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The following are books, magazines, pamphlets, and other types of material, which are on the “Connecticut Shelf” at the Hubbell Center in Des Moines, IA. They are listed by author or issuing agency or title if no author is indicated.

Abbott, Morris W.  The Bridge on the Wepawaug.  Milford, CT, 1972.  unpaged.

American Revolution Bicentennial Commission of Connecticut.  Bicentennial Gazette.  Various issues.

American Revolution Bicentennial Commission of Connecticut.  The Bicentennial in Connecticut.  1976.  48 pp.

Anderson, Beverly.  Guilford Roots.  1990, 75 pp.

Andrews, Charles M.  The River Towns of Connecticut; a study of Wethersfield, Hartford, and Windsor.  1990 reprint of 1889 edition, 128 pp.

Archibald, Warren Seymour.  Thomas Hooker.  Tercentenary Commission of the State of Connecticut, 1933, 19 pp.

Arrowheads to Atoms, the Story of Millstone Point.  1998, 15 pp.

Bachman, Ben.  Upstream; A Voyage on the Connecticut River.  1985, 217 pp.

Bailey, James Montgomery and Susan Benedict Hill.  History of Danbury, Conn., 1684-1896.  1896, 583 pp.

Baldwin, Alice Mary.  The Clergy of Connecticut in Revolutionary Days.  Tercentenary Commission of the State of Connecticut, 1936, 31 pp.

Baldwin, Ernest H.  Stories of Old New Haven.  1902, 203 pp.

Barnstable at 350; commemorative booklet of the town of Barnstable.  1989, 48 pp.

Barrow, Thomas C.  Connecticut Joins the Revolution.  1973, 45 pp.

Bartlett, Ellen Strong.  The Meeting House of the First Church of Christ in New Haven.  1954, 36 pp.

Bates, Albert Carlos.  The Charter of Connecticut.  1932, 72 pp.

Beach, E. Merrill.  Trumbull: Church and Town, 1730-1955.  1972, 175 pp.

Bedini, Silvio A.  Ridgefield in Review.  1958, 396 pp.

Bedini, Silvio.  “A Skirmish in America: a rare etching and the Battle of Ridgefield” in the Connecticut Historical Society Bulletin, Spring, 1987, p. 61-102.

Betz, F. Lee, comp.  Fifth Connecticut Regiment Continental Line; a brief history of the regiment.  Ridgefield, CT, 1978. unpaged

The Birth of the Business Computer; Remington-Rand in Rowayton, 1948-1962.  53+pp, photos.

Bixby, William.  Connecticut: A New Guide.  1974, 386 pp.

Boyd, Julian Parks.  The Susquehannah Company: Connecticut's Experiment in Expansion.  1935, 48 pp. 

Boyle, Joseph Lee.  Firecake and Water; the Connecticut Infantry at the Valley Forge Encampment.  Clearfield Company, 1999, 232 pp.

Bridgeport street guide.  1967, 79 pp.  Also Fairfield, Southport, Stratford.

Brilvitch, Charles.  Walking through History; the seaports of Black Rock and Southport.  1977, 52 pp.

Buckley, William Edward.  The Hartford Convention.  Tercentenary Commission of the State of Connecticut. 1934, 29 pp.

Builders of Bristol.  1986, 64 pp.

Calder, Isabel MacBeath.  The New Haven Colony.  1934, 301 pp.

Callahan, North.  Connecticut's Revolutionary War Leaders.  1973, 52 pp. 

Case, James R.   An Account of Tryon's Raid on Danbury in April, 1777, also the Battle of Ridgefield and the Career of Gen. David Woodster.  1927, 56 pp.

Census Bureau.  Connecticut Census, 1790, 1810.

Child, Elizabeth L.  An Old Landmark, being an account of The Fairfield Academy, Fairfield, Connecticut, 1804-1927.  45 pp.

Collier, Christopher.  Connecticut in the Continental Congress.  1973, 78 pp.

Connecticut Ancestry Society, Inc.  Connecticut Ancestry.  Various issues.

