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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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Goggles with Case
Daffodil bowl
Flax break
“Eight-Hour Proclamation” article from the Gazette and Courier newspaper
Little Girl and Doll at a “Tea Party”
“Petition of Robin Hood” article published in the Hampshire Gazette
“Saranac Lake in Winter”
Lillian Saxton Hutchins (Mrs. Frank Hutchins)
Old Indian House Arm Chair
Threadwell Tap and Die Company’s Tap & Die set made in WWII
Main Street and Webster Block. Northfield, Mass.
Log Driving on the Connecticut River
Dining Table
Field Memorial Library
Flintlock long fowler
“Alphabet Soup” editorial from Greenfield Daily Recorder-Gazette newspaper
Shell Gorget
“Ellis, Field hand”
“Ashfield”
Mt. Sugarloaf
“Growth and Future of the Nation” article from the Gazette and Courier newspaper
“Civilization rebuked by the savage” in “Gazette and Mercury” Newspaper
Letter to Deerfield Assessors by Colonel Elihu Hoyt
“The Pool in the Woods”
“Sacrifice of Life”
Excerpts of the “Constitution of the Hawley Female Charitable Society”
Excerpts from the diary of Elizabeth Babcock Leonard
WWII letter regarding African Americans
Mt. Sugarloaf
Letter to Charles Hart Ashley
“Chinese Mulberry” and “Persian Management of Silkworms from New England Farmer”
“Will Hutchins Manages Yale Plays”
“Deerfield’s Original Crafts Show Next Week”
Silhouette of Abigail (Whitney) Chandler (1786-1833)
“Women of Plymouth”
Tax Receipt of Justin Hitchcock
Excerpts from Agnes Gordon Higginson Fuller Diary
Deerfield River
“Temperance in Schools” article from Gazette and Mercury newspaper
“Spirit of Religion Leading the Puritans”
Two pages from diary of Sophronia Grout on Religious Revival
Black silk skeins
“House Beautiful”
“New Salem”
“Montague Center”
U. S. Arsenal and Grounds, Springfield, Mass.
Postcard to Mrs. Edward Wirt
License for Bee Hives
Tin-Glazed Earthenware Plate
The Famous Wellworth Pharmacy
Lusitania Medallion
Gospel Meeting Tent
“Smith’s Geography on the Productive System; for Schools, Academies, and Families”
Mortar and Pestle
Upper Suspension Bridge and View of Riverside, From Prospect Street, Turners Falls, Mass.
“Southern and War Items”
Eleanor “Nellie” M. Arms (1864-1937)
Cape
Deerfield Academy/ Dickinson High School
Butter Churn
New Home Sewing Machine with attachments distributed by Priscilla Needlework Company
Officers of the 44th Massachusetts Regiment Volunteers
Ware Store Day Book [Vol. I]
“Deerfield Massacre And Burning of 200 Years Ago Early In Queen Anne’s War”
Prisoner Halter
John Hawks paid 1714, promisory note to John Pynchon
Mt. Sugar Loaf Summit House
A System of School Geography
Woman washing
Women dancing with sheaves of wheat
“A Biographical Memoir of the Rev. John Williams”
“Shutesbury”
“Annual Report of the Town Officers of Deerfield For the Year Ending Dec. 31, 1926. Annual Report of the School Committee”
Fire Engine (pump)
Carved wooden hand
“Tis Sixty Years Since. The Passing of the Stall-fed Ox and the Farm Boy”
No.3A Folding Pocket Kodak Camera
“Lieut. Genl. Ulysses S. Grant U.S.A.”
Letter from James Wells Champney to Misses Baker & Coleman regarding trolley
“Taking Tea”
“Ratification of the Federal Constitution by Massachusetts” published in the Hampshire Gazette
Sleighing in a One-Horse Cutter
Letter from George Washington to resident in Dublin published in the Hampshire Gazette newspaper
Trolley Car
Quality Control Lab Coat from Millers Falls Company
“Cotillion Party at Whitney Hall! In Shelburne Falls, Friday Dec 17th, 1858”
Main Street, showing Baptist and Congregational Church, Shelburne Falls, Mass.
Pages from Elijah Williams (Old Soldier’s) account book, Vol. 2
“The Craftsman”
Mohawk Trail explanatory text
Voting Circular from the Whig State Central Committee
Picnic, Mt. Sugar Loaf
“Preparations for Jeanne D’Arc at Vaucouleurs”
“Regulations for the Order and Discipline of the Troops of the United States” book advertisement in the Hampshire Gazette
Masha Arms
Greenfield Tap and Die Corporation Limit snap gage with bullet
Visit of Gov. Guild to Charlemont, Mass.
