The first five photos from Mansfield Training School are in black and white and are largely from the first half of the 20th century.

Image 1: The first photo shows six girls in a line, dancing in flowy dresses outside on the MTS lawn (1939).

Image 2: The next photo is of the former superintendent of MTS, Neil A. Dayton, with 17 men dressed in suits, standing and sitting around the blueprints for a newly constructed dorm hall on the grounds of Mansfield Training School.

Image 3: Watching as the previous blueprints become a reality, we have the newly constructed dorm area for residents in the third photo. It depicts about 19 beds for residents, packed tightly together in groups of two and three, separated only by a metal chair and night stand. Each group of beds is separated from the rest by a very short metal partition offering very little for privacy. 

Image 4: The fourth photo shows the laundry room at MTS. Here, women are working on washing and ironing the clothing. Many residents worked in these laundry rooms during their time as residents of MTS.

Image 5: The last black and white photo is of a UConn student volunteer cutting a resident’s hair as she sits at a round wooden table in what appears to be a library. Over the course of the last five to ten years of its operation, UConn sent over 300 volunteers to MTS for a wide array of programs.

The last two photos are from 2022 and are in color.

Image 6: The first photo is of an unmarked brick building with a metal chain-link fence around it. Some of the windows of the building are broken and others are painted with spray paint graffiti. Several of the windows also have what seem to be curtains left hanging from when MTS was operational, now sunbleached and decayed to the point of near-transparency.

Image 7: The final photo shows a closer view of the brick building, with a tree growing out of a broken window. In the window next to the tree hangs more curtains, very weathered.