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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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First Church of Deerfield Pewter Flagon
Orra White Hitchcock (1796-1863)
My First Automobile
Will of Zur Hawks
Poets Seat, Greenfield, Mass.
Organdy Dress
New Home Sewing Machine with attachments distributed by Priscilla Needlework Company
Inkwell
Fuller Family
“Mr. Hutchins’ Play”
“The Boy Captive of Old Deerfield” excerpts
“Deerfield Society of Blue and White Needlework”
“Anti-Slavery Meeting” article from Greenfield Gazette and Franklin Herald newspaper
Graham Bread Recipe from “The New Hydropathic Cook-Book”
Copyright Agreement for book entitled “Antiquarian Researches”
Glass Dish
Pocumtuck Hotel
“Recalling Irish Muscle that built Mass. Railroads” article from Daily Hampshire Gazette newspaper
“The Dilemma” political cartoon from the Daily Recorder-Gazette newspaper
“Souvenir of Orange, Mass”
Deerfield Town Warrant
Birthplace of Sophia Smith, Hatfield, Mass. Founder of Smith College
“For the Gazette and Mercury” a Pro-slavery newspaper article
George Sheldon (1818-1916)
Letter to Agnes Higginson Fuller from George Fuller
Black Lace Dress
Civil War letter to Ella Melendy
“Deerfield Centre/South Deerfield”
“Mrs. Roosevelt Rides Coal Car Into Mine Depths” photograph from Greenfield Daily Recorder-Gazette newspaper
Beaded Horseshoe Souvenir
Tea Room
“Children at Play” Quilt
Emma Lewis Coleman (1853-1942)
Hoosac Tunnel
Old House in Essex, MA
Sign-“Who would Turn Back 2 Hundred Yeare, Let him A light & Enter Here”
Town Hall and School
Poem on Shays’ Rebellion from The New-Haven Gazette and The Connecticut Magazine newspaper
“Sundry Items”- military figures for states
“Visit to President Lincoln by the Massachusetts Delegation”
Sugar Bowl with Lid
Legal document of Debtor Joshua Sweet
“Orange”
Coat of Major Samuel Willard Saxton (1829-1933)
“Deerfield Academy Cooking Class Entertains”
Athol
Cold Water Pledge insignia
“Drama Vs. Reality” editorial from Greenfield Recorder-Gazette newspaper
“Negro Nurse with a Child”
Bust of George Fuller (1822-1884)
World War I Toys
Bulge Pot
“Hippies and the War” editorial from The Greenfield Recorder newspaper
“Soviets’ ‘Moon’ Circling Globe at Terrific Speed” article from Greenfield Recorder-Gazette newspaper
Watch fob with crystal drop
Main and Park Streets looking South. Easthampton, Mass.
Hoosac Tunnel, Looking out from West Portal, Mass
“A Trip To Boston”
WWII letter regarding African Americans
Greenfield Tap and Die Corporation’s framed Memorial of WWII company losses
Business Letter to Dennis Stebbins
Prospect Hill School
First Church of Deerfield Pewter Flagon
“The Young Ladies Book: A Manual of Elegant Recreations, Exercises, and Pursuits”
“Census of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts: 1895” Volume V
Account book of Zebulon White & James Strathern
Proclamation regarding apprehension of Shays’ Insurgents published in the Hampshire Gazette
Deerfield Post Office
A System of School Geography
WWI letter to Emily Gladys Bartlett
Civil War Certificate of Non-Liability for Substitute
Court Ball Invitation
Gauge
“Heath”
“Philip. King of Mount Hope”
Moccasins
Excerpt from the “Boston Letter” article on Suffrage from Greenfield Gazette and Courier newspaper
Whale Oil Lamp
Mess Cup
Five Children and a Buggy
Scales
“American Slavery” article from the Gazette and Mercury newspaper
Horn spoon
Hoosac Tunnel
“Growth and Future of the Nation” article from the Gazette and Courier newspaper
“The Life and Age of Woman”
Millers Falls Company’s Micrometer with box
“Legislature- slave hunting petition”
Coal Wagon
Window Pennant
The Centre, South Deerfield, Mass.
South Main Street, Orange, Mass.
