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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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“High Court Bars Alien Deportation” article in Greenfield Recorder-Gazette newspaper
Painting of J. Russell & Company Green River Works in 1834
“Sentenced to Death” article from Turners Falls Reporter newspaper on Haymarket rioters’ fate
Letter to Doctor Joseph Goodhue
“Girls Wanted” advertisement
Letter to John Sheldon
WWII letter regarding African Americans
German Bayonet
Honorable Dana Malone Residence
Broom Pounder
“Franklin Does Her Share” article published in Greenfield Gazette and Mercury newspaper
“A Trip To Boston”
Letter to Dennis Stebbins
“Negro Slavery in Massachusetts”
Letter from second headmaster of Deerfield Academy
Curling Iron
Young Woman with Guitar
George Fuller’s easel
Mt. Sugarloaf
Charles B. Arms
“Influence of Schoolmasters” article from the Greenfield Gazette and Franklin Herald newspaper
“Insist on Having Miner’s Flavoring Extracts” Ad from Gazette and Courier newspaper
Mason Jar
Cathcart Family Register
Sugar Box
“The Mill”
Arms Manufacturing Company workers
“Philosophy put into action” article on Juanita Nelson in The Recorder newspaper
Petition to General Shepard in the Hampshire Gazette
“The Sabrinian”
“Ambleside-After Storm”/”After Rain, Ambleside”/”Clearing off (Ambleside)”/”Clearing, Lake Country, England”
Excerpts from the Diary of Ruth Pease
“Turners Falls”
“The Silk Culturist”
“Greenfield & Gill”
“A Day Off”
Lincoln and Hamlin Election Ticket
“Souvenir of Orange, Mass”
Teapot – “Lafayette at the Tomb of Franklin”
Hoosac Tunnel North Adams, Mass.
“Deerfield’s Summer Plays”
Letter to George Sheldon regarding trolley
“A Manual Containing Information Respecting the Growth of the Mulberry Tree, with Suitable Directions for the Culture of Silk”
Bobbin Lace
Uniform Gloves
Letter to Commanding Officer in Guilford from Colrain’s Colonel Hugh McClellan regarding land disputes in New York
One-Room School in Wapping
Ditch Plow
Frances Stebbins Allen (1854-1941)
Petition to the Judges of the Superior Court
Mary Ann Marvin Hair Wreath and Photograph
Receipt for firearms of Theodore Barnard
Reverend Samuel Willard (1776-1859)
Arms Manufacturing Company
“Strictures on Female Education”
View from Jutting Rock, Mt. Sugarloaf
“Annual Report of the Town Officers of Deerfield for the Year Ending, Jan. 1st, 1915-Annual Report of the School Committee”
“Farmers Value Polish Help”
“Hadley-Style” Oak Chest
U. S. Post Office
Flute
WWI letter to Emily Gladys Bartlett
“Sanderson Academy” ad from the Greenfield Gazette and Franklin Herald newspaper
Beaded Horseshoe Souvenir
Excerpts from the diary of George Fuller
Table Knife
“Darling Expands Parts Manufacturing Ten-Fold Since Firm Started in 1940” article from Greenfield Recorder-Gazette newspaper
R. R. Station
WWI Cartoons
Estey Organ
Esther (Harding) Dickinson (1790-1875)
“Sally Come Up”
Lucy Henry (1843-1927) (Mrs. David Henry) Netting
“Shutesbury”
Audience perspective of Deerfield’s historical pageant
Continental Currency in various amounts
“WA” Chest with Drawer
Convalescent Soldiers and Nurse
“Mr. Hutchins’ Play”
Page from Josiah Allen diary regarding Mill River Disaster Flood
A Sequel to Webster’s Elementary Spelling Book
“Greenfield Lyceum” ad from the Gazette and Courier newspaper
“Andrews Family”
Letter from Cynthia Williams to brother William Stoddard Williams
Woman’s cap
Pages from John Partridge Bull’s account book
Ruth Strong Russell (1804-1869) Sampler
Shirred Rug depicting the Sheldon House
WWII Class 3 Fuel Oil Ration coupons
Gen. Shepard Memorial Monument, Westfield, Mass.
“UM Students Protest Move Into Cambodia” article in The Greenfield Recorder newspaper
“Class in Color Design”
Kostowah
“NRA Citizens Committee Told Factories Hired 225 More; Store Jobs Increase” article from Greenfield Daily Recorder-Gazette paper
Northampton, Mass., Insane Hospital, Drive-way and Entrance
Admiral Francis John Higginson (1843-1931)
Wedding Dress
“Deerfield Centre/South Deerfield”
Porringer
“Emigrants to Liberia” article from Gazette and Mercury newspaper
“Young People’s Camp Third Season Rowe, Mass. June 27-July 4, 1926”
WWI letter to Emily Gladys Bartlett
J. Wilson’s Improved Cast iron Plough
Notice to General Shepard regarding disarming his militia published in the Hampshire Gazette newspaper
“The World’s Work” – War Manual of the Great 1914 European Conflict
James Wells Champney (1843-1903)
“Turners Falls, Mass”
Breast Plate Hand Drill manufactured by Millers Falls Company
Silhouette of Abigail (Whitney) Chandler (1786-1833)
Illustrated Trade card of William Jackson’s Brazen Head shop
Sash
Some Apples and Potatoes – Eastern States Expo.
