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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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Three Bridges over the Green River
Mt. Sugarloaf
“Hitchcock House”
Union Telegraph Line
“Arming the Slaves” article from the National Anti-Slavery Standard newspaper
Rudiments of Geography
The Square-Showing Odd Fellows Hall, Savings Bank and Post Office, Orange, Mass.
Boston Commonwealth report of speech of Dana in behalf of Davis re: fugitive Shadrich article in Gazette and Courier newspaper
Red Cross Club, Marseiles, France
Eleanor Brown Stebbins (1875-1955) (Mrs. Benjamin Stebbins) Washing a Child’s Hand
Circulating letter asking for help in destroying Lincoln’s troops published in the Hampshire Gazette
“Union Republican Ticket”
WWI letter to Emily Gladys Bartlett
Reward of Merit to Luella May
Weighing Ice with Steelyard
“Unimproved Land for Sale” ad published in the Hampshire Gazette
Letter from second headmaster of Deerfield Academy
Broad Ax
“Population and Statistics of Franklin County” article from the Gazette and Courier Newspaper
“Motives for Well-Doing. A Sermon, Delivered in Northampton, August 24, 1815. Before the Hampshire Missionary Society”
Article about universal suffrage and freedom of elections in the Gazette and Mercury newspaper
“For Whom Will the Irish Vote?” article from The Emancipator newspaper
Redware Platter
“The Dred Scott Case” article from the Gazette and Courier newspaper
Pages from John Partridge Bull’s account book
Testamonial by Daniel Shays in the Hampshire Gazette newspaper
Leaders in Congress to Shut off all Immigration article in The Gazette and Courier newspaper
Petroglyphs/Pictographs
Dining Table
“The Sweet Little Man.”
Two pages from diary of Sophronia Grout on Religious Revival
Woman’s cap
Phelps mourning embroidery
Pages from “Those Green River Knives”
Moccasin
Receipt of Cornelius Jones
“An address to the People of Several Towns” article regarding Shays’ Rebellion, in Hampshire Gazette newspaper
WWI letter to Emily Gladys Bartlett
Where the Mohawk Trail Crosses the Hoosac Tunnel, Berkshire Hills
Excerpts from Remembrance of Captain Park Holland and his participation in Shays’ Rebellion
Published letters concerning the Embargo of 1808
Raw Silk
“Lieut. Genl. Ulysses S. Grant U.S.A.”
“Share the Work Campaign Gets Under Way at Meeting” article from the Greenfield Daily Recorder-Gazette Newspaper
“Finance Report of the Town of Deerfield. 1860-61.”
Medicine Bottles with Case
Bread Peel
Daffodil bowl
Bullet pouch
Madeline Yale Wynne (1847-1918)
List of Soldiers
Birchbark bowl
“Making Baskets”
“Memorial Hall, Deerfield, Mass.”
“Witch” basket
Beaded Moccasins
Sketch of the Union Naval Attack on Charleston Harbor
Jerry with Rocking Chair
Articles of Faith of William Stoddard Williams
Adjustable Plane
Checkerboard
Mortgage Deed to Esther (Harding) Dickinson
“A. Stratton” Tavern sign
“Greenfield”- Will Hutchins Exhibit
“Rivets are Bayonets / Drive them home!
Cooley Dickinson Hospital, Northampton, MA
View from “Sugarloaf”
Steamer Trunk
Horseradish Bottle and Box
Dyno-Mite WWII newsletter cover from Millers Falls (Tool) Company
Letter to Henry Kirke Brown from George Fuller
“Fewer Logs” article in Greenfield’s Gazette and Courier newspaper
Main Street, Looking North from Hillman, Springfield, Mass.
Letter to Deerfield Assessors by Colonel Elihu Hoyt
Westfield Map
New Home Sewing Machine Company Birds-Eye View
Centerpiece-“Mayflower”
Auger
Clothes Wringer
Mt. Sugarloaf with farmer
Edward Swan’s Pickle Works on the Elm Street
Tilton Library
Promissory note to Joseph Goodhue
“Deerfield Centre/South Deerfield”
Dr. Rolfe S. Russell (1907-1935)
Flintlock Musket
James Childs Hitchcock (1841-1864)
“Map of New-England”
Poets Seat, Greenfield, Mass.
“Violence Seen Probable in D.C. Demonstration” article from The Greenfield Recorder newspaper
“History of the Connecticut Valley in Massachusetts”
The Weldon Garage
“South Deerfield- The Mount Sugar Loaf School”
Baskets
Embroidered Dress
Breck, Shephard, and Clark General Store Ad in Hampshire Gazette newspaper
Letter to Agnes Higginson Fuller from George Fuller
Couple in 18th Century Costume
Letter to Rebecca Jackson Williams from her son
Military letter regarding men, arms, and clothing
“The Falls, Shelburne Falls, Mass.”
