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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 Confession of Judah Marsh” published in the Hamsphire Gazette
Photograph Postcard “Second Baptist Church”
Western slope showing North Adams
“Italian Vagrants” article from the Greenfield Gazette and Franklin Herald newspaper
Main Street
“Guilford Mineral Spring Water, Guilford, Vermont” bottle
“A Plea for the West” article from the Greenfield Gazette and Franklin Herald newspaper
Biography of W.E.B. DuBois in “Class of 1890”
Westfield State Teachers’ College
Inkwell
“Ononko’s Vow”
Officers of the 44th Massachusetts Regiment Volunteers
South Deerfield Grammar School
Broomcorn broom
Frary House at Open House
Pages from the Diary of Samuel King
Letter to Samuel Wells from Colonel Elihu Hoyt
“The Youth’s Companion World Fair”
Free-blown glass jar
Letter to Colrain Selectmen regarding Insurgents
Easthampton, from Mt. Tom, Holyoke, Mass.
Lake Pleasant Founders
King Street, Northampton, Mass.
“Winter”
“Turners Falls, Mass. Industrial Plants, General View below Falls”
Edge of Settlement
Letter to Mr. and Mrs. George Sheldon regarding R. H. Dana et. al. and trolley
“Deerfield”- Sheldon talks about Monuments
John Russell Cutlery Etching and Cleaning Department Employees
“History and Proceedings of the Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association”
Letter to Mary Cochran from daughter Martha Cochran regarding Miss Martineau
“The Boy Scouts Year Book”
Cathcart Family Register
Indenture of Zechariah Gilson of Northfield
“Ancient History of Pocomptuck or Deerfield…”.by Stephen West Williams
Inventory of Charles Hart Ashley
Mail Rider
“By the River”
Excerpts from “A Record of the Doings of the Hawley Female Charitable Society”
WWII ration books and case
Staged Capture
Cutting Ice
Sleighing in a One-Horse Cutter
Hand Cards
“NRA Citizens Committee Told Factories Hired 225 More; Store Jobs Increase” article from Greenfield Daily Recorder-Gazette paper
Trout Lily/ Adder Tongue Lily/ Dog’s Tooth Violet flower
“T. F. Library Report Says ‘Depression Reading’ Ends” article from Greenfield Daily Recorder-Gazette newspaper
“Dropout” cartoon from Greenfield Recorder-Gazette newspaper
Franklin County Public Hospital
“Harrow Theater and Hutchins’ Plays”
Testamonial by Daniel Shays in the Hampshire Gazette newspaper
“Shelburne”
Fabric order for Orlando Ware’s store
“Deerfield Street”- Rebuttal on Monuments
“Main Street from Arms’s Store”
Beaded Bag
Deed to Zur Hawks
“Government Ready to Buy Butter and Beef for Needy” article from Greenfield Daily Recorder-Gazette newspaper
WWII Class 3 Fuel Oil Ration coupons
House in South Deerfield, Mass
“Sons of Temperance Membership of Elijah Spencer Fuller”
Thaxter Scott House
Resolution regarding town officers to take oaths published in the Hampshire Gazette
Published letter to Thomas Grover from the Hampshire Gazette newspaper
Doll “Lilla”
Letter to Colonel Elihu Hoyt
Seating “Negroes” in the Old Hadley meetinghouse
Daffodil bowl
Deerfield Academy Student Roster
Tractor
Excerpts from the diary of Elizabeth Babcock Leonard
“President Still Hopes for Peace” article in The Greenfield Recorder-Gazette newspaper
“Burly Log Drivers Up River Start Biggest Drive Ever Seen”
“Influenza With Us- Epidemic Has Taken Hold of Greenfield” article from The Greenfield Recorder newspaper
Table Knife
Adjustable Plane
“Franklin County to get C.C. Corps Camps in Four of State Forests at Once” article from Greenfield Daily Recorder-Gazette paper
Well Sweep
“Price List of Joiners’ Bench Planes and Moulding Tools, Manufactured by the Greenfield Tool Company”
The Hockanum Ferry, Northampton to Hadley
Clothes Wringer
Mansion House, Greenfield, Mass.
Rising Star Quilt
Handicraft Vol. IV, No. 7 – symbols
Landscape of Irish Ruins
“The Sweet Little Man.”
