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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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“Whately”
Mohawk Trail Whitcomb Summit House and Gift Shop
150 Anniversary, Bernardston, Mass.-horse and buggy
Kate Melvina Newton Wiley (1851-1911)
“Eulogy on King Philip as Pronounced at the Odeon”
Pages from the Diary of Samuel King
“Spirit of Religion Leading the Puritans”
“Sermon preached to 1st Congregational Society in Deerfield, Mass. and in the Hearing of Several Indians of Both Sexes Supposed”
Published letter to Thomas Grover from the Hampshire Gazette newspaper
Beaded Horseshoe Souvenir
WWII Ration Mailing form
Depot
Fruit Dish
Thomas Wells distribution of property among children
Bobbin Lace
“The Decision of the Supreme Court” article in the Franklin Democrat newspaper
“How to Use Florence Knitting Silk”
Sunderland, Mass. The Old Button Ball Tree
Main Street Business Center
The Centre, South Deerfield, Mass.
Learning to Skate
Mountain Park and Mt. Tom by Night, Holyoke, Mass.
Pages from “Home and Community Hygiene- A Text-book of Personal and Public Health”
“Greenfield”- Will Hutchins Exhibit
“Regulations For the Government of the Schools in the Town of Deerfield”
Hillside Road House
Prospect Hill School
Bust of George Fuller (1822-1884)
Main St. looking west from Mansion House
“Lieut. Genl. Ulysses S. Grant U.S.A.”
Edward Swan’s Pickle Works on the Elm Street
“Statistical Information Relating to Certain Branches of Industry in Massachusetts, For the Year Ending May 1, 1865”
Pouch
Nathan Negus (1801-1825)
Hairpin Turn, Mohawk Trail, Mass
Dyno-Mite WWII newsletter cover from Millers Falls (Tool) Company
Perforators with modern haft
“Giant Oxen” Poster
“Soldiers Memorial- Company F 34th Regt. Massachusetts Infty Vols.”
Avery Oxen Show Admission Ticket
Concertina
Epaphras Hoyt (1765-1850)
Pages from Rev. Jonathan Ashley’s account book
“Washington Ball”
Riverside Inn, Chester, Mass.
Cartridge Box
“Haying in Fuller Swamp”
Teapot
Door Curtain
Sketch of the Union Naval Attack on Charleston Harbor
“General View of Erving, Mass.”
Canteen
Wedding Ring of Mrs. Hannah (Taylor) Hoyt
“Albany Road Cemetery, 1696-1929”
Deerfield Town Warrant regarding making peace with Great Britain
“Holyoke Dam, Holyoke, Mass.”
Town Hall
Campaign Banner for William Henry Harrison
“Revival in Pittsfield” article from the Franklin Herald newspaper
Letter to Charles Hart Ashley
Farren Memorial Hospital, Montague City, Mass.
“Heredity and Early Environment of John Williams ‘The Redeemed Captive’”
Miniature Chest of Drawers
Military Roster (Alarm List)
“Girls Wanted” advertisement
Ammunition Box
Flintlock long fowler
“Pews in Deerfield meeting house first Parish- sold December 1824”
Bedpan
A. Wysocki Onion Storage
Beaded crown
World War II Duffle Bag
Hampshire House, Ware, Mass.
“The American Anti-Slavery Almanac for 1838”
Worthington
“If you Can’t Laugh, Don’t Come to See the Womanless Wedding”
“Insist on Having Miner’s Flavoring Extracts” Ad from Gazette and Courier newspaper
“The Song” published in the Hampshire Gazette
South Deerfield article from Gazette and Courier newspaper
Steak Knife
Memorial to M. & S. Sheldon
Oath of Allegiance [Faith]
“Jeanne D’Arc At Vaucouleurs”
“Memorial Hall” Album
Embroidery of Mount Vernon
Deerfield Town Meeting
Candlewick Spread
Three Bridges over the Green River
Tile: “Landing of the Pilgrims 1620”
Sword
Article by Pompey on President Jefferson in the Greenfield Gazette reprinted from the Massachusetts Spy newspaper
“Americans With The Wrong Ancestors”
Neck Yoke
Heath, Mass.-On Pocumtuck Road
Large Village Center School
Letter to George Sheldon regarding land title for the trolley
Convalescent Soldiers
Buttons and Button Mold
WWII CD Warden’s Report Form
Mary Arms at Barton Heights
“Women and Girls Over 18” employment ad in Greenfield’s Gazette and Courier newspaper
Sunderland Library
“Views On And About Mt. Tom And Of Mt. Tom Railroad”
Railroad Arch Bridge, Deerfield
Calico Hand Stamp
B. and M. Freight Yard
Brown Bess flintlock musket
Kitchen Settle
Wedding Dress
German Prisoners, Lyons, France
“Say Russian Atomic Particles Falling On Japan” article in the Greenfield Recorder-Gazette newspaper
Old Indian House Arm Chair
Letter to daughter, Dorothy Ashley
V-Day Brussels
“Letter from Mrs. L. M. Child” to Friend Garrison published in the National Anti-Slavery Standard newspaper
Avenue A Stores
Indenture between Justin Hitchcock and Moses Church
Brass Skimmer
Armory, Greenfield, Mass.
