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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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“Bloody Butchery, By The British Troops; Or The Runaway Fight Of The Regulars”
“Joseph Stebbins- A Pioneer at the Outbreak of the Revolution”
“Hawley”
Letter to Charles Hart Ashley
Pod Auger
“Negro Slavery in Old Deerfield”
Raw Silk
Excerpt from James Childs Hitchcock’s Civil War Military Journal
Article on the Constitution and Slavery from The Hampshire Gazette Newspaper
George Sheldon (1818-1916)
Knife
“Mrs. Eunice Williams”
“The Dred Scott Case” article from the Gazette and Courier newspaper
Pocketbook
“Temperance Meeting” article from the Greenfield Gazette and Franklin Herald newspaper
The Lofty Heights along the Trail
Lincoln and Hamlin Election Ticket
“Jeff Davis’ Proclamation”
Coal Wagon
Hazen’s Store, Belchertown, Mass.
“The Illustrated American Biography; Containing Correct Portraits of The Principal Actors in American History”
Suffrage letter to George Sheldon
“And White As Well” editorial from Greenfield Recorder newspaper
Letter to Charles Hart Ashley
WWI letter to Emily Gladys Bartlett
“Picturesque Hampshire”
Clothes Wringer
“A Busy Corner in Greenfield”
Letter to John Williams
“Greenfield 200th Anniversary” plate
“Mount Holyoke” sonnet on the death of Mary Lyon
“Barbara Reading” or “Stolen Fruit”
Reward of Merit to Luella May
“Gilt Edged Paper” article tells of a death threat to the editor of The Emancipator in the Gazette and Mercury newspaper
“Forest Park” in “Our Country and Its People” Volume 2
Worthington
Adze
Gate-leg Table
The Weldon
Coat of Major Samuel Willard Saxton (1829-1933)
“Greenfield High School for Young Ladies”
Glass bottle
“Notice of Daniel Shays” in “History of Worcester”
Ceramic vessel
“Home Affairs”- 100 Gun Salute to Lincoln
Spinning Equipment
“Pilgrim’s Progress”
Ephraim Williams (1760-1835)
“800 Troops See Dummy ‘A-Bomb’ At Fort Devens” article in Greenfield Recorder-Gazette newspaper
Hotel Warren, South Deerfield, Mass.
“U.S. Planes Hit North Vietnam… ” article in The Greenfield Record-Gazette newspaper
Fourth Meeting House (1729-1824)
“GTD Makes John Grant’s Invention Known Around World” article from Greenfield Recorder-Gazette newspaper
Plummet
Civil War Monument
Oath of Allegiance [Faith]
“Revival in Pittsfield” article from the Franklin Herald newspaper
Civil War Patriotic Covers or Envelopes
Partial Civil War letter from Annie Higginson to her sister, Agnes Fuller
Sycamore Barrel
“Proceedings on the Trial of Dominic Daley and James Halligan”
Beaded crown
Mary Electa Allen (1858-1941)
Black silk skeins
Letter to Colrain Selectmen regarding Insurgents
Gen. Shepard Memorial Monument, Westfield, Mass.
“Elizabethan Group”
Engraving “The Bloody Massacre perpetrated on King Street, Boston on March 5th, 1770”
“Corn Sister” sculpture
Stock (tie)
Margaret Christine Whiting (1860-1946)
“The American Farm Book; or Compend of American Agriculture”
George Fuller (1822-1884) Studio
Journal of Sarah Howe on Shays’ Rebellion
Memorial Hall Kitchen
“Schell Memorial Bridge, East Northfield, Mass.”
South Hadley
Letter to John Sheldon
Main St. looking west from Mansion House
Letter to Widow Persis Hoyt Sheldon
“Miss Harriet Martineau” article from the Greenfield Gazette and Franklin Herald newspaper
Maple Sugar Molds
Hunting and Skinning Knives
Riding Crop
Boys with Willow Whistles
Birchbark bowl
Fireplace Set
“Shutesbury”
Frontpage of Greenfield Gazette & Franklin Herald newspaper
Captain John Wells’ Company Muster Roll
Pottery Vase
“A Puritan Maiden”
Mortar
“Address delivered at South Deerfield, Aug 31, 1838 on the completion of the Bloody Brook Monument”
Letter to Ward and Annie Clarke about Communism
“Deerfield School Troubles”
Letter to Colonel Hyde from an insurgent published in the Hampshire Gazette
Gravestone of John Williams Jr.
