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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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Page from Proprietors of the Common Field in Deerfield
Election of Officers for Franklin County Benevolent Societies
Pages from “Those Green River Knives”
List of plants in the garden of William Stoddard Williams
Railroad Trestle Bridge
Quitclaim of land in Deerfield, Massachusetts
Deerfield Town Warrant
“The Country Lane”
Shelburne Falls, Mass Birds-Eye View
Greenfield Public Library Cornice fragment
Memorial Hall
“Deerfield Street”
Notice to General Shepard regarding disarming his militia published in the Hampshire Gazette newspaper
Hannah Phelps account book
“Old Indian House”
Railway Station, Athol, Mass.
“Russian Émigré Revolutionizes World’s Photo Enlarging Process” article from Greenfield Recorder-Gazette newspaper
Pocumtuck Basket Makers
“Statistical Information Relating to Certain Branches of Industry in Massachusetts, For the Year Ending May 1, 1865”
“For the Gazette and Mercury” a Pro-slavery newspaper article
Plane
Petersham
“Witch” basket
Covered Jars
Fruit Knife
“A Trip To Boston”
Paint Pigments
“Old Medicine Man Founded Toiletine Co.” article from Greenfield Recorder-Gazette newspaper
Advertisement from L.R. Paige for Electric signs
Bread Peel
Checkerboard
View Along the Cold River, Eastern Slope of Mohawk Trail
“Betty at the Churn”
The Constitution of the Deerfield Temperance Society
Arms Manufacturing Company workers
Eleanor “Nellie” M. Arms (1864-1937)
Basketry cup
“Civilization rebuked by the savage” in “Gazette and Mercury” Newspaper
Covered sugar bowl
Seating “Negroes” in the Old Hadley meetinghouse
Insurgents in Northfield article published in the Hampshire Gazette
Reward of Merit to Luella May
Basket with cover
Disqualification Act broadside issued by Gov. James Bowdoin during Shays’ Rebellion
Mendellssohn Collection, or Hastings and Bradbury’s Third Book of Psalmody
Farming with Oxen
Springfield bicycle club displaying their trophies
Toy Tea Set
“Looking West At Mount Sugarloaf”
Excerpt from “Our Busy Town”
Mount Hermon, Mass., Mount Hermon Chapel
Shoe buckles
Article about wrongful arrest suits by rescuers of Shadrich from Gazette and Courier newspaper
“Shorter Hours for Women”
Wall Hanging-Apple Tree
Log crew working above Sunderland Bridge
Smith College Observatory
Promissory Note of Hezekiah Newcomb
“Saratoga Illustrated: The Visitor’s Guide to Saratoga Springs”
“The History of the Insurrections in Massachusetts in the year seventeen hundred and eighty six and the Rebellion”
“Red Winter Sunset”
Fisher’s Garage Interior
Handicraft Vol I No. VII – “The Movement for Village Industries”
Silhouette of John Foster Stearns (1788-1872)
“Annual Report of the Town Officers of Deerfield For the Year Ending Jan. 1st 1916- Annual Report of the School Committee”
Masha Arms
“The Census of Massachusetts: 1885, Volume II”
Mason Jar
Broadside of Abraham Lincoln’s elegy
Contract between Consider Dickinson and Gilbert Hoyt
“To the Public” statement from the publisher of the Hampshire Gazette newspaper
Capture of Dr. Pomery by Insurgents article published in the Hampshire Gazette
“Sons of Temperance Membership of Elijah Spencer Fuller”
“Ku-Klux-Klan” article in the Gazette and Courier newspaper
Calico Pocket
Organdy Dress
Glass Dish
Dam and Covered Bridge in Conway
“Decorative Painting”
“Purple Shadow”
Y.M.C.A., East Deerfield, Mass.
Family Bible owned by David Hoyt
Post Rider, 1772-1773
Civil War Patriotic Covers or Envelopes
John Putnam (c.1817-1895)
Pendants
WWII Disabled American Veterans card of Frank Dahowski, Jr.
Letter from George Washington to resident in Dublin published in the Hampshire Gazette newspaper
Geo. N. Kidder & Company, Main Floor
“Population and Statistics of Franklin County” article from the Gazette and Courier Newspaper
The Big Bridge over the Deerfield River
Hand Hewn Pulley
Account Book of Elijah Williams, Ledger C, Vol. 4
Petroglyphs/Pictographs
Birchbark wastepaper basket
The Centre, South Deerfield, Mass.
