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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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“Anti-Slavery Convention” article from Greenfield Gazette and Franklin Herald newspaper
Hammer stone
Excerpts from the diary of Elsie M. Putnam
“Reward of Merit” presented to Minnie Flagg
Infantry Officer’s Sword, 1821-1832
Franklin County Public Hospital
Barbara Allen (1902-1931) dressed as a Puritan
Boston Tea Party Report
“Rabbits in the Pea-Patch”
Trade Card of the New Home Sewing Machine Company
Excerpt of Dr. Joseph Goodhue’s Diary
Second Grade Class
“Potter’s Assistant”
Trench Art
“Popery-Temperance” article from the Greenfield Gazette and Franklin Herald newspaper
Armory, Greenfield, Mass.
Main Street
Rhoda Smith Bardwell (1775-1818)
WWII War Ration Book Four
“Deerfield Electric Road”
Plainfield
Reverend Stephen Williams (1693-1782)
“N. Vickary, Taxidermist”
Jerry “The Avery Steer” Banner at the Fair
“Spirit of Religion Leading the Puritans”
“Pegasus of Apollo” from “The Worcester Magazine”
“Amherst House.”
Hand Hewn Pulley
Frontpage of Gazette & Courier newspaper
Joe Waskiewicz
Red Cross Volunteers
Letter to Stephen Higginson III from his father
“The Covered Bridge at the Pumping Station, Greenfield”
Reaping Grain
Wagon Jack
“Temperance and Abolition Celebration at North Leverett” article from the Gazette and Courier newspaper
“For the Gazette and Mercury” a Pro-slavery newspaper article
Shoes with buckles
Court Dancers
Complaint of Distress against Heman Farnham
“American Heroes” figures
“Monroe & Rowe”
Article on the Constitution and Slavery from The Hampshire Gazette Newspaper
Teapot – “Lafayette at the Tomb of Franklin”
Cartridge box
Crazy Quilt with Netted Border
U. S. Post Office
Main Street, Conway, Mass.
WWII War Ration Book 2
Pocumtuck Basket Makers
“Suffrage Canvass Success” article from The Greenfield Recorder newspaper
Door Curtain-Espaliered Rose
German Prisoners, Lyons, France
Beaded Baseball Cap
“Supplement to the New England Farmer, and Gardener’s Journal”
Mount Holyoke Female Seminary article from Hampshire Gazette newspaper
“New Attack on Deerfield. By Moving Picture Red Skins.”
“State of Irish Poor” article in the Greenfield Gazette and Franklin Herald newspaper
Bust of George Fuller (1822-1884)
Coal shovel
Mill River School Group
Chesterfield Church
“Undigested Ideas on Various Cases” article published in The Massachusetts Gazette or the General Advertiser newspaper
Letter to George Sheldon regarding trolley
WWII Disabled American Veterans card of Frank Dahowski, Jr.
Miniature Chest of Drawers
Rail Road, Station, Northampton, Mass.
“Views On And About Mt. Tom And Of Mt. Tom Railroad”
Whale-oil Lamp
“Palm Leaf Basket Maker”
“The Sweet Little Man.”
Notes from Deerfield Town Meeting
Patent Model of Plow
Wood Mounted Bit
WWI letter to Emily Gladys Bartlett
Sign-“Franklin Savings Institution”
“Our page, Harry”
“Our Greenfield Artists”
Dr. William G. Watt
Descent of Holy Spirit Ukrainian Catholic Church
“Ononko’s Vow”
“Winter”
Stocking
Letter to Emeline Ward about donation to Montana Industrial School for Crow Indians
Beaded Bag
Phelps mourning embroidery
Mount Hermon, Mass., Science and Recitation Halls
Gouge
“RA” Carved Chest
“The History of the Town of Royalston, Massachusetts”
Cloth Doll
“Boots, Shoes & Rubbers for Everybody at Sovereign’s Cash Shoe Store”
“Experienced Girls Wanted” advertisement
“Scene on Green River, Greenfield, MA” Postcard
Carved wooden hand
Post Rider, 1772-1773
“Albany Road Cemetery, 1696-1929”
“True Heroes” article from scrapbook kept by Celia M. Kimball
“Immigration Restrictions Tightened to Alleviate Unemployment Situation” article from the Greenfield Daily Recorder newspaper
The Whale Inn, On Route 9, Goshen, Mass.
