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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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Brass Skimmer
Pages from the second Journal of Sarah Howe on Shays’ Rebellion
“The Pocumtuc Housewife; A Guide to Domestic Cookery”
Legal document of Debtor Joshua Sweet
Gen. Shepard Memorial Monument, Westfield, Mass.
Union Battery Invoice for Cannon and Expenses
“A Proclamation For A Day Of Thanksgiving and Praise”
Beaver comb
WWI letter to Emily Gladys Bartlett
Farren Memorial Hospital, Montague City, Mass.
“South Deerfield- To Build New School-House”
“Greenfield Granite and Marble Co.” advertisement
Public Vendue notice of Nathaniel Dickinson published in the Hampshire Gazette
Contract between Consider Dickinson and Gilbert Hoyt
Lilla and Mary Ella Childs (1854-1942)
Three Bridges over the Green River
“Government Ready to Buy Butter and Beef for Needy” article from Greenfield Daily Recorder-Gazette newspaper
Beadwork barrette
Holy Name of Jesus Church
“The Boy Scouts Year Book”
Young Woman with Guitar
Mt. Sugarloaf showing King Philip’s Seat
Sketches of Brazil & Chile by Jeremiah Madison Doe on his voyage from Massachusetts around Cape Horn to California
Moccasins
River Street in Conway
Hair Pin Curve, Showing Stamford Valley
Illustrated Trade card of William Jackson’s Brazen Head shop
“Ancient History of Pocomptuck or Deerfield…”.by Stephen West Williams
Title page from “Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly”
“Study by Candlelight”
“Haying”
Biography of W.E.B. DuBois in “Class of 1890”
Excerpts from the Diary of Ellen Louisa Arms (Sheldon)
Christening Dress
Footed Baptismal Basin
Candlewick Spread
Deerfield Post Office
Landscape of Irish Ruins
“Geographical, Statistical & Historical View of the Town of Deerfield”
Hotel Warren, South Deerfield, Mass.
Pages from “The Great South: A Record of Journeys” on cotton statistics in U.S.
Frary House at Open House
The Hoosac Range Looking West from Moore’s Summit
Moccasins
Hand Stamp
Tile: “Landing of the Pilgrims 1620”
Deerfield Town Warrant regarding making peace with Great Britain
Caroline Stebbins Sheldon (1789-1865) Sampler
Brass Skimmer
“White Church Deerfield Mass Built 1838”
Reticule
Excerpt from Massachusetts School Law of 1647
Coliseum Building, Eastern States Exposition
Letter from Shays’ officers to John Brown of Whately published in Hampshire Gazette newspaper
Burke Tavern Overmantel Panel
Captain John Wells’ Company Muster Roll
Page from Josiah Allen diary regarding Mill River Disaster Flood
“Mt. Holyoke Female Seminary” article in the Hampshire Gazette newspaper
Zebulon Graves invoice for use of horse
“Threadwell In New Industrial Era After Decades of Varying Fortunes” article from Greenfield Recorder-Gazette newspaper
Building Contract for Deerfield Street School
Cabinet of Nature
Bedwarmer
A Practical System of Modern Geography: or View of the Present State of the World
Extract of a Letter regarding fate of the insurgents published in the Hamsphire Gazette
Military Roster (Alarm List)
Writ and promissory note against John Wing of Conway
The First Home of Masonry in Western Massachusetts Built 1750. Orange, Mass.
Article by Pompey on President Jefferson in the Greenfield Gazette reprinted from the Massachusetts Spy newspaper
“For Whom Will the Irish Vote?” article from The Emancipator newspaper
Birchbark wastepaper basket
Bill of sale for J. Romanoo
Three Bridges over Green River
Wampum shells
“The Need of an Immigration Test” article from the Greenfield Gazette and Courier newspaper
“Scene on Green River, Greenfield, MA” Postcard
Shelburne Falls, Mass.
