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 Subject
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Found in 47 Collections and/or Records:

Emerette Colt Strong diary

00-1972-127-0

 Collection
Identifier: 00-1972-127-0
Scope and Contents The Emerette Colt Strong diary (1972-127-0) contains entries from March 8, 1874 through May 9, 1874. Emerette provides detailed daily accounts as she travelled across the country from New York to California by train. She provides descriptions of the cities that they stopped at along the way, as well as written sketches of the landscape, economy, and architecture of the country as she travelled west. Also represented in the diary are occassional histories of select cities or historic...
Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1874; Other: Date acquired: 01/06/1972
Found in: Litchfield Historical Society

Malachi Tracy diary

00-2019-20-0

 Item
Identifier: 00-2019-20-0
Abstract

Diary of Malachi Tracy primarily recording work done in the Litchfield, CT area. The weather and some computations are also recorded.

Dates: 1891
Found in: Litchfield Historical Society

James C.L. Wadsworth journal

00-2011-71-0

 Collection
Identifier: 00-2011-71-0
Scope and Contents

The James C.L. Wadsworth journal (2011-71-0) was penned by Wadsworth in 1846 and 1847. The journal chronicles his voyage from New York to San Francisco which began on November 27, 1846 and ended April 24, 1847. In the journal he discusses passing in sight of Cape De Verde, and Falkland Islands, and Cape Horn. He also writes about stopping at the Island of Juan Ferdandez. The item is currently housed in 3A Box 22.

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1846-1847; Other: Date acquired: 03/06/2011
Found in: Litchfield Historical Society

Samuel Waldron journal

00-2010-233-0

 Collection
Identifier: 00-2010-233-0
Scope and Contents The journal of Samuel [Waldron?], Oct. 8, 1823-Nov. 3, 1823, chronicles the last days of Roger Wolcott Cooke (1797-1823), Litchfield Law School graduate and lawyer. Cook was born in 1797, a son of Roger Cooke (1766-1836) and Emily Webster Cooke (1776-1807). He graduated from the Litchfield Law School in 1817 and was admitted to the Litchfield bar in 1819. He later moved to Augusta, Ga., and formed a partnership with William Tracy Gould, another Litchfield Law Student. Cooke again moved,...
Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1823; Other: Date acquired: 10/06/2011
Found in: Litchfield Historical Society

Webster family papers

2017-11-0

 Fonds
Identifier: 2017-11-0
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1867-1998
Found in: Litchfield Historical Society

Wolcott family collection

1906-04-0

 Collection
Identifier: 1906-04-0
Abstract Correspondence chiefly between Frederick Wolcott (1767-1837), his wife Elizabeth (Betsey) Huntington  Wolcott (1774-1812), his brother Oliver Wolcott (1760-1833) who served as Secretary of the Treasury and Governor of Connecticut, and Jabez W. Huntington (1788-1847) who served as a U.S. Senator from Connecticut.  Topics include domestic news, local, state, regional and national politics, business affairs, church activities, trade with China and the merchant vessel Trident, raising merino...
Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1740-1844; Other: Majority of material found within 1790-1837; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1906
Found in: Litchfield Historical Society

Woodruff family collection

1953-02-2-8

 Collection
Identifier: 1953-02-2-8
Abstract

The Woodruff Collection primarily documents the personal life and professional career of George Catlin Woodruff, who not only practiced law for several decades in Litchfield but also served as Litchfield's postmaster and held elected positions both locally and in the United States Congress.  

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1779-1966; Other: Majority of material found within 1815-1919; Other: Date acquired: 11/03/1954
Found in: Litchfield Historical Society

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