Frederick W. Chesson Connecticut Iron Industry Collection

Collection

Identifier: 1999-0114

Staff Only

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.

Extent

1 Linear Feet

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

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.

Related Material

Archives & Special Collections has a substantial collection of materials pertaining to Connecticut businesses. For detailed information on these collections please contact the curator or ask at the Reading Room desk.

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.