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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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150 Anniversary, Bernardston, Mass.-Parade Float
Letter to Stephen Higginson III from his mother Agnes Gordon Cochran Higginson
Civil War Patriotic Covers or Envelopes
Sophia Smith Sampler
A Practical System of Modern Geography: or View of the Present State of the World
“Exhibition. Westfield Academy. Order of Exercises.”
Descent of Holy Spirit Ukrainian Catholic Church
Four-legged Washtub
Concertina
“Deerfield”
Court Ball Invitation
Revolutionary flag remnant
Embroidered Dress
Pages from Rev. Jonathan Ashley’s account book
Moccasin
“Red Electric” Washing and Wringing Machine
WWII Ration Mailing form
Main Street, Conway, Mass.
“Log Drive of 36,000,000 Feet”
African-American woman sewing
“Negro Nurse with a Child”
Easterly View from Whitcomb Summit
Letter to Charles Hart Ashley
“Greenfield 200th Anniversary” plate
Court Dancers
Riverside Inn, Chester, Mass.
“Mount Holyoke” sonnet on the death of Mary Lyon
“Geography Made Easy”
Fuller House, “The Bars”
Mitch Mieczkowski
Unidentified Girl
“Village Room”
The First Home of Masonry in Western Massachusetts Built 1750. Orange, Mass.
Wales St, Wales, Mass.
“The Slave Trade – The Administration”
“Pews in Deerfield meeting house first Parish- sold December 1824”
Deerfield Town Meeting
Shakespeare and the Spirit of Vision
“Gilt Edged Paper” article tells of a death threat to the editor of The Emancipator in the Gazette and Mercury newspaper
Letter to Wesley Watson
Beaded Bag
South Deerfield, Mass.
“Quabbin Reservoir Water Starts Flowing” article from Quabbin Reservoir scrapbook
Testamonial by Daniel Shays in the Hampshire Gazette newspaper
“Millers Falls Company Arises From Nash’s Mill Ashes” article from Greenfield Recorder-Gazette newspaper
Persis Hoyt Sheldon Scallop-Top Chest of Drawers
Costumed group
List of Books bought by Joseph Barnard
Great Chair
Gouge
“Bloody Butchery, By The British Troops; Or The Runaway Fight Of The Regulars”
Photograph of Millers Falls Companies with WWII losses
Coach Unloading Costumed Passengers
Screen Panel-“The Peacock”
Letter to John Williams
The Park, South Hadley, Mass.
Hoosac Tunnel, Approach to East Portal, Mass
Alabaster sculpture
Nazi statement from Millers Falls Company employee
“The Inaugural”
Glass Bottle
“To the Benevolent People of Berkshire, Hampden and Hampshire Counties” article on Irish aid in the Hampshire Gazette newspaper
Auger
Embroidery of Mount Vernon
“New Attack on Deerfield. By Moving Picture Red Skins.”
Deerfield Grammar School Class
Letter to Agnes Higginson Fuller from George Fuller
Butter Churn
Letter to Dennis Stebbins
Poem on Shays’ Rebellion from The New-Haven Gazette and The Connecticut Magazine newspaper
Indenture of Zechariah Gilson of Northfield
Sign-“Olde Deerfield Doll House”
“Russian Émigré Revolutionizes World’s Photo Enlarging Process” article from Greenfield Recorder-Gazette newspaper
“Insist on Having Miner’s Flavoring Extracts” Ad from Gazette and Courier newspaper
Milk Bottle
The Bridge, Lake Pleasant, Mass.
List of grievances by Shaysite Thomas Grover -article published in Hampshire Gazette newspaper
Where the Trail makes a perfect “S” near Charlemont
“George Fuller, His Life & Works – A Memorial”
One-Room School in Wapping
“Influenza With Us- Epidemic Has Taken Hold of Greenfield” article from The Greenfield Recorder newspaper
Main and Park Streets looking South. Easthampton, Mass.
“Protecting Freedom” article from The Recorder newspaper
Deerfield Academy Student Roster
Wood Mounted Bit
Janet Russell (1886-1981) with her cat, Sir Thomas Gray
Map “The world agreeable to the latest discoveries”
Wine Glasses
Pair of stone heads
Letter to Rev. Erza Stiles on Shays’ Rebellion reprinted in “The New-Haven Gazette and The Connecticut Magazine”
Ox Yoke
Lincoln and Hamlin Election Ticket
Awaiting the Rope Pull, M.S.C.