Connecticut Forest and Park Association.  Connecticut Walk Book.  Tenth ed., 1973.  185 pp.

Connecticut Historic Preservation Plan.  1970, 112 pp.

Connecticut Historical Society.   Annual Reports, Bulletins, etc., various dates.

Connecticut Historical Society.  Collections, Vol. IX, 1903, French-Indian War Rolls, 1755-1757, Vol. 1.

Connecticut Historical Society.  Collections, Vol. XXI, 1924, Wyllys Papers, 1590-1796.

Connecticut Historical Society.  Collections, Vol. XXII, 1928, Records of the Particular Court of Connecticut, 1639-1663, 302 pp.

Connecticut Historical Society.  Collections, Vol. XXIV, 1932, Hoadly Memorial, 210 pp.

Connecticut History.  The Association for the Study of Connecticut History, 1975, 65 pp.

Connecticut in Profile: Greater Hartford.  1982, 160 pp.

Connecticut League of Historical Societies.  League Bulletin, various issues.

Connecticut Men in the Army, Navy and Marine Corps of the United States in the Spanish-American War, Philippine Insurrection and China Relief Expedition, from April 21, 1898 to July 4, 1904, 1919.  221 pp.

The Connecticut River.  Northeast Utilities Service Company, 1998.  28 pp.

Connecticut State Records.  Spine titles: Records of the Colony and Plantation of New Haven, 1638-1649; Connecticut Vital Records, New Haven, Part 1, 1649-1750; Colonial Records of Connecticut, 1768-1772; Records of the State of Connecticut, 1778-1780; Records of the State of Connecticut, 1789-92.

Connecticut State Register and Manual.  1964, 780 pp.

Connecticut.  Tercentenary Commission of the State of Connecticut.  The Tercentenary Pamphlet Series and its Contributors., 1936. 22 pp.

Connecticut Trust for Historic Preservation. Connecticut Preservation News. Various issues.

Craig, Robert J.  Historic Houses of Connecticut Open to the Public.  1963, 64 pp.

Croffut, W.A.  The Military and Civil History of Connecticut during the War of 1861-65.  1868, 891 pp.

Cruson, Daniel.  Images of America: Newtown.  Arcadia Publishing, 1997, 2000, 128 pp., photographs.

Cummin, Katharine Hewitt.  Connecticut Militia General: Gold Selleck Silliman.  1980, 100 pp.

Danenberg, Elsie N.  Naval History of Fairfield County Men in the Revolution.  1977, 202 pp.

Danenberg, Elsie Nicholas.  The Story of Bridgeport, 1836-1936.  1936, 176 pp.

The Darien Historical Society Annual.  1974, 1980, 1981, l983, 1984.

Darien Observed; a guide for our future heritage.  1980.

Darien, Our Town.  League of Women Voters of Darien, 1966, 80 pp.

Davis, Ann Soper, ed.  Kent 1776; a Connecticut town two centuries ago.  1976, 112 pp.

Delaney, Edmund T.  The Connecticut Shore.  1969, 125 pp.

Deming, Dorothy.  Settlement of Litchfield County.  Tercentenary Commission of the State of Connecticut, 1933, 16 pp.

Deming, Dorothy.  The Settlement of the Connecticut Towns.  Tercentenary Commission of the State of Connecticut, 1933, 75 pp.

Destler, Chester.  Connecticut: The Provisions State.  1973, 58 pp.

Donahue, Barbara.  Farmington; New England Town Through Time.  1989, 174 pp.

Edith Newton's New Milford.  1979, 87 pp.

(Fairfield, CT) Ye Olde Towne of Fairfield.  1935 59 pp.

Fairfield Connecticut, 1639-1964.  unpaged.

Fairfield, Connecticut Tercentenary, 1639-1939. 1940, 77 pp.

Fairfield, Connecticut, 350 years.  1989, 64 pp.

Fairfield County; Bicentennial Issue, 1776-1976.  152 pp.

Fairfield Historical Society. Annual Report, 1916, 1981-1982, 1982-1983.

