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University of Connecticut, Center for Economic Education Records

 Collection
Identifier: 2006-0286
Abstract

The collection contains administrative and programmatic materials associated with the Center at the University of Connecticut.

Dates: undated

University of Connecticut, Center for Italian Studies Records

 Collection
Identifier: 1975-0002
Abstract

The Center began operation during the 1967/1968 academic year and served as an interdisciplinary focus for the study of modern Italy. The Center was active in establishing courses, contacts abroad and increasing the level of appropriate library acquisitions. The Center was discontinued at the end of the 1974/1975 academic year.

Dates: undated, 1967-1975

University of Connecticut, Center for Judaic Studies and Contemporary Jewish Life Records

 Collection
Identifier: 2013-0122
Abstract

Records documenting the activities of the Center at the University of Connecticut from 1971 to the present.

Dates: 1971-2013

University of Connecticut, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Records

 Collection — Container: 1998-0241
Identifier: 1998-0241
Abstract The Center for Latin American and Carribean Studies was formed in 1974 through the work of History Professor Hugh Hamill. Initially the Center for Latin American Studies, the program was the first area studies program at the university, having begun in the late 1940s by professors in the Spanish and Sociology departments. With its formal establishment in 1974 the center allowed students the opportunity to engage in Latin American Studies through undergraduate and graduate study for the first...
Dates: 0000

University of Connecticut, Center for Real Estate and Urban Economic Studies Records

 Collection
Identifier: 2013-0127
Scope and Contents

William Kinnard files

Dates: 1963-2004

University of Connecticut, Center for Survey Research and Analysis Records

 Collection
Identifier: 2015-0028
Scope and Contents

Correspondence, administrative records, reports, publications, studies pertaining to surveys conducted by the Center and its predecessor, Institute for Social Inquiry.

Dates: 1990-2002

Centerbank (Center Financial Corporation) Records

 Collection
Identifier: 2016-0042
Scope and Contents The collection consists of administrative records of Centerbank (Center Financial Corporation), dated mostly from the period of when it merged with Waterbury Savings Bank in 1989 to its demise in 1996. Includes documents that chronicle the merger of Centerbank with First Union Bank of Connecticut in 1996. All of the records were those gathered and saved by Mr. Robert J. Narkis, a lawyer of Waterbury, Connecticut, and member of the Board of Directors of Centerbank (Center Financial...
Dates: 1985-1996

C.H. Dexter Company Records

 Collection
Identifier: 2000-0128
Abstract The Dexter Corporation originated from a family-owned saw and grist mill that began in 1767 in Windsor Locks, Connecticut, and evolved into a multi-national producer of long fiber papers and chemical laminates. In its 233 years of operation, the company grew from manufacturing tissues, toilet paper, and tea bags to marketing more specialized products like medical garments and industrial finishes. Faced with a proposed buyout by International Specialty Products Incorporated in 2000, the...
Dates: 1829-1999

Orwell S. Chaffee Papers

 Collection
Identifier: 1998-0138
Abstract

Orwell S. Chaffee (1807-1887) was a silk manufacturer in the Mansfield/Willimantic area of eastern Connecticut. Son-in-law to Joseph Conant, he worked in, and later managed, Conant's silk mill until 1838 when he purchased property in Chaffeeville and established his own silk mill. The collection contains correspondence, receipts and invoices addressed to Mr. O.S. Chaffee.

Dates: 1846-1854, 1903

Ann and Samuel Charters Archive of the Harlem Renaissance

 Collection
Identifier: 2010-0116
Scope and Contents This collection documents the published work of writers and recording artists of the Harlem Renaissance through the poetry, novels, plays and music that emerged between 1917 and 1934, a period in American history characterized by an “unprecedented mobilization of talent and group support in the service of a racial arts and letters movement,” according to historian and author David Levering Lewis. Assembled by Ann and Samuel Charters, the collection includes works by Arna Bontemps, Countee...
Dates: 1903-2004; Majority of material found within 1921-1935

Ann Charters Papers

 Collection
Identifier: 1998-0200
Abstract Scholar, author, photographer, and life-long editor and chronicler of Jack Kerouac and other writers of the Beat Generation, Ann Charters was born in November 1936 in Bridgeport, CT, the daughter of Nathan (a contractor) and Kate (Schultz) Danberg. She attended the University of California, Berkeley (B.A., 1957) and Columbia University (M.A., 1959, Ph.D., 1965). Her papers include literary manuscripts, letters, notebooks, photographs, periodicals, broadsides, interviews, audio and video...
Dates: 1966-2020

Samuel and Ann Charters Archives of Blues and Vernacular African American Musical Culture

 Collection
Identifier: 2000-0105
Abstract Despite its primary emphasis on the blues and ragtime, the Samuel and Ann Charters Archives spans the entire 20th century, beginning with African-American spirituals and the ragtime of Scott Joplin and other early composers, and ending with Snoop Doggy Dogg and the rappers of the late 20th century. The Archives holds thousands of hours of recorded music on LP, 45 rpm and 78 rpm records, compact discs, audio cassettes, and reel-to-reel tapes. Though some records date back to the 1920s, the...
Dates: undated, 1844-2001

Normand Chartier Papers

 Collection
Identifier: 1993-0070
Scope and Content

The collection contains artwork, notes, correspondence, photographs and other materials pertaining to Normand Chartier's illustrations of many of his children's books.

