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The first two pages of the item are also discussing Ridgefield and the War, but the image had been damaged and is partially illegible.

Hartford Ct
Feb. 4, 1918
American Council of Defense
Gentlemen,
Owing that I am a American citizen. I think it is my duty to inform you that a boy named Francine Quigley 70 Vanblock Ave. city. is tearing down quite a number of those zone warning…

Children's branch of the Hartford Chapter of the Red Cross roll bandages and sew bags at the Red Cross Annex

The first Colgate clock was positioned on the roof of the factory in Jersey City in 1908. Seth Thomas Clocks of Thomaston, CT designed and manufactured the clock and the one that replaced it in 1924.

An advertisement for the Colt 1911 which was used by the US Army during World War I.

A advertisement by weapons maker, Colt Manufacturing Company.

Colt Armory in 1906, located in Hartford, Connecticut.

A view of the Colt Armory building in Hartford, Connecticut in 1906

An article from a 1916 issue of the Hartford Courant, describing the government purchase of over 4,000 Vicker Machine Rifles from the Colt Company.

Due to the increased demand for the Colt Vickers machine gun, Colt expanded it's factory, hired…