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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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“The Boy Scouts Year Book”
“South Deerfield Briefs- School Exhibition at South Deerfield”
Wedding shoes
Mohawk Trail explanatory text
Mitchell’s Primary Geography. An Easy Introduction to the Study of Geography
Sconce-Candle Reflector
Young Woman with Guitar
“Specimen of a Leaf of the Morus Multicaulis Tree for The Silk Grower”
Sycamore Barrel
Hoosac Tunnel
Excerpts from the diary of George Fuller
“To The Sons and Daughters of Franklin County,” with a Poem about Bloody Brook.
“Learning to Sew”
Excerpt from Massachusetts School Law of 1647
Turtle effigy pipe fragment
Pitcher with engine turned decoration
Extracting Ice
Glass Pistol
Axe with modern haft
“Making High Grade Tools for Industry Since 1868” Millers Falls Company ad from Greenfield Recorder-Gazette newspaper
Civil War letter from Thomas Wentworth Higginson to his brother, Stephen
Children’s boots
Portrait of Lucy Terry Prince
Deerfield Town Warrant
Deerfield Post Office
“Saranac Lake in Winter”
Abenaki Sweetgrass Candlestick
“The Decision of the Supreme Court” article in the Franklin Democrat newspaper
Sketches of Brazil & Chile by Jeremiah Madison Doe on his voyage from Massachusetts around Cape Horn to California
Athol
Native Americans praying
Costumed group
Hatchel/Hackle
“A Puritan Maiden”
“Hadley-Style” Oak Chest
Five Children and a Buggy
Main Street, looking West. Colerain, Mass.
“John Brown” poem from the Gazette and Courier newspaper
“Revival in Pittsfield” article from the Franklin Herald newspaper
Newspaper article from the Hampshire Gazette regarding the court
Wine decanter
Camp Meeting Residence
Wales St, Wales, Mass.
Civil War letter to Ella Melendy
Dam and Covered Bridge in Conway
“Memorial Hall, Deerfield, Mass.”
Straw Hat
Doily
List of Books bought by Joseph Barnard
“Terrible Storm” article from Greenfield Gazette newspaper
The Fire at the Hotel Warren
Mt. Sugarloaf
“Log Drive Nears Turners Falls” article in Greenfield’s Gazette and Courier newspaper
Log crew working above Sunderland Bridge
“Class in Color Design”
Abenaki Basket
The Weldon
“Post Office Old Deerfield, Mass.”
Esther (Harding) Dickinson (1790-1875)
“New England Strike Grows All Fall River Mills Idle; President Seeks Mediators” article in the Greenfield Daily Recorder-Gazette
Rowe Village, Rowe, Mass.
Tobacco Hatchet
Letter to George Sheldon regarding trolley
Page from Amasa Jones diary regarding Mill River Disaster Flood
Westfield Map
Frontpage of Greenfield Gazette & Franklin Herald newspaper
Cheese Basket
Military Commission of Seth Nims
Athol images from “Picturesque Worcester, Part II- North”
Essex Touring Car
“Burly Log Drivers Up River Start Biggest Drive Ever Seen”
“Hawley”
Letter to Aaron Fuller from son George re: slave market
“The Shepherdess of the Alps” embroidery
Admiral Francis John Higginson (1843-1931)
“Constitutional Amendments” article from the Gazette and Courier newspaper
Distribution of the estate of John Wells
American Missionary Association membership of Nathaniel Hitchcock
Douglas and Johnson Democratic Ticket and Bell and Everett National Union Ticket
Election of Officers for Franklin County Benevolent Societies
“Confidences”
Franklin County Agricultural Society Membership of Lester L. Luey
“Exhibition. Westfield Academy. Order of Exercises.”
“Ancient History of Pocomptuck or Deerfield…”.by Stephen West Williams
Cornhusk bag
A System of Modern Geography
Farm Bureau Feed Mill
Fuller Family
“Our page, Harry”
“Geography Made Easy”
Steak Knife
Splitting Froe or Frower
Necklace
Hammer stone
Hampshire Gazette newspaper article about organizing regiments
“Census of Several States” taken from Thomas’s Almanack for 1792 tallied by Office of the Secretary of State
“Main Street, Williamsburg, Mass.”
Screen Panel-“The Last Rose of Summer”
WWII Application for Renewal of Fuel Oil ration
“Soldiers Memorial- Company F 34th Regt. Massachusetts Infty Vols.”
