Affirmation for Success:

Good Things Now Come to Pass, the Unexpected Now Happens!

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Vintage hand-colored map of Connecticut from 1857

This beautiful hand drawn map of Connecticut was created in 1857 by Laura Roys, a student who attended Hartford Female Seminary, an all-female academy in Hartford, Connecticut. The map is beautifully colored, with shades of blue, orange, red, pink, yellow, and violet adorning the border of each city and town.

Vintage map of Guilford, Connecticut from 1881

This map of Guilford, CT shows the town as it looked in 1881.

Theodore Roosevelt admired those who worked hard, pitied those who didn’t

I pity the creature who doesn’t work, at whichever end of the social scale…

Historic landowners map of Marlborough, CT from 1869

Vintage landowners map of Marlborough, Connecticut from 1869

12 vintage postcards of UConn from the 1950’s

The University of Connecticut began its history in 1880, when two brothers…