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Litchfield Historical Society (Litchfield, Conn.)

 Organization

Found in 25 Collections and/or Records:

Litchfield County deeds

00-2010-171-0

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: 00-2010-171-0
Scope and Contents

9 deeds relating to land transactions in Litchfield County, Conn., 1851-1869.

Dates: Created: 1851-1869

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: Created: 1787-1927; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1890

Litchfield Historical Society photograph collection

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 Collection
Identifier:  ##ciz
Scope and Contents

The Litchfield Historical Society photograph collection is an artifical collection brought together by staff that contains photographs that primarily were part of the vertical files collection. They are arranged into three series by format: Series 1. Prints; Series 2. Daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, and tintypes; and Series 3. Glass plates. The content of the prints and glass plates are categorized in this finding aid by subject; the physical objects are arranged by accession.

Dates: 1840-2000

Litchfield Historical Society postcard, hours

2014-36-0

 Item
Identifier: 2014-36-0
Content Description

Advertising card for the Litchfield Historical Society showing the dates and hours the Historical Museum and Tapping Reeve House are open.

Dates: 1940 - 1960

Litchfield Law School collection

1890-10-0

 Collection
Identifier: 1890-10-0
Abstract

This collection includes materials pertaining to Tapping Reeve, James Gould, the Litchfield Law School, and alumni of the school.  It was assembled by the Historical Society over a period of years.  Many of the law books used by Reeve and his students are also held by the Society and can be found through the book catalog.  The Society's institutional records document the history of the Tapping Reeve House and Litchfield Law School building.

Dates: Created: 1773-1990; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1890

Litchfield miscellaneous deeds

00-2009-22-0

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: 00-2009-22-0
Scope and Contents

24 deeds related to land and buildings in Litchfield, Conn., 1889-1926.

Dates: Created: 1889-1926

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: Created: 1940-1946; Other: Date acquired: 03/04/2012

Miscellaneous bills

00-2010-149-0

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: 00-2010-149-0
Scope and Contents

Approximately 15 bills from Litchfield area merchants and businesses, 1886-1904.

Dates: Created: 1886-1904

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: Created: 1841-1956; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/2002

Miscellaneous records

00-2009-24-0

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: 00-2009-24-0
Scope and Contents

Estate inventories, leases, and contracts related to business activities in Litchfield, Conn., 1895-1924.

Dates: Created: 1895-1924

Additional filters:

Subject
Correspondence 13
Litchfield (Conn.) 11
Manuscripts 7
Photographs 7
Minutes 4
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Deeds 3
Drawings 3
Financial records 3
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865 3
Contracts 2
Ephemera 2
Government records 2
Historic preservation 2
Lecture notes 2
Maps 2
Notebooks 2
Notes 2
Receipts 2
Scrapbooks 2
Account books 1
Ambrotypes (photographs) 1
Architectural drawings 1
Architecture 1
Autograph albums 1
Banks and banking 1
Billheads 1
Bridges -- Design and construction 1
Business cards 1
Business enterprises -- Connecticut -- Litchfield 1
Business records 1
Circulars (fliers) 1
Connecticut -- History 1
Daguerreotypes (photographs) 1
Diaries 1
Dutch elm disease--Control. 1
Engravings (prints) 1
Estate inventories 1
Exercise books 1
Genealogies 1
Goshen (Conn.) -- Genealogy 1
Historic buildings 1
Interior decoration 1
Invitations 1
Judicial records 1
Lace and lace making 1
Land surveys 1
Law -- Study and teaching -- Connecticut 1
Law students -- Connecticut -- Litchfield 1
Law--United States--Study and teaching 1
Lawyers -- Connecticut 1
Lawyers--Correspondence 1
Leases 1
Lecture notes -- Connecticut -- Litchfield 1
Legal documents 1
Lichfield (England) 1
Litchfield (Conn.) - History 1
Litchfield (Conn.) -- Genealogy 1
Litchfield (Conn.) -- History 1
Litchfield (Conn.) -- Social life and customs 1
Litchfield County (Conn.) 1
Memoirs 1
Merchants -- Connecticut -- Litchfield 1
Morris (Conn.) -- Genealogy 1
Newspapers 1
Newspapers -- Connecticut -- Litchfield 1
Paper money -- Alabama 1
Paper money -- Austria 1
Paper money -- Confederate States of America 1
Paper money -- Connecticut 1
Paper money -- Cuba 1
Paper money -- Delaware 1
Paper money -- District of Columbia 1
Paper money -- Florida 1
Paper money -- France 1
Paper money -- Georgia 1
Paper money -- Germany 1
Paper money -- Italy 1
Paper money -- Latvia 1
Paper money -- Louisiana 1
Paper money -- Maryland 1
Paper money -- Massachusetts 1
Paper money -- Michigan 1
Paper money -- Mississippi 1
Paper money -- Missouri 1
Paper money -- New Jersey 1
Paper money -- New York 1
Paper money -- North Carolina 1
Paper money -- Pennsylvania 1
Paper money -- Rhode Island 1
Paper money -- Russia 1
Paper money -- South Carolina 1
Paper money -- Tennessee 1
Paper money -- Texas 1
Paper money -- Turkey 1
Paper money -- United States 1
Paper money -- Virginia 1
Photography--Negatives. 1
Poems 1
Portraits 1
Postcards 1
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