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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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“Roman Catholics” article from the Greenfield Gazette and Franklin Herald newspaper
Hawks and Arms Family Portrait
Common, South Deerfield, Mass.
Pages from the diary of Martha Cochran
“The Greek Slave” Statuette
“Hanging Stockings”
Act by House of Representatives issued to Bernardston selectmen to hold town meeting to vote on the Constitution
Bread Peel
Threadwell Tap and Die Company’s Tap & Die set made in WWII
“Negro Slavery in Old Deerfield”
“The Snow Storm”
“Firing the Cannon”
Letter from Deerfield Selectmen re: travel of William Stoddard Williams
“Mt. Holyoke Female Seminary” article in the Hampshire Gazette newspaper
Appendix to “Journal of a tour to Saratoga Springs, August 1827” kept by Elihu Hoyt
Boston Tea Party Report
Wooden Canteen- Memorial Hall
Military letter regarding men, arms, and clothing
Eleanor “Nellie” M. Arms (1864-1937)
Washington Memorial
River Road House
Sign-“Franklin Savings Institution”
“General View of Erving, Mass.”
Rowland Stebbins (1794-1848)
Deerfield Inn and Trolley
“Civilization rebuked by the savage” in “Gazette and Mercury” Newspaper
Pages from the “Annals of Chicopee Street Records and Reminiscences of an Old New England Parish..”
Will of Zur Hawks
New England Views on Boston and Maine R.R., Deerfield Valley
Deed of Pacomtuck land granted by Ahimunquat to Dedham residents
Esther Williams’ Will
“Young People’s Camp Third Season Rowe, Mass. June 27-July 4, 1926”
“Turners Falls Post Plans Alien, Propaganda Check” article from Greenfield Recorder-Gazette newspaper
Tax receipt of Alpheus Moore for Ebenezer Hinsdale’s property
Family Bible owned by David Hoyt
Framed photograph of Greenfield Tap & Die Corporation operator during WWII
“Sermons, No. II- How To Change Your Heart”
Pendants
Letter to daughter, Dorothy Ashley
Flintlock long fowler
Tobacco Plantation in the Connecticut Valley
“U.S. Planes Hit North Vietnam… ” article in The Greenfield Record-Gazette newspaper
Letter to Mary (Polly) Ashley
Piccolo
“Communist Impudence” article in The Gazette and Courier newspaper
Coal shovel
Coleman- Hollister House
Hospital Ward
Excerpt from Volume II of the Adelphi Society Records
Tricorn Hat
“Rivermen Reach Turners Falls”
Painting of Millers Falls Company
“Government Ready to Buy Butter and Beef for Needy” article from Greenfield Daily Recorder-Gazette newspaper
Poem on Shays’ Rebellion from The New-Haven Gazette and The Connecticut Magazine newspaper
The First Home of Masonry in Western Massachusetts Built 1750. Orange, Mass.
Bullet pouch
“The Pocumtuc Housewife; A Guide to Domestic Cookery”
Doll “Chloe”
Liberty Pole
“Arrival of Missionaries” article from the Greenfield Gazette and Franklin Herald newspaper
Atlatl or spear throwing weight
Mohawk Trail explanatory text
Dr. Clara M. Greenough
Whole Cloth Quilt
Dyno-Mite WWII newsletter cover from Millers Falls (Tool) Company
“Mark’s China Putty, For Cementing Glass And China Ware”
Abenaki Basket
Fisher’s Garage
Mary P. Wells Smith (1840-1930) and Grandsons
Door Curtain
Letter to the printer regarding Shays Rebellion published in the Hampshire Gazette newspaper
South Deerfield, Mass.
WWI letter to Emily Gladys Bartlett
Greenfield Public Library
Douglas and Johnson Democratic Ticket and Bell and Everett National Union Ticket
Photograph of Millers Falls Companies with WWII losses
“The Life and Age of Woman”
Wrought-iron lampstand and lamp
“Protecting Freedom” article from The Recorder newspaper
Scene at Palmer Fair, Palmer, Mass.
