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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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Frontpage of Gazette & Courier newspaper
Photograph Postcard “Second Baptist Church”
Military Commission of Lt. Colonel Joseph Stebbins (1749-1816)
“Welfare Workers on Hope Street Job Ask Two Packages of Tobacco” article from the Greenfield Daily Recorder-Gazette newspaper
The Weldon
Mason Jar
WWI letter to Emily Gladys Bartlett
Fireboard
Title page from “Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly”
Military Roster (Alarm List)
“Chicopee, On Emergency Basis, Hopes Worst Past” article from unknown newspaper
“Eulogy on King Philip as Pronounced at the Odeon”
Agawam Cong’l Church
Avenue A Stores
Deerfield Town Meeting
“Betty at the Churn”
Deerfield Post Office
“Statistical Information Relating to Certain Branches of Industry in Massachusetts, For the Year Ending May 1, 1865”
Resolve by the State of Massachusetts-Bay requring all towns to supply a record of reimbursements made to soldiers & families
“Darling Expands Parts Manufacturing Ten-Fold Since Firm Started in 1940” article from Greenfield Recorder-Gazette newspaper
WWII Sugar Purchase Certificate
Pages from the diary of Martha Cochran
Wampum shells
“GTD Makes John Grant’s Invention Known Around World” article from Greenfield Recorder-Gazette newspaper
Prospect Hill School
Sap Bucket
“Counting Our Blessings!” cartoon from The Greenfield Recorder newspaper
Christening Blanket
“Mr. Adams’s Oration” article from the Gazette and Mercury newspaper
Petition for Reimbursement by Major Salah Barnard
Deerfield Academy, Class of 1904
Medallion necklace
Letter from Cynthia Williams to brother William Stoddard Williams
Fireplace Set
Native Carrying Captive, Eunice Williams
“An Address Delivered Before the Hampshire, Franklin, & Hampden Agricultural Society; at Northampton, Oct. 24, 1827.”
Hawks and Arms Family Portrait
Bridge over Deerfield River, near Charlemont, Mass.
Tax Receipt of Justin Hitchcock
Red Cross Club, Marseiles, France
Cradle
“The Song” published in the Hampshire Gazette
Blueberry basket
Jeanne D’ Arc Performance
Pages from the Diary of Samuel King
“Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society” article in Gazette and Courier newspaper
“A Catalogue of the Books contained in the Chicopee Town Library, together with general regulations of the same.”
“Plan of Sunderland Bridge over the Connecticut River”
Ellen Miller (1854-1929)
Fence Agreement between Seth Sheldon & John Williams
Image of Beaver
“The Pool in the Woods”
“Young People’s Camp Third Season Rowe, Mass. June 27-July 4, 1926”
“A Busy Corner in Greenfield”
Door Curtain
Embroidered Dress
Raffia Basket
Bobbins
“A Trip To Boston”
“Deerfield First To Receive Work Relief Allotment” article from Greenfield Daily Recorder-Gazette newspaper
Legal judgment in favor of Orlando Ware
Birchbark bowl
Bird’s-Eye View, Sunderland and Connecticut River from Mt. Sugarloaf
Deerfield Town Meeting
Red Cross Volunteers
Will of Lucinda Nims
Jane Marshall Wood (1833-1841)
Excerpts from Remembrance of Captain Park Holland and his participation in Shays’ Rebellion
“Greenfield & Gill”
Act by House of Representatives issued to Bernardston selectmen to hold town meeting to vote on the Constitution
“Snow Storm”
Mt. Sugar Loaf, South Deerfield, Mass.
State of Rhode Island issueing of paper money and voting requirements published in the Hampshire Gazette
“Threadwell In New Industrial Era After Decades of Varying Fortunes” article from Greenfield Recorder-Gazette newspaper
“Original Deerfield Workers Show Skills at Crafts”
Public Vendue notice to some residents of Charlemont published in the Hampshire Gazette
Plowing
“A Discourse Preached At Heath, Feb. 21, 1816 As A Musical Lecture”
Wrought-iron lampstand and lamp
Tin-Glazed Earthenware Plate
Athol images from “Picturesque Worcester, Part II- North”
The Rose
Embroidered Bed Hanging
Letters to Capt. Shays and General Shepard published in the Hampshire Gazette
Page from Amasa Jones diary regarding Mill River Disaster Flood
James Childs Hitchcock (1841-1864)
Mt. Sugarloaf
Geo. N. Kidder & Company, Main Floor
“County Towns Long Alternated On Allowing Local Liquor Sale” article from the Daily Recorder-Gazette newspaper
Mendellssohn Collection, or Hastings and Bradbury’s Third Book of Psalmody
“Baking”
“Our page, Harry”
Eleanor Brown Stebbins (1875-1955) (Mrs. Benjamin Stebbins) Washing a Child’s Hand
Arms Manufacturing Company
Pitch pipe
Hair Pin Curve, Showing Stamford Valley
Wooden TankardExploring the Online Collection
“Onion Harvest”
“First Meals Served Transients in Renovated Pullman Hotel” article from the Greenfield Daily Recorder-Gazette newspaper
Reverend Stephen Williams (1693-1782)
“Serious Riot” article regarding Irish Laborers reprinted in Franklin Democrat newspaper from the Hampshire Gazette newspaper
Raffia Basket
“Slave Case in Connecticut” article from the Gazette and Mercury newspaper
“Fort River”
The Bridge, Lake Pleasant, Mass.
