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B/E Aerospace collection
2002-16-0
Collection
Identifier: 2002-16-0
Scope and Contents
Business records related to B/E Aerospace, which had operated facilities manufacturing aircraft seating and related interior components in Bantam and Litchfield. The records include correspondence, engineering reports and drawings, newsletters, news clippings, product catalogs and other sales materials, advertising and promotional materials, subject files, photographs, and other documents.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1937-2002; Other: Date acquired: 01/07/2004
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society
Bissell family collection
1949-24-0
Collection
Identifier: 1949-24-0
Scope and Contents
The papers of the Bissell and Bissell-Baldwin families, including family members, friends, and business associates. The collection consists of correspondence, business records, account books, and other records.
Isaac Bissell (1682-1744) moved to Litchfield in 1723, where he owned a 60th share, approximately 700 acres. He was the father of ten children, including Benjamin (1717-1747) and Zebulon (1724-1777).
The Bissells were farmers, although there is little material in the Society's...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1760-1926; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1949
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society
Edward J. Brady collection
2003-82-0
Collection
Identifier: 2003-82-0
Scope and Contents
In the 1950s, Brady, an employee of what was then the New York, New Haven, and Hartford Railroad (commonly referred to as the New Haven) and is now part of Amtrak, developed an interest in the Shepaug railroad branch. He acquired original New Haven records that provide detailed documentation of the crossings, bridges, and abutting structures. Records also document original rights of way and the New Haven's unsuccessful and successful petitions to abandon the line in the 1930s and 1940s. In...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1897-2000; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/2003
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society
Thomas McBride collection
2010-228-0
Collection
Identifier: 2010-228-0
Scope and Contents
One box of note cards illustrated with Ronald Lee Anderson (1929-2002) paintings; 10 day books, 1 price list, and 1 repair ledger of antiques dealer Floyd Thoms.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1945-1975; Other: Date acquired: 11/06/2010
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society