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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 Application for Renewal of Fuel Oil ration
Appointment to Sheriff of Epaphras Hoyt
A System of Modern Geography
Sugarloaf Street
“Finance Report of the Town of Deerfield. 1860-61.”
“Public Lectures on Slavery” article from Gazette and Mercury newspaper
“Several Fathers” article re: Clay, Webster and Fillmore and Fugitive Slave Law in the Gazette and Courier newspaper
“A History of Williamsburg in Massachusetts”
Plate
Memorial Service text for Thomas Williams Ashley
Court Dancers
Bear comb
Building Contract for Deerfield Street School
Mary Hawks (1799-1876) Sampler
“Polly Wright’s parrot”
Landscape of Irish Ruins
“Making Baskets”
Toy Tea Set
Voting Circular from the Whig State Central Committee
Wooden Canteen- Memorial Hall
“Preparations for Jeanne D’Arc at Vaucouleurs”
“War Protest Keeps New England College Campuses in Ferment” article in The Greenfield Recorder newspaper
View of Cheapside
Factories of the L. S. Starrett Co.
Bill to Elijah Fuller regarding cotton
“For the town of Amherst, education the leading ‘industry’”
“Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society” article in Gazette and Courier newspaper
“Hill Machine Works” Advertisement
“Russian Émigré Revolutionizes World’s Photo Enlarging Process” article from Greenfield Recorder-Gazette newspaper
Madeline Yale Wynne (1847-1918)
“The Silk Culturist”
Little Girl and Doll at a “Tea Party”
“Influenza Epidemic Continues” article in Gazette and Courier newspaper
“Gang of Loggers Arrive”
Pages from “Those Green River Knives”
Wysocki Onion Storage
“Peacock Minuet”
Sophia Smith Sampler
Electric Car Bridge over Deerfield River, Shelburne Falls, Mass.
Pages on Communism from “The Challenge to Liberty”
Line of Ox Carts
Milk Bottle
Old Tavern Sign, Blandford
Chrysanthemum bowl
“A Proclamation For A Day Of Public Thanksgiving And Praise”
War of 1812 Commemorative Pitcher
Petition for Reimbursement by Major Salah Barnard
Railway Station
“Bernardston”
Pages from “A New Pictorial History of Greenfield” on railroads
Distribution of the estate of John Wells
Cornhusk bag
Resolve by Massachusetts Senate on soldier’s pay article from The Independent Chronicle and the Universal Advertiser newspaper
Chamber Pot
Cheese Basket
Flute
“The Life of Dwight L. Moody”
Moody Homestead
Account Book of Elijah Williams, Ledger C, Vol. 4
Westfield Map
Wedding Dress
Work shoe
Arms Manufacturing Company workers
Reed Basket
“Polonaise”
Abenaki Sweetgrass Candlestick
Free-blown glass jar
Otterskin Bag
Indenture between Samuel Wells & Jonathan Ballard
Proclamation regarding Shays’ Rebellion
Military Commission of Lt. Colonel Joseph Stebbins (1749-1816)
Hoosac Tunnel
“Scripture History, Abridged.”
Caroline Stebbins Sheldon (1789-1865) Sampler
Hatfield, Massachusetts
Delegates from abolitionist sector nominate Hubbard for Congressman article in Greenfield Gazette and Mercury newspaper
River Street in Conway
Hampshire Gazette newspaper article on Shays’ Rebellion
Wedding Gown
South Deerfield article from Gazette and Courier newspaper
Coliseum Building, Eastern States Exposition
College Meadow, A. C., Amherst, Mass.
Croquet on Roots’ Lawn
“Aid for Ireland” article in Hampshire Gazette newspaper reprinted from Springfield Republican newspaper
Title page from “Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly”
Reverend Stephen Williams (1693-1782)
Maple Sugar Molds
Some Apples and Potatoes – Eastern States Expo.
Covered Basket with handle
Fireplace Set
Bill of sale for Kate
Prospect House, Mount Holyoke, Northampton, Mass.
Bedpan
“Washington Merry-Go-Round” article in Greenfield Recorder-Gazette
Avenue A Stores
General assembly of Rhode Island article published in the Hampshire Gazette
“Laws against colored people” article in The Hampshire Gazette newspaper
Calipers/Sliding Scale
Hoosac Tunnel North Adams, Mass.
