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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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“More Power to the Allies”
Carriage Lamp
Appointment of William Stoddard Williams to Justice of the Peace
Some of the Beautiful Curves on the Mohawk Trail
Article on the Constitution and Slavery from The Hampshire Gazette Newspaper
“Deerfield”
Tea gown or Dressing gown
The Reformed Pastor
South Main Street, Orange, Mass.
“Soldiers in King Philip’s War…”
“Sharpening the Scythe”
Civil War letter from Thomas Wentworth Higginson to his brother, Stephen
“Elizabethan Group”
“Nine and Ten Years Old- They can earn 40c. in a ten-hour day, but they cannot read.”
“Village Room”
Hoosac Tunnel North Adams, Mass.
Title page from “Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly”
Tall case clock
Electric iron
Letter to Stephen Higginson III from his mother Agnes Gordon Cochran Higginson
“The Old Porch” Ashfield House, Ashfield, Mass.
Fire Engine (pump)
“Cronies”
“Decorative Painting”
Cloth Doll
Beaded crown
“Washington Merry-Go-Round” article in Greenfield Recorder-Gazette
WWII War Ration Book Four
Hospital Operating Room
Armory, Greenfield, Mass.
Milk Pan
“Lowell” article regarding cotton mills from Greenfield Gazette and Franklin Herald newspaper
“Original Deerfield Workers Show Skills at Crafts”
Boston Tea Party Report
“Terrible Storm” article from Greenfield Gazette newspaper
“SW” Joined Chest
“Congress Jan. 9” article from Greenfield Gazette and Franklin Herald newspaper
Tile: “Landing of the Pilgrims 1620”
Quitclaim of land in Deerfield, Massachusetts
“Uncle Sid’s Adventure with Indians”
Curling Iron
“Cloth from the Mill” advertisement
“The Shepherdess of the Alps” embroidery
Basalt hoe or adzes
“Deerfield Gave Warm Reception To Trolleys”
“The Hermit of Erving Castle”
Article by Pompey on President Jefferson in the Greenfield Gazette reprinted from the Massachusetts Spy newspaper
“President Still Hopes for Peace” article in The Greenfield Recorder-Gazette newspaper
“Picturesque Hampshire”
Cane
Schedule of the whole number of Persons within the Division alloted to William Shepard and David Sexton to enumerate, 1790
Jerry with Rocking Chair
Excerpts from the diary of Elsie M. Putnam
Arms Manufacturing Company
“Proceeds of Deerfield Bazar Amounts to over $800”
Marbles
Mary Arms at Barton Heights
Orra White Hitchcock (1796-1863)
“The History of the Town of Royalston, Massachusetts”
Warwick, Mass. Gales Old Mill.
“Sally Come Up”
Mendellssohn Collection, or Hastings and Bradbury’s Third Book of Psalmody
Arms Manufacturing Company workers
Burl bowl
Bayonet
“The Foot Bridge”
Franklin County Industries in “History of Massachusetts Industries” Vol. I
“Dropout” cartoon from Greenfield Recorder-Gazette newspaper
“The Wood Road”
Receipt for firearms of Theodore Barnard
Wood Mounted Bit
Essex Touring Car
Mount Sugarloaf Summit House
Edward Hitchcock (1828-1911)
Hand Stamp
“Lake Pleasant Campmeeting Guide for 1876”
“The Deerfield Captive”
Kitchen Settle
Plate and cup
Well Sweep
Spinning Jenny
“Caroll & Queen’s Double Clog Dance”
“Exhibition of the Young Men’s Lyceum”
Door Curtain
Letter to John Williams
Fisher’s Garage Mechanics
“Views On And About Mt. Tom And Of Mt. Tom Railroad”
Letter from John Pynchon
“Narrative of Sojourner Truth, A Northern Slave, Emancipated From Bodily Serviture By the State of New York in 1828”
“Illustrated Memoir of the World War”
“Tracing The Fall And Rise Of Greenfield Business For 14 Years” graph from Greenfield Recorder-Gazette newspaper
Reward of Merit to Luella May
A System of Modern Geography
“House Beautiful”
Springfield bicycle club displaying their trophies
“Deerfield and Bernardston Accept PWA; Northfield Rejects School Proposal” article from Greenfield Daily Recorder-Gazette paper
Page from Josiah Allen diary regarding Mill River Disaster Flood
Shampoo and Lotion products made by The Toiletine Company
“Orange”
Estate Settlement of David Hoyt
Letter from Insurgent to Col. Clark and others published in the Hampshire Gazette
Division of Estate of Major Salah Barnard
“Class in Color Design”
“Raising George’s Tobacco Barn”
“South Deerfield- To Build New School-House”
“To the Benevolent People of Berkshire, Hampden and Hampshire Counties” article on Irish aid in the Hampshire Gazette newspaper
Ammunition Box
“Proclamation For Proroguing the General Court”
The Town that can’t be licked article published in the Daily Hampshire Gazette Bicentennial newspaper
“Anti-Slavery Convention” article from Greenfield Gazette and Franklin Herald newspaper
Tea Room
“Government Ready to Buy Butter and Beef for Needy” article from Greenfield Daily Recorder-Gazette newspaper
“Holyoke Dam, Holyoke, Mass.”
