Find BHC Materials ONLINE The Bridgeport History Center has been a proud part of the Connecticut Digital Archive for years now, taking advantage of this unique digital preservation platform that invites cultural institutions from all around Connecticut to share digitized material. Since March of 2020, BHC ...
History Center Head Emeritus Mary K. Witkowski wrote over 450 articles for the Bridgeport News during her tenure at the BHC. From the Historical Collections articles explore many facets of Bridgeport history --people, places, and things-- from the renowned to the quirky, and will take ...
The BHC is an affiliate for the Family Search program published by the LDS church. This means that patrons using the computers at the History Center may access thousands of digitized records in the Family Search program that were previously available on microfilm only. More ...
History Center photographs are now available to search and view online. The images are part of the General Photograph Collection held by the BHC and feature street scenes. Please check back with us each month as we add new images to our site. Main Street ...
Historic Map Works Plat maps with details of lot apportionments and street details for cities across the United States Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps Maps with details on buildings prepared for the insurance industry
We Are Artists Every One: The Art Center in Action, 1970-1986 The Art Center was far more than a place to learn visual arts, literary arts and music. The Art Center was a place to improve reading skills, get a meal, and gain exposure to burgeoning ...
The Bridgeport History Center updates our new and noteworthy page on a regular basis! Check back to see what we've added and you can come in and use. This page was last updated on April 22, 2022. New Special Collections BHC has long held biographical newspaper clipping ...
The Bridgeport History Center is thrilled to announce that after a year long processing project, the Records of the Warner Brothers Company - originally the Warner Corset Company, and later known as Warnaco - is fully open and available for research. Taking up an astounding 475 ...
Hot off the heels of finishing up the Records of the Warner Brothers Company, the Bridgeport History Center is pleased to present not one, not two, but three brand new research guides! Our women's suffrage guide will help you celebrate a century of voting rights, ...
Many items from the P.T. Barnum Research Collection are now available online! Thanks to generous funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities, researchers may access many items from the History Center and Barnum Museum collections: Over a thousand items -- advertisements, books, magazines, manuscripts, ...