Old Tavern Sign, Blandford
Pages from “Those Green River Knives”
“Falls and Dam. Chicopee Falls, Mass.”
“Barbara Reading” or “Stolen Fruit”
Letter to George Sheldon regarding trolley
Road in Highland Park
“Catalogue of the State Normal School at Westfield, Mass., for the year ending July 29, 1860”
Letter to George Sheldon regarding trolley
“Church Wedding in Old Deerfield”
“The Foot Bridge”
“Gun Controls” editorial in Greenfield Recorder newspaper
“Jemima or The Witch of Bender”
“Narrative of Sojourner Truth, A Northern Slave, Emancipated From Bodily Serviture By the State of New York in 1828”
“Monument and Sugar-loaf Mountain, Deerfield”
“Holyoke Dam, Holyoke, Mass.”
Door Curtain-Espaliered Rose
Hand Stamp
Gospel Meeting Tent
“Union and Liberty”
Mount Hermon, Mass., Mount Hermon Chapel
Rudiments of Reading
Jennie Marie Arms Sheldon (1852-1938)
V-Day Brussels
Resolve ordering Selectmen of Deerfield to record the town’s deaf and dumb population
“The History of the Insurrections in Massachusetts in the year seventeen hundred and eighty six and the Rebellion”
Sap Bucket
Checkerboard
“Making Baskets”
“Geographical, Statistical & Historical View of the Town of Deerfield”
U. S. Arsenal and Grounds, Springfield, Mass.
Excerpts from “Profiles of the Past An illustrated history of Ashburnham, Gardner Hubbardston,Templeton, Westminster, Winchendon”
Electric Car Bridge over Deerfield River, Shelburne Falls, Mass.
Hotel Lathrop, South Deerfield, Mass.
Deerfield Academy Student Roster
Clay pipe
Calico Pocket
“Jeff Davis’ Proclamation”
“Deerfield Street”- Rebuttal on Monuments
“Deerfield” regarding Monument Banter
“America’s Triumph at Panama”
Letter to Governor James Bowdoin published in the Hampshire Gazette
Medicine cup
Plant of the Threadwell Tap & Die Company
Letter from James Wells Champney to Misses Baker & Coleman regarding trolley
“Hippies and the War” editorial from The Greenfield Recorder newspaper
Letter to Aaron Fuller from George Fuller
“Joseph Stebbins- A Pioneer at the Outbreak of the Revolution”
“Cronies”
Grammar School Class
Hospital in Vladivostok
Mitchell’s Primary Geography. An Easy Introduction to the Study of Geography
“Civilization rebuked by the savage” in “Gazette and Mercury” Newspaper
Tax Assessment notice for town of Buckland
“Potter’s Assistant”
“A Record of Sunderland in the Civil War of 1861 to 1865”
Turtle effigy pipe fragment
The Hockanum Ferry, Northampton to Hadley
High Chest of Drawers
Thomas Williams Ashley (1894-1918)
John Hawks paid 1714, promisory note to John Pynchon
The Constitution of the Deerfield Temperance Society
“Auction! The Lee Place”
Indenture of Sarah Green
Article about universal suffrage and freedom of elections in the Gazette and Mercury newspaper
Letter to Rebecca Williams from Brother Ephraim Williams, Jr. On Catholicism, etc.
Westfield State Teachers’ College
Moccasins
First Church of Deerfield Pewter Flagon
“Mill River Calamity” from “Harper’s Weekly”
Reward of Merit to Luella May
Powder Horn
“Red Electric” Washing and Wringing Machine
Fabric order for Orlando Ware’s store
“Home Affairs”- 100 Gun Salute to Lincoln
Horse and Surrey
Hillside Road House
Excerpts from Remembrance of Captain Park Holland and his participation in Shays’ Rebellion
The Hoosac Range Looking West from Moore’s Summit
Deerfield River
Perforators with modern haft
“Serious Riot” article regarding Irish Laborers reprinted in Franklin Democrat newspaper from the Hampshire Gazette newspaper
Fruit Dish
Letter to Stephen Higginson III from his father
“Plan of Sunderland Bridge over the Connecticut River”
Esther Williams’ Will
Map of Europe 1822
Fireboard
“Reward of Merit” presented to Minnie Flagg