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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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Thomas Williams Ashley (1894-1918)
Woman’s cap
Article by Pompey on President Jefferson in the Greenfield Gazette reprinted from the Massachusetts Spy newspaper
Appointment to Sheriff of Epaphras Hoyt
Grist Mills Pond, Williamsburg, Mass.
Enchanted Forest
“Whately”
Library
Carving Fork
“Sons of Temperance Membership of Elijah Spencer Fuller”
“Anti-Slavery Meeting” article from Greenfield Gazette and Franklin Herald newspaper
Feeding Vessel
“Marchers to Converge on Lincoln Memorial” and “Washington Will be Symbol of U.S. Power Marchers” article in GRG newspaper
Geo. N. Kidder & Company, Main Floor
Letter from Daniel Shays printed in the Hampshire Gazette
Reward of Merit to Luella May
Bonnet
“Deerfield, Mass., South Main Street”
“A Day Off”
Indenture between Justin Hitchcock and Moses Church
Greenfield in a Nutshell
“Permanent Regulations & By-laws, Annual Reports..School Committee..Town of Chicopee”
Tilton Library
“A Practical System of Modern Geography”
Deerfield Post Office
Convention at Hatfield article in the Hampshire Gazette
Three Panel Screen Embroidered with Trees
Pleasant Street, Northampton, Mass.
“Will Geer, Movie Actor, Keeps Silent on Past” article from the Greenfield Recorder-Gazette newspaper
Elizabeth Brooks Fuller (1896-1979)
“Wage and Dispute at Monroe Bridge Causes Dismissal of Score in Department” article from the Greenfield Daily Recorder newspaper
Pages from the “Records of the Female Benevolent Society of the Town of Deerfield”
Beaded Bag
Three Bridges over the Deerfield River
“High Court Bars Alien Deportation” article in Greenfield Recorder-Gazette newspaper
Excerpt from James Childs Hitchcock’s Civil War Military Journal
Minister Leading Puritans
World War II Helmet
Mary Electa Allen (1858-1941)
Tape loom
“Mt. Toby, Mass.”
“More Power to the Allies”
Confederate bond
Poem on Shays’ Rebellion from The New-Haven Gazette and The Connecticut Magazine newspaper
Broad Ax
Smith College Observatory
Carriage Lamp
View looking down from North Main Street, Orange, Mass.
Division of Real Estate of Lucinda Nims
Gravestone of John Williams Jr.
Pocumtuck Hotel
“Farmers Value Polish Help”
Letter to Esther Williams
George Fuller (1822-1884) Studio
“Negro Slavery in Massachusetts”
Covered sugar bowl
Turners Falls Dam
Streetscape – Athol Center
“The News from Home. Greenfield Items” excerpt on the passage of the Constitution Amendment fr. the Gazette & Courier newspaper
Sheldon Tapestry cushion cover
Board Chest
Pages from the second Journal of Sarah Howe on Shays’ Rebellion
Some pages of letter to Francis Higginson from father Stephen Higginson II
Pint mug
Toy Sewing Machine
Women in Surrey
Two pages from diary of Sophronia Grout on Religious Revival
“Bouquet”
Checkerboard
Memorial Hall
Infantry Officer’s Sword, 1821-1832
“The History of the Town of Royalston, Massachusetts”
Mary Arms at Barton Heights
“Negro Slavery in Old Deerfield”
Hampshire House, Ware, Mass.
Testamonial by Daniel Shays in the Hampshire Gazette newspaper
“Keep them smiling”- WWI broadside
“Violence Seen Probable in D.C. Demonstration” article from The Greenfield Recorder newspaper
WWII Air Raid Warning Instructions Card
“Deerfield Street”
Arthur Fuller and Agnes Higginson Fuller
Dr. William Stoddard Williams’ description of a throat distemper diagnosis
Child’s stays
Candlewick Spread
Meeting Hall
Letter to Governor James Bowdoin published in the Hampshire Gazette
Letter to Dorothy Ashley Williams from her husband William Williams telling her of George Washington’s funeral
Carved wooden hand
Deerfield River
Promissory note to Joseph Goodhue
“Lake Pleasant Campmeeting Guide for 1876”
“Raising George’s Tobacco Barn”
Old Caleb Hubbard Tavern, at Plumtrees. Sunderland-First Home of Pacific Lodge, 1801
Looking toward Village from Baptist hill
“The World’s Work” – War Manual of the Great 1914 European Conflict
Niddy-Noddy
“Religious Anniversaries” article from Greenfield Gazette and Franklin Herald newspaper
Tile: “Landing of the Pilgrims 1620”
Plainfield
“For the Softies” editorial from the Greenfield Recorder-Gazette newspaper reprinted from The Holyoke Transcript
Silhouette of Abigail (Whitney) Chandler (1786-1833)
“Polly Wright’s parrot”
Souvenir Snowshoes
Pod Auger
Reflector Oven/Roaster
Oil lamps
Blueberry basket
“Undigested Ideas on Various Cases” article published in The Massachusetts Gazette or the General Advertiser newspaper
New England Views on Boston and Maine R.R., Deerfield Valley
Excerpts from Agnes Gordon Higginson Fuller Diary
Fruit Knife
“Russian Émigré Revolutionizes World’s Photo Enlarging Process” article from Greenfield Recorder-Gazette newspaper
“Temperance Meeting” article from the Greenfield Gazette and Franklin Herald newspaper
Auger
“A Brief Sketch of the First Settlement of Deerfield, Mass.”
