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Item
Identifier: 00-2023-38-0
Abstract
Letter from Putnam Catlin to his Steuben Butler explaining his family's financial situation and the difficulties he faces providing his children with education due to both tuition costs and to the loss of labor on his farm if he doesn't have them there to help. He notes that he may be able to sell land to pay for his son George Catlin to attend the Litchfield Law School for a year. He writes, "If he shall persist in the choice of law he will have to glean for himself an Education in some law...
Dates:
1815-05-03
Collection
Identifier: 00-1979-31-0
Scope and Contents
The Robert A. Catlin account book (1979-31-0) contains entries from the year 1892 through 1916. The amount of cash on hand, as well as transactions showing money in and out are recorded in the book. Also noted are who or what cash was paid out for.
The item is housed in 3B Box 1.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1892-1916; Other: Date acquired: 08/05/1979
Collection
Identifier: 00-2011-136-0
Scope and Contents
Resolution for the Centennial Celebration of Litchfield County (2011-136-0) is a published announcement from the Town Committee of Litchfield regarding the expected costs for the celebration and the role they anticipate Litchfield residents to play as hosts for in and out-of-town visitors.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1851; Other: Date acquired: 12/06/2010
Collection
Identifier: 00-2010-17-0
Scope and Contents
Miscellaneous papers of members of the Champion family of Litchfield (Conn.)
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1758-1778
Item
Identifier: 00-2024-43-0
Abstract
Letter written to "Uncle and Auntie" describing WWI accounting and disbursement activities in Vancouver Barracks, Washington.
Dates:
1919 Jan 3
Item
Identifier: 00-1998-33-0
Abstract
Advertisement with a Fourth of July theme featuring Eric Hatch and two children.
Dates:
possibly 1970s
Collection
Identifier: 00-2011-107-0
Scope and Contents
The Cheney and Kilborn Coffin Records collection (2011-107-0) is a collection of two typed transcripts compiled into one collection. The collection is a list of people who the two coffin makers (Silas Ellis Cheney and John Kilborn) made coffins for, the price, what the coffin was made from, and the date. The two made coffins for many people in town including the Buells, Buels, Ozias Seymour, and Lyman Beecher and the Beecher Estate. One entry is for the purchase of a child’s coffin by Cato,...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1796 - 1821; Other: Date acquired: 05/06/2012
Collection
Identifier: 00-1973-65-0
Scope and Contents
The Silas E. Cheney account book (1973-6-0) contains records for the years 1848-1856. Silas E. Cheney (1821-1874) was the son of Litchfield furniture maker Silas Ely Cheney and his wife Mary Young Cheney. During the 1840s and 1850s Silas operated a store in Litchfield. The account book indicates that the business dealt in general goods as well as foodstuffs. In the late 1850s Silas and his brother Edward relocated to New York where they briefly worked from their brother-in-law Horace...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1848-1856; Other: Date acquired: 12/08/1972
Collection
Identifier: 1951-28-0
Scope and Contents
The Silas Cheney family papers consist of documents primarily related to Silas Cheney (1821-1874), a Litchfield, Conn., broker and also several members of his immediate family, including his brother Edward Porter Cheney (1815-1904); his sisters Mary Young Cheney Greeley (1811-1872), wife of Horace Greeley, and Charlotte M. Cheney (1812-1886); and his mother Mary Young Cheney ( -1874). The collection consists of correspondence, business and legal papers, leases, and deeds.
Litchfield...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1818-1883; Other: Date acquired: 04/05/1952
Item
Identifier: 00-2024-50-0
Abstract
Notes covering events Feb.-Aug. 1883, perhaps using a newspaper as a source. On reverse of the note pages is "Apothecaries Hall, 301 Chapel St." with additional information and a raphic.
Dates:
1883 Feb-Aug
