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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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Two children feeding hens
“Students Trying to Convert Congressmen” article in The Greenfield Recorder newspaper
Illustrated Trade card of William Jackson’s Brazen Head shop
“Influenza Returns- South Deerfield Had Severe Week With It” article from The Greenfield Recorder newspaper
Multiple articles from The New-Haven Gazette and The Connecticut Magazine newspaper regarding Shays’ Rebellion
Letter from Cynthia Williams to brother William Stoddard Williams
“Views On And About Mt. Tom And Of Mt. Tom Railroad”
Fork
“New Salem”
“A. Stratton” Tavern sign
Mason Jar
General assembly of Rhode Island article published in the Hampshire Gazette
Canoe model
Miniature Chest of Drawers
Delegates from abolitionist sector nominate Hubbard for Congressman article in Greenfield Gazette and Mercury newspaper
“Will Visit Native Land”
Willow Basket
Plans of Springfield, Chicopee Falls and Cabotville
Tax receipt of Alpheus Moore for Ebenezer Hinsdale’s property
“The History of the Town of Royalston, Massachusetts”
Memorial Plaque for Enslaved African-Americans in Deerfield
“The Mill”
Two pages from diary of Sophronia Grout on Religious Revival
Ware Store Day Book [Vol. II]
“Nine and Ten Years Old- They can earn 40c. in a ten-hour day, but they cannot read.”
German Bayonet
Old Indian House Door on Exhibit
“Review of the Military Operations in the Northern Campaign” by Epaphras Hoyt
School Street Looking East, Athol, Mass.
Pocumtuck standing on the Great Rock
Baby Carriage
“The Deerfield Captive”
Cruet Set
“UM Students Protest Move Into Cambodia” article in The Greenfield Recorder newspaper
“The Life of Dwight L. Moody”
“Blacksmith’s Shop”
Hand Stamp
“Give Me Three Grains of Corn, Mother” poem in the Hamsphire Gazette newspaper
South Deerfield, fountain
Wedding Dress
“Mrs. Roosevelt Rides Coal Car Into Mine Depths” photograph from Greenfield Daily Recorder-Gazette newspaper
Hoosac Tunnel, Approach to East Portal, Mass
Buttons and Button Mold
“History of Philip’s War”
“Federal Grants Pour Into Towns For WPA Plans” article from Greenfield Daily Recorder-Gazette newspaper
“Scripture History, Abridged.”
Bloody Brook
Stoneware Storage Jug with lid
Great Wheel
Beaded Horseshoe Souvenir
“Ashfield”
Throat Pump
“Jeff Davis’ Proclamation”
Letter to Ward and Annie Clarke about Communism
Looking Down the Trail from Western Summit
Seating of the Meeting House
Greenfield, Mass. Soldiers Monument and Second Congregational Church
Main Street, Greenfield, MA
War club
“Copy of a letter from Gen. Lincoln to Capt. Shays” in Hampshire Gazette newspaper
Robert Frost and granddaughters
Tea kettle
Franklin County Industries in “History of Massachusetts Industries” Vol. I
Oakman Motor Vehicle Company Advertisement
“Mass Convention at Old Deerfield”
Mt. Sugar Loaf, South Deerfield, Mass.
Landscape – Mill on Stream
“National Bank of Merit” Four Shares of Stock to the Holder Minnie Flagg
“Sugarloaf from Meadows”/ “Millriver Plains”
Jennie Marie Arms Sheldon (1852-1938)
“Local Council of Unemployed Has 230 Members” article from the Greenfield Daily Recorder-Gazette newspaper
Letter to Agnes Higginson Fuller from George Fuller
Alabaster sculpture
“A Hard Nag to Ride” political cartoon from the Daily Recorder-Gazette newspaper
Flute
Pitcher
“Anachronism”
WWI letter to Emily Gladys Bartlett
R. R. Station
Components of a Proximity Fuze made by Raytheon Manufacturing Company during WWII
“A Day Off”
Gauge
“Break-Through Accomplished” editorial from Greenfield Recorder-Gazette newspaper
Hoosac Tunnel, Looking out from West Portal, Mass
Beaded Bag
Excerpt from Massachusetts School Law of 1647
Raw Silk
Necklace
“The Boy Scouts Year Book”
Platter
Convalescent Soldiers and Nurse
Memorial to M. & S. Sheldon
Mint Industry from “The History of the Town of Ashfield”
Teapot
Schoolroom at the Mill and Bars: Recitation Day
Emma Lewis Coleman (1853-1942)
“$50 Reward”
Extract of a Letter regarding fate of the insurgents published in the Hamsphire Gazette
“Washington Merry-Go-Round” article in Greenfield Recorder-Gazette
Bit Stock
Goggles with Case
Sheldon Tapestry cushion cover
Sugar Box
“Temperance and Abolition Celebration at North Leverett” article from the Gazette and Courier newspaper
“Wants A Place” ad in the Greenfield Gazette newspaper
Letter from James Wells Champney to Misses Baker & Coleman regarding trolley
Copy of a letter published in the Hampshire Gazette regarding Shays’ Insurgents
“Fort River”
Camp Meeting Residence
Hospital Operating Room
Letter to Augustus Fuller from brother George regarding African American painting
Steam Roller
Russell House, Russell, Mass.
