New Haven Postcards
Title
New Haven Postcards
Description
The Library's New Haven Postcard Collection consists of approximately 50 postcards of New Haven sites. They range in date from the early 1900's to the 1970's.
Click on the link below to see all of the scanned postcards in this collection.
Click on the link below to see all of the scanned postcards in this collection.
Collection Items
South View of New Haven and Fort Hale, 1825
Postcard showing Fort Hale, and West Rock and East Rock in the background, from an engraving by John Warner Barber.
Court at Davenport College, Yale University, New Haven, Conn.
Davenport College was designed by James Gamble Rogers and completed in 1933.
Collegiate and Commercial Institute, Wooster Square, New Haven, Connecticut
The Collegiate and Commercial Institute, later known as the Russell Institute, was a military school that operated in New Haven from 1836 to 1885 (postcard from engraving by J. W. Orr).
Tontine Hotel
The Tontine Hotel was at the corner of Church and Court Streets, facing the New Haven Green.
East View of the Public Square or Green in New Haven, Conn, 1820
View of the New Haven Green showing Trinity, Center, and United Churches.
Yale College in 1800
Yale's Old Brick Row from Chapel Street, from an engraving by John Warner Barber.
Yale College and State House, New Haven, Conn., 1830
Postcard featuring drawing by Alexander Jackson Davis showing Yale College and the recently built Statehouse.