Collections : [The Litchfield Historical Society]

Records relating to Litchfield Bancorp. Founded in 1850 as The Litchfield Savings Society, the name was changed in 1952 to The Litchfield Savings Bank, and changed again in 1984 to Litchfield Bancorp. The items are the bank's cashbook, 1850-1864; record book, containing board of directors minutes and other records, 1850-1889; an 1850 incorporation document; a list, possibly of directors, 1874; an excerpt from an 1880 public act related to savings banks; and a scrapbook documenting the bank's 150th birthday celebration and commemorative recipe booklets, both 2000.

Litchfield Centennial Celebration, July 4, 1876, historical address by George C. Woodruff printed program. Bookplate of Morris Woodruff Seymour.

This single volume record book contains various information pertaining to the Litchfield County Bar Association.

Docket number 1 and number 2 of the State of Connecticut Court of Common Pleas, Litchfield County, 1927.

A bill from George Pitkin, Clerk of the Court, to John Lawrence, Treasurer of the state of Connecticut requesting payment to Zebulon Taylor, keeper of the Goal [jail] in Litchfield for boarding prisoners.

Litchfield Cowboys basketball team photograph

A half-document box of records relating to the Litchfield Equal Franchise League, organized Sept. 5, 1913. It was an auxiliary of the Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association, which had as its mission the securing of the ratification of the 20th Amendment and preparing women for voting. Frances E. Hickox was the first president, serving 1913-1914. Adelaide Deming served next through at least 1920.

Litchfield High School varsity 1940-1941 basketball team photograph

Two posters for Litchfield Hills Theatre productions, probably in 1940, "Love From a Stranger" and "No Lack of Merit."

Photographs showing attendees at a Litchfield Horse Show Ball.