This week’s Friday Find comes from our friends at the Middlesex County Historical Society in Middletown, Connecticut.  This fascinating pass comes from a book containing over 100 of these passes. The passes include name, residence, nationality, occupation, employer, and waterfront area the pass holder was permitted to access during World War I. A number of […]

Friday Find – Waterfront Pass

Today’s Friday Find comes from the Museum of Connecticut History. Earlier this week our intrepid curator Dave Corrigan was looking through a file cabinet that once housed the museum’s World War 1 records. In it was an envelope marked “State Council of Defense, Div. of Moving Pictures”. Inside were passes […]

Friday Find – Movie Passes

Mexican Punitive Expedition; Connecticut National Guard
This week for our Friday Find, our intrepid digital imaging technician Maritza Pagan has picked out a few of her favorites from the collection she working on. Maritza has been busy at work scanning the Dudley Photograph Collection of Hartford during World War I, 1917-1919 (PG 034). Within this collection is […]

Friday Find – Mexican Border, 1916