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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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Hitchcock Free Academy, Brimfield, Mass.
Hoosac Tunnel Work Area
“Deerfield Gave Warm Reception To Trolleys”
Notes from Deerfield Town Meeting
Some Apples and Potatoes – Eastern States Expo.
The Electoral Vote article published in the Greenfield Gazette and Courier newspaper
Pages from Rev. Jonathan Ashley’s account book
“Your Red Cross” ad from Greenfield Recorder-Gazette newspaper
“Girls Wanted” advertisement
Beaded Bag
Confederate bond
Petition to Selectmen of Deerfield regarding trolley
Resolve by the State of Massachusetts-Bay requring all towns to supply a record of reimbursements made to soldiers & families
“Monroe & Rowe”
Proclamation regarding apprehension of Shays’ Insurgents published in the Hampshire Gazette
Plate
“Deerfield School Controversy”
Petersham
Camphene Lamp
Photograph Postcard “Second Baptist Church”
Notification to Consider Dickinson
Promissory Note of Hezekiah Newcomb
Children’s boots
WWII Application for Home Canning Sugar Allowance
Postcard to George Sheldon regarding trolley debate
Seminary Farm, East Northfield, Mass.
“Saratoga Illustrated: The Visitor’s Guide to Saratoga Springs”
Letter to Samuel Wells from Colonel Elihu Hoyt
Building Contract for Deerfield Street School
Wrought-iron lampstand and lamp
“Protection Against Influenza” ad from The Greenfield Recorder newspaper
Main Street, Looking North. Whately, Mass.
A Practical System of Modern Geography: or View of the Present State of the World
Receipt of Seth Sheldon for dance tuition
South Deerfield House
Otterskin Bag
“Deerfield History”
Mt. Sugar Loaf
Rock Cut on Mountainside, Mt. Tom
Main St. looking west from Mansion House
World War II Helmet
Pipe box
Bird’s-Eye View, Sunderland and Connecticut River from Mt. Sugarloaf
John Putnam (c.1817-1895)
Main St. Easthampton, Mass
List of Books bought by Joseph Barnard
Deerfield Town Warrant on Declaration of Independence from Great Britain
Reverend Stephen Williams (1693-1782)
Letter to Mr. and Mrs. George Sheldon regarding trolley
Brass Skimmer
Pleasant Street, Northampton, Mass.
Prentiss Childs and Chum
Act of General Court regarding value of bills of public credit article in The Independent Ledger & Amerian Advertiser newspaper
“Sacred Heart of Mary”
Black Lace Dress
Sugar Loaf, South Deerfield, Mass.
WWI letter to Emily Gladys Bartlett
The Reformed Pastor
Mitch Mieczkowski
“Elizabethan Group”
Nutmeg Grater
Riverside Inn, Chester, Mass.
Memorial Hall Bedroom
“Turners Falls, Mass”
Bobbins
“Greenfield & Gill”
“Greenfield 200th Anniversary” plate
“The Song” published in the Hampshire Gazette
Willow Basket
Turtle effigy pipe fragment
Letter to Lt. James Stewart
“Buckland”
Pages from “A New Pictorial History of Greenfield” on railroads
Deerfield Town Warrant
Title page from “Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly”
“Mt. Toby, Mass.”
Boston Commonwealth report of speech of Dana in behalf of Davis re: fugitive Shadrich article in Gazette and Courier newspaper
Easterly View from Whitcomb Summit
Bobbin Lace
“Goldwater Backs President’s Acts in Emergency” article in The Greenfield Recorder-Gazette newspaper
Letter to Gertrude Porter Ashley
Toy Kitchen Range
Raw Silk
“Greenfield High School for Young Ladies”
“Spinet”
Letter to Aaron Willard regarding enslaved man
Letter to George Sheldon regarding trolley
List of medicines bought from Ebenezer Hunt by William Stoddard Williams
Birchbark wastepaper basket
Centerpiece-“Mayflower”
Trade Card of Hawks & Reed-Clothiers
Micmac Bead bag
Letter printed in the Hampshire Gazette regarding selecting convention delegate
Writ against Amos Thomas by John and Samuel Frink
Beaded Moccasins
Letter to Lt. James Stewart regarding Insurgents
“Italian Vagrants” article from the Greenfield Gazette and Franklin Herald newspaper
Rear of the Colrain
Petroglyphs/Pictographs
“A Catalogue of the Books contained in the Chicopee Town Library, together with general regulations of the same.”
