The following collections may be researched in the Hartford History Center. These materials do not circulate. Links are available anywhere you have internet access.
Boyd Hinds Papers
Call Number MS 1970 HINDS
Matched words: Discrimination in housing.
Map collection
Call Number MS 1838 MAP
Matched words: Hartford (Conn.). Department of Housing and Community Development
Hartford City and Town Clerk archives, 1639-2010
Call Number MS 1639 HARTFORD
Matched words: Housing -- Connecticut -- Hartford.
Hartford Public Library scrapbook collection
Call Number MS 1850 SCRAPBOOKS, volumes 16 - 17
Matched words: Housing. (1930s and 1940s, slum clearance)
A community reference website maintained by the Hartford Public Library from January 2004 – October 31, 2013.
Matched words: Housing -- Connecticut -- Hartford -- Statistics.
Hartford City and Community Organization Reports:
Capitol Region Planning Agency
Citizen’s Research Education Network – Neighborhood Profiles
Commission on the City Plan
Community Renewal Team – News, Annual Reports
The Court of Common Council
Department of Housing and Community Development. Strategic Planning Division.
Governor’s Task Force on Housing, 1972
Guide to Future Renewal, 1961-1962
Hartford Consolidated Community Development Plan
Hartford Housing Authority Reports
Hartford Housing Authority Photographs
Hartford Human Relations Commission
Hartford Redevelopment Agency
Hartford Urban Research Committee
Housing Director’s Annual Reports
Neighborhood Planning, 1961-1978
United States Census Records, 1970, 1980, 1990, 2000
Time Capsules:
Charter Oak Terrace Time Capsule
Bellevue Square Time Capsule
City Newspapers:
The Hartford Courant (online database)
The Hartford Times (Subject card catalog for 1950 – 1978, microfilm)
Neighborhood and Community Newspapers:
Blue Hills News
El Extra News
The Hartford News
The Hartford Inquirer
The Hill Ink (Asylum Hill Incorporated)
El Imparcial
North End Agent’s
El Periodico
South End Community Services News Bulletin
Southside Neighborhood News
El Observador
Vanguardia
The Westender
Hartford Times Photograph Collection
Housing / Housing, Box 33
Housing / Redevelopment, Boxes 37, 38
Housing / Housing discrimination, Box 85
Marchers for better North End (Hartford) housing, West Hartford, 1967
Pugliese, S. Robert, Hartford Times photograph (digitized)
The following videos may be watched wherever you have internet access.
Problem and commitment (video in two parts, with transcript): interview with Hartford government and business leaders about community issues
Biggs, Julian (Creator)
Senora Nunez y sus vecinos (video in three parts, in Spanish, with English subtitles): interview with Senora Nunez of Hartford and her neighbors
Biggs, Julian (Creator)
Tom Simons speaks about Hartford (video in two parts, with transcript)
Biggs, Julian (Creator)
Una conversacion (video in two parts, in Spanish, with English subtitles)
Biggs, Julian (Creator)
Colin Bennett: a realtor speaks (video and transcript)
Biggs, Julian (Creator)
A Common ground (video in two parts, and transcript)
Biggs, Julian (Creator)
Community meets (video in four parts, and transcript): Hartford residents and community leaders meet in aftermath of Hartford riots, 1969
Biggs, Julian (Creator)
Florence Street recreation (video)
Biggs, Julian (Creator)
These subject files, mostly containing secondary sources, may be researched in the Hartford History Center. They do not circulate.
