Telegrams and Cable Codes
Documents: Telegrams and Cable Codes By Patty Devoe [...]
Photographs: Setting the Holiday Table
Photographs: Setting the Holiday Table by Carolyn Wakeman [...]
Cooking in Old Lyme: A Woman’s Highest Mission
by Carolyn Wakeman Feature Image: Lyme Receipt Book, printed by G. [...]
Documents: Holiday Greetings
Old Lyme’s artists often chose nocturnal scenes for the original drawings and etchings they sent as holiday cards. See a selection of these greetings sending holiday cheer.
Documents: Sketches in an Autograph Book
Midway through Rev. William B. Cary’s leather-bound autograph book, Florence Griswold (1850–1937) and her sisters inscribed their names. They also contributed finely detailed sketches displaying their varied musical and artistic talents.
Documents: Women Reading on Lyme Street
A simple hand-stitched notebook, its marbled paper cover faded over the centuries, records the religious, educational, and charitable purposes of Lyme’s earliest women’s organization. Mid-way through the construction of a new Meetinghouse at the foot of what is now Lyme Street, ten ladies from the town’s prominent families gathered in 1816 to establish a reading group.
Documents: Holiday Greetings
When local artists exchanged holiday cards, they often sent original etchings or woodblock prints of the surrounding landscape, or lithographic reproductions of their paintings.
