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Official Bulletin of the Mohawk Klan
Women Vote article published in Gazette and Courier
Clothing Allotment from Deerfield to Soldiers
Notice of non-payment of taxes from Conway article published in the Hampshire Gazette
Broomcorn broom
Letter printed in the Hampshire Gazette regarding selecting convention delegate
Writ of Amasa Smith against Abel Densmore
Lamson & Goodnow Manufacturing Company building with founder
Dr. Clara M. Greenough
“Charlemont”
“Black Tragedy-” editorial from Greenfield Recorder newspaper
Pocketbook
“Narrative of Sojourner Truth, A Northern Slave, Emancipated From Bodily Serviture By the State of New York in 1828”
Letter to John Sheldon
Avenue A Stores
“Decorative Painting”
German Prisoners
Flintlock Musket
African-American woman sewing
Excerpts from Remembrance of Captain Park Holland and his participation in Shays’ Rebellion
“Alphabet Soup” editorial from Greenfield Daily Recorder-Gazette newspaper
“Disgraceful” article about mob at Garrison Abolition Society’s anniversary celebration from the Gazette and Courier newspaper
Beaded Moccasins
Contract between Consider Dickinson and Gilbert Hoyt
Planting Potatoes
Janet Russell (1886-1981) and William Russell
Receipt of Caleb Phillips
“President Welcomed- Colonel Roosevelt given enthusiastic greeting in our towns” article in The Greenfield Recorder
“Statistical Information Relating to Certain Branches of Industry in Massachusetts, For the Year Ending May 1, 1865”
Memorial Service text for Thomas Williams Ashley
Admiral Francis John Higginson (1843-1931) presentation sword
Petersham Town Records on Shays’ Rebellion
Two pages from diary of Sophronia Grout on Religious Revival
Mt. Sugar Loaf, South Deerfield, Mass.
“The Census of Massachusetts: 1875, Vol. II”
Piano
Old Tavern Sign, Blandford
Hospital Ward
Main Street, Looking North. Whately, Mass.
Depot
Excerpts from “Reminiscences of Fugitive-Slave Law Days in Boston”
“A Busy Corner in Greenfield”
Girls Basketball team, Deerfield Academy
Paint Pigments
Bulge Pot
“Monument and Sugar-loaf Mountain, Deerfield”
“Taking Tea”
Souvenir Snowshoes
Account book of Zebulon White & James Strathern
Elijah Williams Day Book
Civil War letter to Ella Melendy
“Burly Log Drivers Up River Start Biggest Drive Ever Seen”
“Sermon preached to 1st Congregational Society in Deerfield, Mass. and in the Hearing of Several Indians of Both Sexes Supposed”
Colonel Elihu Hoyt notification to appear at military parade
Hoosac Tunnel North Adams, Mass.
“800 Troops See Dummy ‘A-Bomb’ At Fort Devens” article in Greenfield Recorder-Gazette newspaper
Civil War letter from Thomas Wentworth Higginson to his brother Stephen
Unidentified Girl
“Deerfield and Bernardston Accept PWA; Northfield Rejects School Proposal” article from Greenfield Daily Recorder-Gazette paper
Chamber Pot
Torquetum or astronomical apparatus
“Outrages on Colored Soldiers” article from the National Anti-Slavery Standard newspaper
Town of Leverett Bill to John Clapp Jr. for Rufus Clary
Ashley-Williams House and Wagons/ A. Boyden Hotel
“Farm for Sale”
“Original Deerfield Workers Show Skills at Crafts”
Lake Pleasant Founders
“True Stories of New England Captives”
Main Street from Smith College, Northampton, Mass.
Cartridge box
Letter to Elihu Ashley
“Bernardston”
“Religious Anniversaries” article from Greenfield Gazette and Franklin Herald newspaper
Partial letter to Louisa Higginson from son regarding politics and slavery
44 Sugarloaf Street
“Increase in the Slave Population in the United States” article from the Greenfield Gazette and Franklin Herald newspaper
Crematory Key
“Committee Recommends Senate Censure McCarthy, Charges He Treated Group Contemptuously” article from Greenfield Recorder-Gazette
Pocumtuck Basket Makers
The Country Builder’s Assistant
“A Visit” in the Gazette and Mercury Newspaper
Seating of the Meeting House
“Plan of the Town of Deerfield”
Kate Melvina Newton Wiley (1851-1911)
Mitch Mieczkowski
Edward Swan’s Pickle Works on the Elm Street
Down the Slope and Approaching Hair Pin Turn
Shelburne Committee addresses Selectmen of Deerfield in Town Warrant
Beaded Bag
Writing Armchair
Tea Room
Millstone
“History and Proceedings of the Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association”
Milk Pan
Pages from John Partridge Bull’s account book
“Violence Seen Probable in D.C. Demonstration” article from The Greenfield Recorder newspaper
Deerfield Town Meeting
Young Woman with Guitar
Michael Waskiewicz
“Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral”
Capture of Dr. Pomery by Insurgents article published in the Hampshire Gazette
Peony Quilt
Three Panel Screen Embroidered with Trees
Conway Road House
John Hawks paid 1714, promisory note to John Pynchon
Looking toward Village from Baptist hill
Pages from John Williams Daybook
Mount Holyoke Female Seminary article from Hampshire Gazette newspaper
“Child with Pussies” or “Polly and the Pussy Willows”
High Chest of Drawers
“Strictures on Female Education”
“Immigration Restrictions Tightened to Alleviate Unemployment Situation” article from the Greenfield Daily Recorder newspaper
Glass Pistol
Side Chair
Birchbark mukak
“Tribute to American Ladies” article from the Greenfield Gazette and Franklin Herald newspaper
Rudiments of Reading
Order for provisions for governmental troops during Shays’ Rebellion
Birth Place of D. L. Moody, East Northfield, Mass.
