New Items March 22

 **** New Items Reviewed /Cataloged March 22, 2024  - since last week*****
  "New items" means old CHS items whose numbers have been written on them, or newly scanned old items.  These are not new accessions.

the complete list is on Airtable here 

 ******* PRELIMINARY ********

Some highlights:

#1230   Records of Memorial Hall Association , a hardbound ledger of their meetings 1896-1945 .
Includes a 1945 vote the Hall be given to the American Legion.

 
 
#2469  the Thompson's Store 1910 receipts  ... A treasure trove of some 800 paper slips showing what was purchased by Colrain's village store in one year.    Volunteer Diana Braman has sorted these slips into groups by vendor.


At least 180 slips for the Colrain Street Railway. What a lot of activity on that busy rail line.  The slip below indicates flour and matches coming from North Adams (by mainline) and then from Shelburne Falls to the store. In January!

#2493   "When we went West" -  a large diary of a trip by Donelson family in the 1930s.


 
#2489  Woman's Relied Corp Ledgers     20 hardbound "books".  from the 1880s to about 1950.  The Relief Corps was a Civil War veterans organization - the women's auxiliary to the GAR.




 
 
#3375  The Colrain bicentennial book is cataloged and scanned completely -  and available for download on Airtable.




 
#2496  an Old CHS Handout Leaflet on the Pitt House  date??



Items 2500-2506 are Pitt House maintenance documents and maps, such as this floor plan recently scanned:, and a copy of the 2017 Structural Report  (#2502). 


 
 
#2505-1   is The 2020 Legal document givibg CHS title to the Pitt House  


 
 
#2506-3     is a composite tax map with the CHS property colored in blue

#2506-2   is an elevation map of the same area

 
 
And that's the summary for this week.

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