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institutions

Avon Historical Society (141)
Barnum Museum (699)
CLHO: BHistorical (28)
CLHO: Harriet Beecher Stowe Center (17)
Connecticut Daughters of the American Revolution, Inc. (3)
East Windsor (726)
Fairfield Museum (938)
Finnish American Heritage Society (23)
Henry Whitfield State Museum (395)
Jewish Historical Society of Greater New Haven (23)
Madison Historical Society (4830)
Mark Twain House and Museum (36)
Mattatuck Museum (5653)
Preston Historical Society (1762)
Sharon Historical Society (6249)
Westport Public Art Collections (1585)
Wilton Historical Society (64)
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Has media (16655)
Does not have media (9762)
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departments

Audio (214)
Books (1184)
Documents (4596)
Moving Images (7)
Physical Objects (8456)
Still Images (8884)
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dates

1600s (25)
1610s (25)
1620s (25)
1630s (31)
1640s (34)
1650s (38)
1660s (40)
1670s (42)
1680s (53)
1690s (72)
1700s (128)
1710s (111)
1720s (124)
1730s (112)
1740s (121)
1750s (186)
1760s (227)
1770s (327)
1780s (381)
1790s (458)
1800s (626)
1810s (525)
1820s (698)
1830s (690)
1840s (736)
1850s (1058)
1860s (897)
1870s (786)
1880s (925)
1890s (992)
1900s (1023)
1910s (997)
1920s (960)
1930s (1242)
1940s (1055)
1950s (606)
1960s (912)
1970s (915)
1980s (646)
1990s (719)
2000s (843)
2010s (797)
2020s (629)
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people & organizations

20th Manufacturing Company (4)
25th Regiment Connecticut Volunteers (1)
Aaron Draper Shattuck (1)
Aaron Fink (3)
Aaron Olmstead II (1)
Abbe, John (1)
Abe Ajay (4)
Abercrombie and Fitch Company (1)
Abra Watch Company (1)
Abraham Archibald Anderson (1)
Abram, William (1)
Accurate Forge Company (1)
Adam Brent (1)
Adam Waimon (1)
Adams (3)
Adams, Alice M. (1)
Adams, Phoebe-Lou (1)
Addie Booker (1)
Adelaide Deming (1)
Adger Cowans (1)
Adja Yunkers (1)
Admiral Corporation (1)
Adolphe Monticelli (1)
Agnes Martin (1)
Ahern, William Francis (1)
Al Scaduto (1)
Al Smith (1)
Albert Bierstadt (1)
Albert Bros., Inc. (3)
Albert Dorne (1)
Albert Drexler Jacobson (1)
Albert Edward Sterner (1)
Albert Gold (2)
Albert Hirschfeld (1)
Albert Hubbell (4)
Albert Reimann (1)
Albert Sterner (1)
Alberta Cifolelli (1)
Alberta Cifolelli-Lamb (2)
Alcorn, H. Meade, Jr. (1)
Alcorn, Robert (1)
Alejandro Lopez (1)
Alex Katz (1)
Alex Katz (1)
Alex Liepa (1)
Alex Ross (1)
Alex Ross (3)
Alexander Brook (1)
Alexander Calder (19)
Alexander Calder (19)
Alexander Hay Ritchie (1)
Alexander Helwig Wyant (1)
Alexander Liberman (2)
Alexander Ralston Jones Jr. (1)
Alexander Theobald Van Laer (3)
Alexandra Darrow (1)
Alfred C. Dunn (1)
Alfred Cheny (Chip) Chadbourn (1)
Alfred D. Willmott (17)
Alfred Dolge and Son (1)
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Places

