Chapel Square Mall
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title: NHFPL: Chapel Square Mall postcard
kind: Sources & research leads
date: See individual source date
institution: Chapel Square Mall
summary: Undated historical interior; explicitly public domain. Digital-record date is not scene date.
url: https://nhfpl.omeka.net/items/show/286
credit: NHFPL: Chapel Square Mall postcard
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id: ED076-S02
title: Yale: Richard Charles Lee papers
kind: Sources & research leads
date: See individual source date
institution: Chapel Square Mall
summary: MS 318, box 144, folders 2497–2498: April 1967 opening photographs.
url: https://ead-pdfs.library.yale.edu/4875.pdf
credit: Yale: Richard Charles Lee papers
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id: ED076-S03
title: Yale: RU 685 finding aid
kind: Sources & research leads
date: See individual source date
institution: Chapel Square Mall
summary: Box 2 folder 35: proposed Chapel Square plan, circa 1950s. Underlying plan not acquired.
url: https://ead-pdfs.library.yale.edu/2688.pdf
credit: Yale: RU 685 finding aid
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id: ED076-S04
title: NHFPL: new Malley’s site, 1960
kind: Sources & research leads
date: See individual source date
institution: Chapel Square Mall
summary: Site before construction began May 16, 1960.
url: https://nhfpl.omeka.net/items/show/902
credit: NHFPL: new Malley’s site, 1960
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id: ED076-S05
title: NHFPL: Chapel and Temple, 1963
kind: Sources & research leads
date: See individual source date
institution: Chapel Square Mall
summary: Former Malley’s at Chapel and Temple, January 1963.
url: https://nhfpl.omeka.net/items/show/202
credit: NHFPL: Chapel and Temple, 1963
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id: ED076-S06
title: Yale New Haven Building Archive: Chapel Square
kind: Sources & research leads
date: See individual source date
institution: Chapel Square Mall
summary: Building record; distinguishes architectural documentation from current commercial status.
url: https://nhba.yale.edu/building?id=403
credit: Yale New Haven Building Archive: Chapel Square
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id: ED-N-mall-01
title: Chapel Square Mall, New Haven, Conn. — interior postcard
kind: Postcards
date: Undated historical postcard
institution: Chapel Square Mall
summary: Indoor shopping concourse and fountain at Chapel Square Mall. An interior postcard presents Chapel Square as an inviting place to shop indoors. Compare the planned shopping environment with the older streets it replaced.
url: https://nhfpl.omeka.net/items/show/286
credit: NATCO, Natural Color Cards Co. / New Haven Free Public Library Digital Collections, New Haven Postcards
notes: Catalog Date is 2010; this is not the scene's capture date. Catalog description calls mall completed in 1965, while Yale opening-event records date to April 1967. Do not use the postcard metadata to establish opening year. Original library record inspected; local asset exported from rendered record. CDN URL is signed and temporary. Photographic color postcard; retain undated status rather than using catalog 2010 as exposure date. Display copy optimized for the web with proportional resizing and compression. The linked repository identifies the original image. Reuse: public_domain: Item explicitly says Public Domain.
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id: ED-N-mall-02
title: Site of Malley's Department Store just before Construction, New Haven, Connecticut, 1960
kind: Photographs
date: 1960, before construction began May 16
institution: Chapel Square Mall
summary: The cleared site of the new Malley's store makes the scale of downtown reconstruction visible. The camera looks south from Temple Street toward the Connector.
url: https://nhfpl.omeka.net/items/show/902
credit: Not confirmed for this individual photograph / NHFPL / New Haven Museum, Redevelopment Photos
notes: Available at the linked repository; image or full record is not included in this download. Item title and description inspected in original library collection listing; individual image URL not extracted. Reuse: permission_required: Collection description says these are duplicates of Museum images and the Museum owns rights: https://nhfpl.omeka.net/collections/show/2
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id: ED-N-mall-03
title: Corner of Chapel and Temple Street, New Haven, Connecticut, 1963
kind: Photographs
date: January 1963
institution: Chapel Square Mall
summary: The former Malley's store stood at Chapel and Temple before redevelopment reshaped this part of downtown.
url: https://nhfpl.omeka.net/items/show/202
credit: Not stated in item / NHFPL / New Haven Museum, Redevelopment Photos
notes: Available at the linked repository; image or full record is not included in this download. Original item inspected, identifier 35000096225502. Catalog also has a later 2014 digital date. Reuse: permission_required: Individual item: all rights held by New Haven Museum.
