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[Identification of item], , [Box no]., Henry Whitfield State Museum
Donated or purchased since 1902.
The Henry Whitfield State Museum, established by the State of Connecticut in 1899, explores four centuries of Connecticut history through the evolution of the 1639 Whitfield House. Thirty-two years after the founding of Jamestown and nineteen years after the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth, a group of English Puritans journeyed across the Atlantic Ocean to establish a community in the New World free from religious persecution. They were led by their minister, Reverend Henry Whitfield. The Whitfield family home also served as a fort for the community. Its massive stone walls and chimneys, steeply-pitched roof, and casement windows reflect the style of post-medieval domestic architecture found in England - rare in 17th-century America and unique today. Through the years, the "Old Stone House" has undergone many changes and many families have called it home. Restored by noted architects Norman Isham and J. Frederick Kelly in the early 1900s, the house is an important example of Colonial Revival restoration work. Based on these restorations, the Whitfield House was designated a National Historic Landmark. The museum and library collections number over 10,000 items.
The materials include prints, drawings, paintings, photographs, and postcards of Whitfield House exterior views (before and after museum establishment; arranged by the images' chronological order), Whitfield House interior views (after museum establishment), other Whitfield House site buildings, Guilford buildings (including historic houses, churches, businesses, and shoreline houses), Guilford streetscapes (including the Guilford Green, Whitfield Street, Boston Street, and Park Street), Guilford scenery (including shoreline views, aerial views, and the Guilford Fairgrounds).
In general, the materials are stored by format and size and arranged by subject. For instance, all of the postcards are stored together in archival boxes and are arranged by subject while the framed prints are stored in flat files.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.