Letter to John Sheldon
Holy Name of Jesus Church
“A Sermon Preach’d at the Funeral of the Reverend Mr. John Williams”
V-Day Brussels
Well Sweep
Glass tumblers
Excerpts from “A Key to Uncle Tom’s Cabin Presenting the Original Facts and Documents Upon Which the Story is Founded”
Auction bill of Dennis Stebbins
George Sheldon (1818-1916)
Sword
Sugar cone
Plaid suit
Reward of Merit to Luella May
Bride
Spinning Jenny
“Miss Harriet Martineau” article from the Greenfield Gazette and Franklin Herald newspaper
Components of a Proximity Fuze made by Raytheon Manufacturing Company during WWII
“Colonial and Revolutionary Room”- “Laws against colored people” article in The Hampshire Gazette newspaper
B. and M. Freight Yard
“Greenfield & Gill”
“Old Buildings are Moved out of Quabbin Area” article from scrapbook on Quabbin Reservoir
“For Whom Will the Irish Vote?” article from The Emancipator newspaper
Letter to George Sheldon regarding trolley
Where the Trail makes a perfect “S” near Charlemont
“Black Tragedy-” editorial from Greenfield Recorder newspaper
Child’s highchair
Factories of the L. S. Starrett Co.
High Chest of drawers
Article on the Constitution and Slavery from The Hampshire Gazette Newspaper
Letter from Teacher Mary Montague
Edward Hitchcock (1828-1911)
Mt. Sugarloaf showing King Philip’s Seat
Gluing Clamp
Micmac Bead bag
Bowling pins
Letter to Dr. William Stoddard Williams from Oliver Partridge
Pocumtuck Hotel
Old Meeting House from Pelham Bicentennial Celebration, 1743-1946
“HYMN – For Fourth July–1826”
Formerly enslaved man gives talk in Northfield
“Snow Storm”
“Your Red Cross” ad from Greenfield Recorder-Gazette newspaper
V-Day Brussels
Milk Bottle
Watering Place Looking up the Mountain Side
Broom Pounder
Cartridge Box
“Graduated Medicine Spoon No. 40”
Table Knife
Ice Sledding
“Deerfield School Controversy”
Birchbark mukak
Letter to Lt. James Stewart
Fan
A System of Modern Geography
Dr. Mary P. Dole
“Joseph Stebbins- A Pioneer at the Outbreak of the Revolution”
Chesterfield Church
“Communication Trouble” editorial in The Greenfield Recorder-Gazette newspaper
Promissory note to Joseph Goodhue
Reasons in Favor or Against the Trolley Route in Deerfield
Frontpage of Gazette & Courier newspaper
Church, Town Hall and Post Office, Plainfield, Mass.
Tax Form F
Orange Square Looking South
“Sacred Dirges, Hymns, and Anthems, commemorative of the death of General George Washington, The guardian of his country”
“Study by Candlelight”
“Reflections”
Old House in Essex, MA
Dr. Joseph Goodhue (1762-1849)
Horn spoon
Identification Badge of a Raytheon Manufacturing Company worker during WWII
Children’s boots
Esther (Harding) Dickinson (1790-1875)
Charles B. Arms
Easthampton (and Northampton)
Convalescent Soldiers
The Weldon, The Terrace
“Roman Catholic Provincial Council” article from the Greenfield Gazette and Franklin Herald newspaper
Convalescent Soldiers and Nurse
Side chair with leather upholstery
“Preparations for Jeanne D’Arc at Vaucouleurs”
Log Driving on the Connecticut River
Map of Europe 1822
Knife
Madeline Yale Wynne Metalwork
“A Half Century of Conflict”- Vol. I
Rock Cut on Mountainside, Mt. Tom
“The History of the Town of Royalston, Massachusetts”
“Deerfield Massacre And Burning of 200 Years Ago Early In Queen Anne’s War”
Group of Toy Soldiers
Canteen
Mosaic or Honeycomb Quilt
German Prisoners, Lyons, France
Wedding shoes
Niagara Falls pincushion
“The Pumpkin Hood”
Shoes with buckles
Deerfield Town Warrant regarding making peace with Great Britain
“The Craftsman”
Crucifix
Excerpt from “Our Busy Town”
Three Bridges over Green River
Williamsburgh, Massachusetts
Cruet Set
“Mr. Adams’s Oration” article from the Gazette and Mercury newspaper
“Peske-ompsk-ut; or, The Falls Fight”
Account Book of Elijah Williams, Ledger C, Vol. 4
“Bible of the Papists” article from the Greenfield Gazette and Franklin Herald
“Village Room”
Delegates to the State Convention article published in the Hampshire Gazette
Poets Seat, Greenfield, Mass.
Broadside of Abraham Lincoln’s elegy
“Picking Potatoes, George and Me”
Lace Making Pillow
Cupboard
Candlesticks
Settlement of the Estate of John Stebbins
“Miss Lucy Stone” article from Gazette and Courier newspaper