University of Hartford early history collection
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Extent
5.5 Linear Feet
Arrangement
Existence and Location of Copies
Container List
Box 1: 1948-1959
Founding/University of Hartford. Early ideas, 1948
Founding/Hillyer Callboard, 6 May 1953: "Let's go campus!"
Founding/
Founding/Negotiations and purchase from Harriette Sage Gabriel, 1955-1956
Founding/
Founding/
Founding/ H committee
Founding/Hillyer's new campus, December, 1955
Founding/Hillyer’s new campus/transactions, 1955-1959
Founding/Miscellaneous, 1956-1959
Founding/Council of Community colleges/minutes, 1956-1957
Founding/university of Hartford is born/newspapers clippings, 1956
Founding/Interim committee/minutes, 1956-1957
Founding/University of Hartford founding, 1956-1959
Founding/Formation of Schools into five academic divisions: business administration, education, Engineering, Humanities and Social sciences, Natural Sciences and Mathematics, 1957
Box 2: History and photos, 1957-1967, including 21 February 1957. Documents, PHOTOS and film
Act of Incorporation, 1957 (signed copies)
Act of Incorporation, 1957 /news releases
Incorporators; Regents, 1957, 1967
University of Hartford History in Hartford Electric Light Illuminator, 1959
University of Hartford, chronology 1877-1967
Photos:
photos/Gov. Ribicoff with the heads of the three schools and Judge Schwolsky,
photos/Convocation, first, 1957
photos/Ribicoff signing bill, 1957
photos/Campus model unveiling 12 June 1958. PHOTO
photos/film/Ribicoff signing bill/8mm
photos/film/Ribicoff signing bill/video reproduction moved to shelves with other videos, see recordings database
Founding/photo/Hillyer’s new campus, 1956
Founding/photo/Paranov and Wilson on new campus, 1956
Founding/Photos/Campus preview, 11 October 1958. PHOTOS -2 folders, includes helicopter pictures, a different occasion, per Ethel Bacon.[As of March, 14, 2018 the campus preview photographs are being merged with the campus preview photographs in the Special Events collection (ARCH074).]
Fuller and Lee sign application to the Conn. State Board of Education,
Council of Community Colleges.—Interim Committee, 1956-1957
Early correspondence.—by laws, first draft.—Financial organization, 1957-59
Founding, U of H. News paper clippings, 1959
Founding; "U of H is born", newspaper clippings 1956
Hillyer•/ new campus transactions, June 1955-January 1959
Hillyer's new campus, December 1955
Paranov and Wilson on new campus 15 November 1956. PHOTOS
The first all-university convocation, 1957. With PHOTOS
The Interim Committee, 1956-1957
University of Hartford, founding, 1956-1959
November 1956. PHOTOS
University of Hartford, founding (misc.) 1956-1959
film/Gov. Ribicoff signing the bill creating the U of H. FILM 16mm(?)
U of H Building & Development Program, primary organization/flow chart [n.d.]
Report to the people of Connecticut, 1958
Report to the people of Connecticut, 1960 .,
Financial reorganization, transfer of assets, 1959-1960
Warranty deed (copy) 1969
1965 UH history in newspaper clippings, 1958-1982
Building programs, gifts, 1957-
Organization charts 1961, 1962, 1965.
Box 3: [merged with box 2 in Aug 2018]
Box 4: History
Note: there are several versions of the Alice Cooke Brown history in boxes 4 and 5. “Glimpses” is an abbreviated version.
History of the University of Hartford: The Hartford Art School, 1877.— Hillyer College, 1879.— Hartt College of Music, 1920 [by] Alice Cooke Brown, June 1, 1959. 2 copies
Appendix, History of the University of Hartford [by] Alice Cooke Brown, 1959.
Brown, Alice Cooke,/newspaper clipping with photo, 1958
Box 5: Histories, 1959-1998
Council for the Advancement of Small Colleges, 1959
Note: there are several versions of the Alice Cooke Brown history in boxes 4 and 5. “Glimpses” is an abbreviated version.
Recollections about the early history of the U of H [mainly Hillyer] by Alan S. Wilson, 1959 2 copies
Glimpses into the history of Hartford and its university, by Alice Cooke Brown, 1960. Several copies
Hoagland, Frank, interviewed by Alice Cooke Brown, 1960,/Hillver Institute,^
Some notes on the history of the University of Hartford [by] John G. Lee and Alan S. Wilson, 1965.
Notes on the early history of the University of Hartford [by] Alan S. Wilson, 1967.
