Collections : [The Litchfield Historical Society]

Invoice for shipment of bacon to J. Hammon of Litchfield, CT.

Business records related to B/E Aerospace, which had operated facilities manufacturing aircraft seating and related interior components in Bantam and Litchfield. The company first came to Connecticut when the Warren McArthur Corporation relocated its factory from Rome, N.Y. to the borough of Bantam in 1938, manufacturing at that time a very distinctive style of anodized aluminum furniture particularly popular in Hollywood. With the onset of World War II, the firm shifted its manufacturing output to aircraft seating. After the war, the Warren McArthur Corp. was unable to readjust and declared bankruptcy in 1948. Emerging as the Aerotherm Corp. in 1950, the company continued to produce aircraft seating. The line expanded to include other interior aircraft components as the company was acquired and renamed a number of times over the next 42 years, including Aerotec Industries, UOP Aerospace Division, PTC Aerospace, and finally, in 1992, B/E Aerospace. In 2002, following a major downturn in aircraft manufacturing in the months after the September 11 terrorist attacks, B/E Aerospace permanently closed the Litchfield and Bantam facilities and shifted their operations to facilities in Ireland and North Carolina.

Receipt from B. and S. DeMilt in New York, dated 1823 Jun 12 to Mr. Demming for one Patent Lever watch made by M.J. Tobias in Liverpool.

Certification by Samuel Catlin, a surgeon, that Benjamin Gibbs, Jr. is unfit for military service due to lameness in his right foot.

Two deeds to William F. Baldwin for land in Litchfield, Conn.

Letter regarding a payment. Also included are bank check from Tallmadge to Samuel Buel in the amount of $1700; a calling card of Thomas R. Proctor; and an engraving of Tallmadge.

A printed broadside enlisting subscribers for an octavio volume by Benjamin Trumbull with the title "A complete history of Connecticut, from the time of the emigration of its first planters from England, in 1630, to 1712." to be printed by Hudson and Goodwin, Hartford, Conn.

Small collection of items that consists of Sixth Annual Ball of the Bantam Fire Company program (1921); Camp Wonponset brochure (1910); The Bantam Bell newspaper (1920); M. H. Hallee letter to Barber Lynn.

A handwritten list of men who received knapsacks, both new and old, with the price and whether it was paid or not paid. The date and place are uncertain but it is possible that it was from Vermont during the Civil War as some names may be matched to that state and time period.

Bills of Frederick Wiggin (1977-34-0) includes 21 bills for goods purchased from mainly Litchfield businesses between 1879-1890 (there is one bill from Paris in 1890). Among the businesses included are Albert L. Judd, F.D. McNeil and Co., E.E. Champlin, Echo Farm, and R.E. Tyrrell.