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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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Souvenir Snowshoes
Fire Bucket
“The Mill River Disaster” article from the Journal of Industry newspaper
Straw Hat
Graham Bread Recipe from “The New Hydropathic Cook-Book”
“Village Room”
WWI letter to Emily Gladys Bartlett
Letter from Rev. Henry H. Barber to his daughter Alice B. Coleman re: Boss Politics
Harvest Time
V-Day Brussels
“Red Electric” Washing and Wringing Machine
“Quakers Plan More Gifts for Vietnam War Victims” article in The Greenfield Recorder newspaper
Esther (Harding) Dickinson (1790-1875)
“A Full and Graphic Account of the Terrible Mill River Disaster, caused by the Breaking of a Reservoir in Hampshire County”
Pages from the Annual Report of the Treasurer, Selectmen, and School Committee to the Inhabitants of the Town of Deerfield
“New England Strike Grows All Fall River Mills Idle; President Seeks Mediators” article in the Greenfield Daily Recorder-Gazette
Bust of George Fuller (1822-1884)
Academy Hall and The Common, New Salem, Mass.
WWI Toy Mounted Soldier and Horse
“Hanging Stockings”
“Communist Impudence” article in The Gazette and Courier newspaper
Fan
“The Inaugural”
“Charlemont”
“Daily Graphic” newspaper illustration- ‘Birdseye View of the Williamsburgh Reservior with the Ruined Dam’
Letter to John Williams
“To The Sons and Daughters of Franklin County,” with a Poem about Bloody Brook.
“National Bank of Merit” Four Shares of Stock to the Holder Minnie Flagg
Three Lavaliers on Chains
“Making a Dam”
“Deerfield, Mass., Memorial Hall.”
State of Rhode Island issueing of paper money and voting requirements published in the Hampshire Gazette
Civil War musket with bayonet made by Lamson, Goodnow & Yale
“For the town of Amherst, education the leading ‘industry’”
Letter from Deerfield Selectmen re: travel of William Stoddard Williams
Hitchcock Free Academy, Brimfield, Mass.
“Narrative of Sojourner Truth, A Northern Slave, Emancipated From Bodily Serviture By the State of New York in 1828”
Lake Pleasant Founders
“A Study of Grave Stones in the Old Cemetery at Deerfield”
“Deerfield Street”
Letter to Aaron Fuller from son Elijah
“Map of Amherst Made For The Handbook of Amherst”
Surveying Instrument
Stocking
Boy’s Dress
“A Crostick” poem published in the Hampshire Gazette
“Sunderland and Leverett”
Glass bottle
“Deerfield and Bernardston Accept PWA; Northfield Rejects School Proposal” article from Greenfield Daily Recorder-Gazette paper
Boys with Willow Whistles
“Proclamation For Proroguing the General Court”
“An Address Delivered Before the Hampshire, Franklin, & Hampden Agricultural Society; at Northampton, Oct. 24, 1827.”
Letter to Deerfield Assessors by Colonel Elihu Hoyt
Streetscape – Royalston Common
One-Room School in Wapping
“The Boy Scouts Year Book”
“King’s Handbook of the United States”
Bullets
Hillside Road House
“Departure of the Missionaries” article from the Greenfield Gazette and Franklin Herald newspaper
Perforators with modern haft
Writ and promissory note against John Wing of Conway
The Old Mill Wheel
“SH” joined chest
Bread Peel
Girl’s boots
“Amherst House.”
“Red Winter Sunset”
Jerry with Rocking Chair
“Thanksgiving Pies”
Wales St, Wales, Mass.
“Taking Tea”
“Showdown Looms On War Powers Issue” article in The Greenfield Recorder newspaper
WWI letter to Emily Gladys Bartlett
Civil War letter to Agnes Gordon Higginson Fuller from her sister regarding slavery
Testamonial by Daniel Shays in the Hampshire Gazette newspaper
Raffia Basket
Thank you letter from Mrs. Hooper to Miss Wilson for supplies for Civil War soldiers
Bear comb
Hair Wreath
Parks House, John Chaplin, Prop. Huntington, Mass.
Letter to Christopher Tyler Arms from Rodolphus Dickinson on Independence and duel between Burr and Hamilton
Official Bulletin of the Mohawk Klan
Old Green River Mill
Caroline Stebbins Sheldon (1789-1865) Sampler
Silhouette of Caroline Stebbins Sheldon (1789-1865)
“Farm for Sale”
“Mrs. Roosevelt Rides Coal Car Into Mine Depths” photograph from Greenfield Daily Recorder-Gazette newspaper
“Exhibition. Westfield Academy. Order of Exercises.”
