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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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Plainfield
Letter to George Sheldon regarding trolley
Union Telegraph Line
Lilla and Mary Ella Childs (1854-1942)
Navigating Cut Ice
Lamson, Goodnow and Company, Birds-Eye View
“Arms Faculty Voluntarily Accepts Salary Reduction” article from the Greenfield Daily Recorder-Gazette newspaper
Pencil Pointer
“American Missionary Association Circular”
Election of Officers for Franklin County Benevolent Societies
Greenfield Tap and Die Corporation’s framed Memorial of WWII company losses
Michael Waskiewicz
“Popery-Temperance” article from the Greenfield Gazette and Franklin Herald newspaper
Excerpts from “Reminiscences of Fugitive-Slave Law Days in Boston”
“Constitutional Amendments” article from the Gazette and Courier newspaper
Birchbark wastepaper basket
William Montague (1760-1839)
B. and M. and Street Ry. Bridges at Cheapside
Hand Stamp
Extract on George Washington’s farm, and state of America article published in the Hampshire Gazette
Stoneware Crock
“Anti-Slavery Convention in Franklin County” article from Greenfield Gazette & Franklin Herald newspaper
Perforators with modern haft
Plate “Massachusetts State House”
Naomi Lyman Arms (1739-1818)
Railroad Arch Bridge, Deerfield
Please Pose for the Camera!
Sugar Bowl with Lid
Will of Esther (Harding) Dickinson
Wine Glasses
Lidded Hanging Pot
Tobacco Farmers
Red slate gorget
Mary Hawks (1799-1876) Sampler
Main Street, looking West. Colerain, Mass.
The Old Oliver Tractor
“Peacock Minuet”
Electric iron
150 Anniversary, Bernardston, Mass.-horse and buggy
Easthampton, from Mt. Tom, Holyoke, Mass.
Table Rock, Mt. Sugarloaf
“Give Me Three Grains of Corn, Mother” poem in the Hamsphire Gazette newspaper
“Revival in Pittsfield” article from the Franklin Herald newspaper
Old Indian House Door on Exhibit
“Threadwell In New Industrial Era After Decades of Varying Fortunes” article from Greenfield Recorder-Gazette newspaper
“E. Wells” Tavern sign
“The Greek Slave” Statuette
“Sundry Items”- military figures for states
Lot Survey of Deerfield
Mansion House, Greenfield, Mass.
Side Chair
Residence of Dwight L. Moody, East Northfield, Mass.
Turners Falls Dam and Canal
“Cotillion Party at Whitney Hall! In Shelburne Falls, Friday Dec 17th, 1858”
African-American woman sewing
“Post Office Old Deerfield, Mass.”
Sugar Sack
Easthampton (and Northampton)
Mt. Tom Railway and Summit House
Patch Box
Excerpts from “Diary kept from Date of Father’s Death- 1860” on President Lincoln
“NRA Citizens Committee Told Factories Hired 225 More; Store Jobs Increase” article from Greenfield Daily Recorder-Gazette paper
Colonel Hugh Maxwell’s Certificate of Membership into the Mass. Society for Agriculture
“Study by Candlelight”
“Old Folks Concert” poster
“South Deerfield – South Deerfield to Have Conference on Health in Schools”
Pod Auger
“The History of New England..”
Tax Assessment notice to Town of Buckland
Black Lace Dress
Tax Form F
Letter to Mr. and Mrs. George Sheldon regarding R. H. Dana et. al. and trolley
Sophie Dahowski and Infant
Two children feeding hens
“Motives for Well-Doing. A Sermon, Delivered in Northampton, August 24, 1815. Before the Hampshire Missionary Society”
“Expansion of Deerfield Arts and Crafts”
Letter to Agnes Higginson from George Fuller
Receipt for firearms of Theodore Barnard
Log Drive Cook Shack on Connecticut River
Letter to Leon Weeks from Raytheon Company
Inventory of David Hoyt
Continental Currency in various amounts
Toy Sewing Machine
“Wage and Dispute at Monroe Bridge Causes Dismissal of Score in Department” article from the Greenfield Daily Recorder newspaper
View of Turner’s Falls, Mass.
Stocking
“Letter from Mrs. L. M. Child” to Friend Garrison published in the National Anti-Slavery Standard newspaper
“High Court Bars Alien Deportation” article in Greenfield Recorder-Gazette newspaper
Deed to Zur Hawks
Military Commission of Isaac Abercrombie
Doll “Joel Ellis”
“The Sabrinian”
Willow Basket
Park Square, Westfield, Mass.
Main Street Business Center
Pocketbook
Court Dancers
Dr. William G. Watt
Hoyt family register
“Committee Recommends Senate Censure McCarthy, Charges He Treated Group Contemptuously” article from Greenfield Recorder-Gazette
Court verdicts of punishment for Shays’ Insurgents published in the Hamsphire Gazette
Civil War letter to Ella Melendy
Postcard to George Sheldon regarding trolley debate
Colrain, Mass.
