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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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Postcard to Mrs. Edward Wirt
Clock works
“Maple Grove”
“Charlemont”
Lake Pleasant
“Spirit of the Wheat”
Tax Form F
WWII CD Warden’s Report Form
Top hat
Steam Roller
Teapot
Thank you letter from Mrs. Hooper to Miss Wilson for supplies for Civil War soldiers
“True Stories of New England Captives”
Bottle
Notice of non-payment of taxes from Conway article published in the Hampshire Gazette
Beaded Bag
“Scripture History, Abridged.”
Jesse Bowman, Abenaki logger and basketmaker, with daughter Marion Flora Bowman
Will of Edward Allyn
“The Pool in the Woods”
“Quabbin Reservoir Water Starts Flowing” article from Quabbin Reservoir scrapbook
Williamsburgh, Massachusetts
Wine Glasses
Minister Leading Puritans
“Harvest Home Fair” Poster
A Sermon Preach’d at Mansfield, August 4, 1741 -“The Power and Efficacy of the Prayers of the People of GOD”
“Decorative Painting”
Excerpts from “Diary kept from Date of Father’s Death- 1860” on President Lincoln
“Supplement to the New England Farmer, and Gardener’s Journal”
Page from Amasa Jones diary regarding Mill River Disaster Flood
Jerry with Rocking Chair
William Montague (1760-1839)
Coat of Major Samuel Willard Saxton (1829-1933)
Deerfield Town Meeting
Table Knife
“Lake Pleasant Campmeeting Guide for 1876”
“Charles Deuel Druggist Amherst Mass” bottle
“Departure of the Missionaries” article from the Greenfield Gazette and Franklin Herald newspaper
“Main Street from Arms’s Store”
Hotel Lathrop, South Deerfield, Mass.
Raffia Basket
Memorandum of Zur Hawks
Watch fob with crystal drop
J. Wilson’s Improved Cast iron Plough
Medallion necklace
“More Power to the Allies”
Ware Store Day Book [Vol. I]
Edward Hitchcock (1793-1864)
Page from the “Franklin H. Williams Diary from 1852 to 1891”
Cadet’s Uniform
Frank Dahowski, Wallingford, England
“A Discourse Preached At Heath, Feb. 21, 1816 As A Musical Lecture”
Woman’s shoes
Agawam Cong’l Church
Electric iron
Glass tumblers
William Russell House
View from Jutting Rock, Mt. Sugarloaf
Academy of Music
“Local Council of Unemployed Has 230 Members” article from the Greenfield Daily Recorder-Gazette newspaper
Bandbox
“Proportions and Directions for Making Lee’s Patent Mineral and Vegetable Soap”
Pipe box
Excerpt from “A Funeral Oration on the Death of George Washington”
Reed Basket
Distribution of the estate of John Wells
Mitchell’s Primary Geography. An Easy Introduction to the Study of Geography
Lake Pleasant Founders
The Boston Mob article regarding fugitive Shadrich in Gazette and Courier newspaper
“Pews in Deerfield meeting house first Parish- sold December 1824”
WWI Uniform of Lt. Henry N. Flynt
Group of Toy Soldiers
“800 Troops See Dummy ‘A-Bomb’ At Fort Devens” article in Greenfield Recorder-Gazette newspaper
Mt. Sugarloaf and Trolley
“GTD Makes John Grant’s Invention Known Around World” article from Greenfield Recorder-Gazette newspaper
“Chinese Mulberry” and “Persian Management of Silkworms from New England Farmer”
The Weldon Hotel
“Ten Years of Massachusetts”
“Proceedings on the Trial of Dominic Daley and James Halligan”
“The Shepherdess of the Alps” embroidery
Fabric order for Orlando Ware’s store
“Practical Art Lectures”
Petition of Convention of Hampshire County article from the Hampshire Gazette newspaper
Civil War letter from Thomas Wentworth Higginson to his brother Stephen
Handicraft Vol. III, No. 11 -“How They Do It In Deerfield”
Bread Peel
Children’s boots
Broomcorn broom
Hattie Fuller Abercrombie (1860-1955)
Excerpt of Dr. Joseph Goodhue’s Diary
Arosen’s Sash
Admiral Francis John Higginson Epaulettes with Case
“Plan of the Town of Deerfield”
“Annual Report of the Town Officers of Deerfield For the Year Ending Jan. 1st 1916- Annual Report of the School Committee”
“Learning to Sew”
Robert Frost and granddaughters
Flail
“Raising George’s Tobacco Barn”
Cheese press
Onion Pickers
“Shutesbury”
“Universal Geography, Ancient and Modern: Comparison and Classification”
Account Book of Elijah Williams, Ledger C, Vol. 4
Sleighing in a One-Horse Cutter
Teapot
French Knife
Mitch Mieczkowski
Deerfield – Talk on “Color”
“Union and Liberty”
“Giant U.S. Air, Naval Task Force Begins Mining Entrances To Haiphong, Other Ports” article from Greenfield Recorder newspaper
Glass Bottle
Ice delivery
“Hitching Posts Should Go”
Croquet on Roots’ Lawn
Flintlock Fowler
“Deerfield Collection of Sacred Music”
Military Commission of Lemuel Taylor
“Original Deerfield Workers Show Skills at Crafts”
“The Pumpkin Hood”
“A Historic and Present Day Guide to Old Deerfield”
Painting of Millers Falls Company
Kate Russell (Mrs. William Russell)
Springfield bicycle club displaying their trophiesExploring the Online Collection
Stoneware Churn
“Our page, Harry”
Historical Collections, being a General Collection of interesting facts, traditions, biographical sketches, anecdotes, &c.
