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Collection
Identifier: 00-1984-38-0
Abstract
Two bills, one from the Echo Farm Co., 1899, and C. W. Hinsdale, 1902; a Connecticut State Board of Education letter regarding unsatisfactory school attendance of two children, 1903; and a corset advertisement imprinted with W. J. Bissell, Litchfield, Conn., undated.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1899-1903; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1984
Clarence H. Elliott collection
1979-16-1
Collection — Container: 1979-16-1 Elliott Box 1
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
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
Spring Hill School collection
1951-30-0
Collection
Identifier: 1951-30-0
Scope and Contents
The Spring Hill School collection (1951-30-0, .83 linear feet) documents a private school modelled on a philosophy of progressive education. Founded by Dorothy Bull and Mabel Foster Spinney in Litchfield, Conn., the school operated from 1926 to 1939. The collection includes correspondence, financial records, minutes, institutional records, brochures, and published editions of student work. The collection also contains tributes to co-founders Bull from 1934 and Spinney from 1951 and a...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1926-1940; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1951
John Wright collection
1982-22-0
Collection
Identifier: 1982-22-0
Abstract
The John Wright Collection (1715-1853) [1982-22-0] consists of papers related to the Bostwick, Buck, Canfield, Ferriss, Hine, McEuen, Northrop, Taylor, and Treadwell families; lawyer Partridge Thacher; and others living in New Milford, Conn. It also includes papers related to New Preston Society. Included in the papers is correspondence; deeds; notes, orders, receipts and other business records; leases; subscription lists; account books, and other documents.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1715-1892; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1982