Browse Our Collection
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.
Search Our Collection
Go to the Search/Find page to search for collection items.
If you’d like help, Exploring the Online Collection is a brief explanation about our search engine and how best to use it to find what you’re looking for. For detailed curatorial information, you can browse our curatorial website.
Lamson & Goodnow Manufacturing Company building with founder
“Congress passes $40 billion to fight terrorism” article from The Recorder newspaper
My First Automobile
“Spinet”
“Influenza Returns- South Deerfield Had Severe Week With It” article from The Greenfield Recorder newspaper
Gravestone of John Williams Jr.
King Street, Northampton, Mass.
Sketch of the Union Naval Attack on Charleston Harbor
Deerfield Town Meeting
“County Anti-Slavery Meeting” article from Gazette and Mercury newspaper
“South Deerfield Briefs- School Exhibition at South Deerfield”
“Outrages on Colored Soldiers” article from the National Anti-Slavery Standard newspaper
Descent of Holy Spirit Ukrainian Catholic Church
“Franklin Does Her Share” article published in Greenfield Gazette and Mercury newspaper
Go and No-Go Thread and Plug Gages
Bill to Elijah Fuller regarding cotton
“History of Deerfield”
“The Importance of Female Influence in the Support of Religion. A Sermon, delivered to a charitable Female Association”
Confederate bond
“Narrative of Sojourner Truth, A Northern Slave, Emancipated From Bodily Serviture By the State of New York in 1828”
“Red Winter Sunset”
“T. F. Library Report Says ‘Depression Reading’ Ends” article from Greenfield Daily Recorder-Gazette newspaper
Little Jack of All Trades, with Suitable Representations. Part I
Letter to George Sheldon regarding trolley
Uniform Hat
WWI letter to Emily Gladys Bartlett
Looking Up Sugarloaf Street
“800 Troops See Dummy ‘A-Bomb’ At Fort Devens” article in Greenfield Recorder-Gazette newspaper
Banister Back Side Chair
Edge of Settlement
Partial letter to Louisa Higginson from son regarding politics and slavery
Necklace
Niagara Falls pincushion
“Will Hutchins Manages Yale Plays”
Parts Manufacturing Company Memorial Plaque of WWII losses
Arms Manufacturing Company
“The Old Porch” Ashfield House, Ashfield, Mass.
Deerfield Inn and Trolley
“Two Art Lectures”
Souvenir Folder of Mohawk Trail, Mass.
Shot pouch
Inventory of Charles Hart Ashley
Beaver comb
“Hints to School Masters” article from the Greenfield Gazette and Franklin Herald newspaper
Apron
Sign-“A. Boyden’s Hotel”
Main Street, Conway, Mass.
WWI Message to Edward Roswell Wirt
Mitch Mieczkowski
Connery House, Westhampton, Mass.
Four-legged Washtub
Clock works
“Coleraine/Leyden”
Photos of town of Ware and other Mass. towns from “The Complete Historical Record of New England’s Stricken Area, 9-21-1938”
Proposal of the 14th Amendment by Congress article from the Gazette and Courier newspaper
Letter to George Sheldon regarding trolley
“Town Welfare Costs Far Below 1933 But Old Age Equals Entire 1924 Bill” article from Greenfield Daily Recorder-Gazette newspaper
Two-handled cups
“Jeanne D’Arc At Vaucouleurs”
Excerpts from Rev. Robert Crawford’s diary about labor issues, Haymarket and Westfield Normal School
Cinnamon and Wintergreen Extracts made by The Toiletine Company
“Greenfield 200th Anniversary” plate
Mt. Sugarloaf and Trolley
“Union and Liberty”
Tax Receipt of Justin Hitchcock
“Fort River”
Moccasins
Conway House, Conway, Mass.
“Will Geer, Movie Actor, Keeps Silent on Past” article from the Greenfield Recorder-Gazette newspaper
George Sheldon (1818-1916)
“White Church Deerfield Mass Built 1838”
“The Falls, Shelburne Falls, Mass.”
Mirror
Excerpts from the diary of George Fuller
Cane
Florida Wagon Train
Sign-“Who would Turn Back 2 Hundred Yeare, Let him A light & Enter Here”
Pickling Plant
Letter printed in article form to Thomas Jefferson from Benjamin Banneker in the Greenfield Gazette newspaper
Riverside Inn, Chester, Mass.
WWII Sugar Purchase Certificate
No.3A Folding Pocket Kodak Camera
Mitchell’s Primary Geography. An Easy Introduction to the Study of Geography
“An American”
War club
Mt. Toby, Montague, Mass.
WWII Air Raid Warning Instructions Card
Whale-oil Lamp
Main Street, showing Baptist and Congregational Church, Shelburne Falls, Mass.
Depot
Ceramic Pipe
Dress
Russell Cutlery Company Birds-Eye View
Canteen
Mount Hermon, Mass., Science and Recitation Halls
French Document Fan
Butter Knife
Birth Place of D. L. Moody, East Northfield, Mass.
Racetrack and Grandstand, Eastern States Expo.
