Rocky Hill Historical Society Library List March 4, 2014
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1 Rocky Hill Historical Society Library List March 4, 2014 Bookshelves on left of door into Library: • Except for top shelf on Books on shelves are arranged in Dewey Decimal System order and listed in card North wall, all three catalog on immediate right of door to library. Books cataloged by Author and Title. sections, and top shelf on East wall, left section only • Top shelf on North wall, all State of CT Register and Manual, 1885, 1887, and 1913 – 1949, with some years three sections, and top shelf missing on East wall, left section only File Cabinet No. 1: Top two drawers Technical (Reference) Files – Organized by Subject • Art Works • Artifacts • Books • Care/Storage • Cemetery • Clocks • Collections • Conservation • Costumes • Crafts • Disaster Planning • Display Ideas • Environment • Exhibits • Explosives • Fundraising • Furniture • Gardens/Flowers • Genealogy • General • Gift Shop • Glass/Lamps • Hats • Houses • Labeling • Local History • Maps • Masonry/Bricks/Stone • Membership • Metals • Money • Oral History • Protection • Photography • Printing • Public Relations • Resource • Signs 2 • Stoves • Textiles • Tinsmiths • Tools • Tours/Visitors • Toys • Weapons • Wooden Ware Bottom drawer • Back-up File – has copies of papers that are in files elsewhere in the library • Moser School memorabilia Top of file cabinet No. 1 • Goodrich family bible • Pictures from Moser School In NE Corner of Library Cardboard cartons of old maps: • New Map of the World on Mercator’s Projection published by Jacob Monk, Baltimore, Maryland DATE??? • 1893 Connecticut Map of Connecticut, from Peter Revill • State of Connecticut 1965 • Metropolitan District Centennial Edition 1976 • Central Connecticut, no date • Hartford County Map 1855; 1855 Smith's Map of Hartford County, Connecticut by E.M. Woodford. The original map was the first complete view of who lived where in these towns. 1000s of sites - homes, schools, churches and businesses- are located and named; Has inset detailing Rocky Hill Center • George W. Eldridge's Chart K Newport to Halifax, 1905 (tag says “Charts of the Ocean”) • Bicentennial Map showing Hartford County Indians, Washington and Rochambeau Journeys • Connecticut River, Hartford - Old Saybrook, 1949 • Quoddy Head to Cape Cod, 1895, W. W. Duffield; A. Braid; J. F. Moser; U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, 91 x 115 cm* • United States East Coast Connecticut River Entrance to Deep River, East Coast and Geodetic Survey, 1929 • United States Connecticut, Connecticut River, Deep River to Higganum, East Coast and Geodetic Survey, 1929 • United States Connecticut, Connecticut River, Higganum to Rocky Hill, East Coast and Geodetic Survey, 1929 Continuation of Library 3 Bookshelves – East Wall East Wall - Left shelves Cataloged books Bottom shelf in file boxes: Boxes of Rocky Hill Town Reports, annually beginning with 1821 Tercentenary Commission of the State of Connecticut, Committee on Historical Publications, Pamphlets 1-60, 1936 Peterson’s National Ladies Magazines, 1860 – 1865 1866 – 4 vols. Godey’s Ladies Books Box of Rocky Hill Town Guides 2 empty boxes – bottom shelf East Wall - Middle shelves 2nd shelf from top Records of the State of Connecticut 1776-1778 Vol. 1 State of CT Report of the State Librarian 1900 – 1936, some years missing 3rd shelf from top Memorial History of Hartford County 1633 - 1884, published 1886 (Rare old Book) Representative Men of Connecticut 1861-1894, published 1894 Connecticut History Journals 2005 – 2012 Connecticut Nutmegger, 2001 - 2010 Inaugural Souvenir Editions Washington Herald Jan 20, 1937 Franklin. Roosevelt 4th shelf from top RH Historical Society Accession Books: 1) Books, magazines, newspapers, and other printed materials, 2) Manuscripts and Documents and Maps Ledger of a store/merchant, name unknown, beginning 1886 The Liberty Collection: Historic Documents of United States (Folio) G. Fox, Centennial Hill Publications (2) The Travelers 100 Years, 1964 5th and 6th shelves Books catalogued in Card Catalog Bottom shelf Elected Rocky Hill Officials, 1878 – 2010 3 Empty File Boxes Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary from Robbins Family, dated 1834 (M-29-3) Humble Attempt Towards the Revival of Practical Religion among Christians, Vol. 3 (L-174-10) Lithographers Manual, 1977 printing* Newspapers in Connecticut Institutions Vols. 1-3, updates through 1997 East Wall – Right shelves Top shelf RH Town Property Tax Records (accounting books), 1879 – 1934 with some years 4 missing 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and part of 5th shelf Antique Children’s and Junior Books (used by Doris Schreier) and School Texts Scrapbook Collection (photocopies of which are in gray notebooks on bottom shelf) Scrapbook of Hartford Courant