Puritan Village patterns from “Historical Atlas of Massachusetts”
Excerpts from the diary of Elizabeth Babcock Leonard
“Anti Slavery Lecture” article from Greenfield Gazette and Franklin Herald newspaper
“A Discourse Preached At Heath, Feb. 21, 1816 As A Musical Lecture”
The North American Arithmetic. Part First for Young Readers
Letter from James Wells Champney to Misses Baker & Coleman regarding trolley
Edward Hitchcock (1793-1864)
Letter to Agnes Gordon Cochran Higginson regarding slavery and democracy
Reward of Merit to Luella May
Arosen’s Sash
Photograph of Millers Falls Companies with WWII losses
“On the Passage of the Constitutional Amendment” poem from the National Anti-Slavery Standard newspaper
Shelburne Falls
Mary Hawks (1799-1876) Sampler
Edward Hitchcock (1828-1911)
Bedwarmer
Broomcorn broom
Square-“Seaweed and Dragon Flies”
“Civilization rebuked by the savage” in “Gazette and Mercury” Newspaper
Gluing Clamp
“The Old Conkey Tavern” from “The History of the Town of Amherst”
Pouch
Parts Manufacturing Company 3 dimensional airplane part
Elsa Eager Ball (1893-1927) (Mrs. Arthur Ball) in Calash
Cooley Dickinson Hospital, Northampton, MA
Christening Dress
“Temperance Meeting” article from the Greenfield Gazette and Franklin Herald newspaper
Screen Panel-“The Last Rose of Summer”
Massacre Interior of Old Indian House, during Sack of Deerfield, Feb. 29, 1704
Pages from John Partridge Bull’s account book
Cutting Ice
“A Busy Corner in Greenfield”
Steatite Vessel
Receipt of Seth Sheldon for dance tuition
Boat Landing, Hampton Ponds
Centerpiece-“Mayflower”
Reverend Stephen Williams (1693-1782)
Three Bridges over Green River
“For the town of Amherst, education the leading ‘industry’”
Kelley’s blacksmith sign
First Church of Deerfield Interior
Agawam Cong’l Church
Cabinet of Nature
Bancroft’s Agricultural Almanack
Essex Touring Car
Buttons and Button Mold
Teacher Certificate
Conway Road House
“Geographical, Statistical & Historical View of the Town of Deerfield”
“At Work” photo & “History Finds Irish in Holyoke in 1663” from “Irish Heritage Important to Wmass.. in The Republican newspaper
“Smith’s Geography on the Productive System; for Schools, Academies, and Families”
Will of Edward Allyn
“Unimproved Land for Sale” ad published in the Hampshire Gazette
WWI Toy Ambulance with Figures
The Common, Worthington, Mass.
Adze
Wallhanging-Two Red Roses Across the Moon
Turret
Main Street, Greenfield, MA
“Oil Cinnamon Cordial” advertisement
“Anti-Slavery Convention” article from Greenfield Gazette and Franklin Herald newspaper
“Saratoga Illustrated: The Visitor’s Guide to Saratoga Springs”
“The Bars- Back of our Barn”
Franklin County Cadet -1845
Hotel Warren, South Deerfield, Mass.
Pages from the “Records of the Female Benevolent Society of the Town of Deerfield”
Newspaper article from the Hampshire Gazette regarding the court
Tractor
Trolley Car
Bill of sale for an enslaved boy named Prince
Edward Swan’s Pickle Works on the Elm Street
Mary Lyon House, Buckland, Mass.
Women dancing with sheaves of wheat
Nathaniel Lamson (1805-1866)
The Weldon Hotel
“Looking West At Mount Sugarloaf”
Nazi statement from Millers Falls Company employee
John Putnam (c.1817-1895)
“Pegasus of Apollo” from “The Worcester Magazine”
F. H. Sprague Co.
Commission of the Grand Army Republic Post No. 84
“Hitching Posts Should Go”
Plummet
“Washington Ball”
Deerfield Grammar School Class
Main St. Easthampton, Mass
Civil War letter from Thomas Wentworth Higginson to his brother Stephen
North Adams, Mass., Eastern Portal, Hoosac Tunnel
Red Cross Club, Marseiles, France
Lamson & Goodnow Manufacturing Company building with founder
Plane
“SW” Joined Chest
Wedding gown
Esther Williams’ Will
Letter to Rebecca Williams from Brother Ephraim Williams, Jr. On Catholicism, etc.
“M. Root” Tavern sign
Lincoln Badge
Fort Massachusetts, North Adams, Mass.
Reverend Samuel Willard (1776-1859)
Fisher’s Garage under construction
Screen Panel-“The Peacock”
South Cove, North Pond
No.3A Folding Pocket Kodak Camera
Main Street Business Center
Extracting Ice
Rudiments of Reading
Image of Beaver
McKinley Sure article published in the Greenfield Gazette and Courier newspaper