Guilford Town Hall, circa 1930-1945, before the building was remodeled in 1947. The town hall was built in 1893 with town offices and a 500-seat hall, complete with stage and dressing rooms.
A gathering at the Whitfield House to celebrate the Tercentenary anniversary of Guilford on September 3, 1939. Pictured in front row in costume (left to right): Alice Hill Chittenden, Mary Chittenden Campbell, Anna Chittenden Thayer, Alice Chittenden Smith and husband Fred Smith. Also pictured, the family of Fred Davis, seated at the table, and Charles and Harriet Lee.
Raymond Baldwin, governor of Connecticut, enters the church service at the First Congregational Church for Guilford's Tercentenary Celebration in 1939.
Guilford Savings Bank Corporation, 1992
Pictured standing (left to right): Vaughn Knowles, Dan Reinhardsen, Carter Cooley, John Betts, Kathleen Braren, Win Smith, David Dudley, Bill Loveday, Ralph Brown, Ted Creighton, Jack Kidney (?), Laura Page, Ed Bartlett, Barry Cox, Dick Beatty. Front Row: Gene Bishop, Margaret Livingston, Lev Stone, Russ Waldo, Gil Lombard Jr. (?), Gilbert Lombard Sr., and Logan Page.
The formation of the Guilford Brass Band-- a 20-member ensemble-- led by conductor Vernon Buell was announced in an October 18, 1906 edition of the Shoreline Times. The officers of the band are George Jillson, President; Robert Butler, Secretary and Treasurer; Frank White, Business Manager and Vernon Buell, Conductor. Members of the band are Leroy Bartholomew, Robert Bristol, V.E. Buell, Mr. Burdett, R. B. Butler, L.E. Coulter, Henry Dolph, Raymond Dolph, Edward and Oliver Husted, George Jillson, Ernest Norton, Harry and David Parmelee, George Putney, Clarence Stannard, Henry Tibbals, Fleming and Harry Wall, and Frank M. White. The child in the photo is Merle Jillson, born 1902.
Members of the Guilford Battery, circa 1912. Pictured left to right (back row, standing): Charles Kelsey, Richard T. Kelsey, Henry E. Fowler. Middle row (standing): Dwight Griswold, Ralph L. Parker, L. Odell Chittenden, Edward Bishop, Charles Post, George L. Griswold. Front row (seated): Richard Wilcox, Eugene Bristol, William H. Lee, William E. Bishop, William T. Foote, Titus hall, William H. Davis.
Buffalo Bill and Sioux Native American Chiefs are pictured on the steps of the Sachem's Head Hotel. William F. Cody, known as "Buffalo Bill" is on the left in the back row. The Sioux chiefs (left to right) are Daval White Eyes, Long Soldier, Black Fox, Flying Hawk, and Iron Cloud.
The 300th anniversary of the founding of Guilford was celebrated with a variety of events September 2, 3 and 4, 1939. A firetruck is shown here as part of the Tercentenary Parade procession held Sept. 4, 1939.
John Burgis Norton's Leete's Island House in winter. The home of W. H. Norton is located across the street from the "old" Norton house, which was torn down in 1945.
The graduating class of 1933 of Guilford High School.
Front row (l to r): Ida Stack Doerrer, Marguerite Bergen Shepard, Eleanor Wingood, Evelyn Wolyniec, Jessie Norton Dandio, Josephine Slivinski Rebuzzini, Anna Ippi, Florence Fleming McGovern.
Second row (l to r): Harold Jeschor, Morris Rossiter, Burtis Parmelee, Walter Beckwith, Barbara Anderson Myers, Elberta Monte, Anna Hinners Holcomb, Helen Good Bensche, Doris Eastman Spencer.
Third row: (l to r) Emma Dudley McSweet, Doreen Bragdon, Adele Hindinger Galvin, Mary Nouman Ticotsky, Molly Horan Hall, Eleanor Bragdon Skelly, Marjorie Benton Spalding, John Fleming.
Back row (l to r): Louis Kintz, Earl Mousch, Beverly Reimer, teacher; Paul Byer, Delman Spalding.
Photo identification by Emma Dudley McSweet, 2002.
Guilford Institute and High School, Class of 1935
First row (l to r): Grace Evelyn Beecher (Rathgreber), Sellwood Carter Bushy, June Margaret Rossiter (Aland), James Joseph Bergen, Jr., Eleanor Mae Anderson (Rossiter), Russell J. Demond, Emilia Frances Tichy (Anderson).
Second row (l to r) Sophie Mae Potasz (Witcher), John Russell Chittenden, Bernice Ann Morgan (Cunningham), Donald Charles Rood, Charles Rossiter Rusconi, Elizabeth Coe Spencer, Harold James Sullivan, Anita Valerie Sachs (Silvia).
Third row (l to r): Hazel Larose Langdon (Page), John Joseph Fleming, Anna C. Gyllenton, William Preston Mahaney, Shirley Evelyn White (Stevens), Raymond Richard Howarth, Elizabeth Olga Wolyniec (Kelsey), Raymond Hill Dudley, Lillian Elizabeth Dolan (Metzler).
Fourth row (l to r): William Francis Horan, Pearl Irene Norton (Masse), Mary Delores Buschi (Arabolos), George Durand Beckwith, Mildred Emily Wagner (de los Reyes), Marie Kathryn Fleming (Costello), Byron Edward Benton, Kathryn Ludington Clark, Agnes Matilda Miller (Thomas), Edgar Parmelee Bartlett.
(Student's married name in parenthesis.)
Photo identification by Elizabeth C. Spencer, 1994.
