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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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Uniform Gloves
Congregational Church and Sheldon Academy, Southampton, Mass
“A Bedfordshire Lace Maker”
The Hoosac Range Looking West from Moore’s Summit
Screen Panel-“The Peacock”
Letter to Rebecca Jackson Williams from her son
Boy in a Skeleton Suit
“Making High Grade Tools for Industry Since 1868” Millers Falls Company ad from Greenfield Recorder-Gazette newspaper
Excerpts from the Diary of Ellen Louisa Arms (Sheldon)
“Culture of Silk” from New England Farmer
“The Day-Star: A Monthly Magazine devoted to The Revival of Religion”
Clay pipe
Scene at Palmer Fair, Palmer, Mass.
“Turners Falls, Mass. Industrial Plants, General View below Falls”
WWII Class 3 Fuel Oil Ration coupons
Washington Memorial
Women dancing with sheaves of wheat
Military Commission of Lemuel Taylor
Tricorn Hat
View Along Cold River, Eastern Slope of Mohawk Trail
Hoosac Tunnel Work Area
“Senate Judiciary Approves Alien Restrictions” article from Greenfield Recorder-Gazette newspaper
Excerpts from the Diary of Ruth Pease
“Greenfield”- Will Hutchins Exhibit
Boston Commonwealth report of speech of Dana in behalf of Davis re: fugitive Shadrich article in Gazette and Courier newspaper
Edward Hitchcock (1828-1911)
Violinist and Pianist
“Religious Anniversaries” article from Greenfield Gazette and Franklin Herald newspaper
“Manufacture of Silk Not New in New England” from New England Farmer
“Proceedings on the Trial of Dominic Daley and James Halligan”
Butter Knife
South Deerfield Grammar School
Breck, Shephard, and Clark General Store Ad in Hampshire Gazette newspaper
“The Hermit of Erving Castle”
Sketch of the Union Naval Attack on Charleston Harbor
“The Life and Age of Woman”
Schoolroom at the Mill and Bars: Recitation Day
Letter to John Williams
Reverend Stephen Williams (1693-1782)
Inkwell
Navigating Cut Ice
Town Hall in Conway
“The Census of Massachusetts: 1885, Volume II”
High Chest of Drawers
“Improvement In Champooing And Hair Dyeing”
The Reformed Pastor
Pages from “Home and Community Hygiene- A Text-book of Personal and Public Health”
Tobacco Farmers
Zebulon Graves invoice for use of horse
“Winter”
Excerpt from “Equal Rights- Condition in some parts of Europe” article from The Liberator newspaper
“Review of the Military Operations in the Northern Campaign” by Epaphras Hoyt
Postcard to George Sheldon regarding trolley debate
“Rivermen Reach Turners Falls”
C. Alice Baker (1833-1909)
“Don’t Tread On Us” editorial in The Greenfield Recorder-Gazette newspaper
“Women and Girls Over 18” employment ad in Greenfield’s Gazette and Courier newspaper
“South Deerfield – South Deerfield to Have Conference on Health in Schools”
Sugarloaf Street
View from Jutting Rock, Mt. Sugarloaf
Letter to George Sheldon regarding the trolley debate
Elizabeth Amsden Inventory
Middlefield
“List of Grievances” poem published in the Hampshire Gazette newspaper.
Promissory note to Joseph Goodhue
“Firing the Cannon”
Adze
E-flag of Greenfield Tap and Die Corporation for exemplary performance in WWII
“Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral”
Mary Lyon House, Buckland, Mass.
Pocumtuck Hotel
Will of Zur Hawks
The Country Builder’s Assistant
150 Anniversary, Bernardston, Mass.-horse and buggy
Christening Dress
Tractor
“Soviets’ ‘Moon’ Circling Globe at Terrific Speed” article from Greenfield Recorder-Gazette newspaper
Lake Pleasant Cottage
“Evacuation of Fort Sumter!”
Colonel Hugh Maxwell’s Certificate of Membership into the Mass. Society for Agriculture
“Hitchcock House”
Mary, Mabel and Frank Colcord
Moccasin
“New England Strike Grows All Fall River Mills Idle; President Seeks Mediators” article in the Greenfield Daily Recorder-Gazette
“A Practical System of Modern Geography”
“Plowing Sward”
Wood Mounted Bit
“Motives for Well-Doing. A Sermon, Delivered in Northampton, August 24, 1815. Before the Hampshire Missionary Society”
The Manual Alphabet for the Deaf and Dumb
Letters to Capt. Shays and General Shepard published in the Hampshire Gazette
“The Old Porch” Ashfield House, Ashfield, Mass.
