Final Twenty-two Towns Added to the WPA Architectural Survey Collection Friday, July 27, 2012
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The Connecticut State Library is pleased to announce the completion of the WPA Architectural Survey digitization project. We have just added the final twenty-two towns to our online collection of historic homes and buildings. The newly added towns are Wallingford, Warren, Washington, Waterbury, Waterford, Watertown, Westbrook, West Hartford, West Haven, Weston, Westport, Wethersfield, Willington, Wilton, Winchester, Windham, Windsor, Windsor Locks, Wolcott, Woodbridge, Woodbury, and Woodstock.
John Barker house, Wallingford
Digitized materials include survey forms and photos from the Census of Old Buildings in Connecticut. Also known as “The WPA House Survey”, the project took place from 1934 through 1937 under the Works Progress Administration (W.P.A.). The survey forms provide descriptions of nearly 5,000 buildings. Photographs were taken of most buildings and clipped to the survey forms. Some forms also include sketches of interior and/or exterior architectural details and a brief history of the building.
Thirty-nine New Towns Added to the WPA Architectural Survey Collection Monday, May 21, 2012
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The Connecticut State Library has just added twenty-one new towns to our online collection of historic homes from the WPA Architectural Survey. The newly added towns are Plainfield, Plainville, Plymouth, Pomfret, Portland, Preston, Prospect, Putnam, Redding, Ridgefield, Rocky Hill, Roxbury, Salem, Salisbury, Scotland, Seymour, Sharon, Shelton, Sherman, Simsbury, Somers, South Windsor, Southbury, Southington, Sprague, Stafford, Stamford, Sterling, Stonington, Stratford, Suffield, Thomaston, Thompson, Tolland, Torrington, Trumbull, Union, Vernon, and Voluntown.
Gurdon Marchant house, Redding
Digitized materials include survey forms and photos from the Census of Old Buildings in Connecticut. Also known as “The WPA House Survey”, the project took place from 1934 through 1937 under the Works Progress Administration (W.P.A.). The survey forms provide descriptions of nearly 5,000 buildings. Photographs were taken of most buildings and clipped to the survey forms. Some forms also include sketches of interior and/or exterior architectural details and a brief history of the building.
Twenty-one New Towns Added to the WPA Architectural Survey Collection Tuesday, November 29, 2011
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Connecticut Hall, Yale University, New Haven
The Connecticut State Library has just added twenty-one new towns to our online collection of historic homes from the WPA Architectural Survey, they are Naugatuck, New Britain, New Canaan, New Fairfield, New Hartford, New Haven, New London, New Milford, Newington, Newtown, Norfolk, North Branford, North Canaan, North Haven, North Stonington, Norwalk, Norwich, Old Lyme, Old Saybrook, Orange and Oxford.
Digitized materials include survey forms and photos from the Census of Old Buildings in Connecticut. Also known as “The WPA House Survey”, the project took place from 1934 through 1937 under the Works Progress Administration (W.P.A.). The survey forms provide descriptions of nearly 5,000 buildings. Photographs were taken of most buildings and clipped to the survey forms. Some forms also include sketches of interior and/or exterior architectural details and a brief history of the building.
Connecticut State Library now on Historypin Thursday, October 27, 2011
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The Connecticut State Library is excited to announce that we have added our first set of images to Historypin. Historypin is a site that allows users to explore the past in a whole new way. Historic photos are pinned to a map and layered on Google street-views allowing users to see that pinned location in both the present and the past. Nick Stanhope, CEO of the British non-profit, We Are What We Do, will be speaking at the Connecticut Forum on Digital Initiatives here at the State Library on October 28, 2011 and was featured in an NPR All Things Considered episode this weekend.
The State Library, with the generous help of Historypin staff, have added a collection of WPA Architectural Survey photos from Cheshire as a pilot. We plan to add the remainder of the WPA Architectural Survey collection and will be adding the Thompson Photographs of Hartford, 1903-1906 (PG 430). The Thompson Photographs of Hartford collection are street scenes of central Hartford taken between 1903 and 1906 and really highlight the changes that have taken place in Hartford over the last 100 years.
So please check out our Historypin collection and have fun!
Ten New Towns Added To The WPA Architectural Survey Thursday, June 16, 2011
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Wesleyan University building, circa 1828-1830
The Connecticut State Library has just added ten new towns to our online collection of historic homes from the WPA Architectural Survey, they are Mansfield, Marlborough, Meriden, Middlebury, Middlefield, Middletown, Milford, Monroe, Montville and Morris.
