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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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WWII letter regarding African Americans
William Russell House
Bandbox
“Senate Bill Would Limit U.S. Combat” article in The Greenfield Recorder newspaper
Indenture of Sarah Green
The Famous Wellworth Pharmacy
Where the Trail makes a perfect “S” near Charlemont
Hoosac Tunnel North Adams, Mass.
“Mount Holyoke” sonnet on the death of Mary Lyon
Letter to Stephen Higginson III from his father
Train Wreck along the Deerfield River
“Break-Through Accomplished” editorial from Greenfield Recorder-Gazette newspaper
Amethyst Vase
Racetrack and Grandstand, Eastern States Expo.
St. Ann’s Church
“Italian Vagrants” article from the Greenfield Gazette and Franklin Herald newspaper
Petition to the Judges of the Superior Court
“RA” Carved Chest
The Election article published in the Greenfield Gazette and Mercury newspaper
A Practical System of Modern Geography
Pocumtuck Hotel
Wedding Dress
Infant’s Mitts
Railway Station
“Petition of Robin Hood” article published in the Hampshire Gazette
Wooden Tankard
Ebenezer Wells’s will
Three Bridges over Green River
“Deerfield” article on the death of David Starr Hoyt from the Gazette and Courier newspaper
“True Stories of New England Captives”
“Grape Arbor”
“New England Strike Grows All Fall River Mills Idle; President Seeks Mediators” article in the Greenfield Daily Recorder-Gazette
Common, South Deerfield, Mass.
B. and M. Freight Yard
Military Roster (Alarm List)
Reward of Merit to Luella May
“Quabbin Reservoir Water Starts Flowing” article from Quabbin Reservoir scrapbook
Shelburne Committee addresses Selectmen of Deerfield in Town Warrant
Red Cross Volunteers
Avery Oxen Postcard
Excerpt from “Equal Rights- Condition in some parts of Europe” article from The Liberator newspaper
“Turners Falls”
A Sequel to Webster’s Elementary Spelling Book
Hoosac Tunnel
“Portraits of History- Historic Places in the Orange-Athol Area: A Fascinating Look into the Past”
Excerpts from the Diary of Ruth Pease
Mary, Mabel and Frank Colcord
Letter to Mary (Polly) Ashley
Chamber Pot
Scythe snath handle
Complaint against John Evans by Sarah Smith
“Ambleside-After Storm”/”After Rain, Ambleside”/”Clearing off (Ambleside)”/”Clearing, Lake Country, England”
Plainfield
“Visit to President Lincoln by the Massachusetts Delegation”
Rowland Stebbins (1794-1848)
Photograph of Luke Day’s headquarters from the “Springfield Republican”
Letter to Rev. Erza Stiles on Shays’ Rebellion reprinted in “The New-Haven Gazette and The Connecticut Magazine”
Looking toward Village from Baptist hill
Votes of counties at the Massachusetts State Convention article published in the Hampshire Gazette
“War Protest Keeps New England College Campuses in Ferment” article in The Greenfield Recorder newspaper
Avery Oxen Show Admission Ticket
Civil War letter to Agnes Gordon Higginson Fuller from her sister regarding slavery
“Temperance Meeting” article from the Greenfield Gazette and Franklin Herald newspaper
“A Son Of The Forest. The Experience Of William Apes, A Native Of The Forest”
“Returning to the Manse as a Ghost”
Sugarloaf Street with Trolley
Hazen’s Store, Belchertown, Mass.
“Deerfield School Controversy”
Reverend Stephen Williams (1693-1782)
Letter to Henry Kirke Brown from George Fuller
Nursing Class of Julia Diadema Sophronia Snow (1891-1984)
Travel passport for Mercy Carter’s sons
Notice of non-payment of taxes from Conway article published in the Hampshire Gazette
Connecticut River Bridge
Bird’s-Eye View, Sunderland and Connecticut River from Mt. Sugarloaf
“Correspondence between Lydia Maria Child and Gov. Wise and Mrs. Mason, of Viriginia”
“Congress passes $40 billion to fight terrorism” article from The Recorder newspaper
Letter to Commanding Officer in Guilford from Colrain’s Colonel Hugh McClellan regarding land disputes in New York
Fence Agreement between Seth Sheldon & John Williams
“Arrest of a Fugitive Slave in Boston” article from Gazette and Courier newspaper
Capt. Moses Scott military settlement
“Monroe & Rowe”
Oath of Allegiance [Faith]
$100 Reward for escaping enslaved man
“Catalogue of the State Normal School at Westfield, Mass. For the year ending July 26, 1859”
Uniform Coat
Bill from Deerfield Selectmen for Military Supplies used in Shays’ Rebellion
Village Room and Post Office
First Church of Deerfield Pewter Flagon
Milk Bottle
“Abstract of the Massachusetts School Returns for 1838-9”
“Auction! The Lee Place”
Trade Card of Hawks & Reed-Clothiers
Circulating letter asking for help in destroying Lincoln’s troops published in the Hampshire Gazette
Frontpage of Gazette & Courier newspaper
“Alton-Mob-Murder and Arson” article from the Hampshire Gazette newspaper
Plate “Massachusetts State House”
View from “Sugarloaf”
Curling Iron
Deed of Pacomtuck land granted by Mashalisk to John Pynchon
Two-handled cup
Steam Roller
Rail Road, Station, Northampton, Mass.
