Roxana Dickinson Sampler
This small sampler dated 1806, was worked by Roxana Dickinson at the age of thirteen. The charted work is taken from the original which belongs to the collection of Historic Northampton. Reproduced by Kathleen B. Smith, Textile Reproductions.

• Chart only $4.50
• Kit $28.00 (Kit includes vegetable dyed silk thread, 24 count natural linen and one #26 tapestry needle. Finished size will be approximately 9 1/2" x 6 3/4".)

• Chart only $2.50
• Kit $10.00 (Kit includes vegetable dyed silk threads, 32 count linen and one #26 tapestry needle. Finished size will be approximately 6" x 6")

Reclining Shepherdess Kit
This is a reproduction of a tentstitch picture in the collection of Historic Northampton. Worked about 1750-55 by Esther Stoddard (1738-1816), it is a well preserved example of a common form of school needlework. It is worked entirely in tent stitch in wool & silk. The design is printed in permanent black ink on 18 count unbleached linen. Hand-spun yarns are colored by natural dyes.

• Complete kit........$200.00

• Complete kit.........$30.00

Cassettes and Compact Discs
The Hookes' Regular Sing by Northampton Harmony.
Northampton Harmony is well known for their music from the venerable Sacred Harp and other shape-note compilations of colonial and camp-meeting hymns and arrangements of American traditional and popular songs. This latest recording features selections from their own extensive research into music from the Pioneer Valley of Massachusetts. Recorded at the monthly community singing that gives the album its name.

• Cassette $10.00
• Compact Disc $15.00

• The American Musical Miscellany: A Collection of the Newest and Most Approved Songs, Set to Music, a 1798 Northampton publication printed at Northampton, Massachusetts by Andrew Wright for Daniel Wright and Company. Reprinted by Da Capo Press, New York, New York, 1972.Reprint $43.00
• Blight, David W., ed. When This Cruel War Is Over: The Civil War Letters of Charles Harvey Brewster Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1992. $35.00
• Moore, J. Michael & Stan Sherer, "The Life and Death of Northampton State Hospital" published by Historic Northampton, 1994. $5.00
• Wilbur, C. Keith, Land of the Nonotucks, from the Weathervane Series, published by the Northampton Historical Society, 1987. $4.00
• Lockwood, Allison, A President in a Two-Family House: Calvin Coolidge of Northampton published by the Northampton Historical Society, 1988. $4.00
• "Staking Her Life's Happiness: Brides of the Nineteenth Century" exhibition catalog, curated by Lynne Z. Bassett, published by Historic Northampton, 1990. $4.00
• "Native Peoples and Museums in the Connecticut River Valley: A Guide for Learning" from the Five College Public School Partnership Program: Understanding the Native American Experience in Southern New England, published by Historic Northampton, 1992. $5.00
• Historic Northampton 52-week desk calendars 1993-1996. Each calendar contains 52 photographs and captions about topics in Northampton's history with an emphasis on the 19th and 20th centuries. Sold separately for $5.00 each. Special themes include:
  • 1994: Woman in Northampton
  • 1995: Dreamer's, Visionaries & Eccentrics
  • 1996: "Because There Was a Courthouse There": Law & Politics
• O'Connell, James C.,ed. The Pioneer Valley Reader: Prose and Poetry from New England's Heartland Stockbridge, MA: Berkshire House Press, 1995 $27.95
• Parsons, Gerald James, The Parsons Family: Descendants of Cornet Joseph Parsons (c.1618- 1683) Springfield, Mass., 1636; Northampton, Mass.; 1654 Through His Grandson Jonathan Parsons (1693-1782) of Northampton, Mass.; Suffield, Conn.; Sandisfield, Mass.; and Dorset, Vermont Baltimore: Gateway Press, Inc. 1984 $50.00
• Lockwood, Allison McCrillis, Children of Paradise: A Northampton Memoir Northampton, Massachusetts: The Daily Hampshire Gazette, 1986. $9.95
• Lockwood, Allison McCrillis, No Ordinary Man: Judge Forbes and His Library Northampton, Massachusetts: The Daily Hampshire Gazette, 1994. $12.95
• Lockwood, Allison McCrillis, Touched with Fire: An American Community in World War II Northampton, Massachusetts: The Daily Hampshire Gazette, 1993. $19.95
• Severa, Joan, Dressed for the Photographer: Ordinary Americans and Fashion 1840-1900 Kent, Ohio: The Kent State University Press, 1995. $60.00
• Wilbur, C. Keith, The New England Indians Old Saybrook, Connecticut: The Globe Pequot Press, 1978. $16.95
• Wilbur, C. Keith, Indian Handicrafts Old Saybrook, Connecticut: The Globe Pequot Press, 1990. $16.95
• Wilbur, C. Keith, Homebuilding and Woodworking in Colonial America Old Saybrook, Connecticut: The Globe Pequot Press, 1992. $14.95
• Wilbur, C. Keith, Revolutionary Medicine, 1700-1800 Old Saybrook, Connecticut: The Globe Pequot Press, 1980. $14.95

Cancellations
Commemorating the Coolidge Nomination for Vice-President of the United States

• July 27, 1995 $1.75
• July 27, 1995 & July 4, 1995 $2.60

Parsons House Collector's Plate. Reverse reads "Home of Cornet Joseph Parsons, Northampton, Massachusetts, Oldest Home in Northampton, Built in 1658." Currently the house is attributed to his grandson Nathaniel Parsons and dated to c. 1730. $30.00

Elegant 10 oz. Mug featuring 1813 Damon House, 1730 Parsons House, 1796 Shepherd House Green lettering on cream white with gold rim. $7.95 Blue lettering on cream white $6.95

Tote bag featuring 1823 Courthouse Weathervane

• Green design $7.50
• Maroon design $7.50

Notecards

• 1813 Damon House, 10 cards & envelopes.......$4.00
• "1712" Parsons House, 10 cards & envelopes...$4.00
• Christmas Cards, Damon, Parsons & Shepherd
• Houses, 10 cards & envelopes...............$8.95

• 1813 Damon House $1.25
• 1730 Parsons House $1.25

Postcards $0.50 each

• c.1811-12 Fourth Meetinghouse
• The Original Edwards Church
• Lilly Library, built 1890, Florence, Mass.
• O'Donnell Block, built 1889, Florence, Mass.
• Davis Block, built 1870, view c. 1875, Florence, Mass.
• Cosmian Hall, Florence, Mass.
• Florence House Hotel, built c. 1850, Florence, Mass.

Memberships

• Individual..........................................$30
• Senior/Student..................................$20
• Family/Dual.....................................$50
• Supporting........................................$100
• Patron...............................................$200

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