Photographs
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Found in 118 Collections and/or Records:
Litchfield Photographs and Postcards
00-2022-34-0
File
Identifier: 00-2022-34-0
Content Description
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.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1942
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society
Litchfield Rarities/Bill Alexander collection
2002-21-0
Collection
Identifier: 2002-21-0
Scope and Contents
Connecticut covers (1967-1971); postcards, (circa 1903-1969); envelopes, unknown to Ransom (circa 1883), Pratt & Thompson to Ebenezer Wooster (1886), Flynn & Doyle to George R. Bailey (1913); photographs, including Litchfield High School students (circa 1880s), cabinet cards; publications and ephemera (1910s-1930s); Swamp-Root Almanacs, imprinted with Litchfield Pharmacy and Crutch & McDonald; deeds, F. Nelson B. Smith (1846), Edwin E. Pretiss (1858), and Charles Munson (1867);...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1797-1971; Other: Date acquired: 02/08/2003
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society
Litchfield War Records Committee records
2011-15-0
Collection
Identifier: 2011-15-0
Scope and Contents
The Litchfield War Records Committee records (2011-15-0, 1.88 linear feet) document men and women who served in the armed forces and auxiliary groups from Litchfield, Conn., during World War II. The papers consist of questionaires, photographs, minutes, notes, subject files, correspondence, and ephemera.
The largest group of papers are returned questionnaires that list the service person's name, address, date of birth, next of kin, service dates and places, promotions, date and...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1940-1946; Other: Date acquired: 03/04/2012
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society
Litchfield's Bi-Centennial celebration 1920 album
00-1966-08-0
Collection
Identifier: 00-1966-08-0
Scope and Contents
Litchfield's Bi-Centennial celebration 1920 album(1966-08-0) contains photographs from the August 1 through August 4, 1920 Bicentennial celebration in Litchfield, Connecticut. Photographs depict the various activities that took place during the celebration, including the Governor's visit on "State Day," the parade on "County Day," and the community picnic and historic masque on "Litchfield Day." Also included in the photo album are a small amount of newspaper clippings detailing the...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1920; Other: Date acquired: 07/07/1967
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society
Evelyn Maddox collection
00-2002-73-0
Collection
Identifier: 00-2002-73-0
Scope and Contents
One letter from S. Carl Fisher, president of the Litchfield Enquirer Publishing Co. to "Tete," circa 1930s; photographs of Litchfield High School, 1890-1925, and Litchfield High School students, circa 1921.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: circa 1921-circa 1930s; Other: Date acquired: 02/12/2002
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society
Gladys Mattson papers
2008-04-0
Collection
Identifier: 2008-04-0
Scope and Contents
The papers of artist and photographer Gladys A. Mattson (1890-1957) of Bantam, Conn., which consist of correspondence, photographs, drawings, stencils, patterns and other documents. Mattson was a daughter of Alfred Mattson and Emma Coe Mattson. By 1912 or so she was tinting photographs. The collection contains three Wallace Nutting prints which contain Mattson's signature on the back. The circumstances under which she worked for Nutting have not been determined, although she would have been...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1912-1950; Other: Date acquired: 04/01/2010
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
McNeil and Bostwick Photos
2015-18-0
Collection
Identifier: 2015-18-0
Content Description
McNeil and Bostwick Photos (2015-18-0, 10 photos) Photographs of McNeil and Bostwick families. People identified on the back of the photographs are Edwin McNeil, Sr., Emily Dotterer (Mrs.Edwin McNeil, Sr.), Edwin McNeil, Jr., Arthur E. Bostwick, David Elmore Bostwick and Adelide McKinley (parents of Arthur Bostwick). Andrew Lirue Bostwick and Ester Bostwick (children of Arthur Bostwick).
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1875-1889
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society
William Miller Collection
1991-101-0
Collection
Identifier: 1991-101-0
Scope and Contents
The personal papers of William Miller relating to the Borough of Litchfield Charter Revision Commission, Board of Warden and Burgesses, Courthouse Site Committee, Postal Site Committee, historic preservation Borough Historical and Architectural Commission, Litchfield Green Advisory Committee, Litchfield Historical Society "European Extravaganza," Historic District, and other Borough matters; The Sanctum; and the Litchfield Country Club; architectural drawings of the residence of Mrs. Francis...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1907-1990; Other: Majority of material found in 1967-1990; Other: Date acquired: 06/04/1996
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society
Mohawk Tower Association collection
00-1941-13-0
Collection
Identifier: 00-1941-13-0
Scope and Contents
The Mohawk Tower Asssociation collection (1941-13-0) contains a variety of items related to the Mohawk Tower Association between the years 1882 and 1920. Photographs document the ruins of the original wood tower, the cabin on Mohawk Mountain, the consturction of the stone tower built by Seymour Cunningham, and various views of the surrounding area from the stone tower. Also included in the collection are several loose documents that include coorespondence dealing with the purchase of the...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1882-1920; Other: Date acquired: 11/30/1940
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society