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Frances Ives Barber papers
2009-12-0
Collection
Identifier: 2009-12-0
Scope and Contents
The Frances Ives Barber papers consists of numerous greeting cards, wedding invitations, calling cards, post cards and other ephemera. There are six scrapbooks and many loose cards. A variety of holidays and occasions are represented: Christmas, Easter, get well, birthday, Valentine's Day, Mother's Day, anniversary, and others. A small collection of post cards, primarily from Europe, were apparently given to her from several residents of Litchfield, including Cleveland Fuessenich and Bernice...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1905-1982; Other: Date acquired: 03/06/2010
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society
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
Beach, Webster, and Dickinson families papers
1995-15-0
Collection
Identifier: 1995-15-0
Scope and Contents
The Beach, Webster, and Dickinson families papers (1995-15-0, 4.59 linear feet) relate to three associated Litchfield, Conn., families. In 1916, Bessie Rachel Beach (1893-1976) married Leonard Dickinson (1895-1946). The parents of Bessie were Milo D. Beach (1861-1959) and Louisa Webster Beach (1862-1951). A large part of the collection consists of genealogical information culled from a variety of sources. Original materials include marriage certificates; correspondence; mortgages and deeds;...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1791-1990; Other: Date acquired: 05/12/1995
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society
Beckwith family papers
1988-01-0
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
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society
Henry Wadhams Buel and Mary Jane Buel Brace papers
1988-07-0
Collection
Identifier: 1988-07-0
Scope and Contents
The papers of Henry Wadhams Buel, M.D. (1820-1893) and his sister, Mary Jane Buel Brace (1827-1884), of Litchfield, Conn., consisting of approximately 135 letters, 1842-1856; an album kept by Mary Buel Brace, purchased for her by her brother in New York City in 1846; 15 valentines to Mary Buel Brace from the 1840s; and three 1874 letters from Mary Buel Brace to her daughter, Emily.For a detailed overview of the 135 letters, 1842-1856, and genealogical information related to Henry...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1842-1877; Other: Date acquired: 09/04/1989
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society
B. Woodruff Clark collection
2002-34-0
Collection
Identifier: 2002-34-0
Scope and Contents
Accession 2002-34-0: 12 views of Litchfield after an ice storm, Feb. 22 and 23, 1898; 3 winter landscapes, Mar. 30, 1928; 1 unidentified winter landscape, 1 of two unidentified men playing tennis.
Accession 1995-10-0: Household inventory, B. S. Clark, "Shadow Lawn," South St., Litchfield, Conn., 1912; photographs, ice storm, 1942; List of motor vehicles, State of Connecticut, 1914 (J. P. Woodruff is owner number 1); Chaffers Handbook to Hall Marks on Gold & Silver Plate, by...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1842-1942; Other: Date acquired: 10/10/2002
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society
Connecticut Daughters of the American Revolution collection
00-1992-43-0
Collection
Identifier: 00-1992-43-0
Scope and Contents
Letter written by Elizabeth C. Barney Buel, State Regent, 1922; scrapbook regarding Register of Revolutionary Soldiers and Patriots Buried in Litchfield County by Joyce Mackenzie Cropsey, 1976; letter written by Mabel S. Haley, 1981.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1922-1981; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1992
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society
Crane family papers
2003-73-0
Collection
Identifier: 2003-73-0
Scope and Contents
The Crane family papers document members of the Deming family of Litchfield and Waterbury, Conn. Among the family members represented are Julius Deming (1755-1838), Frederick Deming (1832-1925), Clarissa Champion Deming (1818-1899), Clarissa Brainard Deming (1872-1955), Dr. Dudley B. Deming (1874-1946), Dr. Alletta Langdon Bedford Deming (1882-1950), and Alletta Deming Crane (1912-2003). The papers consist of correspondence, account records, a scrapbook, military records, certificates,...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1803-1947; Other: Date acquired: 02/11/2005
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society
Danner family papers
2002-50-0
Collection
Identifier: 2002-50-0
Scope and Contents
The personal papers of Helen Danner and her parents Frederick Baxter Danner (1907-1979) and Elizabeth Neill Danner (1907-1991). Frederick Danner grew up in Mount Vernon, N.Y., and graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was then employed by AT&T's Long Lines Division for 42 years. Elizabeth Neill was born in Milwaukee. She attended Sweet Briar College in Virginia. She married Frederick Danner in 1935. They moved to Litchfield in the early 1970s. Helen Danner's...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1832-1991; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/2002
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society
First Law School Society of the Children of the American Revolution records
2010-362-0
Collection
Identifier: 2010-362-0
Scope and Contents
The records of the First Law School Society of the Children of the American Revolution include scrapbooks primarily containing photographs and news clippings; application materials and brochures; cards with members' information; minutes; organizational records; program ideas files; transparencies; newsletters; patrotic and other publications; banner; local society annual reports; correspondence; president's medal; financial records; and other items.
Initial meetings of what would become the...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1971-1994; Other: Date acquired: 05/10/2010
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society