Native Carrying Captive, Eunice Williams
Copyright Agreement for book entitled “Antiquarian Researches”
The Planet Dust Beater
Covered birchbark container
Where the Trail makes a perfect “S” near Charlemont
Admiral Francis John Higginson (1843-1931) Dress hat
“Miss Harriet Martineau” article from the Greenfield Gazette and Franklin Herald newspaper
George Fuller’s easel
“Deerfield School Controversy”
Bonnet
“Visit to President Lincoln by the Massachusetts Delegation”
No.3A Folding Pocket Kodak Camera
“Deerfield, Mass., South Main Street”
Complaint against Caesar for stealing
“Caroll & Queen’s Double Clog Dance”
Letter to Israel Williams
The Weldon, The Terrace
“On the Passage of the Constitutional Amendment” poem from the National Anti-Slavery Standard newspaper
Violinist and Pianist
Town Hall in Conway
Teapot – “Lafayette at the Tomb of Franklin”
Tobacco Wagon on Street
Patent Model of Plow
Reasons in Favor or Against the Trolley Route in Deerfield
The Washington County Mutual Insurance Company broadside
Pages from the “Annals of Chicopee Street Records and Reminiscences of an Old New England Parish..”
Proclamation regarding Shays’ Rebellion
Tea gown or Dressing gown
Uniform Hat
Deerfield Panorama
Some Apples and Potatoes – Eastern States Expo.
“Bangwell Putt”
“Irish Immigration” article from the Greenfield Gazette and Franklin Herald newspaper
Church, Town Hall and Post Office, Plainfield, Mass.
“A Biographical Memoir of the Rev. John Williams”
Act by House of Representatives issued to Bernardston selectmen to hold town meeting to vote on the Constitution
Onion Shovel
“Lily” Chest with Drawers
“A Study of Grave Stones in the Old Cemetery at Deerfield”
Plans of the Higginson House on The Street in Deerfield
“The World’s Work” – War Manual of the Great 1914 European Conflict
Testamonial by Daniel Shays in the Hampshire Gazette newspaper
Military Commission of Epaphras Hoyt
Screen Panel-“The Last Rose of Summer”
A Sermon Preach’d at Mansfield, August 4, 1741 -“The Power and Efficacy of the Prayers of the People of GOD”
“White Church Deerfield Mass Built 1838”
Spectacles
“Southern and War Items”
Suffrage letter to George Sheldon
“The Rapids”
“Union Republican Ticket”
Toy Train
Commission of the Grand Army Republic Post No. 84
Harvesting Vine Ripened Cape Cod Cranberries
Division of Estate of Major Salah Barnard
“Counting Our Blessings!” cartoon from The Greenfield Recorder newspaper
Clothes Wringer
“The Dred Scott Case” article from the Gazette and Courier newspaper
A List of Wearing Apparel, Books, &c. of William Stoddard Williams
“Deerfield Electric Road”
Excerpts from “A Record of the Doings of the Hawley Female Charitable Society”
Residence of Dwight L. Moody, East Northfield, Mass.
WWII ration books and case
“Harrow Plays Next Summer at Deerfield”
Letter to John Williams
Town Hall, Montague, Mass.
German Prisoners, Lyons, France
“Bible of the Papists” article from the Greenfield Gazette and Franklin Herald
“Sap Gatherers”
Cartridge Box
Flintlock long fowler
“NRA Citizens Committee Told Factories Hired 225 More; Store Jobs Increase” article from Greenfield Daily Recorder-Gazette paper
Town Hall
Straw Hat
Covered Basket with handle
Lilla and Mary Ella Childs (1854-1942)
Writ and promissory note against John Wing of Conway
Excerpts from the diary of George Fuller
Woman’s Stays
Letter to Mary Cochran from daughter Martha Cochran regarding Miss Martineau
Elizabeth Amsden Inventory