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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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“Montague”
Sunburst and stars album quilt
Basket
Poets Seat, Greenfield, Mass.
Elizabeth Brooks Fuller (1896-1979) painting
B. and M. Freight Yard
“Permanent Regulations & By-laws, Annual Reports..School Committee..Town of Chicopee”
Calico Hand Stamp
“Address to the Ladies”poem in Hampshire Gazette newspaper
Cutting Trees in Deerfield Lumber Co.’s Woods
Shirred Rug depicting the Sheldon House
List of plants in the garden of William Stoddard Williams
“Warnings To The Unclean”: In A Discourse From Rev. XXI. 8. Preacht at Springfield Lecture, August 25th.1698.
“New Home Sewing Machine Co. of Orange, Mass.”
Elizabeth Brooks Fuller (1896-1979)
Flax break
“Call for more Missionaries” article from the Franklin Herald newspaper
WWII ration books and case
Turners Falls Dam
Eliezer Hawks land contract
The Planet Dust Beater
“Giant U.S. Air, Naval Task Force Begins Mining Entrances To Haiphong, Other Ports” article from Greenfield Recorder newspaper
Mrs. Benjamin Stebbins’ Son Climbing a Tree
Excerpt “On the Condition of Women in the United States” article from The Liberator newspaper
Polish Recruitment Flag
Bandbox
“Are We To Be Polonized?” article from the Greenfield Gazette and Courier newspaper
Hoosac Tunnel
“Britain Gets Jitters Over Hydrogen Bomb” article in Greenfield Recorder-Gazette newspaper
Schoolroom at the Mill and Bars: Recitation Day
Cutlery Box
Copper ladle
Will of Ephraim Williams
Appendix to “Journal of a tour to Saratoga Springs, August 1827” kept by Elihu Hoyt
Fruit Dish
Bannister Back Chair
“Narrative of Sojourner Truth, A Northern Slave, Emancipated From Bodily Serviture By the State of New York in 1828”
Medallion necklace
John Sheldon (1658-1733) Snowshoes
“Temperance Meeting” article from the Greenfield Gazette and Franklin Herald newspaper
Streetscape – Athol Center
“Turners Falls Boat Clubs to Insist on Open River”
Fisher’s Garage Interior
Pitted stone
World War I Toys
Deerfield Town Warrant regarding making peace with Great Britain
“Undigested Ideas on Various Cases” article published in The Massachusetts Gazette or the General Advertiser newspaper
F. H. Sprague Co.
Letter to George Sheldon regarding trolley
Easthampton (and Northampton)
“Town Welfare Costs Far Below 1933 But Old Age Equals Entire 1924 Bill” article from Greenfield Daily Recorder-Gazette newspaper
Deerfield Town Meeting
Greenfield Tap and Die Corporation’s framed Memorial of WWII company losses
Redware Platter
Covered Basket with handle
“Outrages on Colored Soldiers” article from the National Anti-Slavery Standard newspaper
Polly Stebbins (1792-1869)
Public Vendue notice to some residents of Charlemont published in the Hampshire Gazette
Young Woman with Guitar
“Last Furrow”
Level
Campaign Banner for William Henry Harrison
Page from Amasa Jones diary regarding Mill River Disaster Flood
Writ and promissory note against John Wing of Conway
Memorial Hall
“The Slave Trade – The Administration”
Banister Back Side Chair
Butter Knife
“Darling Expands Parts Manufacturing Ten-Fold Since Firm Started in 1940” article from Greenfield Recorder-Gazette newspaper
“A Half Century of Conflict”- Vol. I
Letter to Aaron Fuller from George Fuller
“Views On And About Mt. Tom And Of Mt. Tom Railroad”
Excerpt from “Equal Rights- Condition in some parts of Europe” article from The Liberator newspaper
WWI letter to Emily Gladys Bartlett
Athol images from “Picturesque Worcester, Part II- North”
Dr. Rolfe S. Russell (1907-1935)
Admiral Francis John Higginson (1843-1931) Dress hat
Flintlock Musket
Village Room and Post Office
Letter to Stephen Higginson III from his mother Agnes Gordon Cochran Higginson
Hoosac Tunnel, Looking out from West Portal, Mass
“Sacred Heart of Mary”
Canteen
“Mrs. Roosevelt Rides Coal Car Into Mine Depths” photograph from Greenfield Daily Recorder-Gazette newspaper
Avenue A Stores
Town Hall and School
Steamer Trunk
Postcard to Mrs. Edward Wirt
Post-mortem child, possibly Glen O. Watson
“Log Drive Passing Turners Falls” article in Greenfield’s Gazette and Courier newspaper
“Bernardston”
“History and Proceedings of the Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association”
Slippers
Awaiting the Rope Pull, M.S.C.