Dates: 1974-2008

Harry B. Chase, Jr. Papers

 Collection
Identifier: 2003-0037
Abstract The collection consists of writings by Harry B. Chase, Jr., which focus on the history of the railroad in Massachusetts in general and the experiences of his father, Harry B. Chase, Sr., an employee of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad, in particular. Included in the writings are excerpts from letters written by father to son entitled "'Boston & New York R.P.O. Train 500,' Letters from a New Haven Railroad Signal Maintainer to his Soldier Son in Wartime, 1942-1943," as well...
Dates: 1931-2015

Holly Chase Papers

 Collection
Identifier: 2022-0137
Abstract

Reports written by Chase for USAID programs, particularly focused on crafts practiced by women that can be developed into a source of income within third-world country economies. The collection also includes bibliographies on topics associated with various handicrafts.

Dates: 1977 - 1999

Chatham Quarry Records

 Collection
Identifier: 1980-0001
Abstract The Chatham Quarry, or Town Quarry, was a small part of the extensive brownstone quarries located on the banks of the Connecticut River near the towns of Portland and Middletown, Connecticut. The Chatham Quarry, which took in about two acres, remained under municipal control for the use of the inhabitants of the towns of Chatham and Middletown throughout its existence. In 1824, the town of Middletown leased the quarry to John Lawrence Lewis for five years in order to extract stones for the...
Dates: 1818-1842

Cheney Brothers Silk Manufacturing Company Records

 Collection
Identifier: 1984-0026
Abstract In 1838, six Cheney brothers established the Mount Nebo Silk Company in Manchester, CT. The company adopted the family name in 1843. Aided by booming national markets, a protective tariff, and innovative production methods, the company grew into the nation's largest and most profitable silk mill by the late 1880s. The company pioneered the wastesilk spinning method and the Grant's reel. The company reached its peak in 1923, after which it quickly declined due to industry wide overproduction...
Dates: undated, 1734 - 1979

Victoria Chess Papers

 Collection
Identifier: 1992-0042
Abstract

Victoria Chess was born 16 November 1939, in Chicago, Illinois. Chess has been awarded the Brooklyn Art Books for Children citation, the Brooklyn Museum and the Brooklyn Public Library, 1973, for Fletcher and Zenobia and American Institute of Graphic Arts Book Show Award, 1975, for Bugs.

Dates: 1985-1994

Frederick W. Chesson Connecticut Iron Industry Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 1999-0114
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.

Dates: undated, 1920-1949

Frederick W. Chesson Papers

 Collection
Identifier: 2000-0037
Abstract

The collection contains drawings (cartoons) created by Mr. Chesson during and after the time he was a student at the University of Connecticut. The cartoons illustrate a college student's perspective of the major issues of the time. They refer to topics such as the Korean War, World War II, and military scenes in general, as well as college life and life at the University of Connecticut.

Dates: 1948-1962

University of Connecticut, Child Development Laboratories Records

 Collection
Identifier: 1995-0018
Abstract

The Child Development Laboratories (CDL) are part of the School of Family Studies and serve the university, community and state as a model demonstration laboratory center.

Dates: undated, 1961-2010

Chile Collection

 Collection — Container: Chile
Identifier: 1998-0311
Scope and Contents The approximately 2700 volumes of the Chile Collection reflect the history and politics of Chile from the 16th century through 1940 with particular strength in the period from 1810 to 1940. The nucleus of the holdings was formed by Chilean scholar Jose Promis of Santiago, Chile. Subjects include the boundary disputes of Chile, the Peru-Bolivian Confederation of 1836, and the War of the Pacific, 1879-1884. The collection includes rare books, reference monographs, periodicals, and pamphlets...
Dates: 1590 - 1940

Peggy L. Chinn Papers

 Collection
Identifier: 2008-0099
Abstract

Professional papers of Peggy Chinn, emerita Professor of Nursing at the University of Connecticut.

Dates: undated, 1969-2003

Bonnie Christensen Papers

 Collection
Identifier: 2005-0088
Abstract

The collection contains the original illustrations, woodcut blocks, research materials, and manuscript materials of Bonnie Christensen.

Dates: undated, 1863-2006

C.J. Bates Company Records

 Collection
Identifier: 2000-0076
Abstract

Founded by Carlton J. Bates (1848-1941) in 1907, the C.J. Bates Company manufactured manicure sets, crochet hooks, and knitting needles in Chester, Connecticut.

Dates: 1817-1980

Hugh Clark Papers

 Collection
Identifier: 1995-0016
Abstract

Hugh Clark received his bachelor's degree from Clark University in 1934 and a doctoral degree from the University of Michigan in 1941. He was employed by the University of Iowa from 1945 to 1947, when he joined the faculty at the University of Connecticut. Clark specialized in developmental biology and retired from the University in 1983. The collection contains correspondence, administrative, professional and personnel files relating to Clark's responsibilities and interests.

Dates: undated, 1947-1998

Tom Clark Papers

 Collection
Identifier: 1978-0001
Abstract

The papers of author Tom Clark containing manuscripts of poetry, fiction, biographies and baseball writing, notebooks and artwork (published and unpublished). Also includes correspondence, research notes and other materials, inteviews and drafts of Clark's Charles Olson: The Allegory of a Poet's Life (New York: Norton, 1991).

Dates: undated, circa 1965-1990