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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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Railway Station, Athol, Mass.
“Deerfield Society of Blue and White Needlework”
Pages from “Those Green River Knives”
“Heredity and Early Environment of John Williams ‘The Redeemed Captive’”
Birth Place of D. L. Moody, East Northfield, Mass.
Coliseum Building, Eastern States Exposition
Prospect House, Mount Holyoke, Northampton, Mass.
Wallhanging-The Apple Tree
Main Street, looking West. Colerain, Mass.
Article published in letter form to Benjamin Banneker from Thomas Jefferson in the Greenfield Gazette newspaper
“Eight-Hour Proclamation” article from the Gazette and Courier newspaper
Stoneware Churn
Page from Proprietors of the Common Field in Deerfield
American Herbarium, Volume 1
“Pews in Deerfield meeting house first Parish- sold December 1824”
Dress Sword
Portulaca flower
Scene at Palmer Fair, Palmer, Mass.
“Original Deerfield Workers Show Skills at Crafts”
“Outrages on Colored Soldiers” article from the National Anti-Slavery Standard newspaper
Farm House
Grist Mills Pond, Williamsburg, Mass.
“Sermons, No. II- How To Change Your Heart”
Land transfer, John Williams to John Sheldon
Biography of W.E.B. DuBois in “Class of 1890”
“A Record of Sunderland in the Civil War of 1861 to 1865”
“Decorative Painting”
Porringer
“President Lincoln” article from the Gazette and Courier newspaper
Main and Park Streets looking South. Easthampton, Mass.
“Dickinson High School”
“The New McGuffey Second Reader”
Lake Pleasant Cottage
Arms Manufacturing Company
Plate and cup
“Map of New-England”
Cathcart Family Register
Adjustable Plane
“Call for more Missionaries” article from the Franklin Herald newspaper
“Mark’s China Putty, For Cementing Glass And China Ware”
“The News From Home”- the Greenfield Guards
“Manufacture of Silk Not New in New England” from New England Farmer
Arms Manufacturing Company
Mt. Sugarloaf showing King Philip’s Seat
Auger Bit
Lillian Saxton Hutchins (Mrs. Frank Hutchins)
“Roman Catholics” article from the Greenfield Gazette and Franklin Herald newspaper
“A Crostick” poem published in the Hampshire Gazette
“Miss Harriet Martineau” article from the Greenfield Gazette and Franklin Herald newspaper
Twin Potty Chair
“Annual Meeting of the Franklin County Temperance Society” article from the Gazette and Mercury newspaper
The Young Reader, To Go With The Spelling Book
Knife
“Washington Monument at Night, Washington, D.C.”
Springfield bicycle club displaying their trophies
Letter to Charles Hart Ashley
Sunderland Library
“Whately”
Quality Control Lab Coat from Millers Falls Company
Promissory note to John Pynchon from John Hawks
Lincoln Badge
Hoosac Tunnel
“Shelburne Falls, Mass.”
“And White As Well” editorial from Greenfield Recorder newspaper
“Onion Harvest”
Horn spoon
Published letter to Thomas Grover from the Hampshire Gazette newspaper
“Marchers to Converge on Lincoln Memorial” and “Washington Will be Symbol of U.S. Power Marchers” article in GRG newspaper
Framed photograph of Greenfield Tap & Die Corporation operator during WWII
“Annual Report of the Town Officers of Deerfield For the Year Ending Dec. 31, 1926. Annual Report of the School Committee”
“What Befell Stephen Williams in his Captivity”
Beaded Bag
Copyright Agreement for book entitled “Antiquarian Researches”
“U.S. Planes Hit North Vietnam… ” article in The Greenfield Record-Gazette newspaper
Article on the Constitution and Slavery from The Hampshire Gazette Newspaper
Visit of Gov. Guild to Charlemont, Mass.
View Along the Cold River, Eastern Slope of Mohawk Trail
Eleanor Brown Stebbins (1875-1955) (Mrs. Benjamin Stebbins) Washing a Child’s Hand
East Northfield, Mass., Skinner Gymnasium
Nazi statement from Millers Falls Company employee
Camp Meeting Residence
Sugar Loaf, South Deerfield, Mass.
Teapot
Deerfield Academy, Class of 1904
Portrait of Lucy Terry Prince
Hair Pin Curve, Showing Stamford Valley
“County Towns Long Alternated On Allowing Local Liquor Sale” article from the Daily Recorder-Gazette newspaper
Letter to Doctor Joseph Goodhue
Pages from “Home and Community Hygiene- A Text-book of Personal and Public Health”
“Old Indian House” Door
“For the Softies” editorial from the Greenfield Recorder-Gazette newspaper reprinted from The Holyoke Transcript
“Uncle Sid’s Adventure with Indians”
Boat Landing, Hampton Ponds
Letter to Governor Bowdoin published in the Hampshire Gazette
Letter to Mr. and Mrs. George Sheldon regarding R. H. Dana et. al. and trolley
Weeding Onions
Florida Everglades
Mt. Sugarloaf
Down the Slope and Approaching Hair Pin Turn
Letter to Rev. Erza Stiles on Shays’ Rebellion reprinted in “The New-Haven Gazette and The Connecticut Magazine”
Mt. Sugarloaf
Main Street, Conway, Mass.