Door Curtain-Espaliered Rose
“Annual Meeting of the Franklin County Temperance Society” article from the Gazette and Mercury newspaper
Tea Canister
“Will Hutchins, Bachelor of Fine Arts”
Man’s vest
“Proportions and Directions for Making Lee’s Patent Mineral and Vegetable Soap”
“Alphabet Soup” editorial from Greenfield Daily Recorder-Gazette newspaper
Sarah Coleman’s shoe
WWI letter to Emily Gladys Bartlett
“Deerfield Society of Blue and White Needlework”
“Examination of Witnesses in a Trial for Witchcraft”
“Deerfield Academy Cooking Class Entertains”
The Old Oliver Tractor
“RA” Carved Chest
Tin-Glazed Earthenware Plate
“American Flag house and Betsy Ross Memorial Association Membership certificate”
“Lily” Chest with Drawers
“Grammar School”
Colonel Hugh Maxwell’s Certificate of Membership into the Mass. Society for Agriculture
Sunderland Bridge and Sugar Loaf Mountain
Elinor Francis (1929-)
“Mt. Toby, Mass.”
Moccasin
Pages on Communism from “The Challenge to Liberty”
Teapot
State Street, Springfield, Mass.
“Illustrated Memoir of the World War”
Northampton, Mass. Glimpse of Main Street, showing Draper Hotel
George Fuller (1822-1884)
“America’s Triumph at Panama”
WWI letter to Emily Gladys Bartlett
Some Apples and Potatoes – Eastern States Expo.
“The Dyke Mill Bulletin, No. 1”
Cooley Dickinson Hospital, Northampton, MA
Civil War letter to Agnes Gordon Higginson Fuller from her sister regarding slavery
Hand Stamp
View Along Cold River, Eastern Slope of Mohawk Trail
“The Old Conkey Tavern” from “The History of the Town of Amherst”
“Monroe & Rowe”
King Street, Northampton, Mass.
“South Deerfield – High School Building Dedicated With Excellent Program”
Map “The world agreeable to the latest discoveries”
Petition in favor of trolley on Deerfield’s Main Street
“American Heroes” figures
WWII Class 3 Fuel Oil Ration coupons
“Growth and Future of the Nation” article from the Gazette and Courier newspaper
“Forest Park” in “Our Country and Its People” Volume 2
Lower Suspension Bridge, Turners Falls, Mass.
Margaret Christine Whiting (1860-1946)
“Deerfield’s Original Crafts Show Next Week”
Wine Glasses
Helen Hawks Childs and Samuel Childs (1843-1906)
Tide of Immigration article in The Gazette and Courier newspaper
“Onion Harvest”
Foot Stove
Elizabeth Amsden Inventory
“Anachronism”
George Fuller’s easel
“ACLU Would Impeach Nixon” letter in The Greenfield Recorder newspaper
Sash
“South Deerfield- To Build New School-House”
“Millers Falls Company Arises From Nash’s Mill Ashes” article from Greenfield Recorder-Gazette newspaper
“Culture of Silk” from New England Farmer
Woman with Stereoptican Viewer
“A Catalogue of the Books contained in the Chicopee Town Library, together with general regulations of the same.”
Trolley Car
“Wants A Place” ad in the Greenfield Gazette newspaper
Fire Engine (pump)
Side Chair
Jane Marshall Wood (1833-1841)
J. Wilson’s Improved Cast iron Plough
“Proceedings on the Trial of Dominic Daley and James Halligan”
“Spinet”
Clock works
“Hatfield Ferry, Hatfield, Mass.”
Main Street, Greenfield, MA
Pair of wrought iron candelabrum
Franklin County Public Hospital
Bird’s-Eye View, Sunderland and Connecticut River from Mt. Sugarloaf
Delegates from abolitionist sector nominate Hubbard for Congressman article in Greenfield Gazette and Mercury newspaper
Receipt of Caleb Phillips
“Reflections”
Mansion House, Greenfield, Mass.
Mint Industry from “The History of the Town of Ashfield”
“True Heroes” article from scrapbook kept by Celia M. Kimball
Enchanted Forest
Confederate Currency from the State of North Carolina
“Darling Expands Parts Manufacturing Ten-Fold Since Firm Started in 1940” article from Greenfield Recorder-Gazette newspaper
“Charlemont”
Embroidered Dress
Cross-stitch Runner
Hampshire Gazette newspaper article on Shays’ Rebellion
Wedding Group
“Snow Storm”
Letter from second headmaster of Deerfield Academy
Tobacco Plantation in the Connecticut Valley
Stoneware Crock
“To All Who Feel An Interest In The Antiquities Of New-England”
Land lease by Lucinda Nims
“Ellis, Field hand”