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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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Clothes Wringer
Confederate bond
Gravestone of John Williams Jr.
Three Lavaliers on Chains
“Catalogue of the State Normal School at Westfield, Mass., for the year ending July 29, 1860”
“A Factory Girl” article in The Hampshire Gazette newspaper
Frank Dahowski, Wallingford, England
Mrs. Benjamin Stebbins’ Son Climbing a Tree
Bevel Square
“History of Deerfield”
Spinning Equipment
Promissory note to Joseph Goodhue
Main Street, Bernardston, Mass.
“Nine and Ten Years Old- They can earn 40c. in a ten-hour day, but they cannot read.”
Tide of Immigration article in The Gazette and Courier newspaper
Components of a Proximity Fuze made by Raytheon Manufacturing Company during WWII
Reed Basket with cover
150 Anniversary, Bernardston, Mass.-Parade Float
Teapot
Williamsburgh, Massachusetts
Gravestone of John Williams Jr.
Where the Trail makes a perfect “S” near Charlemont
“Specimen of a Leaf of the Morus Multicaulis Tree for The Silk Grower”
Letter from Teacher Mary Montague
“Letter from Mrs. L. M. Child” to Friend Garrison published in the National Anti-Slavery Standard newspaper
Peabody Room
Excerpts from “Reminiscences of Fugitive-Slave Law Days in Boston”
“Giant U.S. Air, Naval Task Force Begins Mining Entrances To Haiphong, Other Ports” article from Greenfield Recorder newspaper
Advertisement from L.R. Paige for Electric signs
Memorial Hall Bedroom
Auger Bit
John Richards, Blacksmith
“Oil Cinnamon Cordial” advertisement
Hannah Phelps account book
Cathcart Family Register
Parts Manufacturing Company Memorial Plaque of WWII losses
Academy of Music
Extract of a Letter regarding fate of the insurgents published in the Hamsphire Gazette
Petition to the Judges of the Superior Court
WWII Sugar Purchase Certificate
Deerfield Inn and Trolley
Hazen’s Store, Belchertown, Mass.
South Deerfield, fountain
“Old Buildings are Moved out of Quabbin Area” article from scrapbook on Quabbin Reservoir
“Deerfield Electric Road”
Guardianship Appointment to Persis Sheldon
Cradle
Mendellssohn Collection, or Hastings and Bradbury’s Third Book of Psalmody
View of Cheapside
New England Primer
“Massachusetts A Guide To Its Places and People”
“Deerfield School Troubles”
“America’s Triumph at Panama”
Couple in 18th Century Costume
Shoe buckles
Plate and cup
Mosaic or Honeycomb Quilt
“Twenty-first Triennial Alumni Association of State Normal School at Westfield, Massachusetts” program
“Sacred Heart of Mary”
Memorandum of Zur Hawks
Pot Hook
The Ashfield House, Ashfield, Mass.
Plot plan of land owned by Joseph Barnard
Page from the “Franklin H. Williams Diary from 1852 to 1891”
WWI Helmet of Lt. Henry N. Flynt
Village Room and Post Office
“Federal Activities Reach Deeper Into Private Life” image from Greenfield Daily Recorder-Gazette newspaper
“Miss Harriet Martineau” article from the Greenfield Gazette and Franklin Herald newspaper
Estey Organ
“Beecher on Female Suffrage” article from Greenfield Gazette and Courier newspaper
“Will Hutchins, Bachelor of Fine Arts”
Glass Pistol
“Deerfield”- Sheldon talks about Monuments
“Thanksgiving Assembly”
“Manufacture of Silk Not New in New England” from New England Farmer
Bannister Back Chair
Douglas and Johnson Democratic Ticket and Bell and Everett National Union Ticket
Public Vendue notice of Nathaniel Dickinson published in the Hampshire Gazette
“Church Wedding in Old Deerfield”
“Melrose Abbey (Detail)”
“A Biographical Memoir of the Rev. John Williams”
Deerfield Panorama
Letter to Rev. Erza Stiles on Shays’ Rebellion reprinted in “The New-Haven Gazette and The Connecticut Magazine”
Carving Fork
Gouge
Lease (Indenture) by Orlando Ware
“Annual Report of the Town Officers of Deerfield For the Year Ending Jan. 1st 1916- Annual Report of the School Committee”
“Our Dark Day” article from the Gazette and Courier newspaper
Letter to Dorothy Ashley Williams from her husband William Williams telling her of George Washington’s funeral
Letter to Samuel Wells from Colonel Elihu Hoyt
“Our page, Harry”
“Federal Grants Pour Into Towns For WPA Plans” article from Greenfield Daily Recorder-Gazette newspaper
Horse and Surrey
Coal Wagon
John Stebbins (1647-1724) Marker
Ceramic Figures
Civil War Certificate of Non-Liability for Substitute
Handicraft Vol. III, No. 11 -“How They Do It In Deerfield”
Parks House, John Chaplin, Prop. Huntington, Mass.
