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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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“Main Street, Williamsburg, Mass.”
Letter to Zadock Hawks
Raw Silk
Pendants
“Statistical Information Relating to Certain Branches of Industry in Massachusetts, For the Year Ending May 1, 1865”
South Hadley Center, Mass.
Edward Hitchcock (1793-1864)
“Montague Center”
Title page from “Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly”
“The Slave Trade – The Administration”
“Improvement In Champooing And Hair Dyeing”
Elijah Williams Day Book
Fuller House, “The Bars”
Disqualification Act broadside issued by Gov. James Bowdoin during Shays’ Rebellion
Mary P. Wells Smith (1840-1930) and Grandsons
Unidentified Girl
“T. F. Library Report Says ‘Depression Reading’ Ends” article from Greenfield Daily Recorder-Gazette newspaper
Camphene Lamp
Royalston
Main Street from Smith College, Northampton, Mass.
The Whale Inn, On Route 9, Goshen, Mass.
“Haying in Fuller Swamp”
Rudiments of Geography
“U.S. Planes Hit North Vietnam… ” article in The Greenfield Record-Gazette newspaper
Lake Pleasant Founders
Mt. Sugar Loaf, South Deerfield, Mass.
Glass Bottle
Excerpt from James Childs Hitchcock’s Civil War Military Journal
“GAR Personal War Sketches presented to Myron E. Stowell Post No. 84”
“Soldiers in King Philip’s War…”
Tea gown or Dressing gown
Flax break
Officers of the 44th Massachusetts Regiment Volunteers
Ice Harvesting Demonstration
First Church of Deerfield Pewter Flagon
Order and results of physical exam on Thomas Williams Ashley
Frank Dahowski, Wallingford, England
“High Court Bars Alien Deportation” article in Greenfield Recorder-Gazette newspaper
Letter from Justin Hitchcock to Mr. and Mrs. Hoyt
“Annual Report of the Treasurer, Selectmen, and School Committee, To the Inhabitants of the Town of Deerfield”
Photograph Postcard “Second Baptist Church”
“The Old Conkey Tavern” from “The History of the Town of Amherst”
Colonel Elihu Hoyt Military Commission
“Sharpening the Scythe”
Avenue A Stores
“Growth and Future of the Nation” article from the Gazette and Courier newspaper
Farm House
Excerpts from “Profiles of the Past An illustrated history of Ashburnham, Gardner Hubbardston,Templeton, Westminster, Winchendon”
Raffia and Other Baskets
Indenture between Justin Hitchcock and Moses Church
Connecticut Valley
“Remarks and Observations” by Justin Hitchcock
“Reservoir Disaster” article from the Gazette and Courier newspaper
“Greenfield 200th Anniversary” plate
“Greenfield Granite and Marble Co.” advertisement
Pages from the “Records of the Female Benevolent Society of the Town of Deerfield”
“To the Public” statement from the publisher of the Hampshire Gazette newspaper
Carpetbag
Plot plan of land owned by Joseph Barnard
“Roman Catholic Provincial Council” article from the Greenfield Gazette and Franklin Herald newspaper
Examination Ball Invitation
“Outrages on Colored Soldiers” article from the National Anti-Slavery Standard newspaper
Florida Wagon Train
Letter from John Pynchon
Broom Pounder
Proclamation by the Governor of The Compulsory Work Law
The Manual Alphabet for the Deaf and Dumb
“Police, Protesters Clash” article from The Greenfield Recorder newspaper
Warrant of Distress of Benoni Grover of Montague
Marbles
Bake Kettle
Bit Stock
Main Street
Writing Armchair
“Tracing The Fall And Rise Of Greenfield Business For 14 Years” graph from Greenfield Recorder-Gazette newspaper
Wales St, Wales, Mass.
Letter to Colonel Israel Williams
“Arrest of a Fugitive Slave in Boston” article from Gazette and Courier newspaper
School Street Looking East, Athol, Mass.
Agawam Cong’l Church
South Deerfield article from Gazette and Courier newspaper
Rock Cut on Mountainside, Mt. Tom
Young Men’s Christian Association Meeting
“Ononko’s Vow”
Eleanor Brown Stebbins (1875-1955) (Mrs. Benjamin Stebbins) Washing a Child’s Hand
Letter to Elijah Dwight Williams
“Drama Vs. Reality” editorial from Greenfield Recorder-Gazette newspaper
Letter to Aaron Fuller from son George re: slave market
Letter printed in article form to Thomas Jefferson from Benjamin Banneker in the Greenfield Gazette newspaper
Abenaki Knitting basket
Austin Towers’ receipt from the Shelburne Falls Marble Co.