Sophia Smith Sampler
“Ku-Klux-Klan” article in the Gazette and Courier newspaper
Hoosac Tunnel
North Adams, Mass., Eastern Portal, Hoosac Tunnel
“Students Trying to Convert Congressmen” article in The Greenfield Recorder newspaper
Jacob’s well
Beaded crown
Lot Survey of Deerfield
“National Ball” invitation
Milk Bottle
Milk Pan
Fountain, at the Orient, West Pelham, Mass.
“Evacuation of Fort Sumter!”
Poets Seat, Greenfield, Mass.
“Melrose Abbey (Detail)”
“Census of Several States” taken from Thomas’s Almanack for 1792 tallied by Office of the Secretary of State
Tobacco Wagon on Street
Dining Table
Second Grade Class
Road in Highland Park
Fisher’s Garage Interior
“Aid for Ireland” article in Hampshire Gazette newspaper reprinted from Springfield Republican newspaper
“Practical Art Lectures”
“Post Office Old Deerfield, Mass.”
Pages from the Annual Report of the Treasurer, Selectmen, and School Committee to the Inhabitants of the Town of Deerfield
Avery Oxen Postcard
Visit of Gov. Guild to Charlemont, Mass.
“The Pool in the Woods”
“An Address Delivered Before the Hampshire, Franklin, & Hampden Agricultural Society; at Northampton, Oct. 24, 1827.”
Excerpts on slavery from “Anecdotes and Reminiscences . A Labor of Love”
“The King’s Palace”
“WA” Chest with Drawer
Easthampton (and Northampton)
“Log Drive Passing Turners Falls” article in Greenfield’s Gazette and Courier newspaper
William Montague (1760-1839)
Components of a Proximity Fuze made by Raytheon Manufacturing Company during WWII
“Turners Falls”
“Art and Industry at Deerfield”
“Erving & Wendell”
Rising Star Quilt
“The Talented Sketch Class”
Published letter to Thomas Grover from the Hampshire Gazette newspaper
Toasts for Independence
“A Soldier’s Dream”
South Deerfield article from Gazette and Courier newspaper
African-American woman sewing
Douglas and Johnson Democratic Ticket and Bell and Everett National Union Ticket
Letter to John Williams
“A Factory Girl” article in The Hampshire Gazette newspaper
Curling Iron
Holy Name of Jesus Church
Scales
“Greenfield High School for Young Ladies”
“Deerfield School Troubles”
Spectacles
Fans
Adze
Captain John Wells’ Company Muster Roll
Advertisement from L.R. Paige for Electric signs
“Congress Jan. 9” article from Greenfield Gazette and Franklin Herald newspaper
“A History of Williamsburg in Massachusetts”
The National First Reader, or Word-Builder
Deed of Pacomtuck land granted by Ahimunquat to Dedham residents
Esther (Harding) Dickinson (1790-1875)
Ashley-Williams House and Wagons/ A. Boyden Hotel
WWI letter to Emily Gladys Bartlett
“The African Slave Trade”
Order for provisions for governmental troops during Shays’ Rebellion
“Young People’s Camp Third Season Rowe, Mass. June 27-July 4, 1926”
Otterskin Bag
Tax Form F
John Stebbins (1647-1724) Marker
Pouch
Hostilities
Mt. Sugarloaf House
Letter to Deerfield Assessors by Colonel Elihu Hoyt
“800 Troops See Dummy ‘A-Bomb’ At Fort Devens” article in Greenfield Recorder-Gazette newspaper
Mount Hermon, Mass., Science and Recitation Halls
South Hadley
Silhouette of Caroline Stebbins Sheldon (1789-1865)
Square-“Nocturne”
A Moral Tale
“Lyman Street, Lake Pleasant, Mass.”
Covered Basket with handle
WWII Fuel Ration Identification Folder