Name/Title
H.F. Thomas PapersEntry/Object ID
2025.200.1Scope and Content
Collection of articles relating to Stonington history and the railroads by local historian H.F. Thomas, a longtime Stonington Borough resident who worked as the signal operator for the NY, NH & Hartford Railroad at the Stonington Station. In his retirement he was a prolific author with an interest in local history and frequent magazine contributor:
*"Does History Lie?" re. the first self-powered vehicle, typescript on stationery reading "H.F. Thomas, Historiographer, 194 Water Street, Stonington, Connecticut"
*"Great Corporation Profits by Lowly Employee's Suggestions," re. the history of the NY, NH and Hartford RR Co., typescript on stationery reading "H.F. Thomas, Historiographer, 194 Water Street, Stonington, Connecticut"
*"America's Greatest Boat Race," re. Stonington schooner THE SPY carrying word of Burgoyne's surrender to France during the American Revolution, typescript on stationery reading "H.F. Thomas, Historiographer, 194 Water Street, Stonington, Connecticut"
*"Stonington Scientist Meets the Press: What Caused the Ice Age? Can a Planet Explode? Whence Came Our Moon?" typescript on stationery reading "H.F. Thomas, Historiographer, 194 Water Street, Stonington, Connecticut"
*"Cats and Rats," re. H.F. Thomas' family cats and their lives in Stonington, typescript on stationery reading "H.F. Thomas, Historiographer, 194 Water Street, Stonington, Connecticut"
*"How's Your Bilge?" mentions the Thomas Boatyard, typescript on stationery reading "H.F. Thomas, Historiographer, 194 Water Street, Stonington, Connecticut"
*List, "Monographs of Lasting Interest on Unusual Topics Donated to the Stonington Free Library," typescript on stationery reading "H.F. Thomas, Historiographer, 194 Water Street, Stonington, Connecticut"
*Magazine article, "Connecticut Publisher Discovers a Great Author of Fiction," by H.F. Thomas, published in the Connecticut Circle, 1954
*Magazine article, "H.M.S. Resolute: A Grateful Queen Gives Gracious Recognition of Gift of a Frigate," by H.F. Thomas, published in the Connecticut Circle, 1953
*Collection of articles, "Whistler's Mathematics," "World's Oldest City," "Teenage Conqueror," "Origin of Gunpowder," "The Bronze Age Grave," "Those Fascinating Mirages," "Story of the Earth's Ice Age," "The Geological Clock," "Well, Who Did Discover America?" "The Turtle that has a Periscope," "Famous Connecticut Hobo," "Connecticut's Oldest Inhabitants," "Science in the Arctic," "Death of Sputnik I," "The Mechanics of Our Coastal Tides," "Our Atomic Problems," "Modern Scientific Dating: The Piltdown Man," "Crime: Detection, Conviction, Punishment," "The Telescope," "Tides and Winds," "Supernatural Intervention: The Roaring Forties," "Immortality: Supernatural Intervention," "Whence Came Life?" typescript on stationery reading "H.F. Thomas, Historiographer, 194 Water Street, Stonington, Connecticut"
*"World's Oldest City," typescript on stationery reading "H.F. Thomas, Historiographer, 194 Water Street, Stonington, Connecticut"
*collection of short stories (fiction), "The Shaft of Light," "The Ultimate Passenger Train," "This War Did End Wars," "An Unwilling Voyager," "Man and Power"
*charts of lunar tides, June - December 1957
*black and white photograph, "the world's first locomotive"Collection
H.F. Thomas Collection