Clippings and P. Wilson’s notes from his time as local correspondent Bottom shelf Gray Notebooks containing photocopies of scrapbooks on shelves above Box of Old Magazines (needs to be catalogued) *Items to Consider for De- Bushnell Memorial Concert Programs 1930’s* (on Accession Book Shelf) accessioning on middle shelves, The National Magazine 1899* (on Accession Book Shelf)* bottom shelf: Paper Index to Unidentified Photos/Slides* (Midge’s Desk) SE Corner of Library Box of Bibles, church songbooks Box of Books from Old Rocky Hill Libraries: Rienzi, The Last of the Tribunes, “Zanoni” Night and Morning, Last Days of Pompeii, “Pelham”, 1875 The Last Days of Pompeii, 1977 The History of Henry Esmond, Esq., written by himself, 1870 Connecticut Evangelical Magazine and Religious Intelligencer, Vol. 7, 1814 The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte, 1827 The Life of Napolean Bonaparte, Part 3 The Bow of Orange Ribbon, Emelia Barr Alec Forbes of Howglen, a novel by George McDonald, 1877 The Toilers of the Sea, Victor Hugo, 1878 Miss M. E. Braddon’s Novels A Hazard of New Fortunes, William Dean Howells, 1890 Sir Gibbie, a novel by George McDonald Memoirs of Elizabeth, Second Queen Regent of England and Ireland, by Agnes Strickland, 1853 The History of England from the Accession of James II, by Lord Macauley, vol. 5, 1861 Hypatia or New Foes with an Old Face, a novel by Charles Kingsley Saxe Holm’s Stories, First Series, 1887 Politics for Young Americans, Charles Nordhoff, 1877 The Gaywrthys, a Story of Threads and Thrums, 1865 The Adventures of Phillip, William Makepeace Thackeray, 1877 The Virginians, William Makepeace Thackeray, 1877 Robert Elmsmere, by Mrs. Humphry Ward, 1888 Cain’s Lamentations, Rowland Cotton, 1795 The Genuine Works of Flavius Josephus, William Whiston, Vol. 5 The Complete Poetical Works, John Greenleaf Whittier, 1876 Library Bookshelves - South wall Top shelf Books by Rocky Hill authors – cataloged in card catalog 2nd shelf Field Book of the Revolution – Vols. 1, 2 History of Civil War in America, Vols. 1, 2 Stoddard’s Lectures, Vols. 1-10 * Five additional Books of Stoddard’s Lectures* (these books not in card catalog)* 3rd shelf Red Binder – Rocky Hill Historical Society (RHHS) Nominations, Officers, Lists of Members White binder – RHHS Historical Sources of Information Index White binder – CT League of History Organizations 5 White binder – Griswold Diaries # 2 & 3 White binder – Transcriptions of Tapes of Oral Histories by Subject Blue binder – Typed Manuscript “Looking Back Rocky Hill, CT Incorporated 1834”, Sesquicentennial Book Committee, RHHS Maroon Binder – Donald Bates Manuscript “Growing Up in Rocky Hill,” 1927 and following years Black binders – RHHS Officers and Minutes, 1960 to present 4th shelf – all empty binders 5th shelf Box of Center Cemetery Records Box containing album of Motherhood Club/PTA programs, beginning with 1907 to 1957-58 6th shelf – Empty black binders US Road Atlas - 1993 Bottom shelf Stack 1: Scrapbook of poetry by Esther Hammond, 1851 pasted over George Griswold’s Daybook Aug 27 1801 (East Hartford) Scrapbook: Our Activities Grades 4, 5,6, South School, Rocky Hill, 1942-43, Mrs. J. Dimmock Scrapbook: Women’s Auxiliary Resident Association Century Hills, 1973-74 Scrapbook: Cutouts of Trading Cards, Valentines, Etc. by Ethel Arline Farrill Lebanon New Hampshire 1891 Scrapbook: Dinosaur Park Aug. 25, 1966 Folio: United States Bicentennial 1776-1976 Etching of CT State capital (in Folder Churchill Business Forms) Stack 2: Center School PTA Minutes Sept 1940 - May 1952 Scrapbook: Newspaper Clippings of Rocky Hill and How it Started, compiled by Mrs. Nellie Warner Shepp’s World’s Fair Photographs – Columbian Exposition, 1892 Also: Album of Chicago World’s Fair 1933-34 Also: Dream City of Columbian Exposition; and Columbian Exposition Album Part 7; Also Triumph of Man 1964 World’s Fair Book: Monthly Genesee Farmer, 1838 Book: The Christian at Work Eclectic Weekly, beginning Jan 1873 Scrapbook: By Alice William’s mother, Color Pictures pasted on Cloth, 1880 Scrapbook: Pictures on Cloth (similar to Scrapbook by Alice Williams mother) Scrapbook: Greeting Cards starting in 1937 File cabinet No. 2 Drawer 1 Office Supplies (Folders etc.) Drawer 2 Sigmund Adler (member RHHS) Award Winning Essays about RH 6 Manila folders containing Rod Wilscam’s DUPLICATES of materials appropriately filed elsewhere in the library: • Academy Hall History • Calvin Chapin and Henry Adams • Rocky Hill Burying Ground • Rocky Hill Ferry • Houses/Taverns • Rocky Hill Library • Quarry • Schools • Ship Building and Shipyards • Trolley Drawer 3 Records of Visitors to RHHS Minutes of RHHS meetings RHHS President’s Diary RHHS Correspondence RHHS President’s Diary - Peter Revill, President Drawer 4 Holy Bible -- E.C. Gardner – Presented in Savannah, GA 1829 Book – An Humble Attempt Towards the Revival