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Daigon (Ruth) Papers    Finding Aid

1966-1986
3.75 linear feet
Correspondence, personal papers, manuscripts, notebooks, publications.
Collection Number: MSS 1970-0004
The collection consists of nearly two decades of poetry by Daigon, including some correspondence with publishers.

Davis (Charlotte M.) Papers    Finding Aid

undated, 1794-1960
.75 linear feet
Correspondence.
Collection Number: MSS 1996-0006
The collection consists of materials that primarily document the lives and concerns of educated middle class young women of the mid-nineteenth century.

Davis and Geck Company Records    Finding Aid

undated, 1909-1997
14.5 linear feet
Publications, floorplans, newsletters.
Collection Number: MSS 1998-0297
Company specializing in surgical sutures based in Danbury, Connecticut. Records include histories of the company, promotional literature, and newsletters.

Dawson (Fielding) Papers    Finding Aid



Correspondence, manuscripts.
Collection Number: MSS 1997-0003
This collection has not yet been organized for unassisted research use. Researchers wishing to access this collection must make prior arrangements with the Curator before visiting Archives & Special Collections at the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center.

Deep River Lace Company Records    Finding Aid

1922-1981
35.5 linear feet
Administrative records, financial records.
Collection Number: MSS 1990-0002
Lace patterns, business and financial records, and sample books of a lace manufacturer of Deep River, Connecticut.

dePaola (Tomie) Collection    Finding Aid

n.d., 1949-1999
70 linear feet
Correspondence, Artwork, Realia.
Collection Number: MSS 1999-0033
The Tomie dePaola collection contains Tomie's art-work, sketch books and paintings from the beginning of his career, as well as many different editions from each book he wrote or illustrated, including foreign editions.

Di Prima (Diane) Papers    Finding Aid

n.d., 1934-1990
6 linear feet
Correspondence, books, personal papers, manuscripts, publications, photographs, audiotapes, fliers (printed matter).
Collection Number: MSS 1991-0042
The collection contains primarily correspondence between DiPrima and colleagues, friends and family. Also included are journals and diaries, poetry and a manuscript of Memoirs of a Beatnik.

Diaries Collection    Finding Aid

1851-1943
1 linear foot
Diaries.
Collection Number: MSS 1984-0029
Artificial collection of diaries all having a Connecticut relationship.

Diocesan Labor Institute Records    Finding Aid

n.d., 1944-1973
4 linear feet
Correspondence, minutes, reports.
Collection Number: MSS 1984-0030
Founded in 1942 to instruct workers on Catholic social philosophy and trade unionism. Collection consists of correspondence to and from the institute, minutes of meeting of the directors of the Diocesan Labor Institute of Hartford, institute and monthly chapter reports, subject files, publications, and photographs of institute lecturers.

Dodd (Thomas J.) Papers    Finding Aid

1919-1971
270 linear feet
Legal records, correspondence, photographs.
Collection Number: MSS 1994-0065
The collection illuminates the diverse public life of a self-styled crusader. The collection consists primarily of material from Dodd's Senate years (1959-71) and the Nuremberg war crimes trial before the International Military Tribunal from 1945-46.

Dolan (Josephine A.) Nursing History Collection    Finding Aid

n.d., 1833-1993
6.5 linear feet
Correspondence, articles, publications.
Collection Number: MSS 1995-0028
Josephine Dolan was a nationally recognized nurse educator who served as the first professor of nursing at the University of Connecticut. The collection contains historical research materials including a significant collection on American Civil War Nursing.

Donegan (Edward F.) Papers    Finding Aid

n.d., 1916-1982
3 linear feet
Blueprints, Correspondence, Bylaws, Financial Records.
Collection Number: MSS 2005-0078
Papers collected or created by Edward F. Donegan, a conductor for the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad from 1941 to 1967. The materials include labor contracts, conductor fare cards and instructions, safety bulletins, diagrams of the railroad's interlocking stations along the right-of-way, and photographs.

Dorn (Ed) Papers    Finding Aid

n.d., 1956-1993
28 linear feet
Correspondence, personal papers, manuscripts, notebooks, publications. Photographs.
Collection Number: MSS 1990-0049
Correspondence to Edward Dorn from 1956-1993 comprises over half of the collection. Includes extensive notes, drafts, and rewrites of Edward Dorn’s poetry and prose.

Driscoll (Jeremiah J.) Collection    Finding Aid

1951-1953
.1 linear feet
Photocopies.
Collection Number: MSS 2000-0077
Driscoll was President of the Royal Industrial Union at Royal Typewriter Company. The collection consists of a photocopy of scrapbook.

Driscoll (John J.) Papers    Finding Aid


16 linear feet
Correspondence, scrapbooks, photographs.
Collection Number: MSS 1987-0025
This collection has not yet been organized for unassisted research use. Researchers wishing to access this collection must make prior arrangements with the Curator before visiting Archives & Special Collections at the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center. Papers of John J. Driscoll, labor leader in the Connecticut state AFL-CIO. Materials include photographs, framed certificates of appreciation, day books, published material (newspaper and magazine articles, labor literature), and scrapbooks. Also includes some legal papers created by Bridgeport, Connecticut, judge Margaret Driscoll, John's wife.

Dumaine (Pierre Thomas) Papers    Finding Aid

1952-1955
2 linear feet
Scrapbook and photograph albums.
Collection Number: MSS 2002-0080
Businessman involved with the development of the Mack "FCD" RailBus who served as president of the New England Transportation Company, a bus and trucking company based in Boston, Massachusetts, in the early to mid-1950s. Papers include a scrapbook of newspaper clippings featuring information about Dumaine's work for the NET Co. and a mechanic's strike in 1953; a proxy fight between Dumaine's brother F.C. Dumaine, Jr. and Patrick McGinnis for control of the New Haven Railroad in 1954; and a move by Patrick McGinnis, president of the NHRR in the mid-1950s, to merge the New Haven Railroad with the Boston and Maine Railroad in 1955. Also includes two photograph albums of photographs of a New Haven Railroad commuter car and a New England Transportation Company bus.

Dyer (Jane) Papers    Finding Aid

n.d., 1986-2000
6 linear feet
Manuscripts, artwork and correspondence.
Collection Number: MSS 1991-0043
The collection contains materials pertaining to the development and creation of 14 books.