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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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Log Driving on the Connecticut River
Camphene Lamp
Deerfield Grammar School Class
Organdy Dress
“A Bedfordshire Lace Maker”
“Eulogy on King Philip as Pronounced at the Odeon”
Ox Yoke
Bonnet
“Teachers’ Institute”
“The Youth’s Companion World Fair”
Chairback-Vine and Fig Tree
Lace Making Pillow
Athol
Shoe buckles
“Why Should Suffrage Be Imposed on Women?
“Massachusetts Tax Valuation list of 1771”
“Child with Pussies” or “Polly and the Pussy Willows”
Connery House, Westhampton, Mass.
Schedule of the whole number of Persons within the Division alloted to William Shepard and David Sexton to enumerate, 1790
Peabody Room
Advertisement in “The Boston Weekly Post-Boy” newspaper
Eleanor Brown Stebbins (1875-1955) (Mrs. Benjamin Stebbins) Washing a Child’s Hand
“Deerfield Street”
Estey Organ
George Fuller (1822-1884) Studio
Witt Residence
Academy Hall and The Common, New Salem, Mass.
“Hatfield Ferry, Hatfield, Mass.”
Wedding Dress
“Coleraine/Leyden”
Gas house explosion
Micmac Bead bag
Audience perspective of Deerfield’s historical pageant
“Elizabethan Group”
Appendix to “Journal of a tour to Saratoga Springs, August 1827” kept by Elihu Hoyt
Western slope showing North Adams
The Park, South Hadley, Mass.
Farm Sale for payment in public securities by John Muzzy, Jr. of Spencer, Mass. ad in The Massachusetts Spy newspaper
Tea Canister
Copyright Agreement for book entitled “Antiquarian Researches”
Stoneware Jug
Eleanor “Nellie” M. Arms (1864-1937)
“Old Buildings are Moved out of Quabbin Area” article from scrapbook on Quabbin Reservoir
“Deerfield Society of Blue and White Needlework”
“Village Room”
Dr. Mary P. Dole
WWI letter to Emily Gladys Bartlett
“Slavery Notice” article from Gazette and Mercury newspaper
Toy Train
Road to Leyden
Flail
Frances Stebbins Allen (1854-1941)
Tin-Glazed Earthenware Plate
Letter to Aaron Fuller from brother John Emery regarding religious revival
E-flag of Greenfield Tap and Die Corporation for exemplary performance in WWII
“The Rapids”
Hand Cards
Dam and Covered Bridge in Conway
“County Towns Long Alternated On Allowing Local Liquor Sale” article from the Daily Recorder-Gazette newspaper
Boys with Willow Whistles
“George Fuller, His Life & Works – A Memorial”
Pages from “A New Pictorial History of Greenfield” on railroads
Stoneware Crock
Milk bottles
“American Flag house and Betsy Ross Memorial Association Membership certificate”
“South Deerfield- The Mount Sugar Loaf School”
Civil War letter to Ella Melendy
The Reformed Pastor
“N. Vickary, Taxidermist”
“The Need of an Immigration Test” article from the Greenfield Gazette and Courier newspaper
Rail Road, Station, Northampton, Mass.
Oath of Allegiance of Isaac Abercrombie
Nazi statement from Millers Falls Company employee
Little Girl and Doll at a “Tea Party”
“Making a Dam”
Order for provisions for governmental troops during Shays’ Rebellion
Bedwarmer
Articles of Faith of William Stoddard Williams
“Chinese Mulberry” and “Persian Management of Silkworms from New England Farmer”
Letter from Shays’ officers to John Brown of Whately published in Hampshire Gazette newspaper
Gen. Shepard Memorial Monument, Westfield, Mass.
“Improvement” article from the New York Ladies Chronicle republished in the Greenfield Gazette and Franklin Herald newspaper
“Terrible Horror” article from the Journal of Industry newspaper
Sign-“A. Boyden’s Hotel”
Moody Homestead
“The White Doll”
Mail Rider
Woman’s Stays
Quality Control Lab Coat from Millers Falls Company
Captain John Wells’ Company Muster Roll
Washington Memorial
Fence Agreement between Arms and Wells
“President Still Hopes for Peace” article in The Greenfield Recorder-Gazette newspaper
Mary P. Wells Smith (1840-1930) and Grandsons
Bancroft’s Agricultural Almanack
Fourth Meeting House (1729-1824)
“Drama Vs. Reality” editorial from Greenfield Recorder-Gazette newspaper
Basket
“Schell Memorial Bridge, East Northfield, Mass.”