“The Pool in the Woods”
Doll “Lilla”
B. and M. Freight Yard
Mt. Sugarloaf
Doily
Steam Roller
Hand Stamp
Trombone
Soldiers moving down Federal Street
Memorial to M. & S. Sheldon
“To the Benevolent People of Berkshire, Hampden and Hampshire Counties” article on Irish aid in the Hampshire Gazette newspaper
“Ancient History of Pocomptuck or Deerfield…”.by Stephen West Williams
Main Street and Webster Block. Northfield, Mass.
“5 Men Shot in the Streets of Monson!!!”
Petition for Reimbursement by Major Salah Barnard
Jerry with Rocking Chair
Appointment to Sheriff of Epaphras Hoyt
WWII Draft Registration Card of Caryll Crafts
“Examination of Witnesses in a Trial for Witchcraft”
Handicraft Vol I No. VII – “The Movement for Village Industries”
WWI Uniform of Lt. Henry N. Flynt
George Fuller’s easel
“Erving & Wendell”
Streetscape – Athol Center
WWI letter to Emily Gladys Bartlett
Warning Alarm
Wedding Ring of Mrs. Hannah (Taylor) Hoyt
Christening Blanket
Picnic, Mt. Sugar Loaf
Pages from Journal of Dr. Elihu Ashley
Franklin County Public Hospital
Embroidered Dress
James Wells Champney (1843-1903)
Conway Road House
“Suffrage Canvass Success” article from The Greenfield Recorder newspaper
Descent of Holy Spirit Ukrainian Catholic Church
View Along Cold River, Eastern Slope of Mohawk Trail
Sign-“A. Boyden’s Hotel”
Shampoo and Lotion products made by The Toiletine Company
Civil War letter to Ella Melendy
Trench Art
Appendix to “Journal of a tour to Saratoga Springs, August 1827” kept by Elihu Hoyt
Second Grade Class
“Thanksgiving Assembly”
Maple Syrup Container
Horseradish Bottle and Box
“High Court Bars Alien Deportation” article in Greenfield Recorder-Gazette newspaper
“Women of Plymouth”
“Specimen of a Leaf of the Morus Multicaulis Tree for The Silk Grower”
Southern papers suggest dissolution of the Confederation of States article published in the Hampshire Gazette
Civil War letter to Ella Melendy
Madeline Yale Wynne (1847-1918)
“Nine and Ten Years Old- They can earn 40c. in a ten-hour day, but they cannot read.”
Easthampton, from Mt. Tom, Holyoke, Mass.
Colonel Elihu Hoyt (1771-1833)
“The History of New England..”
Quitclaim of land in Deerfield, Massachusetts
“Anti-Slavery Convention” article from Greenfield Gazette and Franklin Herald newspaper
WWII Application for Renewal of Fuel Oil ration
Dress
“Bad Jam of Logs” article in Greenfield’s Gazette and Courier newspaper
Sarah Coleman’s shoe
Pages from Elijah Williams (Old Soldier’s) account book, Vol. 2
The Green, Longmeadow, Mass.
Christening Dress
“Willows”
Court Dancers
Auger Bit
“A Trip To Boston”
“Cronies”
Greenfield, Mass. Soldiers Monument and Second Congregational Church
Oil lamps
Pages from the diary of Martha Cochran
“Gun Controls” editorial in Greenfield Recorder newspaper
Pages from the Diary of Samuel King
Letter to Lt. James Stewart
“Supplement to the New England Farmer, and Gardener’s Journal”
“Allies, Arise!”
Mt. Toby, Montague, Mass.
Arosen’s Sash
Flintlock Musket
Wallhanging-The Apple Tree
“Second Baptists Survive Difficulties Of Early Years, Now A Thriving Parish”
Bevel Square
“The Shepherdess of the Alps” embroidery
Two-handled cups
“Burly Log Drivers Up River Start Biggest Drive Ever Seen”
Mt. Sugar Loaf
Advertising Card from L. A. Cook & Co.
Main and Park Streets looking South. Easthampton, Mass.
Dr. Rolfe S. Russell (1907-1935)
“Warwick”
“Lake Pleasant Campmeeting Guide for 1876”
Mt. Tom Railway and Summit House
“Hadley-Style” Oak Chest
“Andrews Family”
“Spirit of the Woods”
Women dancing with sheaves of wheat
“True Stories of New England Captives”
“Annual Report of the Town Officers of Deerfield for the Year Ending, Jan. 1st, 1915-Annual Report of the School Committee”
Western slope showing North Adams
“Mrs. Roosevelt Rides Coal Car Into Mine Depths” photograph from Greenfield Daily Recorder-Gazette newspaper