Scrapbooks
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Found in 36 Collections and/or Records:
George Younglove Cutler album
00-2009-28-0
Collection
Identifier: 00-2009-28-0
Scope and Contents
News clippings mostly from the Litchfield Republican and poems written by George Younglove Cutler in Litchfield in 1820.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1819-1820; Other: Date acquired: 06/10/2011
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society
Danner family papers
2002-50-0
Collection
Identifier: 2002-50-0
Scope and Contents
The personal papers of Helen Danner and her parents Frederick Baxter Danner (1907-1979) and Elizabeth Neill Danner (1907-1991). Frederick Danner grew up in Mount Vernon, N.Y., and graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was then employed by AT&T's Long Lines Division for 42 years. Elizabeth Neill was born in Milwaukee. She attended Sweet Briar College in Virginia. She married Frederick Danner in 1935. They moved to Litchfield in the early 1970s. Helen Danner's...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1832-1991; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/2002
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society
Clarence H. Elliott collection
1979-16-1
Collection — 1979-16-1 Elliott Box 1: Series Series 1; Series Series 2
Identifier: 1979-16-1
Abstract
The Clarence H. Elliott collection documents Elliott's association with Litchfield High School from 1916 through 1927 as teacher, assistant principal, principal, and athletic coach. There are also items which relate to Litchfield in general and Antrim, N.H., where Elliott lived for a time prior to coming to Litchfield. The collection consists of photographs, scrapbooks, ephemera, and news clippings.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1915-1932; Other: Date acquired: 10/05/1980
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society
First Law School Society of the Children of the American Revolution records
2010-362-0
Collection
Identifier: 2010-362-0
Scope and Contents
The records of the First Law School Society of the Children of the American Revolution include scrapbooks primarily containing photographs and news clippings; application materials and brochures; cards with members' information; minutes; organizational records; program ideas files; transparencies; newsletters; patrotic and other publications; banner; local society annual reports; correspondence; president's medal; financial records; and other items.
Initial meetings of what would become the...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1971-1994; Other: Date acquired: 05/10/2010
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society
Friday Fasters record book
00-1913-33-0
Collection
Identifier: 00-1913-33-0
Scope and Contents
The Friday Fasters record book (1913-33-0) was made by Mary H. Willis to document the Litchfield female lunch club known as the Friday Fasters. The book contains a variety of items recording the activities of the club from 1902 to 1904. Inside the front cover is a watercolor depicting the lunch club in a satirical manner. The words "Semper Puratus", which translate to "always ready", appear under the name "Ye Friday Fasters". Also present in the record book is a brief explanation of the...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1902-1904; Other: Date acquired: 11/30/1912
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
Mary Brisbane Hollister scrapbook
00-1965-25-0
Collection
Identifier: 00-1965-25-0
Scope and Contents
The Mary Brisbane Hollister scrapbook (1965-25-0) was complied by Mary Brisbane Hollister from 1840 - 1903. An inscription reading "Ms. M.S. Brisabne from her cousin Alex, New York 30th Oct., 1840" is in the front page, along with a hand sketch of Alex. The scrapbook mainly contains newspaper clippings from such newspapers as the Litchfield Enquirer, The Christian Union, The...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1840-1903; Other: Date acquired: 11/30/1964
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society
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
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society
Harriet Kilbourn signatures scrapbook
00-2010-77-0
Collection
Identifier: 00-2010-77-0
Scope and Contents
A 46 page notebook of signatures cut from documents and pasted into it by Harriet Kilbourn, wife of Dr. Charles Kilbourn, who lived at #94 North Street in Litchfield. Mostly undated, one has a date of 1813. Many recognizable names from Litchfield including Thomas Collier, Myron Osborn, Oliver Wolcott, James Morris, Sally Pierce, Tapping Reeve, and Uriah Tracy. Other signatures are from government officials such as William Clark, Treasurer of the United States. In addition there is a typed...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: undated; Other: Date acquired: 11/30/1916
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society
Elizabeth Cone Kilbourne scrapbook
1996-24-0
Collection
Identifier: 1996-24-0
Scope and Contents
Scrapbook labeled "Mrs. Elizabeth Kilbourn" on the cover containing news clippings chiefly concerning her husband Payne Kenyon Kilbourne and numerous members of the Kilbourn family. Some of the clippings are Payne's articles and poetry. Hand-written poems by Payne are loose in the scrapbook, as are family photographs, their daughter Julia's writing book, drawings, engravings, correspondence, and advertising cards and other ephemera. There is also a draft of articles and a list of members...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: circa 1840s-1894; Other: Date acquired: 11/07/1996
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society