Resolve by the State of Massachusetts-Bay requring all towns to supply a record of reimbursements made to soldiers & families
Excerpts from the Diary of Ellen Louisa Arms (Sheldon)
“Purple Shadow”
Adjustable Plane
Prentiss Childs and Chum
WWI Uniform of Lt. Henry N. Flynt
Shelburne Town Meeting
The Manual Alphabet for the Deaf and Dumb
“American Slavery” article from the Gazette and Mercury newspaper
“Soldiers in King Philip’s War…”
“The Slave Trade”
The Western Battle Ground article published in the Greenfield Gazette and Courier newspaper
Table Knife
Excerpts from “Profiles of the Past An illustrated history of Ashburnham, Gardner Hubbardston,Templeton, Westminster, Winchendon”
The Lofty Heights along the Trail
WWII Ration Mailing form
“Britain Gets Jitters Over Hydrogen Bomb” article in Greenfield Recorder-Gazette newspaper
Edward Hitchcock (1793-1864)
“Dovecote Aviary”
“Study by Candlelight”
Electric Car Bridge over Deerfield River, Shelburne Falls, Mass.
“Noon Rest”
“Increase in the Slave Population in the United States” article from the Greenfield Gazette and Franklin Herald newspaper
Canal Construction
Conway Road House
“Mt. Toby, Mass.”
Letter to Nathaniel Dwight from Dr. Elihu Ashley
Park Square, Westfield, Mass.
Streetscape – Royalston Common
Cape
Landscape of Irish Ruins
“Don’t Tread On Us” editorial in The Greenfield Recorder-Gazette newspaper
Holy Name of Jesus Church
Excerpt from diary of Clara Alquist-Sherman regarding The Great Depression
“Deerfield”- Sheldon talks about Monuments
Amethyst Vase
“Bad Jam of Logs” article in Greenfield’s Gazette and Courier newspaper
Mortar
Water Pipe
Engraving “The Bloody Massacre perpetrated on King Street, Boston on March 5th, 1770”
Convalescent Soldiers
Birchbark container
“Civil Rights Report” cartoon from Greenfield Recorder newspaper
“Slave Case in Connecticut” article from the Gazette and Mercury newspaper
Sarah Coleman’s shoe
“The Mill”
Letter to Esther Williams
Receipt of Seth Sheldon for dance tuition
Plane
“Thanksgiving Assembly”
Porringer
Side Chair
“Barrs Homestead 1739”
Atlatl or spear throwing weight
“Motives for Well-Doing. A Sermon, Delivered in Northampton, August 24, 1815. Before the Hampshire Missionary Society”
“Popery-Temperance” article from the Greenfield Gazette and Franklin Herald newspaper
Kennebec Curve
The Square, Orange, Mass.
Tax Form F
Lusterware Teapot
Hoosac Tunnel
“Deerfield’s Original Crafts Show Next Week”
Wagon Jack
Pastoral Letter excerpted from “Good Fetch’d Out of Evil”
Electric iron
Notice to General Shepard regarding disarming his militia published in the Hampshire Gazette newspaper
Piano
“Pegasus of Apollo” from “The Worcester Magazine”
Communication with the Spirit of his dead daughter Jane Elizabeth Pierce
“Proportions and Directions for Making Lee’s Patent Mineral and Vegetable Soap”
“Paupers in Massachusetts” article from the Gazette and Courier newspaper
“Senate Judiciary Approves Alien Restrictions” article from Greenfield Recorder-Gazette newspaper
“Tis Sixty Years Since. The Passing of the Stall-fed Ox and the Farm Boy”
“Mt. Holyoke Female Seminary” article in the Hampshire Gazette newspaper
Boston Museum ad from the Gazette and Courier newspaper
“Picturesque Hampden”
“Montague Center”
George Sheldon (1818-1916)
44 Sugarloaf Street
Malissa Childs
Wooden Tankard
My First Automobile
Brown Bess flintlock musket
Letter to John Sheldon
“South Deerfield – High School Building Dedicated With Excellent Program”
“Hitching Posts Should Go”
Redware Platter
“True Stories of New England Captives”
Will of Lucinda Nims
“Indian Village, Caughnawaga”
Photograph Postcard “Second Baptist Church”
Barlow Knives manufactured by the John Russell Cutlery Company
Young Men’s Christian Association Meeting
Raffia Basket
Warwick, Mass. Gales Old Mill.
Flute
State Street, Springfield, Mass.
Reed Basket
Sugarloaf Street with Trolley
Cheese press
Business Letter to Dennis Stebbins