“Select School at Buckland”
Military Commission of Lt. Colonel Joseph Stebbins (1749-1816)
New Entrance to the Live Wire Fair
Conway Road House
Ketchup Bottle
“The Pumpkin Hood”
“Harvard Red Caught on Karlsruhe; Anti-Nazi Exploit Baffles Officials” article from Boston Herald newspaper
“Women and Girls Over 18” employment ad in Greenfield’s Gazette and Courier newspaper
“Learning By Doing At Hampton”
Admiral Francis John Higginson (1843-1931)
“Avery Oxen” Poster
Estey Organ
Flax Wheel
Calipers/Sliding Scale
Pitted stone
“Social Security Measure To Provide For Old Age Signed By Pres. Roosevelt” article from Greenfield Daily Recorder-Gazette
Medical proficiency certificate of William Stoddard Williams
Nichols family’s first automobile
Learning to Skate
Little Jack of All Trades, with Suitable Representations. Part I
Broomcorn broom
Hospital in Vladivostok
Basketry cup
Town Hall in Conway
Puritan Village patterns from “Historical Atlas of Massachusetts”
Memorial Plaque for Enslaved African-Americans in Deerfield
Tobacco Farmers
“General View of Erving, Mass.”
Lincoln and Hamlin Election Ticket
Deed of Pacomtuck land granted by Ahimunquat to Dedham residents
Pickling Plant
Lamson & Goodnow Manufacturing Company building with founder
Mt. Sugar Loaf
Surveying Instrument
Road in Highland Park
Remnant of Burgoyne’s flag
“Order of Exercises at the Dedication of the Soldiers’ Monument, Deerfield Mass.”
Civil War letter from Thomas Wentworth Higginson to his brother, Stephen
The Park, South Hadley, Mass.
“Copy of a letter from Gen. Lincoln to Capt. Shays” in Hampshire Gazette newspaper
Gate-leg Table
Library
“Melrose Abbey (Detail)”
Belt buckle
Notched Abrading Stone (Sinew Stone)
Pages from the Annual Report of the Treasurer, Selectmen, and School Committee to the Inhabitants of the Town of Deerfield
Pages from John Partridge Bull’s account book
Copper ladle
Estate Appraisal of Esther Dickinson
Go and No-Go Thread and Plug Gages
Side Chair
Deerfield Town Warrant regarding making peace with Great Britain
Janet Russell (1886-1981) with her cat, Sir Thomas Gray
Birthplace of Sophia Smith, Hatfield, Mass. Founder of Smith College
Sunderland, Mass. The Old Button Ball Tree
“The Slave Trade – The Administration”
Fans
Excerpts from “Diary kept from Date of Father’s Death- 1860” on President Lincoln
“SW” Joined Chest
Page from Josiah Allen diary regarding Mill River Disaster Flood
Coming Home, SS George Washington
Calico Hand Stamp
“Quakers Plan More Gifts for Vietnam War Victims” article in The Greenfield Recorder newspaper
View from Jutting Rock, Mt. Sugarloaf
Cornhusk bag
Deerfield Grammar School Class
“Aliens in New England” article in Greenfield’s Gazette and Courier newspaper
The Electoral Vote article published in the Greenfield Gazette and Courier newspaper
Spectacles
“Will Visit Native Land”
Excerpts from Remembrance of Captain Park Holland and his participation in Shays’ Rebellion
“It Ain’t the Heat!” political cartoon from the Greenfield Recorder newspaper
Lamps
“South Deerfield- The Mount Sugar Loaf School”
“Jemima or The Witch of Bender”
Whole Cloth Quilt
Group of Toy Soldiers
“Motives for Well-Doing. A Sermon, Delivered in Northampton, August 24, 1815. Before the Hampshire Missionary Society”
Proclamation regarding Shays’ Rebellion
“Chinese Mulberry” and “Persian Management of Silkworms from New England Farmer”
“King’s Handbook of the United States”
“Main Street, Williamsburg, Mass.”
Sugar Box
“To The Sons and Daughters of Franklin County,” with a Poem about Bloody Brook.
Necklace
Cultural Society Ribbon
“Are We To Be Polonized?” article from the Greenfield Gazette and Courier newspaper
Residence of Dwight L. Moody, East Northfield, Mass.
“A Soldier’s Dream”
Dress Sword
Croquet on Roots’ Lawn
Writ and promissory note against John Wing of Conway
“Union and Liberty”
Letter To Colonel Samuel Williams
Knife
Auction bill of Dennis Stebbins
Log Driving on the Connecticut River