Herāt; Herāt, Afghanistan (inhabited places) (1)
Kandahār; Kandahār, Afghanistan (inhabited places) (1)
Kābul; Kābul, Afghanistan (inhabited places) (3)
Afghānestān; Asia, World (nations) (34)
Albany (2)
Alna (1)
Amos Lake (1)
Andover (4)
Ansonia (6)
Baldwinville (1)
Baltimore (1)
Barbados (1)
Bass River (1)
Bayrūt (1)
Beijing (2)
Bethel (15)
Beverly (6)
Boonesville (1)
Boston (4)
Boxford (1)
Branford (2)
Breeds Hill (1)
Bridgeport (42)
Bristol (2)
Broad Brook (1)
Brooklyn (5)
Bunker Hill (2)
Bunker Hill Monument (1)
Cambridge (1)
Canada (1)
Canterbury (9)
Carthage (1)
Cedar Swamp (1)
Center Groton (4)
Central Village (1)
Champlain, Lake (1)
Charleston (1)
Chenango (1)
Chicago (2)
Chilmark (1)
Cincinnati (1)
City of London (1)
City of Westminster (1)
Claydon (1)
Cohoes (1)
Colchester (2)
Cold Spring Harbor (1)
Connecticut (22)
Creighton (2)
Cuba (1)
Danbury (1)
Danielson (1)
Derby (1)
Detroit (1)
District of Columbia (2)
Dorchester (1)
Duxbury (2)
East Douglas (1)
East Granby (1)
East Hartford (1)
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Classification

accession records (1)
accidents (3)
account books (7)
accounts (4)
administrative records (1)
advertisements (23)
aerial photographs (12)
aerial photography (12)
agreements (1)
agricultural land (1)
agriculture (discipline) (8)
airplanes (3)
airports (1)
Albany slip clay (1)
albumen prints (2)
almshouses (buildings) (5)
alphabet blocks (1)
ambrotypes (photographs) (12)
amusement parks (1)
animal restraints (1)
animal shelters (welfare buildings) (1)
anniversaries (8)
anvils (tools) (2)
appointing (2)
appraisals (financial records) (1)
apprentices (1)
apprenticeship (1)
aprons (protective wear) (1)
arable land (1)
architects (1)
architectural conservation (3)
architectural drawings (visual works) (3)
architectural history (2)
architectural surveys (16)
archives (institutions) (1)
arrowheads (1)
art pottery (1)
articles (1)
artists (visual artists) (1)
artists' portraits (2)
associations (1)
asylums (welfare buildings) (1)
atlases (16)
attics (interior spaces) (1)
auctions (sales events) (1)
audiocassettes (23)
autobiography (genre) (1)
automobiles (1)
awards (2)
axes (tools) (1)
baby bonnets (1)
baby cap (1)
baby carriers (1)
baby wear (1)
badges (3)
ballots (1)
banks (institutions) (1)
baptisms (2)
Baptist (11)
bar pins (1)
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Artist Names