R. R. Station
“Red Winter Sunset”
Granby and Huntington
Sash
Flintlock Musket
Thaxter Scott House
Fan
Hampshire Gazette newspaper article about organizing regiments
150 Anniversary, Bernardston, Mass.-Parade
Multiple articles from The New-Haven Gazette and The Connecticut Magazine newspaper regarding Shays’ Rebellion
Little Jack of All Trades, with Suitable Representations. Part I
Abenaki Sweetgrass Candlestick
Proclamation regarding apprehension of Shays’ Insurgents published in the Hampshire Gazette
Persis Russell Montague (1765-1851)
WWII Mileage Rationing Record
Covered Basket with handle
Horses and Farmers
Moody Homestead
Beaded cuffs
South Deerfield Grammar School
New England Captives Carried to Canada
Hair Wreath
Factories of the L. S. Starrett Co.
Rowe Village, Rowe, Mass.
“Communication Trouble” editorial in The Greenfield Recorder-Gazette newspaper
“Turners Falls, Mass. Industrial Plants, General View below Falls”
“Picturesque Hampshire”
V-Day Brussels
“Grecian Proclamation” article from the Franklin Herald newspaper
“Pageant Deerfield, Mass.”
George Fuller (1822-1884)
Pod Auger
Deerfield Panorama
Shelburne Falls
Letter to John Williams
Conway Road House
“Soldiers in King Philip’s War…”
Letter to Gertrude Porter Ashley
“Share the Work Campaign Gets Under Way at Meeting” article from the Greenfield Daily Recorder-Gazette Newspaper
Ware Store Day Book [Vol. II]
Delegates of Philadelphia Convention article from the Hampshire Gazette newspaper
Mary Arms at Barton Heights
Deerfield Society of Blue and White Needlework
Admiral Francis John Higginson Epaulettes with Case
New Entrance to the Live Wire Fair
“Threadwell The Greenfield Plant That Is Making History In The Precision Tool Field!” ad from Greenfield Recorder-Gazette
“Manufacture of Silk Not New in New England” from New England Farmer
Railroad Station
Letter to David Hoyt [Hoit] regarding Shays’ Rebellion
Pendants
Basketry cup
Oakman Motor Vehicle Company Advertisement
“Nine and Ten Years Old- They can earn 40c. in a ten-hour day, but they cannot read.”
“Rabbits in the Pea-Patch”
Plummet
Massacre Interior of Old Indian House, during Sack of Deerfield, Feb. 29, 1704
Plans of Springfield, Chicopee Falls and Cabotville
Avenue A, Turners Falls, Mass.
“Young People’s Camp Third Season Rowe, Mass. June 27-July 4, 1926”
“Mack the Giant Ox” Banner
Pages from “A New Pictorial History of Greenfield” on railroads
Teapot
Fern stand
Doctor’s certificate for disenrollment of military service for Eratus Clapp
Seashells
Cutting Ice
Cadet’s Uniform
Souvenir Folder of Mohawk Trail, Mass.
Reflector Oven/Roaster
Covered sugar bowl
“John Brown” poem from the Gazette and Courier newspaper
“A Dangerous Practice”
Side Chair
Hoosac Tunnel
Log Driving on the Connecticut River
“The Boy Scouts Year Book”
Doll “Lilla”
Torquetum or astronomical apparatus
Broadside of Abraham Lincoln’s elegy
New Home Sewing Machine Company Birds-Eye View
“Reservoir Disaster” article from the Gazette and Courier newspaper
Quitclaim of land in Deerfield, Massachusetts
Wrought-iron lampstand and lamp
Rear of the Colrain
Woman’s shoes
“Auction! The Lee Place”
Page from Amasa Jones diary regarding Mill River Disaster Flood
A Sermon, Delivered at the Opening of Deerfield Academy
Public Vendue notice to some residents of Charlemont published in the Hampshire Gazette
Steatite Vessel
“A Factory Girl” article in The Hampshire Gazette newspaper
Formerly enslaved man gives talk in Northfield
Parks House, John Chaplin, Prop. Huntington, Mass.
“Deerfield Street”
Sugar cone
“Turners Falls”
Mary: Lamson family servant
“A Proclamation” published in the Hampshire Gazette
“The Covered Bridge at the Pumping Station, Greenfield”
“Home Affairs”- 100 Gun Salute to Lincoln
Infant’s Mitts
WWI Letter from Thomas Williams Ashley
Naomi Lyman Arms (1739-1818)
Porringer
South Main Street, Orange, Mass.
“Annual Meeting of the Franklin County Temperance Society” article from the Gazette and Mercury newspaper
North Adams, Mass., Eastern Portal, Hoosac Tunnel