Special collections currently on view

• Club life in New Britain

          On display are Masonic Items from Giddings Chapter No 25 and theÂ
          Doric Council No 24 of New Britain including Masonic trowels and jewels
          manufactured by Porter & Dyson, programs from the Centennial
          Celebrations of the Giddings Chapter and The Doric Council and photos and
          information on some prominent New Britain Masons. Also on display are
          items of interest from the New Britain Club founded in 1882 as a place of
          “Social intercourse and moral and intellectual improvement”.

• The Perfect Gift….from Landers, Frary & Clark

              Gifts from the past for Brides and Graduates……

  

Sorry if you missed our Aviation Exhibit – Here’s a Souvenir:    

Aviator Charles Hamilton

   George M. Landers, head of Landers, Frary & Clark, went to New York to invite Hamilton, a New Britain native, to bring his airplane to New Britain and make a flight.  It turned out to be the first flight in Connecticut in a heavier-than-air, powered craft.    Learn about the part the The Stanley Works has played in the role of aviation over the years.  Where were the bolts and hinges for the hatches and doors for the big bombers made?  Where did the tool kits for plane repairs come from?  Where were the vacuum bottles and bulk-feeding beverage containers made?  And a plane could not get off the ground without Fafnir Bearings nor go all the way to the moon without the special gyro-bearing.  This is an exhibit to prove that New Britain Industries had a very large hand in the shape of aviation.  A Certificate on display awarded to The Stanley Works by the Guggenheim Foundation and signed by Harry F. Guggenheim and Charles A. Lindbergh helps to prove our point.