We have a really special Friday Find today. This one comes from a member of our staff who is retiring after more than 30 years with the Connecticut State Library. Mary Engels has been the Director of the Middletown Library Service Center for 28 of those years and today is […]
Friday Find
This weeks Friday Find comes to us, sort of, from Alan Learned, the grandson of WWI veteran Corporal Merritt Learned of Meriden. A few weeks ago, Alan alerted me to a collection of photos and a diary from a Connecticut soldier that was listed on eBay. I promptly let our […]
Friday Find – Corporal Ernest F. Schmith
This week’s Friday Find comes from the Connecticut State Library, State Archives and Museum of Connecticut History collections. The Museum has this amazing collection of advertisements for Connecticut made products from all over the world. Many of the products that were used during the war, by soldiers and housewives alike, were manufactured here. […]