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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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Footed Baptismal Basin
“Population and Statistics of Franklin County” article from the Gazette and Courier Newspaper
Pages from the “Annals of Chicopee Street Records and Reminiscences of an Old New England Parish..”
Academy of Music
“An address to the People of Several Towns” article regarding Shays’ Rebellion, in Hampshire Gazette newspaper
Auger Bit
Wallhanging-Rose Tree
Letter to Elihu Ashley
Sycamore Barrel
Connecticut Valley
“Sacrifices to Our Country. A Discourse Delivered July 17, 1864…at a Funeral Service for James T. Stebbins & Myron Stowell”
Letter to Zadock Hawks
Shelburne Falls, Mass., Looking West
Oakman Motor Vehicle Company Advertisement
McKinley Sure article published in the Greenfield Gazette and Courier newspaper
“Sundry Items”- military figures for states
Partial letter to Louisa Higginson from son regarding politics and slavery
“Welfare Workers on Hope Street Job Ask Two Packages of Tobacco” article from the Greenfield Daily Recorder-Gazette newspaper
“Italian Vagrants” article from the Greenfield Gazette and Franklin Herald newspaper
“Grape Arbor”
“Influenza Returns- South Deerfield Had Severe Week With It” article from The Greenfield Recorder newspaper
Affidavit for Wilson’s plough
“America’s Triumph at Panama”
“Legislature- slave hunting petition”
Cane
Abenaki Basket
“Americans With The Wrong Ancestors”
Lidded Hanging Pot
The Common, Greenfield Mass.
Letter to Elijah Dwight Williams
Fisher’s Garage Mechanics
Spectacles
Curling Iron
Sophia Smith Sampler
Glass tumblers
“A Catalogue of the Books contained in the Chicopee Town Library, together with general regulations of the same.”
“President Lincoln” article from the Gazette and Courier newspaper
View Along Cold River, Eastern Slope of Mohawk Trail
Table Rock, Mt. Sugarloaf
St. Ann’s Church
Willow Basket
Hospital Operating Room
Sugar Loaf, South Deerfield, Mass.
Flail
Rowe Village, Rowe, Mass.
Graham Bread Recipe from “The New Hydropathic Cook-Book”
“The Old Conkey Tavern” from “The History of the Town of Amherst”
Photos of town of Ware and other Mass. towns from “The Complete Historical Record of New England’s Stricken Area, 9-21-1938”
Tobacco Wagon on Street
The Birches Along the Mohawk Trail
Excerpts from Remembrance of Captain Park Holland and his participation in Shays’ Rebellion
Trout Lily/ Adder Tongue Lily/ Dog’s Tooth Violet flower
Carving Fork
“Young Ladies Literary Society 1813”
“South Deerfield- To Build New School-House”
New England Primer
Bean Pot
Deed of Pacomtuck land granted by Ahimunquat to Dedham residents
“Looking West At Mount Sugarloaf”
Avery Oxen Postcard
Disqualification Act broadside issued by Gov. James Bowdoin during Shays’ Rebellion
Letter from Daniel Shays printed in the Hampshire Gazette
Pages from John Partridge Bull’s account book
“Bloody Butchery, By The British Troops; Or The Runaway Fight Of The Regulars”
South Deerfield, Mass.
“An American”
“Annual Report of the Treasurer, Selectmen, and School Committee, To the Inhabitants of the Town of Deerfield”
Lucia Fairchild Fuller (1870-1924)
Woodland outing
E-flag of Greenfield Tap and Die Corporation for exemplary performance in WWII
Writ against Amos Thomas by John and Samuel Frink
“Potter’s Assistant”
War of 1812 Commemorative Pitcher
“Uncle Sid’s Adventure with Indians”
Porringer
Letter to Mr. and Mrs. George Sheldon regarding R. H. Dana et. al. and trolley
“Influence of Schoolmasters” article from the Greenfield Gazette and Franklin Herald newspaper
Student Uniform
Calico Pocket
“A Manual Containing Information Respecting the Growth of the Mulberry Tree, with Suitable Directions for the Culture of Silk”
Irrigation Syringe
“It Ain’t the Heat!” political cartoon from the Greenfield Recorder newspaper
“Ku-Klux-Klan” article in the Gazette and Courier newspaper
Cheese Basket
“A Historic and Present Day Guide to Old Deerfield”
“Memorial Hall, Deerfield, Mass.”
List of Books bought by Joseph Barnard
Tuscarora beadwork sellers
Poets Seat, Greenfield, Mass.
Arms Manufacturing Company
Dr. Joseph Goodhue (1762-1849)
“Post Office Old Deerfield, Mass.”
