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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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Mrs. Esther Williams’ inventory
Deerfield – Talk on “Color”
“Blacksmith’s Shop”
World War II Duffle Bag
Granby and Huntington
“Learning to Sew”
Syringes with Case
Williamsburgh, Massachusetts
Whale-oil Lamp
WWII Air Raid Warning Instructions
44 Sugarloaf Street
Westfield State Teachers’ College
Glass Pistol
Five Children and a Buggy
Mt. Sugarloaf
“Turners Falls, Mass. Industrial Plants, General View below Falls”
Red Rock
“An Act providing for the Pay and Subsistence of the Militia”
Goggles with Case
“Lieut. Genl. Ulysses S. Grant U.S.A.”
Powder Horn
Sugar Loaf, South Deerfield, Mass.
Abraham Lincoln
WWI letter to Emily Gladys Bartlett
“Call for more Missionaries” article from the Franklin Herald newspaper
Quitclaim of land in Deerfield, Massachusetts
Milk Bottle
Train Wreck along the Deerfield River
Group of Toy Soldiers
The Ashfield House, Ashfield, Mass.
“Making Baskets”
Handicraft Vol. IV, No. 7 – symbols
Deerfield Town Meeting
George Fuller (1822-1884)
“Deerfield Street”- Rebuttal on Monuments
“The Young Ladies Book: A Manual of Elegant Recreations, Exercises, and Pursuits”
“Black Tragedy-” editorial from Greenfield Recorder newspaper
Arms Manufacturing Company
Petition for Reimbursement by Major Salah Barnard
Wampum shells
Athol images from “Picturesque Worcester, Part II- North”
South Hadley Center, Mass.
“Universal Geography, Ancient and Modern: Comparison and Classification”
WWI Message to Edward Roswell Wirt
Bevel Square
“Catalogue of Books in the Deerfield Agricultural Library”
Platter
Excerpts from the diary of George Fuller
Broadside of Abraham Lincoln’s elegy
Hampshire House, Ware, Mass.
Lidded tankard
Birthplace of Sophia Smith, Hatfield, Mass. Founder of Smith College
“Franklin County to get C.C. Corps Camps in Four of State Forests at Once” article from Greenfield Daily Recorder-Gazette paper
Sign-“A. Boyden’s Hotel”
Deerfield Meadows
“A Busy Corner in Greenfield”
“The Decision of the Supreme Court” article in the Franklin Democrat newspaper
Tin-Glazed Earthenware Plate
Trammel Hook
Warrant for Train Band parade
“Disgraceful” article about mob at Garrison Abolition Society’s anniversary celebration from the Gazette and Courier newspaper
Hatfield, Massachusetts
“True Heroes” article from scrapbook kept by Celia M. Kimball
“Sundry Items”- military figures for states
“Local Council of Unemployed Has 230 Members” article from the Greenfield Daily Recorder-Gazette newspaper
Partial Civil War letter from Annie Higginson to her sister, Agnes Fuller
“Buckland Female School” ad from the “Greenfield Gazette and Franklin Herald” newspaper
E. C. Brown Store
Ceramic Pipe
South Deerfield Grammar School
“Dropout” cartoon from Greenfield Recorder-Gazette newspaper
“Practical Instructions for Military Officers”
“Log Drive Passing Turners Falls” article in Greenfield’s Gazette and Courier newspaper
Moonlight View of Orange, Mass.
“A Manual Containing Information Respecting the Growth of the Mulberry Tree, with Suitable Directions for the Culture of Silk”
Deerfield Town Meeting
“Manual of Instruction in the Use of Dumb Bells and Indian Clubs & Other Exercises”
“Temperance Meeting” article from the Greenfield Gazette and Franklin Herald newspaper
School Street Looking East, Athol, Mass.
Letter to daughter, Dorothy Ashley
Flax Wheel
Letter to Gertrude Porter Ashley
Threadwell Tap and Die Company’s Tap & Die set made in WWII
Iron Axe
Lusterware Teapot
Hoosac Tunnel
“Darling Expands Parts Manufacturing Ten-Fold Since Firm Started in 1940” article from Greenfield Recorder-Gazette newspaper
Raffia Basket
“Girls Wanted” advertisement
“Deerfield”
Horses and Farmers
Mount Sugarloaf Summit House
“Boots, Shoes & Rubbers for Everybody at Sovereign’s Cash Shoe Store”
Basketry cup
Niddy-Noddy
Broom Tying Machine
Football players
Tilton Library
“Log Drive Nearly Past Turners”
“The Greek Slave” Statuette
Bobbin Lace
“The New McGuffey Second Reader”
“Hints to School Masters” article from the Greenfield Gazette and Franklin Herald newspaper
Letter to Dorothy Ashley Williams from her husband William Williams telling her of George Washington’s funeral
Phelps mourning embroidery
Hotel Lathrop, South Deerfield, Mass.
