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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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Main St. looking west from Mansion House
Man’s vest
“Spirit of the Wheat”
“A Day Off”
Military Commission of Seth Nims
Doll “Chloe”
Trolley Car
Conway Road House: Ostrowski Family Home
Map of Western Massachusetts from History of Western Massachusetts
Indenture between Justin Hitchcock and Moses Church
The Electoral Vote article published in the Greenfield Gazette and Courier newspaper
Fireboard
Shelburne Falls, Mass.
Prentiss Childs and Chum
“Sermon preached to 1st Congregational Society in Deerfield, Mass. and in the Hearing of Several Indians of Both Sexes Supposed”
View of Turner’s Falls, Mass.
“Ambleside-After Storm”/”After Rain, Ambleside”/”Clearing off (Ambleside)”/”Clearing, Lake Country, England”
Shirred Rug depicting the Sheldon House
Officers of the 44th Massachusetts Regiment Volunteers
Cane
Mortar
Letter from George Washington to resident in Dublin published in the Hampshire Gazette newspaper
Mt. Sugarloaf and Trolley
“Massachusetts Tax Valuation list of 1771”
“General View of Erving, Mass.”
Baby in Christening Robe
Second Grade Class
“Cloth from the Mill” advertisement
“Eight-Hour Proclamation” article from the Gazette and Courier newspaper
Bill to Elijah Fuller regarding cotton
Liberty Pole
Post Rider, 1772-1773
“Improvement” article from the New York Ladies Chronicle republished in the Greenfield Gazette and Franklin Herald newspaper
“The Census of Massachusetts: 1885, Volume II”
Wallhanging-“The Pear Tree”
150 Anniversary, Bernardston, Mass.-horse and buggy
Coleman- Hollister House
Hampshire Gazette newspaper article about organizing regiments
Connecticut River and Sunderland Bridge from Mt. Sugarloaf
Letter to Zadock Hawks
Letter to Gertrude Porter Ashley
Weighing Ice with Steelyard
“T. F. Library Report Says ‘Depression Reading’ Ends” article from Greenfield Daily Recorder-Gazette newspaper
Hand Stamp
“Dickinson High School”
Nurses Dress Uniform
“Recalling Irish Muscle that built Mass. Railroads” article from Daily Hampshire Gazette newspaper
“Proclamation For Proroguing the General Court”
Tobacco and Onion Fields, Connecticut Valley
Letter from Cynthia Williams to brother William Stoddard Williams
“Deerfield School Controversy”
Thaxter Scott House
“Anarchists Blamed for Dissension” article in The Greenfield Recorder newspaper
“Stevens May Resign If He Does Not Receive Support From Eisenhower” article from Greenfield Recorder-Gazette newspaper
“Harvard Red Caught on Karlsruhe; Anti-Nazi Exploit Baffles Officials” article from Boston Herald newspaper
“Deerfield”
“Old Medicine Man Founded Toiletine Co.” article from Greenfield Recorder-Gazette newspaper
Card Table
Sugar Bowl with Lid
WWII Fuel Ration Identification Folder
Cape
War club
“The History of New England..”
“Sacrifices to Our Country. A Discourse Delivered July 17, 1864…at a Funeral Service for James T. Stebbins & Myron Stowell”
“Anti-Slavery Convention” article from Greenfield Gazette and Franklin Herald newspaper
“Leaving for Bloody Brook”
Long-handled frying pan
Legal judgment in favor of Orlando Ware
Coliseum Building, Eastern States Exposition
“SH” joined chest
Tall case clock
Brass Skimmer
Pocketbook
Teapot – “Lafayette at the Tomb of Franklin”
Bowling pins
Two Children Blowing Soap Bubbles
“Returning to the Manse as a Ghost”
Hoosac Tunnel, Approach to East Portal, Mass
WWII Registration Card
Woman’s shoes
Workingmen’s Association broadside
Shadow Box – Crucifix
Colonel Elihu Hoyt notification to appear at military parade
Letter to George Sheldon regarding trolley
“Italian Vagrants” article from the Greenfield Gazette and Franklin Herald newspaper
Stoneware Churn
Group of Toy Soldiers
Clock works
Letter to Christopher Tyler Arms from Rodolphus Dickinson on Independence and duel between Burr and Hamilton
Plummet
“A Sermon Preach’d at the Funeral of the Reverend Mr. John Williams”
Clothes Wringer
Dr. Julian Nieckowski (1915-1985)
Excerpts from Edwin Nims’ Agricultural Diary
“History and Proceedings of the Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association”
“Main Street, Williamsburg, Mass.”