Wheeler, Candace Thurber (Persons, Artists) - American designer, artisan, and architect, 1827-1923 (2)
Darley, Felix Octavius Carr (Persons, Artists) - American draftsman and illustrator, 1822-1888 (1)
Baskin, Leonard (Persons, Artists) - American sculptor and printmaker, 1922-2000 (1)
Baugniet, Charles (Persons, Artists) - Belgian painter, 1814-1886 (2)
Wilkinson, Norman (Persons, Artists) - English marine painter and etcher, 1878-1971 (1)
Bufford, John Henry (Persons, Artists) - American printmaker, 1810-1870 (1)
Stamos, Theodoros (Persons, Artists) - American painter, 1922-1997 (1)
Beckwith, James Carroll (Persons, Artists) - American painter, 1852-1917 (1)
Calder, Alexander (Persons, Artists) - American sculptor, painter, and designer, 1898-1976 (1)
Ward, Leslie Matthew (Persons, Artists) - British painter and caricaturist, 1851-1922 (1)
Hart, James McDougal (Persons, Artists) - American painter, 1828-1901 (1)
Trumbull, John (Persons, Artists) - American painter, 1756-1843 (1)
Twain, Mark (pseudonym) (Persons, Artists) - American humorist, novelist, and artist, 1835-1910 (2)
Arms, John Taylor (Persons, Artists) - American printmaker, 1887-1953 (5)
Munger, Gilbert (Persons, Artists) - American painter and engraver, 1837-1903 (1)
Moulthrop, Reuben (Persons, Artists) - American painter and sculptor, 1763-1814 (1)
Nast, Thomas (Persons, Artists) - American cartoonist and illustrator, 1840-1902 (2)
Phillips, Ammi (Persons, Artists) - American painter, 1788-1865 (1)
Sarony, Napoleon (Persons, Artists) - Canadian photographer, 1821-1896, active in Great Britain (3)
Brooks, Vincent (Persons, Artists) - British lithographer, 1814-1885 (1)
Huge, Jurgan Frederick (Persons, Artists) - American painter, 1809-1878 (2)
Tiffany, Louis Comfort (Persons, Artists) - American painter and designer, 1848-1933 (1)
Munger, George (Persons, Artists) - American engraver and miniaturist, 1781-1825 (3)
Jocelyn, Nathaniel (Persons, Artists) - American painter and engraver, 1796-1881 (1)
Currier & Ives (Corporate Bodies) - American printing firm, 1834-1907 (3)
Punderson, Prudence (Persons, Artists) - American needleworker, 1758-1784 (1)
Payne, Gordon MacEwan (Persons, Artists) - Canadian painter, born 1933 (1)
Crocker, John Denison (Persons, Artists) - American painter, 1823-1907 (13)
Punderson, Prudence Geer (Persons, Artists) - American needleworker, 1735-1822 (1)
Tiffany, Charles Lewis (Persons, Artists) - American jeweler and merchant, 1812-1902 (1)
Currier, Nathaniel (Persons, Artists) - American printmaker, 1813-1888 (1)
Earl, Ralph (Persons, Artists) - American painter, 1751-1801 (1)
Schulz, Charles (Persons, Artists) - American cartoonist, illustrator, and author, 1922-2000 (1)
Porter, Charles Ethan (Persons, Artists) - American painter, 1847-1923 (1)
Roth, Ernest David (Persons, Artists) - American painter and etcher, 1879-1964 (1)
unknown Lakota (Unknown People by Culture) - Lakota cultural designation (1)
Ball, Thomas (Persons, Artists) - American sculptor, painter, and musician, 1819-1911 (1)
Shakespeare, William (Non-Artists) - English playwright and poet, 1564-1616 (1)
Carlyle, Thomas (Non-Artists) - Scottish writer and historian, 1795-1881 (1)
Tiffany family (Corporate Bodies) - American jewellers, merchants, and designers, active 19th-20th centuries (1)
Petit, Darrell (Persons, Artists) - American sculptor, contemporary (1)
Bachrach, David J. (Persons, Artists) - American photographer, 1856-1921 (1)
Camacho, Paul (Persons, Artists) - Puerto Rican painter and scenographer, 1929-1989 (1)
Flagg, Montague (Persons, Artists) - American painter, 1842-1915 (1)
James Dixon & Sons, England (Unidentified Named People and Firms) - Institution (1)
The New York Times (Unidentified Named People and Firms) - American institution, founded 1851 (1)
Milton Bradley Co., Springfield, MA (Unidentified Named People and Firms) - Institution (1)
Badger, Clarissa W. Munger (Persons, Artists) - American painter, 1806-1889 (2)
Evers, Carl G. (Persons, Artists) - American painter of German birth, 1907-1983 (1)
Beecher, Henry Ward (Non-Artists) - American rector, 1813-1887 (1)
Curran, Charles Courtney (Persons, Artists) - American painter, 1861-1942 (1)
Tiffany & Company (Corporate Bodies) - American retailer, jeweler, and manufacturer, 1853 to the present (1)
Twain, Mark (pseudonym) (Persons, Artists) - American humorist, novelist, and artist, 1835-1910 (1)
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Subjects