John Hawks paid 1714, promisory note to John Pynchon
Scales
Harvest Time
“M. Root” Tavern sign
Identification Badge of a Raytheon Manufacturing Company worker during WWII
“History and Proceedings of the Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association”
“For the town of Amherst, education the leading ‘industry’”
Military Commission of Lemuel Taylor
Bake Kettle
Austin Towers’ receipt from the Shelburne Falls Marble Co.
Plane
Account Book of Elijah Williams, Ledger B, Vol. 3
Article about wrongful arrest suits by rescuers of Shadrich from Gazette and Courier newspaper
“Deerfield’s Summer Plays”
Church, Town Hall and Post Office, Plainfield, Mass.
Mohawk Trail Whitcomb Summit House and Gift Shop
Tape loom
Over the Hoosac Tunnel, Mohawk Trail, Mass.
Paint Pigments
Thomas Wells distribution of property among children
“The Conference at Deerfield, Mass., August 27-31, 1735 Between Gov. Belcher”
“Pomegranate”
“Rivets are Bayonets / Drive them home!
Brick Church
“Deerfield- It’s Early Beauty Has Never Left” article from Tercentenary Recorder newspaper
Ice Harvesting Demonstration
“Girl with Dulcimer”
Sap Bucket
“Souvenir of Orange, Mass”
“Sanderson Academy” ad from the Greenfield Gazette and Franklin Herald newspaper
Painting of Millers Falls Company
“Copy of a letter from Gen. Lincoln to Capt. Shays” in Hampshire Gazette newspaper
Pouch
“Federal Grants Pour Into Towns For WPA Plans” article from Greenfield Daily Recorder-Gazette newspaper
“Local Council of Unemployed Has 230 Members” article from the Greenfield Daily Recorder-Gazette newspaper
Pitcher
Letter to George Sheldon regarding the trolley debate
Colonel Elihu Hoyt Military Commission
Landscape of Irish Ruins
Eleanor “Nellie” M. Arms (1864-1937)
Maple Sugar Molds
“UM Students Protest Move Into Cambodia” article in The Greenfield Recorder newspaper
Girl’s boots
Holyoke, Mass. Bird’s Eye View from Mt. Tom by moonlight
“A Day Off”
Beaded Bag
Winter Headquarters of the 2nd Brigade 3rd Division 2nd Corps, Stony Mountain, Virginia
“The Young Ladies Book: A Manual of Elegant Recreations, Exercises, and Pursuits”
Letter to George and Augustus Fuller
Confederate bond
Reflector Oven/Roaster
Burl bowl
Deposition from the Cross
“The Hero”, poem about George Washington
Flintlock long fowler
Toy Train
Gen. Shepard Memorial Monument, Westfield, Mass.
“Oil Cinnamon Cordial” advertisement
Reed Basket
List of Colrain Insurgents
“The History of the Town of Royalston, Massachusetts”
“A Full and Graphic Account of the Terrible Mill River Disaster, caused by the Breaking of a Reservoir in Hampshire County”
Card Table
Schedule of the whole number of Persons within the Division alloted to William Shepard and David Sexton to enumerate, 1790
Moccasins
Capt. Moses Scott military settlement
Shelburne Falls, Mass Birds-Eye View
“Schell Memorial Bridge, East Northfield, Mass.”
Letter to C. Alice Baker regarding the trolley
“Hangar Queen” ad from Aero Digest for Greenfield Tap and Die Corporation
“Indian Village, Caughnawaga”
Farley, Mass., Rattlesnake Mt. in Distance
Little Jack of All Trades, with Suitable Representations. Part I
Letter to Dennis Stebbins
“Montague”
Hoosac Tunnel North Adams, Mass.
Flute
Plummet
Broom Tying Machine
“Deerfield”
Excerpts from “A Record of the Doings of the Hawley Female Charitable Society”
Letter to Charles Hart Ashley
Palm Leaf Basket
Hand Hewn Pulley
Letter to George Sheldon regarding trolley
Edge of Settlement
Letter to Aaron Fuller from George Fuller
Proclamation by the Governor of The Compulsory Work Law
Tax receipt of Alpheus Moore for Ebenezer Hinsdale’s property
“Receipt To Color Blue”
Greenfield Postmasters
Norcross Bros. Stone Yard, East Longmeadow, Mass.
Please Pose for the Camera!
Three Athol Images from “Quabbin’s Railroad: The Rabbit”
Moccasin
Shakespeare and the Spirit of Vision
Mary Arms at Barton Heights
Visit of Gov. Guild to Charlemont, Mass.
“Log Drive Nearly Past Turners”
Military Commission of Benjamin Maynard
Fuller House, “The Bars”
“Farm for Sale”
Deerfield Town Warrant
“Soldiers Memorial- Company F 34th Regt. Massachusetts Infty Vols.”
Letter to daughter, Dorothy Ashley in Boston
View of Turner’s Falls, Mass.
Essex Touring Car
Toasting iron