Connecticut History Online (CHO) is a digital collection of more than 15,000 primary sources. This collection has been here now for ten years. Have you used it? If you haven’t, it’s definitely time to try it now.
The collection focuses on digital capture of historical artifacts, including photographs, maps, broadsides, oral histories, and manuscripts. This collection documents events, people, and places of Connecticut. There are wonderful stories to uncover here for many classes and research projects.
The photograph above is a 1930 aerial view of the Pratt & Whitney Aircraft Co in East Hartford. The automobiles are parked beside the large industrial building. I didn’t know they grew tobacco in East Hartford, but in the distance we can see tobacco fields with tobacco netting and tobacco barns. (I reduced the size of the photograph; it is bigger in the collection.)
Note: Personal or educational use of all images found in CHO is permissible. The site includes detailed information on how to cite text or images. This collection and two others are freely available to us through the Connecticut State Library, local libraries, and the Department of Higher Education.
Access here: CONNECTICUT HISTORY ONLINE
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