Four-legged Washtub
Multiple articles from The New-Haven Gazette and The Connecticut Magazine newspaper regarding Shays’ Rebellion
Shelburne Falls, Mass Birds-Eye View
School Street Looking East, Athol, Mass.
Mary Lyon House, Buckland, Mass.
Resolution regarding town officers to take oaths published in the Hampshire Gazette
Long-handled frying pan
“The Bars- Back of our Barn”
Will of Esther (Harding) Dickinson
Women dancing with sheaves of wheat
Stoneware Crock
Hitchcock Family Phonograph
Candlewick Spread
“Chinese Mulberry” and “Persian Management of Silkworms from New England Farmer”
Gravestone of John Williams Jr.
“The Life and Age of Woman”
Three Athol Images from “Quabbin’s Railroad: The Rabbit”
Birnam House
Sash
“Copy of a letter from Gen. Lincoln to Capt. Shays” in Hampshire Gazette newspaper
Estey Organ
Warwick, Mass. Gales Old Mill.
“Deerfield Street”
“Dropout” cartoon from Greenfield Recorder-Gazette newspaper
Hoosac Tunnel
Chrysanthemum bowl
Wedding Group
“Ononko’s Vow”
Notes from Deerfield Town Meeting
Building Contract for Deerfield Street School
Excerpts from Major Salah Barnard’s Orderly Book
John Hawks paid 1714, promisory note to John Pynchon
Steak Knife
Niddy-Noddy
Melinda Prouty Lamson (1801-1874) and son, Nathaniel Lamson (1841-1907)
The Ashfield House, Ashfield, Mass.
John Putnam (c.1817-1895)
Prisoner Halter
Bobbins
Wampum shells
Connecticut Valley
Iron Axe
Birchbark headdress box
Military Commission of Isaac Abercrombie
“Manual of Instruction in the Use of Dumb Bells and Indian Clubs & Other Exercises”
Letter to Agnes Higginson from George Fuller
Old Caleb Hubbard Tavern, at Plumtrees. Sunderland-First Home of Pacific Lodge, 1801
“Outrages on Colored Soldiers” article from the National Anti-Slavery Standard newspaper
Excerpts from Agnes Gordon Higginson Fuller Diary
Smith College Observatory
“Turners Falls, Mass. Industrial Plants, General View below Falls”
“In Memory of JAMES ABRAM GARFIELD”
“A Soldier’s Dream”
Cradle with painted decoration
Chamber Pot
Ephraim Williams (1760-1835)
“Thanksgiving Pies”
World War II Helmet
Letter To Colonel Samuel Williams
Letter to George and Elizabeth Fuller
“Bloody Butchery, By The British Troops; Or The Runaway Fight Of The Regulars”
Mansion House, Greenfield, Mass.
“The Rapids”
Landscape – Mill on Stream
“New Attack on Deerfield. By Moving Picture Red Skins.”
Ketchup Bottle
“TFHS Students Share ‘A Day of Concern’” article in The Greenfield Recorder newspaper
Admiral Francis John Higginson Epaulettes with Case
Lucia Fairchild Fuller (1870-1924)
Burke Tavern Overmantel Panel
Reed Basket with cover
Rock Cut on Mountainside, Mt. Tom
“HYMN – For Fourth July–1826”
Water Pipe
“The Deerfield Renaissance” from New England Magazine
Cupboard
Railroad Station
Camp Meeting Residence
First Church of Deerfield Interior
“To the Benevolent People of Berkshire, Hampden and Hampshire Counties” article on Irish aid in the Hampshire Gazette newspaper
“A Discourse Preached At Heath, Feb. 21, 1816 As A Musical Lecture”
“Plan of Sunderland Bridge over the Connecticut River”
Tin-Glazed Earthenware Plate
Ball Invitation for Stephen West Williams
“Influenza With Us- Epidemic Has Taken Hold of Greenfield” article from The Greenfield Recorder newspaper
African-American woman sewing
“A Trip To Boston”
Court Dancers
Fern stand
Tea gown or Dressing gown
Letter to Gertrude Porter Ashley
Edward Hitchcock (1793-1864)
Convalescent Soldiers
Railway Station, Athol, Mass.
Brick Church
Nurses Dress Uniform
Capt. Moses Scott military settlement
“Emigration from England” article in Hampshire Gazette newspaper
“Home Affairs”- 100 Gun Salute to Lincoln