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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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Doll “Diana”
“Soldiers Memorial- Company F 34th Regt. Massachusetts Infty Vols.”
Tent Tobacco Fields from Mt. Sugarloaf
Plowing
WWI Helmet of Lt. Henry N. Flynt
150 Anniversary, Bernardston, Mass.-Parade Float
Flax Hatchel/Hackle
“Main Street, Williamsburg, Mass.”
“New England Strike Grows All Fall River Mills Idle; President Seeks Mediators” article in the Greenfield Daily Recorder-Gazette
Florida Wagon Train
Multiple articles from The New-Haven Gazette and The Connecticut Magazine newspaper regarding Shays’ Rebellion
Embroidered Bed Hanging
Redware teapot and top
Mt. Sugarloaf
Hatchel/Hackle
Sleighing in a One-Horse Cutter
Letter to daughter, Dorothy Ashley in Boston
“Census of Several States” taken from Thomas’s Almanack for 1792 tallied by Office of the Secretary of State
Breck, Shephard, and Clark General Store Ad in Hampshire Gazette newspaper
WWII Air Raid Warning Instructions Card
Teacher Certificate
“Improvement In Champooing And Hair Dyeing”
The Whale Inn, On Route 9, Goshen, Mass.
Testamonial by Daniel Shays in the Hampshire Gazette newspaper
The Fire at the Hotel Warren
Civil War letter from Thomas Wentworth Higginson to his brother Stephen
Excerpt from Volume II of the Adelphi Society Records
“Ellis, Field hand”
“American Flag house and Betsy Ross Memorial Association Membership certificate”
Civil War Patriotic Covers or Envelopes
Adze
Nutmeg Grater
“Colonial and Revolutionary Room”
Connecticut River Bridge
Pitcher with engine turned decoration
Trammel Hook
Wooden inkwell
“Marchers to Converge on Lincoln Memorial” and “Washington Will be Symbol of U.S. Power Marchers” article in GRG newspaper
“Jemima or The Witch of Bender”
Letter to Deerfield Assessors by Colonel Elihu Hoyt
Holy Name of Jesus Church
Embroidered pocket
“Universal Geography, Ancient and Modern: Comparison and Classification”
Painting of Millers Falls Company
Memorandum of Zur Hawks
“Sugarloaf from Meadows”/ “Millriver Plains”
“Saranac Lake in Winter”
Court Ball Invitation
“Old Buildings are Moved out of Quabbin Area” article from scrapbook on Quabbin Reservoir
Banister Back Side Chair
“Old Medicine Man Founded Toiletine Co.” article from Greenfield Recorder-Gazette newspaper
“Deerfield” regarding Monument Banter
“And White As Well” editorial from Greenfield Recorder newspaper
Women in Surrey
Chesterfield Church
Quality Control Lab Coat from Millers Falls Company
“Deerfield Society of Blue and White Needlework”
Resolve ordering Selectmen of Deerfield to record the town’s deaf and dumb population
WWI letter to Emily Gladys Bartlett
Reward of Merit to Amos Hamilton
“Deerfield’s Summer Plays”
Plate
Reverend Stephen Williams (1693-1782)
Admiral Francis John Higginson (1843-1931) Dress hat
Millers Falls Company’s Micrometer with box
Ephraim Williams (1760-1835)
Flintlock Fowler
Bit Stock
Mt. Sugarloaf from the south
Pendants
“Making a Dam”
Letter to Dr. Elihu Ashley
Prospect House, Mount Holyoke, Northampton, Mass.
Young Woman with Guitar
Deerfield Inn and Trolley
“Paupers in Massachusetts” article from the Gazette and Courier newspaper
Gen. Shepard Memorial Monument, Westfield, Mass.
Stoneware Jug
Train Wreck along the Deerfield River
“Grape Arbor”
Esther (Harding) Dickinson (1790-1875)
Women dancing with sheaves of wheat
Covered sugar bowl
Sign-“A. Boyden’s Hotel”
Toy Kitchen Range
Postcard to Mrs. Edward Wirt
View of Cheapside
Men’s pumps
Fisher’s Garage Mechanics
Hotel, Montague, Mass.
Act by House of Representatives issued to Bernardston selectmen to hold town meeting to vote on the Constitution
Advertisement in “The Boston Weekly Post-Boy” newspaper
Ruth Strong Russell (1804-1869) Sampler
Dining Table
“True Stories of New England Captives”
“Negroes Waiting at the Depot”
Minute Tapioca factory
“Map of New-England”
Bevel Square
“Manual of Instruction in the Use of Dumb Bells and Indian Clubs & Other Exercises”
“Nine and Ten Years Old- They can earn 40c. in a ten-hour day, but they cannot read.”
