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Photograph postcard (2013-141-0) of 9 members of the East Litchfield baseball team in 1908. The men are in uniforms wth the letters E and L. On the reverse side is printed Gunther Mathes, Thomaston, Conn. Also in the folder are the names of the players as listed in an Update on the East Litchfield History Project.

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The Mrs. J.C. Kendall album (2011-51-0) contains quotations from Tennyson's "Song of the Brook." The item was produced in 1907, and is illustrated with twelve images by Mrs. J.C. Kendall. The illustrations are color souvenir postcards which were created from original photographs by Mrs. J.C. Kendall.

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Advertising card for the Litchfield Historical Society showing the dates and hours the Historical Museum and Tapping Reeve House are open.

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Six photographs of an ice storm in Litchfield in 1842; Two postcards depicting South Street and West Street; one photograph of North Street showing the jail, pharmacy, and bank.

Scope and Contents The Webster family papers include Arethusa Farm records, ledgers, calendars, and postcards; documentation of a 1952 transcontinental trip to Alaska; and Litchfield photos and ephemera. Most of the family papers are from the 1870s through the 1920s.In 1868, Charles Baldwin Webster (1822-1912) Charles purchased a farm in Litchfield, CT, that he and his wife Lucinda Baldwin (1830-1871) named Arethusa, which remained in the Webster family until it was sold in 1981.The...