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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