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Old House in Essex, MA
c. 1884
1995.11.695
Agnes Higginson (1810-1888) painted for all her life, but in her later years she depicted New England-style "salt box" houses scores of times in paintings like this. |
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Shirred Rug depicting the Sheldon House
1842
1918.02.04
Arabella Sheldon (1812-1874) of Deerfield, Massachusetts, designed and made this rug to represent the house where she grew up. |
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Moody Homestead
1881
2000.10.04
This substantial farmhouse was the birthplace of Dwight L. Moody, who went on to spur a religious revival across the United States and Great Britain, and found Northfield School for Girls and Mount Hermon School. |
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Inventory of Charles Hart Ashley
Aug 11, 1925
L01.031
When Charles Hart Ashley died in 1925, an inventory of his real and personal estate, totaling a little more than $21,000, was taken. |
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Sketch of Wilson Printing Office
c. 1815
L01.065
Mary Hoyt Wilson (1809-1841) was a young girl when she sketched the printing office run by her father, John, in Deerfield, Massachusetts. |
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Puritan Village patterns from "Historical Atlas of Massachusetts"
1991
L01.119
The layout of towns tells us a lot about the culture and society they belong to. The Puritan town sought to give its residents as equal a set of land as possible, using a model created in England and modified for the New World. |
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Residence of Dwight L. Moody, East Northfield, Mass.
1907
1997.08.01.0096
Dwight L. Moody was the founder of Northfield School for Girls and Mount Hermon School. This was his home from 1875 to his death. |
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Birth Place of D. L. Moody, East Northfield, Mass.
1997.08.01.0097
D.L. Moody, founder of the Northfield Seminary and Mount Hermon Schools, was born here in 1837 and maintained the home for his mother until her death. |
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Birthplace of Sophia Smith, Hatfield, Mass. Founder of Smith College
1997.08.01.0104
In 1870 Sophia Smith, a well-to-do lady of Hatfield, died, giving the bulk of her fortune to found a college for women. |
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The First Home of Masonry in Western Massachusetts Built 1750. Orange, Mass.
1977
1999.03.0061
This postcard claims that there was a functioning Masonic chapter founded in Orange, Massachusetts, in 1750, although that is doubtful. |