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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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“Hippies and the War” editorial from The Greenfield Recorder newspaper
“Examination of Witnesses in a Trial for Witchcraft”
Tobacco Hatchet
Wrought-iron lampstand and lamp
WWI Cartoons
“Proclamation by the President” [Millard Fillmore] article in the Franklin Democrat newspaper
“Sharpening the Scythe”
Conway Road House: Ostrowski Family Home
Five Children and a Buggy
Sugar Box
Williamsburgh, Massachusetts
“Slavery Notice” article from Gazette and Mercury newspaper
Multiple articles from The New-Haven Gazette and The Connecticut Magazine newspaper regarding Shays’ Rebellion
Crematory Key
Jerry with Rocking Chair
Military Commission of Seth Nims
Letter to Aaron Fuller from George Fuller
Pages from the Diary of Samuel King
Commission of the Grand Army Republic Post No. 84
“The Incoming of the Poles” newspaper article
Wooden Tankard
Greenfield Public Library
“High Court Bars Alien Deportation” article in Greenfield Recorder-Gazette newspaper
Milk Pan
Deerfield River
North Adams, Mass., Eastern Portal, Hoosac Tunnel
Oath of Allegiance of Isaac Abercrombie
Excerpts on slavery from “Anecdotes and Reminiscences . A Labor of Love”
WWII letter regarding African Americans
“The Rapids”
“Harvest Home Fair” Poster
“Undigested Ideas on Various Cases” article published in The Massachusetts Gazette or the General Advertiser newspaper
Ketchup Bottle
List of plants in the garden of William Stoddard Williams
Student Uniform
Worthington
John Stebbins (1647-1724) Marker
Looking Up Sugarloaf Street
Woman washing
Black Lace Dress
“Corn Sister” Sculpture
“Grape Arbor”
James Wells Champney (1843-1903)
Auger Bit
“Miss Harriet Martineau” article from the Greenfield Gazette and Franklin Herald newspaper
Excerpt of Dr. Joseph Goodhue’s Diary
World War I Toys
Depot
150 Anniversary, Bernardston, Mass.-Parade Float
Samuel Willard Saxton (1829-1933)
Postcard to George Sheldon regarding trolley debate
Excerpts from Agnes Gordon Higginson Fuller Diary
Letter to Elijah Dwight Williams
Canoe model
Gen. Shepard Memorial Monument, Westfield, Mass.
“The Quirlicut Company” Puzzle
Florida Wagon Train
Pastoral Letter excerpted from “Good Fetch’d Out of Evil”
Shelburne Falls
Bullets
“Experienced Girls Wanted” advertisement
Dr. William Stoddard Williams’ description of a throat distemper diagnosis
“Universal Geography, Ancient and Modern: Comparison and Classification”
Civil War letter to Ella Melendy
Memorial Service text for Thomas Williams Ashley
Millers Falls Company’s Micrometer with box
Bear comb
Kitchen Settle
“Farm for Sale”
“The Shepherdess of the Alps” embroidery
Please Pose for the Camera!
Painting of Millers Falls Company
Hand Stamp
“Ononko’s Vow”
“Roman Catholic Provincial Council” article from the Greenfield Gazette and Franklin Herald newspaper
“Betty at the Churn”
“Old Buildings are Moved out of Quabbin Area” article from scrapbook on Quabbin Reservoir
Civil War Monument
Memorial Plaque for Enslaved African-Americans in Deerfield
Knife
E-flag of Greenfield Tap and Die Corporation for exemplary performance in WWII
“Communist Impudence” article in The Gazette and Courier newspaper
“Oil Cinnamon Cordial” advertisement
Reticule
“M. Root” Tavern sign
“Magnificent Parade of Women” from “Around the World with a Camera”
Hoosac Tunnel
Camp Meeting Residence
Letter to Rebecca Jackson Williams from her son
Restoration Plans for Wells-Thorn House
Scoring Ice with Ice Cutter
Bill from Deerfield Selectmen for Military Supplies used in Shays’ Rebellion
Candlesticks
Arms Manufacturing Company
“Spirit of Religion Leading the Puritans”
“Influenza With Us- Epidemic Has Taken Hold of Greenfield” article from The Greenfield Recorder newspaper
“Decorative Painting”
School Street Looking East, Athol, Mass.
