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“Immigrants in Industries, Part 24: Recent Immigrants in Agriculture” from Reports of
the Immigration Commission
View of Cheapside
“Leaving for Bloody Brook”
Nurses Dress Uniform
New England Primer
Shoes of William Dorrell (1752-1846)
The Lofty Heights along the Trail
Lusterware Teapot
Horses and Farmers
The Planet Dust Beater
Worthington
Prisoner Halter
Hoosac Tunnel
Shell Gorget
“Aid for Ireland” article from Gazette and Courier newspaper
“Magnificent Parade of Women” from “Around the World with a Camera”
Agawam Cong’l Church
Schoolroom at the Mill and Bars: Recitation Day
Horse Clog
Bullets
Northampton (and Easthampton)
Manure fork
John Richards, Blacksmith
“Mass Convention at Old Deerfield”
Eleanor Brown Stebbins (1875-1955) (Mrs. Benjamin Stebbins) Washing a Child’s Hand
Wallet
Lucy Henry (1843-1927) (Mrs. David Henry) Netting
“Will Hutchins Chosen President”
WWII Air Raid Warning Instructions
Tobacco Farmers
“The Boston Mob” article to the Mayor in Gazette and Courier newspaper
Warwick, Mass. Gales Old Mill.
“Be Ye Warmed” Quilt
Beadwork barrette
Athol
“Population and Statistics of Franklin County” article from the Gazette and Courier Newspaper
“Give Me Three Grains of Corn, Mother” poem in the Hamsphire Gazette newspaper
Hampshire House, Ware, Mass.
“Negro Nurse with a Child”
WWII letter regarding African Americans
“Biographical Memoir of Rev. John Williams,” by Stephen West Williams.
South Hadley
Franklin County Cadet -1845
Tax receipt of Alpheus Moore for Ebenezer Hinsdale’s property
“Deerfield’s Original Crafts Show Next Week”
Letter to Commanding Officer in Guilford from Colrain’s Colonel Hugh McClellan regarding land disputes in New York
“Making a Dam”
Lifting Ice from the Water
Western slope showing North Adams
“Manual of Instruction in the Use of Dumb Bells and Indian Clubs & Other Exercises”
Park Square, Westfield, Mass.
“Start New Gypsy Moth Campaign” article from Greenfield Daily Recorder-Gazette newspaper
River Street in Conway
Burning
“Proceeds of Deerfield Bazar Amounts to over $800”
Order for provisions for governmental troops during Shays’ Rebellion
“Harvest Home Fair” Poster
“How the news of the Constitutional Amendment was received” article from the Gazette and Courier newspaper
“The Pool in the Woods”
Capt. Moses Scott military settlement
Promissory note to Joseph Goodhue
“Raising George’s Tobacco Barn”
American Herbarium, Volume 1
“Corn Sister” Sculpture
Fuller Family
Guardianship Appointment to Persis Sheldon
“Arrival of Missionaries” article from the Greenfield Gazette and Franklin Herald newspaper
“Our Dark Day” article from the Gazette and Courier newspaper
“Witch” basket
Hand Stamp
Blueberry basket
Pulsifer House
“Young Ladies Literary Society 1813”
Deerfield Grammar School Class
Melinda Prouty Lamson (1801-1874) and son, Nathaniel Lamson (1841-1907)
Watering Place Looking up the Mountain Side
Campus During Conference, East Northfield, MA
Schedule of the whole number of Persons within the Division alloted to William Shepard and David Sexton to enumerate, 1790
Whole Cloth Quilt
“Red Electric” Washing and Wringing Machine pamphlet
“Annual Report of the Town Officers of Deerfield For the Year Ending Jan. 1st 1916- Annual Report of the School Committee”
Cornhusk bag
Photograph of Luke Day’s headquarters from the “Springfield Republican”
“Polonaise”
Confederate bond
The Reformed Pastor
Hostilities
Petition to Selectmen of Deerfield regarding trolley
“Morning Mist”
Appendix to “Journal of a tour to Saratoga Springs, August 1827” kept by Elihu Hoyt
“Improvement In Champooing And Hair Dyeing”
Division of Real Estate of Lucinda Nims
Excerpt from “Colrain’s Early Days” from Field Meeting of the PVMA held at Colrain
“Recalling Irish Muscle that built Mass. Railroads” article from Daily Hampshire Gazette newspaper
Log Drive Cook Shack on Connecticut River
“Darling Expands Parts Manufacturing Ten-Fold Since Firm Started in 1940” article from Greenfield Recorder-Gazette newspaper
Austin Towers’ receipt from the Shelburne Falls Marble Co.
