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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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Planting Potatoes
“Red Electric” Washing and Wringing Machine
“Manual of Instruction in the Use of Dumb Bells and Indian Clubs & Other Exercises”
“Taking Tea”
William Russell House
“The Quirlicut Company” Puzzle
Colton and Fitch’s Modern School Geography
The Common, Greenfield Mass.
“Last Furrow”
Extracting Ice
Handicraft Vol. IV, No. 7 – symbols
“Hill Machine Works” Advertisement
“List of Grievances” poem published in the Hampshire Gazette newspaper.
Hotel Warren, South Deerfield, Mass.
“Anarchists Blamed for Dissension” article in The Greenfield Recorder newspaper
Indians Glimpse a Vision of the Future
WWI Dog Tags of Lt. Henry N. Flynt
“Sacred Heart of Jesus”
“Onion Harvest”
“Deerfield, Mass., Memorial Hall.”
Excerpt from diary of Clara Alquist-Sherman regarding The Great Depression
“Tracing The Fall And Rise Of Greenfield Business For 14 Years” graph from Greenfield Recorder-Gazette newspaper
Cupboard
“Corn Sister” Sculpture
“Census of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts: 1895” Volume V
Avenue A Stores
Awaiting the Rope Pull, M.S.C.
Straw Hat
Bedwarmer
Baskets
Civil War letter from Thomas Wentworth Higginson to his brother Stephen
The Centre, South Deerfield, Mass.
Partial letter to Louisa Higginson from son regarding politics and slavery
Boston Museum ad from the Gazette and Courier newspaper
Letter to Leon Weeks from Raytheon Company
Deed of Pacomtuck land granted by Mashalisk to John Pynchon
Reward of Merit to Amos Hamilton
Indenture of Zechariah Gilson of Northfield
Toasting iron
“An Atlas of the Quabbin Valley Past and Present”
“The History of the Insurrections in Massachusetts in the year seventeen hundred and eighty six and the Rebellion”
Avenue A, Turners Falls, Mass.
Petition for Reimbursement by Major Salah Barnard
“Olde Deerfield Dolls”
“The Dred Scott Case” article from the Gazette and Courier newspaper
Moccasin
Trombone
“A Historic and Present Day Guide to Old Deerfield”
Rowe Village, Rowe, Mass.
Letter To Colonel Samuel Williams
Plainfield
Navigating Cut Ice
Nathan Negus (1801-1825)
Franklin County Public Hospital
Stone gouge with modern haft
Conway Road House
No. 4-Bridge Street Shelburne Falls, Mass.
Deerfield Town Meeting
Streetscape – Royalston Common
Letter to Mary Cochran from daughter Martha Cochran regarding Miss Martineau
Seminary Farm, East Northfield, Mass.
Complaint against John Evans by Sarah Smith
“Proclamation by the President” [Millard Fillmore] article in the Franklin Democrat newspaper
Surveying Instrument
“Anti-Slavery Meeting” article from Greenfield Gazette and Franklin Herald newspaper
“Philosophy put into action” article on Juanita Nelson in The Recorder newspaper
Letter to John Williams
Published letters concerning the Embargo of 1808
Mt. Sugarloaf showing King Philip’s Seat
Fire Bucket
Infantry Officer’s Sword, 1821-1832
Milk Bottle
Spectacles
Convalescent Soldiers
Dr. Rolfe S. Russell (1907-1935)
Native Americans praying
Slippers
“Uncle Sid’s Adventure with Indians”
“Union and Liberty”
Little Jack of All Trades, with Suitable Representations. Part I
Basalt hoe or adzes
Letter from Connecticut Valley Street Railway Company regarding Trolley whistle
“Illustrated Memoir of the World War”
Plummet
Resolve by the State of Massachusetts-Bay requring all towns to supply a record of reimbursements made to soldiers & families
Stocking
Frances Stebbins Allen (1854-1941)
River Road House
“History of Deerfield”
“Little Captives of 1704”
Greenfield Tap and Die Corporation’s framed Memorial of WWII company losses
Portrait of W. E. B. Du Bois
“Women and Girls Over 18” employment ad in Greenfield’s Gazette and Courier newspaper
“The Pocumtuc Housewife; A Guide to Domestic Cookery”
WWI Toy Ambulance with Figures
“Examination of Witnesses in a Trial for Witchcraft”
Basket with cover
Letter to David Hoyt [Hoit] regarding Shays’ Rebellion
Broom Tying Machine
Orange Square Looking South
Concertina
Letter to Dennis Stebbins
“The Traitor’s Confederacy”
“Charlemont”
Pages from John Partridge Bull’s account book
New Home Sewing Machine Company Birds-Eye View
Pages from “Those Green River Knives”
Plate:”Landing of the Fathers at Plymouth”
F. W. Harness “Jeweler”
Gen. Shepard Memorial Monument, Westfield, Mass.
