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Collection
Identifier: 1976-14-0
Scope and Contents
This collection contains records and correspondence pertaining to Captain Herbert Sidney Jones, of Litchfield, Conn.
Herbert Sidney Jones was born on July 22, 1893 in New York City. He attended the U.S. Naval Academy, graduating in 1916. He received his master's degree in engineering from Columbia University. He served in the U.S. Navy, and was the commander of a destroyer when he retired in 1934 for reasons of health. During WWII, he was recalled to active duty and served on the Bureau...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1928-1975; Other: Date acquired: 11/04/1977
Item
Identifier: 00-2023-37-0
Abstract
Letter from Julia Henrietta Jones to Laura Boardman Lane offering excuses for not writing sooner. Jones details a doctor’s success in treating Mary Deming, also a former Female Academy student, who would die the following month.
Dates:
1847-03-31
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
Item
Identifier: 00-2021-47-0
Abstract
Carte de viste of an unidentified girl.
Dates:
probably 1860s-1870s
Collection
Identifier: 00-2008-36-0
Scope and Contents
Connecticut military commissions to Henry Judson.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1813; 1818; Other: Date acquired: 11/30/2007
Collection
Identifier: 00-1971-44-0
Scope and Contents
Papers of Lucy Flower Karl (1870-1958), consisting of correspondence, ephemera, a photograph, and other documents. Lucy Karl was married to William C. Karl, and the papers include items related to her 13-year-old son William Raymond Karl, who had the unfortunate distinction of being Litchfield's first motor vehicle fatality in 1915. William C. Karl was one of seven Karl brothers who came to Litchfield with their parents, Peter and Wilhelmina Hudel Karl, in the 1880s. William died in 1903....
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1896-1930; Other: Date acquired: 01/03/1971
Collection
Identifier: 00-2010-347-0
Scope and Contents
Map labeled "Property of the K[a?]rn[a?]e M[ining and?] Milling Co." showing the locations of land plots, a vein, shafts, a mill, and a tunnel.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: undated; Other: Date acquired: 05/09/2012
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
Collection
Identifier: 00-1996-19-0
Scope and Contents
Seven Bantam, Conn., class photographs, elementary and junior high school children, 1926-1927 and undated.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1926-1927; Other: Date acquired: 07/07/1998
Collection
Identifier: 00-1996-20-0
Scope and Contents
Four publications: Souvenir Edition The Litchfield Enquirer, 1920; Bi-Centennial of the Town of Litchfield, Conn., Exercises celebrating the Litchfield Law School, the Litchfield Female Academy, 1920; Litchfield: an historic masque, 1921; Census of the United States, 1820.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1820-1921; Other: Date acquired: 07/07/1998
