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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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“Deerfield’s Summer Plays”
“A Letter from T. D. Judah”
“GTD Makes John Grant’s Invention Known Around World” article from Greenfield Recorder-Gazette newspaper
Letter to Emily Bartlett from cousin Eunice Sherman Tabor regarding Christmas
George Sheldon (1818-1916)
Dr. Clara M. Greenough
“Are We To Be Polonized?” article from the Greenfield Gazette and Courier newspaper
“Arrival of Missionaries” article from the Greenfield Gazette and Franklin Herald newspaper
Trade Card of Hawks & Reed-Clothiers
Avery Oxen Show Admission Ticket
“Deerfield, Mass., Memorial Hall.”
Phelps mourning embroidery
Boy’s Dress
Embroidered Dress
Tuscarora beadwork sellers
Lee Brothers Shoe Factory Postcard
Young Woman with Guitar
Nazi statement from Millers Falls Company employee
Bit Brace Drill manufactured by Millers Falls Company
Reticule
“Marchers to Converge on Lincoln Memorial” and “Washington Will be Symbol of U.S. Power Marchers” article in GRG newspaper
“Statistical Information Relating to Certain Branches of Industry in Massachusetts, For the Year Ending May 1, 1865”
Raffia Basket
“Committee Recommends Senate Censure McCarthy, Charges He Treated Group Contemptuously” article from Greenfield Recorder-Gazette
Milk bottles
Costumed group
“Shoe and Leather Dealers’ Convention” article in The Hampshire Gazette newspaper
Clock works
Article on the Constitution and Slavery from The Hampshire Gazette Newspaper
Indenture between Justin Hitchcock and Moses Church
Elijah Arms (1712-1802)
“It Will Do You Good”- E. E. Flagg’s Japanese Pain Reliever
Letter to Rev. Erza Stiles on Shays’ Rebellion reprinted in “The New-Haven Gazette and The Connecticut Magazine”
“Regulations For the Government of the Schools in the Town of Deerfield”
“Will Geer, Movie Actor, Keeps Silent on Past” article from the Greenfield Recorder-Gazette newspaper
“A Dangerous Practice”
“In Memory of JAMES ABRAM GARFIELD”
“The Deerfield Captive”
“Portraits of History- Historic Places in the Orange-Athol Area: A Fascinating Look into the Past”
Hotel Lathrop, South Deerfield, Mass.
Military Commission of Lemuel Taylor
“Northampton” article on Dealey [Daley] and Halligan from the Hampshire Gazette newspaper
Bird’s-Eye View, Sunderland and Connecticut River from Mt. Sugarloaf
Letter to Colonel Elihu Hoyt
“American Heroes” figures- Published letter to Thomas Grover from the Hampshire Gazette newspaper
Blue-checked apron
“Finance Report of the Town of Deerfield. 1860-61.”
“Main Street from Arms’s Store”
Jesse Bowman, Abenaki logger and basketmaker, with daughter Marion Flora Bowman
“An Act providing for the Pay and Subsistence of the Militia”
“New England Strike Grows All Fall River Mills Idle; President Seeks Mediators” article in the Greenfield Daily Recorder-Gazette
Deerfield Town Meeting
Reaping Grain
Petition for Reimbursement by Major Salah Barnard
Memorial – 52nd Massachusetts Volunteers
“For the Gazette and Mercury” a Pro-slavery newspaper article
Page from Proprietors of the Common Field in Deerfield
Sketches of Brazil & Chile by Jeremiah Madison Doe on his voyage from Massachusetts around Cape Horn to California
“Public Lectures on Slavery” article from Gazette and Mercury newspaper
New Entrance to the Live Wire Fair
Partial Civil War letter from Annie Higginson to her sister, Agnes Fuller
Edward Hitchcock (1793-1864)
Will of Lucinda Nims
“Negroes Waiting at the Depot”
“Plan of Sunderland Bridge over the Connecticut River”
Main Street Business Center
“Black Tragedy-” editorial from Greenfield Recorder newspaper
E-flag of Greenfield Tap and Die Corporation for exemplary performance in WWII
“Uroscopia.”
Letter to Elijah Dwight Williams
Doll “Chloe”
Cooley Dickinson Hospital, Northampton, MA
Niddy-Noddy
“Evarosa Remedial Tonic Label” from Toiletine Company in Greenfield
Vases
“Amherst House.”
Hand Stamp
Mt. Sugar Loaf
Avenue A, Turners Falls, Mass.
Two-handled cups
Seating “Negroes” in the Old Hadley meetinghouse
Excerpts on slavery from “Anecdotes and Reminiscences . A Labor of Love”
Main Street, Looking North. Whately, Mass.