Memorial Hall Kitchen
“A New England Kitchen”
Holy Name of Jesus Church
List of medicines bought from Ebenezer Hunt by William Stoddard Williams
Straw Hat
“Hints to School Masters” article from the Greenfield Gazette and Franklin Herald newspaper
“New And True Stories For Children, With 100 Pictures”
Boys with Willow Whistles
“Evarosa Remedial Tonic Label” from Toiletine Company in Greenfield
“Proclamation by the President” [Millard Fillmore] article in the Franklin Democrat newspaper
Mitch Mieczkowski
Complaint of Distress against Heman Farnham
Football players
Line of Ox Carts
“Sacrifice of Life”
Mary Hawks (1799-1876) Sampler
Letter to Elihu Ashley
“The Society of Deerfield Industries”
“U.S. Planes Hit North Vietnam… ” article in The Greenfield Record-Gazette newspaper
First Church of Deerfield Pewter Flagon
Ware Store Day Book [Vol. II]
Red Cross Volunteers
Affidavit for Wilson’s plough
Game of Checkers
Mt. Sugar Loaf, South Deerfield, Mass.
“The Silk Culturist”
Promissory note to Joseph Goodhue
“Slave Case in Connecticut” article from the Gazette and Mercury newspaper
Watering Place Looking up the Mountain Side
Split Birch Broom
Memorandum of Zur Hawks
44 Sugarloaf Street
“Tribute to American Ladies” article from the Greenfield Gazette and Franklin Herald newspaper
Letter to John Sheldon
“F. E. Field” store sign
Election of Officers for Franklin County Benevolent Societies
“Stevens May Resign If He Does Not Receive Support From Eisenhower” article from Greenfield Recorder-Gazette newspaper
African American Musicians
“Pageant of Old Deerfield on the Grounds of the Allen Homestead”
Edward Hitchcock (1793-1864)
Five Children and a Buggy
Wall Hanging-Apple Tree
Mt. Sugarloaf
Pot Hook
“Whately”
“Gilt Edged Paper” article tells of a death threat to the editor of The Emancipator in the Gazette and Mercury newspaper
“Illustrated Memoir of the World War”
Woman’s Stays
Charles B. Arms
Lt. Henry N. Flynt
Brass Skimmer
“America’s Entire Strength Is Now Concentrated on Our War Effort” ad for GTD from Greenfield Recorder-Gazette newspaper
Fireboard
Letter to Colrain Selectmen regarding Insurgents
Fisher’s Garage under construction
Connecticut River, Mt. Sugarloaf in the distance
Williamsburgh, Massachusetts
Revolutionary flag remnant
Plans of Springfield, Chicopee Falls and Cabotville
Sign-“Olde Deerfield Doll House”
Madeline Yale Wynne (1847-1918)
Upper Suspension Bridge and View of Riverside, From Prospect Street, Turners Falls, Mass.
WWII War Ration Book Four
“Palm Leaf Basket Maker”
Parks House, John Chaplin, Prop. Huntington, Mass.
Eleanor “Nellie” M. Arms (1864-1937)
Painting of J. Russell & Company Green River Works in 1834
“South Deerfield – South Deerfield to Have Conference on Health in Schools”
Plate:”Landing of the Fathers at Plymouth”
“The Illustrated American Biography; Containing Correct Portraits of The Principal Actors in American History”
Sign-“Who would Turn Back 2 Hundred Yeare, Let him A light & Enter Here”
Connecticut River and Sunderland Bridge from Mt. Sugarloaf
Letter to George Sheldon regarding trolley
Log Driving on the Connecticut River
Adjustable Plane
WWII Draft Registration Card of Caryll Crafts
“White Church Deerfield Mass Built 1838”
Tea kettle
Tide of Immigration article in The Gazette and Courier newspaper
Gluing Clamp
Abenaki Basket
Scales
A System of School Geography
Letter to John Williams
“Expansion of Deerfield Arts and Crafts”
Greenfield in a Nutshell
Steam Roller
Clothing Allotment from Deerfield to Soldiers
The Bridge, Lake Pleasant, Mass.
“Main Street from Arms’s Store”
Couple in 18th Century Costume
Article on the Constitution and Slavery from The Hampshire Gazette Newspaper
“Decorative Painting”
Flax Hatchel/Hackle
Easterly View from Whitcomb Summit
Main Street, Amherst, Mass.
“Protection Against Influenza” ad from The Greenfield Recorder newspaper
“Notice of Daniel Shays” in “History of Worcester”
Letter to Mary Cochran from daughter Martha Cochran regarding Miss Martineau
Weeding Onions
Receipt of Cornelius Jones
“Eight-Hour Proclamation” article from the Gazette and Courier newspaper
Letter from Justin Hitchcock to Mr. and Mrs. Hoyt
Turtle effigy pipe fragment
“Blacksmith’s Shop”
Lace Making Pillow