Wilson, Mary, Mrs. Alan S./Transcript of an interview with Ethel Bacon on May 23, 1989
The University of Hartford [1967]
A brief background of the University of Hartford [by] Alan S. Wilson, 1969.
Memos, E. Matesky to S.J. Trachtenberg; T. Pyle to E. Matesky, on the „ , subject of a History of the University, 1977.
The history we made, memories of people who helped build the U of H , 1979.
Fellows, Douglas. Historical notes, U of H, 1982
The University of Hartford is 30, by Bice Clemow, 1986
The U of H: review & assessment of the Trachtenberg era, 1988, by T. Moran.
A University for Hartford; a University for the World, 1998, With: Zip disc.
A university is born, supplement to West Hartford News1960
History by Matesky, 1975
Pictorial History/satire, 1982
Report to the people of Connecticut, 1960
Box 6: Founders
This box includes tapes of interviews, photographs, and other memorabilia regarding the various founders. There were two groups called “founders,” the original group who met together to plan the University, and another much larger group of prominent donors and supporters.
: Founders
: Founders of the U of H, 1957
: Founders' Fund, 1958
: Founders' Fund - News and comment, 1958
: Founders' League Luncheon, 1958
: Founders' Conference, 1959
: Founders - U of H honors its founders, 1982
Board of Founders. Speakers' Committee
Box 6A: Founders
Allen, Mildred P.
Barney, Austin Dunham
Clemow, Bice - Interviewed by Dr. Alice Cooke Brown
Collins, Atwood - Interviewed by Nancy Swain
Feldman, Rabbi Abraham Jehiel
Fuller
Gibson, Raymond A. (obit.)
Lee, John G. (with obit.)
: Lee, John G. Papers (in five document cases)
Lavelle, Edward C. - The founding and early days of the University of Hartford, based on ten interviews.
Clemow, Bice (Lavelle interview)
Feldman, Rabbi Abraham Jehiel (Lavelle interview)
Fuller, Alfred Carl (Lavelle interview)
Gibson, Raymond Augustus (Lavelle interview)
Houghton, Frederick Darling (Lavelle interview)
Langton, Stephen (Lavelle interview)
Lee, John Glessner (Lavelle interview)
Paranov, Moshe (Lavelle interview)
Prentice, Mrs. T. Merrill (Lavelle interview)
Wilson, Alan Stafford (Lavelle interview)
Founders' Dinner 3 May 1958 (the first)
Founders' Dinner 1959
Founders' Dinner 1960 B70: Founders' Dinner 1963 JBTOj.. Founders' Dinner (final dinner) 1964 B75/1, B75/2: Founding and early days, interviews (audio tapes)
Founders' certificates, 1960. Signed by Barne , Fuller, Lee, and Coffin.
Founders/Founders’ Dinner/photos, 1950s
Box 7: Oral history/reel-to-reel tapes and cassettes of interviews and The Founding and Early Days of the University of Hartford based on recollections of interviewees. B75.1
Box 8: oral history/reel-to-reel tapes and cassettes of interviews at B75.2
Box 9: Founders/Individuals, miscellaneous information
Founders/Individuals/Ellsworth, Grace
Bice Clemow interview transcripts, 1977/Capen, Elizabeth Beach
Bice Clemow interview transcripts, 1977/Coffin, Vincent
Bice Clemow interview transcripts, 1977/Hyndman, Bruce
Bice Clemow interview transcripts, 1977/Johnson, Laura
Bice Clemow interview transcripts, 1977/Loy, Helen
Bice Clemow interview transcripts, 1977/Martin, Erle
Bice Clemow interview transcripts, 1977/Meinke, Kenneth/College of Basic Studies
Bice Clemow interview transcripts, 1977/Newman, John
Bice Clemow interview transcripts, 1977/Prud’homme, Hector
Bice Clemow interview transcripts, 1977/Roberts, Henry
Bice Clemow interview transcripts, 1977/Tomkins, Alan
Founders’ photos are now filed in photograph section of archives.
Watkinson School/discussion of merger with University’s School of Education, 1956
Watkinson School/Newspaper clippings
Processing Information
- Title
- Guide to the University of Hartford early history collection
- Author
- Transcribed to ArchivesSpace from word document finding aid by Tiffany Crawford in Nov. 2015, under the supervision of Sean Parke.
- Date
- 2015-11-24
- Description rules
- dacs
- Language of description
- English
Repository Details
Part of the University of Hartford Archives & Special Collections Repository
200 Bloomfield Avenue
West Hartford CT 06117 United States
860-768-4143
archives@hartford.edu