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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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Business Letter to Dennis Stebbins
“Jeanne D’Arc At Vaucouleurs”
Glass Bottle
“Soldiers in King Philip’s War…”
“Evacuation of Fort Sumter!”
Milk Bottle
Hampshire Gazette newspaper article on Shays’ Rebellion
Letter to Gertrude Porter Ashley
Sugarloaf Street
Jerry “The Avery Steer” Banner at the Fair
“Census of Several States” taken from Thomas’s Almanack for 1792 tallied by Office of the Secretary of State
Side Chair
Letters to Capt. Shays and General Shepard published in the Hampshire Gazette
Lt. Henry N. Flynt
Violinist and Pianist
Soldiers moving down Federal Street
“The New England Primer”
Red Cross Club, Marseiles, France
Inventory of David Hoyt
“SH” joined chest
African-American woman sewing
“Counting Our Blessings!” cartoon from The Greenfield Recorder newspaper
Ceramic Pipe
Excerpt from “A Funeral Oration on the Death of George Washington”
Depot
Letter to John Williams
Court verdicts of punishment for Shays’ Insurgents published in the Hamsphire Gazette
“Saranac Lake in Winter”
Bear comb
Cradle with painted decoration
Excerpt from diary of Clara Alquist-Sherman regarding The Great Depression
Letter to Governor James Bowdoin published in the Hampshire Gazette
Fruit Dish
“It Will Do You Good”- E. E. Flagg’s Japanese Pain Reliever
Girl’s boots
“Mark’s China Putty, For Cementing Glass And China Ware”
Wallhanging-“The Pear Tree”
Trammel Hook
Elsa Eager Ball (1893-1927) (Mrs. Arthur Ball) in Calash
“News Items”- Mass. Petitions to abolish slave-hunting
“The Rapids”
Noah’s Ark
Bridesburg Percussion Musket
Flax break
Coliseum Building, Eastern States Exposition
Petition of Convention of Hampshire County article from the Hampshire Gazette newspaper
World War II Duffle Bag
Articles of Faith of William Stoddard Williams
Washington Memorial
“UM Students Protest Move Into Cambodia” article in The Greenfield Recorder newspaper
Wallet
Piano
Pair of stone heads
“Manual of Instruction in the Use of Dumb Bells and Indian Clubs & Other Exercises”
Main Street, Looking North. Whately, Mass.
“Franklin County to get C.C. Corps Camps in Four of State Forests at Once” article from Greenfield Daily Recorder-Gazette paper
Pulsifer House
WWII Honorable Discharge card belonging to Frank Dahowski, Jr.
Hoosac Tunnel, Approach to East Portal, Mass
“The Mill”
Farley, Mass., Rattlesnake Mt. in Distance
Warrant of Distress of Benoni Grover of Montague
Admiral Francis John Higginson (1843-1931) presentation sword
Restoration Plans for Wells-Thorn House
Butter Churn
Roundabout Chair
“E. Wells” Tavern sign
Excerpts from the Diary of Ruth Pease
“Federal Activities Reach Deeper Into Private Life” image from Greenfield Daily Recorder-Gazette newspaper
Atlatl or spear throwing weight
Reverend Samuel Willard (1776-1859)
Letter to Dennis Stebbins
“Barrs Homestead 1739”
Deerfield Society of Blue and White Needlework Display
Letter to Charles Hart Ashley
Ice Sledding
A. Wysocki Onion Storage
“The Foot Bridge”
Court Dancers
Bill from Deerfield Selectmen for Military Supplies used in Shays’ Rebellion
Sophia Smith Sampler
Beaded Bag
Field Memorial Library
Sheldon Tapestry cushion cover
Shell Gorget
Plate
Rudiments of Geography
“Supplement to the New England Farmer, and Gardener’s Journal”
East Northfield, Mass., Skinner Gymnasium
Western slope showing North Adams
Deerfield Town Warrant on Declaration of Independence from Great Britain
“Noon Rest”
Williamsburgh, Massachusetts
Civil War Patriotic Covers or Envelopes
Plowing
Carriage Lamp
“Mount Holyoke” sonnet on the death of Mary Lyon
“Dickinson High School”
Camp Northfield, East Northfield, Mass
Ware
Butter Knife
Tuscarora beadwork sellers
Greenfield, Mass. Soldiers Monument and Second Congregational Church
“Chicopee, On Emergency Basis, Hopes Worst Past” article from unknown newspaper
Marbles
Will of Lucinda Nims
Lamson, Goodnow and Company, Birds-Eye View
Arosen’s Sash
Excerpts from “Reminiscences of Fugitive-Slave Law Days in Boston”
Reasons in Favor or Against the Trolley Route in Deerfield
“A Day Off”
“Improvement In Champooing And Hair Dyeing”
Academy Hall and The Common, New Salem, Mass.
