By Rob Novak, Bridgeport Fireman Arthur “Art” H. Selleck was born in Bridgeport in 1920, living there for five years before moving to Nichols. He attended Harding High School in the Park City, since Trumbull had no High School at the time. He would later recall ...
www.bridgeporthistory.org The Bridgeport History Center created a website documenting the lives of the people who worked in Bridgeport, Connecticut in the 20th century. Help us celebrate the lives of the people who worked here to make Bridgeport one of the instrumental labor cities in the Northeast. Click ...
Marge Schneider should be an inspiration to young women today. During World War II, Marge Schneider lived with her family on Barnum Avenue near Central. With the flurry of war around her, Marge took a job at the Bridgeport Brass Company on Grand Street. Marge ...
Since 1796, the firefighters of Bridgeport have tirelessly dedicated themselves to protecting Connecticut's largest city. Bridgeport's Bravest is a new exhibit designed by archivist Jaime Pettit from the Bridgeport History Center, that showcases the history of firefighting in Bridgeport, as well as the fire department's ...
As doctors in the late 1800s, brothers Dr. Lucien and Ira De Ver Warner became concerned with the use of the corset in women’s fashion. The corset was a piece of underclothing meant to give women an “hourglass” figure desirable at the time. But the ...