Red Rock
“Senate Judiciary Approves Alien Restrictions” article from Greenfield Recorder-Gazette newspaper
Plot plan of land owned by Joseph Barnard
Plane
Eliezer Hawks land contract
Tile: “Landing of the Pilgrims 1620”
Moody Homestead
“Mr. Adams’s Oration” article from the Gazette and Mercury newspaper
“Winter”
Kate Melvina Newton Wiley (1851-1911)
Fisher’s Garage
Cornelius Kelley (1873-1954)
Grammar School Class
The Country Builder’s Assistant
Resolve by Massachusetts Senate on soldier’s pay article from The Independent Chronicle and the Universal Advertiser newspaper
Mount Sugar Loaf, South Deerfield, Mass.
“The History of the Town of Royalston, Massachusetts”
“The Pocumtuc Housewife; A Guide to Domestic Cookery”
“Betty at the Churn”
African American Musicians
Article on the Constitution and Slavery from The Hampshire Gazette Newspaper
Historical Collections, being a General Collection of interesting facts, traditions, biographical sketches, anecdotes, &c.
Dr. Joseph Goodhue (1762-1849)
“Abstract of the Massachusetts School Returns for 1838-9”
Checkerboard
Ice Sledding
Glass bottle
Letter to John Williams
“National Bank of Merit” Four Shares of Stock to the Holder Minnie Flagg
Campus During Conference, East Northfield, MA
Beaded Bag
Ice delivery
Iron Axe
“Catalogue of Books in the Deerfield Agricultural Library”
Deerfield Post Office
“The Day-Star: A Monthly Magazine devoted to The Revival of Religion”
“Our Greenfield Artists”
Wall Hanging-Apple Tree
Letter to Gertrude Porter Ashley
Kennebec Curve
Father Basil Juli
Rowland Stebbins (1794-1848)
“The News from Home. Greenfield Items” excerpt on the passage of the Constitution Amendment fr. the Gazette & Courier newspaper
“A Sermon Preach’d at the Funeral of the Reverend Mr. John Williams”
Rail Road, Station, Northampton, Mass.
Lilla and Mary Ella Childs (1854-1942)
Mt. Sugarloaf with farmer
Landscape of Irish Ruins
Civil War letter from Agnes Cochran Higginson to her daughter, Agnes Fuller
“Census of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts: 1895” Volume V
Dr. Mary P. Dole
Proclamation by the Governor of The Compulsory Work Law
WWI Toy Mounted Soldier and Horse
Petition in favor of trolley on Deerfield’s Main Street
The North American Arithmetic. Part First for Young Readers
“Sermon preached to 1st Congregational Society in Deerfield, Mass. and in the Hearing of Several Indians of Both Sexes Supposed”
Pitcher with engine turned decoration
“Joseph Stebbins- A Pioneer at the Outbreak of the Revolution”
Division of Estate of Major Salah Barnard
“Sunderland and Leverett”
Plane
Pot Hook
Thomas Williams Ashley (1894-1918)
“Negro Funeral”
Moccasins
Bill of sale for J. Romanoo
Armed Railroad Car
Birthplace of Sophia Smith, Hatfield, Mass. Founder of Smith College
Page from the “Franklin H. Williams Diary from 1852 to 1891”
John Russell Cutlery Works, Turners Falls, Mass.
“Charlemont”
Kate Russell (Mrs. William Russell)
“The Greek Slave” Statuette
“For the Gazette and Mercury” a Pro-slavery newspaper article
“The Vicksburg Daily Citizen”
“National Ball” invitation
“Old Buildings are Moved out of Quabbin Area” article from scrapbook on Quabbin Reservoir
Indenture of Zechariah Gilson of Northfield
Keyed Bugle
“Picturesque Hampshire”
Wooden Canteen- Memorial Hall
Burke Tavern Overmantel Panel
Spectacles
Conway Road House
Letter to Deerfield Assessors by Colonel Elihu Hoyt
Court Dancers
Deerfield Inn and Trolley
Margaret Christine Whiting (1860-1946)
“Palm Leaf Basket Maker”
“Teachers’ Institute”
River Street in Conway
Raffia Basket
“The Fugitive Slave Question- Who passed it?” article from the Gazette and Courier newspaper
Insurgents in Northfield article published in the Hampshire Gazette
Account book of Zebulon White & James Strathern
“Pegasus of Apollo” from “The Worcester Magazine”
Complaint of Distress against Thomas Rose by Job Barstow
Inventory of David Hoyt
Public Vendue notice to some residents of Charlemont published in the Hampshire Gazette
Civil War letter to Ella Melendy