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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
Collection
Identifier: 00-2002-73-0
Scope and Contents
One letter from S. Carl Fisher, president of the Litchfield Enquirer Publishing Co. to "Tete," circa 1930s; photographs of Litchfield High School, 1890-1925, and Litchfield High School students, circa 1921.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: circa 1921-circa 1930s; Other: Date acquired: 02/12/2002
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 00-2011-44-0
Scope and Contents
The Elisha Marsh School Book collection (2011-44-0) is a school used to by a student to do math problems and keep notes. The book contains various rules of mathematics and also math problems done by the student. The book is not dated.
Currently housed in 3A Box 30.
Dates:
Other: Date acquired: 05/06/2012
Item
Identifier: 2014-35-0
Content Description
Photograph of people posing in front of the schoolhouse. Included is a diagram with name identification reference.
Dates:
1917
Collection
Identifier: 00-2009-65-0
Scope and Contents
"Catalogue of the Instructors & members, of Morris' Academy, Litchfield, South Farms, 1812." List of ladies & gentlemen with places of residences. James Morris, Esq., preceptor; Joseph Vaill, A.B. tutor; Miss Rhoda Farnam, tutoress.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1812
Collection
Identifier: 2008-38-0
Scope and Contents
My Country Society, Inc. was founded in 1967 with the purpose of publishing a journal, My Country, related to American history. Initially, the journal was distributed throughout Litchfield County to schools, historical societies, libraries, town halls, banks, and other places. Later, it became available by subscription. The publication schedule varied, but typically several issues were produced each year. New and established authors were encouraged to submit manuscripts. The Society also...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1967-2009; Other: Date acquired: 12/04/2009
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
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
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
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
