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North Farms School record books

00-1975-97-29 & 31

 Collection
Identifier: 00-1975-97-29 & 31
Scope and Contents

The North Farms School Record Books Collection (1975-97-29 & 31) is organized into two items. Item one is the record book from 1844 and record book two is from 1846-1847. Please see the individual items (below) for a more detailed description unique to each item. The items can be found in one folder in Small Acquisitions.

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1844-1847; Other: Date acquired: 02/09/1977

Ethan Osborn school bill

00-2009-110-0

 Collection
Identifier: 00-2009-110-0
Scope and Contents

A bill or school account submitted by Ethan Osborn and attested as accurate by Isaac Baldwin, justice of peace, Litchfield County on 8 June 1784. It appears to be a list of students with the number of days they attended school and the charge for their attendance. One bill for nine pounds is to be paid in cash or wheat, and the second bill for 9 pounds is to paid in "any sort of grain, wool, flax, or good merchantable white pine boards."

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1784 Jun 8

Heman R. Osborn journal and Lillian E. Osborn poem

00-2020-06-0

 Item
Identifier: 00-2020-06-0
Abstract

Journal written by 16-year-old Heman R. Osborn, possibly containing copies of school exercies. On a separate sheet is a poem, "Jack Frost," written by his sister, Lillian E. Osborn

Dates: 1887

Pierce family correspondence

1978-39-8

 Collection
Identifier: 1978-39-8
Scope and Contents The Pierce Family Correspondence consists primarily of letters to and from the children of John Pierce and his first wife, Mary (Paterson) Pierce, as well as of his second wife, Mary (Goodman) Pierce. The collection documents events of national importance: John Pierce, a colonel and paymaster in the Continental Army, received letters from numerous correspondents concerning military, administrative, and political news of the American Revolution. Moreover, the Pierce brothers traveled...
Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1775-1825; Other: Majority of material found in 1776-1825; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1978

Ray family papers

00-1966-01-0

 Collection
Identifier: 00-1966-01-0
Scope and Contents The Ray Family papers (1966-01-0) contain correspondence, drawings, school papers, and a newspaper clipping relating to the family of Addie Wadhams Stevens Ray (1846-1918). Other family members represented in the papers include her mother Jane Wadhams Stevens (1815-1862), grandmother Phoebe Collins Wadhams (1773-1867), cousin Alida Collins Benson (1834- ), and uncle Edward R. Stevens. Addie Wadhams Stevens Ray was the daughter of Henry Ward and Jane Wadhams Stevens. They resided in...
Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1855-1886; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1966

Ruth Schele collection

2002-80-0

 Collection
Identifier: 2002-80-0
Scope and Contents

Research files relating to the history of Litchfield, Bantam, The Cotton Mill (Neville & Co.), and other local topics; transcriptions of articles from the Litchfield Enquirer; Ethel Marvin Cox's collection of Litchfield school materials; documents related to World War II rationing and Selective Service; photographs related to the Wadsworth family; and other materials.

An inventory of the papers is available.

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: circa 1921-1988; Other: Date acquired: 03/11/2002

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

Spring Hill School photographs

00-2011-13-0

 Collection
Identifier: 00-2011-13-0
Scope and Contents The Spring Hill School photographs (2011-13-0, .92 linear feet) document the activities of students circa 1930 at Spring Hill School, a private school located in Litchfield, Conn. The founders of the school used a progressive education model, and the photographs depict social, recreational, and scholastic activities, including images of horseback riding, making maple sugar, the study of geography, students in their quarters, and a Roman dinner, among other topics. The photographs are mounted...
Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: circa 1930; Other: Date acquired: 02/04/2012

Barbara Nolen Strong papers

1993-101-0

 Collection
Identifier: 1993-101-0
Abstract

The Barbara Nolen Strong papers (1993-101-0) consist of Mrs. Strong's research, notes, budget and costs, publication, and other materials related to the publication of her book, The Morris Academy: pioneer in coeducation 1790-1888, published in 1976.

Dates: Other: Date acquired: 05/11/1994

Lillian Webster collection

00-1997-03-0

 Collection
Identifier: 00-1997-03-0
Scope and Contents

School copy book in geography of Everit Wright, ca. 1830s; composition book of Alice Wright, 1830; "Metropolitan Fashions," published by Butterick Publishing Co. imprinted with Mrs. L. E. Sedgwick, Litchfield, Aug 1897.

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1830-1897; Other: Date acquired: 03/05/1998

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