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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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Great Wheel
Letter to daughter, Dorothy Ashley in Boston
Necklace
Sign-“A. Boyden’s Hotel”
Streetscape – Royalston Center
Jack Czajkowski
The Planet Dust Beater
Arms Manufacturing Company workers
Painting of J. Russell & Company Green River Works in 1834
“History of Hatfield Massachusetts”
“Annual Report of the Treasurer, Selectmen, and School Committee, To the Inhabitants of the Town of Deerfield”
Beaver comb
Bloody Brook
Alabaster sculpture
Electric iron
Greenfield Tap and Die Corporation’s framed Memorial of WWII company losses
Rail Road, Station, Northampton, Mass.
Excerpts from “A Record of the Doings of the Hawley Female Charitable Society”
A List of Wearing Apparel, Books, &c. of William Stoddard Williams
Blueberry basket
Sign-“Franklin Savings Institution”
Union Telegraph Line
“Sacrifices to Our Country. A Discourse Delivered July 17, 1864…at a Funeral Service for James T. Stebbins & Myron Stowell”
Letter to Zadock Hawks
“Reflections”
Tea Room
Conway Road House
“Little Puritan”
“Share the Work Campaign Gets Under Way at Meeting” article from the Greenfield Daily Recorder-Gazette Newspaper
“Hints to School Masters” article from the Greenfield Gazette and Franklin Herald newspaper
“Culture of Silk” from New England Farmer
“In Memory of JAMES ABRAM GARFIELD”
Mt. Sugarloaf
Stock (tie)
Advertisement in “The Boston Weekly Post-Boy” newspaper
“Negroes Waiting at the Depot”
Piccolo
Greenfield Public Library
James Childs Hitchcock (1841-1864)
The Big Bridge over the Deerfield River
Reed Basket
“Learning to Sew”
North Adams, Mass., Eastern Portal, Hoosac Tunnel
Spectacles
Doll “Joel Ellis”
Lucia Fairchild Fuller (1870-1924)
“Harvard Red Caught on Karlsruhe; Anti-Nazi Exploit Baffles Officials” article from Boston Herald newspaper
Reward of Merit to Luella May
Letter to C. Alice Baker regarding the trolley
“Deerfield Academy Cooking Class Entertains”
“The Life of Dwight L. Moody”
“Mrs. Roosevelt Rides Coal Car Into Mine Depths” photograph from Greenfield Daily Recorder-Gazette newspaper
Civil War letter to Ella Melendy
Dining Table
Park Square, Westfield, Mass.
Bannister Back Chair
“Portraits of History- Historic Places in the Orange-Athol Area: A Fascinating Look into the Past”
Embroidered Bed Hanging
Group of Toy Soldiers
Shoes of William Dorrell (1752-1846)
Baskets
WWII political letter to Henry L. Clarke
Portrait of Lucy Terry Prince
Kate Melvina Newton Wiley (1851-1911)
Millstone
“Saratoga Illustrated: The Visitor’s Guide to Saratoga Springs”
Hilltop Farm
Brass Skimmer
“How the news of the Constitutional Amendment was received” article from the Gazette and Courier newspaper
“President Welcomed- Colonel Roosevelt given enthusiastic greeting in our towns” article in The Greenfield Recorder
William Montague (1760-1839)
Academy of Music
“Ononko’s Vow”
“Thanksgiving Pies”
Flax Wheel
“Burly Log Drivers Up River Start Biggest Drive Ever Seen”
Great Chair
Extract of a Letter regarding fate of the insurgents published in the Hamsphire Gazette
Continental Currency in various amounts
“Exhibition. Westfield Academy. Order of Exercises.”
The Weldon Hotel
Milk bottles
Splitting Froe or Frower
Watering Place Looking up the Mountain Side
New Home Sewing Machine with attachments distributed by Priscilla Needlework Company
Memorial – 52nd Massachusetts Volunteers
“The Traitor’s Confederacy”
Franklin County Cadet -1845
Hampshire Gazette newspaper article about organizing regiments
Main and Park Streets looking South. Easthampton, Mass.
Mount Hermon, Mass., Science and Recitation Halls
“Government Ready to Buy Butter and Beef for Needy” article from Greenfield Daily Recorder-Gazette newspaper
Tile: “Landing of the Pilgrims 1620”
Land sale between Seth Sheldon & Alvah and Zur Hawks
“Pilgrim’s Progress”
“Northfield”
“Proclamation For Proroguing the General Court”
Canoe model
George Sheldon (1818-1916)
“Distribution of Personal Estate of Mr. Ebenezer Wells of Deerfield”
Raffia and Other Baskets
Letter To Colonel Samuel Williams
“Pageant Deerfield, Mass.”
