The collection consistes primarily of photographs depicting company administrators and employees, the Colt armory in Hartford and other Colt-related properties, events, promotional material, and firearms.
The records of Colt’s Patent Fire Arms Manufacturing Company document gun manufacturing at the armory and the company’s subsidiaries, together with outside contracting activities.
Snapshots of demolitions of Hartford buildings between 1958 and 1965. Also, effects of 1930s floods at Colt’s Patent Fire Arms Manufacturing company. circa 500 photographs in 4 albums.
One example within this record group. Documents the transfer of Colt Museum to the State of Connecticut in 1957 by the Penn-Texas Co. Includes also segments on Samuel Colt, the inside at the factory, and the transfer ceremony in Memorial Hall, Connecticut State Library Building on March 7, 1957.
