The Connecticut Historical Society, A Museum, Library, & Education Center

Greater Hartford’s
West Indians


Early American
Tavern & Inn Signs


Costumes & Textiles

Connecticut in 1836

Hartford in the 1850's

CT History Online

Augustus Washington:
Black Daguerreotypist


CT’s Currier & Ives

Connecticut in
the Jazz Age


Hartford Heroes:
Hartford Fire Dept.



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