Highlights of the Digital Collection

If you're not sure where to begin exploring our collection, start here by visually browsing through some of the treasures and highlights of our collection.

Explore the Digital Collection

There are two ways to conduct a search of the items in our digital collection. You can make a Simple Search that is quick and broad and uses just a few search criteria. Or you can use our Advanced Search to take advantage of more specific, curatorial search criteria.

Search Tutorial is an online tutorial that shows how to most successfully explore our digital collection. Exploring the Digital Collection is a brief explanation about our search engine and how best to use it to find what you're looking for.

People, Places and Events

This is a quick reference that lists the important people, places and events of New England's history.

Civil War Newspaper Index

This online index identifies and briefly describes thousands of articles that were published in the Greenfield, Massachusetts, Gazette and Courier during the Civil War. The Gazette and Courier is part of the extensive archival holdings of the Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association in Deerfield, Massachusetts. Unlike other sections of the Digital Collection, most of the articles this index identifies are not available online. Articles can be viewed on microfilm at the Memorial Libraries in Deerfield.