Reward of Merit to Amos Hamilton
Jim Pasiecnik
“Winter”
Union Battery Invoice for Cannon and Expenses
Will of Persis Sheldon
Alabaster sculpture
Shampoo and Lotion products made by The Toiletine Company
Deerfield Inn and Trolley
“Polly Wright’s parrot”
Red Cross Volunteers
WWI letter to Emily Gladys Bartlett
Williamsburgh, Massachusetts
B. and M. Freight Yard
The First Home of Masonry in Western Massachusetts Built 1750. Orange, Mass.
Colonel Hugh Maxwell’s Certificate of Membership into the Mass. Society for Agriculture
Door Curtain-Espaliered Rose
Sugarloaf Street with Trolley
Brass Skimmer
Pitch pipe
WWII letter on African-Americans
The Reformed Pastor
Coach Unloading Costumed Passengers
Toy Train
Franklin County Cadet -1845
Northampton, Mass. Glimpse of Main Street, showing Draper Hotel
Letter to George Sheldon regarding trolley
Wysocki Onion Storage
Letter to George and Elizabeth Fuller
Beaded Bag
“The Good Cow”
Couple in 18th Century Costume
Glass tumblers
Whitworth Hand Tap & Die Set
Woman with Stereoptican Viewer
Ketchup Bottle
“An American”
Pages on Communism from “The Challenge to Liberty”
Lake Pleasant Cottage
“Buckland”
“Miss Lucy Stone” article from Gazette and Courier newspaper
Mail Rider
“Will Hutchins Chosen President”
Letter to Deerfield Assessors by Colonel Elihu Hoyt
Child’s highchair
Civil War letter from Thomas Wentworth Higginson to his brother Stephen
“Falls and Dam. Chicopee Falls, Mass.”
“Alphabet Soup” editorial from Greenfield Daily Recorder-Gazette newspaper
Ball Invitation for Stephen West Williams
“The American Duroc-Jersey Swine Breeders Association”
Letter to Christopher Tyler Arms from Rodolphus Dickinson on Independence and duel between Burr and Hamilton
Cruet Set
Illustrated Trade card of William Jackson’s Brazen Head shop
View Along Cold River, Eastern Slope of Mohawk Trail
Reverend Samuel Willard (1776-1859)
Admiral Francis John Higginson (1843-1931) presentation sword
“The Wood Road”
Broomcorn broom
Letter to Lt. James Stewart regarding Insurgents
“Slavery Notice” article from Gazette and Mercury newspaper
Hoosac Tunnel Work Area
Pages from John Williams Daybook
Deerfield Academy/ Dickinson High School
Red Cross Club, Marseiles, France
“Views On And About Mt. Tom And Of Mt. Tom Railroad”
Notice to General Shepard regarding disarming his militia published in the Hampshire Gazette newspaper
Pages from “Home and Community Hygiene- A Text-book of Personal and Public Health”
Armory, Greenfield, Mass.
The Fire at the Hotel Warren
Hillside Road House
Wine decanter
Steatite Vessel
Women dancing with sheaves of wheat
Frank Dahowski with a German Field Gun
Zebulon Graves invoice for use of horse
Camp Meeting Residence
Line of Ox Carts
Academy of Music and Baptist Church
Bride
Settlement of the Estate of John Stebbins
Letter to George Fuller from wife Agnes regarding Christmas
“Junior Exhibition”
Workingmen’s Association broadside
Shot pouch
Sewing Machine
Painted Tobacco Bag
Handicraft Vol I No. VII – “The Movement for Village Industries”
Athol
“Deerfield”
“The African Slave Trade”
“Taking Tea”
Rail Road, Station, Northampton, Mass.
Letter to Agnes Gordon Cochran Higginson regarding slavery and democracy
Shoes of William Dorrell (1752-1846)
Pocketbook
“Picturesque Hampshire”
Deerfield Town Meeting
Town of Leverett Bill to John Clapp Jr. for Rufus Clary
Redware Platter
Gluing Clamp
Flintlock Musket
Connecticut River Bridge
WWI Uniform of Lt. Henry N. Flynt
River Street in Conway
Bridge over Deerfield River, Shelburne Falls, Mass.
Lucy Henry (1843-1927) (Mrs. David Henry) Netting
“Departure of the Missionaries” article from the Greenfield Gazette and Franklin Herald newspaper
“Anti-Slavery Convention” article from Greenfield Gazette and Franklin Herald newspaper
Civil War letter to Ella Melendy
“Why Should Suffrage Be Imposed on Women?