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Marcus Research Library
The Library is open Tuesday through Saturday from Noon until 4 PM.
The Society's Research Library and Archives is a specialized collection dealing in depth with the history of Stamford, Connecticut, from pre-settlement to the present.
Its holdings consists of books, pamphlets, and periodicals (7,800 catalogued) and 500 linear feet of boxed manuscript materials from the 17th century to the present, (20 completed manuscript record groups, 97 inventoried manuscript collections and other finding aids).
In addition, there are 200 bound manuscripts dating from the 18th to 20th centuries; 18th, 19th, & 20th century maps atlases, and newspapers.
Also included are a 10-volume survey of Stamford's historic structures, over 1200 vertical files containing information on local organizations, schools, government, biographies, transportation and churches & synagogues, city directories, W. P. A. Stamford Cemetery inscription volume.
Online Information:
- Records Groups, Publications, etc.
- searchable Bibliography of Stamford
- List of Record Groups and selected actual texts
- List of Vertical Files
The Photographic Archives are part of the Research Library also.
The library is designed as a research and reference collection. All material is available for use on site only. For borrowing, the Ferguson Library has many books on the history of Stamford available.
For questions and/or requests please e-mail history@stamfordhistory.org.
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