Cinnamon and Wintergreen Extracts made by The Toiletine Company
Mohawk Trail explanatory text
Letter to Dr. Elihu Ashley
“The White Doll”
Kitchen Settle
Beaded Bag
Hoosac Tunnel North Adams, Mass.
Land sale between Seth Sheldon & Alvah and Zur Hawks
WWI letter to Emily Gladys Bartlett
“A Letter from T. D. Judah”
Sewing Machine
“House Beautiful”
Edward Hitchcock (1828-1911)
“The American Duroc-Jersey Swine Breeders Association”
Bevel Square
Armory, Greenfield, Mass.
“Turners Falls Post Plans Alien, Propaganda Check” article from Greenfield Recorder-Gazette newspaper
Old Tavern Sign, Blandford
“Annual Report of the Town Officers of Deerfield for the Year Ending, Jan. 1st, 1915-Annual Report of the School Committee”
Millers Falls Company’s Micrometer with box
Petersham Town Records on Shays’ Rebellion
Candlewick Spread
Gate-leg Table
“Temperance and Abolition Celebration at North Leverett” article from the Gazette and Courier newspaper
Redware Platter
“The Old Conkey Tavern” from “The History of the Town of Amherst”
Mt. Sugar Loaf, South Deerfield, Mass.
“Fort River”
“Child with Pussies” or “Polly and the Pussy Willows”
Proposal of the 14th Amendment by Congress article from the Gazette and Courier newspaper
Gluing Clamp
“Leaders of March Still Have Not Attained Goal” article from Greenfield Recorder-Gazette newspaper
“Lyman Street, Lake Pleasant, Mass.”
The Old Mill Wheel
Letter to John Williams
“Deerfield Electric Road”
Bird’s-Eye View, Sunderland and Connecticut River from Mt. Sugarloaf
“Finance Report of the Town of Deerfield. 1860-61.”
Basalt hoe or adzes
“Russian Émigré Revolutionizes World’s Photo Enlarging Process” article from Greenfield Recorder-Gazette newspaper
Broadside of Abraham Lincoln’s elegy
Old Indian House Arm Chair
Multiple articles from The New-Haven Gazette and The Connecticut Magazine newspaper regarding Shays’ Rebellion
High Chest of drawers
Hand Hewn Pulley
“Noon Rest”
Franklin County Public Hospital
Will of Edward Allyn
Notification to Consider Dickinson
Miniature Chest of Drawers
“Northampton” article on Dealey [Daley] and Halligan from the Hampshire Gazette newspaper
To Nationalize the GREEN O HORSE RADISH
Frontpage of Gazette & Courier newspaper
Clay pipe
“Roman Catholics” article from the Greenfield Gazette and Franklin Herald newspaper
Silhouette of John Foster Stearns (1788-1872)
Letter to daughter, Dorothy Ashley
Rear of the Colrain
Letter to Capt. Harvey requesting assistance published in the Hampshire Gazette
Complaint of Distress against Heman Farnham
“New England Strike Grows All Fall River Mills Idle; President Seeks Mediators” article in the Greenfield Daily Recorder-Gazette
Mt. Sugarloaf
“Harvest Home Fair” Poster
Mount Hermon, Mass., Mount Hermon Chapel
Red Cross Club, Marseiles, France
“And White As Well” editorial from Greenfield Recorder newspaper
Warrant for Train Band parade
Five Children and a Buggy
The Lofty Heights along the Trail
Norcross Bros. Stone Yard, East Longmeadow, Mass.
Audience perspective of Deerfield’s historical pageant
Letter to Israel Williams
44 Sugarloaf Street
Workingmen’s Association broadside
Judy Austin or “There are green monkeys in the garden”
“Drama Vs. Reality” editorial from Greenfield Recorder-Gazette newspaper
Maple Sugar Molds
“Lake Pleasant Campmeeting Guide for 1876”
“Shoe and Leather Dealers’ Convention” article in The Hampshire Gazette newspaper
Man’s vest
“Call for more Missionaries” article from the Franklin Herald newspaper
Civil War Certificate of Non-Liability for Substitute
“Leaving for Bloody Brook”
Letter to Christopher Tyler Arms from Rodolphus Dickinson on Independence and duel between Burr and Hamilton
“Log Drive Nearly Past Turners”
“Irish Immigration” article from the Greenfield Gazette and Franklin Herald newspaper
Pint mug
Letter to Colonel Hyde from an insurgent published in the Hampshire Gazette
Looking Down the Trail from Western Summit
School Street Looking East, Athol, Mass.
“Learning to Sew”
Ketchup Bottle
Distribution of the estate of John Wells
“Junior Exhibition”
Deerfield Town Warrant regarding making peace with Great Britain
Christening Dress