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Stock certificate for two shares to E. W. Munson, signed by F. Kingsbury Bull and E. N. Vanderpoel.

Scope and Contents Phelps Opera House Program, 2006-36-0, is a four-sided printed program for the "Grand Minstrel Show by the Mozart Socal Club" on Friday Debruary 4, 1898.  The program includes the musical and comedy numbers that would be performed and  a listing of the performers.  All four-sides of the program include advertisements from Litchfield businesses, primarily those located on the Phelps Block and West Street. The Phelps Opera House was located on the site of Catlin's Tavern in a newly built...

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Writes from Middlebury, VT; discusses a legal matter.

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Baldwin finback drinking cup made by the U.S. Envelope Co. with Phelps Tavern business data printed on front.

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A handwritten notebook with the title "The Materia Medica & Pharmacopoia of the Philadelphia Dispensary". Four different names can be deciphered including that of William Buel, a doctor in Sheffield, (Mass.) for 20 years, who moved to Litchfield in 1815-1816. The back cover also includes the name of William Williams, Sheffield.

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Undated (possibly late 1800s) listing of expenses by William R. Phillips, deputy sheriff.

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Phoenix Branch Bank blank check (1980-316-0) is from Litchfield, Connecticut.  It has a decorative border on the right side, and space to write the bearer's name and the amount to be paid. The Phoenix Bank in Litchfield was organized in 1814 as a branch of the Phoenix Bank of Hartford, and then reorganized in 1864 as The First National Bank of Litchfield.

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Photograph of Melanie T. Hilpert posing for an advertisement for Toll Gate Farms

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Photograph of B. Woodruff Clark, Robert W. Doyle, and Charlie Linsley holding a Town of Litchfield flag.

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Two photographs of Grange masquerade ball at the Opera House.