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Collection
Identifier: 00-2011-90-0
Scope and Contents
The Jane Amelia Benton school book (2011-90-0) was kept in 1855. The book contains notes on history lessons that Jane received while attending school in Litchfield in 1855. Her sister Phebe attended school with her at the same time. The book also contains the name of the other pupils in her class. It also identifies the teacher as S.H. Vaill.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1855; Other: Date acquired: 02/06/2012
Collection
Identifier: 00-2011-91-0
Scope and Contents
The Phebe F. Benton school book (2011-91-0) was kept in 1855. The book contains notes kept on history lessons that Phebe received whle attending school in Litchfield. Her sister Jane attended school at the same time. The notebook also contains a list of pupils in her class, and identifies the teacher as S.H. Vaill.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1855; Other: Date acquired: 02/06/2012
Collection
Identifier: 00-1975-97-27,28,30, 32, 33-0
Scope and Contents
The Truman Guild school books collection (1975-27,28,30, 32, and 33-0) is a collection of four volumes of school books created by Truman Guild. The notebooks cover various topics such as arithmetic, poetry, Greek poetry and translations, drawings, penmanship, and many other topics. One of the volumes contains a poem that was published in the Litchfield Enquirer, and another volume contains a list of all the books that Guild had read to date. Please see the below detailed descriptions for...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1821-1874; Other: Date acquired: 02/09/1977
Collection
Identifier: 00-1983-08-0
Scope and Contents
The Litchfield 2nd School District minute book (1983-08-0) contains meeting minutes for the years 1858 through 1879. The minutes in the volume record the activities of the annual meeting for each year. Topics such as repairing the school house and hiring a female teacher are seen early on in the book. "Register of 2nd School District Litchfield" is recorded in the front cover. It is also referred to as the Chestnut Hill School District in some of the annual meeting minutes.
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Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1858-1879; Other: Date acquired: 12/07/1982
Collection
Identifier: 1890-07-2
Scope and Contents
This collection documents the history of The Litchfield Female Academy, Litchfield, Connecticut. Early records refer to the Academy as Miss Pierce's School, Miss Pierce's Academy, and Sarah Pierce's Academy. In the collection are institutional records; correspondence, diaries, journals, school notebooks, and albums of students; papers of Sarah Pierce and the Pierce family; and correspondence of Emily Noyes Vanderpoel regarding her research for her books "Chronicles of a Pioneer School, from...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1787-1927; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1890
Collection
Identifier: 00-2011-44-0
Abstract
The Elisha Marsh School Book collection (2011-44-0) contains math problems and notes. The book contains various rules of mathematics and also math problems done by the student. The book is not dated.
Dates:
Other: Date acquired: 05/06/2012; undated
Collection
Identifier: 00-1975-97-29 & 31
Scope and Contents
The North Farms School Record Books Collection (1975-97-29 & 31) is organized into two items. Item one is the record book from 1844 and record book two is from 1846-1847. Please see the individual items (below) for a more detailed description unique to each item. The items can be found in one folder in Small Acquisitions.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1844-1847; Other: Date acquired: 02/09/1977
