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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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Calico Hand Stamp
Article on the Constitution and Slavery from The Hampshire Gazette Newspaper
Shelburne Committee addresses Selectmen of Deerfield in Town Warrant
Letter to George Sheldon regarding trolley
Contract between Consider Dickinson and Gilbert Hoyt
“Uroscopia.”
Watch fob with crystal drop
“ACLU Would Impeach Nixon” letter in The Greenfield Recorder newspaper
“Dovecote Aviary”
Mohawk Trail Whitcomb Summit House and Gift Shop
“Deerfield Collection of Sacred Music”
Sign-“A. Boyden’s Hotel”
Letter to Charles Hart Ashley
Audience perspective of Deerfield’s historical pageant
“Sundry Items”- military figures for states
“Warnings To The Unclean”: In A Discourse From Rev. XXI. 8. Preacht at Springfield Lecture, August 25th.1698.
Avenue A, Turners Falls, Mass.
“The History of New England..”
Inventory of Charles Hart Ashley
Identification Badge of a Raytheon Manufacturing Company worker during WWII
Civil War letter from Agnes Cochran Higginson to her daughter, Agnes Fuller
Atlatl or spear throwing weight
Account Book of Elijah Williams, Ledger B, Vol. 3
Sugarloaf Street
Letter to John Sheldon
“Burly Log Drivers Up River Start Biggest Drive Ever Seen”
French Document Fan
“Goldwater Backs President’s Acts in Emergency” article in The Greenfield Recorder-Gazette newspaper
Announcement of Marriage Intention of Wells & Hoyt
“Unusual Store Prices in Many Local Stores Tomorrow” article from the Greenfield Daily Recorder newspaper
“Deerfield Meeting House, Deerfield Mass.”
Hoosac Tunnel North Adams, Mass.
Mitchell’s Primary Geography. An Easy Introduction to the Study of Geography
“Union Republican Ticket”
Main Street, Amherst, Mass.
Helen Hawks Childs and Samuel Childs (1843-1906)
“Making High Grade Tools for Industry Since 1868” Millers Falls Company ad from Greenfield Recorder-Gazette newspaper
Bayonet
Letter to Israel Williams
Souvenir Folder of Mohawk Trail, Mass.
Southern papers suggest dissolution of the Confederation of States article published in the Hampshire Gazette
Judy Austin or “There are green monkeys in the garden”
Wall Hanging-Apple Tree
Deerfield Society of Blue and White Needlework
“The Greek Slave” Statuette
Candlewick Spread
“The News from Home. Greenfield Items” excerpt on the passage of the Constitution Amendment fr. the Gazette & Courier newspaper
Scythe snath handle
Spinet
Pouch
Military Commission of Isaac Abercrombie
Colonel Elihu Hoyt notification to appear at military parade
“Barbara Reading” or “Stolen Fruit”
“Soldiers in King Philip’s War…”
Account book of Joseph Barnard
Hampshire Gazette newspaper article on Shays’ Rebellion
Sash
“Twenty-first Triennial Alumni Association of State Normal School at Westfield, Massachusetts” program
Vases
Greenfield in a Nutshell
Post-mortem child, possibly Glen O. Watson
Mt. Sugarloaf and Trolley
Bowling pins
“The Census of Massachusetts: 1875, Vol. II”
House in South Deerfield, Mass
“Sugarloaf from Meadows”/ “Millriver Plains”
Excerpts from Edwin Nims’ Agricultural Diary
World War II Duffle Bag
Letter from Connecticut Valley Street Railway Company regarding Trolley whistle
Wine Glasses
“Proclamation For Proroguing the General Court”
U. S. Post Office
Carriage Lamp
Avery Oxen Show Admission Ticket
“Address to the Ladies”poem in Hampshire Gazette newspaper
WWI letter to Emily Gladys Bartlett
Glass Dish
Violinist and Pianist
Lantern
Article by Pompey on President Jefferson in the Greenfield Gazette reprinted from the Massachusetts Spy newspaper
Birchbark container
Embroidered Dress
“Red Electric” Washing and Wringing Machine pamphlet
The Constitution of the Deerfield Temperance Society
Powder Horn
Lusitania Medallion
“A Historic and Present Day Guide to Old Deerfield”
Glass bottle
Letter from Teacher Mary Montague
Eleanor “Nellie” M. Arms (1864-1937)
Stoneware Crock
Chamber Pot
Croquet on Roots’ Lawn
Writ against Standish Foster by Daniel Coon
Tide of Immigration article in The Gazette and Courier newspaper
William Garrison speech to YMCA on “Liberty in its Relations to Popular Government” article from Gazette & Courier newspaper
Bride
Public Vendue of land in Bernardston for non-payment of taxes to Caleb Chapin
Pocumtuck Basket Makers
“Sacred Dirges, Hymns, and Anthems, commemorative of the death of General George Washington, The guardian of his country”
Receipt for firearms of Theodore Barnard
“The Incoming of the Poles” newspaper article
Lower Suspension Bridge, Turners Falls, Mass.
