Documenting the Home Life Collections of the Connecticut Historical Society

FAIN: PA-50720-04

Connecticut Historical Society (Hartford, CT 06105-2213)
Susan P. Schoelwer (Project Director: July 2003 to December 2007)

The documentation of 3,806 artifacts of the Connecticut Historical Society's Home Life Collection, which includes furniture, clocks, fabric furnishings, metalware, ceramics and glassware that depict the history of technology and industry, the development of the decorative arts in the domestic environment, and the exchange of goods and ideas within American society from the settlement of Connecticut to the present.