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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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“Keep them smiling”- WWI broadside
“Women of Plymouth”
The Redeemed Captive Returning to Zion
“Lieut. Genl. Ulysses S. Grant U.S.A.”
Communication with the Spirit of his dead daughter Jane Elizabeth Pierce
Account Book of Elijah Williams, Ledger C, Vol. 4
“Improvement In Champooing And Hair Dyeing”
“Charlemont”
“Address delivered at South Deerfield, Aug 31, 1838 on the completion of the Bloody Brook Monument”
“To Hon. John P. Bigelow, Mayor Boston”article re: Shadrach and Webster’s response to riot in the Franklin Democrat newspaper
“The Youth’s Companion World Fair”
Red Cross Club, Marseiles, France
“Washington Merry-Go-Round” article in Greenfield Recorder-Gazette
Medical proficiency certificate of William Stoddard Williams
“Deerfield”
Logging at the Oxbow on the Connecticut River near Holyoke, Mass.
Dance Hall, Brookside Park
Millstone
Springfield bicycle club displaying their trophies
“Returning to the Manse as a Ghost”
Advertisement in “The Boston Weekly Post-Boy” newspaper
Staged Capture
Memorial Plaque for Enslaved African-Americans in Deerfield
Bread Peel
Cutlery Box
Court Ball Invitation
Candlesticks
The Electoral Vote article published in the Greenfield Gazette and Courier newspaper
“Negro Slavery in Massachusetts”
Writing Armchair
Admiral Francis John Higginson (1843-1931) Dress hat
“Harrow Theater and Hutchins’ Plays”
Title page from “Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly”
Indenture between Samuel Wells & Jonathan Ballard
Ashley-Williams House and Wagons/ A. Boyden Hotel
Feeding Vessel
Ceramic Pipe
Published letter to Thomas Grover from the Hampshire Gazette newspaper
Act by House of Representatives issued to Bernardston selectmen to hold town meeting to vote on the Constitution
Fireboard
Conway House, Conway, Mass.- “Shoe and Leather Dealers’ Convention” article in The Hampshire Gazette newspaper
Couple in 18th Century Costume
Officers of the 44th Massachusetts Regiment Volunteers
“Motives for Well-Doing. A Sermon, Delivered in Northampton, August 24, 1815. Before the Hampshire Missionary Society”
“Peacock Minuet”
Wine Glasses
“The News from Home. Greenfield Items” excerpt on the passage of the Constitution Amendment fr. the Gazette & Courier newspaper
F. W. Harness “Jeweler”
“Price List of Joiners’ Bench Planes and Moulding Tools, Manufactured by the Greenfield Tool Company”
“Red Electric” Washing and Wringing Machine
Tea Canister
South Deerfield article from Gazette and Courier newspaper
Dr. Joseph Goodhue (1762-1849)
Centerpiece-“Mayflower”
Estate Appraisal of Esther Dickinson
Excerpts from the diary of George Fuller
“Corn Sister” Sculpture
Mt. Sugarloaf
Wrought iron candleholders
“Influenza Epidemic Continues” article in Gazette and Courier newspaper
Thank you letter from Mrs. Hooper to Miss Wilson for supplies for Civil War soldiers
Washington Memorial
Bobbin Lace
“Negro Funeral”
Hampshire Gazette newspaper article on Shays’ Rebellion
Uncut glass tubular bead
“Any Cowboys, Gran’pa?” cartoon on H-bomb in Greenfield Recorder-Gazette newspaper
“The Pocumtuc Housewife; A Guide to Domestic Cookery”
“Anti-Slavery Meeting” article from Greenfield Gazette and Franklin Herald newspaper
“Jeanne D’Arc At Vaucouleurs”
“Annual Report of the Town Officers of Deerfield For the Year Ending Feb. 1st, 1914-Annual Report of the School Committee”
Arms Manufacturing Company
Knife
Sarah Coleman’s shoe
Rufus Saxton (1824-1908)
Letter to Mr. and Mrs. George Sheldon regarding trolley
“What befell Stephen Williams in his captivity”
“Deerfield’s Summer Plays”
U. S. Post Office
Sunderland Bridge and Sugar Loaf Mountain
“Undigested Ideas on Various Cases” article published in The Massachusetts Gazette or the General Advertiser newspaper
Woman’s shoes
“Artistic Picture Framing”
“Congress passes $40 billion to fight terrorism” article from The Recorder newspaper
Prospect Hill School
Plot plan of land owned by Joseph Barnard
Old Caleb Hubbard Tavern, at Plumtrees. Sunderland-First Home of Pacific Lodge, 1801
Postcard to George Sheldon regarding trolley debate
Letter of introduction for Arthur Wellesley Hoyt
Flintlock Musket
“Mass Convention at Old Deerfield”
Deerfield Academy, Class of 1904
Old Indian House Door on Exhibit
Scythe snath handle
“Elizabethan Group”
Ellen Miller (1854-1929)
Excerpts from “Diary kept from Date of Father’s Death- 1860” on President Lincoln
Pages from Rev. Jonathan Ashley’s account book
Farming with Oxen
Nathan Tufts
Indenture between Justin Hitchcock and Moses Church
John Stebbins (1647-1724) Marker
Mary Hawks (1799-1876) Sampler
Portulaca flower
Letter from the Monday Club regarding trolley
“Rivets are Bayonets / Drive them home!
