Established 1901

1508 High Ridge Road Stamford, CT 06903

Volunteers for Two Special Projects Sought!

Please contact the Society at (203) 329-1183 or e-mail Jane Flounders at JaneFlo@aol.com

SHS Collection Inventory Under Way!		SHS Research Library to Become Part of Ferguson Library Online Catalog!
With your help, the Society will soon be one step closer to accreditation as an historical museum. The first ever inventory of the collections of the Society has begun. The collection is estimated to include over 70,000 objects of varying sizes and ages. A number of volunteers have been crucial to this project. Several college and high school students have been busy over the summer. We have been grateful for society regular volunteer Jim Freebairn for his contribution to the inventory work. Jim is a docent for our Hoyt Barnum program, serving as our resident blacksmith/whitesmith. The volunteers began with our famous chair collection, a bequest from Charlotte Cruikshank in 1979. They registered all the chairs in the gallery, then proceeded to deal with the small tables, mirrors, chests and other furnishings in the neighboring room. Jim Freebairn began in the case room with the inventory of small stools, tables, baskets and clocks. We have also begun the inventory of our industrial objects that are stored in the basement level rooms, which include both home appliances such as irons and stoves and industrial objects, such as glass tubes from Machlett's. We expect to have most of the larger objects catalogued and checked soon. That still leaves a plethora of smaller objects, our entire textile collection and all our paper-based collections. The completion of the inventory and the entry of the data into our PastPerfect software data base will enable us to have much greater control over the collection. It puts the Society one step closer to eventual accreditation as an historical museum. Our younger volunteers have returned to college and high school, and the Society needs volunteers to replace them. If you have any interest in finding our what is in our vast building, please come and assist us! Saturday Volunteers are welcome!		The Ferguson Library has kindly offered to make the SHS Research Library a “branch” of their online catalog, provided we are able to furnish volunteers to do the cataloging. This will expose the Society to a wider audience! The Ferguson will install the necessary software on our library computers, and as soon as we have enough volunteers available, they will conduct a training seminar at the downtown branch of the library. Needless to say, this is an exciting proposition, and volunteers for data entry are urgently needed.

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