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A huge initiative is underway–the gathering, digitizing, cataloguing, and making available for public reference historical images of Newtown. The archive has received a $4,800 grant for equipment from the Meserve Memorial Foundation. This has enabled the society to purchase the latest technology to digitize, archive, and print images that depict Newtown people, landmarks, buildings, recreation, and other facets of daily life.   The society has contributed an additional $5,000 to further this endeavor. 

As of fall of 2004, about 2,400 photographs have been scanned; these images are from the collections of the Historical Society and C.H. Booth Library. Copies of these images will be printed this winter and be available for public reference in early spring 2005 at the library.  

We have terrific experts consulting on the project.  To see how we went about establishing the archive, including protocols used, please click here.

Townspeople are invited to help preserve for posterity Newtown’s past by sharing with or donating to the archive photos from their own collections, especially in the areas of recreation (picnics, ice skating, baseball, etc…), events, portraits/group-shots of long-time Newtown families or notable people, buildings, farms, landscapes, workplace, neighborhoods–areas that capture the more personal side of Newtown not officially documented. If you would like to share some personal photographs with the society, please send an email to us at NewtownHistoricalSociety@yahoo.com. Also, please check our calendar of events for Archive Days in 2005; these are specific dates during which the society will invite the public to contribute photographs to the archive.
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