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Railroad History ArchiveWhat's New in the ArchiveOur reading room hours are Mondays through Fridays, 10a.m. to 4p.m. Please note that we will be closed Thursday and Friday, November 26 and 27, for the Thanksgiving holiday.We are proud to introduce our latest digital project, the New Haven Railroad Valuation Maps, via the UConn Libraries' Digital Mosaic at http://images.lib.uconn.edu/. This set of maps, detailed trackplans showing the railroad's property with historical information on when and from whom the property was purchased, is one of our highest use collections, created by the railroad for the Interstate Commerce Commission in 1915. Currently we have up 1184 maps from the entire collection of the original 1915 series of over 2600. The maps you see now include all the Connecticut maps (note that there are gaps in the routes -- our map collection is not absolutely complete), and about all but a handful of the Rhode Island maps. We are currently at work getting the eastern New York and Massachusetts maps to you. Many of you might have visited Connecticut History Online, a database of images from the Dodd Research Center, Mystic Seaport Museum, and the Connecticut Historical Society, since its introduction in 2002. We are pleased to announce the NEW Connecticut History Online, with many more materials, including maps, historical documents, artifacts (such as costumes), newspapers and magazines, and sound recordings and transcripts. The database also includes materials from two new partner institutions -- the Connecticut State Archives and the New Haven Museum and Historical Society. As always, the database holds hundreds of photographs of railroad stations and scenes in Connecticut. |