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Collection
Identifier: 1988-01-0
Scope and Contents
The Beckwith family papers (1988-01-0) consist of correspondence, financial records, legal documents, military records, diaries, photographs, and other records. A small group of papers predates those of the Beckwith family. At present, only materials created prior to 1840, a limited selection of post-1840 materials, and those that relate to Josiah Beckwith (1803-1871) have been processed. They are arranged in three series.
Series 1, Papers (1767-1892), contains a collection of primarily...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1767-1972; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1988
Collection
Identifier: 00-2008-01-0
Scope and Contents
Two issues of "The Bantam Bugle," 1979; menu for Hattie's Family Restaurant; two bookmarks from Cobble Court Bookshop; receipt for prescription signed G. M. Woodruff, 1873; "Breakfast Dinner & Tea" advertisement pamphlet "compliments of Wessels & Gates, Litchfield, Conn.," circa 1880.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1873-1979; Other: Date acquired: 09/01/2008
Collection
Identifier: 00-2011-75-0
Scope and Contents
The William Buel Commonplace Book collection (2011-75-0) is a collection of two books. The first book is made up of a description of Phthisis Pulmonalis (tuberculosis) and questions to ask students. The second book is comprised of descriptions of diseases and the symptoms. There are other entries about the medical field and science in general. Some entries have the heading “Liber Memorialis,” but they do not appear to be excerpts from the book of the same name.
Currently housed in 3A Box...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1786 Aug 14 - 1787 Mar 21; Other: Date acquired: 06/06/2011
Collection
Identifier: 00-1972-135-0
Abstract
The Buell and Wheeler prescription book (1972-135-0) was maintained from 1876 through 1879. The book contains prescriptions that were filled at the pharmacy of Buell and Wheeler in Litchfield, Connecticut.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1876-1879; Other: Date acquired: 12/09/1971
Collection
Identifier: 2012-08-0
Scope and Contents
Crutch's Pharmacy Prescription Book (2012-08-0) contains 8-10 prescription forms per page (glued on), beginning with prescription #142995/December 17, 1913 and ending with #146624/December 3, 1914. No patient names on prescription forms, and only half of the prescriptions are on letterhead. Possible Litchfield doctors included in this book are, Charles I. Page, Marvin Z. Westewelt, Charles Turkington, C.N. warner, N.L. deming, and R.A. Marcy. Aaron Crutch and his son William were both...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1913-1914; Other: Date acquired: 03/02/2012
File — Box: 1 Dr. James R. Cumming papers
Identifier: 2022-45-0
Content Description
Letters and commissions of Dr. James Russell Cumming, Asisstant Surgeon and Surgeon, U.S. Army, 12th Regiment, Connecticut Volunteers
Dates:
1862-05-10 - 1891-02
Collection
Identifier: 00-1949-39-0
Scope and Contents
The Maria Tallmadge Cushman home remedies notebook (1949-39-0) was compiled by Maria Tallmadge Cushman from the year 1840 through 1864. The small notebook contains home remedies for illness as well as many recipes and hints for household cleaning. Many of the remedies are handwritten, and a fair amount are newspaper clippings. Health remedies include treatments for cholera, cancer, colds, rheumatism, dysentery, and "Mrs. Noyes Recipe for purifying the blood." Interspersed with health cures...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1840-1864; Other: Date acquired: 11/30/1948
Collection
Identifier: 00-2009-132-0
Scope and Contents
Dated New Hartford (Conn.) November 19, 1824, the handwritten page contains a prescription for making a burnt salve and another for burnt ointment.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1824 Nov 19
Collection
Identifier: 00-2009-76-0
Scope and Contents
Dr. Joseph Parker's account for visits, advice, and treatment of Samuel Barnard and family. Dr. Barnard and the Barnards lived in the South Farms section of Litchfield.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1817-1828
Collection
Identifier: 00-2010-138-0
Scope and Contents
A handwritten notebook with the title "The Materia Medica & Pharmacopoia of the Philadelphia Dispensary". Four different names can be deciphered including that of William Buel, a doctor in Sheffield, (Mass.) for 20 years, who moved to Litchfield in 1815-1816. The back cover also includes the name of William Williams, Sheffield.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1791-1795
