Reform Movements

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Discourse upon extortion: anti-slavery handbill, 1777	Constitution of the School Association of the county of Middlesex, 1799	Rules of Association of the East Haddam Library Company, 1829	Noah Webster’s American Spelling Book, 1825
Report of the Retreat for the Insane, 1825	The rum shops of New London, 1840s	Broadside opposing election of Thomas C. Perkins, 1840s	Broadside advertising Temperance Convention in Middletown, 1841
Constitution of the Hartford Trades Union, 1846	Report of the Committee on Woman Suffrage, 1870	Course of Common Sense – lectures by physician, 1870	Appeal to people of Meriden for funds to establish YMCA, 1870s?
Address of Prohibition State Committee, 1883	South Congregational Church decorated for peace meeting, New Britain, 1904	Suffragettes marching, 1910s?	Rules and regulations for carrying out food and drug law, 1912
Special better working conditions, 1915	Connecticut State Farm for Women, 1920?	Breaking ground for the Women’s Christian Temperance Union fountain, Plainville, 1930s	Rural health conference, 1947
Report of the Commission on Civil Rights, 1950-1951	School lunch workshop, 1953	Status of equal housing opportunity, 1978	Report of joint investigation into residential real estate practices in Connecticut, 1990