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Turner, Woodruff & Co. Papers
00-2012-16-0
Collection
Identifier: 00-2012-16-0
Scope and Contents
Turner, Woodruff & Co. Papers, 2012-16-0, includes business papers such as accounting, goods purchased and received, bank drafts, payables and receivables, promisary notes, as well as poll lists for the Episcopal, Presbyterian, and Quaker societies in Northfield (Litchfield), Connecticut.
Isaac Turner (1780-1836) of Northfield and Enoch J. Woodruff (1786-1855) of Watertown and Litchfield opened a general store at the corner of Northfield and Remsen Roads in Northfield in the late 18th...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1796 - 1818; Other: Majority of material found in 1813-1818; Other: Date acquired: 07/05/2012
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society
Two photographs of Litchfield
00-2017-48-0
File
Identifier: 00-2017-48-0
Abstract
Two photographs of Litchfield, one showing aftermath of a fire, the other rebuilt West Street.
Dates:
late 1800s
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society
Tyrolea Music Book
00-2011-79-0
Collection
Identifier: 00-2011-79-0
Scope and Contents
The Tyrolea Music Book (2011-79-0) is a collection of music. Inside the front cover is a watercolor with a banner with the word, “Tyrolea.” Tyrolea is the name of a club that existed at Yale; founded in 1854 and lasted for about five years. Because of the anonymous nature of this item it is difficult to claim if the book was actually produced for the club. Tyrolea is probably a reference to Tyrol; a region in Europe around Austria. Tyrolean, for example, is used to describe a hat also known...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: c.1854; Other: Date acquired: 08/06/2011
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society
Martha Tyrrell reward of merit
00-2010-52-0
Collection
Identifier: 00-2010-52-0
Scope and Contents
A printed reward of merit card presented to Martha Tyrrell by H. Marie Alling. The illustration is of a seated woman holding a set of scales also a basket of apples spilling, a rake and a plough.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: undated
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society
Charles Underhill collection
00-1998-36-0
Collection
Identifier: 00-1998-36-0
Abstract
One folder of news clippings and publications related to Litchfield County assembled by Charles Underhill, who maintained a collection of materials on Connecticut's towns and cities. Clippings on Litchfield houses including the Thomas Painter house.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: circa 1960s; Other: Date acquired: 01/03/1998
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society
Underwood Papers
00-2011-03-0
Collection
Identifier: 00-2011-03-0
Scope and Contents
The Underwood Papers (2011-03-0) consist of a packing list of Mrs. Frank Livingston Underwood and her and her husband's genealogy. The packing list is a detailed list of barrels and crates packed with home furnishings, dining services, draperies, etc. The genealogy traces the Underwood family back to Charlemagne.
Frank Livingston Underwood (1842-1918), a New York copper magnate, and his wife Theodosia Irene Hawley Underwood live at 149 East 40th Street in Manhattan and in 1895 built a...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: circa 1900; Other: Date acquired: 03/01/2012
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society
Union Bank note
00-1927-08-0
Collection
Identifier: 00-1927-08-0
Scope and Contents
One $3 note issued by the Union Bank of New York, N.Y.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1823 May 1; Other: Date acquired: 11/30/1926
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society
United States. Congress. Proclamation
00-1967-17-0
Collection
Identifier: 00-1967-17-0
Scope and Contents
A printed broadside with instructions to captains & commanders of private armed vessels, commissioned by the authority of the United States in Congress. Thirteen orders regarding the attack, capture and seizure of ships, vessels, and goods including those belonging to the king of Great Britain.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1781 Apr 7; Other: Date acquired: 11/30/1966
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society
United States. Congress. Secretary. Circular letters.
00-2010-81-0
Collection
Identifier: 00-2010-81-0
Scope and Contents
Circular letters from Elias Thomson, Secretary of Congress.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1786-1787
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society
United States. Continental Army
00-2010-54-0
Collection
Identifier: 00-2010-54-0
Scope and Contents
A list of names who have not yet received a bounty for service in the Continental Army from Captain Moses Martin & Lieut. Ebenezer Hills. It is dated Fort George, Sept. 9 & 11th, 1776. On the back, dated Saratoga, Nov. 21, 1776 is a receipt from Moses Martin, Capt. and Ebenezer Hills, Lieut. that they received a bounty of 31 pounds four shillings from Major Ebenezer Curtis. This appears to be from the New York line, 1st Regiment. Included in the list of names are Cash Africa and...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1776-1778
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society