17th century (1)
19th century (1)
Acadians--Nova Scotia--History--Expulsion, 1755 (1)
Accident victims (1)
Accidents (2)
Account books (10)
Accounts (1)
Address books (1)
Advertising--Circus (14)
Advertising--Recruiting and enlistment (1)
Advice in literature (1)
Aerial photographs (10)
Aerial photography (12)
Aerial views (Maps) (1)
African American authors (1)
African American men (1)
African American men in literature (1)
African American women (6)
African American women--History (1)
African Americans (4)
African Americans (1)
African Americans--Civil rights (1)
African Americans--History (12)
African elephant (10)
agricultural fairs (1)
Agricultural implements (1)
Agriculture (9)
Agriculture and politics (2)
Air mail service (1)
Aircraft accident victims (2)
Aircraft accidents (7)
Aircraft accidents--Investigation (1)
Aircraft accidents--Investigation--United States (1)
Airplane crash survival (6)
Airplanes (1)
Airplanes in art (1)
Airports (1)
Alaska Natives (1)
Albinos and albinism (1)
Almshouses (5)
Ambrotype (1)
America (1)
American literature--History and criticism (1)
American loyalists (5)
American Revolution Bicentennial, 1976 (27)
American Revolution Bicentennial, 1976--Insignia (1)
Americans--Europe--Fiction (1)
Amusement parks (4)
Anatomy (1)
Anglican church buildings (3)
Anglican Church in North America--Relations--Episcopal Church (1)
Anglicans (1)
Animal marking (3)
Animal pounds (3)
Animals in art (1)
Animals in logging (1)
Animals--Effect of fires on (1)
Annexation (Municipal government) (2)
Anniversaries (10)
Anniversaries, etc (1)
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Library of Congress Names

Admiral Dot, -1918 (1)
Adventures of Mark Twain (Motion picture : 1944) (1)
Air France (1)
American Cancer Society. Connecticut Division (3)
American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (4)
American Tract Society (1)
Anaconda American Brass Company (7)
Andrews, Joseph, 1806-1873 (1)
Andros, Edmund, Sir, 1637-1714 (1)
Ansonia Clock Company (1)
Arms, John Taylor, 1887-1953 (3)
Arnold, Benedict, 1741-1801 (2)
Avery, John (1)
Bachrach, David, 1845-1921 (1)
Badger, Clarissa Munger, 1806-1889 (2)
Bailey, J. A. (1)
Baldwin, James, 1924-1987. Notes of a native son. Spoken word (Butler) (1)
Baraka, Amiri, 1934-2014. Short stories. Selections (1)
Barnum and Bailey (11)
Barnum Museum (Bridgeport, Conn.) (1)
Barnum's American Museum (18)
Barnum, P. T. (Phineas Taylor), 1810-1891 (172)
Battery Park City (New York, N.Y.) (1)
Baugniet, Charles, 1814-1886 (1)
Beckwith, J. Carroll (James Carroll), 1852-1917 (1)
Beecher, Henry Ward, 1813-1887 (1)
Belletti, Giovanni Battista, 1813-1890 (1)
Benedict, Julius, 1804-1885 (1)
Bergh, Henry, 1811-1888 (4)
Biber, Jacob, 1915-2009 (1)
Black Rock (Bridgeport, Conn.) (3)
Black Rock (Conn.) (1)
Boone, Daniel (1)
Boyle, John E. (2)
Brady, Mathew B., approximately 1823-1896 (1)
Brett, George P. (George Platt), 1858-1936 (3)
Brewster, Jonathan, active 1787-1788 (1)
Brewster, William, 1566 or 1567-1644 (2)
Bridgeport (Conn.) (16)
Bridgeport (Conn.) (1)
Bridgeport Brass Company (3)
British Museum (1)
Brooklawn (Fairfield, Conn.) (1)
Brown, Thomas, active 1785-1820 (1)
Brownrig, Ralph, 1592-1659 (1)
Buckingham, William A. (William Alfred), 1804-1875 (1)
Buckley, Alice (1)
Bunker, Chang, 1811-1874 (1)
Bunker, Eng, 1811-1874 (1)
Burdick, John (1)
Burgoyne, John, 1739-1785 (1)
Burr, Aaron, 1756-1836 (1)
Burr, Thaddeus, 1735-1801 (4)
Calhoun, John C. (John Caldwell), 1782-1850 (1)
Camp Gruber (Okla.) (2)
Carlyle, Thomas, 1795-1881 (1)
Carlyle, Thomas, 1795-1881. French revolution (1)
Carpenter and Co. (1)
Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649 (1)
Charles L. Webster and Company (1)
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Accessories (Clothing & dress) (3)
Advertisements (3)
Albumen prints (6)
Ambrotypes (8)
Aprons (7)
Aprons (4)
Architectural decorations & ornaments (1)
Architectural drawings (1)
Architectural photographs (1)
Audiocassettes (31)
Audiocassettes (3)
Autographs (1)
Badges (16)
Bamboo (1)
Banjos (1)
Bank notes (1)
Beds (2)
Black & white photographs (15)
Boat & ship industry (1)
Bonnets (3)
Book & magazine posters (1)
Bookcases (1)
Books (8)
Boots (1)
Bottles (1)
Boundaries (1)
Bowls (Tableware) (4)
Brasswork (1)
Broadsides (1)
Cabinet photographs (7)
Cakes (1)
Candles (1)
Capes (Clothing) (1)
Card photograph albums (1)
Card photographs (3)
Caricatures (1)
Carriages & coaches (5)
Cartes de visite (7)
Chairs (3)
Charts (1)
Checks (2)
Children's art (1)
Clippings (6)
Clocks & watches (1)
Clocks & watches (3)
Clothing & dress (1)
Clothing & dress (1)
Color photographs (2)
Commemorative prints (1)
Compasses (Direction indicators) (1)
Contracts (2)
Correspondence (63)
Corsets (1)
Costumes (3)
Croquet (1)
Cuff links (1)
Cyanotypes (1)
Daguerreotypes (8)
Desks (1)
Diaries (3)
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collections