Official Bulletin of the Mohawk Klan
Boston Tea Party Report
The Weldon Garage
“Deerfield” regarding Monument Banter
George Sheldon (1818-1916)
Field Memorial Library
“Washington Monument at Night, Washington, D.C.”
Congregational Church and Sheldon Academy, Southampton, Mass
Football players
Heath, Mass.-On Pocumtuck Road
Union Battery Invoice for Cannon and Expenses
Prospect House, Mount Holyoke, Northampton, Mass.
“An Act providing for the Pay and Subsistence of the Militia”
“America’s Triumph at Panama”
“Betty at the Churn”
“Bernardston”
“Grammar School”
Civil War musket with bayonet made by Lamson, Goodnow & Yale
“Deerfield’s Original Crafts Show Next Week”
Ellen Miller (1854-1929)
Mess Cup
“Making High Grade Tools for Industry Since 1868” Millers Falls Company ad from Greenfield Recorder-Gazette newspaper
Main Street, Amherst, Mass.
Main St. Looking East
“Sundry Items”- military figures for states
“Hawley”
Medical Cases of Stephen West Williams: Angina Pectori.
Connery House, Westhampton, Mass.
Farren Memorial Hospital, Montague City, Mass.
Indenture of Zechariah Gilson of Northfield
“Hanging Stockings”
Franklin County Public Hospital
Lace Making Pillow
Stocking
“Ashfield”
Mt. Toby, Montague, Mass.
Settlement of the Estate of John Stebbins
“The History of the Town of Royalston, Massachusetts”
Fire Bucket
Appointment to Sheriff of Epaphras Hoyt
Reticule
“Sidewalk Begun at So. Deerfield” article from Greenfield Daily Recorder-Gazette newspaper
Tax Assessment notice for town of Buckland
Writ against Amos Thomas by John and Samuel Frink
“Deerfield Meeting House, Deerfield Mass.”
“A Proclamation” published in the Hampshire Gazette
Memorial Hall Bedroom
“Be Ye Warmed” Quilt
Mason Jar
Three Bridges over the Deerfield River
Nichols family’s first automobile
Indenture between Justin Hitchcock and Moses Church
Auger
Looking Down the Trail from Western Summit
Elizabeth Brooks Fuller (1896-1979)
“Twenty-first Triennial Alumni Association of State Normal School at Westfield, Massachusetts” program
“Ingenious Epitaph” a poem from Greenfield Gazette newspaper
“New England Strike Grows All Fall River Mills Idle; President Seeks Mediators” article in the Greenfield Daily Recorder-Gazette
Railroad Trestle Bridge
“Mr. Hutchins’ Play”
“Union Republican Ticket”
Main Street and Webster Block. Northfield, Mass.
“Pocumtuck Memorial Hall Perspective View”
Cars at Open House
Lucy Henry (1843-1927) (Mrs. David Henry) Netting
“Noon Rest”
Letter to Lt. James Stewart regarding Insurgents
“Artistic Picture Framing”
Adjustable Plane
Fern stand
Worthington
B. and M. Freight Yard
Lower Suspension Bridge, Turners Falls, Mass.