Middletown (Conn.) -- Social life and customs

The Atwater family addition to papers contain correspondence, photographs, financial and estate papers, research and student notes, and other materials from four generations of the family.

Letters, photographs, programs, books, brochures, reports, calendars and daytimers, travel diaries and clippings provide documentation of Morton and Kay Briggs’s academic and community life as well as their travels.

The Conversational Club was formed in 1862 by the faculty of Wesleyan University to discuss topics of interest along with other Middletown residents. The collection has four series: Minutes, Chronological Files, Addition of June 2008, and Addition of December 2009.

This collection is on the 1957 Douglas cannon heist and history of the cannon as recollected by Jackson L. Goodhue, class of 1957.

The Middletown Scientific Association records include minutes, reports, a scrapbook, administrative records, and other historical materials which document the organization's operations from 1871 until it disbanded in 1968.

The collection features graduate and undergraduate papers about the history of Middletown, Connecticut and the surrounding area. Topics include politics, labor, commerce, ethnic and racial groups, women's history, and leisure.

Collection of wall calanders printed and distributed by the university.