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Correspondence and records regarding The Consolidated Peat and Peat Machine Co.
00-2010-80-0
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 00-2010-80-0
Scope and Contents
Correspondence of Arthur Bostwick of the St. Louis Public Library and Alain C. White regarding The Consolidated Peat and Peat Machine Co., 1922-1923, and a stock certificate of the company, 1868.
Dates:
Created: 1868-1923
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society
Robert Cooley collection
2004-07-0
Collection
Identifier: 2004-07-0
Scope and Contents
Collection of materials purchased by Robert Cooley relating generally to Litchfield and the surrounding area. The collection includes individual 18th and 19th century letters and documents; deeds and other legal papers related to Capt. Miles Beach, 1766-1800s; photographs, including cabinet cards, cartes-de-viste, ambrotypes, daguerreotypes, tintypes loose, in cases, and/or in albums; materials related to the Coley, Tice, and Lewis family lineages and genealogy; and 19th and 20th century...
Dates:
Created: 1766-1999; Other: Majority of material found in 1766-1999; Other: Date acquired: 08/04/1992
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society
Stephanie Whitney Cunningham manuscript
00-2011-29-0
Collection
Identifier: 00-2011-29-0
Scope and Contents
Stephanie Whitney Cunningham manuscript (2011-29-0) is an unfinished manuscript draft of "From Bride to Great-Grandmother in Litchfield" by Stephanie Whitney Cunningham. Written in a small spiral bound notebook, the manuscript gives insight into the author's life in Litchfield, as well as the social scene, families, buildings, etc. that were present in the community in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. There is a typewritten transcript of the manuscript.
Dates:
Created: circa 1940; Other: Date acquired: 02/04/2013
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society
Maria Tallmadge Cushman home remedies notebook
00-1949-39-0
Collection
Identifier: 00-1949-39-0
Scope and Contents
The Maria Tallmadge Cushman home remedies notebook (1949-39-0) was compiled by Maria Tallmadge Cushman from the year 1840 through 1864. The small notebook contains home remedies for illness as well as many recipes and hints for household cleaning. Many of the remedies are handwritten, and a fair amount are newspaper clippings. Health remedies include treatments for cholera, cancer, colds, rheumatism, dysentery, and "Mrs. Noyes Recipe for purifying the blood." Interspersed with health cures...
Dates:
Created: 1840-1864; Other: Date acquired: 11/30/1948
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society
Richard Henry Dana papers
1997-16-0
Collection
Identifier: 1997-16-0
Scope and Contents
The Richard Henry Dana papers relate primarily to the renovation that Dana designed and supervised in 1925 and 1926 of Ludlow Bull's house at 114 North Street, Litchfield, Conn. The papers also include materials regarding design work for Bull's New York City apartment. The collection includes correspondence, drawings, specifications, orders, wallpaper samples, photographs, and other documents. The correspondence primarily consists of Dana's carbon copies to Bull and vendors regarding design...
Dates:
Created: 1925-1931; Other: Date acquired: 02/07/1998
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society
Daughters of the American Revolution, Mary Floyd Tallmadge Chapter records
2011-18-0
Collection
Identifier: 2011-18-0
Scope and Contents
The Daughters of the American Revolution, Mary Floyd Tallmadge Chapter (Litchfield, Conn.) records (2011-18-0, .42 linear feet) consist of research reports regarding lists of American Revolutionary War soldiers from Litchfield and surrounding towns; surveys of churches in Litchfield and Morris; grave records; and a 1779 pay abstract relating to the 13th Regiment Connecticut Militia. Many of the records were created by D.A.R. chapters in surrounding areas and presented to the Litchfield...
Dates:
Created: 1905-1936; Other: Date acquired: 03/04/2012
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society
Charlotte Deming papers
2011-17-0
Collection
Identifier: 2011-17-0
Scope and Contents
The Charlotte Deming papers (2011-17-0, ,42 linear feet) consist of programs related to her performances in Litchfield, New York City, and Westchester, 1882-1924. Deming played violin with a number of groups and venues. The papers consist mostly of programs, and also news clippings, publications and ephemera related to music business and concerts, items related to the Women's String Orchestra Society of New York and the Musicians Club of New York, and an 1898 receipt for a grand piano...
Dates:
Created: 1882-1924; Other: Date acquired: 03/04/2012
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society
Deming, Perkins, and Quincy families papers
1950-01-0
Collection
Identifier: 1950-01-0
Scope and Contents
The Deming, Perkins, and Quincy Families Papers document members of several prominent families who lived in the town of Litchfield, Conn. In the late eighteenth century, the patriarchs of each family earned wealth through their activities as merchants, traders, and investors, enabling them and many of the members of the next generations to live lives free from financial concern, if not outright luxury. The papers consist largely of correspondence, and also include collections of financial...
Dates:
Created: 1762-1950; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1921
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society
Donahue's Clothing Store customer account cards
1993-22-0
Collection
Identifier: 1993-22-0
Scope and Contents
On April 8, 1922, Martin J. Donahue opened a clothing and shoe store called Donahue's in L. R. Denegar's former location in the Beach block on West St. In March, 1936, he became postmaster of Litchfield. He died in 1946. The records consist of customer account cards, 1922-1937.
Dates:
Created: 1922-1937; Other: Date acquired: 09/08/1994
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society
Mrs. E.S. Downes album
00-1923-32-0
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 00-1923-32-0
Scope and Contents
The Mrs. E.S. Downes album (1923-32-0) is a collection of pressed algae that was given from Mrs. E.S. Downes to Mrs. H.W. Buel (Catharine Laidlaw Buel) on October 5, 1874. The album contains eight samples of pressed algae in various colors and is titled "American Algae or, Flowers of the Sea."
Dates:
Created: 1874; Other: Date acquired: 11/30/1922
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society
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