Pages from John Williams Daybook
Extract on George Washington’s farm, and state of America article published in the Hampshire Gazette
Court Dancers
Esther (Harding) Dickinson (1790-1875)
Shelburne Falls, Mass., Looking West
“Ku-Klux-Klan” article in the Gazette and Courier newspaper
“Deerfield Society of Blue and White Needlework”
“Junior Exhibition”
The Western Battle Ground article published in the Greenfield Gazette and Courier newspaper
Family Bible owned by David Hoyt
Excerpts from the Diary of Ruth Pease
Bridesburg Percussion Musket
Great Chair
Ditch Plow
Hospital in Vladivostok
Whale-oil Lamp
Christening Dress
Apron
Cradle with painted decoration
“Statistical Information Relating to Certain Branches of Industry in Massachusetts For the Year Ending June 1, 1855”
“The Cabinetwork at New Clairvaux”
Clothes Wringer
Letter from Cynthia Williams to brother William Stoddard Williams
Hunting and Skinning Knives
Door Curtain-Espaliered Rose
“Rivets are Bayonets / Drive them home!
Writ against Standish Foster by Daniel Coon
“Alton-Mob-Murder and Arson” article from the Hampshire Gazette newspaper
“The Figures of Population” article from the Gazette and Courier newspaper
Hannah Phelps account book
Wallhanging-“The Blue Pool”
Wallhanging-Two Red Roses Across the Moon
“Deerfield” article on the death of David Starr Hoyt from the Gazette and Courier newspaper
Church, Town Hall and Post Office, Plainfield, Mass.
“Southern and War Items”
Reward of Merit to Luella May
Petition to Selectmen of Deerfield regarding trolley
Nichols family’s first automobile
Tent Tobacco Fields from Mt. Sugarloaf
Greenfield Public Library Mutule Block
Admiral Francis John Higginson (1843-1931)
Three Bridges over Green River
Deerfield Academy Student Roster
Nathaniel Lamson (1805-1866)
“Soviets’ ‘Moon’ Circling Globe at Terrific Speed” article from Greenfield Recorder-Gazette newspaper
“Scripture History, Abridged.”
“Hints to School Masters” article from the Greenfield Gazette and Franklin Herald newspaper
Fans
“Police, Protesters Clash” article from The Greenfield Recorder newspaper
Projectile point
Captain John Wells’ Company Muster Roll
“Terrible Horror” article from the Journal of Industry newspaper
Long-handled frying pan
Excerpt of Willard letter to E. B. Wilson on Shays’ Insurrection of 1786
Indenture of Sarah Green
Necklace
Stone gouge with modern haft
Janet Russell (1886-1981) with her cat, Sir Thomas Gray
“Plan of Deerfield in the County of Franklin from Actual Survey”
Shelburne Falls, Mass Birds-Eye View
Hitchcock Free Academy, Brimfield, Mass.
Hotel, Montague, Mass.
Jacob’s well
Farley, Mass., Rattlesnake Mt. in Distance
Connecticut Valley
Wooden inkwell
“Hitchcock House”
Stoneware Crock
Springfield bicycle club displaying their trophies
Mary Hawks (1799-1876) Sampler
Unidentified Girl
Mount Sugar Loaf, South Deerfield, Mass.
Electric iron
Shadow Box – Crucifix
Dress Sword
Russell Cutlery Company Birds-Eye View
Over the Hoosac Tunnel, Mohawk Trail, Mass.
Warrant for Train Band parade
Arms Manufacturing Company
“Little Captives of 1704”
“Red Electric” Washing and Wringing Machine pamphlet
Doll “Joel Ellis”
WWII Disabled American Veterans card of Frank Dahowski, Jr.
Hoosac Tunnel, Approach to East Portal, Mass
“Sacred Heart of Mary”
Dance Hall, Brookside Park
Civil War Certificate of Non-Liability for Substitute
Will of Edward Allyn
“History of Deerfield”
Workingmen’s Association broadside
Convalescent Soldiers
Receipt for firearms of Theodore Barnard
“Students Trying to Convert Congressmen” article in The Greenfield Recorder newspaper
Photograph of Millers Falls Companies with WWII losses
Steatite Vessel
Letter to C. Alice Baker regarding the trolley
“Greenfield Lyceum” ad from the Gazette and Courier newspaper
Votes of counties at the Massachusetts State Convention article published in the Hampshire Gazette
Building Contract for Deerfield Street School
Union Playing Card
South Main Street, Orange, Mass.
Streetscape – Athol Center
Letter to Colrain Selectmen regarding Insurgents
Pages from the Diary of Samuel King
Foot Stove
“The World’s Work” – War Manual of the Great 1914 European Conflict
Irrigation Syringe
Bear comb
Eleanor Brown Stebbins (1875-1955) (Mrs. Benjamin Stebbins) Washing a Child’s Hand
44 Sugarloaf Street
“Remarks and Observations” by Justin Hitchcock
Letter to Deerfield Assessors by Colonel Elihu Hoyt
“Beecher on Female Suffrage” article from Greenfield Gazette and Courier newspaper
Colonel Hugh Maxwell’s Certificate of Membership into the Mass. Society for Agriculture
The Electoral Vote article published in the Greenfield Gazette and Courier newspaper
Legal document of Debtor Joshua Sweet