150 Anniversary, Bernardston, Mass.-Parade
Western slope showing North Adams
Pitcher with engine turned decoration
Stone gouge with modern haft
Page from Josiah Allen diary regarding Mill River Disaster Flood
Notes from Deerfield Town Meeting
“The Figures of Population” article from the Gazette and Courier newspaper
Memorial Hall Bedroom
Copyright Agreement for book entitled “Antiquarian Researches”
Postcard to George Sheldon regarding trolley debate
“Purple Shadow”
“Eulogy on King Philip as Pronounced at the Odeon”
Man’s vest
“Heath”
Letter to Leon Weeks from Raytheon Company
WWI Uniform of Lt. Henry N. Flynt
Teapot
Rhoda Smith Bardwell (1775-1818)
“F. E. Field” store sign
Editorial “To the Public” on the Constitution published in the Hampshire Gazette
Covered birchbark container
Deerfield Potatoes Bag
“Pomegranate”
“Stevens May Resign If He Does Not Receive Support From Eisenhower” article from Greenfield Recorder-Gazette newspaper
On the way to School
Writ against Standish Foster by Daniel Coon
“A Soldier’s Dream”
“Aid for Ireland” article in Hampshire Gazette newspaper reprinted from Springfield Republican newspaper
WWII Draft Registration Card of Caryll Crafts
Bottle
High Chest of Drawers
Poem on Shays’ Rebellion from The New-Haven Gazette and The Connecticut Magazine newspaper
“Yosemite Falls”
Deerfield Town Warrant
Violinist and Pianist
“Alton-Mob-Murder and Arson” article from the Hampshire Gazette newspaper
“Woman’s Work” editorial from Greenfield Daily Recorder-Gazette newspaper
Officers of the 44th Massachusetts Regiment Volunteers
“Jemima or The Witch of Bender”
“Suffrage Canvass Success” article from The Greenfield Recorder newspaper
The First Home of Masonry in Western Massachusetts Built 1750. Orange, Mass.
“For the Gazette and Mercury” a Pro-slavery newspaper article
Fork
Pages from “Home and Community Hygiene- A Text-book of Personal and Public Health”
Civil War Patriotic Covers or Envelopes
“The Illustrated American Biography; Containing Correct Portraits of The Principal Actors in American History”
Trombone
“Deerfield Centre/South Deerfield”
Journal of Sarah Howe on Shays’ Rebellion
Northampton (and Easthampton)
“Shoe and Leather Dealers’ Convention” article in The Hampshire Gazette newspaper
Tent Tobacco Fields from Mt. Sugarloaf
Admiral Francis John Higginson (1843-1931) presentation sword
“Aid for Ireland” article from Gazette and Courier newspaper
Springfield, Mass. Court Square
Common, South Deerfield, Mass.
Sugarloaf Street with Trolley
“Give Me Three Grains of Corn, Mother” poem in the Hamsphire Gazette newspaper
Map of the Nipmuck or Nipmuck Country compiled from a 1774 Survey published in “The Old Indian Chronicle”
Boston Commonwealth report of speech of Dana in behalf of Davis re: fugitive Shadrich article in Gazette and Courier newspaper
Burl bowl
“Haying in Fuller Swamp”
Pages from the diary of Martha Cochran
Extracting Ice
“Recalling Irish Muscle that built Mass. Railroads” article from Daily Hampshire Gazette newspaper
“Hawley”
Hilltop Farm
“Oil Cinnamon Cordial” advertisement
Samuel Willard Saxton (1829-1933)
Meeting Hall
Ear trumpet
Bayonet
Caroline Stebbins Sheldon (1789-1865) Sampler
Doll “Joel Ellis”
Millstone
“Irish Immigration” article from the Greenfield Gazette and Franklin Herald newspaper
“Hatfield Ferry, Hatfield, Mass.”
First Church of Deerfield Interior
Group of Toy Soldiers
Logging at the Oxbow on the Connecticut River near Holyoke, Mass.
Doctor’s certificate for disenrollment of military service for Eratus Clapp
Keyed Bugle
“Pocumtuck Memorial Hall Perspective View”
Knife
“The Silk Culturist”
Proposal of the 14th Amendment by Congress article from the Gazette and Courier newspaper
Flute
Spinning Jenny
Lilla and Mary Ella Childs (1854-1942)
Tea kettle
Bill from Deerfield Selectmen for Military Supplies used in Shays’ Rebellion
Blueberry basket
“Deerfield Academy Cooking Class Entertains”
Wrought-iron lampstand and lamp