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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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“Philip. King of Mount Hope”
“Village Room”
Rising Star Quilt
Excerpt from the “Boston Letter” article on Suffrage from Greenfield Gazette and Courier newspaper
The Washington County Mutual Insurance Company broadside
Letter to Leon Weeks from Raytheon Company
Tobacco Plantation in the Connecticut Valley
“Lieut. Genl. Ulysses S. Grant U.S.A.”
Ware Store Day Book [Vol. II]
“Hippies and the War” editorial from The Greenfield Recorder newspaper
Burning
“Last Furrow”
Robert Frost and granddaughters
“Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury-Growth and Manufacture of Silk”
Electric Car Bridge over Deerfield River, Shelburne Falls, Mass.
Teapot
Advertising Card from L. A. Cook & Co.
“Farm for Sale”
“The Census of Massachusetts: 1885, Volume II”
Pot Hook
WWII Class 3 Fuel Oil Ration coupons
Pouch
Will of Ephraim Williams
“Darling Expands Parts Manufacturing Ten-Fold Since Firm Started in 1940” article from Greenfield Recorder-Gazette newspaper
Mary Electa Allen (1858-1941)
“Souvenir of Orange, Mass”
“Mrs. Roosevelt Rides Coal Car Into Mine Depths” photograph from Greenfield Daily Recorder-Gazette newspaper
“Amendment of the Constitution the Only Way to Kill Slavery” article from Gazette and Courier newspaper
Redware teapot and top
Letter to George Fuller from wife Agnes regarding Christmas
Doll “Chloe”
“Yosemite Falls”
U. S. Post Office
View Along Cold River, Eastern Slope of Mohawk Trail
Handicraft Vol I No. VII – “The Movement for Village Industries”
“A Son Of The Forest. The Experience Of William Apes, A Native Of The Forest”
“A Century Sermon Preached at Deerfield, Feb. 29, 1804: In Commemoration of the Destruction of the Town by French and Indians”
“Lowell” article regarding cotton mills from Greenfield Gazette and Franklin Herald newspaper
Douglas and Johnson Democratic Ticket and Bell and Everett National Union Ticket
Capt. Moses Scott military settlement
Noah’s Ark
Connery House, Westhampton, Mass.
John Sheldon (1658-1733) House
“Saratoga Illustrated: The Visitor’s Guide to Saratoga Springs”
Excerpt from “A Funeral Oration on the Death of George Washington”
Excerpts from “Profiles of the Past An illustrated history of Ashburnham, Gardner Hubbardston,Templeton, Westminster, Winchendon”
Gluing Clamp
Flintlock Musket
“Population and Statistics of Franklin County” article from the Gazette and Courier Newspaper
Broadside of Abraham Lincoln’s elegy
New England Captives Carried to Canada
“Letter from Mrs. L. M. Child” to Friend Garrison published in the National Anti-Slavery Standard newspaper
Painted Tobacco Bag
Fisher’s Garage Mechanics
War of 1812 Commemorative Pitcher
“Deerfield, Mass., South Main Street”
WWI Uniform of Lt. Henry N. Flynt
Headquarters Edwin E. Day Post, G.A.R. and Girl’s Club Rooms, Greenfield, Mass.
Memorial Plaque for Enslaved African-Americans in Deerfield
“Deerfield Academy Cooking Class Entertains”
Deerfield River
“Amherst House.”
Scales
“Narrative of Sojourner Truth, A Northern Slave, Emancipated From Bodily Serviture By the State of New York in 1828”
“South Deerfield- The Mount Sugar Loaf School”
Pocketbook
“Montague Center”
Letter to Governor Bowdoin published in the Hampshire Gazette
Two-handled cup
Carved wooden hand
Adze
Shirred Rug depicting the Sheldon House
Horse and Surrey
Madeline Yale Wynne Metalwork
Pages from “Those Green River Knives”
“Witch” basket
Dr. Frank S. Newell in Horse-drawn Buggy
“Improvement” article from the New York Ladies Chronicle republished in the Greenfield Gazette and Franklin Herald newspaper
Brown Bess flintlock musket
“Returning to the Manse as a Ghost”
“Confluence of Connecticut and Deerfield Rivers”
Estate Appraisal of Esther Dickinson
Throat Pump
Letter to Dorothy Ashley Williams from her husband William Williams telling her of George Washington’s funeral
“Southern and War Items”
“On the Passage of the Constitutional Amendment” poem from the National Anti-Slavery Standard newspaper
“News Items”- Mass. Petitions to abolish slave-hunting
Maple Sugar Molds
WWI letter to Emily Gladys Bartlett
Rudiments of Reading
Village Street, Cummington, Mass.