George Fuller (1822-1884) Studio
“Betty at the Churn”
Puritan Village patterns from “Historical Atlas of Massachusetts”
Reverend Samuel Willard (1776-1859)
Steatite Vessel
“Sacred Heart of Jesus”
Uniform Gloves
“GTD Makes John Grant’s Invention Known Around World” article from Greenfield Recorder-Gazette newspaper
Mary Electa Allen (1858-1941)
WWII ration books and case
“Making Baskets”
Franklin County Public Hospital
“The Dred Scott Case” article from the Gazette and Courier newspaper
“Letter from Mrs. L. M. Child” to Friend Garrison published in the National Anti-Slavery Standard newspaper
Painted Tobacco Bag
“The Silk Culturist”
Sign-“Olde Deerfield Doll House”
Field Memorial Library
Photos of town of Ware and other Mass. towns from “The Complete Historical Record of New England’s Stricken Area, 9-21-1938”
Promissory note to Joseph Goodhue
Excerpts from “Profiles of the Past An illustrated history of Ashburnham, Gardner Hubbardston,Templeton, Westminster, Winchendon”
Fans
“Sermons, No. II- How To Change Your Heart”
The Fire at the Hotel Warren
Camp Meeting Residence
Beaver Trap
Split Birch Broom
“Avery Oxen” Poster
“Increase in the Slave Population in the United States” article from the Greenfield Gazette and Franklin Herald newspaper
Wooden Canteen- Memorial Hall
Niagara Falls needle case
Farming with Oxen
The Electoral Vote article published in the Greenfield Gazette and Courier newspaper
New England Views on Boston and Maine R.R., Deerfield Valley
Petition in favor of trolley on Deerfield’s Main Street
Bifacial blade with modern haft
“Daily Graphic” newspaper illustration- ‘Birdseye View of the Williamsburgh Reservior with the Ruined Dam’
Petroglyphs/Pictographs
“Boots, Shoes & Rubbers for Everybody at Sovereign’s Cash Shoe Store”
Lee Brothers Shoe Factory Postcard
Mt. Sugarloaf with farmer
Franklin County Cadet -1845
Letter to Mary (Polly) Ashley
Kitchen Settle
“Immigrants in Industries, Part 24: Recent Immigrants in Agriculture” from Reports of
the Immigration Commission
Letter to John Williams
Letter to George Fuller from wife Agnes regarding Christmas
Two pages from diary of Sophronia Grout on Religious Revival
Sunderland Bridge and Sugar Loaf Mountain
Doll “Joel Ellis”
Delegates from abolitionist sector nominate Hubbard for Congressman article in Greenfield Gazette and Mercury newspaper
Roundabout Chair
“Coleraine/Leyden”
Land sale between Seth Sheldon & Alvah and Zur Hawks
“Deerfield Massacre And Burning of 200 Years Ago Early In Queen Anne’s War”
“Greenfield High School for Young Ladies”
“Greenfield, Mass.”
Cane
Whale Oil Lamp
Advertising Card from L. A. Cook & Co.
“Picturesque Hampden”
150 Anniversary, Bernardston, Mass.-Parade Float
Formerly enslaved man gives talk in Northfield
Old State House and Midway, Eastern States Expo.
C. V. Station
Editorial on “Sen. Joseph McCarthy” from the Greenfield Recorder-Gazette newspaper
Image of Beaver
Letter to George and Elizabeth Fuller
View from Jutting Rock, Mt. Sugarloaf
Nathaniel Lamson (1805-1866)
Complaint of Distress against Thomas Rose by Job Barstow
Silhouette of Caroline Stebbins Sheldon (1789-1865)
“Soldiers Memorial- Company F 34th Regt. Massachusetts Infty Vols.”
Birthplace of Sophia Smith, Hatfield, Mass. Founder of Smith College
Mt. Sugarloaf
“Scripture History, Abridged.”
Portrait of W. E. B. Du Bois
Spinning Jenny
Milk Pan
Doll “Diana”
Franklin County Agricultural Society Membership of Lester L. Luey
Lace Making Pillow
Silhouette of Deacon Justin Hitchcock (1752-1822)
Cold Water Pledge insignia
Reflector Oven/Roaster
WWII Air Raid Warning Instructions Card
Embroidery: Over the Bounding Waves
WWII Blackout Memo Deerfield Residents
Cornhusk Doll
Business Letter to Dennis Stebbins
“Negro Slavery in Massachusetts”
Post Rider, 1772-1773
Announcement of Marriage Intention of Wells & Hoyt
Kelley’s blacksmith sign
Ellen Miller (1854-1929)
“Tribute to American Ladies” article from the Greenfield Gazette and Franklin Herald newspaper
Charles B. Arms
American Photographic Appliance Corporation’s Presto Printer (Photo-Enlarger)
Avery Oxen Show Admission Ticket
Electric Car Bridge over Deerfield River, Shelburne Falls, Mass.
Sewing Machine
Arms Manufacturing Company workers
“Arrival of Missionaries” article from the Greenfield Gazette and Franklin Herald newspaper
150 Anniversary, Bernardston, Mass.-horse and buggy
“Lieut. Genl. Ulysses S. Grant U.S.A.”
Hospital in Vladivostok
Letter to Mary Cochran from daughter Martha Cochran regarding Miss Martineau
Old Green River Mill
Camp Meeting Residence
Deerfield Potatoes Bag
Edge of Settlement
One-Room School in Wapping
High wheel bicycle
Armed Railroad Car
“Proportions and Directions for Making Lee’s Patent Mineral and Vegetable Soap”
“Keep them smiling”- WWI broadside
Mary, Mabel and Frank Colcord
Trench Art
Streetscape – Royalston Common
“From the Worcester Magazine” article in Hampshire Gazette on Shays’ Rebellion insurgents
“A Puritan Maiden”
“Olde Deerfield Dolls”
“Deerfield Centre/South Deerfield”