Demographics: Census
Demographics: Demographics
Demographics: Hispanics
Demographics: Puerto Ricans
Government: City Planning
Government: Community Development
Government: Community Development Block Grant
Government: Neighborhood Revitalization Zone By-Laws
Government: Zoning
Housing: Homeless
Housing: Housing
Housing: Housing Rights
Neighborhoods: Neighborhoods
Neighborhoods: Neighborhoods-Asylum Hill
Neighborhoods: Neighborhoods-Barry Square
Neighborhoods: Neighborhoods-Blue Hills
Neighborhoods: Neighborhoods-Clay Hill
Neighborhoods: Neighborhoods-Downtown
Neighborhoods: Neighborhoods-Dutch Point
Neighborhoods: Neighborhoods-East Side
Neighborhoods: Neighborhoods-Frog Hollow
Neighborhoods: Neighborhoods-Nook Farm
Neighborhoods: Neighborhoods-North End
Neighborhoods: Neighborhoods-Parkville
Neighborhoods: Neighborhoods-Sheldon/Charter Oak
Neighborhoods: Neighborhoods-South End
Neighborhoods: Neighborhoods-Upper Albany
Neighborhoods: Neighborhoods-West End
Neighborhoods: Southside Institutions Neighborhood Alliance (SINA)
Neighborhoods: Trinity Heights
Neighborhoods: Waterfront
Social Issues and Organizations: Civil Rights
Social Issues and Organizations: Public Welfare
Social Issues and Organizations: Revitalization Corps
The following materials may be researched in the Hartford History Center. They do not circulate.
Connecticut Explored (Formerly the Hog River Journal):
Tobacco Valley: Puerto Rican Farm Workers in Connecticut; Volume 1, number 1, Fall 2002.
Maria Sanchez; Volume 1, number 4, Summer 2003.
Soapbox: Butch Lewis; Volume 2, number 4, Fall 2004.
The Rise and Fall of Public Housing; Volume 1, number 2, Winter 2003.
The Housing Crisis and the Hispanic Community
By: Casa de Puerto Rico, Inc.
Call Number: HD7304.H3 Oversize
Charter Oak Terrace: Life, Death, and Rebirth of a Public Housing Project
By: Radcliffe, David.
Call Number: HD7288.78 C82 H37 1998
Report of the Slum clearance study committee on the preliminary survey of housing conditions in slum areas for the purpose of laying out a slum clearance and rehousing program in the city of Hartford, Connecticut
By: Hartford (Conn.) Slum clearance study committee.
Call Number: HV4046 .H3 H36 1934 HCOLL
Publication Date: 1934
Matched words:
for the purpose of laying out a slum clearance and rehousing program in the city of Hartford
Housing market study of Hartford, Connecticut, area, released through the Office of the Mayor.
Hartford (Conn.)
Call Number: HD7304 .H3 A3 1945 HCOLL
Publication Date: 1945
Matched words:
Housing market study of Hartford, Connecticut, area, released through the Office of the Mayor.
Report Based on the Real Property and the Low Income Housing Area Surveys Made by the Work Projects Administration, 1938-1940.
By: Housing Authority of the City of Hartford.
Call Number: HD7304 .H3 H6 1940 HCOLL
Publication Date: 1940
Staff Report: re Model Cities, January 22, 1968.
Call Number: HT177.H3 A64 1968 oversize
Publication Date: 1968
Matched words: United States. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
The Influence of a Regional Economy on Hartford’s Population: A Study of Migration, Housing, and Employment Trends in Hartford, Connecticut.
By: Carbone, Nicholas R.
Call Number: HC108.H3 C3 1977 Oversize
Publication Date: 1977
Hartford Community Renewal Program
By: Hartford Commission on the City Plan.
Call Number: HT177.H3 H28 1965
Publication Date: 1965
Technical Reports of the Greater Hartford Process
By: Greater Hartford Process.
Call Number: HT177.H3 G74 1972
Publication Date: 1972
A New System of Social Services for 1980
By: Greater Hartford Process.
Call Number: HV99.H3 G742
Publication Date: 1972
Free the Beaches: The Story of Ned Coll and the Battle for America’s Most Exclusive Shoreline
By: Kahrl, Andrew W.
Call Number: E185.8.K34 2018
Publication Date: 2018
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