Papers, 1801-1951.

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Papers, 1801-1951.

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Family correspondence; account books of James and Thomas Bancroft, tobacco growers in East Windsor, Conn.; friendship album of Lydia Bancroft includes tobacco leaf and embossed copy of the Lord's Prayer; letters to Minerva Hodge include tracing of "the only segar that little boys should smoke."

3 boxes (387 items) : ill. ; 39 x 26 x 12 cm.

Connecticut Historical Society

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Bancroft, Thomas Lovering, 1805-1865.

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Spencer, Lydia M. Bancroft, 1813-

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Bancroft, James, 1778-1870.

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Bancroft Family.

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Perkins School for the Blind

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The New England Asylum for the Blind was incorporated in Massachusetts in 1829 (St 1828, c 111); and opened in Boston in 1832 as the New England Institution for the Education of the Blind. It was successively renamed the Perkins Institution and Massachusetts Asylum for the Blind in 1839, the Perkins Institution and Massachusetts School for the Blind in 1877, and the Perkins School for the Blind in 1955. The institution relocated in Watertown in 1912. Although not a state...

Hodge, Minerva Bancroft, 1875-

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