Partial letter to Louisa Higginson from son regarding politics and slavery
“The Letter of the Law”
Circulating letter asking for help in destroying Lincoln’s troops published in the Hampshire Gazette
Old Hadley, Mass. Elmwood House and Old Church
Journal of Sarah Howe on Shays’ Rebellion
Main Street, showing Baptist and Congregational Church, Shelburne Falls, Mass.
“Greenfield (Massachusetts) Directory including Montague and Deerfield”
Pages from the Annual Report of the Treasurer, Selectmen, and School Committee to the Inhabitants of the Town of Deerfield
Dr. Clara M. Greenough
WWI Toy Mounted Soldier and Horse
“The Importance of Female Influence in the Support of Religion. A Sermon, delivered to a charitable Female Association”
“Massachusetts Tax Valuation list of 1771”
Gravestone of John Williams Jr.
Official Ballot for Shelburne
“A Letter from T. D. Judah”
Egg crate
Phelps mourning embroidery
To Nationalize the GREEN O HORSE RADISH
George Sheldon (1818-1916)
“Child with Pussies” or “Polly and the Pussy Willows”
Dr. William Stoddard Williams’ description of a throat distemper diagnosis
Women in Surrey
Dr. Julian Nieckowski (1915-1985)
“Annual Log Drive on the River”
Proposal of the 14th Amendment by Congress article from the Gazette and Courier newspaper
Bullet pouch
Bride
Pint mug
Plate and cup
“Snow Storm”
“Deerfield School Troubles”
Five Children and a Buggy
“Proportions and Directions for Making Lee’s Patent Mineral and Vegetable Soap”
“The American Duroc-Jersey Swine Breeders Association”
Pages from John Williams Daybook
“Deerfield’s Original Crafts Show Next Week”
“Boots, Shoes & Rubbers for Everybody at Sovereign’s Cash Shoe Store”
“Farm for Sale”
“Federal Grants Pour Into Towns For WPA Plans” article from Greenfield Daily Recorder-Gazette newspaper
Deerfield Meadows
Memorial Hall
Embroidery: Over the Bounding Waves
“TFHS Students Share ‘A Day of Concern’” article in The Greenfield Recorder newspaper
“More Power to the Allies”
Jesse Bowman, Abenaki logger and basketmaker, with daughter Marion Flora Bowman
Bass Viol
V-Day Brussels
Civil War letter to Ella Melendy
Ephraim Williams (1760-1835)
Girls Basketball team, Deerfield Academy
“Rabbits in the Pea-Patch”
Bit Stock
Landscape of Irish Ruins
“Pageant Deerfield, Mass.”
Birthplace of Sophia Smith, Hatfield, Mass. Founder of Smith College
Cape
Advertisement from L.R. Paige for Electric signs
State of Rhode Island issueing of paper money and voting requirements published in the Hampshire Gazette
Norcross Bros. Stone Yard, East Longmeadow, Mass.
Excerpts from Edwin Nims’ Agricultural Diary
Three Lavaliers on Chains
Flail
Malissa Childs
Mt. Sugarloaf
“New Salem”
Mendellssohn Collection, or Hastings and Bradbury’s Third Book of Psalmody
Letter to daughter, Dorothy Ashley in Boston
Ceramic vessel
Building Contract for Deerfield Street School
The Town that can’t be licked article published in the Daily Hampshire Gazette Bicentennial newspaper
Lot Survey of Deerfield
Springfield percussion musket
Card Table
“Town Welfare Costs Far Below 1933 But Old Age Equals Entire 1924 Bill” article from Greenfield Daily Recorder-Gazette newspaper
Butter Churn
WWII Air Raid Warning Instructions Card
“Mount Holyoke” sonnet on the death of Mary Lyon
Clock works
Pages from the diary of Martha Cochran
German Bayonet
Some pages of letter to Francis Higginson from father Stephen Higginson II
“Cotillion Party at Whitney Hall! In Shelburne Falls, Friday Dec 17th, 1858”
Brass Skimmer
Letter to Lt. James Stewart regarding Insurgents
Letter to John Williams
Hitchcock Free Academy, Brimfield, Mass.
“A Manual Containing Information Respecting the Growth of the Mulberry Tree, with Suitable Directions for the Culture of Silk”
“Deerfield, Mass., South Main Street”
Deerfield Academy Student Roster
“Proclamation For Proroguing the General Court”
Mary: Lamson family servant
Mary Ann Marvin Hair Wreath and Photograph