Scrapbooks, 1962-1992.

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Scrapbooks, 1962-1992.

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Three scrapbooks labeled "House Tour" include information about and photographs of stately homes in the Litchfield and Hartford areas in Connecticut and their owners and families. Three volumes labeled "Litchfield" contain photographs and clippings about births, wedding, promotions and deaths of prominent Litchfield and Hartford area families such as Samuel Colt, Henry and Robert Alcorn, George Griswold, S. Dillon Ripley, "Chick" Austin, Count and Countess Reventlow, and the Gengras, Fenn, McDonough and Darling families.

3 v.

Connecticut Historical Society

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SNAC Resource ID: 7763376

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Austin, Arthur Everett, 1900-1957

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Arthur Everett Austin, Jr.; also known as Chick Austin; director of the Wadsworth Atheneum (1927-1944); first director of the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art; he was instrumental in bringing the Asolo Theater, first constructed in 1798 in Asolo, Italy by Antonio Locatelli, to the museum. From the description of Chick Austin papers, 1955-1957. (Library of Congress / Nucmc). WorldCat record id: 639021595 ...

Darling family.

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Alcorn, Robert Hayden, 1909-

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Fenn family.

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Griswold, George

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Ripley, S. Dillon (Sidney Dillon), 1913-2001

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S. Dillon Ripley (b. September 20, 1913, New York City, NY - d. March 12, 2001, Washington, D.C.), an ornithologist, served as the eighth Secretary of the Smithsonian from 1964 to 1984, and oversaw tremendous growth. Interested in natural history and exploration since his childhood, Ripley visited the remote nation of Ladakh when he was only thirteen years old. After graduate school, he was a curator at the Smithsonian briefly and then spent almost twenty years teaching at Yale University. He le...

Colt, Samuel, 1814-1862

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Samuel Colt (1814-1862), inventor and industrialist, was founder of the Colt's Patent Fire-Arms Manufacturing Company, now known as Colt's Manufacturing Company. From the description of Colt, Samuel, 1814-1862 (U.S. National Archives and Records Administration). naId: 10581278 ...

Alcorn, Henry.

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REVENTLOW, PEGGY

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Gengras family.

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McDonough family.

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