Wooster Costs Image Collection

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Description

Wooster Costs Image Collection

Overview

The Wooster Costs Image Collection is a digitized set of two high‑resolution TIFF images that reproduce the cost sheets from the Wooster case—a lawsuit recorded in the New Haven County Superior Court. The collection is part of the Connecticut State Library’s New Haven County Superior Court Files (NHSC) project, specifically the “Black, African American, and Indigenous History” (BAAI) retrospective. It is held in the public domain and is accessible through the library’s digital repository.

Background

The New Haven County Superior Court generated the original paper records, which were later scanned and incorporated into the NHSC BAAI initiative. This initiative, funded by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission, seeks to preserve and make available court documents that involve African American and Indigenous litigants. The Wooster case, a civil litigation concerning legal costs, is one of the many cases digitized under this program. The collection’s metadata was created using the PINAX schema, ensuring standardized description and discoverability.

Contents

  • RG003NHSCBAAIPSCostsWooster001.tif – 19 MB, 194 426 04 bytes, high‑resolution scan of the first cost sheet.
  • RG003NHSCBAAIPSCostsWooster002.tif – 19 MB, 197 487 88 bytes, high‑resolution scan of the second cost sheet.

Both images include OCR text layers, allowing keyword searching of the cost details. The collection is accompanied by a JSON metadata file (PINAX) that records title, creator, subjects, and rights information. Subject headings include Black, African American, and Indigenous History, Legal Costs, New Haven County, and Superior Court.

Scope

The collection focuses narrowly on the financial documentation of the Wooster case, a single legal proceeding within the New Haven County Superior Court. It does not include the full case docket, pleadings, or judgments, but rather the cost sheets that detail the monetary aspects of the litigation. The material is geographically bound to New Haven County, Connecticut, and temporally limited to the dates of the original case filings (exact dates are not specified in the metadata). The collection is intended for researchers interested in legal history, cost analysis, or the broader BAAI project’s exploration of African American and Indigenous legal experiences in Connecticut.

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@wooster_costs_image_collection:collection {title: "Wooster Costs Image Collection", description: "TIFF images related to costs in the Wooster case from the New Haven County Superior Court Files, part of the Black, African American, and Indigenous (BAAI) collection.", language: "en", rights: "Public Domain"}

@new_haven_county_superior_court:organization {full_name: "New Haven County Superior Court"}

@connecticut_state_library:organization {full_name: "Connecticut State Library"}

@connecticut:place {country: @united_states}

@new_haven_county:place {state: @connecticut, country: @united_states}

@nhsc_baai_project:concept {description: "New Haven County Superior Court Files – Black, African American, and Indigenous (BAAI) collection"}

@nhsc_baai_cases_papers_subject:concept {description: "Subject index field for New Haven County Superior Court files involving Black, African American, and Indigenous cases and papers"}

@wooster_case:case {name: "Wooster case", jurisdiction: @new_haven_county_superior_court}

@wooster_case_costs:concept {type: "Legal costs", related_case: @wooster_case}

@subject_black_african_american_and_indigenous_history:concept {label: "Black, African American, and Indigenous History"}

@subject_legal_costs:concept {label: "Legal Costs"}

@subject_new_haven_county:concept {label: "New Haven County"}

@subject_superior_court:concept {label: "Superior Court"}

@new_haven_county_superior_court -> creator of -> @wooster_costs_image_collection

@connecticut_state_library -> holds -> @wooster_costs_image_collection

@wooster_costs_image_collection -> located in -> @new_haven_county

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@nhsc_baai_project -> uses -> @nhsc_baai_cases_papers_subject

@file_pinax:file {type: "Metadata (PINAX)", format: "JSON", source: "PINAX"}

@file_pinax -> documents -> @wooster_costs_image_collection

@file_rg003_nhsc_baai_ps_costs_wooster_001_tif:file {type: "Image/Asset with OCR", format: "TIFF"}

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  • ✓ v4 (current) · 12/3/2025, 7:23:32 PM
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    "Reorganization group: TIFF_Images_Wooster_Costs"

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