Bill of sale for Kate
Wedding shoes
St. Stanislaus
“Sunderland and Leverett”
Old Green River Mill
Embroidery of Mount Vernon
Reverend Samuel Willard (1776-1859)
“Deerfield Centre/South Deerfield”
Puritan Village patterns from “Historical Atlas of Massachusetts”
African-American woman sewing
“Returning to the Manse as a Ghost”
The Weldon Hotel
Tobacco Farmers
“Bloody Brook Monument”
Public Vendue notice of Nathaniel Dickinson published in the Hampshire Gazette
View looking down from North Main Street, Orange, Mass.
“The Inaugural”
Delegates of Philadelphia Convention article from the Hampshire Gazette newspaper
“Sugar Loaf Mountain”
Football players
Milk Bottle
Armed Railroad Car
“Washington Merry-Go-Round” article in Greenfield Recorder-Gazette
Medicine cup
“South Deerfield- The Mount Sugar Loaf School”
Table Rock, Mt. Sugarloaf
Frank Dahowski with a German Field Gun
Inventory of Charles Hart Ashley
Sign-“Who would Turn Back 2 Hundred Yeare, Let him A light & Enter Here”
Public Vendue notice to some residents of Charlemont published in the Hampshire Gazette
Mary Hawks (1799-1876) Sampler
Scythe snath handle
Lucy Henry (1843-1927) (Mrs. David Henry) Netting
Colrain, Mass.
Patent Model of Plow
Main Street, Looking North. Whately, Mass.
General assembly of Rhode Island article published in the Hampshire Gazette
Elinor Francis (1929-)
“Deerfield Collection of Sacred Music”
Cultural Society Ribbon
Sword
Reed Basket with cover
“Modern Crusading” article from the Franklin Herald newspaper with reply
“Portraits of History- Historic Places in the Orange-Athol Area: A Fascinating Look into the Past”
Letter from Connecticut Valley Street Railway Company regarding Trolley whistle
“A New England Kitchen”
Dress
“The Good Cow”
“Old Indian House”
“Sacrifices to Our Country. A Discourse Delivered July 17, 1864…at a Funeral Service for James T. Stebbins & Myron Stowell”
“Two Art Lectures”
“Barbara Reading” or “Stolen Fruit”
Deerfield Academy student letter to Betsey Kimberley
Jeanne D’ Arc Performance
Mt. Sugarloaf
“An American Selection of Lessons in Reading and Speaking”
Civil War letter to Ella Melendy
“Willows”
Depot
Ruth Strong Russell (1804-1869) Sampler
“Boots, Shoes & Rubbers for Everybody at Sovereign’s Cash Shoe Store”
B. and M. Freight Yard
“Making Baskets”
“Be Ye Warmed” Quilt
“A Soldier’s Dream”
South Hadley
Connecticut River, Mt. Sugarloaf in the distance
“The Pocumtuc Housewife; A Guide to Domestic Cookery”
Northampton, Mass., Insane Hospital, Drive-way and Entrance
Page from the “Franklin H. Williams Diary from 1852 to 1891”
“Philip. King of Mount Hope”
“A Discourse Preached At Heath, Feb. 21, 1816 As A Musical Lecture”
Western slope showing North Adams
“The Mill River Disaster” article from the Journal of Industry newspaper
“The History of New England..”
Ebenezer Wells’s will
Letter to George Sheldon regarding trolley
Boston Commonwealth report of speech of Dana in behalf of Davis re: fugitive Shadrich article in Gazette and Courier newspaper
“Millers Falls, Mass., Millers River”
George Sheldon (1818-1916)
Fans
Cutting Ice
Campus During Conference, East Northfield, MA
Canoe model
Promissory note to Joseph Goodhue
Letter to Dennis Stebbins
“Evacuation of Fort Sumter!”
Broom Tying Machine
Williamsburgh, Massachusetts
“Why Should Suffrage Be Imposed on Women?
Receipt of Caleb Phillips
Biography of W.E.B. DuBois in “Class of 1890”
U. S. Post Office
Manure fork
Chesterfield Church
List of Soldiers
Persis Hoyt Sheldon Scallop-Top Chest of Drawers
Armory, Greenfield, Mass.
“Roman Catholics” article from the Greenfield Gazette and Franklin Herald newspaper
Vases
Tuscarora beadwork sellers
Lt. Henry N. Flynt
“Learning By Doing At Hampton”