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Litchfield Community House, Inc. records
1954-45-0
Collection
Identifier: 1954-45-0
Scope and Contents
The Litchfield Community House, Inc. records (1954-45-0, .83 linear feet) document an organization that built and maintained athletic fields and operated a community building in Litchfield, Conn., from 1929 to 1958. The collection includes correspondence, blueprints, specifications, reports, clippings, ephemera, and other documents and covers 1927-1949.
As early as 1927, a group of concerned Litchfield citizens, spearheaded by Frederick Kingsbury Bull, explored the idea of constructing...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1927-1958; Other: Date acquired: 04/08/1955
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society
Litchfield County University Club records
2010-34-0
Collection
Identifier: 2010-34-0
Scope and Contents
The Litchfield County University Club records consist of minute books, a membership list, and scrapbooks, documenting the organziation from 1896 to 1958. Three minute books (1896-1956) also occasionally have news clippings, correspondence, and programs pasted in. Two scrapbooks (1897-1940) mainly contain news clippings, but also contain correspondence, programs, by-laws, bills, and other items. The membership list (1896-1958) is in a single volume and indicates the members' order of...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1896-1958; Other: Date acquired: 01/02/2012
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society
Litchfield Equal Franchise League records
1940-03-0
Collection
Identifier: 1940-03-0
Scope and Contents
A half-document box of records relating to the Litchfield Equal Franchise League, organized Sept. 5, 1913. It was an auxiliary of the Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association, which had as its mission the securing of the ratification of the 20th Amendment and preparing women for voting. Frances E. Hickox was the first president, serving 1913-1914. Adelaide Deming served next through at least 1920.A speech given by interntionally-renowned reformer and women's rights advocate Rev....
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1913-1920; Other: Date acquired: 01/08/1940
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 Garden Club records
2010-33-0
Series
Identifier: 2010-33-0
Scope and Contents
The Litchfield Garden Club records document an association that has been actively involved in education and civic improvement efforts as well as local, regional and national conservation and environmental initiatives since the club was founded in Litchfield, Conn., in 1913. The collection consists of minutes, reports, correspondence, membership information, financial records, scrapbooks, photographs, newsletters, publicity materials, clippings, programs, yearbooks, awards, and other items....
Dates:
1913-2021
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society
Litchfield Historical Society institutional records
2023-43-0
Fonds
Identifier: 2023-43-0
Abstract
Litchfield Historical Society institutional records (1848-2023) consists of records created by the Society or relate to it and documents all aspects of its history. The collection includes correspondence, minutes, architectural records and drawings, ledgers and other accounting records, scrapbooks, and other records.
Dates:
1848-2024
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society
Litchfield Horse Show Association collection
1995-16-0
Collection
Identifier: 1995-16-0
Scope and Contents
The Litchfield Horse Show Association collection documents a horse show and associated events held annually in August from 1928 until 1975 in Litchfield, Conn., and the organization that oversaw them. In addition, some records relate to Litchfield horse shows held prior to the formation of the association. The collection consists of correspondence; photographs; plans for jumps; an application to The American Horse Shows Association, Inc.; a scrapbook, tickets; news clippings; a history;...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1915-1981; Other: Date acquired: 12/05/1996
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society
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:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1773-1990; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1890
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society
Correspondence regarding Litchfield Library's Shakespeare folio
00-2010-220-0
Collection
Identifier: 00-2010-220-0
Scope and Contents
Correspondence regarding the Shakespeare folio held by the Oliver Wolcott Library of Litchfield, Conn., between Alain C. White and Arthur Bostwick, the Folger Shakespeare Library, and the New York Public Library, Jan.-Mar., 1938.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1938
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society
Litchfield Rarities/Bill Alexander collection
2002-21-0
Collection
Identifier: 2002-21-0
Scope and Contents
Connecticut covers (1967-1971); postcards, (circa 1903-1969); envelopes, unknown to Ransom (circa 1883), Pratt & Thompson to Ebenezer Wooster (1886), Flynn & Doyle to George R. Bailey (1913); photographs, including Litchfield High School students (circa 1880s), cabinet cards; publications and ephemera (1910s-1930s); Swamp-Root Almanacs, imprinted with Litchfield Pharmacy and Crutch & McDonald; deeds, F. Nelson B. Smith (1846), Edwin E. Pretiss (1858), and Charles Munson (1867);...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1797-1971; Other: Date acquired: 02/08/2003
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society