Connecticut State Library, 1850-2000.

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Connecticut State Library, 1850-2000.

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The State Library provides a variety of library, information, archival, public records, museum, and administrative services to state government, libraries and library organizations, town government officials, students, and the general public. The Library began as two law collections at the two state houses (New Haven and Hartford) and was placed under the oversight of a legislative committee in the 1840s. It was not until 1854, however, that the General Assembly created the post of State Librarian. The most important State Librarian in the agency's history was George Seymour Godard (1900-36), who was of critical importance in getting the building at 231 Capitol Avenue constructed and occupied. He also expanded the library's services into new areas. Records include such formats as letterpress books, paper files, sound recordings, films, discs, photographs, architectural drawings, ledgers and logs, and ephemera. The group also includes materials of the Connecticut Friends of the Library organization, 1979-84. Records document the work of the State Librarian and division heads, the State Library Board, the Library's many divisions, and defunct units such as the War Records Department. One of the largest series of this record group documents grants assistance given to public libraries through the Division of Library Development.

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Connecticut State Library, CSL

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Connecticut State Library, CSL

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Prior to the late 1960s, the Connecticut State Library did not rigorously document its acquisition of pictorial materials. This material might possibly have come to the State Library during the war records project of the late 1940s and 1950s. During the late 1960s and early 1970s, the Archives, History and Genealogy staff identified, gathered and arranged the photographic material into the Pictorial Archives and its series into Picture Groups. From the description of World War II pos...