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Our Online Collection is made up of over 2,000 items from Memorial Hall Museum – artifacts, documents, maps, photographs and books from the Connecticut River Valley region of Massachusetts. The Collection spans a vast sweep of history: from the area’s earliest Native American inhabitants to more recent, twentieth-century times.
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“The Slave Trade – The Administration”
“White Church Deerfield Mass Built 1838”
Greenfield Postmasters
The Common, Worthington, Mass.
Steatite Vessel
WWI letter to Emily Gladys Bartlett
“Unimproved Land for Sale” ad published in the Hampshire Gazette
Embroidered Bed Hanging
“A Son Of The Forest. The Experience Of William Apes, A Native Of The Forest”
“Visit to President Lincoln by the Massachusetts Delegation”
Letter from James Wells Champney to Misses Baker & Coleman regarding trolley
“Reflections on the Present State of Things” article from Greenfield Gazette and Franklin Herald newspaper
“Charlemont”
Pages from “The Great South: A Record of Journeys” on cotton statistics in U.S.
Doll “Chloe”
“Illustrated Memoir of the World War”
“Warnings To The Unclean”: In A Discourse From Rev. XXI. 8. Preacht at Springfield Lecture, August 25th.1698.
“Pageant Deerfield, Mass.”
Mirror
Lincoln Badge
Redware teapot and top
Holy Name of Jesus Church
Jack Czajkowski
Dam and Covered Bridge in Conway
“Northampton” article on Dealey [Daley] and Halligan from the Hampshire Gazette newspaper
Women in Surrey
Lantern
Tent Tobacco Fields from Mt. Sugarloaf
Window Pennant
“Scene on Green River, Greenfield, MA” Postcard
Inventory of Charles Hart Ashley
Letter to Doctor Joseph Goodhue
Depot
Letter to Mr. and Mrs. George Sheldon regarding R. H. Dana et. al. and trolley
Town Hall, Montague, Mass.
Split Birch Broom
“Young Ladies Literary Society 1813”
“Sacrifices to Our Country. A Discourse Delivered July 17, 1864…at a Funeral Service for James T. Stebbins & Myron Stowell”
Wine decanter
“Police, Protesters Clash” article from The Greenfield Recorder newspaper
Wedding Gown
Plans of the Higginson House on The Street in Deerfield
Splitting Froe or Frower
Postcard to Mrs. Edward Wirt
“For the town of Amherst, education the leading ‘industry’”
Copy of a letter published in the Hampshire Gazette regarding Shays’ Insurgents
Moody Homestead
“Greenfield (Massachusetts) Directory including Montague and Deerfield”
The Weldon
Camp Meeting Residence
Mountain Park and Mt. Tom by Night, Holyoke, Mass.
Infant’s Mitts
Lower Suspension Bridge, Turners Falls, Mass.
Tilton Library
“Gilt Edged Paper” article tells of a death threat to the editor of The Emancipator in the Gazette and Mercury newspaper
“Miner’s Lemon Standard Extract”
Lidded Hanging Pot
Captain John Wells’ Company Muster Roll
Revolutionary flag remnant
Westfield State Teachers’ College
Descent of Holy Spirit Ukrainian Catholic Church
Capt. Moses Scott military settlement
“Select School at Buckland”
“Turners Falls”
Main Street, Looking North from Hillman, Springfield, Mass.
A Sermon, Delivered at the Opening of Deerfield Academy
Memorial Hall
“Aid for Ireland” article from Gazette and Courier newspaper
Chrysanthemum bowl
Cradle
Map “The world agreeable to the latest discoveries”
Native Carrying Captive, Eunice Williams
The Constitution of the Deerfield Temperance Society
Letter to Dennis Stebbins
Colonel Elihu Hoyt (1771-1833)
Hospital in Vladivostok
“Practical Art Lectures”
One-Room School in Wapping
Cutlery Box
“The Incoming of the Poles” newspaper article
“Memorial Hall” Album
Plane
WWII War Ration Book 2
Writing Armchair
“More Weight On Men, More Roads Through Forest Show Result of One Camp” article from the Daily Recorder-Gazette newspaper
“Legislature- slave hunting petition”
“Girls Wanted” advertisement
“Uncle Sid’s Adventure with Indians”
Knife
“Recalling Irish Muscle that built Mass. Railroads” article from Daily Hampshire Gazette newspaper
Sash
Fireboard
Civil War Monument
“Decorative Painting”
“Mass Convention at Old Deerfield”
Gospel Meeting Tent
“Statistical Information Relating to Certain Branches of Industry in Massachusetts For the Year Ending June 1, 1855”
“Corn Sister” Sculpture
Estate Appraisal of Esther Dickinson
“Nine and Ten Years Old- They can earn 40c. in a ten-hour day, but they cannot read.”
