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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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Union Playing Card
“Woman’s Work” editorial from Greenfield Daily Recorder-Gazette newspaper
Reaping Grain
“Deerfield Street”
Broom Tying Machine
Ice Sledding
WWI letter to Emily Gladys Bartlett
“Peske-ompsk-ut; or, The Falls Fight”
Egg crate
Well Sweep
“Pegasus of Apollo” from “The Worcester Magazine”
Apron
Painted Tobacco Bag
Turners Falls Dam and Canal
Letter to George Sheldon regarding trolley
War club
Burl bowl
Letter to Colonel Hyde from an insurgent published in the Hampshire Gazette
Colrain, Mass.
“Alton-Mob-Murder and Arson” article from the Hampshire Gazette newspaper
Cane
Account book of Zebulon White & James Strathern
“Fewer Logs” article in Greenfield’s Gazette and Courier newspaper
“The Senate of 1872- Arrangement of Seats”
Broomcorn broom
“A Historic and Present Day Guide to Old Deerfield”
Rear of the Colrain
Letter to Deerfield Assessors by Colonel Elihu Hoyt
R. R. Station
Letter to Henry Kirke Brown from George Fuller
“Farmers Help the Belgians”
Fan
Deed of Pacomtuck land granted by Mashalisk to John Pynchon
Framed photograph of Greenfield Tap & Die Corporation operator during WWII
Native Carrying Captive, Eunice Williams
“Sacred Dirges, Hymns, and Anthems, commemorative of the death of General George Washington, The guardian of his country”
Carving Fork
Proclamation regarding Shays’ Rebellion
Milk Bottle
Letter to Esther Williams
Deerfield Academy, Class of 1904
“Anti Slavery Lecture” article from Greenfield Gazette and Franklin Herald newspaper
Old House in Essex, MA
“Emigrants to Liberia” article from Gazette and Mercury newspaper
Broom Pounder
“The American Duroc-Jersey Swine Breeders Association”
Woman with Stereoptican Viewer
“Thanksgiving Assembly”
Ellen Miller (1854-1929)
Main Street, Bernardston, Mass.
Horses and Farmers
Syringes with Case
Act by House of Representatives issued to Bernardston selectmen to hold town meeting to vote on the Constitution
New England Views on Boston and Maine R.R., Deerfield Valley
Auction bill of Dennis Stebbins
John Russell Cutlery Grinding Room Employees
Mt. Sugar Loaf Summit House
A System of Modern Geography
“Mr. Editor” article for the Gazette and Courier newspaper on the doings of the Sabbath school in South Deerfield for July 4th
“Girls Wanted” advertisement
“Give Me Three Grains of Corn, Mother” poem in the Hamsphire Gazette newspaper
Blue-checked apron
“Grape Arbor”
Pickling Plant
“UM Students Protest Move Into Cambodia” article in The Greenfield Recorder newspaper
Water Pipe
“Civilization rebuked by the savage” in “Gazette and Mercury” Newspaper
Reward of Merit to Amos Hamilton
Conway Road House
Gate-leg Table
Black Lace Dress
Ruth Strong Russell (1804-1869) Sampler
Fruit Knife
Article published in letter form to Benjamin Banneker from Thomas Jefferson in the Greenfield Gazette newspaper
Thaxter Scott House
Excerpts from “Diary kept from Date of Father’s Death- 1860” on President Lincoln
Salah Barnard’s Account Book
“Ancient History of Pocomptuck or Deerfield…”.by Stephen West Williams
Bust of George Fuller (1822-1884)
Letter to Commanding Officer in Guilford from Colrain’s Colonel Hugh McClellan regarding land disputes in New York
“New And True Stories For Children, With 100 Pictures”
Tape loom
Reward of Merit to Luella May
Farley, Mass., Rattlesnake Mt. in Distance
“Monroe & Rowe”
Greenfield Public Library Mutule Block
Side chair with leather upholstery
Colonel Elihu Hoyt notification to appear at military parade
Bird’s-Eye View, Sunderland and Connecticut River from Mt. Sugarloaf
“Unimproved Land for Sale” ad published in the Hampshire Gazette
WWII ration books and case
“Art and Industry at Deerfield”
Railroad Arch Bridge, Deerfield
“Roman Catholic Provincial Council” article from the Greenfield Gazette and Franklin Herald newspaper
Ammunition Box
Edward Hitchcock (1793-1864)
“Geo. Thompson in Springfield” article from the Boston Courier newspaper
Excerpt from W. Scott Keith’s Civil War Military Journal
Jerry “The Avery Steer” Banner at the Fair
Shelburne Falls, Mass., Looking West
“The Old Conkey Tavern” from “The History of the Town of Amherst”
B. and M. Freight Yard
Descent of Holy Spirit Ukrainian Catholic Church
Letter to Mary Cochran from daughter Martha Cochran regarding Miss Martineau
Pages from the “Annals of Chicopee Street Records and Reminiscences of an Old New England Parish..”