“Share the Work Campaign Gets Under Way at Meeting” article from the Greenfield Daily Recorder-Gazette Newspaper
Women in Surrey
“Portraits of History- Historic Places in the Orange-Athol Area: A Fascinating Look into the Past”
Bean Pot
Burning
“Dropout” cartoon from Greenfield Recorder-Gazette newspaper
“Bernardston”
Supplies for Troops
Civil War letter to Agnes Gordon Higginson Fuller from her sister regarding slavery
Deerfield Town Warrant regarding making peace with Great Britain
“Sermon preached to 1st Congregational Society in Deerfield, Mass. and in the Hearing of Several Indians of Both Sexes Supposed”
Writ of Amasa Smith against Abel Densmore
Drug Jar
Railroad Arch Bridge, Deerfield
“Our Dark Day” article from the Gazette and Courier newspaper
Colonel Elihu Hoyt (1771-1833)
Uniform Hat
Admiral Francis John Higginson (1843-1931) presentation sword
Nathan Tufts
“Disgraceful” article about mob at Garrison Abolition Society’s anniversary celebration from the Gazette and Courier newspaper
“Miner’s Lemon Standard Extract”
“King’s Handbook of the United States”
Lamson, Goodnow and Company, Birds-Eye View
Cradle with painted decoration
Letter from Justin Hitchcock to Mr. and Mrs. Hoyt
Williamsburgh, Massachusetts
“Narrative of Sojourner Truth, A Northern Slave, Emancipated From Bodily Serviture By the State of New York in 1828”
Lease (Indenture) by Orlando Ware
The Park, South Hadley, Mass.
Peony Quilt
Wall Hanging-Apple Tree
“Fugitive Slave”
Samuel Willard Saxton (1829-1933)
“Statistical Information Relating to Certain Branches of Industry in Massachusetts For the Year Ending June 1, 1855”
Bancroft’s Agricultural Almanack
Mohawk Trail explanatory text
Indenture between Justin Hitchcock and Moses Church
Writ against Standish Foster by Daniel Coon
“Witch” basket
“Parts Manufacturing Co. 1940-1953” Ad from Greenfield Recorder-Gazette newspaper
Bride
Account Book of Elijah Williams, Ledger C, Vol. 4
Delegates from abolitionist sector nominate Hubbard for Congressman article in Greenfield Gazette and Mercury newspaper
Reward of Merit to Luella May
“Sugar Loaf Mountain”
“The Society of Deerfield Industries”
Belt buckle
Niagara Falls needle case
The Electoral Vote article published in the Greenfield Gazette and Courier newspaper
“Motives for Well-Doing. A Sermon, Delivered in Northampton, August 24, 1815. Before the Hampshire Missionary Society”
Bridge over Deerfield River, Shelburne Falls, Mass.
“Olde Deerfield Dolls”
Awaiting the Rope Pull, M.S.C.
Covered Basket with handle
The First Home of Masonry in Western Massachusetts Built 1750. Orange, Mass.
“Joseph Stebbins- A Pioneer at the Outbreak of the Revolution”
The Common, Greenfield Mass.
“M. Root” Tavern sign
Hotel Lathrop, South Deerfield, Mass.
Diagram of John Wilson’s Orchard and list of trees
Captain John Wells’ Company Muster Roll
Residence of Dwight L. Moody, East Northfield, Mass.
Watch fob with crystal drop
Witt Residence
“Hatfield Ferry, Hatfield, Mass.”
Marbles
“President Still Hopes for Peace” article in The Greenfield Recorder-Gazette newspaper
Town of Leverett Bill to John Clapp Jr. for Rufus Clary
WWII political letter to Henry L. Clarke
WWI Helmet of Lt. Henry N. Flynt
“Picturesque Franklin”
Seating of the Meeting House
“Old Medicine Man Founded Toiletine Co.” article from Greenfield Recorder-Gazette newspaper
Pages from John Partridge Bull’s account book
Cartridge box
“Slave Case in Connecticut” article from the Gazette and Mercury newspaper
Steamer Trunk
“The Life of Dwight L. Moody”
“Order of Exercises at the Exhibition of the Deerfield High School”
Cross-stitch Runner
Village Room
Frederick Douglas refused passport
Uniform Coat
Horse Clog
“Remarks and Observations” by Justin Hitchcock
Puritans Led Off in Captivity
Screen Panel-“The Last Rose of Summer”
Burke Tavern Overmantel Panel
African American Musicians
Staged Capture
“Don’t Tread On Us” editorial in The Greenfield Recorder-Gazette newspaper
“Slavery Notice” article from Gazette and Mercury newspaper
Watering Place Looking up the Mountain Side
“Souvenir of Orange, Mass”
Canal Construction
Letters to Capt. Shays and General Shepard published in the Hampshire Gazette
Pastoral Letter excerpted from “Good Fetch’d Out of Evil”
French Knife