Prentiss Childs and Chum
Bedwarmer
Complaint against John Evans by Sarah Smith
“Temperance and Abolition Celebration at North Leverett” article from the Gazette and Courier newspaper
Reward of Merit to Luella May
Spectacles
“The Senate of 1872- Arrangement of Seats”
“Franklin County to get C.C. Corps Camps in Four of State Forests at Once” article from Greenfield Daily Recorder-Gazette paper
Letter to Charles Hart Ashley
Fruit Knife
“Whately Rummery” article from Greenfield Gazette and Franklin Herald newspaper
Sketch of the Union Naval Attack on Charleston Harbor
Lifting Ice from the Water
Pocumtuck standing on the Great Rock
Fire Engine (pump)
Campaign Banner for William Henry Harrison
“Slave Case in Connecticut” article from the Gazette and Mercury newspaper
West Springfield’s Beautiful Riverdale Road Along the Connecticut
Map of Western Massachusetts from History of Western Massachusetts
William Garrison speech to YMCA on “Liberty in its Relations to Popular Government” article from Gazette & Courier newspaper
Letter to Agnes Higginson from George Fuller
“Picturesque Hampshire”
Calipers/Sliding Scale
Peony Quilt
“Last Furrow”
Nazi statement from Millers Falls Company employee
Letter to George Sheldon regarding the trolley debate
“The Constitutional Amendment” article from the Gazette & Courier newspaper
Family Bible owned by David Hoyt
“Showdown Looms On War Powers Issue” article in The Greenfield Recorder newspaper
Nathan Negus (1801-1825)
Arms Manufacturing Company
WWII Draft Registration Card of Caryll Crafts
Log Drive Cook Shack on Connecticut River
Cathcart Family Register
View of Turner’s Falls, Mass.
Broadside of Abraham Lincoln’s elegy
Clothes Wringer
“The Snow Storm”
“Stevens May Resign If He Does Not Receive Support From Eisenhower” article from Greenfield Recorder-Gazette newspaper
“A Letter from T. D. Judah”
Quitclaim of land in Deerfield, Massachusetts
“To You- Who Helped Us Win the Army-Navy “E” Ad in Aero Digest by Greenfield Tap and Die Corporation
“SH” joined chest
Warwick, Mass. Gales Old Mill.
John Russell Cutlery Grinding Room Employees
“Turners Falls, Mass. Industrial Plants, General View below Falls”
“Bangwell Putt”
Robert Frost and granddaughters
“Illustrated Memoir of the World War”
Infant’s Mitts
Raw Silk
Thank you letter from Mrs. Hooper to Miss Wilson for supplies for Civil War soldiers
“A Soldier’s Dream”
Side Chair
Letter to Charles Hart Ashley
Memorial Hall
“Bouquet”
“Erving & Wendell”
“Greenfield & Gill”
“Yosemite Falls”
“Avery Oxen” Poster
Farm House
“Will Hutchins, Bachelor of Fine Arts”
Dress Sword
“Franklin Does Her Share” article published in Greenfield Gazette and Mercury newspaper
Wedding Gown
“History of Philip’s War”
“GTD Makes John Grant’s Invention Known Around World” article from Greenfield Recorder-Gazette newspaper
Caroline Stebbins Sheldon (1789-1865) Sampler
George Fuller (1822-1884)
Girl’s boots
Large Village Center School
“Deerfield”
Birchbark mukak
“Farm for Sale”
Bit Brace Drill manufactured by Millers Falls Company
The Birches Along the Mohawk Trail
Woman with Stereoptican Viewer
“Turnpike Road”
Colton and Fitch’s Modern School Geography
Civil War letter to Ella Melendy
Glass tumblers
Pint mug
Heath, Mass.-On Pocumtuck Road
Page from Amasa Jones diary regarding Mill River Disaster Flood
“Say Russian Atomic Particles Falling On Japan” article in the Greenfield Recorder-Gazette newspaper
Helen Hawks Childs and Samuel Childs (1843-1906)
Mitch Mieczkowski
“Drama Vs. Reality” editorial from Greenfield Recorder-Gazette newspaper
Article on the Constitution and Slavery from The Hampshire Gazette Newspaper
Tape loom
Deerfield Meadows
“Warwick”
“Making Baskets”
“Which Way to Deerfield (A Modern Mohawk Headdress)”
Horses and Farmers
Engraving “The Bloody Massacre perpetrated on King Street, Boston on March 5th, 1770”
“Barrs Homestead 1739”