Farnham, Thomas J.  Fairfield; the biography of a community.  1988, 307 pp.

Feinstein, Estelle F.  Stamford from Puritan to Patriot, 1641-1774.  1976. 236 pp.

Foltz, Anne-Marie and Cynthia Pincus.  Enjoying New Haven; a guide to the area.  Third ed., 1968.  119 pp.

Gannett, Henry.  A Geographic Dictionary of Connecticut and Rhode Island.  1978 reprint of 1894 ed., 31 pp.

Grant, Charles S.  Democracy in the Connecticut Frontier Town of Kent.  1972 reprint of the 1961 edition.  227 pp.

Grant, Ellsworth S.  The Miracle of Connecticut.  1992.  328 pp.

Grant, Ellsworth S.  They Gave Us Liberty.  No date, 40 pp.  Prominent early Connecticut citizens.

Guilford Colony Tercentenary Celebration. 1939, 134 pp.

Guilford Founders' Family Tree and Their Descendants Still Living in Guilford, 1989. 24 pp.

Hartford.  First Church of Christ.  Historical Catalogue of the First Church in Hartford, 1633-1885.  Published by the Church, 1885.  274 pp.

Hartford Street Guide.  1964.  98 pp.

Hayes, John T.  Connecticut's Revolutionary Cavalry: Sheldon's Horse.  1975. 93 pp.

Haynes, Williams.  Connecticut's Own Major; a profile of John Mason (1600-1672).  Pequot Press, 1955.  13 pp.

Hayward, Marjorie F.  The East Side of New Haven Harbor.  1938.  86 pp.

Hempstead, Joshua.  Diary of Joshua Hempstead of New London, Connecticut, covering a period of forty-seven years from September, 1711, to November, 1758.  1970 reprint of 1901 edition, 750 pp.

The Henry Whitfield House, Guilford, Connecticut, 1970.  32 pp.

Highways & Byways of Connecticut.  1947.  343 pp.

History of Grove Street Cemetery, New Haven, Connecticut.

Hoadly, Charles J.  Records of the Colony or Jurisdiction of New Haven.  1858.  626 pp.

Hooker, Roland Mather.  Boundaries of Connecticut.  Tercentenary Commission of the State of Connecticut.  1933.  38 pp.

Hooker, Roland Mather.  The Spanish Ship Case; a troublesome episode for Connecticut, 1752-1758.  Tercentenary Commission of the State of Connecticut.  1934.  34 pp.

Hoopes, Penrose R.  Early Clockmaking in Connecticut.  Tercentenary Commission of the State of Connecticut.  1934, 26 pp.

Hosley, William.  By Their Markers Ye Shall Know Them; a chronicle of the history and restorations of Hartford's ancient burying ground.  1994, 173 pp.

Hurd, D.  Hamilton.  History of Fairfield County, Connecticut.  1881, 878 pp.

Ifkovic, John W.  Connecticut's Nationalist Revolutionary: Jonathan Trumbull, Junior.  1977, 101 pp.

Isham1965 reprint of 1900 ed., 303 pp.

Jacobus, Donald Lines.  List of Officials Civil, Military, and Ecclesiastical of Connecticut Colony, from March 1636 through 11 October 1677 and of New Haven Colony throughout its separate existence also soldiers in the Pequot War who then or subsequently resided within the present bounds of Connecticut.  1989 reprint of 1935 ed., 65 pp.

Jones, Dick.  Black Rock: a bicentennial picture book; a visual history of the Old Seaport of Bridgeport, Connecticut: 1644-1976.  1976, 140 pp.

Keith, Elmer D.  Some Notes on Early Connecticut Architecture.  1976, 48 pp. 

Kemp, Thomas Jay.  Connecticut Researcher's Handbook.  1981, 755 pp.

Knox, Grace Louise and Barbara B. Ferris.  Some Connecticut Nutmeggers Who Migrated.  1988, 318 pp.  Brief genealogical data on People born in CT from the early 1700s to the early 1800s who migrated to other states.

Lee, W. Storrs.  The Yankees of Connecticut.  1957, 301 pp.

