Litchfield (Conn.)
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 266 Collections and/or Records:
Litchfield Village Improvement Society records
1943-09-0
Collection
Identifier: 1943-09-0
Scope and Contents
The Litchfield Village Improvement Society records (1943-09-0) are comprised of eight bound volumes of records, a manuscript box of papers, and oversize posters. The records cover the years 1875 through 1941. Represented in the volumes are the "Articles of Association" and By-laws, meeting minutes, financial records, member lists, and annual reports. Documents in the manuscript box include activities of the Society and plans for colonial changes to the Litchfield County Courthouse, business...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1875-1941; Other: Date acquired: 11/30/1942
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society
Litchfield War Records Committee records
2011-15-0
Collection
Identifier: 2011-15-0
Scope and Contents
The Litchfield War Records Committee records (2011-15-0, 1.88 linear feet) document men and women who served in the armed forces and auxiliary groups from Litchfield, Conn., during World War II. The papers consist of questionaires, photographs, minutes, notes, subject files, correspondence, and ephemera.
The largest group of papers are returned questionnaires that list the service person's name, address, date of birth, next of kin, service dates and places, promotions, date and...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1940-1946; Other: Date acquired: 03/04/2012
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society
Loring family correspondence
1965-23-0
Collection
Identifier: 1965-23-0
Scope and Contents
The Loring Family Correspondence consists primarily of letters to and from Mary Pierce. The main correspondents are: Mary Pierce; Anna Pierce Brace, Mary's niece; Charles Greely Loring, Anna's husband; Jane Loring Gray and Susan Loring Jackson, daughters of Charles and Anna, grandnieces of Mary Pierce.
The Lorings were a prominant family in Boston and in addition to news of the extended families (Cunninghams, Putnams, Jacksons, Grays, & Lowells) and friends, the letters describe life...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1812-1863; Other: Date acquired: 05/09/1966
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society
Luggage tags addressed to Dorothy Wagstaff
00-2021-54-0
File
Identifier: 00-2021-54-0
Abstract
Two luggage tags and label addressed to Dorothy Wagstaff of Litchfield, CT.
Dates:
1949
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society
Moses Lyman papers
00-1985-25-0
Collection
Identifier: 00-1985-25-0
Scope and Contents
Papers relating to Moses Lyman (1768-1844) of Goshen, Conn., consisting of a document related to the Litchfield and Canaan turnpike road, a land survey of Ivy Mountain, and an agreement with Benjamin Palmer to dismantle and rebuild his house. The Palmer agreement is four pages and quite detailed, specifying building materials and techniques, costs, and a schedule for completion.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1799-1832; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1948
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society
Mansion House statement
00-1979-29-0
Collection
Identifier: 00-1979-29-0
Scope and Contents
Statement from the Mansion House to the Town of Litchfield.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1877 May 1; Other: Date acquired: 03/05/1980
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society
Marrin Family Papers
2013-110-0
Collection
Identifier: 2013-110-0
Abstract
The Marrin Family Papers 2013-110-0, primarily consist of the papers of Oswald Marrin, Jr., but there are also papers from other family members, including his parents, Jean Fyfe Marrin and Oswald Marrin, Sr. Among the papers of Oswald Marrin, Jr. are his school papers from Center School, Spring Hill School. the Hackley School and Brown University. There are also papers and correspondence from his years in the Marines during World War II, as well as some business records, newspaper...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1858-2001; Other: Date acquired: 01/06/2013
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society
Marian McKenna papers
1989-02-0
Collection
Identifier: 1989-02-0
Scope and Contents
Manuscript and galleys of "Tapping Reeve and the Litchfield Law School" by Marian McKenna, 1989.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1989; Other: Date acquired: 04/07/1991
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society
Memoir regarding fishing in Litchfield
00-2024-46-0
Item
Identifier: 00-2024-46-0
Abstract
Appears to have been a talk regarding fishing in the Litchfield, CT area during the early 20th century.
Dates:
1930s?
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society
Dorothy E. Miles collection
2003-05-0
Collection
Identifier: 2003-05-0
Scope and Contents
Two maps: 1) Blueprint map of Bantam Lake compiled from student surveys, Columbia University School of Surveying, Camp Columbia, Morris, Conn., 1915. 2) Diazo print of a detail from an 1859 map of Litchfield, Conn., showing the southern area of the town, undated.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1915; Other: Date acquired: 02/02/2004
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society