Flute
Tea kettle
A System of School Geography
Landscape – Mill on Stream
Pages from Williams & Upham account book
Reed Basket with cover
“Negro Nurse with a Child”
Horse Clog
Plot plan of land owned by Joseph Barnard
Edward Hitchcock (1828-1911)
Town Hall in Conway
The Green, Longmeadow, Mass.
Embroidery: Over the Bounding Waves
“A Hard Nag to Ride” political cartoon from the Daily Recorder-Gazette newspaper
“The Falls, Shelburne Falls, Mass.”
“Cornfield in Winter”
Indenture between Justin Hitchcock and Moses Church
“Hints to School Masters” article from the Greenfield Gazette and Franklin Herald newspaper
Margaret Christine Whiting (1860-1946)
Military Commission of Isaac Abercrombie
Piano
“Strictures on Female Education”
“An American”
“Harvard Red Caught on Karlsruhe; Anti-Nazi Exploit Baffles Officials” article from Boston Herald newspaper
“Allies, Arise!”
Blueberry basket
Letter printed in the Hampshire Gazette regarding selecting convention delegate
Mount Hermon, Mass., Science and Recitation Halls
Bridge over Deerfield River, Shelburne Falls, Mass.
“Improvement” article from the New York Ladies Chronicle republished in the Greenfield Gazette and Franklin Herald newspaper
Planting Potatoes
Broad Ax
William Stebbins (1817-1897)
Mt. Tom Railway and Summit House
“Your Red Cross” ad from Greenfield Recorder-Gazette newspaper
Pages from the “Records of the Female Benevolent Society of the Town of Deerfield”
Deerfield Academy, Class of 1904
Affidavit for Wilson’s plough
WWII Mileage Rationing Record
Level
Mohawk Trail explanatory text
Moccasins
Daffodil bowl
“Roman Catholics” article from the Greenfield Gazette and Franklin Herald newspaper
Ox Yoke
A System of Modern Geography
Bowling pins
WWII Application for Renewal of Fuel Oil ration
Hospital in Vladivostok
Shirred Rug depicting the Sheldon House
Bullets
Horse and Surrey
Mt. Sugarloaf showing King Philip’s Seat
“SH” joined chest
Letter from Deerfield Selectmen re: travel of William Stoddard Williams
“The Craftsman”
Complaint of Distress against Thomas Rose by Job Barstow
“The Society of Deerfield Industries”
Tobacco Farmers
“The American Duroc-Jersey Swine Breeders Association”
Indenture between Samuel Wells & Jonathan Ballard
Weighing Ice with Steelyard
“Geographical, Statistical & Historical View of the Town of Deerfield”
Excerpts from the Diary of Ruth Pease
Order and results of physical exam on Thomas Williams Ashley
River Street in Conway
Colonel Elihu Hoyt Military Commission
Middlefield
Screen Panel-“The Last Rose of Summer”
Projectile point
List of Books bought by Joseph Barnard
The Boston Mob article regarding fugitive Shadrich in Gazette and Courier newspaper
Sign-“Who would Turn Back 2 Hundred Yeare, Let him A light & Enter Here”
“Art and Industry at Deerfield”
“Threadwell The Greenfield Plant That Is Making History In The Precision Tool Field!” ad from Greenfield Recorder-Gazette
“Geo. Thompson in Springfield” article from the Boston Courier newspaper
“Universal Geography, Ancient and Modern: Comparison and Classification”
Child Beauty (Barbara Jordan)
Church, Town Hall and Post Office, Plainfield, Mass.
Child’s highchair
Dress
Adze
Great Chair
Red Cross Club, Marseiles, France
B. and M. and Street Ry. Bridges at Cheapside
Mt. Sugarloaf from the south
Cloth Doll
“A History of Williamsburg in Massachusetts”
Franklin County Cadet -1845
“Two Art Lectures”
The Perpetual Laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Mt. Sugarloaf
Page from Josiah Allen diary regarding Mill River Disaster Flood
St. James / Monument Church
“State of Irish Poor” article in the Greenfield Gazette and Franklin Herald newspaper
“Trolley Wayfinder”
Letter to Williams & Upham
“Elizabethan Group”
Hospital Ward
Old Green River Mill
“Hatfield Ferry, Hatfield, Mass.”
“New Home Sewing Machine Co. of Orange, Mass.”
Basalt hoe or adzes
Logging at the Oxbow on the Connecticut River near Holyoke, Mass.