Logs; Lumber industry; Lumber; Ox teams; Cattle; Carts & wagons; Cutover lands; Clearing of land; Bodies of water
A team of oxen yoked together stand beside wagons loaded with hand hewn crossties. The crossties were hewn by seasonal workers using a broadaxe and delivered to river landing tieyards for shipping by steamboat.
Education; Education - Tennessee; Education - History - Tennessee; School buildings - Tennessee
Front and side views of a white wood frame schoolhouse on a concrete foundation. It has a covered front porch and multiple windows along the side. Two outbuildings and a pile of lumber can be seen in the background.
The gymnasium at the Tennessee School for the Deaf under construction. Only the brick façade of the lowest floor and foundation are visible. Supporting columns can be seen under the structure, and various building materials are scattered in front...
U.S. Quartermaster warehouse in Nashville. Barrels lie near the left of the building, and a guard with a bayonet fixed on his rifle stands in the foreground. The Capitol and several downtown buildings can be seen in the background.
U.S. Quartermaster warehouse in Nashville. Men, including several African Americans, can be seen in open warehouse doors. The Capitol and several downtown buildings stand silhouetted in the background.
U.S. Quartermaster warehouse in Nashville. A guard with bayonet fixed on his rifle stands in foreground. The Capitol and several downtown buildings can be seen in the background.
Cpl. Matthew Lacy Roberts served in Newman's Battalion, Co. C, 23rd Tenn. Inf. Regt., CSA, from fall 1862 to May 1, 1865. He was paroled in Greensboro, N. C., and later ran a lumber mill in Thompson Creek, Bedford County, Tenn. Photographed by C....
Report of expenses incurred on account of cemeteries and exhuming and reinterring the remains of deceased Federal soldiers by Brevet Major W. A. Wainwright, Captain Assistant Quartermaster. Includes total of $50,169.95 with $14,654.33 still...