Litchfield, Connecticut, 250th Anniversary, 1719-1969.  1969, 110 pp.

Lobozza, Carl.  Norwalk, Connecticut; Pictures from the Past.  1974, 80 pp.

Lobozza, Carl.  Stamford, Connecticut; Journey through Time.  1971, 80 pp.

Lockwood, Helen.  Two Hundred Seventy-Five Years; the Story of the United Congregational Church of Bridgeport, 1945-1970.  1970, 236 pp.

Love, William DeLoss.  The Colonial History of Hartford.  1974, 369 pp.

McCulloch, Sarah Brown.  Guilford: a Walking Guide.  The Green and Neighboring Streets, 1989, 79 pp.

McDevitt, Robert.  Connecticut Attacked: A British Viewpoint, Tryon's Raid on Danbury.  1974, 76 pp.

Marble, Annie Russell.  The Hartford Wits.  Tercentenary Commission of the State of Connecticut.  1936, 29 pp.

Marcus, Edward, ed.  A New Canaan Private in the Civil War; Letters of Justus M. Silliman, 17th Connecticut Volunteers.  1984, 114 pp.

Marcus, Ronald, ed.  Stamford Revolutionary War Damage Claims.  1969, 83 pp.

Mason, H.F. Randolph.  Historic Houses of Connecticut Open to the Public.  Connecticut League of Historical Societies, Inc.  Pequot Press, 1963.  64 pp.

Mead, Edgar T., Jr.  The House on Lot and Drake's Corner.  1971.  unpaged.

The Merritt Parkway, The New Canaan Historical Society Annual, 1990-1991. 51 pp.

Moe, William C. H.  Guilford; a Part of New Haven Colony, July 6, 1643-December 14, 1664.  1939.  14 pp.

Moe, William C. H.  Henry Whitfield, Father of Guilford Pioneers.  1934.  12 pp.

New Canaan Historical Society.  Annual.  1955, 1959, 1960, 1965.

New Haven Colony Historical Society.  Journal,  Annual Report, 1972.

Niven, John.  Connecticut Hero: Israel Putnam.  1977.  101 pp.

Norwalk Bicentennial, 1776-1976.  1976.  100 pp.

Norwalk, CT. 28th Anniversary Roster of Buckingham Post No. 12, Department of Conn., G.A.R. and Buckingham W.R.C.  Auxiliary to the Post.  February 25, 1908.  31+ pp.

Noyes, Gertrude.  The Savings Bank of New London at 150, 1827-1977.  1977.  110 pp.

Parker, Wyman W.  Connecticut's Colonial and Continental Money.  1976.  52 pp.

Partridge, Helen.  Easton - Its History.  1972.  248 pp.

Perry, Kate E.  The Old Burying Ground of Fairfield, Conn.  Reprint of 1882 ed., 241 pp.

A Pictorial History of Shelton, Connecticut.  1987.  200 pp.

Platt, Philip S., ed.  Madison's Heritage; Historical Sketches of Madison, Connecticut.  1964.  296 pp.

Potter, Rockwell Harmon.  Hartford's First Church.  1932.  158 pp.

Prendergast, William J.  Exploring Connecticut.  1965. 

Record of Service of Connecticut Men in the Army and Navy of the United States during the War of the Rebellion.  1889.  1071 pp.

Rommel, John G.  Connecticut's Yankee Patriot: Roger Sherman.  1979.  66 pp.

Rosenberry, Lois Kimball Mathews.  Migrations from Connecticut Prior to 1800.  Tercentenary Commission of the State of Connecticut, 1934.  36 pp.

Roth, David M., ed.  Connecticut History and Culture; an historical overview and resource guide for teachers.  1985.  555 pp.

Roth, David M. and Freeman Meyer.  From Revolution to Constitution; Connecticut, 1763-1818.  1975.  111 pp.

Schenck, Elizabeth Hubbell.  The History of Fairfield; Fairfield County, Connecticut, 2 volumes, 1889 and 1905.