Easterly View from Whitcomb Summit
“Red Electric” Washing and Wringing Machine pamphlet
“Buckland Female School” ad from the “Greenfield Gazette and Franklin Herald” newspaper
“More Power to the Allies”
Will of Zur Hawks
No. 4-Bridge Street Shelburne Falls, Mass.
Mount Sugar Loaf, South Deerfield, Mass.
Writ against Amos Thomas by John and Samuel Frink
Middlefield
American Herbarium, Volume 1
“Deerfield’s Summer Plays”
Pages from Williams & Upham account book
“Deerfield Gave Warm Reception To Trolleys”
Wedding Dress
Flail
Communication with the Spirit of his dead daughter Jane Elizabeth Pierce
Excerpts from Remembrance of Captain Park Holland and his participation in Shays’ Rebellion
Beaver Trap
Testamonial by Daniel Shays in the Hampshire Gazette newspaper
Letter to daughter, Dorothy Ashley
Sign-“Who would Turn Back 2 Hundred Yeare, Let him A light & Enter Here”
Excerpts from “Profiles of the Past An illustrated history of Ashburnham, Gardner Hubbardston,Templeton, Westminster, Winchendon”
Christening Blanket
Horse and Surrey
WWII letter on African-Americans
“Saranac Lake in Winter”
Warning Alarm
“Post Office Old Deerfield, Mass.”
Silhouette of Caroline Stebbins Sheldon (1789-1865)
Letter from Daniel Shays printed in the Hampshire Gazette
Athol images from “Picturesque Worcester, Part II- North”
Cultural Society Ribbon
Grammar School Class
First Church of Deerfield Pewter Flagon
“Our Dark Day” article from the Gazette and Courier newspaper
Fuller Family
Birchbark headdress box
“Which Way to Deerfield (A Modern Mohawk Headdress)”
Painting of Millers Falls Company
Orange Square Looking South
“Deerfield School Controversy”
WWII Sugar Purchase Certificate
Wampum shells
Letter to Dr. Elihu Ashley
The Western Battle Ground article published in the Greenfield Gazette and Courier newspaper
College Meadow, A. C., Amherst, Mass.
Estate Settlement of David Hoyt
Table Knife
“Sentenced to Death” article from Turners Falls Reporter newspaper on Haymarket rioters’ fate
Malissa Childs
“A Brief Sketch of the First Settlement of Deerfield, Mass.”
Shirred Rug depicting the Sheldon House
Avenue A, Turners Falls, Mass.
“Deerfield”
“The Fugitive Slave Question- Who passed it?” article from the Gazette and Courier newspaper
Mortar and Pestle
Hostilities
Manure fork
“Ku-Klux-Klan” article in the Gazette and Courier newspaper
Racetrack and Grandstand, Eastern States Expo.
E. C. Brown Store
Remnant of Burgoyne’s flag
A Practical System of Modern Geography
Journal of Sarah Howe on Shays’ Rebellion
WWII Application for Home Canning Sugar Allowance
Letter from Insurgent to Col. Clark and others published in the Hampshire Gazette
Whitworth Hand Tap & Die Set
Oath of Allegiance [Faith]
Native Americans praying
Letter to Rebecca Jackson Williams from her son
“Miss Harriet Martineau” article from the Greenfield Gazette and Franklin Herald newspaper
Hospital Ward
WWI letter to Emily Gladys Bartlett
Abenaki Sweetgrass Candlestick
Mt. Sugarloaf showing King Philip’s Seat
WWI letter to Emily Gladys Bartlett
Horn spoon
Calico Hand Stamp
Game of Checkers
Mohawk Trail Whitcomb Summit House and Gift Shop
Revolutionary flag remnant
“Coleraine/Leyden”
“True Stories of New England Captives”
WWII Air Raid Warning Instructions Card
“The Pumpkin Hood”
Lower Suspension Bridge, Turners Falls, Mass.
“Bad Jam of Logs” article in Greenfield’s Gazette and Courier newspaper
“Permanent Regulations & By-laws, Annual Reports..School Committee..Town of Chicopee”
Mt. Sugar Loaf, South Deerfield, Mass.
Pint mug
“An Address Delivered Before the Hampshire, Franklin, & Hampden Agricultural Society; at Northampton, Oct. 24, 1827.”
Florida Everglades
Mt. Tom Railway and Summit House
Extract of a Letter regarding fate of the insurgents published in the Hamsphire Gazette
William Stebbins (1817-1897)