Elizabeth Amsden Inventory
“Pocumtuck Memorial Hall Perspective View”
“Marchers to Converge on Lincoln Memorial” and “Washington Will be Symbol of U.S. Power Marchers” article in GRG newspaper
“The Dred Scott Case” article in the Gazette and Courier newspaper
Deerfield Town Warrant
Connecticut River, Mt. Sugarloaf in the distance
“Order of Exercises at the Exhibition of the Deerfield High School”
Formerly enslaved man gives talk in Northfield
Raffia Basket
Prospect Hill School
Roundabout Chair
Coming Home, SS George Washington
Fourth Meeting House (1729-1824)
Red Rock
Milk Bottle
“Review of the Military Operations in the Northern Campaign” by Epaphras Hoyt
Mary, Mabel and Frank Colcord
“New Home Sewing Machine Co. of Orange, Mass.”
“TFHS Students Share ‘A Day of Concern’” article in The Greenfield Recorder newspaper
“Temperance and Abolition Celebration at North Leverett” article from the Gazette and Courier newspaper
“Anti-Slavery Convention” article from Greenfield Gazette and Franklin Herald newspaper
Gas house explosion
Gospel Meeting Tent
Awaiting the Rope Pull, M.S.C.
Banister Back Side Chair
Milk Bottle
“Statistical Information Relating to Certain Branches of Industry in Massachusetts For the Year Ending June 1, 1855”
River Road House
Carriage Lamp
The Rose
“Negro Slavery in Old Deerfield”
“The Sweet Little Man.”
Edward Hitchcock (1793-1864)
“Northfield”
Plate:”Landing of the Fathers at Plymouth”
Franklin County Public Hospital
Connecticut River, Holyoke, Mass.
Some Apples and Potatoes – Eastern States Expo.
Native Americans praying
“Greenfield & Gill”
Deerfield Society of Blue and White Needlework Display
Warwick, Mass. Gales Old Mill.
“Bangwell Putt”
“Millers Falls Company Arises From Nash’s Mill Ashes” article from Greenfield Recorder-Gazette newspaper
Milk bottles
“The Silk Culturist”
Riding Crop
“Deerfield History”
Looking Up Sugarloaf Street
Child’s highchair
“Memorial Hall, Deerfield, Mass.”
Top hat
Interior of the First Church of Deerfield
“Hints to School Masters” article from the Greenfield Gazette and Franklin Herald newspaper
Promissory note to John Pynchon from John Hawks
“The History of New England..”
Gluing Clamp
View from “Sugarloaf”
“Northampton” article on Dealey [Daley] and Halligan from the Hampshire Gazette newspaper
Canal Construction
Uniform Gloves
“SW” Joined Chest
Bullet pouch
“The Old Conkey Tavern” from “The History of the Town of Amherst”
“Washington Monument at Night, Washington, D.C.”
Ice Harvesting Demonstration
Kate Russell (Mrs. William Russell)
Letter from Daniel Shays printed in the Hampshire Gazette
“A Century Sermon Preached at Deerfield, Feb. 29, 1804: In Commemoration of the Destruction of the Town by French and Indians”
Epaphras Hoyt (1765-1850)
Main Street, Looking North from Hillman, Springfield, Mass.
Excerpts from “Diary kept from Date of Father’s Death- 1860” on President Lincoln
Thaxter Scott House
Deposition from the Cross
Letter to Aaron Fuller from brother John Emery regarding religious revival
John Russell Cutlery Etching and Cleaning Department Employees
C. Alice Baker (1833-1909)
Painted Tobacco Bag
Pair of wrought iron candelabrum
Redware teapot and top
Deerfield Academy student letter to Betsey Kimberley
House in South Deerfield, Mass
Copyright Agreement for book entitled “Antiquarian Researches”
“Sacred Heart of Jesus”
Letter to Gertrude Porter Ashley
John Putnam (c.1817-1895)
Thomas Williams Ashley (1894-1918)
“Negro Nurse with a Child”
Wedding Gown
“Guilford Mineral Spring Water, Guilford, Vermont” bottle
“Hangar Queen” ad from Aero Digest for Greenfield Tap and Die Corporation
Dyno-Mite WWII newsletter cover from Millers Falls (Tool) Company
List of grievances by Shaysite Thomas Grover -article published in Hampshire Gazette newspaper
French Knife
“Red Electric” Washing and Wringing Machine pamphlet
Woman’s cap
“Increase in the Slave Population in the United States” article from the Greenfield Gazette and Franklin Herald newspaper
Watering Place Looking up the Mountain Side
Frank Dahowski with a German Field Gun
Letter from Insurgent to Col. Clark and others published in the Hampshire Gazette
“Senate Bill Would Limit U.S. Combat” article in The Greenfield Recorder newspaper
“Massachusetts Tax Valuation list of 1771”
Hoosac Tunnel, Approach to East Portal, Mass
“President Still Hopes for Peace” article in The Greenfield Recorder-Gazette newspaper
Affidavit for Wilson’s plough
Lamson, Goodnow and Company, Birds-Eye View
Public Vendue of land in Bernardston for non-payment of taxes to Caleb Chapin
Buttons and Button Mold
Austin Towers’ receipt from the Shelburne Falls Marble Co.
Cornhusk bag
To Nationalize the GREEN O HORSE RADISH