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  1. 1991.281.2 - Card, Greeting

    Valentine's greeting card from the estate of Washington resident Garwood Morehouse. This four piece Valentine is held together with strips of fabric. Top section depicts an angel playing a mandolin with the message: "I'd like to take a month or so, instead of just a minute, to think what joy this world contains, and wish you all that's in it. E.E.G. The two middle pieces both have the head of a child surrounded by a heart of purple violets. The f...

    Record Type: Object

    Valentine
  2. 1991.281.3 - Card, Greeting

    Valentine's greeting card from the estate of Washington resident Garwood Morehouse. On the top there are two children, one singing and the other playing a mandolin, and on the bottom there is a rose.

    Record Type: Object

    Valentine
  3. 1991.281.5 - Card, Greeting

    Valentine's greeting card from the estate of Washington resident Garwood Morehouse. Red poppies and hearts border the front. An image of a boy and girl are inside with the phrase: My pretty maid, if you could guess how my fond heart is in distress, you'd say: "I love thee Valentine, just name the day to make me thine."

    Record Type: Object

    Valentine
  4. 1994.23.3 - Print, Photographic

    Black and white, full length portrait photograph of Dorothy (Brinsmade) Jackson as a young girl.

    Record Type: Photo

    Dorothy (Brinsmade) Jackson
  5. 1994.26.70 - A School for Young Women

    1988

    Record Type: Archive

  6. 2007.14.1 - Album, Photograph

    Black photograph album with twelve double pages of small black and white photographs of the Holt children, residences, and travels. Leather and cloth bound album inscribed "Photograhs" on the cover. Interior pages are cream with four windows per page framed with a gold decorative border. Written on the first page in pencil: "Sept. 4, 1899/ Evelyn Holt/ from/ Aunt Minnie". Seventy-eight windows are filled with photographs, six extra photogprahs e...

    Record Type: Photo

  7. 2007.23.1 - Doll

    Vintage doll, female, dressed in cotton attire. 1. Female baby doll, head and arms, plaster over wood composite. Sweet, molded and painted facial features, blue eyes, closed pink mouth. Wearing a cream, knitted wool bonnet tied with satin ribbon under the neck. Soft body and legs contained in ecru muslin, jointed at shoulders and hips. Arms are inproportionally small to figure. Doll is wearing a white long dress, trimmed with lace at the ...

    Record Type: Object

  8. 2007.23.2 - Doll

    Vintage doll, female, dressed in cotton attire. Small female doll with molded and painted head, blue eyes, closed red lips, molded brown hair curled at the end with bangs. Plastic head (original ?) attached by internal elastic strings. Wood composite body and limbs jointed at shoulders and hips. Painted limbs. Wearing a cotton long sleeve dress with lace trimmed bib and red and white braid at the neckline over white cotton bloomers trimmed w...

    Record Type: Object

  9. 2008.16.1 - Poster

    Poster advertisement for Ivory Soap, copyright 1908 by the Procter & Gamble CO., Cincinnati. Black and white sketch of mother brushing her daughter's hair by K. R. Wireman above "A Suggestion to Mothers." Reads: "Let Margaret bathe, "all by her-/ self", every day in the week, except/ Saturday; but on Saturday, take her hand yourself./ Satisfy yourself that she is as clean as IvorySoap and warm water/ can make her. Brush her hair./ Shampoo it ...

    Record Type: Object

  10. 2008.18 - Magazine

    School magazine titled: "Wykeham Reports/ Focus on Alumnae," dated Autumn 1985. Cover story on Patricia Blake '42 on "Writing is an Agony."

    Record Type: Object

  11. 2008.20.2a-e - Print, Photographic

    Five black and white photographic images of Wykeham Rise & Gunnery students at the Gunnery dated "Feb 70."

    Record Type: Object

    Constance Basset at the Gunnery School
  12. 2008.23.1 - Diary

    Scanned copy of the memoirs handwritten by Melvina Phinette (Mason) Bailey Rosa. Sweet recollections of her childhood on the family farm at 89 Old Litchfield Rd., the seasons, holidays, friends, and school days at Wykeham Rise School in Washington, CT. The photographic image of the shed behind 89 Old Litchfield Rd is mentioned by William Bader in his book, "the American Village," to have been a haven for slaves on the Underground Railroad. The ...

    Record Type: Object

    Melvina Mason Bailey Rosa Memoirs - Page 2
  13. 2008.5.18a-i - Doll

    Set of ten female corn husk dolls in various sizes with round heads, black dot eyes, embroidery thread hair (parted in middle), husk covered wire arms(bendable), long dress and aprons tied in back. a. Largest doll of set , hair blond parted in middle barely visible under a headscarf. Upper body is bent over from the weight of a hay bundle on her back. 5" x 2" (Only one eye) b. Female doll pulling a small girl in a wooden wagon. Hair is b...

    Record Type: Object

  14. 2008.5.20 - Hoop

    Early child's play hoop constructed of wood with original interior paint , brown trimmed with red and gold.

    Record Type: Object

    Hoop
  15. 2008.5.75ab - Iron

    Miniature cast iron toy sad iron with separate decorative base. a. The iron has a ridged handle on top, stepped bottom. b. The base stands on three legs, has a decorative cut-out heart in the center, and handle with hole for hanging.

    Record Type: Object

    Toy Iron
  16. 2012.37.117 - Print, Photographic

    Black and white photographic print of three girls standing on a porch in front of a white clapboard house. The back of the print has the number 8 stamped on it, though it is crossed out and an 8 is handwritten in pencil above it.

    Record Type: Photo

    Three Girls
  17. 2012.37.174 - Print, Photographic

    Black and white photographic print of a girl standing in front of a tree. She is wearing a dress and a bow. The print itself has holes in it, most likely from insects.

    Record Type: Photo

    Girl
  18. 2012.37.190 - Print, Photographic

    Black and white photographic print of two well dressed men and two well dressed girls standing together in a yard in front of a house. The two girls are holding hats in their hands. There is an intricate border around the photograph. The back of the print has the number 0110 stamped on it.

    Record Type: Photo

    Two Men and Two Girls

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