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World War, 1939-1945

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:

Janet Gaylord Atkins collection

00-1997-14-0-2022-42-0

 Collection
Identifier: 00-1997-14-0-2022-42-0
Scope and Contents

American National Red Cross certificates, World War II rationing cards, and National Grange certificates of 25 and 50 years of membership and related documents. 2022 accrual includes photographs and clippings of Atkin's childhood on Baldwin Hill Rd. in Litchfield.

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1942-1983; Other: Date acquired: 04/07/1998

Babbitt family papers

1994-15-0

 Collection — Box 1: Series Series 1; Series Series 2
Identifier: 1994-15-0
Scope and Contents Papers relating to the Babbit family, including Eleanor Babbitt (1898-1994) and Col. Samuel H. Fisher (1867-1957). Col. Fisher's daughter Margaret Crossette Fisher married Eleanor Babbitt's brother Theodore Babbitt on June 17, 1922, in Litchfield. The papers include photographs and documents pertaining to Sheldon Tavern; drawings, invitations, etc. from Lilac Hedges; legal documents; birth and marriage certificates; family photographs; papers pertaining to Eleanor Babbitt and the Aircraft...
Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1895-1972; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1994

F. Kingsbury Bull World War II victory loan campaigns correspondence

00-2010-287-0

 Collection
Identifier: 00-2010-287-0
Scope and Contents

One folder of correspondence regarding World War II victory loan campaigns in Litchfield, Conn.

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1943-1945; Other: Date acquired: 12/09/2011

Charles Raymond Ganung papers

00-2010-265-0

 Collection
Identifier: 00-2010-265-0
Scope and Contents

The papers of Waterbury banker Charles Raymond Ganung (1897-1965) consist of membership cards, Selective Service cards and documents, World War II ration documents, his U.S. Army World War I honorable discharge, letters of introduction, ephemera, biographical information, and news clippings.

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1916-1997; Other: Date acquired: 02/08/2012

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

Ann McGurk collection

2002-46-0

 Collection
Identifier: 2002-46-0
Abstract

Marshall Field and Company department store advertising pamphlet, circa 1920; three World War II ration books; three illustrated pages (may have been part of a book); newspaper clipping, "Butler Announces Lindy's Baby Dead"; five unidentified (non-family) daguerreotypes; twenty slides marked "Cambridge, OH small town parade with many old cars, vintage gas station and motel."

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: circa 1860-circa 1970; Other: Date acquired: 01/09/2004

Ruth Schele collection

2002-80-0

 Collection
Identifier: 2002-80-0
Scope and Contents

Research files relating to the history of Litchfield, Bantam, The Cotton Mill (Neville & Co.), and other local topics; transcriptions of articles from the Litchfield Enquirer; Ethel Marvin Cox's collection of Litchfield school materials; documents related to World War II rationing and Selective Service; photographs related to the Wadsworth family; and other materials.

An inventory of the papers is available.

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: circa 1921-1988; Other: Date acquired: 03/11/2002