Historic Churches of New Haven and West Haven
SGC nonprofit educational research archive
Edition: September 8, 2026

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Acquired: four reused and rechecked church photographs/plates (Center exterior 1967, Center crypt 2025, West Haven First 2013, St. Mary’s published 1900), plus North Church’s 1867 manual title page and Center Church’s 1914 catalogue title page. Institution profiles in leads cover additional buildings in both towns; those do not imply a local image was acquired. Existing church-burial-records remains the record-search collection.

Includes selected original images, full acquired OCR, source catalog, credits and a SQLite FTS5 database. Complete repository PDFs and modern external articles are linked, not included. Coverage and missing records are described in each collection’s scope and individual item notes.

RESEARCH DATABASE
items stores the catalog; search_fts indexes source text. Example: SELECT id,title FROM search_fts WHERE search_fts MATCH 'history';

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