Boy’s Dress
Delegates from abolitionist sector nominate Hubbard for Congressman article in Greenfield Gazette and Mercury newspaper
Armed Railroad Car
Wallet
Civil War musket with bayonet made by Lamson, Goodnow & Yale
Deerfield Inn and Trolley
Hand Stamp
Fisher’s Garage Interior
Atlatl or spear throwing weight
WWI letter to Emily Gladys Bartlett
Nathan Negus (1801-1825)
Eliezer Hawks land contract
Manure fork
Greetings from Ashfield
“ACLU Would Impeach Nixon” letter in The Greenfield Recorder newspaper
Conway House, Conway, Mass.
Resolve ordering Selectmen of Deerfield to record the town’s deaf and dumb population
Footed Baptismal Basin
“Indian Village, Caughnawaga”
“The Shepherdess of the Alps” embroidery
Letter to Colonel Elihu Hoyt
Ellen Miller (1854-1929)
Otterskin Bag
Zebulon Graves invoice for use of horse
South Cove, North Pond
Edward Hitchcock (1828-1911)
Mason Jar
Springfield percussion musket
“Views of Readers: CD Seeks Volunteers” editorial in Greenfield Recorder-Gazette newspaper
Excerpts from the diary of Elizabeth Babcock Leonard
“Charlemont”
Young Men’s Christian Association Meeting
Hatfield Convention of 1782
Western slope showing North Adams
“Barbara Reading” or “Stolen Fruit”
Hannah Phelps account book
Colonel Hugh Maxwell’s Certificate of Membership into the Mass. Society for Agriculture
Newspaper article from the Hampshire Gazette regarding the court
Margaret Christine Whiting (1860-1946)
“At Work” photo & “History Finds Irish in Holyoke in 1663” from “Irish Heritage Important to Wmass.. in The Republican newspaper
“Willows”
Deed of Pacomtuck land granted by Mashalisk to John Pynchon
Platter
Military Commission of Epaphras Hoyt
“The Day-Star: A Monthly Magazine devoted to The Revival of Religion”
Shirred Rug depicting the Sheldon House
Dress
“Negro Nurse with a Child”
“Annual Report of the Town Officers of Deerfield For the Year Ending Feb. 1st, 1914-Annual Report of the School Committee”
“Mr. Hutchins’ Play”
“Laws against colored people” article in The Hampshire Gazette newspaper
Fireboard
Plane
Broomcorn broom
Trombone
“Turners Falls Post Plans Alien, Propaganda Check” article from Greenfield Recorder-Gazette newspaper
Calico Hand Stamp
“The Pool in the Woods”
Shelburne Committee addresses Selectmen of Deerfield in Town Warrant
“Anachronism”
Mortgage Deed to Esther (Harding) Dickinson
Tin-Glazed Earthenware Plate
“Ruins of the French Fort at Chambly built 1711”
Page from Amasa Jones diary regarding Mill River Disaster Flood
Deed of Pacomtuck land granted by Chauk to Dedham residents
“Firing the Cannon”
“The Mill River Disaster” article from the Journal of Industry newspaper
Deerfield Town Warrant on Declaration of Independence from Great Britain
Basalt hoe or adzes
Ball Invitation for Stephen West Williams
Will of Ephraim Williams
Cultural Society Ribbon
WWII Mileage Ration Identification card
Covered Jars
Camp Meeting Residence
Medallion necklace
“Narrative of Sojourner Truth, A Northern Slave, Emancipated From Bodily Serviture By the State of New York in 1828”
Vote of Franklin County
Pitcher
“Cronies”
“A Letter from T. D. Judah”
Lake Pleasant Founders
Editorial on “Sen. Joseph McCarthy” from the Greenfield Recorder-Gazette newspaper
“Hippies and the War” editorial from The Greenfield Recorder newspaper
“Strictures on Female Education”
Will of Edward Allyn
“The Need of an Immigration Test” article from the Greenfield Gazette and Courier newspaper
“Mt. Toby, Mass.”
“Mack the Giant Ox” Banner
Division of Estate of Major Salah Barnard
“Insist on Having Miner’s Flavoring Extracts” Ad from Gazette and Courier newspaper
Resolve by Massachusetts Senate on soldier’s pay article from The Independent Chronicle and the Universal Advertiser newspaper
“Girl with Dulcimer”
Butter Churn
Charles B. Arms
State Street, Springfield, Mass.
Syringes with Case