Today was another one of those days that I found a little nugget in the course of my day job. I was working with an autograph book from 1861 from our General Assembly Portraits collection (PG540) and found a prominent Cheshire citizen, William T. Peters. Collecting autographs was a popular activity […]
Monthly Archives: July 2014
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Last weekend I got to work at the Colt 200 Bash at Colt Park in Hartford. It was pretty cool, we had a life size cutout of Samuel Colt and a birthday card that the staff of Connecticut State Library signed. Our table was full of freebies like postcards for […]
So being a history geek (more like a history addict really) I love to simply dig through old records. The things you find can be truly fascinating as well as downright hysterical! I was recently looking through some vital records for Cheshire, Connecticut, my hometown. Now mind you Cheshire today […]
I have the coolest job in the world. I get to digitize old photos and manuscripts from Connecticut’s history. I get to do some research about these images so I can properly describe them so you can find them. Then I get to create cool projects around them. Did I mention […]