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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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Banister Back Side Chair
The National First Reader, or Word-Builder
College Meadow, A. C., Amherst, Mass.
School Street Looking East, Athol, Mass.
“Mr. Editor” article for the Gazette and Courier newspaper on the doings of the Sabbath school in South Deerfield for July 4th
Letter to John Williams
“Woman’s Work” editorial from Greenfield Daily Recorder-Gazette newspaper
Flail
Letter from second headmaster of Deerfield Academy
“Thanksgiving Pies”
Trade Card of Hawks & Reed-Clothiers
“Immigrants in Industries, Part 24: Recent Immigrants in Agriculture” from Reports of
the Immigration Commission
“An Old Custom” -The Liberty Pole of Deerfield 1774
B. and M. and Street Ry. Bridges at Cheapside
Residence of Dwight L. Moody, East Northfield, Mass.
“King’s Handbook of the United States”
Peony Quilt
Janet Russell (1886-1981) and William Russell
“Avery Oxen” Poster
“Deerfield” regarding Monument Banter
Sugar Sack
Writ against Standish Foster by Daniel Coon
“Showdown Looms On War Powers Issue” article in The Greenfield Recorder newspaper
“Temperance Meeting” article from the Greenfield Gazette and Franklin Herald newspaper
“Turnpike Road”
Beaded cuffs
Horses and Farmers
Frary House at Open House
“Firing the Cannon”
Toy Kitchen Range
“George Fuller, His Life & Works – A Memorial”
Division of Real Estate of Lucinda Nims
“Manufacture of Silk Not New in New England” from New England Farmer
Pages from the second Journal of Sarah Howe on Shays’ Rebellion
“Bangwell Putt”
The Manual Alphabet for the Deaf and Dumb
“The New McGuffey Second Reader”
“Children at Play” Quilt
Letter to the printer regarding Shays Rebellion published in the Hampshire Gazette newspaper
Cape
Glass Bottle
Botany notes from schoolbook belonging to Agnes Higginson
“New Attack on Deerfield. By Moving Picture Red Skins.”
Official Bulletin of the Mohawk Klan
Beaver comb
“Farmers Help the Belgians”
Edward Hitchcock (1793-1864)
“The Rapids”
Three Athol Images from “Quabbin’s Railroad: The Rabbit”
Raffia and Other Baskets
Bannister Back Chair
Uniform Hat
Wedding Dress
Westfield State Teachers’ College
“Americans With The Wrong Ancestors”
“Morning Mist”
Arms Manufacturing Company
Letter to George Fuller from wife Agnes regarding Christmas
Stoneware Churn
Embroidered Bed Hanging
Greetings from Ashfield
Complaint of Distress against Heman Farnham
“The Covered Bridge at the Pumping Station, Greenfield”
Article about wrongful arrest suits by rescuers of Shadrich from Gazette and Courier newspaper
“Bad Jam of Logs” article in Greenfield’s Gazette and Courier newspaper
Map “The world agreeable to the latest discoveries”
“The Talented Sketch Class”
Splitting Froe or Frower
Letter to Dennis Stebbins
Women in Surrey
Racetrack and Grandstand, Eastern States Expo.
Mary Arms at Barton Heights
Hoosac Tunnel North Adams, Mass.
“Young People’s Camp Third Season Rowe, Mass. June 27-July 4, 1926”
George Fuller (1822-1884)
“The Mill River Disaster” article from the Journal of Industry newspaper
Nursing Class of Julia Diadema Sophronia Snow (1891-1984)
“President Lincoln” article from the Gazette and Courier newspaper
Goggles with Case
Doll “Diana”
South Hadley
Letter to Charles Hart Ashley
Bill of sale for an enslaved boy named Prince
“Guilford Mineral Spring Water, Guilford, Vermont” bottle
Second Grade Class
Armory, Greenfield, Mass.
“Our page, Harry”
Circulating letter asking for help in destroying Lincoln’s troops published in the Hampshire Gazette
Belt buckle
“Scene on Green River, Greenfield, MA” Postcard
Receipt of Caleb Phillips
Estate Settlement of David Hoyt
Streetscape – Royalston Common
Hockanum Ferry, Northampton, Mass. Mt. Holyoke in Distance.