Patch Box
Letter to Lt. James Stewart regarding Insurgents
Letter from Cynthia Williams to brother William Stoddard Williams
Fire Engine (pump)
Dining Table
Tea Canister
Deerfield Society of Blue and White Needlework
Deerfield Panorama
“Red Winter Sunset”
“Start New Gypsy Moth Campaign” article from Greenfield Daily Recorder-Gazette newspaper
Beaded Bag
Flintlock Musket
Armed Railroad Car
Account Book of Elijah Williams, Ledger B, Vol. 3
Union Battery Invoice for Cannon and Expenses
“Sally Come Up”
Athol
Candle Mold
“Deerfield History”
“Deerfield Gave Warm Reception To Trolleys”
Nurses Dress Uniform
WWII letter on African-Americans
Atlatl or spear throwing weight
Some of the Beautiful Curves on the Mohawk Trail
Deed to Zur Hawks
Mt. Sugar Loaf Summit House
Tape loom
Tobacco Wagon on Street
Phelps mourning embroidery
“Turners Falls”
Memorandum of Zur Hawks
Farm Bureau Feed Mill
Greenfield Public Library Mutule Block
Pages from the “Records of the Female Benevolent Society of the Town of Deerfield”
Tricorn Hat
“Girl with Dulcimer”
Beaded cuffs
WWII Class 4 fuel oil ration coupons
“Ambleside-After Storm”/”After Rain, Ambleside”/”Clearing off (Ambleside)”/”Clearing, Lake Country, England”
Streetscape – Royalston Center
Flintlock Musket
Civil War letter to Agnes Gordon Higginson Fuller from her sister regarding slavery
Dr. Joseph Goodhue (1762-1849)
“Reflections”
Four-legged Washtub
Oath of Allegiance of Ruben Graves
Dance Hall, Brookside Park
Black silk skeins
Picnic, Mt. Sugar Loaf
Excerpts of the “Constitution of the Hawley Female Charitable Society”
“Slave Case in Connecticut” article from the Gazette and Mercury newspaper
Young Woman with Guitar
Surveying Instrument
One-Room School in Wapping
“The Boy Captive of Old Deerfield” excerpts
Springfield bicycle club displaying their trophies
Nazi statement from Millers Falls Company employee
“Turners Falls, Mass. Industrial Plants, General View below Falls”
“Barbara Reading” or “Stolen Fruit”
Prisoner Halter
Resolve by the State of Massachusetts-Bay requring all towns to supply a record of reimbursements made to soldiers & families
Main Street, Greenfield, MA
“Regulations For the Government of the Schools in the Town of Deerfield”
Lillian Saxton Hutchins (Mrs. Frank Hutchins)
Embroidered Bed Hanging
Conway House, Conway, Mass.
Porringer
Indenture between Justin Hitchcock and Moses Church
Rowland Stebbins (1794-1848)
Steatite Vessel
“Deerfield Street”- Rebuttal on Monuments
Wedding Dress
WWI Letter from Thomas Williams Ashley
Lusterware Teapot
Birchbark container
“The Pumpkin Hood”
African-American woman sewing
Masha Arms
Jerry “The Avery Steer” Banner at the Fair
Fruit Dish
Mary Ann Marvin Hair Wreath and Photograph
Arthur Fuller and Agnes Higginson Fuller
“A Busy Corner in Greenfield”
Handicraft Vol. III, No. 11 -“How They Do It In Deerfield”
Y.M.C.A., East Deerfield, Mass.
“Arming the Slaves” article from the National Anti-Slavery Standard newspaper
“The Incoming of the Poles” newspaper article
Souvenir Snowshoes
Knife
Niagara Falls needle case
“Statistical Information Relating to Certain Branches of Industry in Massachusetts, For the Year Ending May 1, 1865”
Letter To Colonel Samuel Williams
Covered birchbark container
“Twenty-first Triennial Alumni Association of State Normal School at Westfield, Massachusetts” program
Petroglyphs/Pictographs
“Italian Vagrants” article from the Greenfield Gazette and Franklin Herald newspaper
Timothy Edwards’ Sermon Notes
Mt. Toby, Montague, Mass.
Beaded Moccasins
Pages from the Annual Report of the Treasurer, Selectmen, and School Committee to the Inhabitants of the Town of Deerfield
Excerpts on slavery from “Anecdotes and Reminiscences . A Labor of Love”