Friday, October 12, 2007

What's New in 2008?

Welcome to the Library and Special Collections! What's new in 2008? We are pleased to announce the following brand-new additions to our reference and manuscript collections:

James Brilvitch. A History of Connecticut’s Golden Hill Paugusset Tribe, 2007. Donated by Barbara Bryan.


Pay order for Lt. James Chapman, signed by Oliver Wolcott, 1784. Donated by Paul Brzozowski.


John W. DeForest. History of the Indians of Connecticut from the Earliest Known Period to 1850, 1852. Donated by Priscilla Chatfield in Memory of Kenneth Chatfield Smith.


Charles DeWolf Brownell. The Indian Races of North and South America, 1855. Donated by Priscilla Chatfield in Memory of Kenneth Chatfield Smith.


Regimental order to Capt. John Fayerweather (5th Companie). Donated by Paul Brzozowski.


Levi French’s 1863 Civil War diary. Donated by Paul Brzozowski.


Anne Galicich. The German Americans, 1989. Library Purchase.


Richard Irving Dodge. Our Wild Indians: Thirty-Three Years' Personal Experience Among the Red Men of the Great West, 1882. Donated by Priscilla Chatfield in Memory of Kenneth Chatfield Smith.


James Lomuscio. Village of the Dammed. The Fight for Open Space and the Flooding of a Connecticut Town, 2005. Donated through our Adopt-a-Book Program by Doug Moore.


David McCullough. John Adams, 2001. Donated by Patti Spaght.


David McCullough. John Adams, The Illustrated Edition, 2001. Donated by Patti Spaght.


New York-New Haven railroad schedule, 1862. Donated by Paul Brzozowski.


The Perry Family Papers. Donated by Hop Perry.


John H. Roy, Jr. A Field Guide to Southern New England Railroad Depots and Freight Houses, 2007. Donated through our Adopt-a-Book program by Marcia Miner, town historian.


The Sturges Family Photos. Donated by Elizabeth Meyer.


Travel voucher for Andrew Wheeler, authorized and signed by General Gould Selleck Silliman, 1777. Donated by Paul Brzozowski.

Monday, September 10, 2007

Welcome Fall Interns!

The Fairfield Museum and History Center Library and Special Collections is pleased to host an archives intern this fall:

Dan Strong (Sacred Heart University) will work on entering legacy finding aids into Archivist's Toolkit. The internship will earn Dan credit in Sacred Heart's history department; his supervisor is Paul Siff.