About the Digital Collections

The following 3 collections are currently searchable through this page. In the near future most of the content of these collections, with a few exceptions, will be searchable through the “Find Articles” search box on the iCONN search page.

Connecticut History Online (CHO) is a digital collection of over 15,000 digital primary sources, together with associated interpretive and educational material. Now in its tenth year, CHO is embarking on a collaboration with the Encyclopedia of Connecticut History Online (ECHO) to serve the needs of scholars, K-12 and post-secondary teachers and students, genealogists, and the general public. This new initiative builds upon a very successful collaboration of libraries and museums carried out in two IMLS National Leadership grant-funded phases (1999-2007) that focused on digital capture of historical artifacts, including photographs, maps, broadsides, oral histories, manuscripts and oral histories. These document events, people, and places that are part of the fabric of Connecticut and American social, business, political, educational, cultural, and civic life.

http://www.cthistoryonline.org/

Connecticut State Library's Digital Collections materials come from the Connecticut State Library, and the State Archives, and include court documents, law and legal materials, photographs of buildings and structures, farms, roads and bridges, and more. The documents and photographs are representative of the history and genealogy of Connecticut, and the business of state government and range from 1631 to the present day.

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Treasures of Connecticut Libraries is a joint project of the Connecticut State Library and the Library Connection Inc. network.

The collections of the Archbishop O'Brien Library at St. Thomas Seminary, Bristol Public Library, Farmington Library, Guilford Free Library, Hartford Public Library, Lucy Robbins Welles Library in Newington, and the West Hartford Public Library currently comprise the "Treasures" collection. Collection items include historical atlases, photographs, postcards and more... New items from CT libraries are added on an ongoing basis.

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