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Blank Check from Phoenix Branch Bank
00-1980-316-0
Collection
Identifier: 00-1980-316-0
Scope and Contents
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.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1830-1839; Other: Date acquired: 11/30/1979
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society
Photograph of Melanie T. Hilpert posing for an advertisement for Toll Gate Farms
00-2017-36-0
Item
Identifier: 00-2017-36-0
Abstract
Photograph of Melanie T. Hilpert posing for an advertisement for Toll Gate Farms
Dates:
around late 1940s
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society
Photograph of three people holding a Town of Litchfield flag
00-2019-88-0
Item
Identifier: 00-2019-88-0
Abstract
Photograph of B. Woodruff Clark, Robert W. Doyle, and Charlie Linsley holding a Town of Litchfield flag.
Dates:
possibly 1970s
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society
Photographs of Grange masquerade ball at Opera House
00-2018-02-0
Item
Identifier: 00-2018-02-0
Abstract
Two photographs of Grange masquerade ball at the Opera House.
Dates:
1926
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society
"The Pic-Nic" poem
00-2024-35-0
Item
Identifier: 00-2024-35-0
Abstract
A published poem written in two parts by S. T. B. referencing people and incidents in Litchfield, CT.
Dates:
1857 Sep 2
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society
Ida Pidgeon autograph album
00-1973-63-0
Collection
Identifier: 00-1973-63-0
Scope and Contents
The Ida Pidgeon autograph album (1973-63-0) belonged to Ida Pidgeon of Sharon, Connecticut. She received the small album on March 30, 1930 from Mr. M. Gillette when she was in the sixth grade. The small album contains signatures and versus from family members and friends between the years 1930 and 1954. Many of the versus are humerous ryhmes.
Ida Pidgeon was the daughter of farmer William J. Pidgeon and his wife Lily M. Pidgeon. William and Lily, both natives of England, had one son and two...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1930-1954; Other: Date acquired: 12/12/1972
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society
Pierce, Brace, Loring, Croswell, Hopkins Portraits.
00-2012-62-0
Collection
Identifier: 00-2012-62-0
Scope and Contents
Pierce, Brace, Loring, Croswell, and Hopkins Portraits, 2012-62-0, include 11 photographs of 10 members of the aforementioned families, who were related by marriage. Included in this collection are Sarah Pierce (photograph of miniature, photograph of silhouette), Timothy Pierce (photograph of portrait), James Pierce (photograph of portrait), Ruth Pierce Croswell (photograph of silhouette), Dr. Thomas O'Hara Croswell (photograph of portrait), two unidentified companion portraits of a man and...
Dates:
Other: Date acquired: 12/10/2011
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society
Ella A. Pierce diary
00-2011-31-0
Collection
Identifier: 00-2011-31-0
Scope and Contents
The Ella A. Pierce diary (2011-31-0) contains personal entries for the year 1877. Common entries discuss school, household tasks (such as dusting, washing dishes, baking, and bedmaking), and sewing and quilting. At the time the diary was begun Ella A. Pierce was seventeen years old and living with her mother and siblings in Roxbury, Connecticut. The diary also contains many references to teenage socializing in the nineteenth century, and frequently has passing references to her future...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1877; Other: Date acquired: 05/04/2013
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
Edward A. Pierpont diaries
00-2010-257-0
Collection
Identifier: 00-2010-257-0
Scope and Contents
Four diaries of Litchfield, Conn., farmer Edward A. Pierpont: 1860, 1861, 1871, and 1878-1879. Pierpont generally recorded the weather, his farming and other business activities, and the comings and goings of family members and friends. There are also business accounts.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1860-1889
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society