Middletown (Conn.)

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The majority of this collection is 18th- and 19th-century documents from around the Middletown, Connecticut area, with some documents from the 17th- and 20th-centuries.

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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.

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Records compiled on the 1997 Kids on the Block Conference run by Oddfellows Playhouse.

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The Daniel C. Rand journal has accounts of his expenses and savings as a Wesleyan University student from 1839 to 1843. The journal also includes written accounts of business conducted at the Rand family's powder mill in 1844 and 1845, and the minutes, constitution, and by-laws of the Union Eloquium's Society in Meriden, New Hampshire.

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The Marjorie Rice Daltry Rosenbaum papers contain both work and personal papers relating to her educational programs and life.

Scope and Contents In this interview Rob Rosenthal talks about political involvement; mentions his upbringing in a very politically aware family in Long Island; his experiences with radical activism in college; his early work in studying homelessness and urban issues, and his first book Homeless in Paradise. He talks about his investment in strikes and workers' rights right after undergraduate school. He describes his experience coming to Wesleyan, specifically, how he began work here in a field he was...

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Includes programs from the Head of the Connecticut Regatta, 1981-1986, and approximately forty 3 x 5 inch photographs and two 8 x 10 inch photographs.

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Wesleyan and Middletown theater programs collected by Ruth Trappan (1904-1997). Programs include from Middletown's Little Theatre Guild productions of "Mrs. Moonlight," Junior plays "The Stolen Prince" and "Six who pass while the lentils boil," and "Granite." From Wesleyan programs include the revival of "The Girl and the Graduate," a glee centennial concert, from the Paint and Powder Club "Aren't We All?," Freshman Three One Act Plays, and a candlelight concert program.

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The Middlesex County Archaeological Digs and Course Records were compiled by Stephen Dyson documenting his archaeology labs conducted in the field and courses focusing on local sites. It includes student essays, student field sheets, student lab inventories, grant proposals, Connecticut Historical Commission Inventory sheets for sites in the Middlesex area, and photos of mid-19th century topographic and housing maps of Middletown, Middlefield, and Cromwell.

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The Samuel M. Tuthill papers include Wesleyan related publications and documents, and a photograph album that features pictures of the 1936 Middletown Flood, the New England Hurricane of 1938, and the construction of the Arrigoni Bridge between Middletown and Portland, among other events.