People donate all sorts of unusual items to museums. This wooden sign, painted by Dorothea Hyde Allen in 1923, hung from a tree outside a tearoom and shop operated by Matilda Hyde in Deerfield, Massachusetts. When the shop closed, the sign was saved and donated to Memorial Hall Museum by a descendant, Frederick Hyde, in 1981. Without the sign to remind us, we may forget that Deerfield once had a shop where one could stop for afternoon tea.
Hyde, Dorothea. [Sign-“Who would Turn Back 2 Hundred Yeare, Let him A light & Enter Here”.] ca. 1923. Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association, American Centuries. https://americancenturies.org/collection/1981-03b/. Accessed on December 6, 2024.
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