Pipe box
“Saranac Lake in Winter”
Letter to Rebecca Jackson Williams from her son
Oath of Allegiance [Faith]
Cinnamon and Wintergreen Extracts made by The Toiletine Company
“Witch” basket
Connery House, Westhampton, Mass.
“Insurrection at Harper’s Ferry” article from the Franklin Democrat newspaper
“Address delivered at South Deerfield, Aug 31, 1838 on the completion of the Bloody Brook Monument”
Tractor
Letter to Esther Williams
“Our Dark Day” article from the Gazette and Courier newspaper
Deerfield Town Warrant
“Universal Geography, Ancient and Modern: Comparison and Classification”
Pages from “A New Pictorial History of Greenfield” on railroads
Charles B. Arms
“Population and Statistics of Franklin County” article from the Gazette and Courier Newspaper
“Bouquet”
Go and No-Go Thread and Plug Gages
Concertina
Pages from the second Journal of Sarah Howe on Shays’ Rebellion
Civil War Certificate of Non-Liability for Substitute
Hammer stone
Park Square, Westfield, Mass.
WWII Sugar Purchase Certificate
“Experienced Girls Wanted” advertisement
Elizabeth Amsden Inventory
American Herbarium, Volume 1
Bifacial blade with modern haft
Reward of Merit to Luella May
Mount Sugar Loaf, South Deerfield, Mass.
“Evacuation of Fort Sumter!”
Mason Jar
Letter printed in article form to Thomas Jefferson from Benjamin Banneker in the Greenfield Gazette newspaper
Horses and Farmers
Lillian Saxton Hutchins (Mrs. Frank Hutchins)
E. C. Brown Store
R. R. Station
Girls Basketball team, Deerfield Academy
Admiral Francis John Higginson (1843-1931)
Portulaca flower
“The Boy Scouts Year Book”
“Mack the Giant Ox” Banner
Trammel Hook
“Artistic Picture Framing”
Apron
“An American Selection of Lessons in Reading and Speaking”
A System of School Geography
“The Poles at Turners Falls” article from Greenfield Gazette and Courier newspaper
Distribution of the estate of John Wells
Complaint of Distress against Heman Farnham
Greenfield in a Nutshell
Conway House, Conway, Mass.
“Forest Park” in “Our Country and Its People” Volume 2
Toy Kitchen Range
“5 Men Shot in the Streets of Monson!!!”
Boat landing
V-Day Brussels
No.3A Folding Pocket Kodak Camera
Milk Bottle
Table Rock, Mt. Sugarloaf
“South Deerfield Briefs- School Exhibition at South Deerfield”
Mess Cup
Main Street and Webster Block. Northfield, Mass.
Weighing Ice with Steelyard
Tobacco Farmers
Plummet
“Ratification of the Federal Constitution by Massachusetts” published in the Hampshire Gazette
“Deerfield Street”
“Franklin County to get C.C. Corps Camps in Four of State Forests at Once” article from Greenfield Daily Recorder-Gazette paper
“Leaving for Bloody Brook”
“Evarosa Remedial Tonic Label” from Toiletine Company in Greenfield
Delegates of Philadelphia Convention article from the Hampshire Gazette newspaper
“A Full and Graphic Account of the Terrible Mill River Disaster, caused by the Breaking of a Reservoir in Hampshire County”
Arms Manufacturing Company
“Giant U.S. Air, Naval Task Force Begins Mining Entrances To Haiphong, Other Ports” article from Greenfield Recorder newspaper
Mt. Sugarloaf
Excerpts from Remembrance of Captain Park Holland and his participation in Shays’ Rebellion
Portrait of W. E. B. Du Bois
“Geographical, Statistical & Historical View of the Town of Deerfield”
“To You- Who Helped Us Win the Army-Navy “E” Ad in Aero Digest by Greenfield Tap and Die Corporation
“Hill Machine Works” Advertisement
Cadet’s Uniform
“Burly Log Drivers Up River Start Biggest Drive Ever Seen”
Deerfield Society of Blue and White Needlework Display
Letter to Aaron Fuller from son George re: slave market
The National First Reader, or Word-Builder
“Lake Pleasant Campmeeting Guide for 1876”
“Hatfield Ferry, Hatfield, Mass.”
“Saratoga Illustrated: The Visitor’s Guide to Saratoga Springs”
“Old Buildings are Moved out of Quabbin Area” article from scrapbook on Quabbin Reservoir
“Potter’s Assistant”
Mitchell’s Primary Geography. An Easy Introduction to the Study of Geography
Shadow Box – Crucifix
Main Street, Greenfield, MA
Coal Wagon
“A Crostick” poem published in the Hampshire Gazette
“Sacred Dirges, Hymns, and Anthems, commemorative of the death of General George Washington, The guardian of his country”
Letter to Colonel Israel Williams
“The King’s Palace”