Hand Stamp
“Baking”
Mortar and Pestle
Partial sample of Saleman’s Kit marketed by Threadwell Tap and Die Company
Supplies for Troops
Breast Plate Hand Drill manufactured by Millers Falls Company
“News Items”- Mass. Petitions to abolish slave-hunting
“Annual Report of the Town Officers of Deerfield for the Year Ending, Jan. 1st, 1915-Annual Report of the School Committee”
“A Century Sermon Preached at Deerfield, Feb. 29, 1804: In Commemoration of the Destruction of the Town by French and Indians”
Mary Ann Marvin Hair Wreath and Photograph
Deerfield Town Warrant on Declaration of Independence from Great Britain
“Remarks and Observations” by Justin Hitchcock
Lidded Hanging Pot
Slippers
Oil lamps
McKinley Sure article published in the Greenfield Gazette and Courier newspaper
Settlement of the Estate of John Stebbins
“The American Anti-Slavery Almanac for 1838”
“Charles Deuel Druggist Amherst Mass” bottle
Birth Place of D. L. Moody, East Northfield, Mass.
Hair Pin Curve, Showing Stamford Valley
“Picturesque Franklin”
Letter to Agnes Higginson Fuller from George Fuller
Mountain Park and Mt. Tom by Night, Holyoke, Mass.
“New England Strike Grows All Fall River Mills Idle; President Seeks Mediators” article in the Greenfield Daily Recorder-Gazette
Girl’s boots
Plate “Massachusetts State House”
Indians Glimpse a Vision of the Future
John Hawks paid 1714, promisory note to John Pynchon
Convalescent Soldiers and Nurse
Eleanor “Nellie” M. Arms (1864-1937)
Main Street, Greenfield, MA
Pair of wrought iron candelabrum
Thaxter Scott House
Union Battery Invoice for Cannon and Expenses
“Spirit of the Wheat”
Letter of introduction for Arthur Wellesley Hoyt
“Temperance Meeting” article from the Greenfield Gazette and Franklin Herald newspaper
South Hadley
Carpetbag
Cradle
Glass Dish
“Washington Merry-Go-Round” article in Greenfield Recorder-Gazette
“Spirit of the Woods”
Indenture between Samuel Wells & Jonathan Ballard
Fourth Meeting House (1729-1824)
Letter to Rebecca Jackson Williams from her son
Board Chest
“Influenza With Us- Epidemic Has Taken Hold of Greenfield” article from The Greenfield Recorder newspaper
Letter to Dr. William Stoddard Williams from Oliver Partridge
Dr. Joseph Goodhue (1762-1849)
Mason Jar
Main Street, Looking North. Whately, Mass.
Deerfield Academy Student Roster
Indenture of Sarah Green
Lusitania Medallion
Russell House, Russell, Mass.
Sunburst and stars album quilt
List of Colrain Insurgents
Mail Rider
Well Sweep
Hitchcock Free Academy, Brimfield, Mass.
Surveying Instrument
Baby in Christening Robe
Town Meeting
Letter to the printer regarding Shays Rebellion published in the Hampshire Gazette newspaper
“Keep them smiling”- WWI broadside
“Anti-Slavery Convention in Franklin County” article from Greenfield Gazette & Franklin Herald newspaper
Mason Jar
“Sundry Items”- military figures for states
“Views of Readers: CD Seeks Volunteers” editorial in Greenfield Recorder-Gazette newspaper
Tall case clock
East Northfield, Mass., Skinner Gymnasium
“Threadwell In New Industrial Era After Decades of Varying Fortunes” article from Greenfield Recorder-Gazette newspaper
“A Day Off”
South Main Street, Orange, Mass.
Railroad Station
Bullet pouch
Tobacco Plantation in the Connecticut Valley
“Darling Expands Parts Manufacturing Ten-Fold Since Firm Started in 1940” article from Greenfield Recorder-Gazette newspaper
Excerpts from the Diary of Ellen Louisa Arms (Sheldon)
Three Lavaliers on Chains
South Deerfield, Mass.
“The King’s Palace”
Redware Platter
“Grammar School”
“$50 Reward”
Westfield Map
“Anti Slavery Lecture” article from Greenfield Gazette and Franklin Herald newspaper
Greenfield Public Library Mutule Block
WWII Blackout Memo Deerfield Residents
“King’s Handbook of the United States”
Black Lace Dress
Spectacles
“Quabbin Reservoir Water Starts Flowing” article from Quabbin Reservoir scrapbook
“Heath”
Milk Bottle
Bottle
Excerpts of Ware from The 1938 Hurricane- An Historical and Pictorial Summary
“Petition of Robin Hood” article published in the Hampshire Gazette