Mary Electa Allen (1858-1941)
Excerpt from diary of Clara Alquist-Sherman regarding The Great Depression
Three Lavaliers on Chains
The Weldon Garage
Will of Esther (Harding) Dickinson
Looking toward Village from Baptist hill
Hampshire Gazette newspaper article on Shays’ Rebellion
“Log Drive of 36,000,000 Feet”
“The Sabrinian”
New England Captives Carried to Canada
Flintlock long fowler
“Franklin Does Her Share” article published in Greenfield Gazette and Mercury newspaper
“Constitutional Amendments” article from the Gazette and Courier newspaper
Main and Park Streets looking South. Easthampton, Mass.
Ware Store Day Book [Vol. I]
“A Day Off”
Delegates from abolitionist sector nominate Hubbard for Congressman article in Greenfield Gazette and Mercury newspaper
Bust of George Fuller (1822-1884)
Greenfield Public Library
Birnam House
Conway Road House
Draw Knife
Deed to Zur Hawks
Granby and Huntington
Dr. William Stoddard Williams’ description of a throat distemper diagnosis
Bill of sale for an enslaved boy named Prince
Fabric order for Orlando Ware’s store
“The Mill”
Pages from Elijah Williams (Old Soldier’s) account book, Vol. 2
High Chest of Drawers
Y.M.C.A., East Deerfield, Mass.
Red Cross Club, Marseiles, France
Young Woman with Guitar
“The Young Ladies Book: A Manual of Elegant Recreations, Exercises, and Pursuits”
Holy Name of Jesus Church
Elmer’s Double-Acting Butter Churn
Old Green River Mill
“Gang of Loggers Arrive”
Memorial to M. & S. Sheldon
“Heredity and Early Environment of John Williams ‘The Redeemed Captive’”
“Mr. Adams’s Oration” article from the Gazette and Mercury newspaper
Mount Holyoke Female Seminary article from Hampshire Gazette newspaper
“Enemies of the Dream” cartoon printed in Greenfield Recorder newspaper
“Influenza Returns- South Deerfield Had Severe Week With It” article from The Greenfield Recorder newspaper
Residence of Dwight L. Moody, East Northfield, Mass.
“Northfield”
$100 Reward for escaping enslaved man
Fan
The Common, Worthington, Mass.
WWI Cartoons
Red Cross Volunteers
River Road House
Trolley Car
“Plowing Sward”
Hoosac Tunnel Work Area
Ditch Plow
Mt. Sugar Loaf
“Influence of Schoolmasters” article from the Greenfield Gazette and Franklin Herald newspaper
Shelburne Falls, Mass.
WWI letter to Emily Gladys Bartlett
Horn spoon
Thank you letter from Mrs. Hooper to Miss Wilson for supplies for Civil War soldiers
“A Catalogue of the Books contained in the Chicopee Town Library, together with general regulations of the same.”
Main Street and Webster Block. Northfield, Mass.
Lidded Hanging Pot
Geo. N. Kidder & Company, Main Floor
Timothy Edwards’ Sermon Notes
“The King’s Palace”
Judy Austin or “There are green monkeys in the garden”
“Andrews Family”
WWI letter to Emily Gladys Bartlett
Teapot
Thaxter Scott House
“Turners Falls”
Pages on Communism from “The Challenge to Liberty”
Jeanne D’ Arc Performance
Leaders in Congress to Shut off all Immigration article in The Gazette and Courier newspaper
Receipt of Caleb Phillips
View Along the Cold River, Eastern Slope of Mohawk Trail
Letter to George and Elizabeth Fuller
Wallhanging-Two Red Roses Across the Moon
Atlatl or spear throwing weight
Cornelius Kelley (1873-1954)
Woman with Stereoptican Viewer
Ceramic Pipe
“Girl with Dulcimer”
Conway Road House