Photographs
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Found in 104 Collections and/or Records:
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
Spring Hill School photographs
00-2011-13-0
Collection
Identifier: 00-2011-13-0
Scope and Contents
The Spring Hill School photographs (2011-13-0, .92 linear feet) document the activities of students circa 1930 at Spring Hill School, a private school located in Litchfield, Conn. The founders of the school used a progressive education model, and the photographs depict social, recreational, and scholastic activities, including images of horseback riding, making maple sugar, the study of geography, students in their quarters, and a Roman dinner, among other topics. The photographs are mounted...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: circa 1930; Other: Date acquired: 02/04/2012
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society
St. Paul's Lodge No. 11, Grand Lodge of Connecticut, A. M. & F. M. records
1975-03-0
Collection
Identifier: 1975-03-0
Scope and Contents
The records of St. Paul's Lodge No. 11, Grand Lodge of Connecticut, A. M. & F. M. consist of minutes (typically kept in bound volumes labeled "Records"), correspondence, degree certificates, cash and dues books, photographs, publications, ephemera, and other items. The records also document the activities of Darius Chapter 16, Royal Arch Masons and Buel Council No. 20, Royal and Select Masters.
The records contain a complete run of minutes from 1781 through 1948. Early members are...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1781-2010; Other: Date acquired: 08/01/2011
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society
Caroline Stoddard Newcomer papers
00-1953-27-0
Collection
Identifier: 00-1953-27-0
Scope and Contents
Caroline Stoddard Newcomer papers (1953-27-0),
Correspondence, family data sheets, a photograph, and other items related to the genealogy of Caroline Stoddard Newcomer. Born in Litchfield, Conn., in 1852, she and her extended family moved to Tama County, Iowa, in 1854. The papers primarily document the children of Caroline's great-grandfather Gideon Stoddard (1768-1846) of Litchfield. Among the primary family members represented are Whitman Stoddard (1790-1867), Jesse Stoddard (1792- ),...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1862-1952; Other: Date acquired: 12/03/1953
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society
Stone and Webster Engineering Corporation collection
00-1973-61-0
Collection
Identifier: 00-1973-61-0
Scope and Contents
Stone and Webster Engineering Corporation collection (1973-61-0) contains items related to Stone and Webster Engineering Corporation's work for the Connecticut Power Company from the year 1911 through 1915. Represented in the collection are contracts, specifications, photographs, and other various documents. The bulk of the material deals with the construction of the Connecticut Power Company's Hydro-Electric Power Plant in Falls Village. The two volumes of bound contracts contain written...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1911-1915; Other: Date acquired: 12/07/1972
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society
Gerrie Thielens papers
2010-116-0
Collection
Identifier: 2010-116-0
Scope and Contents
News clippings, a photograph, and approximately 300 post cards relating to Geraldine (Gerrie) Thielens (1909-1994) of Litchfield, Conn. and Tuscaloosa, Ala.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1940-1958
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society
William Mitchell Van Winkle papers
00-1993-23-0
Collection
Identifier: 00-1993-23-0
Scope and Contents
Announcement for auction of all items in the mansion, Hillhome, the residence of William Mitchell Van Winkle, Jr. (1913-2004), containing a detailed listing of contents of the mansion, 1939; Anson Dickinson miniatures documentation from the National Portrait Gallery, 1983; Hillhome sales brochures, ads, listing agreement, and related materials, 1984.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1939-1984; Other: Date acquired: 08/07/1993
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society
View of South Street photograph
2020-13-0
Unprocessed Material
Identifier: 2020-13-0
Dates:
1892
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
Lorraine Curtiss Weik collection
00-2002-79-0
Collection
Identifier: 00-2002-79-0
Scope and Contents
1 folder of photographs of views of Litchfield buildings and street scenes circa 1880s before fires and of a 1942 ice storm.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: circa 1880s-1942; Other: Date acquired: 02/12/2004
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society