Digitized materials include survey forms and photos from the Census of Old Buildings in Connecticut. Also known as “The WPA House Survey”, the project took place from 1934 through 1937 under the Works Progress Administration (W.P.A.). The survey forms provide descriptions of nearly 5,000 buildings. Photographs were taken of most buildings and clipped to the survey forms. Some forms also include sketches of interior and/or exterior architectural details and a brief history of the building.
Seven New Towns Added to WPA Architectural Survey Tuesday, November 2, 2010
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The Connecticut State Library has just added seven new towns to our online collection of historic homes from the WPA Architectural Survey, they are Lebanon, Ledyard, Lisbon, Litchfield, Lyme, Madison and Manchester.
Polly Norton House, Madison, Connecticut
Digitized materials include survey forms and photos from the Census of Old Buildings in Connecticut. Also known as “The WPA House Survey”, the project took place from 1934 through 1937 under the Works Progress Administration (W.P.A.). The survey forms provide descriptions of nearly 5,000 buildings. Photographs were taken of most buildings and clipped to the survey forms. Some forms also include sketches of interior and/or exterior architectural details and a brief history of the building.
New Artists Added to WPA Art Inventory Project Monday, September 27, 2010
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The Connecticut State Library has just added thirty four new artists to our online WPA Art Inventory Project.
In 1935 President Franklin D. Roosevelt established the Works Projects Administration (WPA) in order to put people back to work. For the first time in the nation’s history, the federal government hired hundreds of artists and paid them an hourly wage for art that was pleasing to the eye and that could inspire faith in democracy.
Thousands black and white photographs were taken of local WPA artwork in the 1930′s. A few years ago, with funding from the General Assembly, the Connecticut State Library made scans of many of the photographs and since then CSL staff has worked to identify each piece using the artists’ work cards, allocation cards and biographical information.
You can find the resulting artist bios with a list of all known WPA artwork at the WPA Art Inventory Project, or you can go right to the images at our WPA Art Flickr site.
If you have any questions, stories, remembrances, or recent sightings, please contact Mark Jones at mjones@cslib.org or (860) 757-6511 .
Eight New Towns Added To The WPA Architectural Survey Wednesday, June 30, 2010
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Goodwin Tavern, Hartford, Connecticut
The Connecticut State Library has just added eight new towns to our online collection of historic homes from the WPA Architectural Survey, they are Hampton, Hartford, Hartland, Harwinton, Hebron, Kent, Killingly and Killingworth.
Digitized materials include survey forms and photos from the Census of Old Buildings in Connecticut. Also known as “The WPA House Survey”, the project took place from 1934 through 1937 under the Works Progress Administration (W.P.A.). The survey forms provide descriptions of nearly 5,000 buildings. Photographs were taken of most buildings and clipped to the survey forms. Some forms also include sketches of interior and/or exterior architectural details and a brief history of the building.
Six New Towns Added To The WPA Architectural Survey Wednesday, May 26, 2010
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The Connecticut State Library has just added six new towns to our online collection of historic homes from the WPA Architectural Survey, they are Greenwich, Griswold, Groton, Guilford, Haddam and Hamden.
Governor John Winthrop house in Groton
Digitized materials include survey forms and photos from the Census of Old Buildings in Connecticut. Also known as “The WPA House Survey”, the project took place from 1934 through 1937 under the Works Progress Administration (W.P.A.). The survey forms provide descriptions of nearly 5,000 buildings. Photographs were taken of most buildings and clipped to the survey forms. Some forms also include sketches of interior and/or exterior architectural details and a brief history of the building.
Five New Towns Added to the WPA Architectural Survey Collection Tuesday, December 22, 2009
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The Connecticut State Library has just added five new towns to our online collection of historic homes from the WPA Architectural Survey, they are Farmington, Franklin, Glastonbury, Goshen and Granby.
Digitized materials include survey forms and photos from the Census of Old Buildings in Connecticut. Also known as “The WPA House Survey”, the project took place from 1934 through 1937 under the Works Progress Administration (W.P.A.). The survey forms provide descriptions of nearly 5,000 buildings. Photographs were taken of most buildings and clipped to the survey forms. Some forms also include sketches of interior and/or exterior architectural details and a brief history of the building.
