Connecticut in World War 1

Sharing History/Preserving Memories

Connecticut State Council of Defense

WWI; cookbooks; receipts — 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. […]

Friday Finds – Food Conservation

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September 8, 1918 was an important day in the effort to mobilize Connecticut residents for the Great War. On that day, Governor Marcus H. Holcomb and the Connecticut Council of Defense organized the most audacious patriotic celebration held during the duration of World War I. The heart of the celebration […]

Newspaper Digitization: September 8, 1918, the War Pilgrimage to Lebanon

in Newspapers tagged Aubrey L. Maddock / Connecticut State Council of Defense / Marcus H. Holcomb / newspapers

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

in Connecticut Stories / Friday Find tagged Connecticut State Council of Defense / movies / soldiers