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Truman Guild school books
00-1975-97-27,28,30, 32, 33-0
Collection
Identifier: 00-1975-97-27,28,30, 32, 33-0
Scope and Contents
The Truman Guild school books collection (1975-27,28,30, 32, and 33-0) is a collection of four volumes of school books created by Truman Guild. The notebooks cover various topics such as arithmetic, poetry, Greek poetry and translations, drawings, penmanship, and many other topics. One of the volumes contains a poem that was published in the Litchfield Enquirer, and another volume contains a list of all the books that Guild had read to date. Please see the below detailed descriptions for...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1821-1874; Other: Date acquired: 02/09/1977
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society
Jeannette Guildford collection
00-1996-18-0
Collection
Identifier: 00-1996-18-0
Scope and Contents
A program for The Apple Orchard Theatre production of Penny Wise, 1941.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1941; Other: Date acquired: 01/08/1996
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society
Jeannette Guildford manuscript
00-2010-183-0
Collection
Identifier: 00-2010-183-0
Scope and Contents
Manuscript of "Twelve Months at Arethusa," by Jeannette Guildford (1914-2005). Guildford was the great-granddaughter of Charles and Lucinda Webster who purchased Arethusa Farm in 1868. Upon the death of her mother and the selling of the family farm, Guilford wrote three poems and “Twelve Months at Arethusa”, which is a book that recounts stories passed down by her family regarding life on the farm.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1994
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society
Guion family papers
2004-43-0
Collection
Identifier: 2004-43-0
Abstract
The papers of the Guion family of Litchfield. Brothers Hobart Guion (1869-1950) and George Guion (1870-1962) married sisters Harriet Cutler McAllister (1880-1977) and Amelia Hamilton McAllister (1877-1962), respectively.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: circa 1870-1977; Other: Date acquired: 07/12/2006
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society
George Guion Supply Sergeant's Book
00-2017-33-0
Collection
Identifier: 00-2017-33-0
Content Description
George Guion's Supply Sergeant's Book (2017-33-0)
Seargeant's Book from the Litchfield Light Horse, Battlefields giveaway book, News clipping about a fire in downtown, Litchfield.
Correspondence, November 30th, July 1915, proposed to form a platoon of calvary in Litchfield to be known as the "Litchfield Light Horse", abd also a Gun Squad. The supply book contains three pages of names, from Bantam or Litchfield, occupation, date of birth, height and who to call in case of emergency, such as...
Dates:
Majority of material found in 1915-1918
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society
Hack and Eraclito collection of Westleigh Inn records
1981-09-0
Collection
Identifier: 1981-09-0
Abstract
The Hack and Eraclito collection of Westleigh Inn records consists of papers which relate to the former Westleigh Inn of Litchfield, Conn., owned by Joseph J. Hack, Jr., Daniel J. Hack, and Frank Eraclito. The inn was in operation from 1946 until it was sold in 1973. The collection consists of incorporation, subscriber, and stock records; menus; advertisements, ad mattes, and news clippings; photographs of building interiors, exteriors, the owners and their families, and the staff; menus;...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1945-1972; Other: Date acquired: 02/06/1981
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society
Anne Lyon Haight papers
2013-127-0
Collection
Identifier: 2013-127-0
Abstract
The Anne Lyon Haight papers (2013-127-0) consist of newspaper clippings, letters, airline brochures, memorabilia, and photographs of airplane trips taken by Mrs. Sherman Haight. These trips include the maiden flight of a Pan-American Clipper seaplane from Miami to Cristobal, Panama Canal Zone in November 1931 that made stops in Cuba, Jamaica and Barranquilla, Columbia and was piloted by Charles Lindbergh. Also a trip on a Pan American Dixie Clipper which was the first commercial passenger...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1931 - 1943; Other: Date acquired: 10/10/2014
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society
Fred E. Haight currency collection
00-1928-21-0
Collection
Identifier: 00-1928-21-0
Scope and Contents
Three notes issued by the Charter Oak Bank, 1862, and one German Reichsbanknote for 100,000 marks, 1923.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1862, 1923; Other: Date acquired: 11/30/1927
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society
Frederick E. Haight letter to Anne Lyon Haight
00-2023-36-0
Item
Identifier: 00-2023-36-0
Abstract
Letter from Frederick E. Haight to his mother, Anne Lyon Haight on St. Anthony Club stationery postmarked New York July 13, 1940.
Dates:
1940-07-13
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society
John P. Hale letter
00-2010-196-0
Collection
Identifier: 00-2010-196-0
Scope and Contents
Letter to H. Barney regarding Hale's plans to travel to the convention at Syracuse.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1853 Aug 20
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society