“Mack the Giant Ox” Banner
“Greenfield”- Will Hutchins Exhibit
Beadwork barrette
Niddy-Noddy
“Break-Through Accomplished” editorial from Greenfield Recorder-Gazette newspaper
“Mount Holyoke” sonnet on the death of Mary Lyon
“The Senate of 1872- Arrangement of Seats”
Women Vote article published in Gazette and Courier
“The Deerfield Renaissance” from New England Magazine
Flax Hatchel/Hackle
“True Stories of New England Captives”
“Ruins of the French Fort at Chambly built 1711”
Excerpt “On the Condition of Women in the United States” article from The Liberator newspaper
Illustrated Trade card of William Jackson’s Brazen Head shop
WWI letter to Emily Gladys Bartlett
Medicine cup
Little Jack of All Trades, with Suitable Representations. Part I
“The Hermit of Erving Castle”
Reward of Merit to Luella May
“The Decision of the Supreme Court” article in the Franklin Democrat newspaper
Military Commission of Lt. Colonel Joseph Stebbins (1749-1816)
Whale-oil Lamp
Broom Pounder
Painted Tobacco Bag
Candle Mold
Pages from “A New Pictorial History of Greenfield” on railroads
Writ against Standish Foster by Daniel Coon
Town Meeting
Side Chair
Dam and Covered Bridge in Conway
Article on the Constitution and Slavery from The Hampshire Gazette Newspaper
“Jemima or The Witch of Bender”
Resignation of William Stoddard Williams as surgeon
Park Square, Westfield, Mass.
“The American Anti-Slavery Almanac for 1838”
Ruth Strong Russell (1804-1869) Sampler
Burke Tavern Overmantel Panel
German Prisoners, Lyons, France
Travel passport for Mercy Carter’s sons
Complaint against Caesar for stealing
Boy in a Skeleton Suit
WWI letter to Emily Gladys Bartlett
“Deerfield, Mass., South Main Street”
“Montague Center”
Fork
Covered Jars
George Sheldon (1818-1916)
Pastoral Letter excerpted from “Good Fetch’d Out of Evil”
Camp Meeting Residence
Lidded tankard
“Dovecote Aviary”
Holyoke, Mass. Bird’s Eye View from Mt. Tom by moonlight
“Falls and Dam. Chicopee Falls, Mass.”
Amethyst Vase
Warrant of Distress of Benoni Grover of Montague
Letter to Aaron Fuller from son Elijah
Account Book of Elijah Williams, Ledger B, Vol. 3
“Geo. Thompson in Springfield” article from the Boston Courier newspaper
WWII War Ration Book Four
Letter to George and Elizabeth Fuller
Burning
Bedpan
Excerpt from diary of Clara Alquist-Sherman regarding The Great Depression
Wallet
“Pilgrim’s Progress”
Sewing Machine
New Home Sewing Machine with attachments distributed by Priscilla Needlework Company
Cartridge Box
“Bible of the Papists” article from the Greenfield Gazette and Franklin Herald
Child’s highchair
Easthampton (and Northampton)
“A. Stratton” Tavern sign
Serving Dish
Excerpt from Volume II of the Adelphi Society Records
The Redeemed Captive Returning to Zion
“A Study of Grave Stones in the Old Cemetery at Deerfield”
Pot Hook
Farm House
“South Deerfield- To Build New School-House”
“Plan of Sunderland Bridge over the Connecticut River”
Settlement of the Estate of John Stebbins
Edward Hitchcock (1793-1864)
“Oil Cinnamon Cordial” advertisement
“Woman’s Work” editorial from Greenfield Daily Recorder-Gazette newspaper
Deerfield Town Warrant on Declaration of Independence from Great Britain
Civil War letter from Thomas Wentworth Higginson to his brother, Stephen
“News Items”- Mass. Petitions to abolish slave-hunting
“New Home Sewing Machine Co. of Orange, Mass.”
Gravestone of John Williams Jr.
Harvesting Vine Ripened Cape Cod Cranberries
“Senate Bill Would Limit U.S. Combat” article in The Greenfield Recorder newspaper
Patent Model of Plow
Williamsburgh, Massachusetts
Main Street, Greenfield, MA
Sugarloaf Street
E-flag of Greenfield Tap and Die Corporation for exemplary performance in WWII
“A Son Of The Forest. The Experience Of William Apes, A Native Of The Forest”
Long-handled frying pan
“Influence of Schoolmasters” article from the Greenfield Gazette and Franklin Herald newspaper
Dr. Frank S. Newell in Horse-drawn Buggy
Flute
Oil lamps
My First Automobile
“Insist on Having Miner’s Flavoring Extracts” Ad from Gazette and Courier newspaper
Gluing Clamp
Flax break
Bit Stock
Old Green River Mill
Edward Hitchcock (1828-1911)
“Farm for Sale”
“Address to the Ladies”poem in Hampshire Gazette newspaper
Pages from “The Great South: A Record of Journeys” on cotton statistics in U.S.
Wood Mounted Bit
Smith College Observatory