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Collection
Identifier: 00-2010-17-0
Scope and Contents
Miscellaneous papers of members of the Champion family of Litchfield (Conn.)
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1758-1778
Item
Identifier: 00-2024-43-0
Abstract
Letter written to "Uncle and Auntie" describing WWI accounting and disbursement activities in Vancouver Barracks, Washington.
Dates:
1919 Jan 3
Item
Identifier: 00-1998-33-0
Abstract
Advertisement with a Fourth of July theme featuring Eric Hatch and two children.
Dates:
possibly 1970s
Collection
Identifier: 00-2011-107-0
Scope and Contents
The Cheney and Kilborn Coffin Records collection (2011-107-0) is a collection of two typed transcripts compiled into one collection. The collection is a list of people who the two coffin makers (Silas Ellis Cheney and John Kilborn) made coffins for, the price, what the coffin was made from, and the date. The two made coffins for many people in town including the Buells, Buels, Ozias Seymour, and Lyman Beecher and the Beecher Estate. One entry is for the purchase of a child’s coffin by Cato,...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1796 - 1821; Other: Date acquired: 05/06/2012
Collection
Identifier: 00-1973-65-0
Scope and Contents
The Silas E. Cheney account book (1973-6-0) contains records for the years 1848-1856. Silas E. Cheney (1821-1874) was the son of Litchfield furniture maker Silas Ely Cheney and his wife Mary Young Cheney. During the 1840s and 1850s Silas operated a store in Litchfield. The account book indicates that the business dealt in general goods as well as foodstuffs. In the late 1850s Silas and his brother Edward relocated to New York where they briefly worked from their brother-in-law Horace...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1848-1856; Other: Date acquired: 12/08/1972
Collection
Identifier: 1951-28-0
Scope and Contents
The Silas Cheney family papers consist of documents primarily related to Silas Cheney (1821-1874), a Litchfield, Conn., broker and also several members of his immediate family, including his brother Edward Porter Cheney (1815-1904); his sisters Mary Young Cheney Greeley (1811-1872), wife of Horace Greeley, and Charlotte M. Cheney (1812-1886); and his mother Mary Young Cheney ( -1874). The collection consists of correspondence, business and legal papers, leases, and deeds.
Litchfield...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1818-1883; Other: Date acquired: 04/05/1952
Item
Identifier: 00-2024-50-0
Abstract
Notes covering events Feb.-Aug. 1883, perhaps using a newspaper as a source. On reverse of the note pages is "Apothecaries Hall, 301 Chapel St." with additional information and a raphic.
Dates:
1883 Feb-Aug
Collection
Identifier: 00-1982-20-0
Scope and Contents
A letterfrom Samuel Church in Salisbury (Conn.) written to Melzar Gardiner, at the Democrat [newspaper] office in Litchfield in which he expresses his views on the State Temperance Convention and Republican politics, and requests that Gardiner publish the procedings of the Cato Convention.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1834 Dec 91; Other: Date acquired: 11/30/1981
Collection
Identifier: 00-2010-167-0
Scope and Contents
Record of Churchill family births and the marriage of Hull Churchill and Polly Moss, 1807-1820.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: circa 1820s
Collection
Identifier: 00-2009-106-0
Scope and Contents
"Order of the exercises of the Ciceronean Society of Goshen" (Conn.). The managers were W. Lyman and H.H. Beach and the Committee members were W. Hart, C.C. Beers, and J.F. Norton.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1832 Apr 26