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id: ED-N-mall-04
title: Rooftop View Looking toward Church Street, New Haven, Connecticut, 1960
kind: Photographs
date: 1960
institution: Chapel Square Mall
summary: Empty lots and surviving business signs show downtown between demolition and rebuilding.
url: https://nhfpl.omeka.net/items/show/903
credit: Not confirmed for this individual photograph / NHFPL / New Haven Museum, Redevelopment Photos
notes: Available at the linked repository; image or full record is not included in this download. Original collection listing inspected; direct image not extracted. Reuse: permission_required: Museum holds rights to collection, per https://nhfpl.omeka.net/collections/show/2
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id: ED-N-mall-05
title: Proposed plan for Chapel Square Mall
kind: Sources & research leads
date: Circa 1950s
institution: Chapel Square Mall
summary: A surviving planning record offers a way to compare early redevelopment intentions with the completed mall.
url: https://ead-pdfs.library.yale.edu/2688.pdf
credit: Not stated in finding-aid entry / Yale University Library, Manuscripts and Archives, RU 685, box 2 folder 35
notes: Available at the linked repository; image or full record is not included in this download. Finding aid specifically identifies the plan and its folder. This is not a digitized plan image. Reuse: undetermined: Finding-aid discovery only; underlying plan has not been viewed or licensed.
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id: ED-N-mall-06
title: Chapel Square Mall opening photographs
kind: Sources & research leads
date: April 1967
institution: Chapel Square Mall
summary: Mayor Richard Lee's papers preserve photographs of the mall's opening activities in April 1967.
url: https://ead-pdfs.library.yale.edu/4875.pdf
credit: Not specified in finding-aid entries / Yale University Library, Richard Charles Lee papers, MS 318, box 144 folders 2497–2498
notes: Available at the linked repository; image or full record is not included in this download. Exact folder titles and April 1967 date verified in finding aid; opening photographs themselves not inspected. Reuse: undetermined: No open license established for photographs. Finding aid is accessible.
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id: ED-N-mall-07
title: Sanborn Fire Insurance Map of New Haven, volume 2
kind: Sources & research leads
date: 1901
institution: Chapel Square Mall
summary: Fire-insurance maps can reveal the buildings, lots and uses that preceded the mall and Temple Street Garage. Use a selected downtown sheet, not the atlas cover.
url: https://www.loc.gov/item/sanborn01151_004/
credit: Sanborn Map Company / Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division, Sanborn Maps Collection
notes: Available at the linked repository; image or full record is not included in this download. Atlas record and rights verified. Exact downtown sheet still needs selection and visual verification. Context source: https://nhba.yale.edu/building?id=448 Reuse: public_domain: LOC Rights & Access says online Sanborn Maps Collection is public domain and free to use and reuse.
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id: ED-N-mall-08
title: Chapel Square Mall — New Haven Building Archive exterior
kind: Photographs
date: Undated; record created 2018
institution: Chapel Square Mall
summary: The complex at 900 Chapel Street allows a present-day comparison with the mall's original retail purpose.
url: https://nhba.yale.edu/building?id=403
credit: Not specified / Yale Urban Media Project, New Haven Building Archive
notes: Available at the linked repository; image or full record is not included in this download. Image URL extracted from original record; image date and rights not established. Reuse: undetermined: No item-specific open image license located. Repository credits photographs generally to Connecticut History Illustrated.
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