Candlesticks
B. and M. and Street Ry. Bridges at Cheapside
St. Stanislaus
“History of Deerfield”
“Erving & Wendell”
Franklin County Public Hospital
Court Ball Invitation
“Darling Expands Parts Manufacturing Ten-Fold Since Firm Started in 1940” article from Greenfield Recorder-Gazette newspaper
Letter to Ward and Annie Clarke about Communism
Nathan Loomis’ Copy Book
“Threadwell In New Industrial Era After Decades of Varying Fortunes” article from Greenfield Recorder-Gazette newspaper
Tea Room
Great Chair
“History of Philip’s War”
Handicraft Vol I No. VII – “The Movement for Village Industries”
WWII Honorable Discharge card belonging to Frank Dahowski, Jr.
Teacher Certificate
Whale-oil Lamp
Lamps
Wooden Tankard
The Perpetual Laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Letter to Colonel Hyde from an insurgent published in the Hampshire Gazette
“A Letter from T. D. Judah”
Syringes with Case
“Review of the Military Operations in the Northern Campaign” by Epaphras Hoyt
“A Bedfordshire Lace Maker”
“Reward of Merit” presented to Minnie Flagg
Looking toward Village from Baptist hill
Pastoral Letter excerpted from “Good Fetch’d Out of Evil”
“Religious Anniversaries” article from Greenfield Gazette and Franklin Herald newspaper
Nurse’s Dress
Mt. Sugarloaf showing King Philip’s Seat
“The Dred Scott Case” article in the Gazette and Courier newspaper
Boston Tea Party Report
Edward Hitchcock (1828-1911)
Excerpt of Dr. Joseph Goodhue’s Diary
Formerly enslaved man gives talk in Northfield
“Sanderson Academy” ad from the Greenfield Gazette and Franklin Herald newspaper
Elijah Arms (1712-1802)
Bedpan
“Baking”
Letter to John Williams
Landscape of Irish Ruins
“Portraits of History- Historic Places in the Orange-Athol Area: A Fascinating Look into the Past”
Hairpin Turn, Mohawk Trail, Mass
Cheese press
“Washington Merry-Go-Round” article in Greenfield Recorder-Gazette
“The Mill”
Rudiments of Geography
Railroad Arch Bridge, Deerfield
Farley, Mass., Rattlesnake Mt. in Distance
High Chest of Drawers
Little Jack of All Trades, with Suitable Representations. Part I
Raffia Basket
“Onion Harvest”
Letter to Governor Bowdoin published in the Hampshire Gazette
“Anti-Slavery Meeting” article from Greenfield Gazette and Franklin Herald newspaper
“Copy of a letter from Gen. Lincoln to Capt. Shays” in Hampshire Gazette newspaper
“Roman Catholic Provincial Council” article from the Greenfield Gazette and Franklin Herald newspaper
Mason Jar
WWII Class 4 fuel oil ration coupons
Cutting Trees in Deerfield Lumber Co.’s Woods
WWI Toy Ambulance with Figures
Peony Quilt
Civil War musket with bayonet made by Lamson, Goodnow & Yale
Letter to Doctor Joseph Goodhue
Hospital in Vladivostok
“Federal Grants Pour Into Towns For WPA Plans” article from Greenfield Daily Recorder-Gazette newspaper
Petition of Convention of Hampshire County article from the Hampshire Gazette newspaper
“Culture of Silk” from New England Farmer
“Sacrifices to Our Country. A Discourse Delivered July 17, 1864…at a Funeral Service for James T. Stebbins & Myron Stowell”
Butter Knife
Beaded Moccasins
“Annual Report of the Town Officers of Deerfield For the Year Ending Feb. 1st, 1914-Annual Report of the School Committee”
Letter from second headmaster of Deerfield Academy
Screen Panel-“The Last Rose of Summer”
New Home Sewing Machine Company Birds-Eye View
Bust of George Fuller (1822-1884)
Broom Pounder
“Sermons, No. II- How To Change Your Heart”
“Jeanne D’Arc At Vaucouleurs”
Florida Everglades
Letter to Agnes Higginson from George Fuller
Letter to Dorothy Ashley Williams from her husband William Williams telling her of George Washington’s funeral
Log Driving on the Connecticut River
Mt. Tom Railway and Summit House
“Mill River Calamity” from “Harper’s Weekly”
“Picturesque Hampden”
Alabaster sculpture
Estate Settlement of David Hoyt
“And White As Well” editorial from Greenfield Recorder newspaper
“Exhibition of the Young Men’s Lyceum”
Teapot
Boston Museum ad from the Gazette and Courier newspaper
Black silk skeins
Coach Unloading Costumed Passengers
Women dancing with sheaves of wheat