Litchfield Female Academy (Conn.)
Organization
Found in 8 Collections and/or Records:
Lynne Templeton Brickley papers
2019-87-0
Fonds
Identifier: 2019-87-0
Abstract
Research materials, correspondence and other papers, photographs, and additional materials by and about the life of Lynne Templeton Brickley (1940-2019), an independent historian who served as a consultant for several prize-winning exhibitions at the Litchfield Historical Society. A resident of Litchfield, CT, since 1968, Brickley was president and trustee of the Litchfield Historical Society, an active member of the Litchfield Garden Club and the Litchfield Democratic Town Committee, and a...
Dates:
1930-2018
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society
Sarah Coffin friendship album
00-2015-12-0
Collection
Identifier: 00-2015-12-0
Abstract
Sarah Coffin friendship album (2015-12-0) contains verses written by friends in Litchfield; Goshen, Conn.; Salisbury, Conn; and towns in New York State.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1826; Other: Date acquired: 12/03/2015
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society
Hannah Hubbard journal
2020-39-0
Unprocessed Material
Identifier: 2020-39-0
Dates:
1798
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society
Margaret Kelley collection
00-1996-20-0
Collection
Identifier: 00-1996-20-0
Scope and Contents
Four publications: Souvenir Edition The Litchfield Enquirer, 1920; Bi-Centennial of the Town of Litchfield, Conn., Exercises celebrating the Litchfield Law School, the Litchfield Female Academy, 1920; Litchfield: an historic masque, 1921; Census of the United States, 1820.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1820-1921; Other: Date acquired: 07/07/1998
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society
Litchfield Female Academy collection
1890-07-2
Collection
Identifier: 1890-07-2
Scope and Contents
This collection documents the history of The Litchfield Female Academy, Litchfield, Connecticut. Early records refer to the Academy as Miss Pierce's School, Miss Pierce's Academy, and Sarah Pierce's Academy. In the collection are institutional records; correspondence, diaries, journals, school notebooks, and albums of students; papers of Sarah Pierce and the Pierce family; and correspondence of Emily Noyes Vanderpoel regarding her research for her books "Chronicles of a Pioneer School, from...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1787-1927; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1890
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society
Pierce family correspondence
1978-39-8
Collection
Identifier: 1978-39-8
Scope and Contents
The Pierce Family Correspondence consists primarily of letters to and from the children of John Pierce and his first wife, Mary (Paterson) Pierce, as well as of his second wife, Mary (Goodman) Pierce. The collection documents events of national importance: John Pierce, a colonel and paymaster in the Continental Army, received letters from numerous correspondents concerning military, administrative, and political news of the American Revolution. Moreover, the Pierce brothers traveled...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1775-1825; Other: Majority of material found in 1776-1825; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1978
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society
Martha Dwight Denison Sturdevant Friendship Album
2010-379-0
Collection
Identifier: 2010-379-0
Abstract
The Martha Dwight Sturdevant Friendship Album (2010-379-0) is a bound album signed by Martha Denison's friends and fellow students at the Litchfield Female Academy circa 1821.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: c. 1821; Other: Date acquired: 01/12/2011
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society
Wolcott family collection
1906-04-0
Collection
Identifier: 1906-04-0
Abstract
Correspondence chiefly between Frederick Wolcott (1767-1837), his wife Elizabeth (Betsey) Huntington Wolcott (1774-1812), his brother Oliver Wolcott (1760-1833) who served as Secretary of the Treasury and Governor of Connecticut, and Jabez W. Huntington (1788-1847) who served as a U.S. Senator from Connecticut. Topics include domestic news, local, state, regional and national politics, business affairs, church activities, trade with China and the merchant vessel Trident, raising merino...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1740-1844; Other: Majority of material found within 1790-1837; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1906
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society
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- Diaries 4
- Correspondence 3
- Account books 2
- Litchfield (Conn.) - History 2
- Litchfield (Conn.) -- History 2
- Private schools - Connecticut - Litchfield - History 2
- Receipts 2
- Schools 2
- United States--Politics and government--1775-1783. 2
- Women - Education - Connecticut - Litchfield - History 2
- African Americans -- Connecticut -- Litchfield 1
- Autograph albums 1
- Charleston (S.C.)--Description and travel 1
- China -- Commerce 1
- Colonial revival (Architecture) - Connecticut - Litchfield 1
- Connecticut--Politics and government 1
- Ephemera 1
- Epidemics--New York (State)--New York 1
- Exercise books 1
- Florida--Description and travel 1
- Fort Ticonderoga (N.Y.)--Capture, 1777 1
- Indians of North America -- Connecticut -- Litchfield 1
- Law students -- Connecticut -- Litchfield 1
- Litchfield (Conn.) 1
- Medicine--United States--History--18th century 1
- Notebooks 1
- Photographs 1
- Rewards of merit 1
- Slavery--United States 1
- Southern States--History--1775-1865 1
- Trident 1
- United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783 1
- Washington (D.C.)--Description and travel 1
- Women -- Connecticut -- Litchfield 1
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