Bifacial blade with modern haft
“Children at Play” Quilt
Letter to Lt. James Stewart regarding Insurgents
“The World’s Work” – War Manual of the Great 1914 European Conflict
Sleighing in a One-Horse Cutter
“Mount Holyoke” sonnet on the death of Mary Lyon
Letter to Christopher Tyler Arms from Rodolphus Dickinson on Independence and duel between Burr and Hamilton
“Increase in the Slave Population in the United States” article from the Greenfield Gazette and Franklin Herald newspaper
Letter from Deerfield Selectmen re: travel of William Stoddard Williams
Boston Tea Party Report
Letter to Colonel Hyde from an insurgent published in the Hampshire Gazette
Edward Hitchcock (1828-1911)
“Ruins of the French Fort at Chambly built 1711”
Letter to George Sheldon regarding trolley
“A Trip To Boston”
Robert Frost and granddaughters
Men’s pumps
Letter to Governor Bowdoin published in the Hampshire Gazette
Tea kettle
Hoosac Tunnel
“Main Street, Williamsburg, Mass.”
Boat landing
“Sharpening the Scythe”
Excerpt “On the Condition of Women in the United States” article from The Liberator newspaper
WWI Toy Mounted Soldier and Horse
Letter to Mr. and Mrs. George Sheldon regarding trolley
WWI Message to Edward Roswell Wirt
Sugarloaf Street
“The Song” published in the Hampshire Gazette
Some Apples and Potatoes – Eastern States Expo.
“Deerfield Exhibit of Painting”
Game of Checkers
“Annual Report of the Town Officers of Deerfield For the Year Ending Feb. 1st, 1914-Annual Report of the School Committee”
“Social Security Measure To Provide For Old Age Signed By Pres. Roosevelt” article from Greenfield Daily Recorder-Gazette
Door Curtain
Article about universal suffrage and freedom of elections in the Gazette and Mercury newspaper
“A Discourse Preached At Heath, Feb. 21, 1816 As A Musical Lecture”
“Warnings To The Unclean”: In A Discourse From Rev. XXI. 8. Preacht at Springfield Lecture, August 25th.1698.
Landscape of Irish Ruins
Mt. Sugarloaf
Excerpt from Massachusetts School Law of 1647
“Ratification of the Federal Constitution by Massachusetts” published in the Hampshire Gazette
Pages from Elijah Williams (Old Soldier’s) account book, Vol. 2
Please Pose for the Camera!
“Red Winter Sunset”
Concertina
Trammel Hook
“Making Baskets”
Farming with Oxen
“The American Anti-Slavery Almanac for 1838”
Bedpan
Minister Leading Puritans
“Philip. King of Mount Hope”
Letter to John Williams
Free-blown glass jar
“Undigested Ideas on Various Cases” article published in The Massachusetts Gazette or the General Advertiser newspaper
“History of Hatfield Massachusetts”
Gen. Shepard Memorial Monument, Westfield, Mass.
“Government Ready to Buy Butter and Beef for Needy” article from Greenfield Daily Recorder-Gazette newspaper
“Irish Immigration” article from the Greenfield Gazette and Franklin Herald newspaper
“A Hard Nag to Ride” political cartoon from the Daily Recorder-Gazette newspaper
“County Anti-Slavery Meeting” article from Gazette and Mercury newspaper
Franklin County Agricultural Society Membership of Lester L. Luey
Resolve by the State of Massachusetts-Bay requring all towns to supply a record of reimbursements made to soldiers & families
“Philosophy put into action” article on Juanita Nelson in The Recorder newspaper
V-Day Brussels
“Eulogy on King Philip as Pronounced at the Odeon”
“Views of Readers: CD Seeks Volunteers” editorial in Greenfield Recorder-Gazette newspaper
Admiral Francis John Higginson Epaulettes with Case
“Southern and War Items”
“The Little House”
Costumed group
Hatfield Convention of 1782
“Permanent Regulations & By-laws, Annual Reports..School Committee..Town of Chicopee”
“Shutesbury”
Bedwarmer
“The Silk Culturist”
“Address to the Ladies”poem in Hampshire Gazette newspaper
Railroad Arch Bridge, Deerfield
“Wage and Dispute at Monroe Bridge Causes Dismissal of Score in Department” article from the Greenfield Daily Recorder newspaper
“New Salem”
“Evarosa Remedial Tonic Label” from Toiletine Company in Greenfield
Salah Barnard’s Account Book
Mortar and Pestle
Long-handled frying pan
A List of Wearing Apparel, Books, &c. of William Stoddard Williams
“Buckland Female School” ad from the “Greenfield Gazette and Franklin Herald” newspaper
“Negro Slavery in Old Deerfield”
Caroline Stebbins Sheldon (1789-1865) Sampler
Prentiss Childs and Chum
Raffia and Other Baskets
WWI letter to Emily Gladys Bartlett
“A Practical System of Modern Geography”
Shadow Box – Crucifix
Plane
Main Street, Looking North from Hillman, Springfield, Mass.
View from “Sugarloaf”
“Deerfield Collection of Sacred Music”
Doll “Diana”
Memorial Plaque for Enslaved African-Americans in Deerfield
“The Letter of the Law”
South Deerfield, Mass.
Door Curtain-Espaliered Rose