“True Heroes” article from scrapbook kept by Celia M. Kimball
Lake Pleasant
“Lieut. Genl. Ulysses S. Grant U.S.A.”
Level
“Violence Seen Probable in D.C. Demonstration” article from The Greenfield Recorder newspaper
Letters to Capt. Shays and General Shepard published in the Hampshire Gazette
Map of the Nipmuck or Nipmuck Country compiled from a 1774 Survey published in “The Old Indian Chronicle”
“Aid for Ireland” article in Hampshire Gazette newspaper reprinted from Springfield Republican newspaper
“Amherst House.”
Side Chair
Reward of Merit to Luella May
Winter Headquarters of the 2nd Brigade 3rd Division 2nd Corps, Stony Mountain, Virginia
Lilla and Mary Ella Childs (1854-1942)
Old Stone Mill, Turner’s Falls, Mass.
“American Flag house and Betsy Ross Memorial Association Membership certificate”
Greenfield Public Library Mutule Block
Glass Dish
Military Commission of Lemuel Taylor
Foot Warmer
“Wage and Dispute at Monroe Bridge Causes Dismissal of Score in Department” article from the Greenfield Daily Recorder newspaper
Letter to Dennis Stebbins
Components of a Proximity Fuze made by Raytheon Manufacturing Company during WWII
Screen Panel-“The Peacock”
“Regulations For the Government of the Schools in the Town of Deerfield”
Main Street
Pot Hook
Business Letter to Dennis Stebbins
New England Primer
“Motives for Well-Doing. A Sermon, Delivered in Northampton, August 24, 1815. Before the Hampshire Missionary Society”
“Mount Holyoke” sonnet on the death of Mary Lyon
Old Indian House Door on Exhibit
“Alton-Mob-Murder and Arson” article from the Hampshire Gazette newspaper
Dr. Joseph Goodhue (1762-1849)
“President Still Hopes for Peace” article in The Greenfield Recorder-Gazette newspaper
Elizabeth Brooks Fuller (1896-1979) painting
“Statistical Information Relating to Certain Branches of Industry in Massachusetts, For the Year Ending May 1, 1865”
Letter to Aaron Fuller from son Elijah
Coal Wagon
Letter from Shays’ officers to John Brown of Whately published in Hampshire Gazette newspaper
Will of Ephraim Williams
Botany notes from schoolbook belonging to Agnes Higginson
“Allies, Arise!”
View looking down from North Main Street, Orange, Mass.
Janet Russell (1886-1981) and William Russell
“Select School at Buckland”
Cupboard
“Manual of Instruction in the Use of Dumb Bells and Indian Clubs & Other Exercises”
“Fugitive Slave”
Canal Construction
Letter to Agnes Gordon Cochran Higginson regarding slavery and democracy
Beaded Bag
“Cloth from the Mill” advertisement
The Weldon Garage
Formerly enslaved man gives talk in Northfield
Letter to Mary (Polly) Ashley
Daffodil bowl
Rail Road, Station, Northampton, Mass.
Samuel Willard Saxton (1829-1933)
Stoneware Jug
Deerfield Grammar School Class
WWII letter regarding African Americans
Teapot
“New Salem”
“Ku-Klux-Klan” article in the Gazette and Courier newspaper
“Census of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts: 1895” Volume V
“Catalogue of the State Normal School at Westfield, Mass., for the year ending July 29, 1860”
Clothes Wringer
“Modern Crusading” article from the Franklin Herald newspaper with reply
Fisher’s Garage Mechanics
Sugarloaf Street with Trolley
Birchbark wastepaper basket
WWII ration books and case
“Address to the Ladies”poem in Hampshire Gazette newspaper
“RA” Carved Chest
Hoosac Tunnel, Looking out from West Portal, Mass
A Sequel to Webster’s Elementary Spelling Book
“Dovecote Aviary”
Timothy Edwards’ Sermon Notes
“Increase in the Slave Population in the United States” article from the Greenfield Gazette and Franklin Herald newspaper
“Caroll & Queen’s Double Clog Dance”
Letter from Rev. Henry H. Barber to his daughter Alice B. Coleman re: Boss Politics
Franklin County Cadet -1845
Cheese press
Bullets
Letter from Cynthia Williams to brother William Stoddard Williams
“And White As Well” editorial from Greenfield Recorder newspaper
“An Atlas of the Quabbin Valley Past and Present”
Convalescent Soldiers
“The Mill”
Excerpts from “A Key to Uncle Tom’s Cabin Presenting the Original Facts and Documents Upon Which the Story is Founded”
Admiral Francis John Higginson Epaulettes with Case
“Americans With The Wrong Ancestors”
Doily
Military Commission of Lt. Colonel Joseph Stebbins (1749-1816)
Hair Pin Curve, Showing Stamford Valley
Resignation of William Stoddard Williams as surgeon
Wallhanging-“The Blue Pool”
Native Carrying Captive, Eunice Williams
Wallhanging-Rose Tree
Pages from the diary of Martha Cochran
Wedding Dress