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Schools -- Connecticut

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 12 Collections and/or Records:

Clarissa Baldwin Journal

00-2011-68-0

 Collection
Identifier: 00-2011-68-0
Scope and Contents The Clarissa Baldwin Journal (2011-68-0) is a daily journal that Clarissa Baldwin maintained for an assignment while at the Morris Academy in 1810 through 1811. The journal focuses on the day-to-day activities such as attended classes, prayer, getting to and from school, the description of the weather, &tc. There are also two comments in the journal left by her teacher Rhoda Farnham. The one that might be of most interest, because it is the most extensive, is at the end of the journal....
Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1810-1811; Other: Date acquired: 03/06/2011

Burke family papers

00-1984-38-0

 Collection
Identifier: 00-1984-38-0
Scope and Contents

Two bills, one from the Echo Farm Co., 1899, and C. W. Hinsdale, 1902; a Connecticut State Board of Education letter regarding unsatisfactory school attendance of two children, 1903; and a corset advertisement imprinted with W. J. Bissell, Litchfield, Conn., undated.

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1899-1903; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1984

Connecticut. Commissioner of the School Fund

00-2009-68-0

 Collection
Identifier: 00-2009-68-0
Scope and Contents

Three reports from the Conn. Commissioner of the School Fund, James Hillhouse, to the General Assembly. These are dated 7 Oct 1811; 6 May 1823; and 7 May 1824 and include financial reports, sales of western lands, and bond holders.

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1811-1824

Truman Guild school books

00-1975-97-27,28,30, 32, 33-0

 Collection
Identifier: 00-1975-97-27,28,30, 32, 33-0
Scope and Contents The Truman Guild school books collection (1975-27,28,30, 32, and 33-0) is a collection of four volumes of school books created by Truman Guild. The notebooks cover various topics such as arithmetic, poetry, Greek poetry and translations, drawings, penmanship, and many other topics. One of the volumes contains a poem that was published in the Litchfield Enquirer, and another volume contains a list of all the books that Guild had read to date. Please see the below detailed descriptions for...
Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1821-1874; Other: Date acquired: 02/09/1977

Litchfield Public Schools/ Regional School District No. 6 Workgroup on Collaboration Recommendation

00-2023-16-0

 Item
Identifier: 00-2023-16-0
Content Description

Report on proposed regionalization of schools including plans from earlier years.

Dates: 2021

Elisha Marsh School Book

00-2011-44-0

 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

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

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

Alain C. White papers

00-2010-251-0

 Collection
Identifier: 00-2010-251-0
Scope and Contents

Papers of Alain C. White, consisting of correspondence related to investments of the Litchfield Historical Society, the acquisition of a John C. Calhoun portrait by the Society, and other matters. There are also a collection of what appear to be papers of Middletown, Conn., students.

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1878-1923

George Whitefield papers

00-ca 1890-19-0

 Collection
Identifier: 00-ca 1890-19-0
Scope and Contents

George Whitefield papers (ca 1890-19-0) consist of 3 samples of calligraphy and a letter to Rev. Amos Bassett in which he describes trouble he is having with Wheelock, who kicks him and threatens to kill him. He asks to be permitted to go to school in Mackinaw and describes other students who also have trouble with Wheelock.

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1826