Silhouette of Abigail (Whitney) Chandler (1786-1833)
Boy in a Skeleton Suit
Hoosac Tunnel
“Thanksgiving Pies”
Deerfield – Talk on “Color”
List of Soldiers
Indenture of Zechariah Gilson of Northfield
“Old Hampshire Anti-Slavery Society” article from Greenfield Gazette & Franklin Herald newspaper
“An address to the People of Several Towns” article regarding Shays’ Rebellion, in Hampshire Gazette newspaper
Bowling pins
Crematory Key
Articles of Faith of William Stoddard Williams
George Fuller (1822-1884) Studio
Rear of the Colrain
“Confluence of Connecticut and Deerfield Rivers”
Pages from Rev. Jonathan Ashley’s account book
Patent application for J. Wilson’s plow
Covered sugar bowl
Wagon Jack
“The Letter of the Law”
“Shutesbury”
Oath of Allegiance of Isaac Abercrombie
“Shorter Hours for Women”
Hampshire House, Ware, Mass.
Toy Tea Set
Dress
“Insist on Having Miner’s Flavoring Extracts” Ad from Gazette and Courier newspaper
Deed of Pacomtuck land granted by Ahimunquat to Dedham residents
“Reflections on the Present State of Things” article from Greenfield Gazette and Franklin Herald newspaper
Children’s boots
Noah’s Ark
“Police, Protesters Clash” article from The Greenfield Recorder newspaper
Inventory of Charles Hart Ashley
The Bridge, Lake Pleasant, Mass.
Bread Peel
A System of School Geography
R. R. Station
“Sap Gatherers”
“The Census of Massachusetts: 1885, Volume II”
Ashley-Williams House and Wagons/ A. Boyden Hotel
“Anachronism”
Settlement of the Estate of John Stebbins
The Famous Wellworth Pharmacy
“Returning to the Manse as a Ghost”
Sign-“Franklin Savings Institution”
“Exhibition. Westfield Academy. Order of Exercises.”
“Franklin Does Her Share” article published in Greenfield Gazette and Mercury newspaper
Hampshire Gazette newspaper article about organizing regiments
“Soldiers in King Philip’s War…”
Wedding Dress
“Address to the Ladies”poem in Hampshire Gazette newspaper
Otterskin Bag
“The African Slave Trade”
Deerfield Town Warrant
Birth Place of D. L. Moody, East Northfield, Mass.
Piccolo
Dance Hall, Brookside Park
Hammer stone
Shakespeare and the Spirit of Vision
Bobbins
“Guilford Mineral Spring Water, Guilford, Vermont” bottle
“Senate Bill Would Limit U.S. Combat” article in The Greenfield Recorder newspaper
Shelburne Committee addresses Selectmen of Deerfield in Town Warrant
“A Discourse Preached At Heath, Feb. 21, 1816 As A Musical Lecture”
Supplies for Troops
Broom Pounder
Hand Cards
The Centre, South Deerfield, Mass.
Sword
“Noon Rest”
Letter from Rev. Henry H. Barber to his daughter Alice B. Coleman re: Boss Politics
Letter to Agnes Higginson from George Fuller
The Town that can’t be licked article published in the Daily Hampshire Gazette Bicentennial newspaper
Confederate Currency from the State of North Carolina
Letter to Lt. James Stewart regarding Insurgents
Main Street, Looking North. Whately, Mass.
Colonel Elihu Hoyt notification to appear at military parade
U. S. Arsenal and Grounds, Springfield, Mass.
Greenfield, Mass. Soldiers Monument and Second Congregational Church
“Turners Falls, Mass”
Main and Park Streets looking South. Easthampton, Mass.
Top hat
Excerpts from “A Record of the Doings of the Hawley Female Charitable Society”
Pages from the “Annals of Chicopee Street Records and Reminiscences of an Old New England Parish..”
Letter to Lt. James Stewart
Petition in favor of trolley on Deerfield’s Main Street
“Spirit of Religion Leading the Puritans”
Military Roster (Alarm List)
Dining Table
Bayonet
Bust of George Fuller (1822-1884)
Published letters concerning the Embargo of 1808
“Annual Log Drive on the River”
“Several Fathers” article re: Clay, Webster and Fillmore and Fugitive Slave Law in the Gazette and Courier newspaper
“Communist Impudence” article in The Gazette and Courier newspaper
Hoosac Tunnel
Excerpts from Remembrance of Captain Park Holland and his participation in Shays’ Rebellion
J. Wilson’s Improved Cast iron Plough
“General View of Erving, Mass.”
Abenaki Knitting basket
Petition of Convention of Hampshire County article from the Hampshire Gazette newspaper