Harvesting Vine Ripened Cape Cod Cranberries
Map of the Nipmuck or Nipmuck Country compiled from a 1774 Survey published in “The Old Indian Chronicle”
Letter to Governor James Bowdoin published in the Hampshire Gazette
Roundabout Chair
Cartridge box
Pages from the diary of Martha Cochran
Candlesticks
Glass Pistol
Rufus Saxton (1824-1908)
Sketch
“Reservoir Disaster” article from the Gazette and Courier newspaper
Over the Hoosac Tunnel, Mohawk Trail, Mass.
Chrysanthemum bowl
Chesterfield Church
The Weldon, The Terrace
Writ against Amos Thomas by John and Samuel Frink
Order and results of physical exam on Thomas Williams Ashley
Large Village Center School
“The Mill River Disaster” article from the Journal of Industry newspaper
Warrant for Train Band parade
“Social Security Measure To Provide For Old Age Signed By Pres. Roosevelt” article from Greenfield Daily Recorder-Gazette
“Hanging Stockings”
Plane
Timothy Edwards’ Sermon Notes
Birchbark mukak
“A Busy Corner in Greenfield”
“A Catalogue of the Books contained in the Chicopee Town Library, together with general regulations of the same.”
“Texas. 1000 Emigrant Families” article from the Greenfield Gazette and Franklin Herald newspaper
Spinning Equipment
Lincoln Badge
WWII political letter to Henry L. Clarke
Arms Manufacturing Company workers
“The Senate of 1872- Arrangement of Seats”
Military Commission of Epaphras Hoyt
Greenfield in a Nutshell
Log Drive Cook Shack on Connecticut River
Church, Town Hall and Post Office, Plainfield, Mass.
Daffodil bowl
Arms Manufacturing Company
Tax receipt of Alpheus Moore for Ebenezer Hinsdale’s property
Poets Seat, Greenfield, Mass.
Reed Basket
“5 Men Shot in the Streets of Monson!!!”
“Anachronism”
Fern stand
Splitting Froe or Frower
American Herbarium, Volume 1
Sheldon Tapestry cushion cover
“Negro Slavery in Massachusetts”
Bobbins
“Unusual Store Prices in Many Local Stores Tomorrow” article from the Greenfield Daily Recorder newspaper
“Deerfield” article on the death of David Starr Hoyt from the Gazette and Courier newspaper
Fort Massachusetts, North Adams, Mass.
Old House in Essex, MA
“The Shepherdess of the Alps” embroidery
Flintlock Musket
“Ononko’s Vow”
Lincoln and Hamlin Election Ticket
Workingmen’s Association broadside
“Quabbin Reservoir Water Starts Flowing” article from Quabbin Reservoir scrapbook
Mason Jar
Notched Abrading Stone (Sinew Stone)
Royalston
“An Old Custom” -The Liberty Pole of Deerfield 1774
Letter to John Sheldon
Colrain, Mass.
Bayonet
“Graduated Medicine Spoon No. 40”
Tax Assessment notice to Town of Buckland
“Picturesque Hampshire”
44 Sugarloaf Street
Military letter regarding men, arms, and clothing
Williamsburgh, Massachusetts
Sap Bucket
Woman with Stereoptican Viewer
Rowland Stebbins (1794-1848)
American Missionary Association membership of Nathaniel Hitchcock
“Williams Cupboard and Ceramics”
Puritans Led Off in Captivity
“Hints to School Masters” article from the Greenfield Gazette and Franklin Herald newspaper
Estate Settlement of David Hoyt
Crucifix
Shelburne Committee addresses Selectmen of Deerfield in Town Warrant
Woman’s cap
“Old Indian House”
WWII ration books and case
Academy of Music and Baptist Church
Piano
“Give Me Three Grains of Corn, Mother” poem in the Hamsphire Gazette newspaper
“Decorative Painting”