“Betty at the Churn”
Minute Tapioca factory
Plate
WWII Application for Renewal of Fuel Oil ration
“To All Who Feel An Interest In The Antiquities Of New-England”
“The Craftsman”
“Statistical Information Relating to Certain Branches of Industry in Massachusetts For the Year Ending June 1, 1855”
Memorial Hall Bedroom
“The Boy Captive of Old Deerfield” excerpts
“Log Drive Nears Turners Falls” article in Greenfield’s Gazette and Courier newspaper
Prospect Hill School
Civil War letter to Ella Melendy
“Threadwell The Greenfield Plant That Is Making History In The Precision Tool Field!” ad from Greenfield Recorder-Gazette
“Tribute to American Ladies” article from the Greenfield Gazette and Franklin Herald newspaper
Rear of the Colrain
A Practical System of Modern Geography
Sarah Coleman’s shoe
“A Century Sermon Preached at Deerfield, Feb. 29, 1804: In Commemoration of the Destruction of the Town by French and Indians”
Fire Engine (pump)
Milk Bottle
“Village Room”
WWI letter to Emily Gladys Bartlett
Pages from Journal of Dr. Elihu Ashley
“Amherst House.”
“Sharpening the Scythe”
Photograph Postcard “Second Baptist Church”
“History and Proceedings of the Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association”
Civil War Patriotic Covers or Envelopes
Fans
Letter to George and Elizabeth Fuller
Civil War Certificate of Non-Liability for Substitute
“King’s Handbook of the United States”
“A Soldier’s Dream”
“A Factory Girl” article in The Hampshire Gazette newspaper
“Uncle Sid’s Adventure with Indians”
“A Hard Nag to Ride” political cartoon from the Daily Recorder-Gazette newspaper
“Unimproved Land for Sale” ad published in the Hampshire Gazette
Bill of sale for J. Romanoo
“Two Art Lectures”
WWI letter to Emily Gladys Bartlett
Memorial Plaque for Enslaved African-Americans in Deerfield
Beadwork barrette
Mountain Park and Mt. Tom by Night, Holyoke, Mass.
Copyright Agreement for book entitled “Antiquarian Researches”
Bill to Elijah Fuller regarding cotton
Chamber Pot
“Committee Recommends Senate Censure McCarthy, Charges He Treated Group Contemptuously” article from Greenfield Recorder-Gazette
“Price List of Joiners’ Bench Planes and Moulding Tools, Manufactured by the Greenfield Tool Company”
St. Stanislaus
View from “Sugarloaf”
Elijah Arms (1712-1802)
Souvenir Folder of Mohawk Trail, Mass.
“The Importance of Female Influence in the Support of Religion. A Sermon, delivered to a charitable Female Association”
Bit Stock
Pages from the Annual Report of the Treasurer, Selectmen, and School Committee to the Inhabitants of the Town of Deerfield
The Hockanum Ferry, Northampton to Hadley
“Annual Report of the Treasurer, Selectmen, and School Committee, To the Inhabitants of the Town of Deerfield”
Fire Bucket
Niagara Falls needle case
Colonel Elihu Hoyt notification to appear at military parade
Platter
Coal Wagon
“Shelburne Falls, Mass.”
“Looking West At Mount Sugarloaf”
Cutting Trees in Deerfield Lumber Co.’s Woods
“Picturesque Hampden”
Lt. Henry N. Flynt
War of 1812 Commemorative Pitcher
Canoe model
Resolve ordering Selectmen of Deerfield to record the town’s deaf and dumb population
Northampton, Mass. Glimpse of Main Street, showing Draper Hotel
Depot
Brass Skimmer
“Prospectus of the Deerfield Academy and Dickinson High School”
The Whale Inn, On Route 9, Goshen, Mass.
Botany notes from schoolbook belonging to Agnes Higginson
Writ against Standish Foster by Daniel Coon
Memorial Hall Kitchen
Draw Knife
Share of the Canada-Cuba Land and Fruit Company, Limited
Boys with Willow Whistles
“What befell Stephen Williams in his captivity”
African-American woman sewing
“Address to the Ladies”poem in Hampshire Gazette newspaper
“The Youth’s Companion World Fair”
Staged Capture
Pages from the “Annals of Chicopee Street Records and Reminiscences of an Old New England Parish..”
“Log Drive Nearly Past Turners”
“A New England Kitchen”
Sword
Neck Yoke
“High Court Bars Alien Deportation” article in Greenfield Recorder-Gazette newspaper
Onion Shovel
Edward Hitchcock (1793-1864)
Excerpt from Massachusetts School Law of 1647
Map of Western Massachusetts from History of Western Massachusetts
Log crew working above Sunderland Bridge
French Document Fan
Colrain, Mass.
Orra White Hitchcock (1796-1863)
Memorial Service text for Thomas Williams Ashley
“Beecher on Female Suffrage” article from Greenfield Gazette and Courier newspaper
Letter from Shays’ officers to John Brown of Whately published in Hampshire Gazette newspaper
“Decorative Painting”
Restoration Plans for Wells-Thorn House
Springfield, Mass. Court Square
Excerpts from the diary of George Fuller
Young Woman with Guitar
Norcross Bros. Stone Yard, East Longmeadow, Mass.