Christine Pittsley


Curtiss HS2; airplane; WWI
As we here at the Connecticut State Library delve deeper into our collections we continue to find some really cool stuff. While we would love to do long posts about lots of these items, we’d never get anything else done if we did. So we’ll be highlighting some of what we […]

Friday Finds


WWI
I’ve been reading a lot about the art of World War I lately. From the recent article about Smithsonian’s WWI art collections to the 800,000 red poppies at the Tower of London to the WWI Memorial Inventory project to the Imperial War Museums Google Art Collection, the art of WWI is everywhere. […]

Art of War


Connecticut State Library is a unique place. An Italian Renaissance style building built in 1910 is home to the State Library, Archives and Museum of Connecticut History as well as the Supreme Court. Within our walls are some truly spectacular records. There’s the Matthew Grant diary, a journal of sorts kept by […]

The War Records Department