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Ephemera

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus

Found in 44 Collections and/or Records:

Taylor Loomis collection

00-2000-08-0

 Collection
Identifier: 00-2000-08-0
Scope and Contents

Cookbook. "Wholesome Cooking Without Waste." Front cover inscribed with "Welch’s Grape Juice Sold by Morey & Perkins, General Merchandise, Bantam, Conn." "Two hundred well-tested recipes selected by Ethel Harris." Rand McNally & Company, Chicago, circa 1912. Machine punched hole. 5 5/8”x 7 5/8”, 32 pages.

This item has fire damage as a result of a fire that destroyed the Morey & Perkins store.

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: circa 1912; Other: Date acquired: 01/08/2000
Found in: Litchfield Historical Society

Ann McGurk collection

2002-46-0

 Collection
Identifier: 2002-46-0
Abstract

Marshall Field and Company department store advertising pamphlet, circa 1920; three World War II ration books; three illustrated pages (may have been part of a book); newspaper clipping, "Butler Announces Lindy's Baby Dead"; five unidentified (non-family) daguerreotypes; twenty slides marked "Cambridge, OH small town parade with many old cars, vintage gas station and motel."

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: circa 1860-circa 1970; Other: Date acquired: 01/09/2004
Found in: Litchfield Historical Society

James Moir collection

00-2001-08-0

 Collection
Identifier: 00-2001-08-0
Scope and Contents

Newspaper clipping showing before and after views of buildings in Litchfield destroyed by fire in 1886.

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1886; Other: Date acquired: 02/03/2003
Found in: Litchfield Historical Society

Mildred Molumphy collection

00-2002-72-0

 Collection
Identifier: 00-2002-72-0
Scope and Contents

Madison Square Garden Programme week commencing Sep. 21, 1891; three Litchfield 250th anniversary bumper stickers, 1969; three notice of public hearing flyers for a hearing to ban helliports in Litchfield, Jun. 25, 1987. Photographs of Litchfield events 1970-1977 include Litchfield Historical Plaque dedication; Bi-Centennial parade (1976); Fireman's parade; Litchfield Hills Road Race (1977); White Memorial Foundation carriage show (1970, 1974).

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1891-1987; Other: Date acquired: 06/12/2002
Found in: Litchfield Historical Society

Litchfield County papers

00-1973-30-0

 Collection
Identifier: 00-1973-30-0
Scope and Contents

Collection of papers related to Litchfield County, including bills, receipts, correspondence, deeds, judicial records, ephemera, and other documents. Towns represented include Goshen, Torrington, and Winchester.

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1866-1902; Other: Date acquired: 01/12/1973
Found in: Litchfield Historical Society

Laura Hunt Ramsey collection

00-1999-03-0

 Collection
Identifier: 00-1999-03-0
Scope and Contents

Laura Hunt Ramsey performed in Litchfield Summer Theatre productions during the 1952 season. Among the cast was Calvert DeForest, who became nationally known in the 1980s through his appearances as Larry (Bud) Melman on Late Night with David Letterman. The collection consists of news clippings, theater programs, post cards, and photographs relating to the Summer Theatre and Litchfield. There is also a drawing by Leonard Altobell of himself.

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1952; Other: Date acquired: 01/08/1999
Found in: Litchfield Historical Society

Margaret Swartwout Sanford papers

00-1973-31-0

 Collection
Identifier: 00-1973-31-0
Scope and Contents

Papers related to the genealogy of Margaret Swartwout Sanford of Litchfield, Conn., including her D.A.R. application materials, her eulogy by Howard Frederic Dunn and David Fyodor Gurniak of St. Michael's Church, obituaries of her grandfather Rollin Sanford (1806-1879), news clippings related to members of the Swartwout family, and other documents.

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1879-1966; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1973
Found in: Litchfield Historical Society

Sonia P. Seherr-Thoss papers

2006-34-0

 Fonds
Identifier: 2006-34-0
Scope and Contents The papers of Sonia P. Seherr-Thoss (1919-2006), writer, photographer, dairy farmer, philanthropist, and long-time Litchfield, Conn., resident. The majority of the papers document the foreign travels she made with her husband Hans Christoph Seherr-Thoss (1912-1992) and family members and friends to Europe, Russia, Afghanistan, Turkey, Iran, India, China, Japan, Africa, Mexico, Brazil, Chile, Argentina, the Galapagos Islands, and other places. The papers also relate to her involvement in...
Dates: 1920-2006
Found in: Litchfield Historical Society

James Smith collection

00-1996-23-0

 Collection
Identifier: 00-1996-23-0
Scope and Contents

Calling card of Mr. and Mrs. Elijah White; business cards of Dwight C. Kilbourn and David A. Bradley, all undated.

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: undated; Other: Date acquired: 02/08/1996
Found in: Litchfield Historical Society

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
Found in: Litchfield Historical Society

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