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Travel passport for Mercy Carter's sons
Jul 5, 1751
L01.003
This handwritten note, dated July 5, 1751, was intended to assure safe passage of two sons of Mercy Carter (captured in 1704 in Deerfield and married to a "Caugnauwaga Indian") from Albany to Norwalk, Connecticut. |
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Carpet Bag
1840-1850
1964.07.01
Known as a "carpet bag" because it is fashioned from the heavy carpeting ordinarily seen on floors, this leather-handled bag, complete with a metal lock, was owned in Bennington, Vermont. |
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Sign-"Who would Turn Back 2 Hundred Yeare, Let him A light & Enter Here"
c. 1923
1981.03b
This wooden sign, advertising a tea house in Deerfield, Massachusetts, was attached to a tree outside. |
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Ceremonial Moccasins
c. 1850
1982.13.33a
These are Wyandot (Huron) ceremonial moccasins created around 1850 near Niagara Falls. |
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Sign-"A. Boyden's Hotel"
c. 1850
1982.19
This classic wooden hotel sign came from a hotel that was run in Deerfield, Massachusetts, in the 1850s. |
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Souvenir Folder of Mohawk Trail, Mass.
c. 1915
1999.03.0038.cv
The Native American depicted on the cover of this souvenir of the Mohawk Trail (Massachusetts Route 2) was used to sell the road as a tourist attraction of the 1920s. |
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Mohawk Trail explanatory text
c. 1915
1999.03.0038.bc
The text of this postcard described the scenic and seasonal beauties of the Mohawk Trail in western Massachusetts. |
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View Along the Cold River, Eastern Slope of Mohawk Trail
c. 1915
1999.03.0038.16
This section of the Mohawk Trail in western Massachusetts runs beside the Cold River. |
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Tuscarora beadwork sellers
1889-1890
1998.09.01
This is a stereopticon view of several Tuscarora (Iroquois) artisans selling their beadwork to tourists near Niagara Falls, New York, in 1889. |
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"Civilization rebuked by the savage" in "Gazette and Mercury" Newspaper
Sep 5, 1837
L01.009
A small item in the September 5, 1837, edition of the Greenfield newspaper recounts an incident between townspeople and Abenakis encamped on the outskirts of town. |