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Mrs. E.S. Downes album
00-1923-32-0
Collection
Identifier: 00-1923-32-0
Scope and Contents
The Mrs. E.S. Downes album (1923-32-0) is a collection of pressed algae that was given from Mrs. E.S. Downes to Mrs. H.W. Buel (Catharine Laidlaw Buel) on October 5, 1874. The album contains eight samples of pressed algae in various colors and is titled "American Algae or, Flowers of the Sea."
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1874; Other: Date acquired: 11/30/1922
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society
Mary Brisbane Hollister scrapbook
00-1965-25-0
Collection
Identifier: 00-1965-25-0
Scope and Contents
The Mary Brisbane Hollister scrapbook (1965-25-0) was complied by Mary Brisbane Hollister from 1840 - 1903. An inscription reading "Ms. M.S. Brisabne from her cousin Alex, New York 30th Oct., 1840" is in the front page, along with a hand sketch of Alex. The scrapbook mainly contains newspaper clippings from such newspapers as the Litchfield Enquirer, The Christian Union, The...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1840-1903; Other: Date acquired: 11/30/1964
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society