Litchfield Historical Society (Litchfield, Conn.)
Organization
Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:
Nan F. Heminway papers
2004-25-0
Collection
Identifier: 2004-25-0
Scope and Contents
The personal papers of Nan Ferguson Heminway (1920-2006), whose professional career spanned 50 years. She took up permanent residence in 1971 in Litchfield and decorated many historic homes. She was extensively involved with historic preservation, the Garden Club, and the Litchfield Historical Society. The papers consist of files related to Hemingway's decorating projects and professional activities and include notes, correspondence, minutes, reports, wallpaper samples, carpet samples,...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1953-2003; Other: Date acquired: 05/10/2000
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
Litchfield Female Academy collection
1890-07-2
Collection
Identifier: 1890-07-2
Scope and Contents
This collection documents the history of The Litchfield Female Academy, Litchfield, Connecticut. Early records refer to the Academy as Miss Pierce's School, Miss Pierce's Academy, and Sarah Pierce's Academy. In the collection are institutional records; correspondence, diaries, journals, school notebooks, and albums of students; papers of Sarah Pierce and the Pierce family; and correspondence of Emily Noyes Vanderpoel regarding her research for her books "Chronicles of a Pioneer School, from...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1787-1927; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1890
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society
Litchfield Historical Society institutional records
2023-9999
Fonds
Identifier: 2023-9999
Scope and Contents
Litchfield Historical Society institutional records consists of records created by the Society or relate and documents all aspects of its history. Among the records found in the collection is correspondence, minutes, architectural records and drawings, ledgers and other accounting records, scrapbooks, and other records. The collection consists of ten series.Series 1. Board of trustee records (1884-2022) contains minutes, correspondence, board resolutions, officer records, legal...
Dates:
1848-2023
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society
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
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society
Miscellaneous papers
2002-64-0
Collection
Identifier: 2002-64-0
Scope and Contents
Papers relating to families and activities in Litchfield, including correspondence related to Camp, Smith, Hill, and other families; deeds; contracts and other legal documents relating to highway and bridge construction and maintenance; Reports of the Selectmen and Treasurer of the Town of Litchfield, 1890-1911; Road Schedules; Charter and Bylaws of the Town of Litchfield, 1862; and other papers.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1841-1956; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/2002
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society
Seherr-Thoss papers regarding the Litchfield Historical Society
00-1997-31-0
Collection
Identifier: 00-1997-31-0
Scope and Contents
Plans, correspondence, and other documents related to renovation of the Litchfield Historical Society building, 1976-1986.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1976-1986; Other: Date acquired: 06/12/1998
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society
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- Litchfield (Conn.) 6
- Photographs 3
- Architectural drawings 2
- Drawings 2
- Government records 2
- Minutes 2
- Receipts 2
- Scrapbooks 2
- Account books 1
- Autograph albums 1
- Bridges -- Design and construction 1
- Contracts 1
- Deeds 1
- Diaries 1
- Engravings (prints) 1
- Ephemera 1
- Exercise books 1
- Financial records 1
- Historic preservation 1
- Historical museums 1
- Interior decoration 1
- Land surveys 1
- Legal documents 1
- Libraries - Connecticut - Litchfield 1
- Litchfield (Conn.) - History 1
- Litchfield (Conn.) -- History 1
- Manuscripts 1
- Maps 1
- Notebooks 1
- Notes 1
- Poems 1
- Private schools - Connecticut - Litchfield - History 1
- Rewards of merit 1
- Roads -- Design and construction 1
- Schools 1
- Women - Education - Connecticut - Litchfield - History 1
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