019-002
Scope and Contents
The Harry C. Boyd papers is a small collection of Trinty College memorabilia belonging to Henry ("Harry") Clayton Boyd from the Class of 1905. It inclues three photographs, news clippings, track team memorabilia, a 1915 edition of "Songs of Trinity College," and three dance card booklets.
Dates:
1902-1915
Found in:
Trinity College Archives