Looking toward Village from Baptist hill
Christening Dress
“Haying in Fuller Swamp”
Lot Survey of Deerfield
“The Talented Sketch Class”
Uncut glass tubular bead
“Shorter Hours for Women”
Armory, Greenfield, Mass.
“Hippies and the War” editorial from The Greenfield Recorder newspaper
Map of the Nipmuck or Nipmuck Country compiled from a 1774 Survey published in “The Old Indian Chronicle”
Child Beauty (Barbara Jordan)
“Popery-Temperance” article from the Greenfield Gazette and Franklin Herald newspaper
To Nationalize the GREEN O HORSE RADISH
Birchbark mukak
Pocketbook
Farren Memorial Hospital, Montague City, Mass.
Excerpts from Agnes Gordon Higginson Fuller Diary
Postcard to George Sheldon regarding trolley debate
“Regulations for the Order and Discipline of the Troops of the United States” book advertisement in the Hampshire Gazette
Post Rider, 1772-1773
“Deerfield Street”- Rebuttal on Monuments
Covered Jars
First Church of Deerfield Pewter Flagon
John Hawks paid 1714, promisory note to John Pynchon
Greenfield Postmasters
J. Wilson’s Improved Cast iron Plough
Pitted stone
Bean Pot
WWII Air Raid Warning Instructions Card
Military Commission of Lemuel Taylor
WWI letter to Emily Gladys Bartlett
Glass Dish
Boy’s Suit
Red slate gorget
Bridge over Deerfield River, Shelburne Falls, Mass.
Pendants
Reed Basket
The Reformed Pastor
Supplies for Troops
Glass bottle
Main Street Business Center
Road in Highland Park
Letter to Lt. James Stewart
Lower Suspension Bridge, Turners Falls, Mass.
Fort Massachusetts, North Adams, Mass.
Bill of sale for J. Romanoo
“Making Baskets”
Frank Dahowski, Wallingford, England
“Proceedings on the Trial of Dominic Daley and James Halligan”
Poets Seat, Greenfield, Mass.
Uniform Coat
Fork
“Marchers to Converge on Lincoln Memorial” and “Washington Will be Symbol of U.S. Power Marchers” article in GRG newspaper
“Evarosa Remedial Tonic Label” from Toiletine Company in Greenfield
Lee Brothers Shoe Factory Postcard
“Deerfield Collection of Sacred Music”
Letter to Gertrude Porter Ashley
Letter to Colonel Israel Williams
Carving Fork
Page from Amasa Jones diary regarding Mill River Disaster Flood
Map of Western Massachusetts from History of Western Massachusetts
Old Hadley, Mass. Elmwood House and Old Church
American Photographic Appliance Corporation’s Presto Printer (Photo-Enlarger)
Railroad Station
“A Half Century of Conflict”- Vol. I
Main St. Looking East
Soapstone bullet mold
“Growth and Future of the Nation” article from the Gazette and Courier newspaper
Mt. Sugarloaf from the south
Jane Marshall Wood (1833-1841)
Flax Hatchel/Hackle
Deerfield Meadows
Gen. Shepard Memorial Monument, Westfield, Mass.
Embroidery: Over the Bounding Waves
Sketches of Brazil & Chile by Jeremiah Madison Doe on his voyage from Massachusetts around Cape Horn to California
Beaded Bag
Michael Waskiewicz
Patent Model of Plow
Letter to Mr. and Mrs. George Sheldon regarding trolley
Greenfield Tap and Die Corporation’s framed Memorial of WWII company losses
Deerfield River
“Catalogue of Books in the Second Social Library, Deerfield, with the Bye Laws of the Company; and the Rules &…”
“An Old Custom” -The Liberty Pole of Deerfield 1774
Conway Road House
Mortar
Testamonial by Daniel Shays in the Hampshire Gazette newspaper
“The African Slave Trade”