Woman washing
“Mass Convention at Old Deerfield”
Public Vendue notice to some residents of Charlemont published in the Hampshire Gazette
“Fort River”
“Keep them smiling”- WWI broadside
Dining Table
James Wells Champney (1843-1903)
Dress
Frank Dahowski, Wallingford, England
Main St. looking west from Mansion House
Letter to Gertrude Porter Ashley
Lusitania Medallion
Deerfield Town Meeting
Letter printed in article form to Thomas Jefferson from Benjamin Banneker in the Greenfield Gazette newspaper
Village Room and Post Office
“Popery-Temperance” article from the Greenfield Gazette and Franklin Herald newspaper
“Geo. Thompson in Springfield” article from the Boston Courier newspaper
Poem on Shays’ Rebellion from The New-Haven Gazette and The Connecticut Magazine newspaper
“The Slave Trade”
Main and Park Streets looking South. Easthampton, Mass.
WWII Registration Card
Door Curtain
Landscape – Mill on Stream
“Ruins of the French Fort at Chambly built 1711”
“Uncle Sid’s Adventure with Indians”
“Sanderson Academy” ad from the Greenfield Gazette and Franklin Herald newspaper
Main Street from Smith College, Northampton, Mass.
Plane
Avenue A, Turners Falls, Mass.
Auger Bit
Tax receipt of Alpheus Moore for Ebenezer Hinsdale’s property
“F. E. Field” store sign
Lilla and Mary Ella Childs (1854-1942)
Letter to Governor Bowdoin published in the Hampshire Gazette
William Montague (1760-1839)
Congregational Church and Sheldon Academy, Southampton, Mass
“Cronies”
Letter to Mary (Polly) Ashley
Crazy Quilt with Netted Border
My First Automobile
“Millers Falls, Mass., Millers River”
“House Beautiful”
View of Cheapside
“The Decision of the Supreme Court” article in the Franklin Democrat newspaper
Neck Yoke
Boston Commonwealth report of speech of Dana in behalf of Davis re: fugitive Shadrich article in Gazette and Courier newspaper
Piccolo
“A Practical System of Modern Geography”
“Will Hutchins, Bachelor of Fine Arts”
WWI Uniform of Lt. Henry N. Flynt
Fire Bucket
“Peske-ompsk-ut; or, The Falls Fight”
Letter from Teacher Mary Montague
Memorial Hall Bedroom
“Shelburne”
Pages from the “Records of the Female Benevolent Society of the Town of Deerfield”
“Quakers Plan More Gifts for Vietnam War Victims” article in The Greenfield Recorder newspaper
“Stevens May Resign If He Does Not Receive Support From Eisenhower” article from Greenfield Recorder-Gazette newspaper
Group of Toy Soldiers
Letter to Dr. William Stoddard Williams from Oliver Partridge
Basketry cup
West Springfield’s Beautiful Riverdale Road Along the Connecticut
U. S. Post Office
“The Sweet Little Man.”
“The World’s Work” – War Manual of the Great 1914 European Conflict
Screen Panel-“The Last Rose of Summer”
Tax Receipt of Justin Hitchcock
“SH” joined chest
War club
Y.M.C.A., East Deerfield, Mass.
“The Need of an Immigration Test” article from the Greenfield Gazette and Courier newspaper
“$50 Reward”
“Caroll & Queen’s Double Clog Dance”
Beaded crown
“Harvest Home Fair” Poster
Deerfield Society of Blue and White Needlework Display
“The Song” published in the Hampshire Gazette
Will of Edward Allyn
Breck, Shephard, and Clark General Store Ad in Hampshire Gazette newspaper
Lake Pleasant Founders
“Counting Our Blessings!” cartoon from The Greenfield Recorder newspaper
“Several Fathers” article re: Clay, Webster and Fillmore and Fugitive Slave Law in the Gazette and Courier newspaper
Deerfield Academy, Class of 1904
Delegates of Philadelphia Convention article from the Hampshire Gazette newspaper
“Dickinson High School”
Red slate gorget
“Original Deerfield Workers Show Skills at Crafts”
Union Telegraph Line
Excerpts on slavery from “Anecdotes and Reminiscences . A Labor of Love”
Peabody Room
“Sons of Temperance Membership of Elijah Spencer Fuller”
“A Half Century of Conflict”- Vol. I
Diagram of John Wilson’s Orchard and list of trees
The Green, Longmeadow, Mass.
Bobbins
The Weldon, The Terrace
Act of General Court regarding value of bills of public credit article in The Independent Ledger & Amerian Advertiser newspaper
Rail Road, Station, Northampton, Mass.
“Magnificent Parade of Women” from “Around the World with a Camera”
Sign-“A. Boyden’s Hotel”
Young Men’s Christian Association Meeting
Patent Model of Plow
Photos of town of Ware and other Mass. towns from “The Complete Historical Record of New England’s Stricken Area, 9-21-1938”
Hatfield Convention of 1782
Lillian Saxton Hutchins (Mrs. Frank Hutchins)
Coach Unloading Costumed Passengers