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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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“Negro Slavery in Massachusetts”
Goggles with Case
Four-legged Washtub
Esther Williams’ Will
Pair of wrought iron candelabrum
Lower Suspension Bridge, Turners Falls, Mass.
Polish Recruitment Flag
“A Day Off”
Norcross Bros. Stone Yard, East Longmeadow, Mass.
Bridesburg Percussion Musket
“Ashfield”
Letter to John Sheldon
Hazen’s Store, Belchertown, Mass.
“Pegasus of Apollo” from “The Worcester Magazine”
The Bridge, Lake Pleasant, Mass.
“Sacrifices to Our Country. A Discourse Delivered July 17, 1864…at a Funeral Service for James T. Stebbins & Myron Stowell”
Child Beauty (Barbara Jordan)
“Annual Meeting of the Franklin County Temperance Society” article from the Gazette and Mercury newspaper
“For the Gazette and Mercury” a Pro-slavery newspaper article
Navigating Cut Ice
The Old Mill Wheel
Roundabout Chair
Trench Art
Ebenezer Wells’s will
Ware
Ice Sledding
Letter to Rebecca Williams from Brother Ephraim Williams, Jr. On Catholicism, etc.
New England Captives Carried to Canada
“Mrs. Eunice Williams”
Business Letter to Dennis Stebbins
Deerfield Panorama
Colonel Elihu Hoyt (1771-1833)
Manure fork
Bedwarmer
First Church of Deerfield Pewter Flagon
“Improvement” article from the New York Ladies Chronicle republished in the Greenfield Gazette and Franklin Herald newspaper
Post Rider, 1772-1773
Oakman Motor Vehicle Company Advertisement
A Practical System of Modern Geography
Tin-Glazed Earthenware Plate
Letter to John Sheldon
Reticule
Handicraft Vol I No. VII – “The Movement for Village Industries”
Calico Hand Stamp
Components of a Proximity Fuze made by Raytheon Manufacturing Company during WWII
Warrant of Distress of Benoni Grover of Montague
Redware teapot and top
Rowland Stebbins (1794-1848)
Log Drive Cook Shack on Connecticut River
Medallion necklace
Threadwell Tap and Die Company’s Tap & Die set made in WWII
Indians Glimpse a Vision of the Future
Pocketbook
Powder Horn
Over the Hoosac Tunnel, Mohawk Trail, Mass.
“Deerfield Men Feed London Pigeons” article from Greenfield Recorder-Gazette featuring WWII soldiers
Dr. Joseph Goodhue (1762-1849)
John Russell Cutlery Works, Turners Falls, Mass.
Identification Badge of a Raytheon Manufacturing Company worker during WWII
The Weldon Hotel
Pencil Pointer
Main Street, Looking North from Hillman, Springfield, Mass.
“Dickinson High School”
George Sheldon (1818-1916)
Bowling pins
Hockanum Ferry, Northampton, Mass. Mt. Holyoke in Distance.
Broadside of Abraham Lincoln’s elegy
Willow Basket
“Catalogue of the State Normal School at Westfield, Mass. For the year ending July 26, 1859”
“Fewer Logs” article in Greenfield’s Gazette and Courier newspaper
Square-“Nocturne”
Deerfield Town Warrant on Declaration of Independence from Great Britain
Cross-stitch Runner
Crazy Quilt with Netted Border
Covered birchbark container
“General View of Erving, Mass.”
Shelburne Falls, Mass., Looking West
“Picking Potatoes, George and Me”
Streetscape – Royalston Center
County Court House, Greenfield, Mass.
Railroad Arch Bridge, Deerfield
“Polonaise”
“5 Men Shot in the Streets of Monson!!!”
Toy Sewing Machine
Butter Knife
Some of the Beautiful Curves on the Mohawk Trail
Side chair with leather upholstery
“Outrages on Colored Soldiers” article from the National Anti-Slavery Standard newspaper
Petition in favor of trolley on Deerfield’s Main Street
View Along the Cold River, Eastern Slope of Mohawk Trail
“The Cabinetwork at New Clairvaux”
Hoosac Tunnel
“Anti-Slavery Convention” article from Greenfield Gazette and Franklin Herald newspaper
Letter to John Williams
Toy Train
Advertising Card from L. A. Cook & Co.
“A Trip To Boston”
“American Slavery” article from the Gazette and Mercury newspaper
Power of Attorney document, Eliezer Hawks
Sugar Bowl with Lid
Avenue A, Turners Falls, Mass.
