Browse Items (312 total)

"Hearst's Newspapers and Magazines Not Sold Here
For the Period of the War
The New Mexico Council of Defense and the Country Council of Defense of this county have coninced us that Hearst's newspapers have been anti-Bitish, un-American and…

Article describing the marine clocks built until c.1922 in the Marine Shop of the Seth Thomas Clock Company in Thomaston, CT. Seth Thomas had government contracts for marine clocks, which required special movements so they would keep correct time…

Public service announcement from Herbert Hoover's Department of Food Conservation encouraging patriotic Americans to conserve food resources for the war effort. Possibly printed in the Thomaston Express.

Inaugural Message of Governor Marcus Holcomb to the General Assembly, January Session 1919

Workers at the Landers, Frary, & Clark factory in 1919.

A mass produced and circulated warning by the Daily Times warning the public of Connecticut to report anyone suspicious.

Notables pose outside the newly installed Liberty Bond Booth in front of the Old State House to kick off the start of the Liberty Bond Drive. From l-r, Richard M. Bissell, Lt. L.D. Gibbs, former Senator Morgan G. Bulkeley, Mrs. Richard Bissell,…

This article explains the success of the national liberty chorus campaign. The article states that 30 states now had liberty chorus directors.

This song booklet contains nine different songs, including "America the Beautiful," "The Star Spangled Banner," and "America (My Country 'Tis of Thee)"