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Books in our Library

Searching the Marcus Research Library Catalog

The Marcus Research Library book holdings are cataloged in the Ferguson Library's online catalog. Adding data is still a work in progress, but users may go to the catalog for their research before visiting the society's research library.

How to proceed: Go to the Online Catalog, and click on advanced search. Type in your search item and then scroll down to the bottom of the page where you find this box:
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(this is a screen print only)

Click on "All libraries" and scroll to "Stamford Historical Society," then hit the search button.


Book Reviews

book cover A Twig Grows in Springdale
by Al Michaud
Paperback, 451 pages
PublishAmerica (2004)
920 MICHAUD MIC

Insights to life in a Depression-era city

book cover Stamford: An Illustrated History, Revised Edition July 2002
Estelle F. Feinstein, Joyce S. Pendery, Robert Lockwood Mills, Don Russell (Introduction)
Hardcover, 220 pages
American Historical Press (2002)
974.6C STAMFORD FE, PE, MI

From time to time, we will showcase items from the library

book cover The Early Settlement of Stamford Ct 1641-1700
by Jeanne Majdalany, Edith M. Wicks
Heritage Books
974.6C STAMFORD MAJ 1990
  Early Villages of Stamford, Connecticut: The Cove and Long Ridge
by Jeanne Majdalany
Heritage Classic
974.6C STAMFORD MAJ 1998

Blickensderfer Typewriters brochure Blickensderfer Typewriters
Sales Brochure
338 BLIC POS
book cover Escaping Salem: the other witch hunt of 1692 (New Narratives in American History)
by Richard Godbeer
Oxford University Press, USA 2005
974.6C STAMFORD GOD
brochure image Dr. Givens' Sanitarium (c. 1913)
362.13G
Image of first cover, go  here for more information THE GUIDE TO NATURE MAGAZINE
for years of 1908 through 1919  (Note: Our collection is not complete, more copies can be found in the Ferguson Library)
590.5.A

Illustrated real estate information, articles on Stamford, obituaries, etc.

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Finding Aid

book cover Official Souvenir Program, 275th Anniversary, Stamford - Book cover insertOfficial Souvenir Program, 275th Anniversary, Stamford, Connecticut, 1916
974.6C Stamford

This book contains a number of interesting photos and ads.

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LIBERTY ILLUMINED
Patriotic Poems, War Songs
Charles H. Crandall
811.C

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book cover Stamford Past & Present, 1641–1976
The Commemorative Publication of the Stamford Bicentennial Committee

917.469 STAMFORDSTA

Education Spelled Freedom by Marie Updegraff

in association with amazon.com, click here An American Town Goes to War
by Tony Pavia
974.6C STAMFORD PAV

Exhibit: Pride and Patriotism: Stamford’s Role in World War II




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