The Stamford History Center possesses an extensive collection of images including photos, slides, postcards, glass plate images, daguerreotypes, and negatives. The collection includes images of places and people of Stamford. Many of our images are from the 19th century. Images can be reproduced for purchase. Please read our Terms & Conditions and our Photo Request form in order to secure copies of photos. Use of photos is also often granted for educational materials and published books and articles so long as credit is given to the Center. Please contact us for further information.
Volunteering
The Photo Department is always looking for interested assistants. Our current Photo Archivist is Louise Cecio.
Contributions to the Collection
The collection has grown out of generous donations from local families and photographers, and continues to grow as new contributions are made. New contributions are accepted gratefully, but selectively.
Aside from vintage photos from your family's attic, we are looking for photos dated post WWII, especially, but by no means exclusively, for the following:general photos between 1945 and 1966.
- Research requests show an almost total lack of photos of any kind from this time frame.
A recurrent request, aside from street scenes, are photos of Stamford High School. - photos 1966 up to today
- photos of WWII, Korea and Vietnam Veterans
- postcards 1950 and later
- digital scans
If you want to donate photos, postcards, or scans, please call for an appointment at
(203) 329-1183, or e-mail us at ibrary@stamfordhistory.org.
Finding Your Photos
Only photographs of Stamford are archived. They are filed by . Because many of the photos are fragile, they cannot be directly accessed by the public. Staff will retrieve them for you for viewing.
Also Available for Research
The Stamford Historical Society houses several books containing photographs of Stamford. If you are looking for a picture of your house, you might try the survey done by Renee Kahn and Virginia Davis on significant architecture in Stamford, and our Historic House Survey on homes before 1820.
There are three photo books by Carl Lobozza, Pictures from the Past, Journey through Time, and the Changing Face of Stamford. A newer publication is Images of Stamford. Browsing these books might reveal the image you are looking for. These books may be found in the .
To Obtain Images from the Collection
is open Thursday and Friday from 11am to 4pm and Saturday from 10 am until 4 PM. For the Photo Archive, please call for an appointment, or e-mail to library@stamfordhistory.org.