“Blacksmith’s Shop”
Souvenir Folder of Mohawk Trail, Mass.
Church, Town Hall and Post Office, Plainfield, Mass.
Otterskin Bag
“The Poles at Turners Falls” article from Greenfield Gazette and Courier newspaper
Land lease by Lucinda Nims
“Manufacture of Silk Not New in New England” from New England Farmer
Prisoner Halter
“Hippies and the War” editorial from The Greenfield Recorder newspaper
Legal document of Debtor Joshua Sweet
Letter to Gertrude Porter Ashley
“The Senate of 1872- Arrangement of Seats”
The Hoosac Range Looking West from Moore’s Summit
Whale-oil Lamp
A Sequel to Webster’s Elementary Spelling Book
“Scene on Green River, Greenfield, MA” Postcard
WWI letter to Emily Gladys Bartlett
Cloth Doll
“Trolley Wayfinder”
Norcross Bros. Stone Yard, East Longmeadow, Mass.
Bottle
Millstone
“Receipt To Color Blue”
“Proclamation For Proroguing the General Court”
Elijah Williams Day Book
Well Sweep
WWII ration books and case
View from Jutting Rock, Mt. Sugarloaf
“Outrages on Colored Soldiers” article from the National Anti-Slavery Standard newspaper
“Exhibition. Westfield Academy. Order of Exercises.”
Photograph Postcard “Second Baptist Church”
“Catalogue of the State Normal School at Westfield, Mass. For the year ending July 26, 1859”
“Mr. Editor” article for the Gazette and Courier newspaper on the doings of the Sabbath school in South Deerfield for July 4th
The Deerfield Valley from Whitcomb Summit
Sugar Box
Sugar Loaf, South Deerfield, Mass.
“Negro Nurse with a Child”
Horses and Farmers
Bean Pot
“The Old Porch” Ashfield House, Ashfield, Mass.
Silhouette of Deacon Justin Hitchcock (1752-1822)
Inventory of Edward Allyn
Memorial Hall
Spinning Jenny
“To The Sons and Daughters of Franklin County,” with a Poem about Bloody Brook.
Axe with modern haft
“White Church Deerfield Mass Built 1838”
Steatite Vessel
Foot Warmer
Dr. Clara M. Greenough
“Barbara Reading” or “Stolen Fruit”
Covered sugar bowl
Letter to Gertrude Porter Ashley
“Deerfield Street”- Rebuttal on Monuments
Copper ladle
Line of Ox Carts
Delegates of Philadelphia Convention article from the Hampshire Gazette newspaper
Town Meeting
“Post Office Old Deerfield, Mass.”
“Pomegranate”
“Threadwell In New Industrial Era After Decades of Varying Fortunes” article from Greenfield Recorder-Gazette newspaper
Dress
Hotel Warren, South Deerfield, Mass.
Wooden Tankard
“History of Philip’s War”
44 Sugarloaf Street
Royalston
Wampum shells
Bill from Deerfield Selectmen for Military Supplies used in Shays’ Rebellion
Silhouette of John Foster Stearns (1788-1872)
Three Bridges over Green River
Schoolroom at the Mill and Bars: Recitation Day
Ticket to the Memorial Service of Abraham Lincoln
Woman’s cap
“Enemies of the Dream” cartoon printed in Greenfield Recorder newspaper
“Old Indian House”
Apron
“Copy of a letter from Gen. Lincoln to Capt. Shays” in Hampshire Gazette newspaper
Persis Hoyt Sheldon Scallop-Top Chest of Drawers
“Massachusetts Tax Valuation list of 1771”
One-Room School in Wapping