“Sacred Heart of Mary”
Letter to Williams & Upham
Continental Currency in various amounts
“The American Anti-Slavery Almanac for 1838”
“A Bedfordshire Lace Maker”
Wedding gown
Post-mortem child, possibly Glen O. Watson
Deerfield Inn and Trolley
Ball Invitation for Stephen West Williams
Down the Slope and Approaching Hair Pin Turn
“Will Hutchins, Bachelor of Fine Arts”
Letter to George Sheldon regarding trolley
Holyoke, Mass. Bird’s Eye View from Mt. Tom by moonlight
“Log Drive of 36,000,000 Feet”
Candlewick Spread
South Deerfield, fountain
Notice to General Shepard regarding disarming his militia published in the Hampshire Gazette newspaper
Excerpts of Ware from The 1938 Hurricane- An Historical and Pictorial Summary
“The Wood Road”
“Your Red Cross” ad from Greenfield Recorder-Gazette newspaper
“Massachusetts Tax Valuation list of 1771”
Turret
Farm House
Mt. Sugarloaf with farmer
“Influenza With Us- Epidemic Has Taken Hold of Greenfield” article from The Greenfield Recorder newspaper
“President Welcomed- Colonel Roosevelt given enthusiastic greeting in our towns” article in The Greenfield Recorder
“Thanksgiving Pies”
Letter to John Williams
“Deerfield” article on the death of David Starr Hoyt from the Gazette and Courier newspaper
Tongs
Hatfield, Massachusetts
WWII Class 4 fuel oil ration coupons
Shelburne Falls, Mass Birds-Eye View
Travel passport for Mercy Carter’s sons
WWII Mileage Ration Identification card
Deerfield Post Office
Main St. Looking East
“Millers Falls Company Arises From Nash’s Mill Ashes” article from Greenfield Recorder-Gazette newspaper
Doily
“The History of the Insurrections in Massachusetts in the year seventeen hundred and eighty six and the Rebellion”
St. Stanislaus
“Social Security Measure To Provide For Old Age Signed By Pres. Roosevelt” article from Greenfield Daily Recorder-Gazette
“State of Irish Poor” article in the Greenfield Gazette and Franklin Herald newspaper
French Knife
Doll “Joel Ellis”
Cornhusk bag
Ware
View from Jutting Rock, Mt. Sugarloaf
“ACLU Would Impeach Nixon” letter in The Greenfield Recorder newspaper
Phelps mourning embroidery
“Sidewalk Begun at So. Deerfield” article from Greenfield Daily Recorder-Gazette newspaper
Please Pose for the Camera!
WWII Disabled American Veterans card of Frank Dahowski, Jr.
“Reflections”
Mt. Sugarloaf
“Immigration Restrictions Tightened to Alleviate Unemployment Situation” article from the Greenfield Daily Recorder newspaper
Carriage Lamp
Letter to Wesley Watson
Micmac Bead bag
Sugar Sack
“Polly Wright’s parrot”
WWII Blackout Memo Deerfield Residents
Complaint against John Evans by Sarah Smith
Rear of the Colrain
Copper ladle
Kate Russell (Mrs. William Russell)
“A Practical System of Modern Geography”
Page from the “Franklin H. Williams Diary from 1852 to 1891”
Seating “Negroes” in the Old Hadley meetinghouse
A Practical System of Modern Geography: or View of the Present State of the World
“History and Proceedings of the Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association”
“Pageant of Old Deerfield on the Grounds of the Allen Homestead”
Apron
“Why Should Suffrage Be Imposed on Women?
Syringes with Case
“Federal Activities Reach Deeper Into Private Life” image from Greenfield Daily Recorder-Gazette newspaper
Washington Memorial
African-American woman sewing
“The New England Primer”
“Ruins of the French Fort at Chambly built 1711”
“Bangwell Putt”
Lee Brothers Shoe Factory Postcard
Wallhanging-The Apple Tree
West Springfield’s Beautiful Riverdale Road Along the Connecticut
Excerpts from Rev. Robert Crawford’s diary about labor issues, Haymarket and Westfield Normal School
“A Soldier’s Dream”
Frank Dahowski and Edward Burakiewicz
Little Jack of All Trades, with Suitable Representations. Part I
Where the Mohawk Trail Crosses the Hoosac Tunnel, Berkshire Hills
Easterly View from Whitcomb Summit
Girl’s boots
“Spirit of Religion Leading the Puritans”
Geo. N. Kidder & Company, Main Floor
Clock works
Letter to Elijah Dwight Williams
Pendants
Buttons and Button Mold
World War II Duffle Bag
Main Street, Bernardston, Mass.
Side Chair
Plate
Letter printed in the Hampshire Gazette regarding selecting convention delegate
Letter from Daniel Shays printed in the Hampshire Gazette
The Election article published in the Greenfield Gazette and Mercury newspaper
Shampoo and Lotion products made by The Toiletine Company
“Shelburne”
Excerpt from James Childs Hitchcock’s Civil War Military Journal
Women in Surrey
Brass Skimmer