Schott, Nancy E.  The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records; Fairfield, 1639-1850; Farmington, 1645-1850.  1998.  379 pp.

Scott, Kenneth & Rosanne Conway, comp.  Genealogical Data from Colonial New Haven Newspapers, 1755-1775.  1979, 547 pp.

Sellers, Helen Earle.  Connecticut Town Origins; their names, boundaries, early histories and first families.  1973 reprint of 1942 ed., 96 pp.

Seymour, Mabel.  A Lawyer of Kent: Barzillai Slosson and His Account Books, 1794-1812.  Tercentenary Commission of the State of Connecticut.  1935.  35 pp.

The Shoreline Guide.  Essex, 1963.  96 pp.

Sinnott, Edmund Ware.  The Meeting House of the First Church of Christ in New Haven, Connecticut, Center Church, 1814-1960.  1960.  30 pp.

Sloane, Eric.  Diary of an Early American Boy: Noah Blake 1805.  1962.  108 pp.

Some Historic Sites of Litchfield, Connecticut.  1933.  14 pp.

Souvenir of the Centennial Exhibition or, Connecticut's Representation at Philadelphia, 1876, 1877, 340 pp.

Stevens, Thomas A.  Potapoug Quarterly, the First Settlers of Essex, Connecticut.  1984.  64 pp.

Stiles, Henry R.  The History of Ancient Wethersfield.  1975 facsimile of the 1904 edition, Vol. II, Genealogy and Biography.  946 pp.

Stiles, Henry R.  The History of Ancient Windson.  1976 facsimile of the 1892 ed., 2 volumes.

Stonington Tricentennial, Souvenir Program, August 6-27.  1949.  28 pp.

Talcott, Mary K.  The Original Proprietors, Society of the Descendants of the Founders of Hartford, Inc.  1986 copy of 1886 edition.

Taylor, John M.  Roger Ludlow, the Colonial Lawmaker.  1900.  166 pp.

Taylor, John M.  The Witchcraft Delusion in Colonial Connecticut, 1647-1697.  1989 reprint ed.  172 pp.

Todd, Charles Burr.  In Olde Connecticut; being a record of quaint, curious and romantic happenings there in colonial times and later.  1906.  244 pp.

Town of Newtown.  Annual Report.  1976.  60 pp.

Trecker, Janice Law.  Preachers, Rebels and Traders; Connecticut 1818 to 1865.  1975.  95 pp.

Tyler, John W.  Connecticut Loyalists.  1977.  135 pp.

Van Dusen, Albert E.  Connecticut; a fully illustrated history of the state from the Seventeenth Century to the present.  Random House, 1961.  470 pp.

Van Hoosear, David Herman.  Annals of Wilton: Vol. 1: Wilton Localities.  1940.  44 pp.

Van Hoosear, David H.  A Complete Copy of the Inscriptions Found on the Monuments, Headstones, etc. in the Oldest Cemetery in Norwalk, Conn.  1895.

Wall, Patricia Q.  In Search of the Past; A Self-Guided Tour of Darien.  Darien Historical Society, Inc., 1986.  20 pp.

(Wallingford, CT)  From These Roots; A Bicentennial History of a New England Town.  1977.  90 pp.

Wallingford Historical Society.  Some Historic Homes of Wallingford, Connecticut.  1977.  unpaged.

Walsh, J. Leigh.  Connecticut Pioneers in Telephony.  1950.  444 pp.

Warfle, Richard T.  Connecticut's Western Colony: The Susquehannah Affair.  1979.  60 pp.

Welsh, Glenna M.  The Proprietors of Ridgefield, Connecticut.  1976.  188 pp.

White, Glenn E.  Folk Tales of Connecticut, Vol. II.  1981.  62 pp.

White Hills Civic Club, Inc.  History Committee.  The White Hills of Shelton.  1968.  63 pp.

Wicks, Edith M. and Virginia H. Olson.  Stamford's Soldiers; Genealogical Biographies of Revolutionary War Patriots from Stamford, Connecticut.  1976.  407 pp.

Travel brochures and maps of Connecticut towns and historic sites.

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