Embroidery: Over the Bounding Waves
Fruit Knife
Complaint of Distress against Heman Farnham
Milk Bottle
“Child with Pussies” or “Polly and the Pussy Willows”
“Suffrage Canvass Success” article from The Greenfield Recorder newspaper
“Annual Report of the Town Officers of Deerfield For the Year Ending Feb. 1st, 1914-Annual Report of the School Committee”
Boy’s Dress
South Hadley Center, Mass.
Letter to Lt. James Stewart
Top hat
“American Heroes” figures
Raffia and Other Baskets
Seashells
Sign-“A. Boyden’s Hotel”
Letter to George Sheldon regarding the trolley debate
“Potter’s Assistant”
“Memorial Hall, Deerfield, Mass.”
Easterly View from Whitcomb Summit
Enchanted Forest
Letter from Deerfield Selectmen re: travel of William Stoddard Williams
WWII Honorable Discharge card belonging to Frank Dahowski, Jr.
Over the Hoosac Tunnel, Mohawk Trail, Mass.
“Catalogue of Books in the Second Social Library, Deerfield, with the Bye Laws of the Company; and the Rules &…”
Leaders in Congress to Shut off all Immigration article in The Gazette and Courier newspaper
Woman’s cap
Zebulon Graves invoice for use of horse
Portrait of W. E. B. Du Bois
Crazy Quilt with Netted Border
Partial letter to Louisa Higginson from son regarding politics and slavery
Plane
Roundabout Chair
“A Crostick” poem published in the Hampshire Gazette
Wysocki Onion Storage
Peabody Room
Cabinet of Nature
Indians Glimpse a Vision of the Future
Thaxter Scott House
WWII Ration Mailing form
Admiral Francis John Higginson (1843-1931) Dress hat
Indenture of Sarah Green
Reflector Oven/Roaster
Soldiers moving down Federal Street
Belt buckle
Old Hadley, Mass. Elmwood House and Old Church
“Harrow Theater and Hutchins’ Plays”
“Greenfield High School for Young Ladies”
“Our Dark Day” article from the Gazette and Courier newspaper
Student Uniform
“Hitchcock House”
“Slave Case in Connecticut” article from the Gazette and Mercury newspaper
Apron
“Ononko’s Vow”
Landscape of Irish Ruins
“Pomegranate”
Beaded cuffs
Tile: “Landing of the Pilgrims 1620”
Bonnet
Letter to Emily Bartlett from cousin Eunice Sherman Tabor regarding Christmas
Curling Iron
World War I Toys
Votes of counties at the Massachusetts State Convention article published in the Hampshire Gazette
Tin-Glazed Earthenware Plate
Town Hall
Wrought iron candleholders
Deerfield Society of Blue and White Needlework
“Notice of Daniel Shays” in “History of Worcester”
“The Decision of the Supreme Court” article in the Franklin Democrat newspaper
Court verdicts of punishment for Shays’ Insurgents published in the Hamsphire Gazette
Hostilities
William Russell House
Electric Car Bridge over Deerfield River, Shelburne Falls, Mass.
Spinning Equipment
Letter to George Fuller from wife Agnes regarding Christmas
River Street in Conway
“Annual Report of the Treasurer, Selectmen, and School Committee, To the Inhabitants of the Town of Deerfield”
The Election article published in the Greenfield Gazette and Mercury newspaper
Door Curtain
Kate Melvina Newton Wiley (1851-1911)
Obadiah Foot’s request to organize a Regulator company in “To the good People of the Town of Deerfield” article
“Deerfield, Mass., South Main Street”
Letter to Charles Hart Ashley
Colonel Elihu Hoyt Military Commission
“Fugitive Slave”
“Together We Win”
“Sacrifice of Life”
Maple Syrup Container