Home life

Dublin Core

Title

Home life

Description

Home life collection gives a glimpse of the day-to-day life of women and men through their diaries and daybooks, and a look at schools and taverns and a few pages from the first library company in town which lists books and patrons.
The diaries of First Church ministers, found in the Minister's Diaries Collection, are also a good source of information on day-to-day life.

Collection Items

Math Lesson
One page for a math workbook

Westfield Academy Class Picture 1861
Picture taken in front of Westfield High School (when it was held in Town Hall) in 1861 by Thomas P. Collins.

Westfield Southwick Boundary
Transcribed:
That part of the town of Westfield that is contained within the following lines and limits, that is to say, that part which is bounded Easterly & partly on Springfield & partly on Suffield Southerly on the South line of Westfield,…

Act Establishing Academy
Copy of act to establish an academy in Westfield on June 17,1793, endorsed by John Hancock.

Bates - Lincoln Endorsement
Answer to a bill in equity to William G. Bates, endorsed by Abraham Lincoln on August 24, 1859.

Fowler Tavern, partial ledger
Bar tab from Fowler Tavern c. 1770 - 1772.

Ledger 1803
Miscellaneous ledger from 1803

Gen. Sackett House
Photograph of homestead of General Sackett of Westfield.

Westfield Library Company - List of Books - 1790s p.1-5
List of books in the Westfield Library
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