African American Oral History Project (8)
Agnes Selkirk Clark Collection
Anti/Halasz Family papers (photographs) (5)
Autograph Collection (2)
Box 1 (1)
Box 1 (2)
Box 1: E.S. Hand Papers (2)
Box 02: (2)
Box 09 (5)
Box 29: Identified photographs and postcards (1)
Box 33: Photographs-Jennings family (2)
BPT_Transit Trolleys (2)
Brass Worker’s History Project Collection (38)
Burr Family Papers (1)
Civil War Collection (1)
Couch Family Papers
Deeds (1)
The E. Lee Schneider Pepperidge Farm Collection (1)
A. Elizabeth Jennings Collection (3)
Elwood Stokes Hand Papers (2)
Fairfield Area Papers (1)
Fairfield Citizen News Collection (14)
Fairfield Families (7)
Fairfield Floods (1)
Fairfield Schools Collection (2)
Fairfield - Storms (7)
FF_Ash Creek (1)
FF_BLDGS_Old Post Rd (46)
FF_Blizzard 1888 (4)
FF_Blizzard_1934 (1)
FF_Business_McKesson (1)
FF_Business_Mercurio (1)
FF_Celebrations_Memorial Day (1)
FF_Celebrations_Tercentenary 1935 (2)
FF_Hurricane1954 (4)
FF_Hurricane1938_F1 (3)
FF_Hurricane1953_F1 (4)
FF_Police (1)
FF_Railroad Stations (2)
FF_Schools_Elementary_Burr (2)
FF_Schools_Elementary_Dwight (8)
FF_Schools_Elementary_Grasmere (3)
FF_Schools_Elementary_Holland Hill (2)
FF_Schools_Elementary_Lincoln (2)
FF_Schools_Elementary_McKinley (1)
FF_Schools_Elementary_Mill Plain (2)
FF_Schools_Elementary_Nathan Hale (2)
FF_Schools_Elementary_Old Acad (4)
FF_Schools_Elementary_Sherman (5)
FF_Schools_Elementary_Washington (17)
FF_Schools_Elementary_Wilson (1)
FF_Schools_Fairfield High School 1917-1923 (1)
FF_Street Scenes (2)
FF_TransitTrolley (5)
Folder 1: Black Rock Turnpike, 1955-56, 1976; Post road, Fairfield Shopping Center and Beach Road, 1954-55, 1976; Unquowa Place, 1976 (from carousel 1) (2)
Folder 2: Fairfield center along Post Road, 1955, 1976. Includes Brick Walk, Fairfield diner, Post Office (from carousel 2) (1)
Folder 3: Pine Creek Marsh, Mill River, parks, Greenfield Hill, King's Highway, Southport Harbor, town green, Connecticut Turnpike, 1955, Hurricane, 1954-5, 1977 (2)
Folder 4 (2)
Folder 7a: DeWitt, John R., 1488 Brookside Drive, Fairfield (2)
Folder 9: Cartes de visite, 1863 (1)
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Connecticut Collections

Connecticut League of History Organizations
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