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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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Embroidery of Mount Vernon
Main Street, Conway, Mass.
“UM Students Protest Move Into Cambodia” article in The Greenfield Recorder newspaper
“A Bedfordshire Lace Maker”
Railroad Station
Letter To Colonel Samuel Williams
Beadwork barrette
Millstone
Pitcher with engine turned decoration
“A Century Sermon Preached at Deerfield, Feb. 29, 1804: In Commemoration of the Destruction of the Town by French and Indians”
“Review of the Military Operations in the Northern Campaign” by Epaphras Hoyt
The Election article published in the Greenfield Gazette and Mercury newspaper
“Girl with Dulcimer”
Wedding shoes
Toasting iron
“Sermons, No. II- How To Change Your Heart”
“Communication Trouble” editorial in The Greenfield Recorder-Gazette newspaper
Page from Proprietors of the Common Field in Deerfield
Teapot – “Lafayette at the Tomb of Franklin”
Baby in Christening Robe
“Morning Mist”
“A History of Williamsburg in Massachusetts”
Estate Settlement of David Hoyt
Stoneware Churn
“Improvement In Champooing And Hair Dyeing”
Reed Basket with cover
Springfield percussion musket
“Daily Graphic” newspaper illustration- ‘Birdseye View of the Williamsburgh Reservior with the Ruined Dam’
Letter to Nathaniel Dwight from Dr. Elihu Ashley
Wallhanging-“The Blue Pool”
Austin Towers’ receipt from the Shelburne Falls Marble Co.
Letter to George Sheldon regarding trolley
Town Hall
“Be Ye Warmed” Quilt
“Little Captives of 1704”
“On the Passage of the Constitutional Amendment” poem from the National Anti-Slavery Standard newspaper
Letter to Commanding Officer in Guilford from Colrain’s Colonel Hugh McClellan regarding land disputes in New York
Ceramic vessel
Lake Pleasant
Cross Dedication
“Harrow Plays Next Summer at Deerfield”
“Monroe & Rowe”
Writing Armchair
Arms Manufacturing Company workers
“Yosemite Falls”
Souvenir Folder of Mohawk Trail, Mass.
“The Census of Massachusetts: 1885, Volume II”
Stoneware Crock
Tea kettle
“Sundry Items”- military figures for states
Nursing Class of Julia Diadema Sophronia Snow (1891-1984)
Pages on Communism from “The Challenge to Liberty”
Brown Bess flintlock musket
Hatchel/Hackle
Schoolroom at the Mill and Bars: Recitation Day
Bayonet
Phelps mourning embroidery
Sunderland, Mass. The Old Button Ball Tree
Articles of Faith of William Stoddard Williams
“The White Doll”
Children’s boots
WWII Air Raid Warning Instructions
Seashells
Heath, Mass.-On Pocumtuck Road
Clothes Wringer
Fisher’s Garage under construction
150 Anniversary, Bernardston, Mass.-Parade
Excerpt of Willard letter to E. B. Wilson on Shays’ Insurrection of 1786
WWII Registration Card
George Sheldon (1818-1916)
Schedule of the whole number of Persons within the Division alloted to William Shepard and David Sexton to enumerate, 1790
Royalston
Will of Esther (Harding) Dickinson
“Ku-Klux-Klan” article in the Gazette and Courier newspaper
Connery House, Westhampton, Mass.
Where the Mohawk Trail Crosses the Hoosac Tunnel, Berkshire Hills
“Deerfield Gave Warm Reception To Trolleys”
“Why Should Suffrage Be Imposed on Women?
First Church of Deerfield Interior
Connecticut River, Mt. Sugarloaf in the distance
Framed photograph of Greenfield Tap & Die Corporation operator during WWII
“The Inaugural”
Excerpts of the “Constitution of the Hawley Female Charitable Society”
“Communist Impudence” article in The Gazette and Courier newspaper
Table Rock, Mt. Sugarloaf
“Roman Catholics” article from the Greenfield Gazette and Franklin Herald newspaper
Historical Collections, being a General Collection of interesting facts, traditions, biographical sketches, anecdotes, &c.
Milk Pan
“M. Root” Tavern sign
Trout Lily/ Adder Tongue Lily/ Dog’s Tooth Violet flower
Frank Dahowski, Wallingford, England
Mason Jar
WWI letter to Emily Gladys Bartlett
Painted Tobacco Bag
Petition to General Shepard in the Hampshire Gazette
Cabinet of Nature
Draft cylinder
Main St. looking west from Mansion House
Tea and Coffee Service
School Street Looking East, Athol, Mass.
