Frederick W. Chesson Connecticut Iron Industry Collection
Scope and Content
The collection consists of notes, writings, correspondence, photographs, and newspaper clippings created or gathered by Charles Rufus Harte and Herbert Cary Keith, presumably in preparation for their writing of the book The Early Iron Industry in Connecticut, written in 1935. While the main focus of the materials in the collection are on the early iron industry in Connecticut, there is also information about the iron industry in Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania, particularly the Hopewell Furnace.
Dates
- Creation: undated, 1920-1949
Access
The collection is open and available for research.
Restrictions on Use
Permission to publish from this Collection must be obtained in writing from both the University of Connecticut Libraries and the owner(s) of the copyright.
Biography
Frederick W. Chesson is a resident of Waterbury, Connecticut, a collector of documents about Connecticut's business and industrial history, and the author of three books about the Connecticut cities of New Haven, Waterbury and Woodbury.
Frederick W. Chesson is a resident of Waterbury, Connecticut, a collector of documents about Connecticut's business and industrial history, and the author of three books about the Connecticut cities of New Haven, Waterbury and Woodbury.
Extent
1 Linear Feet
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
Resident of Waterbury, Connecticut, and historian of Connecticut business and industry. Collection includes collected literature about the early iron industry in the United States, particularly Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania.
Acquisition Information
This collection was donated by Mr. Frederick W. Chesson in 1999.
General note
Published Works:
Missing Title
- New Haven: from the collection of Charles Rufus Harte, Dover, N.H. : Arcadia, 1995.
- Waterbury, Dover, N.H. : Arcadia, 1996.
- Around Woodbury, Charleston, S.C. : Arcadia, 2000.
Genre / Form
- Correspondence
- Maps (documents)
- Notebooks
- Notes
- Photographs
- Publications (documents)
- Typescripts
- Manuscripts (document genre)
Geographic
- Connecticut (state)
- Hopewell Furnace National Historic Site (historic site)
- Massachusetts (state)
- New Jersey (state)
- New York (State)
- Pennsylvania (state)
Topical
- Title
- Frederick W. Chesson Connecticut Iron Industry Collection
- Status
- Published
- Author
- Archives & Special Collections staff
- Date
- 2010 August
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Archives and Special Collections, University of Connecticut Library Repository
University of Connecticut Library
405 Babbidge Road Unit 1205
Storrs Connecticut 06269-1205 USA US
860-486-2524
archives@uconn.edu