Arms Manufacturing Company
Orange Square Looking South
Letter from Insurgent to Col. Clark and others published in the Hampshire Gazette
Tobacco Hatchet
Atlatl or spear throwing weight
“Picking Potatoes, George and Me”
Sarah Coleman’s shoe
Parts Manufacturing Company 3 dimensional airplane part
Young Woman with Guitar
“George Fuller, His Life & Works – A Memorial”
Flintlock Musket
Bottle
Train Wreck along the Deerfield River
“Ashfield”
Fisher’s Garage Mechanics
Streetscape – Royalston Common
“Coleraine/Leyden”
Children’s boots
WWII political letter to Henry L. Clarke
“New And True Stories For Children, With 100 Pictures”
Extract on George Washington’s farm, and state of America article published in the Hampshire Gazette
Horse and Surrey
Legal document of Debtor Joshua Sweet
Sewing Machine
“Bangwell Putt”
Niagara Falls needle case
Minister Leading Puritans
“Bad Jam of Logs” article in Greenfield’s Gazette and Courier newspaper
“National Ball” invitation
Lake Pleasant Cottage
Mary Electa Allen (1858-1941)
Reward of Merit to Luella May
“Northfield”
Man’s Shirt
“Old Buildings are Moved out of Quabbin Area” article from scrapbook on Quabbin Reservoir
“Pews in Deerfield meeting house first Parish- sold December 1824”
“Order of Exercises at the Exhibition of the Deerfield High School”
Axe with modern haft
Old State House and Midway, Eastern States Expo.
Trombone
“Temperance Meeting” article from the Greenfield Gazette and Franklin Herald newspaper
Cloth Doll
Athol images from “Picturesque Worcester, Part II- North”
“Greenfield”- Will Hutchins Exhibit
“Hawley”
Niddy-Noddy
“The Deerfield Renaissance” from New England Magazine
“The Country Lane”
Football players
E-flag of Greenfield Tap and Die Corporation for exemplary performance in WWII
Carving Fork
Teapot
Michael Waskiewicz
Sugarloaf Street with Trolley
“Sacred Dirges, Hymns, and Anthems, commemorative of the death of General George Washington, The guardian of his country”
“Yosemite Falls”
Memorial Hall Kitchen
Springfield percussion musket
Logging at the Oxbow on the Connecticut River near Holyoke, Mass.
Auger Bit
Two-handled cups
“South Deerfield- The Mount Sugar Loaf School”
Campaign Banner for William Henry Harrison
Broom Tying Machine
Wooden Tankard
Cradle
Frank Dahowski and Edward Burakiewicz
Formerly enslaved man gives talk in Northfield
Edward Swan’s Pickle Works on the Elm Street
Bridesburg Percussion Musket
Janet Russell (1886-1981) and William Russell
Wallhanging-Two Red Roses Across the Moon
“The American Anti-Slavery Almanac for 1838”
“The Sweet Little Man.”
Thank you letter from Mrs. Hooper to Miss Wilson for supplies for Civil War soldiers
Plowing
Milk bottles
Enchanted Forest
“Outrages on Colored Soldiers” article from the National Anti-Slavery Standard newspaper
Complaint against Caesar for stealing
“The Dred Scott Case” article in the Gazette and Courier newspaper
Crematory Key
Persis Hoyt Sheldon Scallop-Top Chest of Drawers
My First Automobile
Old House in Essex, MA
“Corn Sister” sculpture
“Shoe and Leather Dealers’ Convention” article in The Hampshire Gazette newspaper
“Allies, Arise!”
“Avery Oxen” Poster
Fort Massachusetts, North Adams, Mass.
Excerpt from diary of Clara Alquist-Sherman regarding The Great Depression
Cars at Open House
Red Rock
A call to organize Regulator companies in “To the good people of the Town of Deerfield” address
Jesse Bowman, Abenaki logger and basketmaker, with daughter Marion Flora Bowman
150 Anniversary, Bernardston, Mass.-Parade Float
Board Chest
Mill River School GroupExploring the Online Collection
“Reflections”
“The Incoming of the Poles” newspaper article
Military letter regarding men, arms, and clothing
“Montague Center”
Abraham Lincoln