Man’s Shirt
Fans
“Heath”
Raffia Basket
Excerpts on slavery from “Anecdotes and Reminiscences . A Labor of Love”
Shelburne Committee addresses Selectmen of Deerfield in Town Warrant
“Improvement In Champooing And Hair Dyeing”
Plummet
Nathan Tufts
Guardianship Appointment to Persis Sheldon
“For the town of Amherst, education the leading ‘industry’”
“Violence Seen Probable in D.C. Demonstration” article from The Greenfield Recorder newspaper
“A Visit” in the Gazette and Mercury Newspaper
Mt. Sugarloaf and Trolley
Franklin County Cadet -1845
“Franklin County to get C.C. Corps Camps in Four of State Forests at Once” article from Greenfield Daily Recorder-Gazette paper
Partial sample of Saleman’s Kit marketed by Threadwell Tap and Die Company
Upper Suspension Bridge and View of Riverside, From Prospect Street, Turners Falls, Mass.
John Sheldon (1658-1733) Snowshoes
The Weldon, The Terrace
Shoes with buckles
Plainfield
Deerfield Academy, Class of 1904
“The Boston Mob” article to the Mayor in Gazette and Courier newspaper
Tricorn Hat
Letter to daughter, Dorothy Ashley in Boston
Greenfield Public Library Mutule Block
Articles of Faith of William Stoddard Williams
Old Green River Mill
“Deerfield Meeting House, Deerfield Mass.”
Deerfield Town Meeting
Learning to Skate
Tongs
“Influence of Schoolmasters” article from the Greenfield Gazette and Franklin Herald newspaper
“Corn Sister” sculpture
“A Study of Grave Stones in the Old Cemetery at Deerfield”
Mary Arms at Barton Heights
License for Bee Hives
The Common, Greenfield Mass.
“Strictures on Female Education”
Split Birch Broom
“Scripture History, Abridged.”
Admiral Francis John Higginson (1843-1931) Dress hat
“Noon Rest”
Page from Amasa Jones diary regarding Mill River Disaster Flood
Elizabeth Amsden Inventory
Estey Organ
Indenture of Zechariah Gilson of Northfield
Old State House and Midway, Eastern States Expo.
Five Children and a Buggy
C. V. Station
Dam and Covered Bridge in Conway
WWI Letter from Thomas Williams Ashley
“What befell Stephen Williams in his captivity”
“The Decision of the Supreme Court” article in the Franklin Democrat newspaper
“An American Selection of Lessons in Reading and Speaking”
The Whale Inn, On Route 9, Goshen, Mass.
Pages from Elijah Williams (Old Soldier’s) account book, Vol. 2
Dr. Julian Nieckowski (1915-1985)
Deerfield Academy Student Roster
“Giant U.S. Air, Naval Task Force Begins Mining Entrances To Haiphong, Other Ports” article from Greenfield Recorder newspaper
“Sharpening the Scythe”
Public Vendue notice to some residents of Charlemont published in the Hampshire Gazette
“Bloody Brook Monument”
“Onion Harvest”
Moccasins
“Learning to Sew”
“History of the Connecticut Valley in Massachusetts”
Photos of town of Ware and other Mass. towns from “The Complete Historical Record of New England’s Stricken Area, 9-21-1938”
“Returning to the Manse as a Ghost”
Fence Agreement between Seth Sheldon & John Williams
Editorial on “Sen. Joseph McCarthy” from the Greenfield Recorder-Gazette newspaper
Gravestone of John Williams Jr.
Margaret Christine Whiting (1860-1946)
Biography of W.E.B. DuBois in “Class of 1890”
Letter from Daniel Shays printed in the Hampshire Gazette
Northampton (and Easthampton)
Letter to Gertrude Porter Ashley
Dress
“Main Street, Williamsburg, Mass.”
“State of Irish Poor” article in the Greenfield Gazette and Franklin Herald newspaper
Flax Hatchel/Hackle
“Manual of Instruction in the Use of Dumb Bells and Indian Clubs & Other Exercises”
Capture of Dr. Pomery by Insurgents article published in the Hampshire Gazette
“Old Medicine Man Founded Toiletine Co.” article from Greenfield Recorder-Gazette newspaper
“Deerfield” article on the death of David Starr Hoyt from the Gazette and Courier newspaper
Notification to Consider Dickinson
“Falls and Dam. Chicopee Falls, Mass.”
Deed of Pacomtuck land granted by Ahimunquat to Dedham residents
Memorial to M. & S. Sheldon
“GTD Makes John Grant’s Invention Known Around World” article from Greenfield Recorder-Gazette newspaper
“Federal Grants Pour Into Towns For WPA Plans” article from Greenfield Daily Recorder-Gazette newspaper
“The Little House”
Grammar School Class
View of Turner’s Falls, Mass.
Hattie Fuller Abercrombie (1860-1955)
Mount Sugar Loaf, South Deerfield, Mass.
Lucia Fairchild Fuller (1870-1924)
Academy of Music