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NORWALK MUSEUM ARCHIVAL HOLDINGS
Selected Highlights

PUBLIC RECORDS

City Council Meeting Minutes, volumes 1-4, 1894 -1913
City of Norwalk Ordinances, 1895 -1913
City of Norwalk Ledger, 1912 - 1932
Borough of Norwalk Records, 1869 -1889
Index of Borough of Norwalk Records, 1872 - 1892
Borough of Norwalk Treasurer's Records, 1872 - 1892
Borough of Norwalk Bylaws, 1889 - 1893
Court of Burgess Original Charter and Records, various vols. 1836 - 1893
City of South Norwalk Finance Records, 1879 - 1897
City of South Norwalk Daybook, 1879 - 1898
City of South Norwalk Board of Registers, 1876 - 1893
City of South Norwalk Treasurer's Records, various vols. 1870 - 1913
Norwalk Probate Records, vols. 250 - 296
Connecticut State Register and Manual, various vols., 1864 - 1985
South Norwalk Police Arrest Records, various vols., 1881 - 1921
Norwalk City Directories, Price & Lee, 1874 -1875, 1879 - 1880, 1891 - 1892,
1895 - 1910, 1912 - 1919, 1921 - 1942, 1945 - 1972, 1974, 1976 - 1977, 1979 - 1980,
1982 - 1983,1985 - 1989.
Norwalk City Directory, Boyd's, 1883 - 1884
Norwalk City Directory, Hankes, 1889 - 1890
Norwalk City Directory, Carter & Co., 1886 - 1887
Norwalk City Directory, Killenberger's, 1883 - 1884
Norwalk Tax Directories, 1941 - 1962
Town of Norwalk Assessments, 1860 - 1896
Public Records of the Colony of CT, 1636 - 1776
Records of the State of Connecticut, 1776 - 1803
Records of the Colony & Plantation of New Haven
1638 - 1649, 1653 - 1665 Connecticut Census, 1670 & 1790
WWI Service Records of Connecticut, 1917 - 1920

MAPS

Detail of Adriaen Block's Figurative Map of NY & CT Coast, c. 1614
Norwalk Land records & maps, transcripts, Hunt, Malcolm P., 1651 - 1800
Map of Central American Islands & Gulf of Mexico, 1658
Map of New England & Nova Scotia, 1660
Map of Borders of Massachusetts Colony, includes Coastal Conn., 1665
(Repro.) Map of New England, NY, PA & NJ, 1685
Franquelin Map of Long Island Sound and Norwalk Islands, 1693
Map of Coastal Connecticut with harbor descriptions, 18th century
Map of NY & CT Coastline, c. 1717
Plan of the Colony of Connecticut, Moses Park, 1766
Map of New England, includes detail of Boston Harbor, c. 1774
Map of Coastal Connecticut, Fairfield - Stratford, 1775 - 1782
Map of NY, NJ, PA, & Quebec, c. 1776
Nautical Chart of Norwalk Islands, c. 1828
Map of Connecticut by T.G. Bradford, 1838
Map of Norwalk - The Principal Parts, 1847
Map of the town of Norwalk, Fairfield County, Richard Clark, 1851
Map of Norwalk from survey by George Stevens, 1858
Atlas of New York & Vicinity, Beers, Ellis & Soule, 1867
Map of Norwalk, includes Winnipauk Directory, 1867
Plan of Norwalk & South Norwalk, 1867
Map of South Norwalk & Norwalk, Vogt, C. H., 1875
Map of the City of South Norwalk, Hyde, E. B., 1876
Atlas of Connecticut, 1893
Sanborn Maps, 1925 - 1926, revised 1958
Aerial photo survey map of Norwalk, Maxwell, Hamilton, 1929
Map of Merritt Parkway - WPA Exhibit, c. 1930
Atlas of Fairfield County, 1931; 1942
Maps of Fairfield County, 1936
Aerial photo of South Norwalk & Harbor, c. 1940
Justin Gruelle Mural Map, c. 1956
New map of Norwalk, incl. street names,
Price & Lee, mid 20th century


PHOTOGRAPHS

More than 10,000 photographs and 600 post cards pertaining to Norwalk and its residents from mid-eighteenth century to the present.

BUSINESS RECORDS

Various DAYBOOKS, LEDGERS, APPRAISALS, etc., from area businesses. Selected highlights include:

Silvermine Sawmill, Store, and Cider Mill, 1861 - 1866
First School Society in Norwalk, 1799 - 1847
Norwalk High School Cafeterial Account, 1926 - 1933
Norwalk Hotel Register, 1886
Beard, Algernon, 15 vols., 1821 - 1870 (General Store)
Quintard, E., & Sons, 1874 - 1886 (Furniture Mfg. & Undertaking)
Taylor, Mary Marvin/Marvin Bros., 1885 - 1894 (Farming)
Cook, Thomas, 1841 -1857 (Real Estate & Farming)
Hubbell & Bantas, 1839 - 1840 (Hat Mfg.)
Lockwood, E., & Sons, 14 vols., 1796 - 1842 (General Store & Shipping)
Norwalk Lock Company Price Lists, 1866 -1909


SCHOOLS

Norwalk High School Yearbooks, 1917 - 1980
Central Catholic High School, 1985, '86, '88
Briggs High School Yearbook, 2003


NEWSPAPERS

Norwalk Gazette, 1818 - 1899
Norwalk Hour, 1936, 1938 - 956
Gleason's Pictorial , vol. 6, Jan. - July 1854


ADDITIONAL SOURCES

Norwalk Headstone Inscriptions, Charles, Hale, 1937
Beth Israel Synagogue, 50th Anniversary Commemorative History, 1956
List of Church Records in the Connecticut State Library, 1976
Norwalk Hour, 300th Anniversary Edition, 1951
Norwalk Tercentenary Program, 1651 - 1951


ASSORTED EPHEMERA

Various travelogues, diaries, military records, Bibles, hymnals, cookbooks, autograph books, bridal gift books, personal letters, and manuscripts. A very selected list follows: Military diary from Floyd T. Rusco to Norwalk friends, c. 1860
Clinton Encampment Records, 1827
WWII letters from H. Kendrick
Julia B. Lockwood Travel Diary from European school trip, 1902
Bridal Gift Registry, 1915


GENEALOGIES

Abbot
Arnold, Redway & Earle
Benedict
Betts
Bouton, Boughton & Farnham
Church
Comstock
Ely
Fillow
Fitch
Hanford
Hertz
Hill & Hieland
Howard
Hoyt, Haight & Hight
Hubbell, Hubble, Hubbel
Isaacs
Keeler
Lockwood
Mather
Nash
Neslines
Patrick, Partrick
Quintard
Raymond
Reed, Read
Resseguie
Ryan
Scribner
Selleck & Peck
Seymour
St. John & Harries
Stevens
Taylor
Tolles
Trowbridge
Whitney