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Collection
Identifier: 00-1979-31-0
Scope and Contents
The Robert A. Catlin account book (1979-31-0) contains entries from the year 1892 through 1916. The amount of cash on hand, as well as transactions showing money in and out are recorded in the book. Also noted are who or what cash was paid out for.
The item is housed in 3B Box 1.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1892-1916; Other: Date acquired: 08/05/1979
Resolution for the Centennial Celebration of Litchfield County
00-2011-136-0
Collection
Identifier: 00-2011-136-0
Scope and Contents
Resolution for the Centennial Celebration of Litchfield County (2011-136-0) is a published announcement from the Town Committee of Litchfield regarding the expected costs for the celebration and the role they anticipate Litchfield residents to play as hosts for in and out-of-town visitors.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1851; Other: Date acquired: 12/06/2010
Champion family papers
00-2010-17-0
Collection
Identifier: 00-2010-17-0
Scope and Contents
Miscellaneous papers of members of the Champion family of Litchfield (Conn.)
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1758-1778
Milburn Milton Chapman World War I letter
00-2024-43-0
Item
Identifier: 00-2024-43-0
Abstract
Letter written to "Uncle and Auntie" describing WWI accounting and disbursement activities in Vancouver Barracks, Washington.
Dates:
1919 Jan 3
Chase Manhattan Bank advertisement
00-1998-33-0
Item
Identifier: 00-1998-33-0
Abstract
Advertisement with a Fourth of July theme featuring Eric Hatch and two children.
Dates:
possibly 1970s
Cheney and Kilborn Coffin Records
00-2011-107-0
Collection
Identifier: 00-2011-107-0
Scope and Contents
The Cheney and Kilborn Coffin Records collection (2011-107-0) is a collection of two typed transcripts compiled into one collection. The collection is a list of people who the two coffin makers (Silas Ellis Cheney and John Kilborn) made coffins for, the price, what the coffin was made from, and the date. The two made coffins for many people in town including the Buells, Buels, Ozias Seymour, and Lyman Beecher and the Beecher Estate. One entry is for the purchase of a child’s coffin by Cato,...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1796 - 1821; Other: Date acquired: 05/06/2012
Silas E. Cheney account book
00-1973-65-0
Collection
Identifier: 00-1973-65-0
Scope and Contents
The Silas E. Cheney account book (1973-6-0) contains records for the years 1848-1856. Silas E. Cheney (1821-1874) was the son of Litchfield furniture maker Silas Ely Cheney and his wife Mary Young Cheney. During the 1840s and 1850s Silas operated a store in Litchfield. The account book indicates that the business dealt in general goods as well as foodstuffs. In the late 1850s Silas and his brother Edward relocated to New York where they briefly worked from their brother-in-law Horace...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1848-1856; Other: Date acquired: 12/08/1972
Silas Cheney family papers
1951-28-0
Collection
Identifier: 1951-28-0
Scope and Contents
The Silas Cheney family papers consist of documents primarily related to Silas Cheney (1821-1874), a Litchfield, Conn., broker and also several members of his immediate family, including his brother Edward Porter Cheney (1815-1904); his sisters Mary Young Cheney Greeley (1811-1872), wife of Horace Greeley, and Charlotte M. Cheney (1812-1886); and his mother Mary Young Cheney ( -1874). The collection consists of correspondence, business and legal papers, leases, and deeds.
Litchfield...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1818-1883; Other: Date acquired: 04/05/1952
Chronological research notes
00-2024-50-0
Item
Identifier: 00-2024-50-0
Abstract
Notes covering events Feb.-Aug. 1883, perhaps using a newspaper as a source. On reverse of the note pages is "Apothecaries Hall, 301 Chapel St." with additional information and a raphic.
Dates:
1883 Feb-Aug
Samuel Church letter
00-1982-20-0
Collection
Identifier: 00-1982-20-0
Scope and Contents
A letterfrom Samuel Church in Salisbury (Conn.) written to Melzar Gardiner, at the Democrat [newspaper] office in Litchfield in which he expresses his views on the State Temperance Convention and Republican politics, and requests that Gardiner publish the procedings of the Cato Convention.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1834 Dec 91; Other: Date acquired: 11/30/1981