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 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus

Found in 61 Collections and/or Records:

Joy and Beers families papers

00-1975-04-0

 Collection
Identifier: 00-1975-04-0
Scope and Contents Papers related to the Joy and Beers families consisting of genealogical tables and family records, news clippings and obituaries, correspondence (six are sympathy letters written at the death of Katie Palmer Joy at age 26 in childbirth), and other documents. Family members include Jane Joy Burgess, Jane Ellen Joy, Lewis Beers Joy, and Belle Radcliffe Laverack. These families primarily lived in New York State. Walter Joy (1810-1863) and Jane Ellen Radcliffe were married on January 22, 1833...
Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1859-1935; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1975

C. Murray Keefer manuscript

00-1956-30-0

 Collection
Identifier: 00-1956-30-0
Scope and Contents

Typescript manuscript, "Historical Sketch: Portraying the Ceremony of Presentation to James Morris of the Morris Academy Building and Its Dedication in November 1803," prepared by C. Murray Keefer and enacted in the Morris Community Hall on Jul 24, 1935, as a part of the Connecticut Tercentenary Celebration.

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1935; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1956

Dwight C. Kilbourn collection

1929-18-0

 Collection
Identifier: 1929-18-0
Scope and Contents The Dwight C. Kilbourn collection (1929-18-0, .83 linear feet) consists of a wide range of Litchfield, Conn., historical materials collected by Kilbourn, some of which relate to him and other Kilbourns, particularly his distant cousin Eliada Kilbourn (1809-1883) and Eliada’s family, and many that do not. Of particular interest are research files Dwight Kilbourn assembled regarding the involvement of Litchfield men in the American Revolutionary War and the American Civil War. The collection...
Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1801-1920; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1929

Alice Kingsbury papers

00-2010-192-0

 Collection
Identifier: 00-2010-192-0
Scope and Contents

The papers of Alice Eliza Kingsbury of Waterbury and Litchfield, Conn., consisting of a memoir of her childhood in Waterbury; a photograph of her father Frederick J. Kingsbury with Frederick Law Olmsted, John Olmsted, Charles Loring Brace, and Charles Trask; photographs of Alice Kingsbury; and a newspaper clipping about Dorothy Bull.

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1890s-1937

Kirby family collection

00-2010-193-0

 Collection
Identifier: 00-2010-193-0
Scope and Contents

A newspaper obituary of Col. Edmund Kirby (1794-1849), who enlisted in the army at the age of 18 and fought in the War of 1812, the Black Hawk, Creek and Seminole Wars and the Mexican War. He was chief of the Pay Department during the Mexican War and died as a result of deteriorating health during the war. A manuscript, "A chronicle of the Marvin-Kirby house from an address read by Miss Wells at Litchfield, Conn., 21 Aug 1879."

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1849-1879

William Wallace Lee manuscript

00-1905-11-0

 Collection
Identifier: 00-1905-11-0
Scope and Contents

William Wallace Lee manuscript (1905-11-0) is a typescript manuscript titled "History of Aurora Lodge Harwinton, Conn." The manuscript was written in 1902 and gives a brief history of the Aurora Lodge, which was chartered in Harwinton, Connecticut in 1796, and also contains a catalogue of members of the Lodge. William Wallace Lee (1833-1903) was a mason, and served as the Grand High Priest of The Grand Chapter of Connecticut in 1872 and 1873.

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1902; Other: Date acquired: 11/30/1904

List of persons living in the town of Morris over 70 years old

00-2010-353-0

 Collection
Identifier: 00-2010-353-0
Scope and Contents

Lists people ranging from age 90 to 70.

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1865; Other: Date acquired: 05/09/2012

Litchfield War Records Committee records

2011-15-0

 Collection
Identifier: 2011-15-0
Scope and Contents The Litchfield War Records Committee records (2011-15-0, 1.88 linear feet) document men and women who served in the armed forces and auxiliary groups from Litchfield, Conn., during World War II. The papers consist of questionaires, photographs, minutes, notes, subject files, correspondence, and ephemera. The largest group of papers are returned questionnaires that list the service person's name, address, date of birth, next of kin, service dates and places, promotions, date and...
Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1940-1946; Other: Date acquired: 03/04/2012

Lo! on a narrow neck of land copy

00-2010-191-0

 Collection
Identifier: 00-2010-191-0
Scope and Contents

Handwritten copy of Charles Wesley's hymn, "Lo! on a narrow neck of land," undated.

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: undated

Muriel Hopkins McLauchlin collection of papers related to the Hopkins family

00-2010-186-0

 Collection
Identifier: 00-2010-186-0
Scope and Contents

Correspondence, genealogies, notes, and genealogical tables regarding the Hopkins family gathered by Muriel Hopkins McLauchlin probably for the publication of her booklet, "The Hopkins Family: Litchfield and Northfield." The documents also relate to the Hill and Alfred families.

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: circa 1920s-1981