Sources
6 newspaper runs · 110,523 pages · 1818–1926 · 20 books 1836–1929
Newspapers · 6 runs · 110,523 pages
1818–1883 · 10,753 pages · Connecticut Digital Archive
1870–1887 · 3,869 pages · Connecticut Digital Archive
1883–1896 · 3,961 pages · Connecticut Digital Archive
1890–1896 · 4,111 pages · Connecticut Digital Archive
1896–1900 · 2,518 pages · Connecticut Digital Archive
1900–1926 · 85,311 pages · Connecticut Digital Archive
Page images and OCR text from the Connecticut Digital Archive (UConn Library). The newspapers themselves are in the public domain.
Books · 20
John Warner Barber · 1836 · archive.org
Royal R. Hinman · 1846 · archive.org
Edwin Hall · 1855 · archive.org
Edwin Hall · 1865 (of the 1847 original) · archive.org
D. Hamilton Hurd (ed.) · 1881 · archive.org
W. Andrew Boyd · 1883 · archive.org
Rev. Charles M. Selleck · 1886 · archive.org
William Hale Beckford · 1887 · archive.org
John Emery Morris · 1888 · archive.org
James Boughton · 1890 · archive.org
David H. Van Hoosear · 1895 · archive.org
Rev. Charles M. Selleck · 1896 · archive.org
J. H. Beers & Co. · 1899 · archive.org
Rev. Charles M. Selleck · 1900 · archive.org
Samuel Richards Weed (ed.), Norwalk Historical and Memorial Library Association · 1902 · archive.org
Grand Army of the Republic · 1908 · archive.org
Ella Frances (Reed) Wright · 1909 · archive.org
Seymour Morris · 1918 · archive.org
Harold S. Palmer · 1920 · archive.org
Elsie N. Danenberg · 1929 · archive.org
Public-domain scans and OCR text from the Internet Archive.
Maps and places
- South Norwalk and Norwalk, Conn., 1875, O.H. Bailey & Co. — Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center, Boston Public Library. No known copyright restrictions.
- Edwin Hall, The Principal Parts of Norwalk in the Year 1847, with a Plan of the Ancient Settlement — fold-out plate in Hall’s Ancient Historical Records of Norwalk (Internet Archive). Aligned to today’s map here on five points (the Mill Pond, the Green, the Mill Hill Town House, the railroad bridge); average error 34 m.
- The 1875 Bailey bird’s-eye view as an overlay is warped by Allmaps.
- Landmark positions: OpenStreetMap where the building or place still exists; otherwise the street the newspapers name, or Hall’s aligned 1847 plan. Each landmark links to the clippings that mention it.
- Neighborhood boundaries: City of Norwalk GIS (Neighborhoods 2020 and neighborhood-association layers).
- Street locations: © OpenStreetMap contributors, via Nominatim. Satellite imagery: Esri World Imagery.