New Haven Rising Solidarity Summit

Tomorrow at Trinity Temple, 6:00 pm New Haven Rising, a community organization of residents dedicated to “winning economic, racial, and social justice through collective action”, is having a Solidarity Summit tomorrow evening that I think will be really interesting in context with last week’s readings and discussion on community action and resistance. I’ll be going to listen to the current voices of New Haven activism, and I thought other people…

Death and Ceremony in New Haven

Allie Douma and Hadley Tallackson   Gravestones from the New Haven Green: Map of New Haven Green and its uses in 1775. See building 5: “Burying Ground.”  Buildings, grounds and landmarks in New Haven photographs. 100s. Box 1. Folder 6. Yale University Archives, Pictorial Records and Collections. 22 Oct 2024. Rubbings of Grove Street Cemetery created by Robert Greenberg in 2012 and displayed in Lost in New Haven Museum. Photo…

Beer, Beverages and Prohibition: The Life and Death of Regional Bottlers

Benjamin Johnson   The anchor object I chose is a collection of historic paraphernalia from Hulls Brewing Company. Specifically, I focused on the 3 yellow Hulls cans in the zoomed-in image. Each can present a different type of beer. These are export, cream ale, and Bock beer.   Narrative 1 At Lost in New Haven, a collection of paraphernalia from the Hulls Brewery is on display. I was immediately drawn…

Bagel Time: Nostalgia, Narrative and Idealism in New Haven’s Historical Branding

Natalie Fox and Calder Birdsey Anchor Object Our anchor object (Fig. 1) is an image from a 1977 advertising booklet produced by Lender and Sons for its 50th anniversary. Lender and Sons was a prominent New Haven bakery that eventually grew into a national business before being acquired by Kraft Foods in 1984. The image, reproduced at Lost in New Haven, shows a quaint yet bustling New Haven street in…

New Haven Clock Company

Making Time

Lost in New Haven holds an extensive collection of clocks, watches and gadgets produced by the New Haven Clock Company across its over one-hundred-year existence. The clock company is a fascinating case study of urban history as the very process of industrialization and its enormous social implications in many ways drove the demand for its product. As industrial capitalism revolutionized labor, it became increasingly important for the common person to…

Lost in New Haven

Materials at Lost in New Haven relating directly to postwar Urban Renewal include Redevelopment Agency brochures describing and promoting specific projects, like the Church Street Redevelopment and the “Progress Pavilion,” a temporary exhibit housed in a concrete-block structure at the corner of Church and Chapel Streets that displayed upcoming plans and designs.  The Property Acquisition cards are interesting; with photo and notecard, they show the granular scale of condemnation and…