South Cove, North Pond
“Emigration from Britain to America” article from the Hampshire Gazette newspaper
Streetscape – Athol Center
“Deerfield”
Bandbox
“Two Art Lectures”
“By the River”
Power of Attorney document, Eliezer Hawks
“Junior Exhibition”
A Sequel to Webster’s Elementary Spelling Book
“The Traitor’s Confederacy”
“Harvest Home Fair” Poster
“Log Drive Nears Turners Falls” article in Greenfield’s Gazette and Courier newspaper
Threadwell Tap and Die Company’s Tap & Die set made in WWII
Main Street, Amherst, Mass.
Polish Recruitment Flag
“Annual Report of the Town Officers of Deerfield for the Year Ending, Jan. 1st, 1915-Annual Report of the School Committee”
Wallhanging-“The Blue Pool”
“Twenty-first Triennial Alumni Association of State Normal School at Westfield, Massachusetts” program
Map of the Nipmuck or Nipmuck Country compiled from a 1774 Survey published in “The Old Indian Chronicle”
“Remarks and Observations” by Justin Hitchcock
“Protecting Freedom” article from The Recorder newspaper
“Deerfield Men Feed London Pigeons” article from Greenfield Recorder-Gazette featuring WWII soldiers
Necklace
Onion Shovel
Franklin County Public Hospital
Dress Sword
Red slate gorget
Fort Massachusetts, North Adams, Mass.
Draw Knife
Cornhusk bag
Nathaniel Lamson (1805-1866)
Convention at Hatfield article in the Hampshire Gazette
Military Commission of Isaac Abercrombie
Covered Jars
“Compliments of Green Furniture & Undertaking Co.”
“The Census of Massachusetts: 1885, Volume II”
“Abstract of the Massachusetts School Returns for 1838-9”
Clothing Allotment from Deerfield to Soldiers
Massacre Interior of Old Indian House, during Sack of Deerfield, Feb. 29, 1704
John Sheldon (1658-1733) Snowshoes
Pitcher
“Noon Rest”
WWI letter to Emily Gladys Bartlett
Medical proficiency certificate of William Stoddard Williams
Cupboard
Lantern
Illustrated Trade card of William Jackson’s Brazen Head shop
Receipt of Seth Sheldon for dance tuition
“The Census of Massachusetts: 1875, Vol. II”
“Sentenced to Death” article from Turners Falls Reporter newspaper on Haymarket rioters’ fate
WWI Letter from Thomas Williams Ashley
Peabody Room
“Terrible Storm” article from Greenfield Gazette newspaper
“From the Worcester Magazine” article in Hampshire Gazette on Shays’ Rebellion insurgents
“A Son Of The Forest. The Experience Of William Apes, A Native Of The Forest”
Poem on Shays’ Rebellion from The New-Haven Gazette and The Connecticut Magazine newspaper
“General View of Erving, Mass.”
“Address to the Ladies”poem in Hampshire Gazette newspaper
“Constitutional Amendments” article from the Gazette and Courier newspaper
Milk Bottle
Letter to Agnes Gordon Cochran Higginson regarding slavery and democracy
“Shelburne”
Kelley’s blacksmith sign
Campaign Banner for William Henry Harrison
“Anti-Slavery Meeting” article from Greenfield Gazette and Franklin Herald newspaper
“Charles Deuel Druggist Amherst Mass” bottle
“Census of Several States” taken from Thomas’s Almanack for 1792 tallied by Office of the Secretary of State
“At Work” photo & “History Finds Irish in Holyoke in 1663” from “Irish Heritage Important to Wmass.. in The Republican newspaper
Letter to Augustus Fuller from brother George regarding African American painting
“Order of Exercises at the Exhibition of the Deerfield High School”
“Exhibition. Westfield Academy. Order of Exercises.”
Springfield percussion musket
Editorial “To the Public” on the Constitution published in the Hampshire Gazette
River Road House
Memorial Hall
“Laws against colored people” article in The Hampshire Gazette newspaper
“An Old Custom” -The Liberty Pole of Deerfield 1774
“It Will Do You Good”- E. E. Flagg’s Japanese Pain Reliever
Mount Holyoke Female Seminary article from Hampshire Gazette newspaper
Free-blown glass jar
Letter to Aaron Willard regarding enslaved man
Kitchen Settle
Bifacial blade with modern haft
Pouch
Milk bottles
“Modern Crusading” article from the Franklin Herald newspaper with reply
“The Life of Dwight L. Moody”
Washington Memorial
Inventory of David Hoyt
Copyright Agreement for book entitled “Antiquarian Researches”
“National Ball” invitation
C. Alice Baker (1833-1909)
“Influenza With Us- Epidemic Has Taken Hold of Greenfield” article from The Greenfield Recorder newspaper