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Robert Frost Collection
Collection
Identifier: Robert Frost Collection
Scope and Contents
This collection contains background files, correspondence, manuscripts, proofs, greeting cards, periodicals, ephemera, and photographs related to well-known 20th century American poet Robert Frost (1874-1963). The background files contain notes on the eminent poet. The collection also includes correspondence spanning the 1920s-1930s addressed to and from Frost during the height of his career, manuscript poems such as At the Woodward’s Garden (1940), and signed proofs such as “To a Thinker in...
Dates:
1913 - 2014
Found in:
Watkinson Library - Archival Collections
Henry Fuller Collection on the Romanov Family
Collection
Identifier: Henry Fuller Collection on the Romanov family
Summary
Henry M. Fuller (1914-2001); a stockbroker and philanthropist from Manchester, New Hampshire began collecting materials ranging from photographs to correspondence related to the Romanov family during his undergraduate studies at Harvard College and Trinity College (class of '38) in the 1930s. Fuller went on to obtain correspondence between the Empress Alexandra (1872-1918) and Anna Vyrubova (1884-1964), the lady-in-waiting who introduced the Empress to Grigori Rasputin, as well as to other...
Dates:
1905 - 1996
Found in:
Watkinson Library - Archival Collections
Gladys L. Gage collection
Collection
Identifier: WLM-1982-001
Scope and Contents
This small collection contains correspondence to Gladys L. Gage from her Japanese American students held in relocation centers and camps, and correspondence to her parents recalling the aspects of the relocations and teaching students spanning 1941-1942. The collection also contains roll books from 1941, autograph books, and compositions written by Gage's students at the Washington School in Seattle. Other materials in the collection include photographs and slides of Seattle, Washington,...
Dates:
1933 - 1982
Found in:
Watkinson Library - Archival Collections
Anthony Gardner and Mary Parker Letters
Collection
Identifier: Anthony Gardner and Mary Parker letters
Scope and Contents
The Anthony Gardner and Mary Parker letters contain 74 pieces of correspondence between Anthony Gardner at Chiddingfold, Surrey, England, and Elizabeth Van der Hoek of Pomfret, Connecticut. These letters reveal the personal and political side of artist Anthony Gardner, ranging from his views on twentieth century America to his abhorrence of contemporary technology, such as airplanes and television. Additionally, some of Gardner's artistic talents are on display since the letters are written...
Dates:
1956 - 1972
Found in:
Watkinson Library - Archival Collections
Goodwin Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: Goodwin family papers
Scope and Contents
This collection primarily contains correspondence spanning 1814-1894 related to members of the Goodwin Family. One batch of correspondence come from Captain James Ripley Madison to Major Thomas A. Deblois, spanning 1814 to 1820, composed onboard the U.S. Frigates Congress, Guerriere, Prometheus, and the U.S. Schooner Lynx before being lost at sea in 1820. The collection further contains letters from David P. Hancock to his father and brother, some written from Fort Washita, OK in...
Dates:
1814 - 1894
Found in:
Watkinson Library - Archival Collections
George E. Graff collection
Collection
Identifier: WLM-YYYY-008
Scope and Contents
This collection contains memoranda from the War Relocation Authority (WRA) spanning 1942 to 1945, during which George E. Graff worked as an officer. Graff collected memoranda, publications by the WRA, as well as photographs from the camps he was located at.
Dates:
1942-1946, 1982
Found in:
Watkinson Library - Archival Collections
Cheryl Greenberg Collection
Collection
Identifier: Cheryl Greenberg Collection
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of 36 print newspapers from major dailies, featuring issues with articles concerning the attacks on September 11, 2001, and the 2008 election of Barack Obama as President of the United States.
Dates:
2001 - 2011
Found in:
Watkinson Library - Archival Collections
Hartford Residents Collection
Collection
Identifier: Hartford Residents Collection
Scope and Contents
Collection primarily comprises of correspondence, along with several scrapbooks from the 19th century related to Italian art and history composed by Genevieve Harlow Goodwin, as well as a manuscript by Homer Worthington Brainard (1864-1947) related to Thomas Hooker’s life and writings dated ca. 1914. Correspondence span the 19th century, with the bulk of correspondence addressed from Henry Carrington Bolton to Charles Kasson Weed, Samuel Clemens to numerous correspondents, as well as...
Dates:
1807 - 1957
Found in:
Watkinson Library - Archival Collections
Joan D. Hedrick papers
Collection
Identifier: TCA-2018-006
Scope and Contents
This small collection of files pertains to Pulitzer Prize-winning professor Joan D. Hedrick's work in the Women's Studies Program (later renamed Women, Gender and Sexuality) at Trinity College. Files in the first series are related to the administration of the program; the second series contains course syllabi; and the third series includes files related to Hedrick's professional life -- performance evaluations, conferences, correspondence, published articles, and ephemera. Of note in...
Dates:
1946-2016
Found in:
Trinity College Archives
Dard Hunter papers
Collection
Identifier: WLM-YYYY-004
Abstract
The Dard Hunter papers contain correspondence (including nine letters written by Hunter, to either Charles R. Green or Carlos B. Clark), prospectuses for Hunter's books, and journal and news articles on Hunter. Also included are miscellaneous items relating to Hunter's work.
Dates:
1909-1979
Found in:
Watkinson Library - Archival Collections