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Advertising Envelope (2012-17-0) featuring advertisements from nine local businesses in and around Litchfield, including Arethusa Farms, Litchfield Savings Bank, Towne & Aurell Excavating, Nino Casadei Plumbing & Heating, Anderson's Rug Mart, Morgan's Photo & Gift Shop, Arlo E. Ericson Agency, Meeker Electric co. Inc., Wyant & Co., Inc.

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This Breeding Card for a jersey bull (2011-45-0) advertises "Lord St. Vincent" a prize winning bull from F. Ratchford Starr's Echo Farm in Litchfield, Connecticut.

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Two copies (2017-06-0 and 2022-07-0) of a catalog; includes history of the 575 acre farm owned by Karl Milde; conditions of sale; and pedigrees. Prices of cows are penciled in in one.

Scope and Contents The papers of Sonia P. Seherr-Thoss (1919-2006), writer, photographer, dairy farmer, philanthropist, and long-time Litchfield, Conn., resident. The majority of the papers document the foreign travels she made with her husband Hans Christoph Seherr-Thoss (1912-1992) and family members and friends to Europe, Russia, Afghanistan, Turkey, Iran, India, China, Japan, Africa, Mexico, Brazil, Chile, Argentina, the Galapagos Islands, and other places. The papers also relate to her involvement in...

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The personal papers of the Thompson family (1929-01-0, 3 linear feet) consists of correspondence, notes, personal manuscripts and newspaper publications of various writings of Esther H. Thompson on various topics pertaining to the history of Litchfield, including her childhood recollections of troops mustering for the Civil War on the town green.

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The Webster family papers include Arethusa Farm records, ledgers, calendars, and postcards; documentation of a 1952 transcontinental trip to Alaska; and Litchfield photos and ephemera. Most of the family papers are from the 1870s through the 1920s.