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In August 2011, a group of 10 archivists and curators—then at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University; the Bodleian Library, University of Oxford; the British Library; the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library,…

The following is a response to the Council of Defense agreeing to serve as a detective for the Navy.
"Thomas Hewes, Esq.,
Secretary of the State Council of Defense,
State Capitol,
Hartford, Conn.
My dear Hewes:
Replying to your letter of…

Small advert with a saluting soldier in a field of flowers, next to a road. There is a car moving down the road to a resort style destination in the background.

Sheet music for the song "The Red Cross Girl," which is about a wounded soldier talking about a Red Cross nurse that he calls an angel.

Soldiers put Connecticut manufactured weapons to use after Colt received their government funding for Vickers machine gun production

While few Vickers machine guns were ready for the start of 1917, many began to reach the front lines by September…

WWI Memorial with names of Thomaston men and women who served, organized by Army, Navy, Marines, and Red Cross and Army Nurses.

Table showing demographics of metal workers in Connecticut in 1920

Women dressed in long fur coats to stay warm as they drove in open motor cars for war effort

Mrs. Buckley, wife of former Senator Bulkley and Mrs. Bissell, wife of Mr. Bissell president of Hartford Fire Insurance