Mount Sugarloaf Summit House
“Chinese Mulberry” and “Persian Management of Silkworms from New England Farmer”
Woodland outing
Water Pipe
“Permanent Regulations & By-laws, Annual Reports..School Committee..Town of Chicopee”
Birchbark wastepaper basket
“Regulations for the Order and Discipline of the Troops of the United States” book advertisement in the Hampshire Gazette
“Reservoir Disaster” article from the Gazette and Courier newspaper
Excerpts from Edwin Nims’ Agricultural Diary
Cupboard
Spinet
“First Meals Served Transients in Renovated Pullman Hotel” article from the Greenfield Daily Recorder-Gazette newspaper
Deerfield Society of Blue and White Needlework Display
Jerry with Rocking Chair
“National Ball” invitation
“Our page, Harry”
Lower Suspension Bridge, Turners Falls, Mass.
Confederate Currency from the State of North Carolina
Promissory note to John Pynchon from John Hawks
“Home Affairs”- 100 Gun Salute to Lincoln
Main Street, Looking North from Hillman, Springfield, Mass.
Mint Industry from “The History of the Town of Ashfield”
WWI letter to Emily Gladys Bartlett
Workingmen’s Association broadside
“Oil Cinnamon Cordial” advertisement
Eleanor “Nellie” M. Arms (1864-1937)
Letter to Lt. James Stewart
“The Craftsman”
Milk Bottle
“Annual Report of the Town Officers of Deerfield For the Year Ending Feb. 1st, 1914-Annual Report of the School Committee”
“Ingenious Epitaph” a poem from Greenfield Gazette newspaper
Willow Basket
Neck Yoke
Greenfield Postmasters
Pages from Journal of Dr. Elihu Ashley
“For the town of Amherst, education the leading ‘industry’”
Sugarloaf Street
Wooden Tankard
Douglas and Johnson Democratic Ticket and Bell and Everett National Union Ticket
Camp Meeting Residence
Excerpt from Volume II of the Adelphi Society Records
Dr. William G. Watt
Will of Edward Allyn
Five Children and a Buggy
Sophia Smith Sampler
Tax Form F
Arms Manufacturing Company
“History of Philip’s War”
Fence Agreement between Seth Sheldon & John Williams
“Onion Harvest”
“Buckland”
“NRA Citizens Committee Told Factories Hired 225 More; Store Jobs Increase” article from Greenfield Daily Recorder-Gazette paper
“Arrival of Missionaries” article from the Greenfield Gazette and Franklin Herald newspaper
Official Ballot for Shelburne
Letter to Colrain Selectmen regarding Insurgents
No.3A Folding Pocket Kodak Camera
“Picking Potatoes, George and Me”
“Lieut. Genl. Ulysses S. Grant U.S.A.”
“Deerfield and Bernardston Accept PWA; Northfield Rejects School Proposal” article from Greenfield Daily Recorder-Gazette paper
Petition for Reimbursement by Major Salah Barnard
“The History of the Insurrections in Massachusetts in the year seventeen hundred and eighty six and the Rebellion”
“Negro Slavery in Old Deerfield”
Mohawk Trail explanatory text
Copy of a letter published in the Hampshire Gazette regarding Shays’ Insurgents
Infantry Officer’s Sword, 1821-1832
“Students Trying to Convert Congressmen” article in The Greenfield Recorder newspaper
Polly Stebbins (1792-1869)
WWI Helmet of Lt. Henry N. Flynt
“Sermon preached to 1st Congregational Society in Deerfield, Mass. and in the Hearing of Several Indians of Both Sexes Supposed”
“Negroes Waiting at the Depot”
Epaphras Hoyt (1765-1850)
Memorial Print announcing the death of Hariet A. Cooley
WWII Air Raid Warning Instructions Card
Letter to Williams & Upham
Memorial Hall Bedroom
“George Fuller, His Life & Works – A Memorial”
“Improvement” article from the New York Ladies Chronicle republished in the Greenfield Gazette and Franklin Herald newspaper
B. and M. and Street Ry. Bridges at Cheapside
“Plan of the Town of Deerfield”
Avery Oxen Postcard
South Cove, North Pond
Pages from John Williams Daybook
Civil War letter to Ella Melendy
Steamer Trunk
The Western Battle Ground article published in the Greenfield Gazette and Courier newspaper
Old Indian House Arm Chair
“The Young Ladies Book: A Manual of Elegant Recreations, Exercises, and Pursuits”
Board Chest
Wales St, Wales, Mass.
“Arms Faculty Voluntarily Accepts Salary Reduction” article from the Greenfield Daily Recorder-Gazette newspaper
Square-“Nocturne”
George Fuller (1822-1884) Studio
Table Knife
Connecticut River and Sunderland Bridge from Mt. Sugarloaf
Dr. Joseph Goodhue (1762-1849)
Parts Manufacturing Company 3 dimensional airplane part
“Turners Falls”
“The Life of Dwight L. Moody”
“The Traitor’s Confederacy”
Congregational Church and Sheldon Academy, Southampton, Mass