Quality Control Lab Coat from Millers Falls Company
Persis Hoyt Sheldon Scallop-Top Chest of Drawers
Receipt of Cornelius Jones
Women in Surrey
Memorial Hall
Pages from “Those Green River Knives”
“Erving & Wendell”
Map “The world agreeable to the latest discoveries”
Plate
“A Dangerous Practice”
Butter Churn
Shell Gorget
Petition for Reimbursement by Major Salah Barnard
“Deerfield”
Sugar Loaf, South Deerfield, Mass.
“Maple Grove”
Surveying Instrument
“Immigration Restrictions Tightened to Alleviate Unemployment Situation” article from the Greenfield Daily Recorder newspaper
Whole Cloth Quilt
Burl bowl
Riding Crop
Awaiting the Rope Pull, M.S.C.
Military Commission of Lemuel Taylor
“Emigration from England” article in Hampshire Gazette newspaper
Jennie Marie Arms Sheldon (1852-1938)
“Monument and Sugar-loaf Mountain, Deerfield”
Letter from Insurgent to Col. Clark and others published in the Hampshire Gazette
Basketry cup
“SW” Joined Chest
Women dancing with sheaves of wheat
“Practical Art Lectures”
German Prisoners, Lyons, France
“Guilford Mineral Spring Water, Guilford, Vermont” bottle
Bit Brace Drill manufactured by Millers Falls Company
Draft cylinder
“Red Winter Sunset”
New England Views on Boston and Maine R.R., Deerfield Valley
“King’s Handbook of the United States”
“Williams Cupboard and Ceramics”
“Proceedings on the Trial of Dominic Daley and James Halligan”
Sketch of the Union Naval Attack on Charleston Harbor
Otterskin Bag
“Chicopee, On Emergency Basis, Hopes Worst Past” article from unknown newspaper
“5 Men Shot in the Streets of Monson!!!”
Window Pennant
Witt Residence
“Learning to Sew”
Elmer’s Double-Acting Butter Churn
Rising Star Quilt
Patch Box
Glass Dish
Broom Tying Machine
“Boots, Shoes & Rubbers for Everybody at Sovereign’s Cash Shoe Store”
Campus During Conference, East Northfield, MA
Covered Basket with handle
Hillside Road House
Bottle
“Turnpike Road”
River Road House
Ball Invitation for Stephen West Williams
Elizabeth Brooks Fuller (1896-1979) painting
“Trolley Wayfinder”
“Learning By Doing At Hampton”
“New And True Stories For Children, With 100 Pictures”
Resolution regarding town officers to take oaths published in the Hampshire Gazette
Broomcorn broom
Margaret Christine Whiting (1860-1946)
Canal Construction
Excerpts from the diary of George Fuller
Elijah Williams Day Book
Elm Burl Bowl
Fireboard
“Study by Candlelight”
Concertina
Map of Western Massachusetts from History of Western Massachusetts
Sign-“Who would Turn Back 2 Hundred Yeare, Let him A light & Enter Here”
Mortar
“Greenfield Lyceum” ad from the Gazette and Courier newspaper
Whitworth Hand Tap & Die Set
Raffia Basket
“Gilt Edged Paper” article tells of a death threat to the editor of The Emancipator in the Gazette and Mercury newspaper
George Sheldon (1818-1916)
Letter to Agnes Higginson Fuller from George Fuller
“Montague”
“Charlemont”
“Bloody Brook Monument”
“Forest Park” in “Our Country and Its People” Volume 2
“King’s Dream Speech In 1963 Urged Full Rights For Negroes” article from Greenfield Recorder newspaper
Pickling Plant
Puritan Village patterns from “Historical Atlas of Massachusetts”
“The Hero”, poem about George Washington
“Deerfield, Mass., Memorial Hall.”
“Conway”
Coming Home, SS George Washington
Uniform Coat
Avenue A Stores
Hatfield, Massachusetts
The Weldon Hotel
McKinley Sure article published in the Greenfield Gazette and Courier newspaper
Fireplace Set
Plaid suit
“Map of New-England”